It's been done before, time for an update - HOW OLD ARE DUers?

[ConcernedCanuk]

Poll question: It's been done before, time for an update - HOW OLD ARE DUers?

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Some comments lately made me curious as to the demographics of this board.

It appears we have participants from the very young to the very old.

I wonder what the percentages are

The results of this poll will not be considered a scientific certainty

[hedgehog]

1. Can someone explain 67 views but only 27 votes?

[Jackpine Radical]

7. The older ones forget to click.

[cliffordu]

20. Well...

:rofl:

[ConcernedCanuk]

26. LOL - cute

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:rofl:

[goclark]

39. No we didn't

[ThomWV]

59. and the younger ones think someone else is supposed to Click for them.

[Toucano]

75. ROFL!

Touché!

[Mira]

67. Laughing out loud and

:rofl:

[madmom]

76. Maybe we viewed and decided it wasn't worth the trouble.

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. Every time someone checks the thread just to see the results, a "view" is scored

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I myself have checked the thread 5 times to watch the progress of the responses.

It is that simple.

So the thread has been checked by me and others 40 times - some maybe even just to see their own position on the poll.

[hedgehog]

10. And i just checked back to see what the reply to my enquiry was!

D'oh!

[ConcernedCanuk]

12. LOL - der ya go!

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remember "damm that hurts, don't it?"

[TexasObserver]

13. Perhaps each vote represents at least two views by that poster.

I don't know if that is true on this board, but it's true on some boards.

[MADem]

42. You can only vote once. nt

[Skink]

2. Old enough to watch Fox news.

You guys suck.

[Jackpine Radical]

79. NOBODY's old enough to watch Fox.

Hell, I don't even let myself see MSNBC.

[tabbycat31]

3. I turn 29 tomorrow

and let me stay that age forever please. I don't want to hit 30.

[hedgehog]

14. Let me know how you feel about the alternative about a year from now!

[willing dwarf]

15. 30 was nice enough really

It was 35 which I found rough. But really, every year is a good year. I like the even number years. This year I'm 48 which are my two favorite numbers together. I'm looking forward to 84 as my next favorite year.

You gotta love what age you are!

[Maine-ah]

64. I turn 35 tomorrow (4-1)

big difference from turning 30, which I didn't mind so much. x(

[willing dwarf]

69. Well in case I forget, have a really happy birthday!

You're so much younger than you think you are. In 15 years you'll look back and day "35, I was such a young babe! Why didn't I realize??" All in all, I'd say, life doesn't get easier, but it does get more interesting. I think forgiveness, letting bygones be bygones, is the key to staying young!

[Qanisqineq]

97. I'm 35

I didn't mind turning 30 either but 35 has been horrible. I keep thinking about how I am already 35 and no where in my life.

[dweller]

21. again?

nine lives don't count tabbycat31...

:evilgrin:

dp

[tabbycat31]

33. my cat's had nine lives

he's still going strong at almost 16. Me on the other hand, not so much. If I had the luck my cat did.

[Jennicut]

23. My thirties have been easier then my twenties actually.

Being married, owning a house and having kids and knowing where I am going in life. 33 is easier then 23 as at that age I had just met my boyfriend (now husband), we just graduated from college, and we had no jobs and were living at home with our parents!

[tavalon]

53. Yes you do

That milestone can be a bit rocky but it actually gets better than the twenties in the forties.

[orleans]

89. yeah, i didn't either. happy birthday forever 29! n/t

[drmeow]

4. 1/2 way to 90

and I still got carded twice on my birthday weekend this month :beer::bounce:

[Joe the Liberal]

5. Wow who put over 90? n/t

[adamuu]

63. someone over 90 maybe. n/t

[Aristus]

6. 40.

In age only. I still feel a gawky, awkward 17 most of the time...

[oldtime dfl_er]

9. If it was 'how old do you feel'

I'd have put a totally different answer! :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. I'm a very happy 65 year old!

[Vadem]

16. 66 for me! Still healthy, Thank Goddess!....

[RebelOne]

56. 70 and still going strong. n/t

[scarletwoman]

17. Okay, the 50 and older are the majority so far!

Now get off my lawn!

[EFerrari]

18. 50 is the new 30.

lol

[hedgehog]

24. No kidding! I'm 55 today and I just realized that in pictures of my grandfather

holding me as a baby, he's an oldman. People used to wear out a lot sooner.

