Did 3 of them already in the past two years, and was considering signing up for Pickleball.
I don’t see “an increasingly difficult to ignore urge to bomb an oil pipeline” on here.
That comes under running , grad school and Japan
Oh wait. You said ignore…I had already committed and planned my escape to Japan
S Tier response
I’m turning into a bog witch
I’ve let like half my yard grow out and turn into a de facto butterfly garden. I’ve got a birdbath where I leave shineys for the crow. It’s going pretty well, I recommend it.
I was gonna say, women have been getting sick of men and turning into bog witches for centuries now, probably longer. The more socially acceptable version was nunneries for a while, since men need to feel like they’re in control of that some way or another. I’m the city apartment version where I’m becoming a night shift vampire /other undead into tarot cards and Gnosticism.
I’m going bog witch, but I’m a dude, so I guess druid?
I’m a dude. I’m still calling it bog witch. If anyone has a problem with a dude witch they can kiss my ass.
I feel like witch accurately incorporates the spiteful aspect of nature-loving that I’m going for. I’d like to weaponize my yard.
You’re doing amazing.
Aw thanks 💜
Oh yeah I did that when I was like 18-20, it’s cool. Gnosticism and tarots are fun, I’m incorporating them into my middle aged dad bog witchery for sure.
My midlife crisis: I bought a ten year old car and started fixing it myself.
I have bloody knuckles and bruised forearms and now a pretty bad oil leak but I replaced that goddamn turbo.
Stick with it, and soon you’ll have a rolling chassis with destroyed interior, body full of rust holes, a crippling Miller lite addiction, and lots of friends with similar rusty old beaters that just need a little TLC.
Yeah but she’ll sound awesome and handle like a dream
Excuse me, those are speed holes to reduce drag.
You forgot about bouldering / rock climbing
Just as I thought I weren’t a stereotype… oh well…
I guess running. About 4 years ago, I started on the treadmill with an exhausting 30min/mi. Earlier this week I completed my first 7min/mi. Along the way, I added a 28min/5k@1.5% and am working on a 60min/10k (today did 62min/10k).
That’s awesome! Well done, and keep up the hard work. Don’t forget to stretch.
BDSM. I have integrated pretty quickly into the local community, and I’m a regular at munches and play parties.
Wait, BDSM is a group event?
I thought it was more like a partner tennis, not community soccer.
Think of it as more of a space where people can meet up and get freaky. 90 percent of the time is people standing around and chatting in fetish gear.
Which AI generated slop are you?
Japan? Does that just mean travel?
At avoidance of being real: no it means Japan.
We are all Japan on this day.
Konnichiwa bitches.
No, I’m pretty sure it means being or becoming a weeb
Le sigh. Grad school
Where is the drinking and BBQing one?
I’m only 33, a bit young for midlife crisis, but I’ve gotten into ham radio. I think it’s probably the most I’ve spent on a hobby. Even budget radios that can communicate over the horizon are pretty pricey.
Edit: The most I’ve spent on a hobby to get started on a hobby, that is. I’ve definitely sank much more money into video games and when I played it Magic the Gathering.
You’re never too young to have a midlife crisis. Have two or three.
Ham radios are awesome though and that’s less of a midlife crisis hobby, and more of a crisis hobby.
Fucking math.
Yes give me sudden urge to self-study linear algebra for shits and giggles. Ima go look at math memes now.
I nearly failed math my entire life wdym it will suddenly become interesting for no reason.
Try self-teaching yourself programming If you like math, you’ll greatly enjoy being able to apply it.
Hey… Wanna go down the geometry rabbithole?
https://archive.org/details/introductiontono031680mbp/page/n76/mode/1up
It has points at infinity, area as a function of angle defect, a triangle whose angles sum to 0…
I started collecting Lego again.
… and running.
As a gen-x, I feel attacked that millennials are already having midlife crises.
You are young! Save it for your fifties, kids, I haven’t had mine yet!
Millenials ain’t making it to our 50s, the water/climate wars will solve that for us.
I’m full of micro plastics.
As a fellow gen-x, I had one in my early forties and again at fifty-seven!
Thrifting should be an option.
I can tell I’m the target demo because the Goodwills all play music I like.
I know it’s a thing, I see kindred souls with the same millennial dork vibes all of the time.
My local Goodwill sucks so I go to a thrift shop run by a church and listen to their horrible Christian rock.
Man are those dudes horny for Jesus.
The closer the music is to this, the more likely you are to find something that goodwill would have auctioned off for $300+ going at like $5. Some Alpha MTG booster pack, a forgotten Nirvana cassette demo, all of these things lay buried in the bottom floor of some church basement. The place will only accept cash though.
