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appleguy123
Aug 3, 2009, 08:00 PM
Okay it seems that every time there is a seemingly immature post everyone wants to know the age of the poster or at least the median or average age of everyone on here! So you don't have to post your age just vote in the poll if you would.
Stats!
~83% of macrumors posters(or at least the cross section we took) are under 40!
~40(down from 50)% of macrumors posters are under 21!
<8% of macrumors posters are over 50!
≈60% of users are under 30
More to come!



Melrose
Aug 3, 2009, 08:16 PM
47.

appleguy123
Aug 3, 2009, 08:26 PM
47.

Why don't you vote then?

Fiveos22
Aug 3, 2009, 08:27 PM
Why don't you vote then?

You don't want replies then?

appleguy123
Aug 3, 2009, 08:29 PM
You don't want replies then?

Both would be phenomenal

Melrose
Aug 3, 2009, 08:31 PM
Both would be phenomenal

I shall, then, proceed to make your day.

yoyo5280
Aug 3, 2009, 08:44 PM
Looks like so far I am the only one who is 10-15... I am 15 by the way.

EX1127
Aug 3, 2009, 08:47 PM
19 here

andrew upstairs
Aug 3, 2009, 08:50 PM
Recently turned 35.

EX1127
Aug 3, 2009, 08:52 PM
my grandma (79) tried to light my mac on fire while i slept because it was the devil lol.

my grandmother was convinced that one of my pcs i built was evil... It could of been because it had red lights on the front that look like big red eyes:rolleyes:

shivermetimbers
Aug 3, 2009, 08:57 PM
37 years young...

OutThere
Aug 3, 2009, 09:02 PM
21, no I won't buy you beer I don't even know you!

uberamd
Aug 3, 2009, 09:04 PM
16-21? Why group us 21 year olds with the 16 year olds?

lamadude
Aug 3, 2009, 09:04 PM
I wish I had a spectacular age like 3 or 114 but I am a boring 24 years old :)

steve2112
Aug 3, 2009, 09:04 PM
37 years young...

Same here, as of last Saturday.

appleguy123
Aug 3, 2009, 09:05 PM
21, no I won't buy you beer I don't even know you!

No need, (im 16) but what does it taste like and do you actual like the taste or is it just to get drunk?

16-21? Why group us 21 year olds with the 16 year olds?
It was 16-18 and 19-21 but people complained...

uberamd
Aug 3, 2009, 09:06 PM
No need, (im 16) but what does it taste like and do you actual like the taste or is it just to get drunk?

Beer tastes like crap to me. Gin and tonic is all I need.

synth3tik
Aug 3, 2009, 09:06 PM
Wow, I would have never figured the average would be so young.

lamadude
Aug 3, 2009, 09:09 PM
Wow, I would have never figured the average would be so young.

Only 30 people have voted for the moment, I wouldn't draw any conclusions out of it yet.

techfreak85
Aug 3, 2009, 09:10 PM
u shoulda put a 10-12 age group as a trap to see who registered underage.:p

and im 16

tman07
Aug 3, 2009, 09:12 PM
just turned 21.

and if you are nice to me, maybe i will buy you beer:)

EX1127
Aug 3, 2009, 09:12 PM
I figured around there. I think people now think that macs are "cool" so the young'ens have em.( me included but not for that reason.) I thought i would have to put 15 away from 16 so that group wouldnt have all the votes... but less 15 y/O's than i thought.

I got mine because i was about to shot myself using vista. I am using mine for my engineering degree the coolness is just a byproduct

EX1127
Aug 3, 2009, 09:18 PM
I have seen a few threads with 11 y/o's asking how they can get their parents to buy them iphones... ;:rolleyes:

tell them to wait a couple of years and get a job... parents buying little kids iPhone is ridic.

xboxer75010
Aug 3, 2009, 09:19 PM
25

scotty96LSC
Aug 3, 2009, 09:20 PM
50 and going strong.