[scarletwoman]

27. So, I guess that makes me 40 -- but I still feel like 18.

:hippie:

[EFerrari]

28. My youngest still remembers that when I turned 30 I was happy

because now I could tell everyone to f#ck off. More horrible warning than good example. :hippie:

[Djinn]

58. my old man is over 70

and still says he feels 19 in his head, apparently none of us ever really get older than our late teens head wise, which is my excuse for still being a tad crazy - was totally tonto at that age

[nonconformist]

19. I'll be 36 in a couple of months.

[Jennicut]

22. 33. Happy where I am in life. I do not want to do any of it over, please don't make me.

[Arctic Dave]

25. Turned 39 last month. Next year I get to move up another box.

Will that be the equivalence of the Big People Table?

[EFerrari]

29. Those are some great years, Artic Dave.

:)

[Arctic Dave]

35. I've loved everyone of them. :)

[EFerrari]

46. No -- I mean the ones coming up. No kidding!

:)

[Arctic Dave]

47. Your telling me it gets better.

[EFerrari]

48. I don't know. My 40s were really difficult.

My partner turned out to have major mental illness, I had to change everything, money was crazy. Maybe I'm the wrong person to say anything.

But, yeah. It gets better. Like the difference between doing something and doing something easily. It's the difference between taping everything before you paint and not needing to tape anything because your hand knows what it's doing. Yeah, good years.

[Arctic Dave]

50. Like the difference between doing something and doing something easily.

I do believe that is a song. :D

[lightningandsnow]

30. 17.

I'm a youngin, me.

[ConcernedCanuk]

38. Young maybe - but tough enuf if'n ya lasted here for 1-1/2 years

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And a hello! :hi: from a previous Torontonian who still has family in the big smoke(TO)

I've lived in Islington, North York and High Park - LONG time ago though

Welcome "young'n"

[dweller]

31. i'm almost 8 .

in dog years.

will be double digit 5 in a bit over a week and i feel fine at the moment?

give me a minute, it will pass.
dp

[sakabatou]

32. I'm hitting 22 on the 1st

[ConcernedCanuk]

104. Oh my, - and you joined when you where 17 - did we twist your mind?

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or did you twist ours?

:silly:

OH - by the way

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

:party: . :beer: . :bounce: . :hi: .

[G_j]

34. Purple Haze

:hippie:

[Odin2005]

36. 22, turning 23 in a month

And the average DUer is older then I thought! No wonder it seems like I'm wading into Boomer ideological-puritanistic train-wrecks all the time. It's the Boomer generational MO.

:wow:

[Djinn]

60. or perhaps you're seeing the

wisdom that comes with age, and what happens when you've been let down by generations of politicians?

Seriously unless you're happy with everyone totally discounting your view because you likely still live with (or at least off) your parents and haven't tried to buy a house, pay off student loans and get ahead in an economic system that is geared against you, and assuming you know SFA, maybe you might want to rethink your tawdry (not to mention way off base) assumption :eyes:

[orleans]

92. oh, stop. you want to scare him away? i'd rather have him be another incentive for

my daughter to post on here more often! ("look honey--kids your age!")

[orleans]

91. well, i tried getting my 21 yr old daughter to post more

but she doesn't. (at least she finally signed up)

she's more into "the"* facebook. (:puke: )

*people who either don't "do" facebook or don't particularly like it (such as myself and my friend) end up referring to it as "the" facebook. (guess it's kind of like an "in" joke)

[Iggo]

37. 47, but zudacomics says I'm 48.

And we're trusting them to count the votes? LOL.

[Arctic Dave]

40. Wait, I just checked the Wii oracle and it told me I'm only 36.

:D

[orleans]

93. link?

:P

[MADem]

41. Yay, geezers!! Guess the whippersnappers are all out partying.... nt

[Richard Steele]

43. Either that, or they're out putting the finishing touches on "Operation Soylent Green".

No tellin', with these kids today.

[EFerrari]

44. It makes you want to eat garlic just to piss them off.

:rofl:

[MADem]

45. We old bastids had better go the vegan route!

None of that "It's PEEEEEE-PLE" shit for me!

[Richard Steele]

54. Y'know, having just turned 40, I'm kinda halfway between the geezers and the whippersnappers.

And I think I should tell you: in the end, my loyalties
are gonna go to the highest bidder.

[MADem]

85. You can whippersnap for a few years yet, so long as you don't try hanging around the

discos/clubs or the college dances....then, you'll look like that "creepy old guy" who was always hanging out in the corner in a Nehru jacket or a leisure suit, buying the pretty ladies drinks and making un-subtle innuendo! If you've got the kiss of youth on your face, you've probably got about five more years left to play in both worlds....and then, as gravity takes its course, the boom is lowered!

