Did 3 of them already in the past two years, and was considering signing up for Pickleball.
Which AI generated slop are you?
I don’t see “an increasingly difficult to ignore urge to bomb an oil pipeline” on here.
That comes under running , grad school and Japan
Oh wait. You said ignore…I had already committed and planned my escape to Japan
S Tier response
I guess running. About 4 years ago, I started on the treadmill with an exhausting 30min/mi. Earlier this week I completed my first 7min/mi. Along the way, I added a 28min/5k@1.5% and am working on a 60min/10k (today did 62min/10k).
That’s awesome! Well done, and keep up the hard work. Don’t forget to stretch.
BDSM. I have integrated pretty quickly into the local community, and I’m a regular at munches and play parties.
Wait, BDSM is a group event?
I thought it was more like a partner tennis, not community soccer.
Think of it as more of a space where people can meet up and get freaky. 90 percent of the time is people standing around and chatting in fetish gear.
My midlife crisis: I bought a ten year old car and started fixing it myself.
I have bloody knuckles and bruised forearms and now a pretty bad oil leak but I replaced that goddamn turbo.
Stick with it, and soon you’ll have a rolling chassis with destroyed interior, body full of rust holes, a crippling Miller lite addiction, and lots of friends with similar rusty old beaters that just need a little TLC.
Excuse me, those are speed holes to reduce drag.
Yeah but she’ll sound awesome and handle like a dream
Well I’m forty now and about 6 months ago I decided that after nearly 30 years of listening to metal music I was going to finally learn how to do harsh vocals/metal screaming. Still an enormous amateur, and I have a lot to learn, but basically just this week I finally got to the point where I don’t hate listening to my own screams.
So uh, whatever you wanna call that midlife crisis, that’s mine.
I’m turning into a bog witch
I’ve let like half my yard grow out and turn into a de facto butterfly garden. I’ve got a birdbath where I leave shineys for the crow. It’s going pretty well, I recommend it.
I was gonna say, women have been getting sick of men and turning into bog witches for centuries now, probably longer. The more socially acceptable version was nunneries for a while, since men need to feel like they’re in control of that some way or another. I’m the city apartment version where I’m becoming a night shift vampire /other undead into tarot cards and Gnosticism.
I’m going bog witch, but I’m a dude, so I guess druid?
I’m a dude. I’m still calling it bog witch. If anyone has a problem with a dude witch they can kiss my ass.
I feel like witch accurately incorporates the spiteful aspect of nature-loving that I’m going for. I’d like to weaponize my yard.
You’re doing amazing.
Aw thanks 💜
Oh yeah I did that when I was like 18-20, it’s cool. Gnosticism and tarots are fun, I’m incorporating them into my middle aged dad bog witchery for sure.
You forgot about bouldering / rock climbing
Just as I thought I weren’t a stereotype… oh well…
Did I speedrun a midlife crisis in my 20s? 🤔 Never did pickleball, but that’s pretty synonymous with retirees over 60 in my corner of the world.
Japan? Does that just mean travel?
At avoidance of being real: no it means Japan.
We are all Japan on this day.
Konnichiwa bitches.
No, I’m pretty sure it means being or becoming a weeb
Le sigh. Grad school
Where is the drinking and BBQing one?
I’m only 33, a bit young for midlife crisis, but I’ve gotten into ham radio. I think it’s probably the most I’ve spent on a hobby. Even budget radios that can communicate over the horizon are pretty pricey.
Edit: The most I’ve spent on a hobby to get started on a hobby, that is. I’ve definitely sank much more money into video games and when I played it Magic the Gathering.
You’re never too young to have a midlife crisis. Have two or three.
Ham radios are awesome though and that’s less of a midlife crisis hobby, and more of a crisis hobby.
Japan…
i just really freaking love public transportation infrastructure
i want to ride ALL THE TRAINS
You might like the AdamDoesNotExist YouTube channel
Notjustbikes is also wonderful.
I sort of wonder if the next generation will still romanticize Japan in quite the same way. We’re past the peak trendy-products era of Weird Sony and the Toyota MR2, anime is no longer a secret exotic thing, and it feels like if you want “15 years ahead of us optimistic techno future”, you could easily slide in Chongqing or Seoul instead of Tokyo.
As far as I can tell, gen z’s more into Korea, Japan already seems passé (being in a midlife crisis meme doesn’t help)
Fucking math.
Yes give me sudden urge to self-study linear algebra for shits and giggles. Ima go look at math memes now.
I nearly failed math my entire life wdym it will suddenly become interesting for no reason.
Hey… Wanna go down the geometry rabbithole?
https://archive.org/details/introductiontono031680mbp/page/n76/mode/1up
It has points at infinity, area as a function of angle defect, a triangle whose angles sum to 0…
Try self-teaching yourself programming If you like math, you’ll greatly enjoy being able to apply it.
