I turned 30 last year, but my life hasn't changed since I was a teenager. The only thing that changed was this website. I'm not sure why people would think life is better or worse as you get older. As a kid >forced to go to school
As an adult >forced to work until you die
What's the difference?
Yeah thats pretty much how I see it too.
I know the normie advice is "find a job that you enjoy" but even if you do, it doesn't change the fact you're still forced to do it so you can pay the bills so it's not genuine enjoyment.
>I know the normie advice is "find a job that you enjoy" but even if you do, it doesn't change the fact you're still forced to do it so you can pay the bills so it's not genuine enjoyment.
Yeah, normies are dumb. If they claim to enjoy their job, it's just Stockholm syndrome or some shit. They have to tell themselves they enjoy it, because they spend their entire lives doing it.
If someone is doing something, and not getting paid, then I'll believe they enjoy it; otherwise, it's total bullshit.
Life has always seemed bullshit to me, which is why I don't participate. I'll be here until I'm dead, and then everyone else can continue, because I don't see the point.
>If your life hasn’t improved by 30 it’s game over.
Yeah, I'm definitely in the "game over" group. You want to know what I was doing as a teenager? I was here on Cinemaphile. That's why I said nothing changed but this website, which is worse every year.
Look I can see what the problem is. Your internet addiction. Travel the world and live and work abroad. Take the risk and do something, its not too late, find something you want to pursue and make it into an adventure. You can do it Anon!
3 months ago
Anonymous
Thanks for the garbage reply. I remember I was overseas once and staying in a hotel. I was either watching TV in the hotel, or walking around by myself. That's the adventure you're asking me to go on. Do you have any more two digit IQ advice?
3 months ago
Anonymous
I should add that I wrote there is what I do in the country I was born in. That means it doesn't matter where I am, because I do the same things. Something I've done a lot in my life was go to the city and walk around. Why would I travel and do the same thing? It's a waste of time.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>I don't WANT to improve my life, I WANT to b***h about it on Cinemaphile!
3 months ago
Anonymous
lol it's your fault for staying in your bedroom all day like a boring moron. Your life is shit because you're a boring moron with nothing going for himself.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Introverts are a thing.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Look, introversion is a disease. Despite girls and other normies claiming to be introv, know that it's a fashion statement to them. Just like nerd culture was appropriated, they came for mental illness.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Then make peace with it or try to change I don't know what to tell you
3 months ago
Anonymous
You can do a lot of cool stuff with minimal interaction. Your life will be a lot more boring and uneventful if you can't get out of your shell though. Most people live boring lives because they are boring. Then they come here and complain that everyone is an npc for suggesting that having the personality of a crying, abused dog is not ideal.
3 months ago
Anonymous
but you literally are an NPC or should be as in chatGPT would grant objectively more insightful and interesting conversation and advice.
3 months ago
Anonymous
but you are more boring than many people can even imagine exists
you claim the peak of your life is doing some basic ass tourism?
3 months ago
Anonymous
but you literally are an NPC or should be as in chatGPT would grant objectively more insightful and interesting conversation and advice.
I've never worked for more than a year at any job just to travel and to have craploads of free time. I'm into rock climmbing, hiking, etc. Seeing new places and touring beautiful sights while having access to hot women is way better than being a moron wageslave and having a boss. Your idea of tourism is going to a hotel and spending time in tourist traps, ofc you will have a bad time.
>You want to know what I was doing as a teenager? I was here on Cinemaphile.
Me too. But I went to school, got my career started, made connections, all while being on Cinemaphile. Now I'm 31, got into the six figure range a couple of years ago, and just got married last year.
And yes I have spent entire days on here, procrastinating studying and work, even to this day I do this. I was even extremely autistic and uncomfortable in social situations until maybe my mid-20s. But this site didn't stop me from growing up and pursuing what I wanted out of life.
I turned 30 last year, but my life hasn't changed since I was a teenager. The only thing that changed was this website. I'm not sure why people would think life is better or worse as you get older. As a kid >forced to go to school
As an adult >forced to work until you die
What's the difference?
>As a kid
to go to school >As an adult
to work until you die >What's the difference?
Being completely in control of everything you do. You are forced to work, but you can choose where to work. As a teenager you have 0 choice in anything, even what you eat for dinner.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Thanks for replying to me twice, but we have nothing in common. While you were doing things, I was here on Cinemaphile. Keep that in mind. We are not the same. I've been here so long that I probably represent Cinemaphile better than anyone. I became exactly like the Japanese.
Self pity cope. You're getting some last shred of selfworth from feeling sorry for yourself; you couldn't do so without you being worth anything right? Truth is, you're worth much more than that, but have been fooled by trauma into believing otherwise. Heal from your past and adhear to the standards that you deserve
I’m turning 30 this month and looking back- my life is definitely better than when I was in adolescence except for one major thing.
I deeply miss the quality group of friends I saw and shit talked w every day when I was young. I can’t complain much because now I have a gf who adores me, some good hobbies, and wfh home w a 6 figure salary.
Still, I miss the guys and it seems impossible at this age to make good friends
>Being forced to go to school is way less bad
Not at all. Did you go to public school? I did. I went to a diverse public school, and I don't really want to talk any more about it. Unless you went to a school like that, don't tell me what it was like. School was not good at all, and you're forced to go by your parents.
Maybe it's just the time but school was way better and parties were way more fun. Work is an extremely hostile environment with everybody scheming with the politically correct guillotine looming over everyone's neck.
>Work is an extremely hostile environment with everybody scheming with the politically correct guillotine looming over everyone's neck.
Sounds like you're describing an office job, and I would have no idea what's like. If I worked, it would be at a fast food joint, or a supermarket or something. That's why I say work and school are equally terrible. I would be somewhere I didn't want to be, doing something I don't want to.
Why fast food places, everyone says theyre fricking terrible
3 months ago
Anonymous
>Why fast food places
I just named those places, because they're the kinds of places I've worked at in the past (briefly). Those are the only places that would hire a failure like myself. None of them were good jobs.
Why don't you just look back on your life to see how you ended up like this? It should be really clear why. For me, it was being born to a poor family, so I went to a bad school, and didn't try at all because of it.
It sounds dumb out loud but for me I’m pretty sure it’s because of skipping half a grade (worse than either skipping a full one or not skipping) and being (bullied for being) fat when I was too young for it to be from anything but child neglect/abuse
Starting in middle school I’d take basically every class except for social studies and gym and some other “who the frick cares” class with the grade above.
The last year of middle school there was a bus to take me and some girl inflicted with the same thing from the high school to the middle school during lunch hour, so we basically only got to eat on the bus (I just didn’t eat since I had an eating disorder by then).
The people that say Kaczynski wound up like that from skipping a grade are probably right. I was a bit shy but mostly normal before middle school.
Yeah trust me, I get it, I get it better than you could possibly fricking imagine
Now go jill off tormenting some other guy, you crust, I can already tell your sense of morality is fricked if you "get" a one night stand, I learned the hard way all cheating is wrong
>Jill off
I guess thinking the only people that don’t like cheating are women explains why you’ll never have children now.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I don't think you're a woman because you think cheating is wrong, I just recognize that being a malicious tormentor is a negative feminine trait
I don't give a shit though, keep kicking me while I'm down if that's what you need to feel good about yourself
3 months ago
Anonymous
>I [think] that being a malicious tormentor is a negative feminine trait
This literally explains why you cheated
3 months ago
Anonymous
how..
how do you skip half a grade?
To clarify the reason this caused social problems was because e.g. in 6th grade the 7th graders saw me as “the 6th grader that takes some classes with us” and the 6th graders saw me as “the person that’s only here for a few periods/skipped a grade” so I wasn’t seen as a peer by anyone.
I think for people that skip entire grades that effect stops after the first year.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>Starting in middle school I’d take basically every class except for social studies and gym and some other “who the frick cares” class with the grade above.
that sounds like more work for literally everyone involved without any tangible benefit
3 months ago
Anonymous
It was truly the stupidest thing imaginable and they could not have designed a system to frick someone up socially better if they had tried. It’s not like me and that girl couldn’t have just skipped a grade, or better yet been left alone since skipping grades is dumb and comes from a white trash idiot’s conception of intelligence and the purpose of education.
I graduated high school with enough college credits to essentially enter college as a second-semester sophomore, but I was so fricked up mentally by then that I dropped out and eventually went back and graduated super late anyway.
The girl didn’t drop out and finished college in a few years, but just became some office worker anyway and none of it mattered at all. Neither of us were ever going to be research scientists or whatever the frick because of our socioeconomic background. The only effect was making us very weird. I talked to her once years after we’d both graduated and she brought up unprompted that she was being ~bullied at her office job. And so have I been most places I’ve worked. I don’t even blame the people doing it. It’s the same behavior you can observe in monkeys if you introduce an undersocialized one to a group of normal ones.
But maybe I’d be like this anyway and it’s just a cope. Doesn’t matter anymore.
3 months ago
Anonymous
you may not have been perfect under different circumstances, but I fail to see how they could go about that any worse. Like, anything they had done differently would have been better.
If you were bullied, then that's probably why you gave up. I went to a school with people I didn't like, and so I sat by myself. I was always going to be a Cinemaphilener, with my life like that. The absolute worst part is that I feel like I'm in high school again when I come here. It wasn't always this way, but it is now.
>DHMIS
Loved that show. Wish they'd come out with some more episodes. It's one of the few things these days that's just enjoyable to watch and it's a struggle to find anything I'm not a fan of in the show. Hits all the right buttons.
No, it’s much .
In peep show they get handed a good life on a platter and throw it away like a dozen times.
Also in real life you don’t have an eternal roommate/friend.
>Also in real life you don’t have an eternal roommate/friend.
Why not? Seriously asking as I've have a roomate for 4 years and feel like it'll always be this way as the economy is fricked over here
I mean you don’t have one guy you get on with that stays for decades into your 40s. You have people you mostly don’t get on with that cycle in and out every 1-5 years.
I suppose that's the difference between 20 and 30. At 30, you kind of understand that your life will be the same as whatever it is now. Every day will just be more of the same.
Anons fancy themselves as Mark when in reality y'all are Jeremy >Neet in his 30s >Lives off the allowance his divorced mother sends him >Homosexual tendencies >Dreams of an artistic life but is too lazy and doesn't have enough talent
I could not watch this show past the first season. The main character was so distractingly ugly, and on top of that his character was always so insufferable and mean spirited. Least believable part was that he consistently got laid with hot girls, frick this show
My life is infinitely more boring. >work 5 days a week for shit pay >do nothing after work except watch youtube and old boxsets >weekend is exactly the same >all my friends have moved on with wives/girlfriends and kids etc >not particularly close to family
If you're mark you've got jez always keeping things interesting and setting up social events.
If you're jez you literally live for free with your best friend as a roommate and just do drugs all day
They had it good.
Life is what you make it homosexuals. When I hit 30 I realized I needed to make big changes and it's working, everything is objectively turning around
Sure I should have done this shit in my early 20s and been better off but I was a moronic doomer
What I'm saying is; it's only "too late" when you're literally dead.
Is that why you're here on Cinemaphile? Post again with another image and I'll filter that one too. I'm guessing you shit eating homosexuals showed up because I filtered every other thread on the board, but you won't be safe in this one. Fricking NPCs.
You're saying you're unable to do new things or make different decisions or do anything different
You have a script you follow
You can't break out of it
But he's the NPC? lmfao
>Is that why you're here on Cinemaphile
Yes? I chose to go on Cinemaphile and shit post because I was only working for two hours today and the only other thing I have to do is go to the gym which I do late at night. Nobody's holding a gun to my head making me read sneed for the billionth time.
You're too moronic to understand what true freedom of mind actually is. But the good news is that you probably will when you grow up and realize that you can be successful and browse Cinemaphile because it really doesn't matter in the end. Do what the frick you want.
Depends if you're a crybaby moron or not
My life has been great in my 30s
As you can see from this thread, a lot of anons are struggling
To the people struggling I recommend killing yourselves. You never had the ability to improve your life so you may as well give up and spare the rest of us your pathetic feminine whinging.
