• DJDarren@thelemmy.club
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    46
    ·
    1 year ago

    Slightly on topic, but yesterday I discovered that I’m the same age as Rishi Sunak, and it’s fucking with my brain that I’m the same age as the Prime Minister. Something about that just ain’t right.

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      1 year ago

      Rob Ford was in his thirties when he was mayor of Toronto but if you look at pictures of him you’d never believe it.

    • XTornado@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      Idk… I feel like that’s okaish…you don’t want to end up on Biden/Trump age for a leader.

      • DJDarren@thelemmy.club
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        Older age isn’t necessarily a negative factor in leadership, but I know what you’re saying. However, I can’t deal with the fact that I’m 43 and don’t feel like a grown up, so does that mean our Prime Minister feels the same way about himself? I can’t square that circle, y’know?

        • nova_ad_vitum
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          I don’t know about Sunak specifically, but generally the types of people who succeed at politics have way too much unjustified self-confidence to introspect that much.

        • FarceMultiplier
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          I’m 53 and manage 20 people and I’ve never grown up. Other people hit 30 and act like they are 80.

    • Hauskrampf@ttrpg.network
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      I think it just something about public figures and that they can’t possibly live a life like us or something.

      I have the same thing, but opposite direction with the stranger things cast. Still can’t belive they’re the same age or older than me.

      • DJDarren@thelemmy.club
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        1 year ago

        I think it also ties in with the “olders and betters” mentality that we’re brought up with. There’s a sense of gravitas to the office of Prime Minister, and even if they’re doing stupid shit there’s a monkey bit of my brain that’s like “ah, but they’re old enough to know better than me”. But now the PM is only four months older than I am, and my mum worked for his dad for a few years, so we could have (theoretically) turned in the same circles*, and he’s up there in the highest office in the land, doing stupid shit and I’m looking at him and wondering who let this idiot kid be in charge.


        *We really couldn’t have though, he went to a very fancy school and was already married to a billionaire by the time my mum started working for his dad. His dad’s actually sound.