• Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        It’s not so much “Yucking someones yum” so much as “I think such a large age gap is going to be a big strain on this relationship. But if you wanna… fine.” Like, one of these people was born around when 9-11 occurred and the other was born around the time when Pac-Man was the new hot game in arcades and these “CD” things were starting to catch on for music storage. That’s quite a generational gap.

        However, they’re both old enough to both know the what they’re doing… and maybe it will all work out. Thus my “They’re both old enough to know better” comment. Maybe they’re star crossed lovers and it will all work out… but in the end, it’s a case of “Not my circus, not my monkeys”.

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          1 day ago

          apologies for pedantry, but if they’re star-crossed it won’t work out by definition

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            1 day ago

            TIL that I’ve been using “star crossed lovers” wrong my entire life. I thought it meant fated lovers.