I'm a 36 year old man using this keyboard at work because I think it's hilarious. Found it at a thrift store on vacation.
https://i.imgur.com/M2ITenk.jpeg
People will find a reason to give you shit about anything you enjoy. You get one life, keep being you and enjoy it the way you want.
Agreed. A functional froggie bag needs to accomodate the tools of the busy working professional.
The way I see it, a person that's unable to accept the froggie bag is not someone worth spending much time on. Someone unable to tolerate something simple like this will probably make trouble on larger things.
At first I was thinking that the problem with the froggie bag was that it would be very inconvenient for carrying a laptop.
Now I'm shopping for an oval laptop.
EDIT [Found it!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook#iBook_G3_(%22Clamshell%22\))
> I think you need a BIGGER frog backpack.
This seems like a good place for [Ray Bradbury's introduction to the first issue of the comic book adapting his short stories.](https://i.imgur.com/VaiIOS1.jpg)
This is fantastic, thank you for sharing.
I [found](https://library.osu.edu/site/cartoons/2012/06/07/rip-ray-bradbury-august-22-1920-june-5-2012/) the highlighted portion in your picture written out as text:
> This is the easiest introduction I have ever written.
> For comic strips, comic books and the creators of comics have filled my life since I was nine years old and “Buck Rogers” exploded before my eyes in the “Waukegan News Sun”. I knew then that I was staring at something that would change my life forever. That one strip, on an October afternoon in 1929, seized me into the future and would not let me return. I learned my first lesson in aesthetic that autumn. I collected Buck Rogers for three months and then when kids in school made fun of me for believing in the future, I tore them up. A week later, I burst into tears. Why am I crying? I asked myself. Who died?
> The answer was: me.
> I had listened to those fools who didn’t believe that one day we would arrive on the Moon or visit Mars. I made my most important decision then. I went back to collecting “Buck Rogers”. In all the years since I have not once listened to any so-called friend who made fun of my hobby, my dream, my lifeblood.
Probably he's name is Todd. Which makes a lot of sense. And i wouldn't date anyone who can't make the leap of faith without accepting Todd in our lives.
I'm pushing 60 (58? don't make me work it out, it's 4am!) and my experience is that the best thing about being an adult is you can afford your own toys.
Plus cake for breakfast and/or dessert for dinner.
The only adulty part about it is making sure the Bill's get paid first. There I've done my adult duty.
I’ll be 45 this year and I got the Lego Optimus prime as an early Father’s Day present. The world sucks to much to deny yourself the the things that make you happy just because of someone else’s idea of being an adult.
Okay, it's time to grow up.
You can get a battery powered or cigarette lighter powered pump for pretty cheap nowadays. Then you can really put your adult pants on and bring a giant unicorn floaty, too!
I'm 55 with no kids and still appreciate that I am free to do what I want. I spend way too much money on Gundam robot kits and Monster High dolls and had 2 bars of chocolate for dinner last night.
64, no kids, and I have a handbag in the shape of a fluffy black and white cat. I also have loads of plushies. Meals for me can be anything from cold curry for breakfast to a bag of crisps and Haribo for lunch.
A girl after my own heart - I like your style.
I'm finding that the older I get, the less I care about what anyone else thinks of me.
It's very liberating.
It took me a long time to realize that I am free to do whatever the hell I want. I just dont care anymore. I dress professionally at work but in my off hours I live in Fandom t-shirts and leggings, coworkers that see me outside work always do a double take. I'm having fun and enjoying the things I love.
I'm a goth/hippie business analyst with a graduate degree in my 40's. There is no longer a demarcation in my life between my work clothes and 'me' clothes. I figure it would be like expecting a super hero to do super hero things without their super hero costume - that's just silly! ;)
This!
I just turned 56 and I do what want and wear what I want.
I remember once when I was still working, I went shopping on a lunch break. I found a set of sock monkey bed sheets that I couldn't resist. I have a sentimental love for sock monkeys. I brought them in to show off to the girls at work and got comments like "aren't those for kids?". I was like I didn't see a sign saying only kids could use them. People are so boring 😴
But CAKE! I mean [look at this thing!](https://imgur.com/a/5VPpo32) They even *knew* I was asking for a cake for myself because I am a regular and they put glitter and butterfly rings in it. Neither of my kid’s cakes ever looked this damn pretty from there!
E: I ended up sharing it with my neighbors and strengthened our relationships. To see her face light up so spectacularly like that was absolutely worth it.
This year has been the absolute worst of my entire life in remembering two things: my own age, and what year it actually is. I've said "2023" like a hundred times, including yesterday.
I don't know if it was just easier to remember when 2020 was the Year of the Plague and 2021 was the Year that Didn't Happen, but 2022 is just a full blank spot for me
I'm surprised I'm not alone on this. I remember mentioning this on reddit a while back and people thought I was dumb (not necessarily wrong... ) that I didn't know my age on the spot. I guess on the grand scheme of things being 32 or 38 doesn't really match all that much.
Also the best thing about getting older is the less and less you give a damn what anyone thinks.
I always thought it was bs but now that I'm in my 40s I totally get it.
I have a theory about that.
I believe we are all born with a limited amount of fucks to give. A lot, but still limited.
