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It’s not just teenagers who like it.
It’s just that adults tend to refrain from actually doing it.
getting laughed at for jumping 2 inches off the ground does that to a man
Came to say this. The urge doesn’t go away. We just are more selective about picking the best time and place.
There’s an emergency fire doorframe I pass a few times a day that is perfect height for me to 360 dunk on. On the rare occasion that nobody else is in that hallway, you know I’m tappin the fuck outta it
also, knees hurt from the thought of it.
Really? Don’t know how old you are but I’m in my 40s and I wouldn’t call that normal.
/hj
My back hurts from reading about it
My heart hurts from dreaming about it
As an adult you did it often enough to know:"yeah, i could reach that.’
If you’re tall you do this without jumping to assert dominance
This guy talls.
I just hit my head into street signs.
They had it coming.
I hit my head on basement staircase ceilings to asset dominance.
I recently bought a new house and holy crap, what a difference. Even shorter people had to duck going up & down the stairs in my old basement. There is not a single place in my new house that I need to duck my head, and it’s glorious.
Tell me about it. I have developed an instinctive reaction to lower my head a bit when going through doorways because you never know when a building is a bit older and the doors are just not 2m tall.
“teenage”
How do you do, fellow kids?
Did this at work last month, I am 35.
I broke my hip doing this on the way to Bingo last week.
I’m so glad today’s youth is still playing Bingo
Legend
Tried it at with last year at 42 and realized i needed to do a bunch of stretching first.
I talked to my doctor about it before attempting it.
My knees just don’t go there if I have to leave the ground
Now that I’m in my thirties I no longer have to (can) jump
I’d still do it if I wasn’t afraid of my knees exploding on impact, plus the only run up I’m getting is the pain running up my back when I move.
Start working out. My knees in back were in a ton of pain before I got back into shape.
I think i see your problem: knees aren’t supposed to be in back
My right knee is still killing me from it raining last week.
The pull cord to the attic hatch in the hallway ceiling. Who else is with me? When I could reach that without jumping, I knew that day that I was a man (I was twelve).
I took so much of the popcorn off the ceiling my mom got upset.
Why was there popcorn on the ceiling?
Upset? She should have paid you! :)
the only thing stopping grown men from doing it is our knees not handling jumps the way they used to :(
I’ve been skateboarding since '85, and my landing gear is fucked.
So many childish things I would 100% still be doing if I had an MCL.
I’m so fucking tires of these stereotypes based on nothing at all. I’m 40 years old and haven’t stopped jumping to touch that shit.
I’m so fucking tires
oh, you naughty tire, just leaning up against that tower… unzips
Check out the treads on those babies …… I bet those steel belts go allllll the way up
Same, seems like just unnecessary gendering, not all that far from “boys like cars and girls like dolls”. I am reasonably physical, never had the urge for this.
Many folks don’t take care of themselves and think it’s normal to hurt. Health is possible even when working manual labor, or having little free time and money.
This comment has nothing to do with congenital deformity or traumatic injury causing lasting damage.
Edit wtf is this ratio, I’m agreeing with the above
A lot of people seem to fail to realize (or at least fail to realize until its too late) that every muscle of the body is “use it or lose it” but also (barring significant disability/atrophy) you can rebuild those muscles with enough training and practice, and it’s always easier to maintain the muscles than to rebuild them
Teenage? Still doing it at 30!
Is this like always having to clack tongs a couple of times every time you pick them up?
I’m not finding it now but there are some shorts where the guy gives a tong to teenagers and they don’t double clack.
also no double press on a drill.
this generation is lost man
Not just teenagers.
Nearing 40 and still like to jump up to tap something which is high. Never gets old.
Way past 40 and I still enjoy doing this … but my body doesn’t.
You get to a point in your life where you start feeling like your mind is trapped inside aging infrastructure and there’s nothing you can about it.
I mean, there’s plenty you can do about it, it just takes effort. There are 80 year-olds running marathons. There are people past 40 playing professional soccer. You just need to take care of your body.
I agree and I do try to maintain my health as much as possible. But its also genetics. That 80 year old marathon runner is like saying you can become an Olympic athlete in your 30s as well. For every 80 year old marathon runner, there are a few hundred people like him who didn’t make it.
When you get past 50, if your genetics are decent enough, you’ll be able to last a long while. If you are just unlucky, things won’t work out.
I have a family of 7 siblings and they are all terribly out of shape and unhealthy. I’m probably the healthiest person of all of us and I’m one of the youngest. Unfortunately, I’m approaching 50 and no matter how well I take care of myself (exercise, diet, no carb, no sugar, almost vegan diet, maintaining a healthy weight for my age) … I still have early onset arthritis to the point where I can’t move my arms.
Enjoy youth while you can … you never know what you future body will have in store for you no matter what you do.
Yeah, in my twenties I realized how dumb and boring it was, so I stopped.(Cope. COPE! 🧓 😭 😭 😭 😭 )I have several friends who are trans men who have reported to me that the urge started after they started testosterone. It always makes me smile :)
‘Under the engineerium,’ Torgaddon said, ‘the ducts are twice as high, but I can touch them.’
‘You lie.’
‘I’ll prove it.’
‘We’ll see.’
is this in reference to something ?
Probably observed behavior of teenaged boys. Also, she’s not wrong.
Boys grow about a foot taller between 10 and 16, and most people’s arm span is about the same as their height, so the overall increased reach is significant. I was taller than average after a huge growth spurt, and I remember realizing how many things I could jump up to touch that weren’t in the realm of possibility before that. You better believe I was jumping up and touching stuff.
Kinda surprised by all the joint pain ITT, especially knees. Age alone doesn’t do this.
Knees are remarkably hard-wearing joints, capable of continued high mileage well into old age. I hope y’all are using those knees so you can keep using them for many years to come!