EX1127
Aug 3, 2009, 09:21 PM
Same story cept im in highschool and i havnt brought a mac there yet (hopfully coolness sets in :P )

I think its cool... some of my frat brothers try and dog me about it but i just sit there and go my computer is awesome now leave me alone :p.

brad.c
Aug 3, 2009, 09:21 PM
41 EDIT: Yes, and fixed, too!
Beer tastes like crap to me.
How did you calibrate your taste buds for this comparison? Yuck.

cantthinkofone
Aug 3, 2009, 09:25 PM
22 and 7/12ths.

ct2k7
Aug 3, 2009, 09:27 PM
No need, (im 16) but what does it taste like and do you actual like the taste or is it just to get drunk?

hello my fellow age sharer :)

brad.c
Aug 3, 2009, 09:27 PM
Do you like the taste? What do you like about it. just wondering.

There's more than one recipe, so it's a complex answer. Nothing like an amber after work, an Indian pale ale on a hot day, or a stout in the winter. I'm too new world tho', in that I like my Guinness cold.

Simply put: it's taste. I'm too old to drink to drunkenness. Hic.

You sound like my Dad

And now I feel 41. Thanks. :cool:

appleguy123
Aug 3, 2009, 09:34 PM
And now I feel 41. Thanks. :cool:

my dad is 43 and i didn't mean it to offend you i just thought it was funny/

toolbox
Aug 3, 2009, 09:35 PM
22 here.

brad.c
Aug 3, 2009, 09:38 PM
my dad is 43 and i didn't mean it to offend you i just thought it was funny/

No offense, my friend. :) But now I know how my wife feels when a younger person calls her "Lady". Actually, I wish my kids were older, so I could have a beer with them, or at least relate on a higher level than "Don't eat that". 16-43 is a good spread. You'll have a long life together.

appleguy123
Aug 3, 2009, 09:41 PM
No offense, my friend. :) But now I know how my wife feels when a younger person calls her "Lady". Actually, I wish my kids were older, so I could have a beer with them, or at least relate on a higher level than "Don't eat that". 16-43 is a good spread. You'll have a long life together.

how old are your kids if you dont mind me asking (if you do mind thats fine too.)

brad.c
Aug 3, 2009, 09:46 PM
3 and 6. Today's dinner conversation from the 6-year-old: "I want an iPod".
It's the circle of life.

Brien
Aug 3, 2009, 09:48 PM
Wow, this forum skews a bit younger than I would've thought. Guess the iPod crowd far outweighs us mac geeks...

heehee
Aug 3, 2009, 10:00 PM
I turned 31 two days ago.

ucfgrad93
Aug 3, 2009, 10:04 PM
I'm 43.

Mexbearpig
Aug 3, 2009, 10:07 PM
YAY!!!! IM 14 finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

appleguy123
Aug 3, 2009, 10:07 PM
3 and 6. Today's dinner conversation from the 6-year-old: "I want an iPod".
It's the circle of life.

your kids are really young! i love you profile picture by the way.

13 years young. And I'm not sure the exact time I was born, but I will be 14 in 43 minutes:D:D:D

you mean 53 right (as in when you made that post)

Mexbearpig
Aug 3, 2009, 10:41 PM
you mean 53 right (as in when you made that post)

Ooops. Fixing it now thanks

TwinCities Dan
Aug 3, 2009, 10:51 PM
I'm 31 but I'm not fixed yet...

Kelly Craig
Aug 3, 2009, 11:03 PM
20, -sigh-

iamkewl
Aug 3, 2009, 11:04 PM
15 :)

Designer Dale
Aug 3, 2009, 11:05 PM
I will be 62 in November. That makes me 61;)

And don't tell me I'm old.

Dale

The bottom of the full forums list has a birthday field. There are three 67 year olds around here.

Dale

Mexbearpig
Aug 3, 2009, 11:08 PM
20, -sigh-

sigh? Dont give me that. You can order off infomercials:D
You dont know how many times i wanted to get the wacky balloons off tv :D

rhett7660
Aug 3, 2009, 11:10 PM
Beer tastes like crap to me. Gin and tonic is all I need.

