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Twentysomethings! Stop telling people you feel old

Most of you don’t even remember Italia 90!

May 27th 2014, 8:30 PM 5,785 Views 9 Comments

IT’S NOT UNTIL you pass out of your twenties into your thirties and beyond that you realise you didn’t realise how good you had it*.

For more elderly folk, it can be particularly difficult to hear 23 year olds proclaim that they’re “SO OLD”, and 25 years olds bemoaning the fact that they haven’t been asked for ID in, like, six months.

Then they hit you with something like:

Oh I was born during Italia 90.

or

Who’s Dogtanian?

This video sums it up perfectly:

Source: CollegeHumor/YouTube

*Not me though. I’m 21. So youthful *flutters eyelashes, chances arm*

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Twentysomethings! Stop telling people you feel old

Most of you don’t even remember Italia 90!