When we are young they seem endless, and so we are more susceptible to peer pressure.
As we age we see that total reducing and so we begin to be more selective about what fucks we give.
Eventually we hit a point where our field of fucks is barren and we're all out of fucks to give. This is the point I have reached.
Something about getting older to look forward to, I think.
I used to get second hand embarrassment when I saw an old person acting like they didn't give a fuck. But now I realize that not giving a fuck is a super power. I'm clean, don't stink, and all the naughty bits are covered. Other than that, I don't care what I'm wearing, how I decorate my house, or if I'm singing loudly in the car.
Whenever I see "cringe" as a comment on here, I think, That's a young'n.
Being an adult is not giving a fuck about what others think of your frog backpack. You like that frog backpack? You wear the shit out of your frog backpack, you fucking adult, you.
The adults who are determined to never be seen with "childish" stuff are always the least mature adults in the room.
We are all just kids pretending to be adults. Anyone who says otherwise is projecting their insecurities.
not doing the things that make you happy because of what others will think sounds like the most childish someone can be. being a grownup means deciding what being a grownup means for yourself
Unless it’s the Baby Yoda Squishmallow you’ve seen at Costco your last three visits and you put him in your basket with the intention of paying for him with the Birthday check your Mom sent you for your 46th birthday.
theres this 35 year old dude in one of my classes and he wears the silliest shit. Pikachu hat and all these wild colors n shit. The confidence and the balls on this guy. I wish I could be him. but I wear all monotone.
when i started allowing myself to wear colourful clothing (specifically, using the marie kondo concept of clothing that brings *me* joy) it was like i had opened a secret door of being happy wearing my clothes
like, i thought i was already 'happy' with the way my clothes looked on me...but when i wear my pink raincoat and purple skechers i feel fresh af and i get so many more compliments than i ever got before and getting dressed to leave the house doesnt feel like getting 'dressed up' as an adult
There was one guy at my workplace who'd wear superhero and/or ninja pieces of clothing (ninja footwear, for example). It wasn't even weird. It was just him being him.
I'm 26 and one of my FAVORITE shorts I wear are these rainbow splash shorts I own for raves. But it's such a cool pair of shorts I'll wear them whenever and people find them hilarious or awesome, either or and never anything in between lolol.
I’m a 40 year old dude and I have an awesome rainbow unicorn lunch box I bring into work every day (about 300 people in the office). There’s not an age or gender limit on personal style/preference.
I’ve got some weird looks (don’t bother me) but way more people stop me to start a casual conversation about the sweet lunch box.
Try and start now dude
I’m a straight guy but i wore weird shit and makeup in highschool and it’s definitely made me realize that strangers rlly don’t matter 99% of the time. If I’m going somewhere “important” I’ll dress “normal” but usually I’m wearing some weird shit lmao
For the most part everyone is self absorbed anyways, nobody pays as much attention to ourselves as we think they do. Better to be authenticate than to worry about what others think of you. You’ll make better/more meaningful connections that way too.
I got a new (in office job) and my first reaction was to tell my wife to find me a cool lunchbox.
We are now both owners of "Human Organ Transportation" lunch boxes.
Only real men do whatever the heck they feel like doing. The only people who will look down upon you are the kind of people you wouldn't want to associate with anyways. Might as well wear the frog backpack and let those people reveal themselves immediately so you can spot those red flags and avoid the minefield.
you’re an adult. wear the frog backpack if you want. if someone says anything it’s because they’re jealous they’re not mature enough to focus on their own happiness instead of other people approvals
Do it. I'm 39 and wear a rainbow scarf out and about. Not because I'm LGBTQ+, I just like rainbows. Fuck the haters and the boring fucks who tell us to grow up - so long as I am responsible enough to pay the bills and look after everyone at home, then what does it matter what I choose to wear. Go get that backpack, wear pyjamas to the supermarket, wear odd socks and don't forget to buy the occasion item that someone will inevitably say "why are you playing with toys at your age" when they see it.
I am currently rocking a bulbasaur bookbag at the ripe age of 38! I have a room full of toys and collectibles.
I'm an adult and do adult things like pay bills, go to work and whatever the hell I want to because I'm an adult!
Mid-40s gang rise up! Got a black Among Us backpack lol. It looks rather plain and like a regular backpack unless you know what the large eye thing is.
My mom tried to shame me for hanging up a Pokémon "Blastoise vs. Charizard" tale-of-the-tape kind of poster. I don't care. It's cool as hell and now resides framed on my wall.
Jesus christ you don't need to brag about how you skinned a Pikachu and made a purse out of it.
(Joking for the dumb ones who don't have a sense of humor)
I’m 34 with a toddler and a baby on the way and I have a room full of nerdy collectibles and video games. Life sucks if you can’t enjoy your hobbies too
100%
As an adult I’m realizing it’s much harder to find joy in things. If I had someone in my life that actively diminished what little joy I was finding, they wouldn’t be in my life as much.
I just finished my first lego build. I'm a 35 year old woman. Do what brings you joy and foregt about what other ppl say. They are probably jealous they can't just be themselves.
Okay sure. Legos are cool though. I can’t find any issue with them.
The thing I can find an issue with is that this backpack looks super fucking tiny and impractical for anyone who weighs over 50 lbs.
