I brutally kill 36 year olds too, usually by gassing them with RAID for trying to escape my basement.
Yes, agents, this one right here.
Makes you wonder whether there is a dating rule “based on science”.
Dating is a social thing, not really science related though
Woooooosh
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Comment OP knows it’s not a ‘natural science’ thing, it was a rhetorical point
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I really wish people would stop parroting this bullshit “rule”, age-gap shaming is so fucking stupid
Okay groomer
Fuck off
Two consenting adults deciding to date each other shouldn’t be anyone’s concern but their own.
This (within reason and legality obviously)
It’s a case by case thing. Admittedly I’m defending myself here as I’m 41 dating 25 and I will never assume to be a good person or doing the right thing but am at least trying. Basically minding and respecting the gap but allowing the fact we fell in love to go ahead and happen.
- Both guys (idk, I heard age gaps are more common with gays anyway?)
- He was the one to approach me and ask me out, I’d thought about it but was reluctant to, turned out he got there first
- I check regularly that he’s happy and remind him of where the difference will be in 9 years for example
- It’s an open relationship, largely for his benefit and freedom (of course I get some fun too) and heck we’re not actually all that sexual between ourselves
- I’m not in any rush to pin him down, and often say he’s free to do what he wants, enjoy the 20s fully and decide for himself if he wants a future with me or not. If one day he finds someone closer in terms of age or distance and wants to let me go, of course I’ll be heartbroken but love and want the best for him so would respect the decision - hopefully ultimately remaining friends and lives made richer than when we started.
- To be honest, whilst I know it’s not a good thing, I’m a late bloomer, so in various ways kind of like the same age but sadly in an older body
I’m not gonna be like “oh I’m a good person so it’s fine”, I don’t know that. I might be an asshole. I can only try, based on things like the above, hopefully without being labelled something nasty.
(Who am I defending against anyway? Probably my own conscience.)
What if I’m 4?
Hey bb how u doin?
I’m 9 btw
16/f/cali ;P
Dude didn’t you read the post? Half your age plus seven! That means you should only date people who are 11 and a half
“I’m 11 so shut the fuck up”
But 11.5 year olds are only allowed to date 12.75 year olds!
It’s almost like they don’t want kids to date!
And if you’re 18, you can only date someone who is exactly 18. Can’t go any lower or any higher.
Idk who told this to me, but what a weird contradiction. I guess it sorta makes sense.
I hope my kids don’t go to the same school that you did.
Same.
The rule is min: age/2+7, max: age*2-7, 36 -> min: 25, max: 65. 18 -> min 16, max 29.
You got the order of operations backwards for the max age. It’s (x-7)/2
That max age formula is pointless and contradicts the minimum age formula. For 29 the min age based on the min age equation is 21.5 which I’d say can be rounded up to 22, which sounds more reasonable than a 29 year old dating an 18 year old, which isn’t illegal sure, but I’m sure plenty of people would be raising an eyebrow at it.
That max age equation would mean that a max age for 14 would be 21. In contrast the min age for a 21 year old is 17.5, which can be rounded up to 18. Yymv on that one in particular, but I’m sure we can all agree that a 21 year old dating an 18 year old is a lot less sus than them dating a 14 year old. The minimum age formula seems fine enough on its own, not necessarily a universal rule but enough of a guideline to go by generally. If you want to calculate based on the younger age, just re-arrange the formula. With the older age being AgeO and the younger age being ageY, you go from ageY = (AgeO/2) + 7 to AgeO = (ageY - 7)*2.
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I mean, that’s not true, a 14 year old can absolutely date a 15 year old.
The opposite of age/2+7 is (age-7)*2, not age*2-7. I.E. the min age for a 29-year-old would be 21, not 18, and the age whose min is 18, I.E. the max for an 18-year-old, would be 22.
Max dating age limit for 18yo is 22? That doesn’t sound right at all.
“Kids fresh out of high school should not be dating adults that have graduated college” sounds roughly right to me.
Seems fine. It would raise some eye brows but it’s literally the max acceptable.
The max age formula is pointless and contradicts the minimum age formula. For 29 the min age based on the min age equation is 21.5 which I’d say can be rounded up to 22, which sounds more reasonable than a 29 year old dating an 18 year old, which isn’t illegal sure, but I’m sure plenty of people would be raising an eyebrow at it.
That max age equation would mean that a max age for 14 would be 21. In contrast the min age for a 21 year old is 17.5, which can be rounded up to 18. Yymv on that one in particular, but I’m sure we can all agree that a 21 year old dating an 18 year old is a lot less sus than them dating a 14 year old. The minimum age formula seems fine enough on its own, not necessarily a universal rule but enough of a guideline to go by.
Nope. If your age minimum for a partner y is determined by your age x with the function:
y = 1/2 x + 7
then the point where y = x is at y - 7 = 1/2 x. Setting y to x leads us to x - 7 = x / 2, which happens at x = 14.
At x = 18, y = 18/2 + 7 = 9 + 7 = 16.
Relatedly, if we invert the function, y - 7 = 1/2 x, thus 2y - 14 = x, which gives us the theoretical maximum for a possible partner. If a possible partner is older than that, you’d be understood to call them a cougar, or whatever the male equivalent is.
How might this apply to calculator relationships?
My favorite feature of the x/2+7 rule is that it implies you shouldn’t be dating below the age of 14. Run any number lower than 14 through it to see what I mean. You can’t reasonably say a 6 year old should only date people older than 10 and also younger than -2.
Don’t you hate it when your 6 year old starts dating those people from the negative mirrorworld? No child of mine I say!
