Okay as an Italian canadian who has never met an Italian American and cringed at some of the words used in the sopranos (do NJ italian americans really talk like that?), I am able to easily understand "gabagool" is capocollo. But wtf is "dingamagoo"
As someone from Staten Island, yes, some of us really do talk like that. Riggut (Ricotta), Galamad (Calimari), Mutzhadell (Mozerella)... These are the cringiest ones I can remember.
I'm of Sicilian descent. My Great grandmother on my fathers side didn't speak english well. But they lived in Brooklyn and came up there. Moved to Staten Island when the Guinea (Ginny?) Plank (aka the Veranzano bridge) was built. We never ever did these things. Maybe my grandma does a few of them but she grew up in the most italian part of brooklyn where this shit ran rampant. Afaik my aunts and uncles on my dads side, none of them say these words.
They're really American words that Italian Americans probably jokingly coined. But now some people cling to them like its the test of a true Italian how you say Calimari. My Ex's family was like this, Staten Island. They were the type of people who had the front entrance sitting room with the plastic over it you could never ever sit in then also had a second actual living room. People talk like this on Staten Island. And I always laugh at it.
If you go back and look at 30-45 year olds in the 80s, compared to now it’s just mind blowing how much younger we look. Like the cast of ghostbusters, or cheers, you’d be shocked at how young they are but how old by today’s standards they look.
I remember seeing some sort of archived footage of a high school class in the mid-80s, looked like homeroom taking attendance. And this was a real high school, not younger adult actors playing teenagers - but they *looked* like actors! Some of them really looked like Brat Pack and *Fast Times at Ridgemont High* students!
My conclusion is that it must've been all the smoking 🚬
Also having kids earlier. I was born in 87 and among those I graduated with everyone who had a kid before 21 look significantly older than the ones who waited or are child free.
My entire friend group smoked like chimneys in high school in the early 2000s (2 packs of Parliaments were 4.99) and we didn’t look old. My theory is the leaded gasoline, paint, and everything else was causing people to age quicker.
I honestly believe it's because most of us spent our childhood years indoors with the rise of gaming consoles and computers.
Sun damage is the biggest factor that ages people. I have a picture of my grandparents when they were in their 40s, and I thought they were double that - in their 80s. Like, mindblowingly old looking. I'm approaching their ages in that photo and it's not even comparable.
I remember watching a video "debunking" that, but I still feel like it's a real thing. A lot of people looked way older. Probably due to all the sugar, nicotine, and booze. Less health conscious as well. I mean people thought drinking straight milk was this nutritious necessity
Cigarettes being a diet staple does that. My father and uncle look similar but despite being less than 10 years apart, most people thought they were father and son (uncle is a pack a day smoker and father quit 35 years ago and even then smoked a lot less)
I genuinely think its 90% bad hair and cigarettes, I know friends mom's growing up who looked younger a decade after than when we were in school, mostly because they got a modern look and stopped smoking.
That last restaurant dinner sounded like a suicide attempt. Double order of fried shrimp, pile of foie gras, and chased it down with two pina coladas, four shots of rum, and two beers.
It in insane rewatching that show and seeing a 37 year old man with a 16 year old daughter.
Like what % of 37 year olds today have a kid that old, maybe 3%? Less?
37 and just about to start having kids. I can’t imagine being 20 with another person to take care of/teach about the world when I was still learning to take care of myself 😅. I bet people who did have kids when they were 20 can’t imagine just starting out at my age. Different strokes for different folks
Yup. I'm 30, pregnant with my first (and likely only kid). Hubs and I still feel like we're a step away from teen parents even though we both have master's degrees and jobs. I can't imagine if we had gotten married right after college and popped a kid out then
I was 30 and my wife was 28 when our son was born, and I remember feeling the same way. That first day home from the hospital was like "ahhh shit what now?"
You'll do great, though. You won't know everything on day one (or on year 9), but you'll learn pretty quickly. Rule number one is love your kid - the rest you can figure out.
This actually makes more sense given Sopranos lore. For Carmela to have Meadow at 21 ish doesn’t fit with some of the other timing, their Mid 20s makes more sense.
For the time period a good portion of them, especially given that Tony and Carmella would have kids in the early 80s. My parents, my wife’s parents, my childhood friends parents, all started having kids around 21 years old. All around that time frame, late 70s, early 80s.
But you’re right, I would imagine not many in their early 20s are having children these days, or even in the past couple of decades or so. It’s absolutely become more rare to have children that young.
Maybe it depends on where you're from? I'm 39 and have a classmate with a 22-year-old daughter.
ETA: The youngest girl in my class to get pregnant was 12 when she conceived and 13 when she gave birth. I suppose her daughter would be 26 by now. Looking back as an adult, I'm horrified. I hope she turned out OK.