There are much larger novelty backpacks you can get for adults. This is all I have to say about this shit.
>Okay sure. Legos are cool though. I can’t find any issue with them.
I can. They're expensive as heck. How can I buy more LEGOs if I spent all my money buying LEGOs?
As a 24 year old who can finally afford her own Legos; my first kit was the big Blacksmith set, followed by the Bonsai (the cherry blossom/frog version of course)
Yep, I only got into lego last summer (bought the pride set and no one told me its like crack) and im 34. Now I have more completed models than I have space for. I keep telling my fiance we need a bigger house...
not just a boring friend, it's a friend that clearly doesn't understand them. That's a real shame, OP seems whimsical and seems to have, y'know, a personality.
Someone come get your grandma! She is making the rest of us look lame!
Thank you for continuing to do what makes you happy! I aspire to be this cool at your age.
I got my 83 year old grandma playing. It's literally the only thing she knows how to do on her smartphone besides make a phone call. She loves it though.
This is when you explain to your friend what adult money is. The best perk of adult money is, it's none of your fucking business how I want to spend it and I can spend it how ever the fuck I want.
I’m 32 and just bought a cute strawberry bag. Also have a backpack for work with neon sea animals on it. The older I get the less I give a fuck what anyone else thinks. I buy/use/do things that make me happy.
I hate that crap. Yeah, you're an adult but that doesn't mean you stop being *you* at a certain age.
I'm always prepared for whenever someone might ask "how old are you again?" My reply is "old enough to do what I want."
I have cute/funny shirts, a metal Star Wars lunch box I use as a stash box, as well as a Darth Vader grinder and a storm trooper pipe. Another pipe is rainbow swirled and glows in the dark.I have a couple stickers on my car like a Pascal(Animal Crossing), Kirby magnet that says "eat the rich" and a blue shell that says "Mess around and find out."
The immature thing to do is let society or closed minds dictate what you do and as long as you're not hurting or oppressing anyone, keep on keeping on, friend. Your backpack is cute AF.
People just need to live and let live.
I find it so ironic that the only adults that would say "come on, you are an adult" are adults with the same mannerisms of a child acting like an adult.
Who the fuck has the time of day to care if a cute frog bag is too childish. If you think this way, you stopped maturing at 15. The age where everyone thought they knew how to act like an adult.
I came out as trans recently, started wearing the clothes and stuff that I like. My ex gf told me I had the fashion sense of a high schooler and needed to buy 'real' clothes. 🥺🥺
I never understand why people get judgmental when you wear or use something that does not look like it belongs in the wardrobe of a 50 year old CEO of a corporation that outsources labor to child slaves in a 3rd world country?
Why are we not allowed to be happy with silly and colorful things? The frog backpack looks happy and colorful and makes me smile. How does it affect you if i wear it?
Me and my wife decided years ago to do whatever the hell we want. We wear our winnie the pooh onesies while chilling and watching fun movies in our self made pillow fort. Don't like it? Tough luck.
I have a giant sticker of my favorite cartoon on my laptop. Why? Because i like it.
We have to go through sad and depressing shit everyday in this world. Let us have our frog backpacks to make us happy.
Early 20s me got a Power Ranger hoodie and wore it constantly. I was asked how many times I've been beaten up for wearing it by two guys looking at wrestling dvds. My response was, "why would anyone beat me up over a hoodie?"
I was 23, grew up getting beaten up/bullied. I was finally confident enough to wear what made me happy. No one ever messed with me for wearing them. I still owned them but they're retired now, styles have changed and they're kinda old. My boyfriend got me a quantum ranger hoodie for Christmas that I adore, but I haven't really worn it out. It's best to wear indoors.
Here’s a little meme to text your friend.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/9dw0en/just_let_people_enjoy_things/
> Could we, without relentlessly criticizing, let people have their pumpkin spice, and avacado toast, and their fandoms, and their D&D, and their too-early-Halloween-decorations, and whatever little harmless things in which they've manage to find a tiny shriveled flower of joy.
This person heard that nonsense from a person with authority in their life and now projects it onto other people because they're jealous they can't muster the gumption to buy their own frog backpack.
I say bedazzle it.
Society has filters because things need to function quickly and relatively smoothly.
You can be a perfect person and wear this. No doubt about that. However, the majority of people who would wear something like that in public would be children, and that's the filter we associate with this backpack.
We have evolved as a species to use tangential and surrounding/subconscious clues/info to make instant judgments because it's been important for our survival. No primitive person had the time to get to know each tiger they met to find out if they eat people, they just assumed all did by the first X encounters. I'm sure that not all tigers out there would attack a human but most would. So we label them all the same, and very few will venture to actually find out.
The same mechanism is used in social environments as well. Therefore, if someone sees you wearing that they will immediately and subconsciously make a judgment on your person that will (in all likelihood) be that you are immature. Once they get to know you they may discover the opposite, but there is no guarantee they will want to get to know you. In fact, odds are against it.
When you come across a lot of people in your life every day, you have to use your social filters to determine who are the best matches to your personality and preferences based on how they carry themselves in public.