When your six year old starts dating people’s tentative plans to have a child
Yeah 14 is fine. 6 year olds shouldn’t be dating anyone anyway
But she wanted to borrow my truck???
And a newborn should be dating nobody younger than seven, while also dating nobody older than yet to be born in 14 years 😛
I guess this makes more sense.
whatever the male equivalent is
Dirty Old Man
Daddy
Lothario
Creep
Giuliani
I believe now if you are 18 you need to consult with a lawyer before dating.
With how stressful things have been lately? I might just look like that in just under a decade…
maybe 1987 was a weak batch or something, and they’re aging prematurely… i don’t have any data to support that…
You might be onto something, I’m from around that time period, balding at 20, grey hairs in my beard for the last 3 years…
we may have accidentally released some weird chemicals or something that year… that was when all the Star Wars SDI stuff was happening, it’s hard to say what we were up to… i’m sorry dude… blame Reagan…
Chernobyl melted down in spring of '86, setting off radiation alarms as far as New York.
They started high-school just after Columbine, they were trying to get through high-school when 9/11 happened, they were trying to start their careers when the GFC came along, and they were trying to get married when COVID hit. Late-80s babies can’t catch a break.
no i agree 100%, i feel for them… i honestly can’t tell you how sick i am about it… Columbine was enough…
Yeah, that dude is not 36…
Read the text 3 times before spotted the 36 on the pic. Where is the useless red circle when you have a brain fart?
When it’s concerning a brain fart, should it instead be a nice green cloud-shaped outline around the relevant part?
I came to the comments for an explanation because I completely missed the age labels, so thank you.
Honestly I’ve unironically missed the entirety of the image at first, I went directly to the text. And probably a lot of internet-savvy people would, this kind of image is useless decoration 90% of the time and people are trained to not look at it. Same concept as in that research where they asked people to find the current population number on a webpage and they had a very hard time, despite the value being in big red digits or something equally distinctive.
Spotted the 36 year old. Put on some glasses old man!
Got me you punk!
42-year-old, here. Late-20s-hotties, give me a ring.
Whaddya mean, “what does ring mean?”
“you know, dial me up…”
“…dial?”
They will not say “what does ring mean?” They’ll look you in the eye and shout “I don’t understand your dated cultural references old man!!”
Homeboy is HAGGARD for 36! That man is at least 65.
Idk I’m 36 and this checks out
Do you have gray hair? Because that can easily be fixed with dye. I’m around your age and balding. So I shaved my head. Shaved head looks younger than a full head of gray hair.
I was being facetious lol but my hair is thinning out up top. I’ve always shaved my own hair though, twice a year. Once it goes far enough though I’ll just keep it shaved on the bare metal of the clippers.
gray hair looks wiser though. wish i could rock a Gandalf do
Grey hair doesn’t need to be “fixed” if you don’t want to dye it, grey hair looks awesome. Rock that shit proudly if you’ve got it.
Same.
it reminds me of online dating.
LOL. Yeah. That dude in the picture took her age, added 7 years, doubled that and then lied about his own age.
It’s a 36 year old as seen by an 8 year old, which appears to be, as I suspected, the age of wikihow authors.
That’s after 25 years down the coal mine
If he’s 65 then she’s looking good for 39…
That’s a ridden hard and put away wet 36.
This is the second time this week I’ve ever heard this phrase in my entire life. I feel like I know what it means but I’m afraid to ask
It’s a horse riding addage, a horse ridden hard gets dirty and messy, put away wet means it doesn’t get cleaned. Basically a dirty worn old looking horse.
I think it’s more the riding gear than the horse. You’ll get a rotten saddle pretty quick when the leather gets waterlogged and not taken care of.
You can Google it you know! It’s about the horse. That’s how I found out, it’s amazing the things you don’t need an opinion on when factual information is at our fingertips.
Ohhhh. Oh. That was not what I was thinking at all. Lmao
I think you and I are thinking the same thing. Guess we don’t ride horses.
That is a “meth as a career” 36.
It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage.
If both parties are 18 and above, it is none of our business. Many men are into cougars and many women like sugar daddies. Whatever floats their boat.
Legally yes. Socially dating someone in the same life stage as you is the line. The half your age plus 7 rule roughly aligns to that.
Legally, yes. You can’t and shouldn’t prevent them from dating.
But, it’s still creepy, it’s usually still predatory, and there can be a huge power imbalance. Basically, the main thing is whether either person can easily leave at any time - often the younger one can’t.
I don’t know man. If at 50 I ran into a 20 something that was into dating me, I’d feel more like prey than a predator. But, who am I kidding? If the roles were reversed and I was a 20 something encountering a 50+ cougar, I’d still feel like prey. It’s definitely all about power dynamics, but I don’t think making assumptions about adult people’s situations based on age alone is appropriate or helpful.
How is that any different than 18 year olds getting an apartment together and being too broke to easily move out if needed? And there are plenty of older people in the same boat financially. In fact most people live paycheck to paycheck.
I guess what you really mean is that poor people should only date other poor people, to make it a fair power balance. /s
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No? ; 18/2 = 9 ; 9 + 7 = 16
xkcd readers remembering 8 billion comic id numbers:
I can find most of them by googling. XKCD seems to have their SEO down pretty well.
You act like they have to pull it up with a number ID and don’t already have every xkcd alphabetically, pneumonically and categorically sorted in their bookmarks.
Amazing, there really is an xkcd for everything
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41 dating 25, we’re both happy but guess I should hand myself in somewhere ;~;
But yeah definitely looking younger than 36 based on these standards 😅
