The world can look like a very different place if you’re a single girl depending which side of 30 you’re on.
This video is funneeeee.
We must warn you there is a little bit of language at the end of the video (and it’s loud in parts) so don’t watch this at work unless you have headphones!
But you tell us, is this accurate? Do you identify with one or the other? Do you know women around these ages who have this view?
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Hilarious. I can’t quite remember how I was feeling at 29 & 30, but at 40 I was pretty certain I was stuck with crazy, single, designer cat lady. And somewhere that year I decided to be happy & grateful for what I had. It was liberating. I when I stopped being stressed & desperate it all fell into place. On the cusp of 45 I’m married to my university sweetheart, I have 3 gorgeous step teens, still a designer, still have cats, just not so crazy anymore.
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Go you!! There’s hope for us yet. x
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i loved it
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I think this song is my internal commentary. I am currently 30 and sitting on the edge of both viewpoints. Who let you into my head?
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That was awesome!
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Loved this – so funny. Just wish they’d do one of a single woman at forty cause OMG I think there really is nobody left…..
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I adore Garfunkel & Oates!! Anyone unfamiliar with them MUST google Sex With Ducks right now.
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Yeah sex with ducks is awesome
I love “self esteem ” too :p
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Thought this was perfect! I thought I had sailed through when I turned 30 – no worries, I was in a new relationship, got married, just had a baby, just bought a kitten – and then bang! At 30.5 had meltdown about growing old. Major financial troubles (due mainly to the aforementioned wedding and baby) and had to take the hubby, baby and cat and all move in with my mum. The fourth (yes, fourth!) time I have had to bite the bullet and move back home, despite being an intelligent, sensible, hardworking young woman with no drug addictions or shoe shopping addictions. Just life. Sounds like a classic ‘first world problem’ but it really floored me. Now at 31 I’m accepting that we won’t have a second child soon (if ever) and – gee, revelation – we each have our own journey in life and screw what everyone says you should have achieved by 30! (Mind you, after a couple of glasses of red I still get a bit stupidly morose occasionally.)
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i turned 29 today….cannot stop laughing!
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I loved it! I have tears of laughter streaming down my face! That’s going in the favourites
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These two are so great! You tubing all their videos now..
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love it…and think there is a lot of truth – for me, the ages would have been 32 and 35 though.
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I don’t know if it’s true or not, but it was clever and funny!
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Love these gals. Another great video!
Although, for me, I was the 29 at 31 and the 31 at 33.
There’s definitely an age when you feel your stock (on the singles market) plummeting. Even if you’re married, you might feel fewer heads turning when you walk down the street.
However, unlike Lady 33 in the video, I’m not bitter and angry.
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The pregnant one is ok. Would be interesting to see them when they’re pregnant, bet they say the same things.
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I’m 31 – but married, and don’t want children. So I don’t really identify with this video that much, but I know A LOT of women who talk like this.
Personally I have enjoyed getting older, I enjoy becoming smarter and more interesting and much less embarrassing.
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I agree!
I’m married, mid twenties and my hubby and I are not having children.
I can’t wait for our thirties, forties, etc! We have travelling to look forward to, learning about ourselves and eachother. Who knows, I may suddenly feel like taking up a cool new hobby that either doesn’t exist yet, or I just haven’t been interested in yet. We have so much fun and are always enjoying the present, and looking forward to the future!
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I’m in the EXACT same position as you Jen – and gosh it is awesome!
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Me three! I think the kids pressure must be awful… I don’t fell the ‘need’ they talk about at all. Travelling…Full lives… Bring it!
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I am 31 and there is nobody left, but me single, in my group of friends.
I have been single for about 5 years now.
For lots of reasons, including a breakdown, but at around 29 I felt that way. Things were working out. I felt really good about myself, now at 31, it does feel like my options are much more limited!
Although I’m not sure that I would even fit out a window any more, so luckily I will just be stuck looking at my opportunity rather than plummeting to my death!
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that was hilarious! Although I have to say I love being in my 30′s. I feel like I have finally grown into myself and I wouldn’t want to do my 20′s over again
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Ooh love these girls!!
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I’m about to turn 29 and I’m single… Thank goodness I have two good years in me yet! This cracked me up.
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Wow
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“when infantile fantasy eclipses true reality” ha, I love it!
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This is the ‘pregnant women are smug’ vid by the same ppl lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJRzBpFjJS8
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Hahahaha love it! I wonder if my friends thought I was smug when I was pregnant *cringe*
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I’ve loved the ‘pregnant women are smug’ one for the LONGEST time! I love it! i hate smug preggos!! (and as a second time preggo, just found out its a boy to make my pidgeon pair boy and girl perfect family ‘complete’, and just keep remembering the song, trying desperately not to be that smug pain in the rear that we pregnant women can be! PMSL! for the record, its awesome its a boy, but i’d convinced myself it was a girl, so still shellshocked, and not feeling real smug, but it must look that way!)
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@DameAlana
I agree with you. Also the 31 year old has better genes (prima facie) taller, more symetrical features
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I thought this was REALLY clever. But I hate how so many women focus on what they “should” be doing as per society & not just happy each day to be alive.
Plus most women complain about marriage & their children anyway….
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These girls crack me up…though I must be a couple of years ahead of my time, because at 29, I hear the fertility calls NOW! I am blessed to have a husband, but that children window sure seems as though it is less open than it used to be!
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Then what are you waiting for? Walk through that door while you can!
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I love their song pregnant women are smug … I think a lot of you sanctimummies would get a heap out of it …
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‘Sanctimummies’. That’s gold! I’m stealing that.
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Brilliant! Just made me laugh out loud
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The best one they do is about smug pregnants – do yourself a favour and watch it. Very clever – and remember before you get all cross about it being rude and disrespectful to pregnant women – how many times you actually have heard people have these conversations – irrespective of how their friends feels – if they’re having trouble conceiving, ending a relationship, discovering a cure for cancer…watch it with a sense of humour –c’mon we’ve all heard this conversation!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJRzBpFjJS8
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Oh I can relate with both. So funny!!! But then I did meet my now boyfriend at the end half of 31. Now just celebrating my 33rd, I’ve been thinking back 20 years to my 13 year old self. Asking I wonder if she would have known that I still don’t have kids or married! (YET).
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LOL….love the bit about the window.
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