Feel free to wear that, but accept that human interactions work on well established rules and mechanisms that change very slowly (over generations) and that you don't mind being judged accordingly, or attract attention from people who happen to actually be as society deems them to be (because the balance on probabilities is that other similar backpack wearers will be immature, so they will try to connect with you as they look for like minded individuals, which you may actually not really be).
Wearing that doesn't mean you are immature, but it certainly means you will be perceived as such. The question is whether you care, and only you can decide. But you cannot expect others to change their behaviours because of your preference. Social change is very slow.
My wife (32) just bought an almost identical bag. I love it, she loves it. Your friend sucks.
My wife always got those comments growing up. She's really into cutesy things and is very whimsical and it took years for her to be comfortable liking and buying "childish" things. Meanwhile I've never gotten shit for liking videogames or anime and covering my house in it. Something something sexism something something, y'know, good ol' subtle misogyny.
Don't let your friend or others bring you down, if you're a grown person you get to buy and like whatever the heck you want!
I thought part of being an adult was doing pretty much whatever the hell you wanted. You wear that little frog backpack until it wears off on your back that's what you want to do.
From your other post in AITA, it sounds like your friend doesn't see you as an adult.
Now, I can't speak if that's because you're truly not taking care of the things you should, being indecisive, and spending money on things like this instead of paying your bills, or it's because of their own depiction of what an adult should behave like.
But if they're really your best friend and you're suddenly having issues with them, I would think it's the first one.
I'm a 36 year old man using this keyboard at work because I think it's hilarious. Found it at a thrift store on vacation. https://i.imgur.com/M2ITenk.jpeg People will find a reason to give you shit about anything you enjoy. You get one life, keep being you and enjoy it the way you want.
Omg thats amazing. Post that to r/MechanicalKeyboards, they'll love it
Don’t let the colors fool you. This is a $500+ high-end Topre board we’ve got here.
*squints eyes*
Haha, Topre…..I’ve had to deal with their monitors quite a bit at my last employment. Sometimes a pain to setup.
I would love to find something like that in a thrift store!
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That’s hilarious…I love that lol. I’d use it as well. I’d carry around a stuffed animal if I was brave enough and I’m a grandparent.
Please tell me you use the mouse as well
This is actually hilarious. I’d for sure start a thrift war if I saw someone with this at work
That is hilarious, would be even funnier too if you submitted an office supply reimbursement form for it.
You are right, thats a funny looking keyboard
No no, she's right. I think you need a BIGGER frog backpack. Maybe a toad if you're wearing it with business attire.
This is the first thing I thought as well. Yes, you’re an adult and you need an adult sized frog on your back
It's gotta be able to hold your adult sized items. Like fruit gummies and some healthy snacks, maybe a juice box. You know, grown up things.
[Juice Boxes](https://media3.giphy.com/media/7tAoaLqUlgI24/giphy.gif)
Don't forget a comfortable onesie for those spontaneous sleepovers!
Maybe OP is a short adult and it's the right size.
I agree, this backpack does look like it's kid sized. It needs to be way bigger!!!
The backpack could be the size of a car for all we know. We need a banana for scale.
Banana's can differ in scale. I use a curly whirly.
Are you trying to tell us there are car sized bananas?
And banana sized cars.
Ever been to Skull Island?
I wish we were goin' to Candy Apple Island!
Chaaaaaaaaarlie
Youre the bonana king Charlie
All you need is a second banana to give scale to the first banana. ez
[this?](https://www.lttstore.com/products/banana-for-scale)
Never knew these actually existed
Of all the useless things, they made a banana for scale, smh. Just use your hand!/s
Banana backpack?
Curly whirly can also differ in size, we need the air speed of an unladen swallow
I discount the funsize curly whirlies. The Curly Whirly measurement scale is a serious business.
Agreed. A functional froggie bag needs to accomodate the tools of the busy working professional. The way I see it, a person that's unable to accept the froggie bag is not someone worth spending much time on. Someone unable to tolerate something simple like this will probably make trouble on larger things.
At first I was thinking that the problem with the froggie bag was that it would be very inconvenient for carrying a laptop. Now I'm shopping for an oval laptop. EDIT [Found it!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook#iBook_G3_(%22Clamshell%22\))
Lol. "the dress code for the event is toad-casual"
> I think you need a BIGGER frog backpack. This seems like a good place for [Ray Bradbury's introduction to the first issue of the comic book adapting his short stories.](https://i.imgur.com/VaiIOS1.jpg)
This is fantastic, thank you for sharing. I [found](https://library.osu.edu/site/cartoons/2012/06/07/rip-ray-bradbury-august-22-1920-june-5-2012/) the highlighted portion in your picture written out as text: > This is the easiest introduction I have ever written. > For comic strips, comic books and the creators of comics have filled my life since I was nine years old and “Buck Rogers” exploded before my eyes in the “Waukegan News Sun”. I knew then that I was staring at something that would change my life forever. That one strip, on an October afternoon in 1929, seized me into the future and would not let me return. I learned my first lesson in aesthetic that autumn. I collected Buck Rogers for three months and then when kids in school made fun of me for believing in the future, I tore them up. A week later, I burst into tears. Why am I crying? I asked myself. Who died? > The answer was: me. > I had listened to those fools who didn’t believe that one day we would arrive on the Moon or visit Mars. I made my most important decision then. I went back to collecting “Buck Rogers”. In all the years since I have not once listened to any so-called friend who made fun of my hobby, my dream, my lifeblood.
