• violet08_@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    really? most people calculate: he’s x years, x months, x weeks, x days, x hours, x minutes, x seconds older/younger than me? in a casual, informal setting? never seen that. even when people talk about an event: oh, WW2 ended 81 years ago (cause it was 1945 and now it’s 2026).

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      2 days ago

      If I were to say that I were 62 years old and you would say that you’re let’s say 18 years old you wouldn’t say that you are 45 years younger then me. No one calculates age difference based on years born.

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        1 day ago

        Uh…you do if you just google a celebrity’s birth year and subtract it from yours, just like a young woman might do when making a random post about her celebrity crush.

        Your posts in this thread have been kind of intrusive and inappropriate in my opinion. Maybe it’s best to just drop it. It isn’t that important how she calculates year gaps.

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          19 hours ago

          No you don’t. You Google someone’s age, you don’t Google their birth year unless you have something specific you are looking for.

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            18 hours ago

            I don’t know how you’ve made it this far in life without realizing this, but other people don’t act and think about things exactly the same way you do. I have totally done the year subtraction to calculate an age gap before, so that makes at least two people in the world who have done the thing that you think is totally inconceivable.