Poll: How old are you?

Sorry about this poll. I know it's not really discussion-worthy. I just like demographic polls. :)

And yes, I also know I messed up so that if you are 14 you don't fit and will have to pick other. :)

hehe, that sounds like a pretty good metaphor for being 14 to me ;)

Good point...I hadn't considered that. :)

For I am 1000 years old. :)

this is just to say that andrea's new icon is far too cute. :)
and i'm 24 but i look 12 and act 6. i wasn't sure which one to pick.

heeee...thanks...

take chronology...if we went into apparent and mental age this entire thing would skew. :)

if we went into apparent and mental age this entire thing would skew

Do I sense a follow-up poll?

From Chris Rock's "No Sex in the Champagne Room" --

"If a girl says she's 20, and acts 16, she's 12.

"If a girl says she's 26, and acts 26... she's damn near 40."

Sorry, it was kinda appropriate. Maybe. :-P

-- Pauley

I had the misfortune of working with a colleague when he was about 26, looked 34 and acted like a very stunted and disturbed 12 year old.

To simplify the age issue, lets look at it from the biological perspective. Given the traditional division of "young," "middle aged" and "old," we just divide the average (western) life expectancy for men (about 75) and women (about 85) by three. Almost all of you are young. So, enjoy.

Coincidentally I exclaimed to Julie a few days before this poll popped up that my ambition was to: LIVE FOREVER, OR DIE IN THE ATTEMPT. She drily replied, in the way oracles are double edged: "sounds doable." Thank you, Julie, and you are absolutely right; I'll either live forever, or die.

To complicate the matter, consider some people who died young, e.g. Alexander the Great, Schubert, W. Mozart. They all karked it before their middle 30s. Is it better to have lived and lost than never to have lived at all?

I'm writing this to talk myself into not regarding my age as a tragedy, but my daughter who is older than most of you, is undermining the effort by apparently making me a grandfather in June.

Shouldn't "older than dirt" be an option? How about "invented dirt?"

How about older than Pete Best?

Who's Pete Best?

Pete Best was Ringo's predecessor with the Beatles. He appears in pretty much every poll discussion. It's a tribal custom.

Why were you looking at me when you said that?

mmmmmmmmaybe?

How about "On the downhill side of 'from dust to dust'"?

19-25 for 22 more days... then I get old.

hey! 26 is not old!!

well, 26 itself isn't old, but "26-30" is. :)

Hey! Watch who you're calling old buddy ;-)

how sad... :-) I was excited that I didn't have to pick the category that included 30 yet. so, anyone know where the last 8 years went?

Ack...the young'uns are winning! I no longer am in the most common bracket! I'm over the Fruhead hill! *cries*

* cries along with Andrea *

Yay college-agers!

age likes to make things inconvenient for me. Particulairly seeing live music at "age-restricted" venues. feh.
Therefore I chose "other". So I can still live in my own little world in my mind where I can be whatever age I want to be. :)

now that is also a cute icon. :) mmmmmmmmmpolarbears.....

-- Pauley

*Hides in the Older than Dirt* corner with Gordon. Hey Gordon, how ya doin'? Remember Earth Shoes? ;-)

(and Andrea's icon *is* adorable!)

It would seem I fit in that category too, since I'm in the oldest category that currently has any votes at all.

And whoever said that 26-30 is old (lawrence) can bite my ancient butt! ;)

Oops. I'm wrong. I just realized that one level above me has votes. Now I probably have to bite some butts.

start chewin!
LOL

er, mine too, but beware, I am in the 'so old he farts dust' category.

Old is more than 25% older than my current age. So right now old means being over 56. That also means I'll never be old.

I once had a fight with my ex boss. She thought it was ridiculous that I said someone who was 50 was middle aged. I said unless you expect to live well over 100 it's middle aged. She said I'd feel differently when I got there. I said. "I am middle-aged already," I was 42 or so at the time.

Of course I remember earth shoes, they are that new fad right? Spats are where it's at.

I was beginning to feel old.. Until this poll. I didn't think I'd feel old at 21, until that fateful day I saw a friends son walking (an older friend) this kids 15-16, it was rainy and I was nice and stopped to give him a lift home. I was listening to Nirvana's Incesticide, and he says "Who's this?" Which in itself was a huge shock. I told him it was Nirvana, he gave me a funny look and said "I thought you were cooler than that." *long pause* "Annika, no one likes Nirvana anymore." I remember thinking when I was about 12, that I wouldn't be one of 'those' people, that I would always know what was cool, and 'in'. Well I would! except.. umm.. if they'd just learn how to play their instruments and sing.... :-P

I felt the same way, thinking I'd ALWAYS have my finger on what's hip. There really is a generation gap with everything. I always find myself saying, "Geez, kids these days." then feeling like an old fart for saying that. I was only in high school 10 years ago.

heh... i guess i've been old since the day i was born... i've never been in touch with what "kids these days" like... i'm always either way behind or way ahead.

I don't buy much about reincarnation, but it really seems as if some people have old souls. Maybe you have one. (Not me. My roommate my junior year of college decided my soul was permanently eight years old.)

funny thing about that... my mother tells me that when I was a baby in the stroller a very old woman stopped her on the street and looked at me and then said to her "She has a veeery oooooold sooooul."
Creepy.

...but Nirvana's trying to claw its way back... um... sorta...

o/` you know you're right.... o/`

So what if it was recorded 10 years ago, or whenever it was. :-P

-- Pauley

... like you couldn't ask me this YESTERDAY so I could have been in that nice healthly looking 26-30 group.

- Jason

ha ha!
fooled you! old boy!
*runs away*
heh!
~J~

Or maybe not quite alone. One other person in my age bracket, how super is that.

I have been eighteen a week, and still have not won the lottery. Clearly being eighteen is not what I thought it would be.

i accidentally pressed 14-18, when i'm not. i'm 19 now. oops.

though if anyone asks, i'm 15, okay? 15!! :D

For most of the year I was 23, I thought I was 24.

Eventually I decided I'd never be 23. I'd just be 24 for two years.

that's funny. ever since i turned 24, i've been convinced that i'm still 23.

We know why you want to be 15! =)

You just want to be in the next HP movie. ;D

LOL! you people know me too well. it's frightening. :D

and you know *why* i want to be in the next HP movie... ;)

Tell us!!!! :D

As the only person who has signed on in the over 55 bracket, I find it interesting that so much comment has been made on this topic Andrea thought would have no discussion.

I was waiting for your vote, mom. :) Glad to see you out there.

sean biggerstaff?

anyone notice, his name is Wood in the movie, and Biggerstaff in real life? coincidence? I THINK NOT!

but shit, that kid is old enough for me ;) he's nearly 20....

LOL!!! Sheryl! I never thought of that!

He's old enough for me...only a 12 year difference. :D

Yes. The boy's destinied to be a p0rn star... and sheryl, leave him for us single folk, please :D

it's the accent. ::sigh::

*falls over*

*swoooooon*

yeah. but he's cute, too.