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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I've said it before and I'll say it again, 2021 has to be the easiest year for club bouncers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

If you live in a country with a weirdly high drinking age.

[–] ilinamorato 4 points 11 hours ago

I don't know about that. I regularly forget what year it is.

Then again, I'm pushing 40.

[–] PP_BOY_ 41 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Kids born February 29, 2000, turned 6 years old this year.

[–] Cenzorrll 2 points 7 hours ago

Ahkshually, they've only had 6 birthdays. They're still 24 years old.

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts 49 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I regularly forget what year it is though...

[–] Lost_My_Mind 13 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 21 hours ago

Bro that was 10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Zorque 2 points 21 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

They can if you hit them in the head hard enough.

[–] Fredselfish 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Works for someone born in 1980 like myself. Easy to track when born at the beginning of a decade.

[–] Maalus -1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, equally as easy to split the equation. Born in 1999? Subtract current year from 1990. Then subtract 9. Easy.

[–] essell 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

And the easiest way to count sheep is to count all the legs and divide by 4, right?

[–] Maalus 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

If you don't see a difference between "do the tens, then do a simple subtraction with digits between 1 - 9" and dividing an arbitrary number by four, then there is no sense arguing. Also it would lead to bad results in your example - the average number of legs a sheep has isn't 4.

[–] TwentySeven 1 points 7 hours ago

For most herds of sheep, the average is four.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Especially if they were born January 1st.

December 31st throws the whole thing off though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Did you fill in your TPS reports?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I have no idea what that is.

[–] WindyRebel 5 points 10 hours ago

Uuuuuh, yeeeeeeeeeeah. We’re gonna need you to come in on Saturday.

[–] DragonsInARoom 2 points 13 hours ago
[–] 9point6 11 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I'm sure an unfortunate bang on the head could invalidate that one

Edit: that reads a lot more like a threat than I intended it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Unless they develop Alzheimer's or something else that fucks with their memory. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

As a 2000, it makes it stupid easy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

I'm a 1990 and I thought I had it good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Its gonna be really helpful later in my life thats for sure, for now not really.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

If they were born later in the year than it currently is, they'll have to -1

[–] robocall 1 points 20 hours ago

Who's got it easier? The people born in 2000 or 2001?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Er, uh, ok?

Like do people forget how old they are just because of the year they were born?

If someone does forget their age, they just have to do a little math, no different than someone born in 2000.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I think the point is just that the little bit of math is very easy if you're born in 2000.

[–] 200ok 5 points 21 hours ago

Totally!

Thread OP, kinda like it's easier to do the math when trying to remember your age or the year something happened in reference to one another.

"I remember I was 12 when I got braces", so they know the year was 2012 when they got braces...

...which is easier than having to calculate:

  • I was born in 1993
  • so, 2000 - 1993 = 7
  • and, 12 - 7 = 5
  • 2000 + 5 = 2005 is when they got braces.