Ugh.... you just haven't had the right beer that is all...

and dang I feel old..

TwinCities Dan
Aug 3, 2009, 11:10 PM
sigh? Dont give me that. You can order off infomercials:D
You dont know how many times i wanted to get the wacky balloons off tv :D

I thought you only had to be 18 to order the "whacky"? :eek: :p

Wait...what? :confused:

LizKat
Aug 3, 2009, 11:13 PM
That's good of you. I hate to go in nursing homes because they're so depressing; really, I think if families just helped out more the older generation could be so much better off. Once you take their home away they sink pretty fast, which is sad. Everyone think an antique is worth so much just because it's old, but they neglect the old people under their noses that have experiences and lifetimes to share. Kind of like that last scene from <Chick Flick Alert /> Fried Green Tomatoes..

Yes and I really needed and appreciated the attention and help I got from some elderly great-great aunts who lived with us at my grandparents' home in their old age; one taught me how to sew and the other how to bake bread and play card games like hearts and canasta. So it's a two-way street with multiple generations in a household. Everybody can benefit. Maybe the economic crash will bring some of that back around and make it seem more viable and even desirable again, who knows.

In retrospect, I so admire the patience of my elderly tutors! Back then i just thought it was all fun. I must have driven them nuts because I was always one for skipping ahead instead of honing a skill or even understanding the process fully. Why knead bread for more than a couple minutes :eek: when getting it into the oven seemed the main thing? Why take little stitches when you get round the hem in a hurry with big stitches? My great-great aunts patiently allowed me to see the folly of my shortcuts play out (as long as it was not dangerous) instead of just forcing me to do it their way. I baked a lot of grimy little marble-sized experiments... and ripped out a lot of what might as well have been basting stitches.

Nowadays of course I am trying to practice having more patience in taking up the elder's end of that teaching role, but I'm a lot better at helping the young ones with computer issues than in trying to persuade them that they might ever want to know how to sew or bake. One of my adult nephews likes to cook and bake and one of my young nephews does too. The younger nieces better hope they marry someone like that or they'll starve. ;)

Around here, groups like the scouts and 4H kids go visit people at the nursing homes. Not just at holiday times, but for special projects like making posters or fun ornaments for residents' doors, sharing a meal with them on such occasions, and sometimes it's reversed with the elderly offering to teach the kids how to do something or other, one time maybe scrapbooking, another time repotting some overgrown houseplants.

There are now more assisted living and even nursing homes that have cats or dogs that residents can enjoy if they wish. And kitchen-sharing nights where residents get to share recipe secrets to produce special meals. The more we can make nursing homes be a place of ongoing involvement in life, the better it works for everyone, staff and resident alike.

Kelly Craig
Aug 3, 2009, 11:13 PM
sigh? Dont give me that. You can order off infomercials:D
You dont know how many times i wanted to get the wacky balloons off tv :D
sigh because I can't go to bars and get drunk yet.
I have to do it at home or at friends parties.
-shrug-

Plus there is this place called the Opera house near where I live that has live local bands and drinks on Friday / Sat nights, but it's 21 at the door check -.-

Mexbearpig
Aug 3, 2009, 11:14 PM
I thought you only had to be 18 to order the "whacky"? :eek: :p

oh well. The only thing that matters is who has the most wacky baloons:D

sigh because I can't go to bars and get drunk yet.
I have to do it at home or at friends parties.
-shrug-

Ohhhh. Your'e close though...

appleguy123
Aug 3, 2009, 11:22 PM
s.

Nowadays of course I am trying to practice having more patience in taking up the elder's end of that teaching role
how old are you?

sigh because I can't go to bars and get drunk yet.
I have to do it at home or at friends parties.
-shrug-

tsk tsk. did i tell you i work for the fbi? i would bring out the preacher in me if i thought it would help ( im southern baptist so you are lucky!) but this seems to be the norm these days :(

LizKat
Aug 3, 2009, 11:27 PM
how old are you?

It's a public poll, isn't it? Too lazy to look it up? :D

I am working on becoming 67.

