Did 3 of them already in the past two years, and was considering signing up for Pickleball.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
    802·
    4 days ago

    Japan…

    i just really freaking love public transportation infrastructure

    i want to ride ALL THE TRAINS

    • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
      7·
      3 days ago

      I sort of wonder if the next generation will still romanticize Japan in quite the same way. We’re past the peak trendy-products era of Weird Sony and the Toyota MR2, anime is no longer a secret exotic thing, and it feels like if you want “15 years ahead of us optimistic techno future”, you could easily slide in Chongqing or Seoul instead of Tokyo.

      • cazssiew@lemmy.world
        8·
        3 days ago

        As far as I can tell, gen z’s more into Korea, Japan already seems passé (being in a midlife crisis meme doesn’t help)

  • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    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/[email protected]% and am working on a 60min/10k (today did 62min/10k).

    • laranis@lemmy.zip
      3·
      2 days ago

      That’s awesome! Well done, and keep up the hard work. Don’t forget to stretch.

  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
    19·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      3 days ago

      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.

  • Rooty@lemmy.world
    101·
    3 days ago

    BDSM. I have integrated pretty quickly into the local community, and I’m a regular at munches and play parties.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      Wait, BDSM is a group event?

      I thought it was more like a partner tennis, not community soccer.

      • Rooty@lemmy.world
        8·
        3 days ago

        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.

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
    543·
    4 days ago

    Nani the fuck did you just fucking iimasu about watashi, you chiisai bitch desuka? Watashi’ll have anata know that watashi graduated top of my class in Nihongo 3, and watashi’ve been involved in iroirona Nihongo tutoring sessions, and watashi have over sanbyaku perfect test scores. Watashi am trained in kanji, and watashi is the top letter writer in all of southern California. Anata are nothing to watashi but just another weaboo. Watashi will korosu anata the fuck out with vocabulary the likes of which has never been mimasu’d before on this continent, mark watashino fucking words. Anata thinks anata can get away with hanashimasing that kuso to watashi over the intaaneto? Omou again, fucker. As we hanashimasu, watashi am contacting watashino secret netto of otakus across the USA, and anatano IP is being traced right now so you better junbishimasu for the ame, ujimushi. The ame that korosu’s the pathetic chiisai thing anata calls anatano life. You’re fucking shinimashita’d, akachan.

    • Hoimo@ani.social
      4·
      3 days ago

      Omou again, fucker.

      My sides.

      And I know it’s a copypasta and the bad translation is the point, but “akachan” is way too friendly for “You’re fucking dead, kiddo”. I’d go for “gaki”, which is a common part of weeb lingo and literally means “kiddo”, with the same connotations and all.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      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.

  • Vespair@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Well I’m forty now and about 6 months ago I decided that after nearly 30 years of listening to metal music I was going to finally learn how to do harsh vocals/metal screaming. Still an enormous amateur, and I have a lot to learn, but basically just this week I finally got to the point where I don’t hate listening to my own screams.

    So uh, whatever you wanna call that midlife crisis, that’s mine.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 days ago

    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.