r/monkeyspaw Feb 23 '25

Fun I wish all humans ages were mirrored. Ex: if someone is 23 they become 32 etc.

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u/robopirateninjasaur Feb 23 '25

Granted. It happens at the exact moment you're in plane being flown by a crew aged 30 and 40.

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u/DoArByse Feb 23 '25

Oh wait, wouldn't they still have the skills to operate the vehicle with sub functional bodies?

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u/robopirateninjasaur Feb 23 '25

Those thoughts will consume your last 2-3 minutes

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u/omoriobsessedmf Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 24 '25

look at the stubby-ass twigs that toddlers have for arms and tell me that you could press anything with that ._.

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u/WheelinJeep Feb 24 '25

Currently looking at my 5 year old trying to imagine him flying a plane

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u/kelariy Feb 24 '25

My 3 year old would definitely be climbing and pressing everything.

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u/btbmfhitdp Feb 24 '25

You mean your 50 year old?

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u/No_Lavishness_3206 Feb 24 '25

It took me too long to figure out what an ass twig was. 

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u/KaralDaskin Feb 23 '25

They just wouldn’t be able to reach the controls 🤷‍♀️

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u/tunefullcobra Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 24 '25

Yes, "sub functional" bodies. Not "non functional" bodies.

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u/randypupjake Feb 24 '25

It's not like they wouldn't be able to respond to stimuli

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u/thesetwothumbs Feb 26 '25

Their brains suddenly lose a lot of development as well.

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u/NarrowAd4973 Feb 23 '25

They would have the knowledge. The problem would be reaching all the various controls and switches. Have you seen what an airliner cockpit looks like?

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u/pisspeeleak Feb 24 '25

Time to call in the flight attendants for their first “crash” course 😂

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u/Omega862 Feb 24 '25

Unfortunately, those flight attendants are now in their golden years and require replacement hips or walkers.

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u/Valirys-Reinhald Feb 24 '25

No. The brains of children that age aren't developed enough to handle the panic and confusion from the de-aging.

That said, planes are very safe these days. Unless the plane is mid-landing, someone on board will probably be able to take over and get walked through the landing process by someone in the tower.

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u/MqAbillion Feb 24 '25

Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue

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u/EtherKitty Feb 23 '25

Skills, maybe, but how would they reach the controls?

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u/KeptAnonymous Feb 24 '25

Are we also considering that it's intact adults in smaller bodies or adults in accurate child developmental bodies because of it's the latter, the impulse control and literal/magical thinking will likely crash the plan despite the knowledge lmao.

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u/MasterAnnatar Feb 23 '25

Sounds like the average American flight these days

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u/Frisky_Froth Feb 23 '25

I become 3. I would most likely die in my apartment alone. You killed a baby

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '25

haha nice, stupid baby

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u/Glass_Coconut_91 Feb 23 '25

34 - 43

What's the difference, I already feel like I'm 90.

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u/econopotamus Feb 23 '25

The 81 and 91 year olds the real winners here

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u/liamjon29 Feb 24 '25

I just became fucken 72. FML.

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u/Touniouk Feb 24 '25

We’re close in age, I’m 2 years older than you :/

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u/Hi2248 Feb 24 '25

I am now 91, I think that I objectively lost this one

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u/c_dubs063 Feb 24 '25

Imagine a 109 year old 💀

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u/Tynelia23 Feb 24 '25

Duuuuuust in the wind.....

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u/princekamoro Feb 23 '25

Wow they weren't kidding about the years going fast.

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u/HallowedBast Feb 23 '25

33 here, nothing changes lmao

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u/HealthyDurian8207 Feb 24 '25

I'm 34 as well, but I feel great. I think suddenly turning 43 would be a huge shock to me.

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u/BubblyNumber5518 Feb 24 '25

I’m 43 and I feel as healthy as I did when I was 34 (I was pregnant at the time, so let’s just consider the non-pregnant part of being 34), so don’t worry about it too much.

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u/HealthyDurian8207 Feb 24 '25

I hope so. I feel like things are getting stiffer by the day.

