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[Duke 2.0]

What, why breaking windows and damaging cars okay because its expected?

It's not okay because it's an angry mob doing damage instead of a peaceful protest, but it's sort of understandable. Government buildings belong to the institution that screwed them, and random cars are random cars. The tree just strikes me as something for the people, a symbol of a season of giving and hope. I get that the government put the tree up and thus is a government target, but still. It's both not okay and not understandable, unless some students were just breaking everything in a chaotic way.

 And my family likely won't have a tree this year, just like the past... five or seven or so?

[Vector]

Vector goes to the dentist! 

My father: almost 60 years old.
Me: 20 years old.
My mother: not telling, but you can take a guess.

Who do they think I am?  My father's wife, who has a 20-year-old daughter.  This is getting embarrassing.  What is it, the biggish glasses?  The frumpy sweater?  The leather shoes?  The expression of intense scrutiny?  The fact that I don't treat 60-year-olds like they're aliens?

:I

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Damn, That must get very annoying.

[Bauglir]

-snip-

[Vector]

Damn, That must get very annoying.

Ho ho ho yes.  I get mistaken for librarians/mathematicians/bookstore people/grad students/foreigners with surprising frequency.  Especially the foreign one--when I went to Europe, for some reason everyone thought I was European.  They had no idea where I could be from, but they were pretty sure of it.

That, and when I lived in international student housing, people kept wanting to know which country I was from despite my very, very American accent and the fact that pretty much all of the international students had just arrived from elsewhere.  Frequent comments on how I sure didn't seem American to them... bah.

Clearly you need to be recoiling from the elderly more. This is what society has apparently concluded is the correct behavior? Society is crazy.

I'm going to practice recoiling really hard when I get back to school.  Any gray hair?  A single wrinkle?

RECOILING TIME

I'll also have to practice saying "Ohhhh My Gawd, ewwwwwwwwww-uh" like a valley girl.  That should take care of ALL my problems!

[Leafsnail]

I'd say it'd be pretty strange to recoil randomly from your parents, whatever age they are .

Although the family resemblence in my immediate family is so strong I don't usually get my relationships mistaken...

[ToonyMan]

My parents are quite young for parent ages.  This might go along with my nonreligious growing ups.  I feel really bad for all the other kids around me that were forced to go to church three times or more a week when they didn't even want to.

[Blargityblarg]

My parents are quite old for my age; probably because I have two siblings, both around ten years older than I am.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

@Leafsnail: You should meet my parents then.

[Leafsnail]

Well, I don't mean "dislike for legitimate reasons", I mean "Find them so physically horrifying that you have to recoil from them at random intervals".

Although I do know a couple of people like that.

[Aklyon]

Damn, That must get very annoying.

Ho ho ho yes.  I get mistaken for mathematicians with surprising frequency.

Isn't that what you are studying for though, Vector? If you're trying to be one and you keep getting mistaken for one, that would be good, yes?

[Bauglir]

-snip-

[Duke 2.0]

Vector goes to the dentist! 

My father: almost 60 years old.
Me: 20 years old.
My mother: not telling, but you can take a guess.

Who do they think I am?  My father's wife, who has a 20-year-old daughter.  This is getting embarrassing.  What is it, the biggish glasses?  The frumpy sweater?  The leather shoes?  The expression of intense scrutiny?  The fact that I don't treat 60-year-olds like they're aliens?

My dad is 62, and I'm 18. People always know my brother is his son, but they always ask who I am. My cousins did say I look more like my grandpa on my mothers side when he was young. So I feel for the confusion, although perhaps not the insult of looking old or something.
 It doesn't help that my older sister and brother look like twins, and me and my little sister look like twins, but these two twin sets don't look alike.

[Sowelu]

mathematicians [...] surprising frequency

trolololosiiiiiigh.

[Footkerchief]

What is it, the biggish glasses?  The frumpy sweater?  The leather shoes? 

That's a hell of a combination.  A frumpy sweater can tack on 10 years all by itself.