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Annon is confronted with the pasing of time and the inevitablity of his incoming death (lemmy.world)
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[–] 42 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The only slightly suspicious thing here is that both grandpa and pop had kids at exactly age 20. Not only is that a little younger than average, it's also a very convenient number for a made up but easy to calculate scenario.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    On one hand it's suspicous, on the other hand it's a convenient number if your parents and grandparents were around that age but you don't want to put in their actual ages because you have a habit of not giving out personal information.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's when the word "about" is useful. My grandpa is "about 60" and my dad is "about 40", he got the PS1 when my dad was a kid. My dad had me when he was "about 20"...

    I don't think people tend to make up specific ages that are not accurate when they're trying to obscure someone's exact age.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Counterpoint: "20" is shorter than "about 20" and this is a short comment by a 4chan anon.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe but it’s not crazy. My father in-law had his first kid at 17. His second son also had a kid at 17. Crazier still is that second son's baby mama was 16 and she was born to a 16 year old.

    I wish I was making this shit up.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm the first person on my dad's side to not have a kid before 20 in 5 generation.

    Shit does happen.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Do you know anybody else who had 2 generations like that? It used to be more common but even back in 1970 the average was above 21. These days it's above 27.

    https://www.northwell.edu/news/the-latest/geriatric-pregnancy-increases-complication-rate

    With every average there will be people above and below the average age. And since there are some people having their first child in their 40s, the median is actually probably below the average.

    I found it more suspicious that both times the father was supposedly aged at the suspiciously round number of 20.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    With how many people there are out there, even something that happens to 0.1% of people over their lifetime will happen to 200k people living in the US right now (assuming 200m pop, which I think is low now). Assuming an average life expectancy of 75, that averages 2666.6 per year, or 7.28 per day (assuming every year is a leap year).

    I don't know what the odds are of having kids at 20, but I'd guess the conditional probability of two successive generations both having kids at 20 is way higher than 0.1%, which means there's more than 7 new ones each day. And any of them might post this kind of thing where they talk about something their grandparent bought new.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago*

    yes, poor people.

    most people who have kids at a young age, are economically impoverished.

    which is true for tons of parts of the USA.

    The average age of marriage is like 10 years different, between blue and red states, for example.

    people in utah get married at like 22.

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