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u/Ecstatic_Jackfruit35 Feb 23 '25

I’d just die 😭

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u/oishipops Feb 23 '25

real, 17 to 71 just let me die instead 😭

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u/InThePowerOfTheMoon Feb 24 '25

The way I keep seeing you everywhere lately. You're supposed to stay contained in r/hostedgames with the other freaks 😔

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u/oishipops Feb 24 '25

another hosted games player in the wild 🫵 i can't contain my freakery, sorry 😔

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u/oishipops Feb 24 '25 edited Feb 24 '25

WAIT LOL i looked at your profile i recognize you too on the DA subreddit as well. i think i've commented on your post before... freak to freak communication fr

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u/InThePowerOfTheMoon Feb 24 '25

That's like the second worst subreddit I could be perceived at I fear

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u/oishipops Feb 24 '25

second worst? 💀 what's your first worst?

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u/InThePowerOfTheMoon Feb 24 '25

...... r/viktormains 😔

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u/oishipops Feb 24 '25

i CANNOT judge at all for i was a fellow viktor main 💀 how did you feel about his vgu, i kept stalking the sub after it was announced

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u/InThePowerOfTheMoon Feb 24 '25

I actually liked it lol. I lost a lot of karma on the subreddit that day..... Like I'm sad that the concent of glorious evolution through one's own means was lost but also I am weak to eldritch beings with a slutty little waist. I'm very glad they didn't change the gameplay but also it kinda feels like it doesn't really fit anymore lol. Overall tho I like what we got. Minus the nerfs like two weeks after he came out. 😔

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u/Ozann3326 Feb 24 '25

Heeey, hello fellow hosted games enjoyers

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u/LuckyLMJ Feb 23 '25

granted, humans can be three digit ages, so ages are mirrored as a three digit number. everyone's ones digit in their age becomes their hundreds digit and vice versa. You get a few hundred-year-olds with the mental capacity and life experience of one-year-olds and eleven-year-olds, and roughly 10% of people are completely unaffected. Everyone else dies instantly.

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u/nohidden Feb 23 '25

Granted. It turns out the Monkey Paw writes all human ages as four digit numbers with leading zeroes.

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u/Mr_Kabob_Man Feb 24 '25

So everyone dies of old age instantaneously, except people who are 100?

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u/HealthyDurian8207 Feb 24 '25

I mean, people who are 110 would probably survive too.

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u/ObviousSea9223 Feb 24 '25

I mean, civilization was doomed anyway, but okay, this is probably kinder.

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u/Idontlikeyourpost Feb 24 '25

ooh i love this answer

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u/Ry-Da-Mo Feb 23 '25

I'm back to 23...do I get my 23 year old body back?? Also my eldest is now 21.

In a month I'd be the same age anyway, 33, but he would be 31, haha.

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u/Main-Preference-4850 Feb 25 '25

When I read “my eldest is now 21” I didn’t realize you meant AFTER the ages swap…I reversed your age to be 32…-21…I was concerned for your childhood

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u/Ry-Da-Mo Feb 26 '25

Oh damn, ha. Nah, don't worry. He's definitely 12, well nearly.

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u/Guilty_Letterhead_82 Feb 23 '25

Granted. All the people who are ages like 22, 44, 66, etc… feel either neglected or lucky.

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u/LoserVanessa Feb 24 '25

I’m 22 😭😭

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u/HealthyDurian8207 Feb 24 '25

Yeah that's probably lucky. Anyone older would feel unlucky this didn't happen a year or two earlier.

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u/OpALbatross Feb 24 '25

Better than 29 in this case 🙃

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u/briiigette Feb 23 '25

20 to 02…

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u/LouisRitter Feb 24 '25

I'd be 04 and my son would be 30.

He could take care of me this time around.

My daughter would turn 91 so that's a pretty big bummer.

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u/Cell-Puzzled Feb 23 '25

Congratulations, all the politicians that were dying out as well as the voting population have another 50 years to vote and gain the system….again.

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u/Thaser Feb 23 '25

HEY, I'd be 14 again and I wouldn't have brain damage and an autoimmune disorder! Absolute win.

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u/asiannumber4 Feb 23 '25

I’d be 41

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u/FirstChAoS Feb 23 '25

Being 19 would suck.

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u/Jedovate_Jablcko Feb 23 '25

I'm 18. Fuck OP's wish.

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u/Lillypad1219 Feb 24 '25

At least you’re not 39…

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u/Worldly_Team_7441 Feb 23 '25

Granted. They mentally revert completely if becoming younger, losing memories and skills - including basics such as the current year. If becoming older, the rapid aging causes however many years of dead flesh to accumulate on the body, as it was unable to shed properly.