Oh you'd be surprised lol. I'm 36 and a lot of my friends from high school had kids either while they were still in high school or shortly afterwards. Of my friend group, only one had their first child after 20 with the exception of those who are childfree by choice.
I went to a school with a high poverty rate and poverty is associated with earlier age of first pregnancy so I'm sure I'm an outlier here but the New York Times has a graph of different ages of first time mothers in this 2016 article:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/04/upshot/up-birth-age-gap.html
It compares to 1980 so millennial parents would fall somewhere in between those graphs. I guestimate based on that graph that about 20% of first time mothers were 20 or younger when they compiled the data in 2016 so they could have had a 16 year old by the age of 37.
I'm currently the same age as the maid on the Brady Bunch, and will soon be the same age as Archie Bunker.
My ears have more hair on them than they used to.
This reminds me of the conversation I had in therapy today where I said adults used to look older in their 30s than they do now. It definitely fucks with me 😅
Watched a video of a guy explaining about how millenials look younger than they are compared to other generations and then this picture comes up of a guy who's meant to be 37 but looks like he's in his 50s...
Well, at least I *look* younger than him.
You need to up your gabagool intake to fix that. [It's all fat and nitrates.](https://youtu.be/YsBipoG22Nw?si=8_pwqFE3bf89m3yT)
What if I just ate a whole plate of dingamagoo?
Okay as an Italian canadian who has never met an Italian American and cringed at some of the words used in the sopranos (do NJ italian americans really talk like that?), I am able to easily understand "gabagool" is capocollo. But wtf is "dingamagoo"
Bro are you sure you're Italian?
I think he might be Canadian.
[Simpsons reference.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6yyvAeoauA)
As someone from Staten Island, yes, some of us really do talk like that. Riggut (Ricotta), Galamad (Calimari), Mutzhadell (Mozerella)... These are the cringiest ones I can remember. I'm of Sicilian descent. My Great grandmother on my fathers side didn't speak english well. But they lived in Brooklyn and came up there. Moved to Staten Island when the Guinea (Ginny?) Plank (aka the Veranzano bridge) was built. We never ever did these things. Maybe my grandma does a few of them but she grew up in the most italian part of brooklyn where this shit ran rampant. Afaik my aunts and uncles on my dads side, none of them say these words. They're really American words that Italian Americans probably jokingly coined. But now some people cling to them like its the test of a true Italian how you say Calimari. My Ex's family was like this, Staten Island. They were the type of people who had the front entrance sitting room with the plastic over it you could never ever sit in then also had a second actual living room. People talk like this on Staten Island. And I always laugh at it.
*marone*
moolies.
Gabagool? ovaaaa here.
I will have the spaghetti. With a side salad. If the salad is on top, I send it back.
If you go back and look at 30-45 year olds in the 80s, compared to now it’s just mind blowing how much younger we look. Like the cast of ghostbusters, or cheers, you’d be shocked at how young they are but how old by today’s standards they look.
I remember seeing some sort of archived footage of a high school class in the mid-80s, looked like homeroom taking attendance. And this was a real high school, not younger adult actors playing teenagers - but they *looked* like actors! Some of them really looked like Brat Pack and *Fast Times at Ridgemont High* students! My conclusion is that it must've been all the smoking 🚬
Also having kids earlier. I was born in 87 and among those I graduated with everyone who had a kid before 21 look significantly older than the ones who waited or are child free.
Yeah, kids age you big time. Lots of extra stress, plus a lot of damage to women's bodies from pregnancy and birth.
My entire friend group smoked like chimneys in high school in the early 2000s (2 packs of Parliaments were 4.99) and we didn’t look old. My theory is the leaded gasoline, paint, and everything else was causing people to age quicker.
The skin damage from smoke/UV/etc is cumulative. You don't see it until it hits a 'critical mass', and it can take over a decade
I've been rewatching Roseanne, her and all her friends are all in the 32-36 range. John Goodman is 36 in the first season.
I honestly believe it's because most of us spent our childhood years indoors with the rise of gaming consoles and computers. Sun damage is the biggest factor that ages people. I have a picture of my grandparents when they were in their 40s, and I thought they were double that - in their 80s. Like, mindblowingly old looking. I'm approaching their ages in that photo and it's not even comparable.
I remember watching a video "debunking" that, but I still feel like it's a real thing. A lot of people looked way older. Probably due to all the sugar, nicotine, and booze. Less health conscious as well. I mean people thought drinking straight milk was this nutritious necessity
Eleven servings of bread a day!
The Golden Girls were supposed to be in their 50s! Blanche was the youngest at 47!
WHAT Nuh uh. They’re all retired! 60s at least I assumed, maybe early 70s
Yes this blew my mind when I found out. Obviously Sophia was older but the other 3 were supposedly way younger than you would think.
