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poll: How Old Are You?
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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.
15! Oh yeah!
And I was thinking, you could probably ask Doctor Q, or arn (if you're lucky!
) 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.
And I was thinking, you could probably ask Doctor Q, or arn (if you're lucky!
) 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.
15! Oh yeah!
And I was thinking, you could probably ask Doctor Q, or arn (if you're lucky!
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!
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!
guess I am special!
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!
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!
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.
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.
Just turned 20 on the 13th
My parents paid off the rest of my iPad debt
It was only 2$00, but a very good BDay present I think!
My parents paid off the rest of my iPad debt
It was only 2$00, but a very good BDay present I think!
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.