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.
"teenage"
How do you do, fellow kids?
Did this at work last month, I am 35.
Tried it at with last year at 42 and realized i needed to do a bunch of stretching first.
You gotta keep that youthful exuberance going, man. Keep killing it out there.
I broke my hip doing this on the way to Bingo last week.
I'm so glad today's youth is still playing Bingo
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.
My right knee is still killing me from it raining last week.
Not just teenagers.
Nearing 40 and still like to jump up to tap something which is high. Never gets old.
Unlike our knees
Y'all still jump at this age??
49 here and still do it. I also walk along walls if one happens to run along side a path I'm on.
We try. And fall. And realize how ridiculous that looked. Then try again next time...
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'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
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.
According to my big brother, peeing over walls and off high places is another, if they can get away with it. (Like castle ruins etc.) Could it be similar in that you're now tall enough you don't just end up peeing on the floor at your feet?
Peeing other than in a toilet was only ever a matter of necessity for me, so I can't give credence to that.
Dude what? Peeing outside is the best. It's my sole motivation for moving out of the city and into the country.
One of the greatest pleasures in my life is pissing off the back porch when it's cold, looking up at the Milky Way, and listening to the coyotes pack up.
It's not just teenagers who like it.
It's just that adults tend to refrain from actually doing it.
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
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 :)
Is this like always having to clack tongs a couple of times every time you pick them up?
There was a metal street sign by my high school that was bent from so many people doing this.
LOL, perhaps the city should have invested in reinforcements
Honestly it may have made it worse given how boys are as teenagers. I feel like someone would have stolen dad's angle grinder 😅
im a fan of the head bump, where you jerk your head back at the same time you slap it and people think you hit your head. so funny
The behavior doesn't stop but it does start with the crazy growth spurt in height that is pretty unique to teenage boys (AMAB). Suddenly things that were way out of reach become reachable, like in the course of 6 months.
I've taught math at every grade level (elementary, middle school, high school, college) and can confirm this is indeed a universal truth.
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!
Kinda surprised by all the joint pain ITT
Obesity is a hell of a drug.
Also sitting for 8 hours a day and not leaving your home except to grocery shop
I've had auto immune arthritis for 30 years and my knees are still apparently better than 90% of this thread. It's wild to see.
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.
As a short guy, this was not something I got to take part in a lot of the time and now that my ankle is fucked I'm not even going to chance jumping or running anymore.
I've always considered more of a "can I jump high enough to reach that? I bet I can reach that." The tapping just adds to the satisfaction of a success.
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