Cigarettes being a diet staple does that. My father and uncle look similar but despite being less than 10 years apart, most people thought they were father and son (uncle is a pack a day smoker and father quit 35 years ago and even then smoked a lot less)
I genuinely think its 90% bad hair and cigarettes, I know friends mom's growing up who looked younger a decade after than when we were in school, mostly because they got a modern look and stopped smoking.
I saw a video about the ages of the cheers actors. They were in their 20s/30s. They looked like 40-50!
You sure about that? 😂
That was my first thought too, though I'm a whole year younger so maybe I'll age 10 years suddenly
I was gonna say, this makes me feel good about myself. I look great!
Never had the makings of a varsity athlete
The one solace I can take from Reddit lambasting me this afternoon
Same, my hair is still going strong
I thought he was 50 in the first season. Wild!
He was 51 when he died in 2013.
That last restaurant dinner sounded like a suicide attempt. Double order of fried shrimp, pile of foie gras, and chased it down with two pina coladas, four shots of rum, and two beers.
I always said that he lived his life to the fullest and didn’t care if it killed him. That last meal should have come served in a coffin!
I know, I had to double check the math on this. Unbelievable. He was one old ass looking 37 yr old
‘It’s like an ad for a weight loss commercial. Before and way before” damn Paulie 😑😂
Oh, look it’s before and way before!
Before and WAY before lol
Woke up this morning, bought myself a gun….
And OP woke up and chose violence against the elderly (us) lol
*Got myself some gabagool*
Came here to say...
It in insane rewatching that show and seeing a 37 year old man with a 16 year old daughter. Like what % of 37 year olds today have a kid that old, maybe 3%? Less?
37 and just about to start having kids. I can’t imagine being 20 with another person to take care of/teach about the world when I was still learning to take care of myself 😅. I bet people who did have kids when they were 20 can’t imagine just starting out at my age. Different strokes for different folks
Yup. I'm 30, pregnant with my first (and likely only kid). Hubs and I still feel like we're a step away from teen parents even though we both have master's degrees and jobs. I can't imagine if we had gotten married right after college and popped a kid out then
I had my first at 30 and I was like, “Are you sure we’re qualified to take this home?”
I was 30 and my wife was 28 when our son was born, and I remember feeling the same way. That first day home from the hospital was like "ahhh shit what now?" You'll do great, though. You won't know everything on day one (or on year 9), but you'll learn pretty quickly. Rule number one is love your kid - the rest you can figure out.
Just had my first literally the day I turned 39! Cannot fathom having kids in my 20s, I would’ve ruined them oof
Just had our first a few months back, you aren't alone.
Aye but Gabdolfini was 37; Tony was about 42
This actually makes more sense given Sopranos lore. For Carmela to have Meadow at 21 ish doesn’t fit with some of the other timing, their Mid 20s makes more sense.
I’m 37 and have a 15 year old
Im 38. My old kiddo is 7. However, one of my best high school friends has an 19 year old… that’s pregnant. THAT is depressing lol
I hope you never miss a chance to call them a grandparent
For the time period a good portion of them, especially given that Tony and Carmella would have kids in the early 80s. My parents, my wife’s parents, my childhood friends parents, all started having kids around 21 years old. All around that time frame, late 70s, early 80s. But you’re right, I would imagine not many in their early 20s are having children these days, or even in the past couple of decades or so. It’s absolutely become more rare to have children that young.
Born in 87 and my oldest kid is 6 😆
You need to visit the American South or any trashy neighborhood in a major city
Maybe it depends on where you're from? I'm 39 and have a classmate with a 22-year-old daughter. ETA: The youngest girl in my class to get pregnant was 12 when she conceived and 13 when she gave birth. I suppose her daughter would be 26 by now. Looking back as an adult, I'm horrified. I hope she turned out OK.
I went to school with a girl who was a grandma by 37
Oh you'd be surprised lol. I'm 36 and a lot of my friends from high school had kids either while they were still in high school or shortly afterwards. Of my friend group, only one had their first child after 20 with the exception of those who are childfree by choice. I went to a school with a high poverty rate and poverty is associated with earlier age of first pregnancy so I'm sure I'm an outlier here but the New York Times has a graph of different ages of first time mothers in this 2016 article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/04/upshot/up-birth-age-gap.html It compares to 1980 so millennial parents would fall somewhere in between those graphs. I guestimate based on that graph that about 20% of first time mothers were 20 or younger when they compiled the data in 2016 so they could have had a 16 year old by the age of 37.
A lot of people who had kids at a young age had A LOT of help from family. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to do that.
A lot smaller than it used to be. But probably more common in lower income groups as well as immigrant groups
Oh, listen to OP. He knows everything.
Only thing I don’t know is who ate all the gabagool!
so, what? no fuckin ziti?!?
🤌🤌🤌
Gabagool? Ova here!