>Goes on holiday >Does exactly what he would do if he were home >"It's shit"
I don't get it, bros. Why did the writers make this character such a cynical moron?
Thanks for not explaining what I should have done instead. Feel free to eat others shit or whatever you fricking NPCs do in the missing section of the board. I'm guessing it's fricking horrible, because you enter every available thread.
>Museums, art galleries, exhibits >Hiking, hunting, climbing >Swimming, sailing, bathing >Cafés, restaurants, food festivals >Live music, festivals, concerts >Bars, drinking, partying >Photography, sketching, painting
But no, instead of taking part in anything you chose to sit in a hotel room to watch TV. You're in a completely different place. Different architecture, different climate, different people, different culture, different food, etc. Yet instead of trying something different you moped around a hotel room and then cried because you don't enjoy moping around. Which is funny because you obviously spend your time moping around at home as well and if you don't enjoy any aspect of life, why not just blow your brains out and spare us the pain of your presence.
>work a salaried job as a medium stress medium paid manager >halfway through paying off my house >only girls I have sex with are exgfs and old flings that fly in to see me a couple times a year >play music and go to the zoo as hobbies >one friend
It's alot more grim than your 20s but I'm still having a pretty ok time
40s are going to be nightmarish
True but if their lives were realistic and set in the present then Jez would be dead from an overdose, and so would super Hans, and Mark would be posting on /LULZ/ about how much he hates his life and wants to die.
I had morons as friends back in high school
this shit show was no different
i'm glad i ditched them into a life of NEET for my last year of high school
Having my first 100k saved was pretty neat considering how empty my bank account was in my 20s. But like others said you start to ask yourself things like, "why do we work so much anyways?" I'm trying to make the most of it cause time flies and I know 30s is the last decade my body will feel like it can still perform like a 20 year old.
>27 >Happily married to high school gf for four years now. Amazing, wonderful woman and I feel stupidly lucky to have her. >Both of us have shitty careers we're unhappy with and are likely going back to college this year to start over.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the exact opposite of all the lonely wagecucks with no gf but a high paying job on here. Still, I wouldn't trade places.
As a European, everything seems hopeless. I remember as a child, families were so big. Cousins, uncles, grandparents... the grandparents died and the grandchildren, well, nobody is having children, so there is no new generation. Low paid jobs and arabs and blacks roaming the streets at night. You put on the TV and they preach you the message even during new years, feminism, trannism and homosexualry everywhere.
Nta but it was better and that's not just from a nostalgic point of view. It doesn't matter if everyone can't agree on exactly when life was best for them, if everyone is agreeing that things are getting worse then things are probably getting worse. My gfs mum has been a teacher for about 30 years, same schools, same areas. She reminisces about what it was like even just five years ago and say she used to complain about students not listening in class and now she regularly has to call the police or an ambulance because students threaten to stab teachers or really young students who are in their early teens have taken drugs and are unresponsive. When I go into work as an aircraft engineer, the old guys say they feel sorry for us younger lot because the pay isn't what it used to be, our pension plan is worth about half of what theirs was and we're expected to do more work than they ever did but with fewer people.
>NOOO CULTURE AND SOCIETY DOESN'T DEGRADE, IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD! >*gets sucked out of airplane because diversity hire didn't tighten the door bolts properly*
Good idea until when you're 70 and need major heart surgery carried out by Dr. Sheniqua with 6 inch long false nails that she refuses to remove because it's her culture
Interesting, so you're saying that we have evidence things were bad in the past (somewhat regular crashes of commercial flights) and what we complain about now is a mechanical failure that resulted in no fatalities.
Its almost likes things are....heckin getting better my dude?
>things were bad in the past therefore it's impossible for things to get bad in the future
Single-digit IQ take
see above chud
3 months ago
Anonymous
We used to not have any sort of failures at all, my single-brain-celled friend
3 months ago
Anonymous
inventions are good, good point
3 months ago
Anonymous
I'm saying that you're comparing apples to apple pies and I don't care what opinions you have on it as a result
show me the records of incidents where planes almost collide on runways. show me the records of maintenance failures causing near-crashes. Show me those and how they've dropped off in recent years and maybe the greater whole of your assertion can be considered.
Nobody's nostalgic for being 12, they should have said 18-22. That's really the peak of life between newfound freedom from the family and before the shackles of true adult responsibility.
It is the end of times, for white people. The world will continue and it'll be a worse version of the world. You just need to travel to any non-white country for some idea what the world will be like.
A country is the people, and not the land. If the people are replaced, then it's a new country. I'm glad that I won't have to see that new country.
I did watch the userbase of Cinemaphile change, which was pretty horrible. I can understand how old people feel when they leave the house and see non-whites, because it happened to my website.
Ah you white people are to dramatic theres people of other races that share the same mindset its that you guys ego it to big and you refused to teach other people why living a certain way is better.
>Ah you white people are to dramatic
I'm not white, so you're more right than you know.
>you refused to teach other people why living a certain way is better.
Am I not trying to teach people right now? Every day, I tell people diversity is bad. In the past, everyone would have agreed. Now? You have people of all races on Cinemaphile, and you may get called a racist for some reason. The truth is nobody wants to learn, and they just want to destroy.
>You just need to travel to any non-white country for some idea what the world will be like.
30 years ago >the future will be like Japan! 😀
today >the future will be like India 🙁
The future will either be like Asia or South America, depending on where you live. For Americans, it's the latter. For my country (Australia), it's the former. Nowhere will be good. I mean, there'll probably still white places in Europe, but a lot of places will be destroyed.
It's a good outcome, in a sense, because it means all those immigrants who left their countries will end up in the same place.
>This is the end if we don’t change course drastically.
I'm glad you just left it there, because everyone loves to point out the problem, but nobody attempts to solve it. I actually gave a solution, that all white people should follow: Never speak to your enemies, and ideally don't even live near them. If your israelite government let them in, you should avoid them; Real avoid, and not just walking on the other side of the street.
Having actual bros that you see on a regular basis that haven't devolved into miserable permanently skint "family" men with fat wives and attention seeking brats trapped in a home then only ever leave to go to work is a godsend. Getting married and having brats is the biggest scam in history. Why do you think all media lies about it constantly?
Just because you go for the bottom of the barrel women doesn't mean other people do.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I doubt anyone goes for him
3 months ago
Anonymous
If you have a girlfriend but you prefer to spend time on Cinemaphile then you're probably a terrible partner
3 months ago
Anonymous
I'm at work right now but nice try.
3 months ago
Anonymous
You don't have a job.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Yes I do I'm a construction supervisor.
I also have a gf I plan to marry in a few months.
Is this so out of reach for you that you find that impossible to believe?
3 months ago
Anonymous
That dude is the epitome of bad choices, laziness and no skills
3 months ago
Anonymous
Pretty cool, anon. Are you a britbong as well? What's the money like as a construction supervisor, I'm an avionics supervisor for helicopters and it's about 40 grand a year. My gf and I are planning on buying a house together soon but we're not in our 30s or anything, both in our early 20s. Luckily she has some family near where I work so even when we do move it won't be too much of a shock for her and she won't be lonely away from friends or anything.
3 months ago
Anonymous
No I live in the Caribbean.
Pay is lower but cost of living is as well. I started out being a welder a few years ago but when i moved over here I started to do more office work. An old supervisor left and I took his place a few months ago.
I'm 29 and my gf is 27. Also looking for a home but it's tough. I rented for years and I don't want that anymore. I saved enough money for a good downpayment but volume of houses here is low. Contemplating buying land and then letting a house be build on it.
3 months ago
Anonymous
How does life in the Caribbean compare to the UK then because I'm assuming it's pretty drastically different?
Honestly I've just been quite lucky with living expenses so I managed to save a good amount for a deposit. So hopefully we'll be able to buy a house together and not have to go through the hell of trying to save while renting. Luckily where I work has pretty low house prices so it's not too much of a leap for us to go straight into it.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Oh it's different. I'm not from the UK originally, I'm from The Netherlands.
The mentality, labor shortage, climate, not living on a continent all come into play.
I don't regret it for a minute however. In europe I came home at about 17:00 and it was dark and rainy, just awful.
Here I regularly go hiking after work since I'm home at about 15:15. I often go to the worlds best beach as well and you really feel you have a life outside of work.
If you're still living at home all I can say is live like a monk. If your girl is willing to do that for you (for a year or maybe 2) than she's a good one. Housing prices can be high over here so I have to just wait till something pops up. Or actively go search for abandoned houses which is a common thing here.
3 months ago
Anonymous
If you have a girlfriend but you prefer to spend time on Cinemaphile then you're probably a terrible partner
Everyone dies alone. That's what death is.
Enjoy your fat wife and dumb kids I guess
It doesn't take a genius to realise fat women and annoying kids aren't a life goal.
Having a fat wife and kids you hate isn't "growing up" it's suffering.
Why exactly are you in this thread? This is some max level coping
3 months ago
Anonymous
I'm leaving work in 15 minutes, technically I'm getting paid to give you a (you)
False, not everyone is a talentless manchild who has no aspirations. It's a good thing that the people who preach about "disgusting wifes and kids that are unlovable" will never breed and spread their genes
Fricking deep bro, any more of that high school nihilism to share? Maybe top 2 anecdotes that you tell yourself to cope about not trying anything in life?
It's not even nihilism. And not trying is settling with the fat wife and kids, and never leaving the house because of the fat wife and kids because at least that way you'll never have to learn anything about yourself or be asking with yourself until it's too late.
>It's not even nihilism.
True, it's nihilism + narcissism.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>narcissism
Dude developing your own mind and spirituality instead of thinking you can avoid this by being co-dependant on a partner and children isn't narcissism. Life isn't a movie, and you're not going to die in your bed in some big town house mansion with your wife and kids there to hold your hand before your say some meaningful callback to the first act as the sappy music score kicks in.
Have you ever seen a cat give birth?
Objectively kids are a pointless misery, but as an animal a ton of drugs are released in your brain so it feels great.
No real difference between having kids and becoming a heroin addict, which explains the lives and bodies of people with kids.
We have a term here in Mexico for the kind of man you are, "chavoruco", basically a middled aged man who refuses to grow up and acts like he's still in his 20's hanging out with the "boys".
Life is only as bleak as you make it. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go play msfs for 12 hours. I've got a nice flight from phnl to rjaa planned out.
Don't people find these kinds of shows depressing? How can some people be fine with living such an uneventful life for so long, as banal as that, which in the end makes socially awkward experiences the peak of the interesting parts of their lives? I'm not even saying that I live a life very different than that, but acknowledging it to me seems like defeat. What's the point, where's the fun in that?
>Don't people find these kinds of shows depressing?
This show is pretty popular here in the UK, and some people just don't have the social connections which are needed for an exciting life
UK humor is a lot blacker and meaner than US humor. US comedies you’re supposed to relate to the protagonists and laugh with them; UK comedies you’re supposed to look down on the protagonists and laugh at them.
It has to do with the very high rate of psychopathy in English people.
A cynical and malicious take. UK comedies depict weakness and character flaws we are all supposed to relate to deep down. US comedy is more aspirational (generally) and any mishaps the characters endure is either bad luck or the result of other people.
Yeah, it's a non-decade. You're too old to party with the kids but too young to get into boomer shit like organised hobbies/classes. Your friend group will degrade as all your buddies start getting married and/or having kids and spending all their time with them. And you have to start actually giving a shit about your wellbeing because the health issues you pick up now will define the rest of your life.
Happiness isn't for men. It's for women and children. You need to be fulfilled and fulfilment is hard to come by posting on a forum all day about the same shows over and over.
Im 28, got married last summer. Suicide is present on my mind a lot more but thats mainly since my friends are all snakes and pieced of shit. Once you settle down you realize how horrible and selfish people are. Which makes life oddly harder to live. If you are under 25 abandon all of your "friends" and focus on yourself. If you dont socialize/have a circle if friends then you are ahead of the curve and not wasting your time.