For instance, someone 41 would return to 14, but would think it was 1998. A 17 to 71 switch would have 54 years of dead skin cocooning them.

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u/dreadfulbadg50 Feb 23 '25

Granted. I become 22

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u/GiornoGiovanna2009 Feb 23 '25

I'm gonna become 51 lmao
I feel bad for all the 20 year olds though they just become toddlers

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u/CardboardGamer01 Feb 23 '25

16 to 61, shit.

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u/ironwatchdog Feb 23 '25

Welp, if this wish happened in another couple of days I’d be 4, but I guess 93 is fine. It’s been a good run.

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u/RegularStrong3057 Feb 24 '25

Y'all are being too generous. It isn't 23 to 32. It's 023 to 320. Everyone under 100 years of age immediately turns to dust.

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u/asphid_jackal Feb 23 '25

Can you wait a couple of months? I don't want to be 23 again

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u/Womz69 Feb 23 '25

You think I wanna be 82??

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u/asphid_jackal Feb 23 '25

Oof, sorry my guy

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u/Cognoggin Feb 23 '25

Granted: everyone is 101.

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u/FinancialWorking2392 Feb 23 '25

Granted: all ages are writen in 3 digits with proceeding 0s to account for centurians (people over 100) so most people die of old age

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u/CarlBrawlStar Feb 23 '25

22 year olds are happy about this one

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u/the-flag-and-globe Feb 23 '25

Granted, a women of 30 was giving birth, now she is 3 and giving birth, you are a horrible person

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u/DeathscytheHell1994 Feb 23 '25

Hell no, being 13 once was enough.

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u/TokuWaffle Feb 23 '25

Granted. I'm currently 22.

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u/dumbmf4000 Feb 23 '25

I am immune to this power

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u/Etrain_18 Feb 23 '25

Give me 2 more days please. I'm almost 30

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u/Glittering_Chart3261 Feb 23 '25

Great...im still 33....

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u/Andydon01 Feb 23 '25

Granted, but everyone that has to go through puberty again knows and they all come to get you.

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u/AutisticHobbit Feb 24 '25

Granted. It occurs to you while you are, somehow, 33....but surrounded by 60 year old grand parents with their 5 year old children.

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u/Thick-Possession6073 Feb 24 '25

All the 11, 22, 33, 44, 55... Year olds just sorta standing there like 🧍🏻‍♀️

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u/APariahsPariah Feb 24 '25

14 again baby! I am gonna get up to so much shit!

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u/Masterpiece-Haunting Feb 24 '25

Granted! The version of them they used to be is locked away in a mirror as there reflections and they want to break out. Everyone must avoid any form of reflection. Oh yeah btw the mirrored version replaces you and everyone else. So the 32 year old has left the mirror while you’re now in the mirror.

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u/bendryl Feb 24 '25

Noooo, now I’m 82

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u/8bitpluto Feb 24 '25

Glad I saw this when I was 22

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u/violetevie Feb 24 '25

19 to 91 haha fuck

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u/Boredpanda6335 Feb 24 '25

I’m 18 so I would turn elderly if that happens 😔

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u/King_Conwrath Feb 24 '25

22 baby, easy peasy

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u/USpapyrus888 Feb 24 '25

Bro I'm 91

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u/sh4rkface Feb 24 '25

I’d be uhhh 22 Gee what a change

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u/HermitWithoutPermit Feb 24 '25

Lol for the "doubled number" ages.

11, 22, 33, 44, 55, etc.

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u/WillyDAFISH Feb 24 '25

I turn 2 years old. Seems reasonable

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u/fungal_follicle4 Feb 24 '25

Granted. The consequences are as disastrous as they are obvious 💀

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u/Cellyst Feb 24 '25

Granted. Everyone's ages, counted in days, are reversed.

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u/Wide_Pop_6794 Feb 24 '25

Me: becomes a child

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u/ObjectiveCut1645 Feb 24 '25

Granted, your girlfriend turns 21

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u/bonerfactor Feb 24 '25

Some 109 year old is about to set some records

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u/Sensitive_Progress26 Feb 24 '25

I’m 62, so I am now 26. Excellent. But I now have a 6 year old wife and an 82 year old daughter.

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u/fakeman4551 Feb 24 '25

Granted. 0 before any number does not affect its value but reverse of it does. Everyone dies.