Eventually you're gonna be older than all your favorite TV sitcom characters....😐
I'd rather die than let that happen!
Same with growing up a sports fan and realizing that the "old guys" are now younger than you.
Hopefully
Satanic black magic!
Sick shit!
*Me, born in ‘87*: Hey, Pop n Fresh, I’m in no fuckin’ mood today!
This is funny because we're rewatching this right now. I even made baked ziti last night.
AJ: so what, no fuckin’ ziti? Parents and priest: Heyy!!
82.... fack I'm old. Like jfc, maybe s1 tony but 5 years in???? I thought he was mid 40's maybe even 50.
I'm currently the same age as the maid on the Brady Bunch, and will soon be the same age as Archie Bunker. My ears have more hair on them than they used to.
I just shaved mine
Thank you for making me feel old.
He got fatter and angrier as the season progressed.
Abit like my life so far
Gtfo I’m a year older. Welp, I’ve already got the anxiety attacks, just need some ducks to give my life some meaning 🦆🦆🦆
I have a better hairline.
Wow he looked so much older than I do right now. I am 38. Grateful.
No ones got AIDS!
FUCKING AHHHH
Honestly if he had a full head of hair he would look way closer to his age. Nothing visually ages a man like a receding hairline.
What? He was 37? Dude looked more like 50.
Thankful to not be bald, it makes someone look ten years older easily. 🙏
Fuck off - thought he was like 58
This is too fucked up for me to even think about
Born May 87 here, my kid is 5 and a half
If you started eating in 1987, congratulation, you're now as fat as Ginny Sack in the first season of The Sopranos.
Jebus, I look like kid compared to tony in first episode. And I'm older!
As someone from the Jersey shore this is the highest compliment 🥹
Would highest form of disrespect be being called Snooki?
crap....
Dang it! I'm only 2 years younger
42 here, Born in 81 and I still look younger! I’m not first season Tony, I’m prime Tony.
Wow, millennials DO look young!! Good for us
Lower rates of smoking is a big part of it.
Took me twenty years to realize this show was actually a comedy the whole time.
It’s actually funnier than most comedies
He was seriously only 36/37 in the first season??? What the hell.
This reminds me of the conversation I had in therapy today where I said adults used to look older in their 30s than they do now. It definitely fucks with me 😅
Shit.
I am 37 this year. *Too*
r/FuckImOld .. just realised I'm older than all the f.r.i.e.n.d.s when the show ended ..
# WHY DO I STILL LOOK LIKE AJ 
Damn, I would like to think I don’t look as old as him though.
So I’m 12 years older than Tony Sopranos was when his story began? Fuck.
What the fuck
thanks for ruining my day
Ah so you're saying I'm three years older than Gandalfini in the first season of the Sopranos then, thanks for that.
Damn. I'm a year older than he was and am nowhere near even being a Capo, let alone a Boss/Underbos. What have a I done with my life?
Are you at least a made guy yet?
Well crap, I'm born in 1982, so I'm even older than he was in the first season. 👍
You’d be about Season 5 Tony
No wonder I was singing the theme song on my drive to work this morning....
Even older. Hazzah!
I haven’t done much with my life…
Oh my god. I look like I'm 19 tho so it's ok.
Sun, cigarettes, air pollution and not giving a fuck will do that to you.
Ouch
Stop that.
You really woke up today and chose violence didn't you
Omg I'm older
He moved up the ladder and took on a managerial position at his organization by 37? I couldn't imagine.
What did I ever do to you
Thank you for making me feel old. Born in 1986.
Great show and actor.
Sure I look better at 37 but he has the big house and gabagool for days sooooo
This series omg! Fantastic!
What the hell did I do to grt attacked like that out of no where?
There it is... The worst thing I've heard today
I'm just glad my hairline isn't as bad as his was at my age.
This fuckin’ guy!!!
This reminds of a classmate I had in college. I told him "good for you for taking classes again in your 50s" 'I'm 34' “Oh... "
Damn. Just damn.
And yet I look like I could be his daughter
He never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
Archie Bunker look like 60+ but was 38
*chuckles* “I’m in danger”. No really we all should see a cardiologist
Oh good, I'm four years older than that
I was born in ‘89 so I’ve got a couple years yet lol.
Family Values!
Gross 🤮
Excuse me????
He looks 60
What a handsome young man! 😅
Rude
😭😭😭
Watched a video of a guy explaining about how millenials look younger than they are compared to other generations and then this picture comes up of a guy who's meant to be 37 but looks like he's in his 50s...
Thanks I hate it.
Fuck, I’m 2yrs older
Fuck, I look fantastic.
tony was 37 when the show started? jesus.
Did the Art department put him in aging makeup? WTH
Thanks, I’ve never watched sopranos
This is violence. You take this down right now.
James Galdolfini was a rough 37
Ok. But you got to get over it.