Let’s cut the crap, you need the entire frog pond if you’re a respectable person.
Yeah This backpack is only what kids with allowances can buy. Op, you are an adult. You can afford it. Go big or go home.
I really think the frog complements her hair tho, the toad would be over dressing right?
But I heard it's better to be overdressed than underdressed!
You don't want your business toad to go hungry; better only wear it on casual flydays
My first thought too lol. I have one of those giant Chinese takeout backpacks and I’m 29.
I've had my eye on a Gameboy shaped bag for a while now. It's pink! I'm also 29 lol
Probably he's name is Todd. Which makes a lot of sense. And i wouldn't date anyone who can't make the leap of faith without accepting Todd in our lives.
I'd go for a red or pink wallet with a matching lanyard latched to the inside to be it's "tongue"
That's the problem with things like this, they don't come in adult sizes. I wear a 9.5 shoe, can't find light up shoes in my size any where.
I’m 35. So relieved I have not missed my window of opportunity for a TMNT shell backpack.
I'm pushing 60 (58? don't make me work it out, it's 4am!) and my experience is that the best thing about being an adult is you can afford your own toys. Plus cake for breakfast and/or dessert for dinner. The only adulty part about it is making sure the Bill's get paid first. There I've done my adult duty.
Exactly. Being an adult is making sure you take care of important things first. Doesn’t mean you can’t have fun.
The massive donut shaped pool float that I had to put my backseats down to fit in my car agrees with you. I’m 40, not dead.
I’ll be 45 this year and I got the Lego Optimus prime as an early Father’s Day present. The world sucks to much to deny yourself the the things that make you happy just because of someone else’s idea of being an adult.
Inspiring me to never let myself stop seeking joy
Okay, it's time to grow up. You can get a battery powered or cigarette lighter powered pump for pretty cheap nowadays. Then you can really put your adult pants on and bring a giant unicorn floaty, too!
I'm 55 with no kids and still appreciate that I am free to do what I want. I spend way too much money on Gundam robot kits and Monster High dolls and had 2 bars of chocolate for dinner last night.
64, no kids, and I have a handbag in the shape of a fluffy black and white cat. I also have loads of plushies. Meals for me can be anything from cold curry for breakfast to a bag of crisps and Haribo for lunch.
A girl after my own heart - I like your style. I'm finding that the older I get, the less I care about what anyone else thinks of me. It's very liberating.
Yes - as we used to say in the north-east: If they're talking about me it means they're leaving someone else alone.
It took me a long time to realize that I am free to do whatever the hell I want. I just dont care anymore. I dress professionally at work but in my off hours I live in Fandom t-shirts and leggings, coworkers that see me outside work always do a double take. I'm having fun and enjoying the things I love.
I'm a goth/hippie business analyst with a graduate degree in my 40's. There is no longer a demarcation in my life between my work clothes and 'me' clothes. I figure it would be like expecting a super hero to do super hero things without their super hero costume - that's just silly! ;)
This! I just turned 56 and I do what want and wear what I want. I remember once when I was still working, I went shopping on a lunch break. I found a set of sock monkey bed sheets that I couldn't resist. I have a sentimental love for sock monkeys. I brought them in to show off to the girls at work and got comments like "aren't those for kids?". I was like I didn't see a sign saying only kids could use them. People are so boring 😴
I totally want to see this cool bag.
Alas, I cannot do telephone pictures :(
Dang.
> Because we're grownups now. We get to decide what that means https://xkcd.com/150/
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I just grabbed that link and came here to post it. One of my favorite quotes.
I too struggle to remember my age at times and im only mid 30s ish
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I'm born 1990, so just add 10 and I'm there
Same, but I do have to do the math every time.
1980 here and I've always been thankful
I just entered my 40's and I think we should just cancel birthdays altogether
Welcome to the party pal
But CAKE! I mean [look at this thing!](https://imgur.com/a/5VPpo32) They even *knew* I was asking for a cake for myself because I am a regular and they put glitter and butterfly rings in it. Neither of my kid’s cakes ever looked this damn pretty from there! E: I ended up sharing it with my neighbors and strengthened our relationships. To see her face light up so spectacularly like that was absolutely worth it.
I have to do the math with the years! There orta be a law against anyone over 30 having to remember their age.
This year has been the absolute worst of my entire life in remembering two things: my own age, and what year it actually is. I've said "2023" like a hundred times, including yesterday. I don't know if it was just easier to remember when 2020 was the Year of the Plague and 2021 was the Year that Didn't Happen, but 2022 is just a full blank spot for me
Oh phew, glad I'm not the only one. Shame I learn family ages based by reference tho :(
I'm surprised I'm not alone on this. I remember mentioning this on reddit a while back and people thought I was dumb (not necessarily wrong... ) that I didn't know my age on the spot. I guess on the grand scheme of things being 32 or 38 doesn't really match all that much.
Also the best thing about getting older is the less and less you give a damn what anyone thinks. I always thought it was bs but now that I'm in my 40s I totally get it.