I'm happier and healthier/fitter than I was in my 20s, though it took effort. Dating culture these days is pretty dire, but there is a girl I like that I think I stand a chance with.
Depends how much you're willing to pay attention. If you can pacify yourself by binging netflix, being genuinely friendly at work, and drinking on friday nights with "the squad", you'll probably be happy as a pig in slop.
I'm at the ass end of my 30's. The shittiest part about it was constantly worrying about my age. Otherwise, you're basically still young but much smarter (hopefully).
My testosterone is starting to taper off now. I finally get to relax a bit instead of wanting to frick 24/7.
Yeah you should do exactly what the society tells you. Get married, work a boring job and avoid anything that's cool because le maturity. Maturity is just a cope for cowardly people.
Why do people work all the time LMAO
Cut your expenses and move somewhere cheaper and do something you actually enjoy for once rather than complaining all the time like a stunted moron
Idk why people are being weird about it mentioning work; it’s the same either way.
This is a great poem. Thanks for sharing it.
This is also why I won’t have kids. If there are people immune to this then let their genes go on I guess. I’m not one of them and won’t inflict this on another being. I don’t really believe people (aside from stupid people) that say it doesn’t follow them like a shadow, only noticed less or more in different times.
We are all going to die. Not 'pass away'- that's theistic cope. No, we are going to fricking die! Our consciousness will cease and our bodies will rot. We will cease to exist forever.
The whole point of Peep Show is that success, whether it be social, cultural or economic, is simply a desperate and ultimately futile way of coping with our mortality. The fact that Mark and Jeremy are such losers (by 00's standards) makes this easier for them to see. Look at the 'successful' characters in the show, and notice the primal fear behind their eyes...you won't be able to forget it.
I turned 30 this year and so far it's much better than 25-29 was (other than my neck/back getting randomly sore from bad sleeps now). Bought a house so I don't have to be a rentcuck, have a stable gf who I will probably marry in a year or two, and am considered "old enough" to be respected at work by leadership compared to all the zoomers coming in. (Funny that the old guys find millennials tolerable now vs. 5 years ago where we were annoying as frick, the cycle goes on).
Don't listen to all the doom and gloom. In your 30s you will be a lot more confident in what you want in life vs. your 20s where things can seem ambiguous or overwhelming. You'll also realistically have more disposable income to do what you want.
Yup. Which also appreciated $100k in the last year, and also gives me the flexibility to do anything I want to it, like install solar panels and wire up my garage for higher amperage. I'll happily pay property tax for that any day.
You will die and rot and nothing you've ever done will matter. The fear you feel as the Reapers icy fingers grip your throat will destroy every hope you ever had.
I'm alive now because I can sense and feel that I am alive. That is all that matters. When I am dead I won't sense or feel anything, so it won't matter.
I'm alive now because I can sense and feel that I am alive. That is all that matters. When I am dead I won't sense or feel anything, so it won't matter.
Lol their life is fricking paradise compared to a lot of NEET poverty oldgays, especially if they live in an unwalkable rural area with nothing to do. Jez and Mark were likable and interesting enough to at least hold a situational comedy together and frick hot women on occasion.
My 20s were very frustrating as I kept trying to get a job I enjoyed and couldn't get hired. Now in my 30s, I'm working a job I want to quit and have no hope I'll be able to get one I enjoy. My friend is happier than his 20s as he has wife, kids, house. I didn't want those things, just a job I liked. It all comes down to if you can get what you want or something close to it. Going to work sucks. But if it enables the other parts of your life that you enjoy, you can be happy with it. I think most people ought to strive for that. It's not realistic for most people to try to find happiness through working a job they enjoy.
I feel this. In my 20s I was a naiive techbro that thought if I just got the right degree from the right place and interned and worked at FAANG and then did startups I could get that fun startup job where you and six people work 80+-hour weeks making something really good for the world and you were all friends and blah blah.
Got the job and realized that doesn’t exist and is basically a dream sold by VCs to trick young people into overwork.
There is no good work except that done alone.
You people do the most insane mental gymnastics to cope for the fact that you don't have a gf. >Actually homosexual having a loving beautiful partner who provides you with sex, love, companionship and purpose is normie propaganda
My life is immeasurably better at 29 than it was at 24 before I met my now wife. >ENJOY BEING DIVORCE RAPED, KEK. I BET SHE'S BEING DICKED DOWN BY BLACK DICK AS WE SPEAK
Do you people hear yourselves and just how insane that is? We both signed a pre-nup and we are the most in love and devoted to each other that we have ever been. True love is REAL but you have to be someone worth loving in order to get it.
It did for me, and I had plenty of good gfs before that. Just having someone around who always has your back and treats you with love makes a big difference no matter what you're doing with your life.
Idk why you’re acting like people don’t agree with that.
I own a mirror and am capable of self-reflection. True love is not available to me and never will be.
Probably 33. Maybe give or take a few years.
I’m 31 now and you can feel it. People kind of start assuming you have one and get creeped out when they realize you don’t. You get categorized into a different sort of person.
I don’t mind it, though. I don’t want to be around people with families either. It’s a mutual thing.
I'm 27 and I'm about to be homeless. Both my parents are dead and the only people I have left are my zoomer sister that is only starting to adult because she was taking care of my parents. She regularly asks me to drive her to work and is scared of crowded places. Then my uncle that is probably on the spectrum and refuses to work a real job so most of the financials rest solely on me.
I'm seriously considering it but it'd be throwing the man completely to the wolves. He has a black wife he won't divorce who is in Colorado fricking a Burger King manager. If he got a regular job it's work perfectly but he just hustles car parts and drives Uber for 16hr days.
>who is in Colorado fricking a Burger King manager
Lmfao, well he's a grown ass man and would probably work something out.
If I was in this situation I'd live with my sister.
I'm 27 and I'm about to be homeless. Both my parents are dead and the only people I have left are my zoomer sister that is only starting to adult because she was taking care of my parents. She regularly asks me to drive her to work and is scared of crowded places. Then my uncle that is probably on the spectrum and refuses to work a real job so most of the financials rest solely on me.
The biggest concern is that your zoomer sister doesn't have parental figures around, and it seems like she's socially anxious. It sounds like you need to help her out and lead by example. The uncle sounds like dead weight. If you have to choose between your uncle or sister, then the decision is obvious.
I thought how pathetic it would be if i was still browsing here after high school when i was 15, and im still here.
I'm 22 and i'm terrified of becoming like you people.
>I'm 22 and i'm terrified of becoming like you people.
If that's true then why don't you leave? I was here on Cinemaphile when I was younger than you, and I was never afraid, because I suspected I would be here forever. Cinemaphileners would always say it too. There's nowhere to go for some people.
There has to be some way out though.
you already are moron
You're looking at it from the wrong perspective. You're "terrified of becoming" something, when in reality you've already become it. So at this point you can either recognize this and jump ship, or continue to sink while blaming other people, including (presumably) your parents, siblings, your boss, that guy who cut you off in traffic yesterday, etc... and pretending you don't have a choice.
You have a choice, anon. You've been making it for 7 years.
There is a sort of litmus test for this type of condition. We can use it to determine once and for all if you can, or cannot, be cured. I'm going to say a phrase, and no matter what, don't laugh. If you laugh, you're here forever.
Ready? Good. African-American
>I'm 22 and i'm terrified of becoming like you people.
If that's true then why don't you leave? I was here on Cinemaphile when I was younger than you, and I was never afraid, because I suspected I would be here forever. Cinemaphileners would always say it too. There's nowhere to go for some people.
I guess you're a normalgay then. I may dislike anime now, but I didn't back then. Now that I'm 30, I think it's kind of childish. I don't really want to speak to kids about anime, which is why I don't watch it anymore.
You're looking at it from the wrong perspective. You're "terrified of becoming" something, when in reality you've already become it. So at this point you can either recognize this and jump ship, or continue to sink while blaming other people, including (presumably) your parents, siblings, your boss, that guy who cut you off in traffic yesterday, etc... and pretending you don't have a choice.
You have a choice, anon. You've been making it for 7 years.
>about to turn 34 >pretty much over for me >dont even bother with girls anymore hormones seem to be dying down >older women at job keeps hitting on me >about to just say frick it its prob not getting any better anyway
Half the population hasnt apparently maybe a few decades ago that would be weird but something crazy like 58% of women never had gfs at this point in time.
Mark had everything in his grasp and fricked it up by obsessing over sophie or staying with jez. Hell he would’ve had a happy ending if he was with that high school girl from that party in the first season. Jez’s life is pretty miserable though since he doesn’t really have any skills and he probably wouldn’t be able to work a labor job long enough to retire comfortably. He fricked up by not sticking to the music and falling in love with that girl who was dating his would be boss
If it were an American show the finale would have been Jez becoming big suze’s wife and Mark becoming a successful history writer somehow until the show was ruined.
>not mark and sophie finally being happy, nancy comes back to the uk to reunite with jez, and alan and big suze are main characters for no reason for two seasons prior
It's a real mixed bag imo. >You do gain a certain serenity regarding the state of your life. Once you hit 30 barring some unlikely, unforeseen event your life won't massively change and coming to terms with that allows you to relax. >Likewise other people now don't expect as much of you socially. You're not expected whether single or not to be out on the tiles literally every single night or doing amazing things all of the time. >People show you more respect generally and will actually listen to your advice/opinion on things. >Health and mortality are now a constant thought in your head. You've most likely at this point had one significant death in your close family and one serious health scare of your own. Living sub-optimally for even a short period of time (like sleeping on a couch) will frick you up far more than you ever could have thought possible previously. This will only get worse. >Dating is absolute fricking shit. If you want kids you're on the sinking ship and trying to find any possible boat out and if you don't people feel there's infinite time and options and won't commit. >Friend groups start or continue splintering off based on life stage. Are you a single dude whose friends have all just had kids? You won't be seeing them anytime soon, if ever.
I'm 32 and the first two years of my 30's were shit due to some of the reasons above but I've been making steps to counteract them and seeing results.
31 here, turning 32 in about 8 months and it's funny how right you are >Once you hit 30 barring some unlikely, unforeseen event your life won't massively change and coming to terms with that allows you to relax.
Especially this. I wasn't faithful to the woman I thought I was going to marry, she's kicked me out, and my life feels massively derailed and I'm constantly disturbed. >If you want kids you're on the sinking ship and trying to find any possible boat out
Not to mention this. I still probably wouldn't have had kids for at least a few more years but now it just seems fricking impossible. I was really looking forward to starting a family too but now I just have to suffer the consequences of my actions, which will be probably fricking dying alone
I don’t understand cheating
Like maybe a one night stand if you got too drunk but like, a full ongoing thing with someone? Why?
Like if I wanted to be with the other person I’d just do that
Why would you want 2 whole relationships at once
>Why would you want 2 whole relationships at once
It wasn't an affair, it was prostitutes. Doesn't make it right, but I just wanted more sex, my relationship was great otherwise.
Yeah trust me, I get it, I get it better than you could possibly fricking imagine
Now go jill off tormenting some other guy, you crust, I can already tell your sense of morality is fricked if you "get" a one night stand, I learned the hard way all cheating is wrong
I don't regret it but I also kinda regret it. >begin dating gf >her friend that i considered out of my league goes on to date 3 guys just like me, the last of which is my best friend >the 4 of us hang out a lot >move in with friend and his gf after high school to help them out a bit and break free of my awful stepmother >realise just how badly his gf is lusting for me >refuse to acknowledge it at all, carry on with life and hope it just blows over >it does not >she will take any excuse to be alone with me, she will stay up late in the hopes that me and her are the last ones awake >in one of these instances I'm fricking hammered drunk and she wants a hug good night >oh, god, fine, give her a courtesy squeeze >she stares up at me, expectantly >"well, good night" I say, kinda pushing her away >not long after we get a rare day where I'm not working and my friend is >alone with his gf >she jumps in my bed with me where i'm reading because she's "cold" >this turns into a snuggle >which turns into nose rubbing >can't take it anymore, kiss her >end up getting jacked off all over her breasts >frick for 3 months whenever we have the chance >break it off with her when she starts turning it into a secret relationship she likes and not a shameful side frick
Hate having to keep this secret IRL but If I hadn't tried her pussy, I'd have only ever fricked one in my whole life and I worry that would have driven me mad. Now I know that other pussy is different, not necessarily better.
and mortality are now a constant thought in your head. You've most likely at this point had one significant death in your close family and one serious health scare of your own. Living sub-optimally for even a short period of time (like sleeping on a couch) will frick you up far more than you ever could have thought possible previously. This will only get worse.