TwinCities Dan
Aug 3, 2009, 11:34 PM
appleguy123: I know you're enjoying your thread, but please multi-quote and/or edit your posts. If you were the last poster, try not to create a new post. ;) :)

Ivan P
Aug 4, 2009, 12:05 AM
On topic, Im 18, so under Australian law Im legal to drink and smoke (only do the former, and only on occasion).

LizKat
Aug 4, 2009, 12:24 AM
What exactly makes this a bad topic? I wanted to do a few more like it (ie are you gay and what is your gender are those bad too?).

Nothing wrong with the topic per se. It's possible because of the falloff in original postings after awhile, and your frequent return posts to reply to comments that the provocateurs (like myself) are making, the moderators might decide the whole thread is an attempt by you, with assistance from us, to jack up your post count.

If they wasteland the thing, then your post count gain is lost, likewise if someone politicizes this thing enough to end up in PRSI forum. Posts there are not counted either since not everyone can post in there so it's not fair to count them.

On the idea of more polls: well not everyone who is gay is out, so that seems doomed right there. And male or female, not everyone might wish to reveal gender in a forum like this where there (presumably, or maybe I should say apparently) there are so many more men than women. Because I started working in IT back in the 60s when there were practically no women, I got used to what it can be like even now, so it never occurred to me to use a moniker that would disguise my gender. What I sometimes wonder is how many guys are here using women's names, but that's definitely a different thread so mods please ignore that remark...

Good luck with the the thread, try not to remark on every last post someone puts up here...

appleguy123
Aug 4, 2009, 12:39 AM
Nothing wrong with the topic per se. It's possible because of the falloff in original postings after awhile, and your frequent return posts to reply to comments that the provocateurs (like myself) are making, the moderators might decide the whole thread is an attempt by you, with assistance from us, to jack up your post count.

If they wasteland the thing, then your post count gain is lost, likewise if someone politicizes this thing enough to end up in PRSI forum. Posts there are not counted either since not everyone can post in there so it's not fair to count them.

On the idea of more polls: well not everyone who is gay is out, so that seems doomed right there. And male or female, not everyone might wish to reveal gender in a forum like this where there (presumably, or maybe I should say apparently) there are so many more men than women. Because I started working in IT back in the 60s when there were practically no women, I got used to what it can be like even now, so it never occurred to me to use a moniker that would disguise my gender. What I sometimes wonder is how many guys are here using women's names, but that's definitely a different thread so mods please ignore that remark...

Good luck with the the thread, try not to remark on every last post someone puts up here...
I feel yours needs a response.
1. my posting to everything people say is just who i am but i really like this thread so far so ill stop for a while
2. polls: im not gay but if i were i would at least be enough out with it to tell people on an anonymous poll
3:same with gender

Malfoy
Aug 4, 2009, 01:02 AM
I just don't like when the kiddies feel the need to state their age with everything.


"I got a new macbook pro... and i'm 16".

Why should I care about your age?


i also voted :)

Maserati7200
Aug 4, 2009, 01:40 AM
I just turned 16 a month ago

doubleohseven
Aug 4, 2009, 02:38 AM
I'm 15, turning 16 this September though. :D

iBlue
Aug 4, 2009, 02:58 AM
A slightly disturbing poll result, but it explains a lot about how this forum is lately. GAH, the punkasskids take over! :p




BTW, appleguy123 (and others/anyone who doesn't know) there is a feature here called "multi-quote" where, as the name implies, you can quote multiple posts without making multiple and consecutive posts.

For each post you want to quote/reply to, click this: http://images.macrumors.com/vb/images/buttons/multiquote_off.gif and it turns to this: http://images.macrumors.com/vb/images/buttons/multiquote_on.gif When you are done selecting all those, click Post Reply (bottom left) and those post quotes will all be in your reply box in one tidy post. ;)

Rt&Dzine
Aug 4, 2009, 03:11 PM
It's a public poll, isn't it? Too lazy to look it up? :D


It's a private poll. At least I think so. Unless it's a private public poll.

skunk
Aug 4, 2009, 03:26 PM
Old enough to know better, but I don't.

leekohler
Aug 4, 2009, 03:27 PM
42 and loving it.