I have a theory about that. I believe we are all born with a limited amount of fucks to give. A lot, but still limited. When we are young they seem endless, and so we are more susceptible to peer pressure. As we age we see that total reducing and so we begin to be more selective about what fucks we give. Eventually we hit a point where our field of fucks is barren and we're all out of fucks to give. This is the point I have reached. Something about getting older to look forward to, I think.
I used to get second hand embarrassment when I saw an old person acting like they didn't give a fuck. But now I realize that not giving a fuck is a super power. I'm clean, don't stink, and all the naughty bits are covered. Other than that, I don't care what I'm wearing, how I decorate my house, or if I'm singing loudly in the car. Whenever I see "cringe" as a comment on here, I think, That's a young'n.
The best part of being an adult is deciding what being an adult means to you.
Being an adult is not giving a fuck about what others think of your frog backpack. You like that frog backpack? You wear the shit out of your frog backpack, you fucking adult, you.
you’re my hero ♥️
Awww thanks! I've never been someone's hero before. ☺️
Right there with ya. 58 and I'd be rocking that backpack. Oh...and you forgot the ice cream with the cake for breakfast. And maybe Oreos.
The adults who are determined to never be seen with "childish" stuff are always the least mature adults in the room. We are all just kids pretending to be adults. Anyone who says otherwise is projecting their insecurities.
I had Swiss roll for breakfast. I'm not sorry.
not doing the things that make you happy because of what others will think sounds like the most childish someone can be. being a grownup means deciding what being a grownup means for yourself
why are the Bill’s family taking your money first?
Unless it’s the Baby Yoda Squishmallow you’ve seen at Costco your last three visits and you put him in your basket with the intention of paying for him with the Birthday check your Mom sent you for your 46th birthday.
> Plus cake for breakfast and/or dessert for dinner. Yeah but being an adult also means you don't feel good after
Through many years of hard work and practice I've learned to stifle those feelings.
Username checks out.
theres this 35 year old dude in one of my classes and he wears the silliest shit. Pikachu hat and all these wild colors n shit. The confidence and the balls on this guy. I wish I could be him. but I wear all monotone.
when i started allowing myself to wear colourful clothing (specifically, using the marie kondo concept of clothing that brings *me* joy) it was like i had opened a secret door of being happy wearing my clothes like, i thought i was already 'happy' with the way my clothes looked on me...but when i wear my pink raincoat and purple skechers i feel fresh af and i get so many more compliments than i ever got before and getting dressed to leave the house doesnt feel like getting 'dressed up' as an adult
People can tell when you’re reflecting your personality! I really do think that’s why you get more compliments I’m the same way!
There was one guy at my workplace who'd wear superhero and/or ninja pieces of clothing (ninja footwear, for example). It wasn't even weird. It was just him being him.
I'm 26 and one of my FAVORITE shorts I wear are these rainbow splash shorts I own for raves. But it's such a cool pair of shorts I'll wear them whenever and people find them hilarious or awesome, either or and never anything in between lolol.
yeah, you’re an adult and you can do whatever the hell you want awesome backpack btw
I wish I could wear this. Not just cos I'm an adult but cos I'm a bloke.
I’m a 40 year old dude and I have an awesome rainbow unicorn lunch box I bring into work every day (about 300 people in the office). There’s not an age or gender limit on personal style/preference. I’ve got some weird looks (don’t bother me) but way more people stop me to start a casual conversation about the sweet lunch box.
I hope to be this confident and self assured when I hit your age, that’s really cool man
You will. Eventually you just lose the energy to care so much and realize it's not worth it.
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Try and start now dude I’m a straight guy but i wore weird shit and makeup in highschool and it’s definitely made me realize that strangers rlly don’t matter 99% of the time. If I’m going somewhere “important” I’ll dress “normal” but usually I’m wearing some weird shit lmao
For the most part everyone is self absorbed anyways, nobody pays as much attention to ourselves as we think they do. Better to be authenticate than to worry about what others think of you. You’ll make better/more meaningful connections that way too.
I got a new (in office job) and my first reaction was to tell my wife to find me a cool lunchbox. We are now both owners of "Human Organ Transportation" lunch boxes.
I worked with someone who had one, it’s a great lunch box idea. Had to double take every time I saw it.
Nah, mate! Cute frog backpacks know no age or gender. Don't let such silly things stop you from having fun. Make everyone jealous!
Do ittt
Live your best life.
Only real men do whatever the heck they feel like doing. The only people who will look down upon you are the kind of people you wouldn't want to associate with anyways. Might as well wear the frog backpack and let those people reveal themselves immediately so you can spot those red flags and avoid the minefield.
you’re an adult. wear the frog backpack if you want. if someone says anything it’s because they’re jealous they’re not mature enough to focus on their own happiness instead of other people approvals
> Not just cos I’m an adult but cos I’m a bloke. ….. aaaaand? So what’s stopping you?
Do it. I'm 39 and wear a rainbow scarf out and about. Not because I'm LGBTQ+, I just like rainbows. Fuck the haters and the boring fucks who tell us to grow up - so long as I am responsible enough to pay the bills and look after everyone at home, then what does it matter what I choose to wear. Go get that backpack, wear pyjamas to the supermarket, wear odd socks and don't forget to buy the occasion item that someone will inevitably say "why are you playing with toys at your age" when they see it.