Only 31 but this is by far the most relatable part of this whole thread
had a headache a couple months ago. threw up. Whatever, sometimes nasty headaches will do that. threw up again. And again. and again.
couldn't keep anything down. Began cramping from dehydration. Made the idiot mistake of waiting overnight, throwing up every 30-40 mins. Went to ER in the morning and got admitted after throwing up some more. Told I was FRICKED. Entire renal system basically dead. No explanation as to why. No advice on how to prevent it from happening again besides a pill that helps with migraines. Just "you would have died if you were 5-10 years older, don't let it happen again"
Prior to this when I asked people like my mother what I was living for, what my motivation for getting out of bed was, and all she could muster up was "well, you're still healthy"
Now what
are you the 32 year old guy i was responding to? thats totally fricked. i had an ex who had a crazy seizure completely out of nowhere 5-6 years agp and landed on the pavement in her mid 20s. also had a family member told me about how his coworker's wife in her 40s just literally dropped dead out of nowhere, doctors didnt know why. people literally just get sick for no reason and its just something you have to accept after your 20s. ill be surprised if i make it to 70 tbh
Last year my left eye just decided it was a lazy eye now if I’m not 100% fresh and rested. Never had eye problems before in my life and now I have to actively remember to make my eyes point in one direction or cover one of them to not look like a crazy person.
>was about to complain about my vision being shit >remembered I've had monthly contacts in for 6 months
never mind. I always forget that I have a replaceable layer to deal with. I'm going to get some kind of flesh-eating disease in my eyes one of these days
The most noticeable health thing for me in my 30s is that my entire life is now trying to get enough moisture.
Even a quarter cup less water than normal? Headache. No eye drops in the winter? Have fun with your scratchy eyes. No humidifier? That’s gonna cost ya. Slept on your back? Your mouth fell open and now everything from your lips to two inches down your throat is paper-dry.
>The most noticeable health thing for me in my 30s is that my entire life is now trying to get enough moisture.
Lol, that's relatable. Have you ever tried hydration powder? That keeps me alive. Instead of drinking water until you're bloated, you can drink a nice tall glass of something that'll hydrate you. I recommend it.
I used to have an older roommate that would order 4-8 slushies/iced lemonades/similar in the middle of the night and drink them like he needed them to live.
I get it now.
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>I used to have an older roommate that would order 4-8 slushies/iced lemonades/similar in the middle of the night
That's something only adults would understand, lol.
Must be like Hydralyte, which is what I'm drinking. I get so thirsty, because I'm a smoker.
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>drink water at work all day like a fish >go home and smoke weed >pop open a drink >forget about it for 3 hours >go to say something to someone and it feels like i've got a mouth full of tissue paper
i became that guy who walks around with a 2L jug of water all the time and fills it every couple hours.
Downside to this is when I'm stressed I will literally piss every 45 mins. My body goes into turbo famine mode when I'm stressed. Can't eat, barely able to drink.
I drink a lot of water each day but I do notice my mouth gets dryer so much faster now. Getting old fricking sucks. To everyone still in their 20s reading this, here's my advice: dont get old. It's overrated.
Yeah, my dad passed away at 61 due to heart disease (the men in my family do not live long) and turned out he had an inheritable heart disease gene that I also have. After ECG and other scans I got diagnosed with left ventricular hypertrophy at 26 which on its own is fine but typically a precursor to other heart diseases. The whole thing massively upended my life, I spent years watching the worst possible outcome of someone wasting away due to heart disease and turns out I'll very likely face the same. I decided not to have kids as I'd always have a 50% chance of passing on the gene but thankfully I was never that interested in doing so. However I often think 'If I go at 61 I don't have long left to go at all.' it is what it is I suppose so I try and do as much as I can right now.
I was NEET from age 23-27 living off inheritance I was also addicted to drugs, xanax, tramadol, weed and mdma every day use of xanax and tramadol for 3 years straight and my entire family cut me off. After running out of money and becoming homeless I managed to turn it around, first got a job in a warehouse, then got trained to drive a forklift and truck, then got trained to be the operations manager of the business, then the operations manager went on a 4 month holiday while I ran the whole place and now at age 30 I have just bought a home settlement is next month. It's just a little 2 bedroom home but has a yard and is brick etc the mortgage cost is less than my current rent by about 25%.
I have always believed that it doesn't matter what I do things always work out for me. I can do anything and will bounce back.
Wow, that's crazy. I'm a NEET right now, but homelessness would probably push me to find a job. I'm really glad that you're off the street, because there's like no worse fate. A dead person can't suffer anymore, but a homeless person can.
>have health issue >get the level of assistance as outlined in
had a headache a couple months ago. threw up. Whatever, sometimes nasty headaches will do that. threw up again. And again. and again.
couldn't keep anything down. Began cramping from dehydration. Made the idiot mistake of waiting overnight, throwing up every 30-40 mins. Went to ER in the morning and got admitted after throwing up some more. Told I was FRICKED. Entire renal system basically dead. No explanation as to why. No advice on how to prevent it from happening again besides a pill that helps with migraines. Just "you would have died if you were 5-10 years older, don't let it happen again"
Prior to this when I asked people like my mother what I was living for, what my motivation for getting out of bed was, and all she could muster up was "well, you're still healthy"
Now what
I sometimes feel guilty about how I can just give sweeping life advice to young adults, and they take it to heart even though I’m a total frickup that no one should be taking advice from.
I stick to specific, mundane life advice. I never want to be accused of leading a child astray in terms of career. I'm a failure so I avoid pretending to know frick-all about success.
I don't want to be like my dad...
I thought my dad had a sad life, because he sat at home and did nothing, and my life ended up exactly the same. At least I'm smarter than my dad, and I won't be having children.
my dad dropped out of high school, worked for 15 years, got sick with Crohn's, and hasn't worked since thanks to how union jobs worked back then.
He got his job via knowing the right people.
He taught me to focus on school/college and save socialising for when I'm already established. I did great in school/college and never managed to get a career going after. The one job my dad got for me wound up being under the table work for a fembrained moron that fired me over text message when I told him I was going to be looking for something that came with a yearly T4.
My dad once tried to give my kids the "ur so smart u can do anything" nonsense spiel and I told him to shut up and keep his bullshit to himself around them. I properly teach them how the world works. You cannot just laser focus on one thing and hope the rest works out later, you need to have an overall plan and you need to have backup plans, and you have to work on all the angles.
You gotta understand most old people lived in a time where you could frick up for 30 years then just work at a factory and buy a house, car and support a family. You cant do that anymore and they cant understand it he fricked you up by telling you not to socialize because thats the one thing you should be doing. Tons of homies go through life barely working only coasting off socializing.
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yeah, i know that full well. I watch meatheads from high school lose a job in the morning, make a few calls, and have a new one the following day.
I had to resort to nepotism, working with/for my mother and stepfather, to survive
I wish everyone would realise that hair loss only bothers them because it's a reminder that they're getting older and will eventually perish. Everyone needs to overcome that fear of death, and then I won't have to read a post like this, where it's literally just someone talking about hair.
>My hair keeps my head warm
Mine does too, and I like it, but I'm trying to explain to people why losing it bothers them so much. I think everyone is just afraid of dying.
It’s a little that but it also makes you completely ugly 90% of the time. It’s like if some mostly genetic thing made people automatically obese when they turned 40, and everyone young were always thin except for a few people that fatted prematurely for genetic reasons.
>it also makes you completely ugly 90% of the time
Yes, it does, but are most people attractive? No. A lot of them have hair and it doesn't help. Most of the world isn't white, for example. Losing hair is something that people who were attractive with hair complain about, so you can understand why it's hard to care about them.
What else... Oh, how about the fact that baldies exist in 2024? How is that possible? They're clearly having children. Maybe it's their own fault.
worse
Frick, I'm literally turning 30 this year
It's shit
I turned 30 last year, but my life hasn't changed since I was a teenager. The only thing that changed was this website. I'm not sure why people would think life is better or worse as you get older. As a kid
>forced to go to school
As an adult
>forced to work until you die
What's the difference?
Yeah thats pretty much how I see it too.
I know the normie advice is "find a job that you enjoy" but even if you do, it doesn't change the fact you're still forced to do it so you can pay the bills so it's not genuine enjoyment.
>I know the normie advice is "find a job that you enjoy" but even if you do, it doesn't change the fact you're still forced to do it so you can pay the bills so it's not genuine enjoyment.
Yeah, normies are dumb. If they claim to enjoy their job, it's just Stockholm syndrome or some shit. They have to tell themselves they enjoy it, because they spend their entire lives doing it.
If someone is doing something, and not getting paid, then I'll believe they enjoy it; otherwise, it's total bullshit.
Life has always seemed bullshit to me, which is why I don't participate. I'll be here until I'm dead, and then everyone else can continue, because I don't see the point.
> What's the difference?
A teenager has a chance to make something of his life. If your life hasn’t improved by 30 it’s game over.
>If your life hasn’t improved by 30 it’s game over.
Yeah, I'm definitely in the "game over" group. You want to know what I was doing as a teenager? I was here on Cinemaphile. That's why I said nothing changed but this website, which is worse every year.
Look I can see what the problem is. Your internet addiction. Travel the world and live and work abroad. Take the risk and do something, its not too late, find something you want to pursue and make it into an adventure. You can do it Anon!
Thanks for the garbage reply. I remember I was overseas once and staying in a hotel. I was either watching TV in the hotel, or walking around by myself. That's the adventure you're asking me to go on. Do you have any more two digit IQ advice?
I should add that I wrote there is what I do in the country I was born in. That means it doesn't matter where I am, because I do the same things. Something I've done a lot in my life was go to the city and walk around. Why would I travel and do the same thing? It's a waste of time.
>I don't WANT to improve my life, I WANT to b***h about it on Cinemaphile!
lol it's your fault for staying in your bedroom all day like a boring moron. Your life is shit because you're a boring moron with nothing going for himself.
Introverts are a thing.
Look, introversion is a disease. Despite girls and other normies claiming to be introv, know that it's a fashion statement to them. Just like nerd culture was appropriated, they came for mental illness.
Then make peace with it or try to change I don't know what to tell you
You can do a lot of cool stuff with minimal interaction. Your life will be a lot more boring and uneventful if you can't get out of your shell though. Most people live boring lives because they are boring. Then they come here and complain that everyone is an npc for suggesting that having the personality of a crying, abused dog is not ideal.
but you literally are an NPC or should be as in chatGPT would grant objectively more insightful and interesting conversation and advice.
but you are more boring than many people can even imagine exists
you claim the peak of your life is doing some basic ass tourism?
I've never worked for more than a year at any job just to travel and to have craploads of free time. I'm into rock climmbing, hiking, etc. Seeing new places and touring beautiful sights while having access to hot women is way better than being a moron wageslave and having a boss. Your idea of tourism is going to a hotel and spending time in tourist traps, ofc you will have a bad time.
spoken like a true npc
>You want to know what I was doing as a teenager? I was here on Cinemaphile.
Me too. But I went to school, got my career started, made connections, all while being on Cinemaphile. Now I'm 31, got into the six figure range a couple of years ago, and just got married last year.
And yes I have spent entire days on here, procrastinating studying and work, even to this day I do this. I was even extremely autistic and uncomfortable in social situations until maybe my mid-20s. But this site didn't stop me from growing up and pursuing what I wanted out of life.