Unspoken Demise
Aug 4, 2009, 03:34 PM
19.

Dmac77
Aug 4, 2009, 05:33 PM
I'm 15.

Don

Gray-Wolf
Aug 4, 2009, 05:47 PM
I'm 49 coming around to 50 :(

Melrose
Aug 4, 2009, 05:56 PM
BTW, appleguy123 (and others/anyone who doesn't know) there is a feature here called "multi-quote" where, as the name implies, you can quote multiple posts without making multiple and consecutive posts.

For each post you want to quote/reply to, click this: http://images.macrumors.com/vb/images/buttons/multiquote_off.gif and it turns to this: http://images.macrumors.com/vb/images/buttons/multiquote_on.gif When you are done selecting all those, click Post Reply (bottom left) and those post quotes will all be in your reply box in one tidy post. ;)

I never knew that. See? That's why you're a Demi God.

TwinCities Dan
Aug 4, 2009, 06:00 PM
I never knew that. See? That's why you're a Demi God.

Ah hem, Demi-Goddess. ;)

Melrose: Almost 3,500 posts and you never wondered what that button was? :p

Melrose
Aug 4, 2009, 06:07 PM
Ah hem, Demi-Goddess. ;)

Melrose: Almost 3,500 posts and you never wondered what that button was? :p

Line 1: The Blue Lebowski can take it, I think... but, yes. I stand corrected.

Line 2: I never noticed it before, or saw it once and it was too confusing to master. I forget..

TwinCities Dan
Aug 4, 2009, 06:10 PM
Line 1: The Blue Lebowski can take it, I think... but, yes. I stand corrected.

Line 2: I never noticed it before, or saw it once and it was too confusing to master. I forget..

Fair enough, I was only teasing... :)

Melrose
Aug 4, 2009, 06:14 PM
Fair enough, I was only teasing... :)

yeh, I know. :)

blackfox
Aug 4, 2009, 06:27 PM
A nicely-aged 34.

instaxgirl
Aug 4, 2009, 06:41 PM
16-21? Why group us 21 year olds with the 16 year olds?

Yeah, I'm not loving that - I'm 20

No need, (im 16) but what does it taste like and do you actual like the taste or is it just to get drunk?


It was 16-18 and 19-21 but people complained...

Just can't win can you? I prefer your previous set up. And beer tastes like crap. And drinking just to get drunk is silly, when you can drink something great and enjoy it as well.

Prof.
Aug 4, 2009, 06:59 PM
I'm 20. A rather pointless age. Just like 17 and 19.:rolleyes:

Little Endian
Jan 27, 2010, 07:32 AM
As Apple has gotten more mainstream over the last decade the crowd here has gotten much younger... I first discovered Macrumors back in 2001 and I was 19 at the time. I don't know if it's just me but the community has seemed to be leaning more heavily toward the teen segment over the past 5 years or so. Maybe it's because I am so much older now at 28 years old but I swear back when I first discovered this site it seemed like the majority or say 75% of the community was 20 or older.

Mr. McMac
Jan 27, 2010, 07:36 AM
57 here

robj
Jan 27, 2010, 07:38 AM
I'm 28, but hey, we have two +76 posters,
What the world would be when we'll be +76 ? :D

Thanks god ( and north american law ) Bush is already gone, so we have a little possibility to have a future :D :D

OllyW
Jan 27, 2010, 07:38 AM
Just gone 46.

Mousse
Jan 27, 2010, 10:45 AM
How-dare-you-ask!;) You'll know what age that is once you've reached that age.:D I see some are well beyond that age.:cool:

appleguy123
Jan 27, 2010, 06:03 PM
How-dare-you-ask!;) You'll know what age that is once you've reached that age.:D I see some are well beyond that age.:cool:

40?

skunk
Jan 27, 2010, 06:07 PM
There are younger hills.

macbook yes
Jan 28, 2010, 12:22 AM
18. college sophomore.

