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[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 45 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm actually remembering wrong, he was 41, but still looked a hell of a lot older.

[–] Stamets@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

May that oversized bowling ball rot in hell.

Source: Toronto Resident.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree. The things he did! As an aside I don't know how someone who smoked crack in his own home didn't have CPS remove his children into foster care. How is it poor people do, but that fuck didn't?

[–] Stamets@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Because the Ford family is rich as hell. That's why they got into politics. To make money. Look at Doug Ford, the walking biohazard. Trying to destroy the province to give his friends land ownership.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

Think about all the football players that have started and ended their careers already, all while being younger than you

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.ca 4 points 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.

[–] ThePac@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Buddy if you didn't feel this at 40 then good for you!

[–] joneskind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I am the same age as Emmanuel Macron and it hurts too

[–] Hauskrampf@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 7 points 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.