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u/chainsawx72 Feb 24 '25

I'm 52, finally something RIGHT happens.

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u/ImInsideTheAncientPi Feb 24 '25

Ah noice. I'm in my 20s again

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u/CreepyPastaLover2005 Feb 24 '25

Hell no I’m not jumping to 81 my life just started

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u/Serious-Arugula5685 Feb 24 '25

29 to 92 is really a difference

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u/Rough-Leg-4148 Feb 24 '25

Granted. This comes to pass when you turn 101.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '25

I would be half my age

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u/SuitFive Feb 24 '25

Waitwaitwaitwaitwai- (becomes a 3 year old)

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u/Constant_Guarantee92 Feb 24 '25

Please no I can't be 12 again, it sucked enough the first time...

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u/Simple-Carpenter2361 Feb 24 '25

What a missed opportunity for the 101 year olds

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u/pisspeeleak Feb 24 '25

I swap ages with my grandmother 😂 the downside here is that I have no retirement savings or secure housing as I watch my parents fade away. But on the bright side now we can verify if youth really is wasted on the young

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u/drewmana Feb 24 '25

Shit my wife stays the same age and i head back to middle school

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u/Hot_Potato92 Feb 24 '25

Yaay, 23 again! But my poor sis is 71! Dad is 45 and mum is 25... weird.

But wait, what about people over 99? You are 100 and suddenly... You are 110 and... But better yet, you are 109...

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u/Apprehensive_Bug_826 Feb 24 '25

Every time someone turns an age with a 9 at the end, chances are they won’t live to their next birthday…

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u/Just-a-random-Aspie Feb 24 '25

Granted. I’m now 81. Fuck you

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u/Xthewarrior Feb 24 '25

Gonna wait a few months then check back here

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u/BananeWane Feb 24 '25

Happy to be 22 right now

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u/Same_Development_823 Feb 24 '25

One thing to say about everyone thinking 700 years old = instant death :

700 years old does not mean instant death. It's just that you have a higher chance of having a disease, and that a higher chance of that disease killing you. This will take time and is definitely not instant.

It's just that 'surviving until 700 years old' and 'surviving 1 year as a 700 year old' are both highly unlikely, but if somebody suddenly becomes 700 years old, he will not die for no reason.

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u/52ltrsOpticalCapitol Feb 24 '25

19 year olds would be 91? evil!

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u/userredditmobile2 Feb 24 '25

what the frick 🥹

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u/76zzz29 Feb 24 '25

That poor 19 years old... that luky 91 years old XD

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u/DevilsMaleficLilith Feb 24 '25

So all humans die at the age of 102? If there lucky? Neat

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u/IndividualistAW Feb 24 '25

As a 41 year old i currently support this

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u/Loser2817 Feb 24 '25

20 -> 02

Fuck this, I'll be hoping time travel is possible so someone may fix this.

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u/Unsungh3ro_88 Feb 24 '25

99 year olds about to be pissed 😂

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u/deathstormreap Feb 24 '25

Nooo i dont want to go through puberty again

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u/Agzarah Feb 24 '25

This would be amusing as hell if it happened every year. I'm 26.. nope 62 Next year 62-63, boom 36 36-37 - boom 73

Hmm does everyone eventually get stuck in a 1-9 cycle

As 9-10 resets back to 1.. repeat

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u/AHumanYouDoNotKnow Feb 24 '25

Granted, but the ages are calculated in months.

So someone aged exactly 23 years , with 276 months of age would turn 56.
While someone who is 83,3 years, exactly 1000 months, would turn into a baby.

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u/Z_Wild Feb 24 '25

I feel for thos 37, 38, 39ers... lmao.

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u/wannab3c0wb0y Feb 24 '25

I'm just thinking about becoming 12 while my partner becomes 32. Tears. My 22 bday is this week, so I'm wishing that you didn't make your wish until next week.

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u/c_dubs063 Feb 24 '25

Granted.

It happens at noon CET every day. And it is not a pleasant transformation.

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u/MickeyG42 Feb 24 '25

No. I'm not going to my 20s again. Denied.

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u/Kingofdeadpool1 Feb 24 '25

Granted, Now the 12 year-old has 1 year-old body with the Same mind and mental maturity

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u/mck12001 Feb 24 '25

Would someone from the ages 102-109 just instantly turn to dust then?