Sandman824
Jan 28, 2010, 09:37 AM
I'm 48 and have been a mac user since before 40% of these voters were even born! Long live the mac

Hayduke60
Jan 28, 2010, 09:49 AM
I'm only 49 and a half years old.

timerollson
Jan 28, 2010, 10:20 AM
23. I turn 24 in October.

spacemanps
Jan 29, 2010, 09:48 AM
24 going on 25...

Vaxuun
Feb 9, 2010, 08:15 AM
I just don't like when the kiddies feel the need to state their age with everything.


"I got a new macbook pro... and i'm 16".

Why should I care about your age?

I got a Mac Mini, iPod Nano and iPhone... and I'm 15

appleguy123
Feb 10, 2010, 12:59 AM
I got a Mac Mini, iPod Nano and iPhone... and I'm 15

Is this an attempt at a joke or poking fun at the quoted poster?

RawBert
Feb 10, 2010, 01:52 AM
31 but immature and childish. >:^p

gibbz
Feb 10, 2010, 01:54 AM
25, but not for long.

I turn 26 next month.

Peace
Feb 10, 2010, 02:32 AM
56 going on 93.

greygray
Feb 10, 2010, 02:53 AM
29, although I have the strog urging to put 76+ .

Kristenn
Feb 10, 2010, 04:21 AM
I'm 13 years old. Getting closer and closer to 14.

I keep telling myself I'm still young.

greygray
Feb 10, 2010, 04:50 AM
I'm 13 years old. Getting closer and closer to 14.

I keep telling myself I'm still young.

Compare that to 29 and you consider yourself old. Hmm. ;)

Kristenn
Feb 10, 2010, 04:56 AM
Compare that to 29 and you consider yourself old. Hmm. ;)

Yeah I do have a long way to go. =D

niuniu
Feb 10, 2010, 05:15 AM
29 going on 12

c-Row
Feb 10, 2010, 08:31 AM
29, but that nasty 3 is getting closer every day. :eek:

Cynicalone
Feb 10, 2010, 10:47 AM
34

spencers
Feb 10, 2010, 11:07 AM
The poll should have been broken down differently for younger users.
At least go by what ages they are while in school.. Middle, High, College ages. Then the rest by decade or so.

Rt&Dzine
Feb 10, 2010, 12:57 PM
29, but that nasty 3 is getting closer every day. :eek:

The 30s are the best!

TSE
Feb 10, 2010, 06:32 PM
16, turning 17 in July. :cool:

Jaro65
Feb 12, 2010, 06:12 PM
44

appleguy123
Jul 15, 2010, 02:12 AM
I know that I shouldn't be bumping an old thread, but I'm curious as to how it's changed after the iPhone launch and fiasco.

skunk
Jul 15, 2010, 02:19 AM
I know that I shouldn't be bumping an old thread, but I'm curious as to how it's changed after the iPhone launch and fiasco.I'm now a bit older than I was.

iBlue
Jul 15, 2010, 02:30 AM
I'm now a bit older than I was.

Me too! In fact, this is the oldest I've ever been.

appleguy123
Jul 15, 2010, 02:31 AM
I'm now a bit older than I was.

Me too! I mean mainly new people(though of course you knew that).
Me too! In fact, this is the oldest I've ever been.

Haha.

King Mook Mook
Jul 15, 2010, 02:38 AM
15! Oh yeah!

And I was thinking, you could probably ask Doctor Q, or arn (if you're lucky! :p) to go onto the database and somehow compile a database of the ages of members, and then he could tell us the median, average etc. It's something that's right up Q's alley, he loves doing this sort of statistic stuff (and many of us, admittedly)! I'm sure if it could be done, Q would know about it.

appleguy123
Jul 15, 2010, 02:41 AM
15! Oh yeah!

And I was thinking, you could probably ask Doctor Q, or arn (if you're lucky! :p) to go onto the database and somehow compile a database of the ages of members, and then he could tell us the median, average etc. It's something that's right up Q's alley, he loves doing this sort of statistic stuff (and many of us, admittedly)! I'm sure if it could be done, Q would know about it.