>As a kid
to go to school
>As an adult
to work until you die
>What's the difference?
Being completely in control of everything you do. You are forced to work, but you can choose where to work. As a teenager you have 0 choice in anything, even what you eat for dinner.
Thanks for replying to me twice, but we have nothing in common. While you were doing things, I was here on Cinemaphile. Keep that in mind. We are not the same. I've been here so long that I probably represent Cinemaphile better than anyone. I became exactly like the Japanese.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori
Self pity cope. You're getting some last shred of selfworth from feeling sorry for yourself; you couldn't do so without you being worth anything right? Truth is, you're worth much more than that, but have been fooled by trauma into believing otherwise. Heal from your past and adhear to the standards that you deserve
little bit confusing bro but i got the feeling of positivity, thanks
but you are particularly slow in the head genetically if you ever fell for that.
My life improved steadily from 23-28 and then she cheated and 28-30 post divorce has been a race to the bottom
You earn money and have your own house and your own car and hobbies when you’re a grownup tho
I’m turning 30 this month and looking back- my life is definitely better than when I was in adolescence except for one major thing.
I deeply miss the quality group of friends I saw and shit talked w every day when I was young. I can’t complain much because now I have a gf who adores me, some good hobbies, and wfh home w a 6 figure salary.
Still, I miss the guys and it seems impossible at this age to make good friends
Being forced to go to school is way less bad. You basically don't have to anything besides homework now and again.
>Being forced to go to school is way less bad
Not at all. Did you go to public school? I did. I went to a diverse public school, and I don't really want to talk any more about it. Unless you went to a school like that, don't tell me what it was like. School was not good at all, and you're forced to go by your parents.
Maybe it's just the time but school was way better and parties were way more fun. Work is an extremely hostile environment with everybody scheming with the politically correct guillotine looming over everyone's neck.
>Work is an extremely hostile environment with everybody scheming with the politically correct guillotine looming over everyone's neck.
Sounds like you're describing an office job, and I would have no idea what's like. If I worked, it would be at a fast food joint, or a supermarket or something. That's why I say work and school are equally terrible. I would be somewhere I didn't want to be, doing something I don't want to.
Why fast food places, everyone says theyre fricking terrible
>Why fast food places
I just named those places, because they're the kinds of places I've worked at in the past (briefly). Those are the only places that would hire a failure like myself. None of them were good jobs.
>"Oh no I can't say I want to hang Black folk at work anymore..THIS IS LITERALLY POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND WOKE TYRANNY!"
nice strawman, what does it have to do with hearing old women cry about trump all day when we live in fricking canada?
Same. It's so over.
same, and i have literally nothing to show for it lmao
I'm turning 31. It's OVER
Same… frick man. How did we get like this.
>How did we get like this.
Why don't you just look back on your life to see how you ended up like this? It should be really clear why. For me, it was being born to a poor family, so I went to a bad school, and didn't try at all because of it.
It sounds dumb out loud but for me I’m pretty sure it’s because of skipping half a grade (worse than either skipping a full one or not skipping) and being (bullied for being) fat when I was too young for it to be from anything but child neglect/abuse
how..
how do you skip half a grade?
Starting in middle school I’d take basically every class except for social studies and gym and some other “who the frick cares” class with the grade above.
The last year of middle school there was a bus to take me and some girl inflicted with the same thing from the high school to the middle school during lunch hour, so we basically only got to eat on the bus (I just didn’t eat since I had an eating disorder by then).
The people that say Kaczynski wound up like that from skipping a grade are probably right. I was a bit shy but mostly normal before middle school.
>Jill off
I guess thinking the only people that don’t like cheating are women explains why you’ll never have children now.
I don't think you're a woman because you think cheating is wrong, I just recognize that being a malicious tormentor is a negative feminine trait
I don't give a shit though, keep kicking me while I'm down if that's what you need to feel good about yourself
>I [think] that being a malicious tormentor is a negative feminine trait
This literally explains why you cheated
To clarify the reason this caused social problems was because e.g. in 6th grade the 7th graders saw me as “the 6th grader that takes some classes with us” and the 6th graders saw me as “the person that’s only here for a few periods/skipped a grade” so I wasn’t seen as a peer by anyone.
I think for people that skip entire grades that effect stops after the first year.
>Starting in middle school I’d take basically every class except for social studies and gym and some other “who the frick cares” class with the grade above.
that sounds like more work for literally everyone involved without any tangible benefit
It was truly the stupidest thing imaginable and they could not have designed a system to frick someone up socially better if they had tried. It’s not like me and that girl couldn’t have just skipped a grade, or better yet been left alone since skipping grades is dumb and comes from a white trash idiot’s conception of intelligence and the purpose of education.
I graduated high school with enough college credits to essentially enter college as a second-semester sophomore, but I was so fricked up mentally by then that I dropped out and eventually went back and graduated super late anyway.
The girl didn’t drop out and finished college in a few years, but just became some office worker anyway and none of it mattered at all. Neither of us were ever going to be research scientists or whatever the frick because of our socioeconomic background. The only effect was making us very weird. I talked to her once years after we’d both graduated and she brought up unprompted that she was being ~bullied at her office job. And so have I been most places I’ve worked. I don’t even blame the people doing it. It’s the same behavior you can observe in monkeys if you introduce an undersocialized one to a group of normal ones.
But maybe I’d be like this anyway and it’s just a cope. Doesn’t matter anymore.
you may not have been perfect under different circumstances, but I fail to see how they could go about that any worse. Like, anything they had done differently would have been better.
If you were bullied, then that's probably why you gave up. I went to a school with people I didn't like, and so I sat by myself. I was always going to be a Cinemaphilener, with my life like that. The absolute worst part is that I feel like I'm in high school again when I come here. It wasn't always this way, but it is now.
>DHMIS
Loved that show. Wish they'd come out with some more episodes. It's one of the few things these days that's just enjoyable to watch and it's a struggle to find anything I'm not a fan of in the show. Hits all the right buttons.
No, it’s much .
In peep show they get handed a good life on a platter and throw it away like a dozen times.
Also in real life you don’t have an eternal roommate/friend.
>Also in real life you don’t have an eternal roommate/friend.
Why not? Seriously asking as I've have a roomate for 4 years and feel like it'll always be this way as the economy is fricked over here
I mean you don’t have one guy you get on with that stays for decades into your 40s. You have people you mostly don’t get on with that cycle in and out every 1-5 years.
I still had hope in my 20s.
I suppose that's the difference between 20 and 30. At 30, you kind of understand that your life will be the same as whatever it is now. Every day will just be more of the same.
I'm 26 and already am full of despair for the future, but I would've been considered a doomer all the way back in middle school
I'm only 24 and I don't know how hope can be sucked out of me even further.
When I was 24 I no longer had hope for myself.
When I was 30 I no longer had hope for the concept of humanity or sentient life.
Very different.
Not at all. I'm 35, got married a few years ago, and life is generally good, less negatively chaotic than your 20s.
Yes life is exactly the same for every man alive!
They actually live pretty eventful lives for guys pushing 40.
Anons fancy themselves as Mark when in reality y'all are Jeremy
>Neet in his 30s
>Lives off the allowance his divorced mother sends him
>Homosexual tendencies
>Dreams of an artistic life but is too lazy and doesn't have enough talent
Jez has sex with more women than men so most anons can't relate, not to say Mark is much better either
not a virgin but mark has way more sex than me
Nah I'm the worst traits of both of them
>lazy like Jez without any of the social skills
>autistic like Mark without any of the financial stability
Nah. In reality we're not even Mark. We're Gerard
I could not watch this show past the first season. The main character was so distractingly ugly, and on top of that his character was always so insufferable and mean spirited. Least believable part was that he consistently got laid with hot girls, frick this show
moron reasoning
?
Mark is chubby but his face is cute idk what you’re talking about.
Jez is more facially/genetically ugly than mark.
They’re british so there isn’t much better looking people
>Least believable part was that he consistently got laid with hot girls
He got laid with like 3 over the course of nearly a decade
My life is infinitely more boring.
>work 5 days a week for shit pay
>do nothing after work except watch youtube and old boxsets
>weekend is exactly the same
>all my friends have moved on with wives/girlfriends and kids etc
>not particularly close to family
If you're mark you've got jez always keeping things interesting and setting up social events.
If you're jez you literally live for free with your best friend as a roommate and just do drugs all day
They had it good.
How old are you?
Life is what you make it homosexuals. When I hit 30 I realized I needed to make big changes and it's working, everything is objectively turning around
Sure I should have done this shit in my early 20s and been better off but I was a moronic doomer
What I'm saying is; it's only "too late" when you're literally dead.
>Life is what you make it homosexuals
Is that why you're here on Cinemaphile? Post again with another image and I'll filter that one too. I'm guessing you shit eating homosexuals showed up because I filtered every other thread on the board, but you won't be safe in this one. Fricking NPCs.
I hope you can grow out of your chuuni phase doomer-kun
You're saying you're unable to do new things or make different decisions or do anything different
You have a script you follow
You can't break out of it
But he's the NPC? lmfao
>Is that why you're here on Cinemaphile
Yes? I chose to go on Cinemaphile and shit post because I was only working for two hours today and the only other thing I have to do is go to the gym which I do late at night. Nobody's holding a gun to my head making me read sneed for the billionth time.
You're too moronic to understand what true freedom of mind actually is. But the good news is that you probably will when you grow up and realize that you can be successful and browse Cinemaphile because it really doesn't matter in the end. Do what the frick you want.
unironic skill issue. this is cope that nihilists tell themselves to continue being lazy parasites
Cope and sneed, NEET
how old are you, be honest
At least I don't fancy elves and pixies.
it's like living in the 20s except when you hit 36 or 37. that's when you're suddenly become part of the dad generation
Yes around that time is when you really start to feel old
I already feel old at 29, been feeling old since 27 tbh
zoomers are incomprehensible and fully negrified
It's all about attitude
Depends if you're a crybaby moron or not
My life has been great in my 30s
As you can see from this thread, a lot of anons are struggling
To the people struggling I recommend killing yourselves. You never had the ability to improve your life so you may as well give up and spare the rest of us your pathetic feminine whinging.
>Goes on holiday
>Does exactly what he would do if he were home
>"It's shit"
I don't get it, bros. Why did the writers make this character such a cynical moron?
Thanks for not explaining what I should have done instead. Feel free to eat others shit or whatever you fricking NPCs do in the missing section of the board. I'm guessing it's fricking horrible, because you enter every available thread.
>Museums, art galleries, exhibits
>Hiking, hunting, climbing
>Swimming, sailing, bathing
>Cafés, restaurants, food festivals
>Live music, festivals, concerts
>Bars, drinking, partying
>Photography, sketching, painting
But no, instead of taking part in anything you chose to sit in a hotel room to watch TV. You're in a completely different place. Different architecture, different climate, different people, different culture, different food, etc. Yet instead of trying something different you moped around a hotel room and then cried because you don't enjoy moping around. Which is funny because you obviously spend your time moping around at home as well and if you don't enjoy any aspect of life, why not just blow your brains out and spare us the pain of your presence.
>work a salaried job as a medium stress medium paid manager
>halfway through paying off my house
>only girls I have sex with are exgfs and old flings that fly in to see me a couple times a year
>play music and go to the zoo as hobbies
>one friend
It's alot more grim than your 20s but I'm still having a pretty ok time
40s are going to be nightmarish
>20s: have lots of time but no money to do anything
>30s: have more money but no time to do anything
>40s: have even more money and no time to do anything AND your body begins to breakdown
Honestly they live pretty eventful lives compared to most thirtysomething bongoloids
True but if their lives were realistic and set in the present then Jez would be dead from an overdose, and so would super Hans, and Mark would be posting on /LULZ/ about how much he hates his life and wants to die.
I had morons as friends back in high school
this shit show was no different
i'm glad i ditched them into a life of NEET for my last year of high school
Having my first 100k saved was pretty neat considering how empty my bank account was in my 20s. But like others said you start to ask yourself things like, "why do we work so much anyways?" I'm trying to make the most of it cause time flies and I know 30s is the last decade my body will feel like it can still perform like a 20 year old.
