I constantly see this trend where woman tell men they’re grandpas. or old, or dying when casually flirting with them. Even when the age difference is only 5 years or so. Figured fitting that in was a good opportunity for Ellie to be awkward. :P
No episode 3 of Chris and Computers. Running fine so far. Thanks all for the concern.
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No issues? AT all? That can’t be right………..
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First Owen, now this. Ellie’s clearly cool with older dudes.
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Finally, a first post that supports the insanity here on Erf.
Oh, please accept this certafacite on gnieb ristf.
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all i know is my ships got FUCKED when the girls showed up.
pretty much hovering at Yunoa x The World right now
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Owen was in his forties, wasn’t he? And Ellie had a surprisingly fine time with him.
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37.
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Yes! Sparks! Choo choo all aboard this amazing ship!!!!
And hooray for no computer issues!
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I started dating my husband when I was 18 and he was 27, so even less of an age gap than Ellie here. Now it’s been eight years together (married for 3) so it definitely can work but it’s been interesting! A lot of movies and references go right over my head. I occasionally say current slang and he looks at me crazy. And people looked at us funny for a long time when we told them our ages. At the end of the day though, we love each other for who the other is, not what we appear to the outside world or silly old references.
Tl:Dr; totally worth it, but people are going to judge!
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For some reason I feel like I should tell everyone to check out your Etsy. I don’t know why that is though.
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I wish I was crafty enough to have an Etsy! Alas, crafts are not for me. Too clumsy.
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She’s got 99 problems but dating older dudes ain’t one. At least until Tara finds out.
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Then she’ll be wishing she had 99 problems instead of that 1.
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That’s probably very accurate.
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They should probably settle this in a hot springs fan service wrestling episode. SS has those, right?
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You know, she didn’t seem to have that problem, back when the place was standing, either. The dating one, not the Terratorial one. (Ominous crack of rolling thunder in background…)
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I don’t remember ever seeing where Tarra dated David. Deux said David was the cleaner of Tara’s messes… did I miss something? (Very likely, I don’t pay full attention to much). As for age “rules” Half plus 9, nothing below 18 is what I’ve always heard. So let’s see, 25+9=34, I could almost date David, but Ellie is right out.
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The hypothesis is David was “With Terra it was just a ‘math tutor'” and connected to the cane that Terra had in that one flashback where she was a girl and talking with her older sister in their bedroom late at night. Their relationship is not explicitly stated.
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Another item for suspicion is David’s apparent interest in Ellie along with Envy being Tarra’s seven sisters -> seven deadly sins mapping along with the chronicle of what injuries X sustained due to which median sisters listed Ellie as responsible for the changing of Tarra’s speech balloon color (which I always presumed meant attitude/outlook).
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The benefit of people a few years younger than you calling you old is that you can then call them ‘practically babies’ or toddlers back.
Of course, that would be a little weird when flirting, but…in casual conversations, it’s okay.
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Yeah, ‘hey baby’ while flirting is generally seen as ‘I’m a sleaze and you should find the nearest exit.’
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I learned a general rule a few years back, anyone 20 years younger than you is a “kid”, and anyone 20 years older than you is “old”.
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Seriously, how does this dude move without a cane? He really blind?
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I assume he has some sort of magic-power much like others. He’s likely blind but probably has fewer issues moving around as a result of his super-human self.
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I have a similar assumption.
However with the name Mr Blue Sky and him requesting Mandalay just toss him in the general direction he lives in, he might just be super durable and not at all bothered by enormous falls (which seems like it could be the kind of hilarious that horrifies people who haven’t read the whole story to know about it upon occasion).
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Considering he walked/was thrown away from that fight with D52 with the only damage being to his clothes I think some degree of super durability is a given.
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So much for her “Nobody over 30” rule then.
Ellie has to notice that he’s (supposedly) blind yet has no cane or seeing-eye dog sooner or later though.
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She’s going to have a problem if they don’t go to Downtown Disney.
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“go to Downtown Disney”? Is *that* what the kids are calling it now?
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Of course for the reasoning behind the last panel you could quite easily refer to panel 1. I’ve seen plenty of young women to whom age is not an issue when they are that young, only to find out a few years later when they mature themselves that actually it is.
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Even more awkward when you really are at Grandpa’s age, and when they say it it could be true…
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“But how long have you BEEN 32?”
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Sorry, had to.