That's kind of an invasion of privacy. I think that a poll is good enough for now. I'll ask Dr. Q for you later today. A poll is probably the best solution for now.

mickbab
Jul 15, 2010, 02:43 AM
I'm 17 as of nine days ago.
That apparently makes me very unique around these parts. :rolleyes:

King Mook Mook
Jul 15, 2010, 02:47 AM
That's kind of an invasion of privacy. I think that a poll is good enough for now. I'll ask Dr. Q for you later today. A poll is probably the best solution for now.

I was thinking along those lines too, but I think he should only compile the data in a) A way that it could not be identifiable individually, and b) That only data would be compiled by those who had chosen to either show their date of birth or age in their profile (so not the ones who chose to have it hidden). I think this way it would not really be an invasion of privacy as they had chosen to show this info on their profiles already and it would be in no way back trackable to them in particular. And to be honest, I think Q would only do it along those lines if he were to do it at all!

SlovakApple
Jul 15, 2010, 04:55 AM
Me too! In fact, this is the oldest I've ever been.

I lol'ed. :D I am 25 (for the record).

dukebound85
Jul 15, 2010, 04:59 AM
25 here

macquariumguy
Jul 15, 2010, 05:02 AM
See that dirt over there? I'm older than that.

dmr727
Jul 15, 2010, 09:48 AM
Get off my lawn, you damned kids! And get a haircut!

Hellhammer
Jul 15, 2010, 09:54 AM
22 here so I'm quite average

costabunny
Jul 15, 2010, 09:56 AM
damnit - in a less than 10% group so once again I cannot escape being in a minority group - Story of my life ;)

:) guess I am special!

sammich
Jul 15, 2010, 09:56 AM
22.942

chrmjenkins
Jul 15, 2010, 02:11 PM
Quarter of a century.

63dot
Jul 15, 2010, 09:25 PM
I hate to talk about age other than I have been legally working longer than the majority have been alive. Anyway, at birth my life expectancy (male, USA) was 66.7 years old, so somebody here has made it.

When I first realized the life expectancy was 67-ish up from 40-something at the turn of the previous century, 1900, I thought not only was 67 a huge jump from dying in ones 40s, but also that 67 itself was this huge, unattainable number.

Now that the time of my last quarter of my life is nearly here (statistically taking into account obesity, cancer, diabetes, just driving a car, oh and heart disease), I realize that it has sped by so freaking fast. Some of the people I graduated with in high school who were the most fit (fitness instructor, major league baseball player) have died succumbing to cancer, and a few have had heart attacks. A friend of mine a few years ahead of me in high school in his 50s died last month of diabetes type II. Most people my age in town don't have two living parents (world war II and Korean war generation) and some don't have any parents as they have died of plain old age.

So from that perspective, having lived as long as I have, and just having been lucky, yes, I would say I am old but I don't "think" old if that is any consolation. Sometimes I meet a person from before my baby boomer generation and they still consider us all kids even though the first boomers are 64 now. Will you still love me when I'm 64?* ;)

* - 20-something British songwriter Paul McCartney of the Beatles, when he wrote "When I'm 64" probably never thought he would still be singing this song at age 68!

steve2112
Jul 15, 2010, 10:38 PM
* - 20-something British songwriter Paul McCartney of the Beatles, when he wrote "When I'm 64" probably never thought he would still be singing this song at age 68!

Kinda like the Who: "Hope I die before I get old". I wonder if Roger and Pete have different definitions of old now. I notice that when I saw Roger Daltrey in concert a couple of months ago, he didn't sing that song. :)

63dot
Jul 15, 2010, 11:10 PM
Kinda like the Who: "Hope I die before I get old". I wonder if Roger and Pete have different definitions of old now. I notice that when I saw Roger Daltrey in concert a couple of months ago, he didn't sing that song. :)

Old for us baby boomers OLD was considered 30 and way past the 1960s it was considered for some a depressing milestone. ;)

Iamnezzy
Jul 16, 2010, 01:52 PM
I'm 30, next stop free bus pass! ;)

afireintonto
Jul 16, 2010, 02:48 PM
Just turned 20 on the 13th:D
My parents paid off the rest of my iPad debt:)
It was only 2$00, but a very good BDay present I think!

steve2112
Jul 16, 2010, 03:26 PM
Old for us baby boomers OLD was considered 30 and way past the 1960s it was considered for some a depressing milestone. ;)

Never trust anyone over 30.