It's not but then again, I'm a normie with a family and a steady income
>27
>Happily married to high school gf for four years now. Amazing, wonderful woman and I feel stupidly lucky to have her.
>Both of us have shitty careers we're unhappy with and are likely going back to college this year to start over.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the exact opposite of all the lonely wagecucks with no gf but a high paying job on here. Still, I wouldn't trade places.
If you're an Englishman who looked like that in the 00s, yeah.
As a European, everything seems hopeless. I remember as a child, families were so big. Cousins, uncles, grandparents... the grandparents died and the grandchildren, well, nobody is having children, so there is no new generation. Low paid jobs and arabs and blacks roaming the streets at night. You put on the TV and they preach you the message even during new years, feminism, trannism and homosexualry everywhere.
It seems like the end of times
t. 50yo european
That picture is about consumable media such as movies and music. It doesn't apply to the other things that anon mentioned.
your brain is a chinese room made up of memes, and a bad one at that
Nta but it was better and that's not just from a nostalgic point of view. It doesn't matter if everyone can't agree on exactly when life was best for them, if everyone is agreeing that things are getting worse then things are probably getting worse. My gfs mum has been a teacher for about 30 years, same schools, same areas. She reminisces about what it was like even just five years ago and say she used to complain about students not listening in class and now she regularly has to call the police or an ambulance because students threaten to stab teachers or really young students who are in their early teens have taken drugs and are unresponsive. When I go into work as an aircraft engineer, the old guys say they feel sorry for us younger lot because the pay isn't what it used to be, our pension plan is worth about half of what theirs was and we're expected to do more work than they ever did but with fewer people.
you expect me to read all of that shit?
Everything was better when I was in my twenties t b h
>NOOO CULTURE AND SOCIETY DOESN'T DEGRADE, IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD!
>*gets sucked out of airplane because diversity hire didn't tighten the door bolts properly*
Real talk as someone who was already anxious about flying, seeing all that shit on the news may have just put me off flying for life.
Good idea until when you're 70 and need major heart surgery carried out by Dr. Sheniqua with 6 inch long false nails that she refuses to remove because it's her culture
Those were the days.
Please look up the rates at which airplanes crashed in previous decades
>"look up crash records"
>in response to a post about a dangerous airline incident that didn't result in a crash
Interesting, so you're saying that we have evidence things were bad in the past (somewhat regular crashes of commercial flights) and what we complain about now is a mechanical failure that resulted in no fatalities.
Its almost likes things are....heckin getting better my dude?
see above chud
We used to not have any sort of failures at all, my single-brain-celled friend
inventions are good, good point
I'm saying that you're comparing apples to apple pies and I don't care what opinions you have on it as a result
show me the records of incidents where planes almost collide on runways. show me the records of maintenance failures causing near-crashes. Show me those and how they've dropped off in recent years and maybe the greater whole of your assertion can be considered.
>things were bad in the past therefore it's impossible for things to get bad in the future
Single-digit IQ take
Nobody's nostalgic for being 12, they should have said 18-22. That's really the peak of life between newfound freedom from the family and before the shackles of true adult responsibility.
>Its da j00s fault I'm a loser
He's barely 18
>It seems like the end of times
It is the end of times, for white people. The world will continue and it'll be a worse version of the world. You just need to travel to any non-white country for some idea what the world will be like.
A country is the people, and not the land. If the people are replaced, then it's a new country. I'm glad that I won't have to see that new country.
I did watch the userbase of Cinemaphile change, which was pretty horrible. I can understand how old people feel when they leave the house and see non-whites, because it happened to my website.
Ah you white people are to dramatic theres people of other races that share the same mindset its that you guys ego it to big and you refused to teach other people why living a certain way is better.
>Ah you white people are to dramatic
I'm not white, so you're more right than you know.
>you refused to teach other people why living a certain way is better.
Am I not trying to teach people right now? Every day, I tell people diversity is bad. In the past, everyone would have agreed. Now? You have people of all races on Cinemaphile, and you may get called a racist for some reason. The truth is nobody wants to learn, and they just want to destroy.
>I'm not white
You didn't even know before I told you. You know what that means? That means I'm smarter than you. Please consider that after I filter your image.
>You just need to travel to any non-white country for some idea what the world will be like.
30 years ago
>the future will be like Japan! 😀
today
>the future will be like India 🙁
>the future will be like India 🙁
The future will either be like Asia or South America, depending on where you live. For Americans, it's the latter. For my country (Australia), it's the former. Nowhere will be good. I mean, there'll probably still white places in Europe, but a lot of places will be destroyed.
It's a good outcome, in a sense, because it means all those immigrants who left their countries will end up in the same place.
We are living through Der Untergang for the west so you’re right. This is the end if we don’t change course drastically.
>This is the end if we don’t change course drastically.
I'm glad you just left it there, because everyone loves to point out the problem, but nobody attempts to solve it. I actually gave a solution, that all white people should follow: Never speak to your enemies, and ideally don't even live near them. If your israelite government let them in, you should avoid them; Real avoid, and not just walking on the other side of the street.
It's worse because you'll never stick your dick in the Dob.
Having actual bros that you see on a regular basis that haven't devolved into miserable permanently skint "family" men with fat wives and attention seeking brats trapped in a home then only ever leave to go to work is a godsend. Getting married and having brats is the biggest scam in history. Why do you think all media lies about it constantly?
Everyone needs to grow up eventually
Not when you have the welfare state as a surrogate father all the way to your deathbed.
Having a fat wife and kids you hate isn't "growing up" it's suffering.
Why are you talking about things that you dont have experience about?
It doesn't take a genius to realise fat women and annoying kids aren't a life goal.
skill issue
Enjoy your fat wife and dumb kids I guess
Thank you for not finding a woman and not having kids. You'd make a really shitty father
Just because you go for the bottom of the barrel women doesn't mean other people do.
I doubt anyone goes for him
If you have a girlfriend but you prefer to spend time on Cinemaphile then you're probably a terrible partner
I'm at work right now but nice try.
You don't have a job.
Yes I do I'm a construction supervisor.
I also have a gf I plan to marry in a few months.
Is this so out of reach for you that you find that impossible to believe?
That dude is the epitome of bad choices, laziness and no skills
Pretty cool, anon. Are you a britbong as well? What's the money like as a construction supervisor, I'm an avionics supervisor for helicopters and it's about 40 grand a year. My gf and I are planning on buying a house together soon but we're not in our 30s or anything, both in our early 20s. Luckily she has some family near where I work so even when we do move it won't be too much of a shock for her and she won't be lonely away from friends or anything.
No I live in the Caribbean.
Pay is lower but cost of living is as well. I started out being a welder a few years ago but when i moved over here I started to do more office work. An old supervisor left and I took his place a few months ago.
I'm 29 and my gf is 27. Also looking for a home but it's tough. I rented for years and I don't want that anymore. I saved enough money for a good downpayment but volume of houses here is low. Contemplating buying land and then letting a house be build on it.
How does life in the Caribbean compare to the UK then because I'm assuming it's pretty drastically different?
Honestly I've just been quite lucky with living expenses so I managed to save a good amount for a deposit. So hopefully we'll be able to buy a house together and not have to go through the hell of trying to save while renting. Luckily where I work has pretty low house prices so it's not too much of a leap for us to go straight into it.
Oh it's different. I'm not from the UK originally, I'm from The Netherlands.
The mentality, labor shortage, climate, not living on a continent all come into play.
I don't regret it for a minute however. In europe I came home at about 17:00 and it was dark and rainy, just awful.
Here I regularly go hiking after work since I'm home at about 15:15. I often go to the worlds best beach as well and you really feel you have a life outside of work.
If you're still living at home all I can say is live like a monk. If your girl is willing to do that for you (for a year or maybe 2) than she's a good one. Housing prices can be high over here so I have to just wait till something pops up. Or actively go search for abandoned houses which is a common thing here.
Why exactly are you in this thread? This is some max level coping
I'm leaving work in 15 minutes, technically I'm getting paid to give you a (you)
I love my fat wife and kids.
You were the one who was memed into not having children
>who needs them? life's about me me me
now enjoy creeping loneliness and dying alone
Most people on this board never had the opportunity to have kids so they can't regret a non choice.
False, not everyone is a talentless manchild who has no aspirations. It's a good thing that the people who preach about "disgusting wifes and kids that are unlovable" will never breed and spread their genes
Everyone dies alone. That's what death is.
Fricking deep bro, any more of that high school nihilism to share? Maybe top 2 anecdotes that you tell yourself to cope about not trying anything in life?
It's not even nihilism. And not trying is settling with the fat wife and kids, and never leaving the house because of the fat wife and kids because at least that way you'll never have to learn anything about yourself or be asking with yourself until it's too late.
>It's not even nihilism.
True, it's nihilism + narcissism.
>narcissism
Dude developing your own mind and spirituality instead of thinking you can avoid this by being co-dependant on a partner and children isn't narcissism. Life isn't a movie, and you're not going to die in your bed in some big town house mansion with your wife and kids there to hold your hand before your say some meaningful callback to the first act as the sappy music score kicks in.
Have you ever seen a cat give birth?
Objectively kids are a pointless misery, but as an animal a ton of drugs are released in your brain so it feels great.
No real difference between having kids and becoming a heroin addict, which explains the lives and bodies of people with kids.
We have a term here in Mexico for the kind of man you are, "chavoruco", basically a middled aged man who refuses to grow up and acts like he's still in his 20's hanging out with the "boys".
Life is only as bleak as you make it. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go play msfs for 12 hours. I've got a nice flight from phnl to rjaa planned out.
Don't people find these kinds of shows depressing? How can some people be fine with living such an uneventful life for so long, as banal as that, which in the end makes socially awkward experiences the peak of the interesting parts of their lives? I'm not even saying that I live a life very different than that, but acknowledging it to me seems like defeat. What's the point, where's the fun in that?
>Don't people find these kinds of shows depressing?
This show is pretty popular here in the UK, and some people just don't have the social connections which are needed for an exciting life
UK humor is a lot blacker and meaner than US humor. US comedies you’re supposed to relate to the protagonists and laugh with them; UK comedies you’re supposed to look down on the protagonists and laugh at them.
It has to do with the very high rate of psychopathy in English people.
A cynical and malicious take. UK comedies depict weakness and character flaws we are all supposed to relate to deep down. US comedy is more aspirational (generally) and any mishaps the characters endure is either bad luck or the result of other people.
Always Sunny must be an outlier of American comedy then since they're all terrible people who ruin their own lives
Yes, i am cynical and malicious about English “people”
Then your opinion can be discarded. Thanks.
Yeah, it's a non-decade. You're too old to party with the kids but too young to get into boomer shit like organised hobbies/classes. Your friend group will degrade as all your buddies start getting married and/or having kids and spending all their time with them. And you have to start actually giving a shit about your wellbeing because the health issues you pick up now will define the rest of your life.
Much worse.
i liked it. made 2 kids
I'm 33 and so far my 30s are playing out much better than my 20s were.
Take care of yourselves, boys.
Happiness isn't for men. It's for women and children. You need to be fulfilled and fulfilment is hard to come by posting on a forum all day about the same shows over and over.
It's absolutely awful compared to your 20s if you didn't get your shit together
Im 28, got married last summer. Suicide is present on my mind a lot more but thats mainly since my friends are all snakes and pieced of shit. Once you settle down you realize how horrible and selfish people are. Which makes life oddly harder to live. If you are under 25 abandon all of your "friends" and focus on yourself. If you dont socialize/have a circle if friends then you are ahead of the curve and not wasting your time.
If your life's mostly in order by the end of your 20s, it's fun and full of potential. If not then it's grim but a useful wake-up call.
I'm happier and healthier/fitter than I was in my 20s, though it took effort. Dating culture these days is pretty dire, but there is a girl I like that I think I stand a chance with.