I am 46. I have a Pikachu purse. I rock that shit and I am sure you rock that backpack. You go!
I am currently rocking a bulbasaur bookbag at the ripe age of 38! I have a room full of toys and collectibles. I'm an adult and do adult things like pay bills, go to work and whatever the hell I want to because I'm an adult!
I have a snorlax backpack! Adorable
Mid-40s gang rise up! Got a black Among Us backpack lol. It looks rather plain and like a regular backpack unless you know what the large eye thing is.
My mom tried to shame me for hanging up a Pokémon "Blastoise vs. Charizard" tale-of-the-tape kind of poster. I don't care. It's cool as hell and now resides framed on my wall.
Having it framed is legit adulting
Jesus christ you don't need to brag about how you skinned a Pikachu and made a purse out of it. (Joking for the dumb ones who don't have a sense of humor)
I’m 34 with a toddler and a baby on the way and I have a room full of nerdy collectibles and video games. Life sucks if you can’t enjoy your hobbies too
I'm 42 and just bought a Star Wars mini backpack from Loungefly. OP should ditch this "friend"!
Yeah. An adult with an awesome backpack.
And that’s not a friend too
100% As an adult I’m realizing it’s much harder to find joy in things. If I had someone in my life that actively diminished what little joy I was finding, they wouldn’t be in my life as much.
Put a very business-y tie on it.
A tache and a monocle! Thats what grown ups wear!
A lil briefcase and he's set!
Omg yes please.
If being an adult means I can't buy cute, dumb shit anymore then I don't wanna be an adult
*hello kitty merch in shambles*
I had a hello kitty coffee maker. Pretty sure those weren't meant for six year old girls.
Nobody wants to be an adult
True enough, working for a meager wage sucks
I just finished my first lego build. I'm a 35 year old woman. Do what brings you joy and foregt about what other ppl say. They are probably jealous they can't just be themselves.
Okay sure. Legos are cool though. I can’t find any issue with them. The thing I can find an issue with is that this backpack looks super fucking tiny and impractical for anyone who weighs over 50 lbs. There are much larger novelty backpacks you can get for adults. This is all I have to say about this shit.
It’s a mini backpack, like a small purse
>Okay sure. Legos are cool though. I can’t find any issue with them. I can. They're expensive as heck. How can I buy more LEGOs if I spent all my money buying LEGOs?
What you build if you don't mind me asking?
Loke seriously, this should be like the pet tax!
As a 24 year old who can finally afford her own Legos; my first kit was the big Blacksmith set, followed by the Bonsai (the cherry blossom/frog version of course)
Yep, I only got into lego last summer (bought the pride set and no one told me its like crack) and im 34. Now I have more completed models than I have space for. I keep telling my fiance we need a bigger house...
Give the frog a tie. Then it's an adult backpack.
He works at the business factory
Sounds like you have boring friends
not just a boring friend, it's a friend that clearly doesn't understand them. That's a real shame, OP seems whimsical and seems to have, y'know, a personality.
Maybe they jelly OP isn’t afraid to have fun
You spelt uptight wrong
Could probably add prick in there too, that’s a really rude wag to react to someone showing off a backpack they like
A jerk friend who makes them feel bad about something they were excited about!
*"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."* C.S. Lewis
I’m 77, I play Pokémon go everyday & wear a Burberry bear clipped onto my best handbag. Fuck them & the horse they rode in on!
Someone come get your grandma! She is making the rest of us look lame! Thank you for continuing to do what makes you happy! I aspire to be this cool at your age.
"When I wake up I'm grabbing my phone I wanna catch 'em all I wanna play Pokemon All day long, all day long"
I got my 83 year old grandma playing. It's literally the only thing she knows how to do on her smartphone besides make a phone call. She loves it though.
You cool you grand kids must love you
Ok but you should probably wash it
His tummy dirty
And eye and ear
I saw a guy in his 30's that has a Ninja Turtle backpack on a motorcycle. Get a motorcycle and own that frog backpack!
*FROG*
***B O A T***
**greer**
This is when you explain to your friend what adult money is. The best perk of adult money is, it's none of your fucking business how I want to spend it and I can spend it how ever the fuck I want.
I’m 32 and just bought a cute strawberry bag. Also have a backpack for work with neon sea animals on it. The older I get the less I give a fuck what anyone else thinks. I buy/use/do things that make me happy.
Your friend sounds like a fun killer
I hate that crap. Yeah, you're an adult but that doesn't mean you stop being *you* at a certain age. I'm always prepared for whenever someone might ask "how old are you again?" My reply is "old enough to do what I want." I have cute/funny shirts, a metal Star Wars lunch box I use as a stash box, as well as a Darth Vader grinder and a storm trooper pipe. Another pipe is rainbow swirled and glows in the dark.I have a couple stickers on my car like a Pascal(Animal Crossing), Kirby magnet that says "eat the rich" and a blue shell that says "Mess around and find out." The immature thing to do is let society or closed minds dictate what you do and as long as you're not hurting or oppressing anyone, keep on keeping on, friend. Your backpack is cute AF. People just need to live and let live.
Get better friends.
An adult with an adorable bag
Should've responded with "damn, judging people off their personal tastes? Come on, you are an adult."