Oh wait, I'm pushing 40. Guess I can't trust myself.

I've always wondered just how many of those 60s hippies grew up to become the suit wearing CEOs of today. I know a bunch of them became the yuppies of the 80s. I love the irony of that.

appleguy123
Jul 16, 2010, 11:46 PM
I'm 30, next stop free bus pass! ;)

When does that happen?

doug in albq
Jul 17, 2010, 03:46 AM
Whoa, everybody at macrumors actually is only 16, and I thought everybody just ACTED like a 16 year old...:eek:

Iamnezzy
Jul 17, 2010, 04:17 AM
When does that happen?

At the moment when you hit 60, that could be changing to 65 soon though, next stop free bus pass was said with tongue firmly in cheek :)

appleguy123
Jul 18, 2010, 01:46 AM
Whoa, everybody at macrumors actually is only 16, and I thought everybody just ACTED like a 16 year old...:eek:

Mean, funny, and true. I am a 16 year old, but I don't think that I act like the quintessential teen here. :)

fun173
Jul 18, 2010, 01:49 AM
I'm 15.

Heilage
Jul 18, 2010, 02:08 AM
Mean, funny, and true. I am a 16 year old, but I don't think that I act like the quintessential teen here. :)

Yes you do. :)



22 here.

doug in albq
Jul 18, 2010, 02:41 AM
Mean, funny, and true. I am a 16 year old, but I don't think that I act like the quintessential teen here. :)

I will give you 10 extra years for using the word "quintessential"...there now you are (um, ok, what is 16 + 10)...26 in "brain years.";):)

BTW, I am 40 but act like the quintessential 27 year old.:D

ValSalva
Jul 18, 2010, 01:55 PM
I'm a day older than I was yesterday.

lewis82
Jul 18, 2010, 03:50 PM
I'm a day older than I was yesterday.

You too? :eek:

tooz
Jul 19, 2010, 07:21 AM
17 in September

Fabienne
Jul 20, 2010, 09:11 PM
Very old. Rode a tank, held a general's rank when the blitzkreig raged and the bodies stank. Still waiting for the white iPhone, though.

appleguy123
Jul 26, 2010, 05:26 PM
You too? :eek:

Is it contagious?

Reventon
Jul 26, 2010, 05:30 PM
I'm 29.

iBookG4user
Jul 26, 2010, 05:40 PM
I am 20, just one more year until the most important milestone :p

liamkp
Jul 26, 2010, 07:02 PM
Whoa, everybody at macrumors actually is only 16, and I thought everybody just ACTED like a 16 year old...:eek:
Hmmmm...
I will give you 10 extra years for using the word "quintessential"...there now you are (um, ok, what is 16 + 10)...26 in "brain years.";):)

BTW, I am 40 but act like the quintessential 27 year old.:D
How much in brain years am i? I think about 25. Im 13.

I know that word too, do i get an extra 10 years? ;)
You too? :eek:
Wait, whats happening here?! :eek:
Is it contagious?
I think so.... :eek:
I am 20, just one more year until the most important milestone :p
You know it! :)

appleguy123
Jul 26, 2010, 08:11 PM
Hmmmm...

How much in brain years am i? I think about 25. Im 13.

I know that word too, do i get an extra 10 years? ;)

Wait, whats happening here?! :eek:

I think so.... :eek:

You know it! :)
No, your mind years get decreased for asking. You are the weakest link, goodbye!

xlii
Jul 26, 2010, 08:15 PM
57 but I feel and look much younger... how should I vote?

appleguy123
Jul 26, 2010, 09:47 PM
57 but I feel and look much younger... how should I vote?

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