>more money than my 20s
>more sex than my 20s
>worse mental health than my 20s
>less fulfilled than my 20s
It seems to just get worse, life is just a slow decline with the occasional peak to keep you going
Depends how much you're willing to pay attention. If you can pacify yourself by binging netflix, being genuinely friendly at work, and drinking on friday nights with "the squad", you'll probably be happy as a pig in slop.
Who had it worse bros?
Jeremy because he will die destitute and with HIV
My 20s were bad with some good things but my early 30s were outright traumatic. Can't imagine my 40s
I'm at the ass end of my 30's. The shittiest part about it was constantly worrying about my age. Otherwise, you're basically still young but much smarter (hopefully).
My testosterone is starting to taper off now. I finally get to relax a bit instead of wanting to frick 24/7.
There is nothing sadder than a 30 something man who still lives the same life as he did qhen he was 18 or 26. It's a legit mental disorder
My life has always been the same and all my memories just blur together.
Yeah you should do exactly what the society tells you. Get married, work a boring job and avoid anything that's cool because le maturity. Maturity is just a cope for cowardly people.
>avoid anything that's cool
You mean consuming vidya, junkfood and movies? Itvwas cool as a teenager but as a middle-aged man, it's just sad.
Why the frick do you assume that everyone is a loser like you when they are/were in their twenties?
>consuming movies past a certain age is sad
why are you like this?
no one will raise Jamal's kid with you roastie, sorry!
Reading this thread in my mid 20s is terrifying lmao.
You'll blink twice and you turn 30
Imma just leave this here.
Remove "I work all day" in th3 beginning and it isn't any better
cope
Why do people work all the time LMAO
Cut your expenses and move somewhere cheaper and do something you actually enjoy for once rather than complaining all the time like a stunted moron
Idk why people are being weird about it mentioning work; it’s the same either way.
This is a great poem. Thanks for sharing it.
This is also why I won’t have kids. If there are people immune to this then let their genes go on I guess. I’m not one of them and won’t inflict this on another being. I don’t really believe people (aside from stupid people) that say it doesn’t follow them like a shadow, only noticed less or more in different times.
We are all going to die. Not 'pass away'- that's theistic cope. No, we are going to fricking die! Our consciousness will cease and our bodies will rot. We will cease to exist forever.
The whole point of Peep Show is that success, whether it be social, cultural or economic, is simply a desperate and ultimately futile way of coping with our mortality. The fact that Mark and Jeremy are such losers (by 00's standards) makes this easier for them to see. Look at the 'successful' characters in the show, and notice the primal fear behind their eyes...you won't be able to forget it.
I turned 30 this year and so far it's much better than 25-29 was (other than my neck/back getting randomly sore from bad sleeps now). Bought a house so I don't have to be a rentcuck, have a stable gf who I will probably marry in a year or two, and am considered "old enough" to be respected at work by leadership compared to all the zoomers coming in. (Funny that the old guys find millennials tolerable now vs. 5 years ago where we were annoying as frick, the cycle goes on).
Don't listen to all the doom and gloom. In your 30s you will be a lot more confident in what you want in life vs. your 20s where things can seem ambiguous or overwhelming. You'll also realistically have more disposable income to do what you want.
>don't have to be a rentcuck
Cool, now you're only a tax cuck for a property you "own"
Yup. Which also appreciated $100k in the last year, and also gives me the flexibility to do anything I want to it, like install solar panels and wire up my garage for higher amperage. I'll happily pay property tax for that any day.
You will die and rot and nothing you've ever done will matter. The fear you feel as the Reapers icy fingers grip your throat will destroy every hope you ever had.
>nothing matters bro
This is maximum cope, how can an adult like you be on a level of a 16-year old
*blocks your path*
*As he tries to deny that feeling in the pit of his stomach, those thoughts in the back of his mind, the ones he's had since the age of 11*
>literally admitting that his view on life and death is the same as the perspective of a pre-pubescent child
Grow up and seek Christ
This might have hit hard if I was still 15
>I am to le mature for existential dread
Cope, what you are experiencing now is merely a respite, the fear will return.
Sure thing coldsteel the hedgeheg
I'm alive now because I can sense and feel that I am alive. That is all that matters. When I am dead I won't sense or feel anything, so it won't matter.
>hear anon is happy
>NOOOOO NOTHING HECKIN MATTERS BE MISERABLE LIKE ME
how's that bucket mr krabs?
cope
Haha. When you get older you'll see how silly that mentality is.
literally me
Lol their life is fricking paradise compared to a lot of NEET poverty oldgays, especially if they live in an unwalkable rural area with nothing to do. Jez and Mark were likable and interesting enough to at least hold a situational comedy together and frick hot women on occasion.
My 20s were very frustrating as I kept trying to get a job I enjoyed and couldn't get hired. Now in my 30s, I'm working a job I want to quit and have no hope I'll be able to get one I enjoy. My friend is happier than his 20s as he has wife, kids, house. I didn't want those things, just a job I liked. It all comes down to if you can get what you want or something close to it. Going to work sucks. But if it enables the other parts of your life that you enjoy, you can be happy with it. I think most people ought to strive for that. It's not realistic for most people to try to find happiness through working a job they enjoy.
I feel this. In my 20s I was a naiive techbro that thought if I just got the right degree from the right place and interned and worked at FAANG and then did startups I could get that fun startup job where you and six people work 80+-hour weeks making something really good for the world and you were all friends and blah blah.
Got the job and realized that doesn’t exist and is basically a dream sold by VCs to trick young people into overwork.
There is no good work except that done alone.
You people do the most insane mental gymnastics to cope for the fact that you don't have a gf.
>Actually homosexual having a loving beautiful partner who provides you with sex, love, companionship and purpose is normie propaganda
My life is immeasurably better at 29 than it was at 24 before I met my now wife.
>ENJOY BEING DIVORCE RAPED, KEK. I BET SHE'S BEING DICKED DOWN BY BLACK DICK AS WE SPEAK
Do you people hear yourselves and just how insane that is? We both signed a pre-nup and we are the most in love and devoted to each other that we have ever been. True love is REAL but you have to be someone worth loving in order to get it.
Why are you arguing with yourself like a moronic mental patient?
>We both signed a pre-nup
That shit gets thrown out in courts all the time, did you do no research at all before getting married?
I have a gf, our relationship is great but it doesn't just magically make the rest of your life better. This whole post sounds like cope
It did for me, and I had plenty of good gfs before that. Just having someone around who always has your back and treats you with love makes a big difference no matter what you're doing with your life.
Idk why you’re acting like people don’t agree with that.
I own a mirror and am capable of self-reflection. True love is not available to me and never will be.
not if you drink all the time
What age did he mean?
23, by the time you finish college you should have your own house, a car, a wife, 2-3 children and a steady 6 figures job
Probably 33. Maybe give or take a few years.
I’m 31 now and you can feel it. People kind of start assuming you have one and get creeped out when they realize you don’t. You get categorized into a different sort of person.
I don’t mind it, though. I don’t want to be around people with families either. It’s a mutual thing.
i’m 32 and that’s not my experience at all
Well I also don’t go outside
I'm 29 and already had this happen but only once, they assumed I was married then I told them no I live with a roommate.
That’s just someone being weird. Before 30 is free game.
im assuming its older boomers who ask these questions? most people our age aren't out of touch with this shit.
t.31 years old
Yes this is from a mixture of Americans 50+ and immigrants of various ages from conservative countries.
Just what an engl*shman would say.
I'm 27 and I'm about to be homeless. Both my parents are dead and the only people I have left are my zoomer sister that is only starting to adult because she was taking care of my parents. She regularly asks me to drive her to work and is scared of crowded places. Then my uncle that is probably on the spectrum and refuses to work a real job so most of the financials rest solely on me.
Can't you just live with your sister?
I'm seriously considering it but it'd be throwing the man completely to the wolves. He has a black wife he won't divorce who is in Colorado fricking a Burger King manager. If he got a regular job it's work perfectly but he just hustles car parts and drives Uber for 16hr days.
>who is in Colorado fricking a Burger King manager
Lmfao, well he's a grown ass man and would probably work something out.
If I was in this situation I'd live with my sister.
The biggest concern is that your zoomer sister doesn't have parental figures around, and it seems like she's socially anxious. It sounds like you need to help her out and lead by example. The uncle sounds like dead weight. If you have to choose between your uncle or sister, then the decision is obvious.
no i just bought a condo and found a 25 yo gf
My life has been bleak since I was 18. Just turned 28.
I thought how pathetic it would be if i was still browsing here after high school when i was 15, and im still here.
I'm 22 and i'm terrified of becoming like you people.
I remember posting the same thing 15 years ago.
There has to be some way out though.
NO. It's still not over for me.
There is a sort of litmus test for this type of condition. We can use it to determine once and for all if you can, or cannot, be cured. I'm going to say a phrase, and no matter what, don't laugh. If you laugh, you're here forever.
Ready? Good.
African-American
>posts wojack moronation
Nope, it's too late, at least you should start by that
>I'm 22 and i'm terrified of becoming like you people.
If that's true then why don't you leave? I was here on Cinemaphile when I was younger than you, and I was never afraid, because I suspected I would be here forever. Cinemaphileners would always say it too. There's nowhere to go for some people.
Yeah I remember thinking that in middle school.
t. 32
Yep, I've been here on Cinemaphile since high school. I used to watch anime in high school, and that's probably how I ended up in this place.
The worst part is I actually kind of hate anime.
I guess you're a normalgay then. I may dislike anime now, but I didn't back then. Now that I'm 30, I think it's kind of childish. I don't really want to speak to kids about anime, which is why I don't watch it anymore.
Nah I’m just even less normal than anime gays
you already are moron
You're looking at it from the wrong perspective. You're "terrified of becoming" something, when in reality you've already become it. So at this point you can either recognize this and jump ship, or continue to sink while blaming other people, including (presumably) your parents, siblings, your boss, that guy who cut you off in traffic yesterday, etc... and pretending you don't have a choice.
You have a choice, anon. You've been making it for 7 years.
>literal 2016 tourist
It’s way easier to get pussy in your 30s but that’s about it
>about to turn 34
>pretty much over for me
>dont even bother with girls anymore hormones seem to be dying down
>older women at job keeps hitting on me
>about to just say frick it its prob not getting any better anyway
I am 29 years old and I never even kissed a girl
Half the population hasnt apparently maybe a few decades ago that would be weird but something crazy like 58% of women never had gfs at this point in time.
Im basically saying your the new normal now.
Do what I did
Get a flat with a girl and it will happen eventually
Mark had everything in his grasp and fricked it up by obsessing over sophie or staying with jez. Hell he would’ve had a happy ending if he was with that high school girl from that party in the first season. Jez’s life is pretty miserable though since he doesn’t really have any skills and he probably wouldn’t be able to work a labor job long enough to retire comfortably. He fricked up by not sticking to the music and falling in love with that girl who was dating his would be boss
If it were an American show the finale would have been Jez becoming big suze’s wife and Mark becoming a successful history writer somehow until the show was ruined.
>not mark and sophie finally being happy, nancy comes back to the uk to reunite with jez, and alan and big suze are main characters for no reason for two seasons prior
Now that the cum has settled, was it rape?
how can it be rape when it wasnt even sex
It's fine because they all thought he pissed himself, they had no clue he came in his pants.
It's a real mixed bag imo.
>You do gain a certain serenity regarding the state of your life. Once you hit 30 barring some unlikely, unforeseen event your life won't massively change and coming to terms with that allows you to relax.
>Likewise other people now don't expect as much of you socially. You're not expected whether single or not to be out on the tiles literally every single night or doing amazing things all of the time.
>People show you more respect generally and will actually listen to your advice/opinion on things.
>Health and mortality are now a constant thought in your head. You've most likely at this point had one significant death in your close family and one serious health scare of your own. Living sub-optimally for even a short period of time (like sleeping on a couch) will frick you up far more than you ever could have thought possible previously. This will only get worse.