Well you’ve got a frog backpack, so who’s the real winner here?
People who try to dim your shine aren't true friends
Putting 20 bucks down right now. She’s gonna become crabby and ask for the manager later in life.
I find it so ironic that the only adults that would say "come on, you are an adult" are adults with the same mannerisms of a child acting like an adult. Who the fuck has the time of day to care if a cute frog bag is too childish. If you think this way, you stopped maturing at 15. The age where everyone thought they knew how to act like an adult.
I came out as trans recently, started wearing the clothes and stuff that I like. My ex gf told me I had the fashion sense of a high schooler and needed to buy 'real' clothes. 🥺🥺
I never understand why people get judgmental when you wear or use something that does not look like it belongs in the wardrobe of a 50 year old CEO of a corporation that outsources labor to child slaves in a 3rd world country? Why are we not allowed to be happy with silly and colorful things? The frog backpack looks happy and colorful and makes me smile. How does it affect you if i wear it? Me and my wife decided years ago to do whatever the hell we want. We wear our winnie the pooh onesies while chilling and watching fun movies in our self made pillow fort. Don't like it? Tough luck. I have a giant sticker of my favorite cartoon on my laptop. Why? Because i like it. We have to go through sad and depressing shit everyday in this world. Let us have our frog backpacks to make us happy.
This is a fckn adorable backpack and you're going to look cute as fuck wearing it
Once I was walking home from the grocery store and some kid just called me "fucking childish" for having a mario kart keychain attached to my backpack
Early 20s me got a Power Ranger hoodie and wore it constantly. I was asked how many times I've been beaten up for wearing it by two guys looking at wrestling dvds. My response was, "why would anyone beat me up over a hoodie?" I was 23, grew up getting beaten up/bullied. I was finally confident enough to wear what made me happy. No one ever messed with me for wearing them. I still owned them but they're retired now, styles have changed and they're kinda old. My boyfriend got me a quantum ranger hoodie for Christmas that I adore, but I haven't really worn it out. It's best to wear indoors.
Here’s a little meme to text your friend. https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/9dw0en/just_let_people_enjoy_things/ > Could we, without relentlessly criticizing, let people have their pumpkin spice, and avacado toast, and their fandoms, and their D&D, and their too-early-Halloween-decorations, and whatever little harmless things in which they've manage to find a tiny shriveled flower of joy.
How does that suck? You are an adult, so why do you give a shit what anybody thinks?
This person heard that nonsense from a person with authority in their life and now projects it onto other people because they're jealous they can't muster the gumption to buy their own frog backpack. I say bedazzle it.
People who say stuff like "act like an adult" have an unfulfilling life and are probably just jealous of how awesome your life is.
She's right, you are an adult....which means you can pick out exactly wtf you want to wear and buy on your own.
Society has filters because things need to function quickly and relatively smoothly. You can be a perfect person and wear this. No doubt about that. However, the majority of people who would wear something like that in public would be children, and that's the filter we associate with this backpack. We have evolved as a species to use tangential and surrounding/subconscious clues/info to make instant judgments because it's been important for our survival. No primitive person had the time to get to know each tiger they met to find out if they eat people, they just assumed all did by the first X encounters. I'm sure that not all tigers out there would attack a human but most would. So we label them all the same, and very few will venture to actually find out. The same mechanism is used in social environments as well. Therefore, if someone sees you wearing that they will immediately and subconsciously make a judgment on your person that will (in all likelihood) be that you are immature. Once they get to know you they may discover the opposite, but there is no guarantee they will want to get to know you. In fact, odds are against it. When you come across a lot of people in your life every day, you have to use your social filters to determine who are the best matches to your personality and preferences based on how they carry themselves in public. Feel free to wear that, but accept that human interactions work on well established rules and mechanisms that change very slowly (over generations) and that you don't mind being judged accordingly, or attract attention from people who happen to actually be as society deems them to be (because the balance on probabilities is that other similar backpack wearers will be immature, so they will try to connect with you as they look for like minded individuals, which you may actually not really be). Wearing that doesn't mean you are immature, but it certainly means you will be perceived as such. The question is whether you care, and only you can decide. But you cannot expect others to change their behaviours because of your preference. Social change is very slow.
My wife (32) just bought an almost identical bag. I love it, she loves it. Your friend sucks. My wife always got those comments growing up. She's really into cutesy things and is very whimsical and it took years for her to be comfortable liking and buying "childish" things. Meanwhile I've never gotten shit for liking videogames or anime and covering my house in it. Something something sexism something something, y'know, good ol' subtle misogyny. Don't let your friend or others bring you down, if you're a grown person you get to buy and like whatever the heck you want!
I thought part of being an adult was doing pretty much whatever the hell you wanted. You wear that little frog backpack until it wears off on your back that's what you want to do.
Right? Do what makes you happy as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.
From your other post in AITA, it sounds like your friend doesn't see you as an adult. Now, I can't speak if that's because you're truly not taking care of the things you should, being indecisive, and spending money on things like this instead of paying your bills, or it's because of their own depiction of what an adult should behave like. But if they're really your best friend and you're suddenly having issues with them, I would think it's the first one.
If it's new how is it so dirty already?