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I’m going to go with less than 367 days.
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This summer I celebrate the 29th anniversary of my 32nd birthday.
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Or, you know, he’s like Angel or Edward. :p
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Something I noticed in my personal and dating life was that a significant age difference could be a problem. I developed a rule that seems to hold true: You form your closest friendships with people who are +/- 5 years of your own age, because you’re both in generally the same life stage. 5-10 years difference makes things a little problematic, and more than 10 years difference in age means you’ll have little in common to build a friendship or relationship on.
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It might be interesting to track various people’s feelings on this plus/minus rule. A commonly suggested guideline (for youngest age to date/marry) that supposedly scales with age is the “half-plus-seven” rule (which can be a little off at the extremes).
Twenty five? 19+
Thirty? Your range is 22 and up.
Forty? 27+
Fifty? 32+
Sixty? 37+
Seventy? 42+
Etc.
So far as upper limit, I haven’t seen it explicitly stated, but it should just be some inverse algebra: If 1/2(yourAge)+7 is your lower limit, your upper limit (your partner’s lower limits) should be…2x(yourAge-7).
Testing that out…
Twenty five? 36-
Thirty? 46-
Forty? 74-
Fifty? 86-
Sixty? 106….
So definitely possibly a little off in the extremes. But generally age difference seems less significant (for a long-term relationship; not addressing initial infatuation) as age increases, compared to when young. I still recall a freshman classmate getting all kinds of a hard time for dating a student two years younger, but no one looked twice at a two-year difference when they married in their earlier twenties.
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*early twenties
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Not sure I’d want to be pursued by a 106 year-old cougar…
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The older you get, the less the age difference can seem like it matters.
When you’re 60 dating an 80 yo, it doesn’t sound as bad as an 18 yo with a 38 yo.
Same age difference, less feeling of “Ummm…”
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Ellie looks very cute while awkward. Too bad that fact is probably lost on The Blind Guy.
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I got to a “stages of life” sort of idea about too old/too young for dating.
When I was 23, I found myself interested in a girl that I thought was maybe too young, so I found out she was 4.5 years younger than me. I decided that in itself wasn’t that big of a deal, but I was out of college and she was a sophomore. I thought of what I’d enjoyed at that time and thought it was good and enjoyable and something I’d want someone I cared about to enjoy, but it wasn’t something I was interested in repeating. So I never asked her out.
In my late 20’s I found myself near a college and in a social activity that included students from the college. I found the freshmen kinda’ got on my nerves, but the juniors & seniors were fine. I chalked it up to likelihood of living off-campus with roommates and having a separate job or doing a co-op or looking out to the future vs “4 more years to play around.”
That’s where I kinda’ came up with my “stages of life” thing, which has left me with some “younger”/”older” perceptions that have a person with fewer years as older than the other by my private calculus (rough rule – still depending on parents for all support < financially self-supporting < supporting self and kid(s)).
By that, Ellie & David would be similar stages of life, but the chronological years might still make for irritations.
(side note – Quinn having to be the adult in her Mom's house to raise her brother does put her as older than Ellie in my mental calculus even though she's not having to work through college, that's just something I hope is a rarer case.)
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I had a similar experience: dated a guy a couple years younger than me for my last year.5 of college, and things were mostly fine. He was on schedule to graduate early, so I was planning to hang around and work a year until he graduated, then we’d go on and get married.
But I’d suddenly transitioned into an actual career rather than the jobs we worked in college, and the ways I spent my time and energy began to shift. Instead of being willing to adapt with me, he claimed my “priorities were getting out of whack” and I was “secluding” myself, because I didn’t hang out in the campus rec rooms every evening anymore. We tried for a semester to make it work, but the change in life stages exacerbated pre-existing issues in the relationship (things were -mostly- fine), and we were over before Valentines. Sometimes life-stage (or life-experience) can be more significant than specific years.
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And then the fucked. Hard!!!
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I’m not sure is Ellie is exaggerating her age or not. I was under the impression her birthday was in November, but thinking back on it it might have been September/early October.
Regardless she was totally still eighteen the last time these two talked.
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She was 18 then, and we’ve since had her & Cinn’s birthday (cards with money, her favorite!). That was before all the convention shenanigans, so we’ve probably had the better part of a year pass since then (though her “almost” could mean she’s a 19 years, 6 months, 1 day, so only she & her family know for sure)