>Dating is absolute fricking shit. If you want kids you're on the sinking ship and trying to find any possible boat out and if you don't people feel there's infinite time and options and won't commit.
>Friend groups start or continue splintering off based on life stage. Are you a single dude whose friends have all just had kids? You won't be seeing them anytime soon, if ever.
I'm 32 and the first two years of my 30's were shit due to some of the reasons above but I've been making steps to counteract them and seeing results.
31 here, turning 32 in about 8 months and it's funny how right you are
>Once you hit 30 barring some unlikely, unforeseen event your life won't massively change and coming to terms with that allows you to relax.
Especially this. I wasn't faithful to the woman I thought I was going to marry, she's kicked me out, and my life feels massively derailed and I'm constantly disturbed.
>If you want kids you're on the sinking ship and trying to find any possible boat out
Not to mention this. I still probably wouldn't have had kids for at least a few more years but now it just seems fricking impossible. I was really looking forward to starting a family too but now I just have to suffer the consequences of my actions, which will be probably fricking dying alone
I don’t understand cheating
Like maybe a one night stand if you got too drunk but like, a full ongoing thing with someone? Why?
Like if I wanted to be with the other person I’d just do that
Why would you want 2 whole relationships at once
>Why would you want 2 whole relationships at once
It wasn't an affair, it was prostitutes. Doesn't make it right, but I just wanted more sex, my relationship was great otherwise.
Damn that’s somehow worse since it’s so premeditated and taking money from family funds
Yeah trust me, I get it, I get it better than you could possibly fricking imagine
Now go jill off tormenting some other guy, you crust, I can already tell your sense of morality is fricked if you "get" a one night stand, I learned the hard way all cheating is wrong
I don't regret it but I also kinda regret it.
>begin dating gf
>her friend that i considered out of my league goes on to date 3 guys just like me, the last of which is my best friend
>the 4 of us hang out a lot
>move in with friend and his gf after high school to help them out a bit and break free of my awful stepmother
>realise just how badly his gf is lusting for me
>refuse to acknowledge it at all, carry on with life and hope it just blows over
>it does not
>she will take any excuse to be alone with me, she will stay up late in the hopes that me and her are the last ones awake
>in one of these instances I'm fricking hammered drunk and she wants a hug good night
>oh, god, fine, give her a courtesy squeeze
>she stares up at me, expectantly
>"well, good night" I say, kinda pushing her away
>not long after we get a rare day where I'm not working and my friend is
>alone with his gf
>she jumps in my bed with me where i'm reading because she's "cold"
>this turns into a snuggle
>which turns into nose rubbing
>can't take it anymore, kiss her
>end up getting jacked off all over her breasts
>frick for 3 months whenever we have the chance
>break it off with her when she starts turning it into a secret relationship she likes and not a shameful side frick
Hate having to keep this secret IRL but If I hadn't tried her pussy, I'd have only ever fricked one in my whole life and I worry that would have driven me mad. Now I know that other pussy is different, not necessarily better.
Gross, never post again
and mortality are now a constant thought in your head. You've most likely at this point had one significant death in your close family and one serious health scare of your own. Living sub-optimally for even a short period of time (like sleeping on a couch) will frick you up far more than you ever could have thought possible previously. This will only get worse.
Only 31 but this is by far the most relatable part of this whole thread
had a headache a couple months ago. threw up. Whatever, sometimes nasty headaches will do that. threw up again. And again. and again.
couldn't keep anything down. Began cramping from dehydration. Made the idiot mistake of waiting overnight, throwing up every 30-40 mins. Went to ER in the morning and got admitted after throwing up some more. Told I was FRICKED. Entire renal system basically dead. No explanation as to why. No advice on how to prevent it from happening again besides a pill that helps with migraines. Just "you would have died if you were 5-10 years older, don't let it happen again"
Prior to this when I asked people like my mother what I was living for, what my motivation for getting out of bed was, and all she could muster up was "well, you're still healthy"
Now what
are you the 32 year old guy i was responding to? thats totally fricked. i had an ex who had a crazy seizure completely out of nowhere 5-6 years agp and landed on the pavement in her mid 20s. also had a family member told me about how his coworker's wife in her 40s just literally dropped dead out of nowhere, doctors didnt know why. people literally just get sick for no reason and its just something you have to accept after your 20s. ill be surprised if i make it to 70 tbh
I'm 32 as well but a different anon.
Last year my left eye just decided it was a lazy eye now if I’m not 100% fresh and rested. Never had eye problems before in my life and now I have to actively remember to make my eyes point in one direction or cover one of them to not look like a crazy person.
>was about to complain about my vision being shit
>remembered I've had monthly contacts in for 6 months
never mind. I always forget that I have a replaceable layer to deal with. I'm going to get some kind of flesh-eating disease in my eyes one of these days
The most noticeable health thing for me in my 30s is that my entire life is now trying to get enough moisture.
Even a quarter cup less water than normal? Headache. No eye drops in the winter? Have fun with your scratchy eyes. No humidifier? That’s gonna cost ya. Slept on your back? Your mouth fell open and now everything from your lips to two inches down your throat is paper-dry.
>The most noticeable health thing for me in my 30s is that my entire life is now trying to get enough moisture.
Lol, that's relatable. Have you ever tried hydration powder? That keeps me alive. Instead of drinking water until you're bloated, you can drink a nice tall glass of something that'll hydrate you. I recommend it.
I'm actually thirsty right now and I'll probably have to make a glass of that stuff. The thirst is real, as you get older.
Bros we are so thirsty and only getting thirstier
>Bros we are so thirsty
Not me, buddy. I just made myself a glass of this stuff.
I am literally drinking water right now. AMA.
I used to have an older roommate that would order 4-8 slushies/iced lemonades/similar in the middle of the night and drink them like he needed them to live.
I get it now.
>I used to have an older roommate that would order 4-8 slushies/iced lemonades/similar in the middle of the night
That's something only adults would understand, lol.
Yeah I do weird stuff like drinking salted Gatorade and pedialyte as a treat.
>pedialyte
Must be like Hydralyte, which is what I'm drinking. I get so thirsty, because I'm a smoker.
>drink water at work all day like a fish
>go home and smoke weed
>pop open a drink
>forget about it for 3 hours
>go to say something to someone and it feels like i've got a mouth full of tissue paper
i became that guy who walks around with a 2L jug of water all the time and fills it every couple hours.
Downside to this is when I'm stressed I will literally piss every 45 mins. My body goes into turbo famine mode when I'm stressed. Can't eat, barely able to drink.
I drink a lot of water each day but I do notice my mouth gets dryer so much faster now. Getting old fricking sucks. To everyone still in their 20s reading this, here's my advice: dont get old. It's overrated.
Yeah, my dad passed away at 61 due to heart disease (the men in my family do not live long) and turned out he had an inheritable heart disease gene that I also have. After ECG and other scans I got diagnosed with left ventricular hypertrophy at 26 which on its own is fine but typically a precursor to other heart diseases. The whole thing massively upended my life, I spent years watching the worst possible outcome of someone wasting away due to heart disease and turns out I'll very likely face the same. I decided not to have kids as I'd always have a 50% chance of passing on the gene but thankfully I was never that interested in doing so. However I often think 'If I go at 61 I don't have long left to go at all.' it is what it is I suppose so I try and do as much as I can right now.
I was NEET from age 23-27 living off inheritance I was also addicted to drugs, xanax, tramadol, weed and mdma every day use of xanax and tramadol for 3 years straight and my entire family cut me off. After running out of money and becoming homeless I managed to turn it around, first got a job in a warehouse, then got trained to drive a forklift and truck, then got trained to be the operations manager of the business, then the operations manager went on a 4 month holiday while I ran the whole place and now at age 30 I have just bought a home settlement is next month. It's just a little 2 bedroom home but has a yard and is brick etc the mortgage cost is less than my current rent by about 25%.
I have always believed that it doesn't matter what I do things always work out for me. I can do anything and will bounce back.
Wow, that's crazy. I'm a NEET right now, but homelessness would probably push me to find a job. I'm really glad that you're off the street, because there's like no worse fate. A dead person can't suffer anymore, but a homeless person can.
34 middle management wagecuck repotting
Yes, I want to die everyday
>Is life in your 30s really this bleak?
it's worse unless you have money.
You guys talking about being constantly thirsty have some kind of health issue that you need to look into, not just treat the symptoms of.
literally every human on this planet is constantly getting thirsty, thats why you need to drink water every day
Yeah it’s called having the heat on during winter
>have health issue
>get the level of assistance as outlined in
couldn't keep anything down. Began cramping from dehydration. Made the idiot mistake of waiting overnight, throwing up every 30-40 mins. Went to ER in the morning and got admitted after throwing up some more. Told I was FRICKED. Entire renal system basically dead. No explanation as to why. No advice on how to prevent it from happening again besides a pill that helps with migraines. Just "you would have died if you were 5-10 years older, don't let it happen again"
Prior to this when I asked people like my mother what I was living for, what my motivation for getting out of bed was, and all she could muster up was "well, you're still healthy"
Now what
We're settled into our careers and have the respect of zoomers and alpha kids, though. Being mid-30s in amazing.
I sometimes feel guilty about how I can just give sweeping life advice to young adults, and they take it to heart even though I’m a total frickup that no one should be taking advice from.
I stick to specific, mundane life advice. I never want to be accused of leading a child astray in terms of career. I'm a failure so I avoid pretending to know frick-all about success.
I don't want to be like my dad...
>I don't want to be like my dad
I thought my dad had a sad life, because he sat at home and did nothing, and my life ended up exactly the same. At least I'm smarter than my dad, and I won't be having children.
my dad dropped out of high school, worked for 15 years, got sick with Crohn's, and hasn't worked since thanks to how union jobs worked back then.
He got his job via knowing the right people.
He taught me to focus on school/college and save socialising for when I'm already established. I did great in school/college and never managed to get a career going after. The one job my dad got for me wound up being under the table work for a fembrained moron that fired me over text message when I told him I was going to be looking for something that came with a yearly T4.
My dad once tried to give my kids the "ur so smart u can do anything" nonsense spiel and I told him to shut up and keep his bullshit to himself around them. I properly teach them how the world works. You cannot just laser focus on one thing and hope the rest works out later, you need to have an overall plan and you need to have backup plans, and you have to work on all the angles.
You gotta understand most old people lived in a time where you could frick up for 30 years then just work at a factory and buy a house, car and support a family. You cant do that anymore and they cant understand it he fricked you up by telling you not to socialize because thats the one thing you should be doing. Tons of homies go through life barely working only coasting off socializing.
yeah, i know that full well. I watch meatheads from high school lose a job in the morning, make a few calls, and have a new one the following day.
I had to resort to nepotism, working with/for my mother and stepfather, to survive
>go to work, prostitutes b***hing about trump
>come home to Cinemaphile, incels b***hing about leftie roasties
>i just wanna grill
No, I'm almost 37 and I have more hair than both of them. Still thinning though, I imagine I'll be at Mark's level by 40
I wish everyone would realise that hair loss only bothers them because it's a reminder that they're getting older and will eventually perish. Everyone needs to overcome that fear of death, and then I won't have to read a post like this, where it's literally just someone talking about hair.
Canadian here.
My hair keeps my head warm. Getting it shaved short isn't fun. Losing it sucks ass.
>My hair keeps my head warm
Mine does too, and I like it, but I'm trying to explain to people why losing it bothers them so much. I think everyone is just afraid of dying.
It’s a little that but it also makes you completely ugly 90% of the time. It’s like if some mostly genetic thing made people automatically obese when they turned 40, and everyone young were always thin except for a few people that fatted prematurely for genetic reasons.
>it also makes you completely ugly 90% of the time
Yes, it does, but are most people attractive? No. A lot of them have hair and it doesn't help. Most of the world isn't white, for example. Losing hair is something that people who were attractive with hair complain about, so you can understand why it's hard to care about them.
What else... Oh, how about the fact that baldies exist in 2024? How is that possible? They're clearly having children. Maybe it's their own fault.