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u/idk_whatName Feb 24 '25

I don't want to be 91 😭

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u/Forester___ Feb 24 '25

…my age doesnt change, I am safe!!

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u/Basil_9 Feb 24 '25

i'm unaffected (22)

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u/JexilTwiddlebaum Feb 24 '25

Damn I’m 55, nothing changes for me

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u/DarkMagickan Feb 24 '25

God damn it, you couldn't have waited until I turned 50?

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u/HelicopterParking Feb 24 '25

25 to 52 would suck so hard..

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u/Strawbebishortcake Feb 24 '25

Granted. This one is just already punishment enough actually. Society will fall apart.

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u/jusumonkey Feb 25 '25

Me at 33: Well fuck.

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u/MoorAlAgo Feb 25 '25

Have fun with that. I'm 33 so go for it.

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u/ArtEnvironmental7108 Feb 25 '25

I get to stay 22? This has no effect on me? Fuck it. Granted. No monkey’s paw.

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u/Avilola Feb 25 '25

Fuck. Why couldn’t you have wished for this when I was 32 instead of now that I’m 33? Better than 34 I guess.

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u/SWiftie_FOR_EverMorE Feb 25 '25

19 and 91 year olds rn

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u/ahahaveryfunny Feb 25 '25

Wow this wish is terrible if you are 19.

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u/iamnogoodatthis Feb 25 '25

I feel bad for the 109 year olds out there

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u/crazy-jay1999 Feb 25 '25

Jokes on you, I’m 44, my wife only ages 10 years, my son grows up and my mom is young again

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u/le_aerius Feb 25 '25

Granted but it only effects people with the same number. like 22 or 44.

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u/Teh_Blue_Morpho Feb 25 '25

I am now 3 and my wife is 92... Oh boy...

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u/TasukiChicken Feb 25 '25

I just stay the same age I guess. 33-33

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u/Immediate-Habit46 Feb 25 '25

Does someone who is 100 go back to a fetus ?

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u/Main-Preference-4850 Feb 25 '25

Granted, all teenagers (or rather people who USED to be teenagers) know your address and are fucking pissed that you took away their entire life

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u/CraftyMcQuirkFace Feb 25 '25

People who are 11, 22, 33 etc 🙄

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u/Clutchdanger11 Feb 25 '25

People aged 11, 22, 33, etc just kinda go on with their lives as people around them are suddenly aged up/down by a decade.

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u/Actual-Damage1948 Feb 25 '25

My grandma is 102, is she cooked?

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u/Random_Thought31 Feb 26 '25

Granted. Since 31 = 031, we now have that everybody on earth is dea—

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u/Pure-Act-8528 Feb 26 '25

I become 22. This changes everything.

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u/Fragrant_Smile_1350 Feb 26 '25

I am now 91. Fuck this guy

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u/Fragrant_Smile_1350 Feb 26 '25

You couldn’t have waited until October when I turn 20? Sure becoming 2 is still bad but it’s better than soaring to 91

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u/doskias Feb 26 '25

Wait, so, would I age normally from then on, or would my next birthday see me at the next appropriate flipped year?

Like, I'm 39, and I'll be 40 in July. This wish makes me 93 - so will I turn 94 in July, or 4?

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u/gliscornumber1 Feb 26 '25

I remain unchanged! (I'm 22)

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u/zeptozetta2212 Feb 26 '25

I’d hate to be a 19-year old when this happens.

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u/trickyfelix Feb 26 '25

I don’t age

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u/Theysayhisnamewouldn Feb 26 '25

Granted: Your 30 year old pregnant wife is carrying twins at the time.

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u/an0uts1der Feb 26 '25

I’m the same age yayyyy

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u/Xandara2 Feb 26 '25

Can you wait 9 years for that plz. 

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u/TisIChenoir Feb 26 '25

Can you wait a few years, until I turn 41?

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u/Metatron_Tumultum Feb 26 '25

So I’m 92 now. Thanks a lot asshole!

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u/investigatebs Feb 26 '25

I don't wanna be 92 wtf

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u/Admirable-Ad7152 Feb 26 '25

Well ya killed me, no way I'm actually making it to my 90s

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u/Slizzlemydizzle Feb 26 '25

I’d be 91, there goes my life I guess 💀

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u/Lilthiccb0i Feb 26 '25

Dawg I am a week away from turning 22...