[texanwitch]

49. Damn.

I am 55.

Looks like my age group stays up late.

[Wednesdays]

51. Looks like the "Boomers" have the biggest slice of the pie

The peace 'n' love generation. Cool. :hippie:

[Liberal_in_LA]

52. other?

[eppur_se_muova]

90. Someone who's done a lot of traveling at relativistic velocities?

:shrug: I think if you check that option, an explanation is obligatory.

[Art_from_Ark]

55. Let's put it this way

I'm probably the youngest one here who remembers The Beatles Saturday morning cartoon when it first came out

[Djinn]

57. chronologically between 30 - 40

was recently reminded why giving out too much personal info on discussion boards is a bad idea when your real name and details are all over the net so I'm gonna leave it at that bracket...kind of surprised to see "we" aren't the biggest bracket but then I guess all my peers are busy wrangling kiddies so the high proportion of people who's kids have likely left home is not so surprising.

[TroglodyteScholar]

61. Look at all the boomers! n/t

[adamuu]

62. do you realize that your categories overlap. n/t

[ConcernedCanuk]

86. NOW I do - didn't when I made the poll. - Oh well, gives the responders on the "cusp" an opportunity

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to push "up" or "down" one category

a one year "grace" period if you like

no harm, no foul

good catch!

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[guitar man]

65. geez

what a bunch of old fuckers we have here. :P

[tekisui]

66. 28.

[dgibby]

68. I'm sooo conflicted.

I don't know whether to vote for the age group in my head or the one in my mirror!:rofl:

[RedCappedBandit]

70. dat dere 21

[bigwillq]

71. 31 (nt)

[W_HAMILTON]

72. God bless you!

For making it "20-30" instead of that darned "25-29." It makes me feel so old! :)

[FredStembottom]

73. Wow! Other people who might even remember.......

These guys!

[old mark]

74. Nearing 62, still full of it.

Whatever "it" may be....


mark

[Contrary1]

77. Looks like the damn hippies are dominating.

:hippie:

[ConcernedCanuk]

106. yup

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:smoke:

[yy4me]

78. 66 and just dumb enough to get on a ladder and scrape paint

from the siding of my house. This winter took a toll on the clapboards and I can do much of the re-staining myself. I'll commandeer someone to help with the higher spots. Don't have the $$$ to hire a crew to do the job.

I do note that we are the second biggest group on DU, at least for now.

[Faux pas]

80. The end of April, I'll be 30 for the second time. Translation....

heading into 60.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

81. Just made official Geezerhood (65) on March 2nd.

And, I've discovered that Bette Davis was right. "Old age isn't for sissies."

[Karenina]

82. Herzlichen Hugs zum the NUMBER, altes Haus!!

:loveya:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

83. Viel Dank mein reizender Freund.

:loveya:

I also love your name. "Anna Karenina" being one of my favorite books.

[plcdude]

84. 61

for me where has the time gone?

[lies and propaganda]

87. I will be 28 in five weeks

and plan on partying it up in SF!

[orleans]

88. i appear to fall into two catagories here

i think i'll mark myself in for the younger one!

[ConcernedCanuk]

94. THREE people over 90 - that's almost 1% of respondents

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BTW - I furgot - ME?

I'm 58 - yup - one of them boomers.

I wonder if we got anyone over 100?

AND OH YEAH! Who/what is "other"? or a reasonable guesstimate . . .

hmmm - :freak:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

95. In the 50 club as of last September.

Back in '74, we had none of these danged intermailthings.

And we liked it!

[cboy4]

96. And I know which forum the under 20 to 30 group resides.

[Fuzz]

98. 42 a week from Saturday

[derby378]

99. DU needs more young whippersnappers

If we can't nurture the seedcorn, we can't guarantee that we'll keep our focus in the long run.

[ConcernedCanuk]

100. Good point, - maybe all us oldsters should encourage our younger relatives to take a peek

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It was actually one of my younger brothers that suggested many years ago to take a peek in here;

and here I am.

But you are right - we need more younguns in here.

THEY will be our future, it's always been that way.

[mokawanis]

101. I'll be 51 in July

and to the young folks I say; it doesn't get any easier. :evilgrin:

[ConcernedCanuk]

102. YEAH boomers - we's the biggest group(age-wise) on DU ( at least the ones responding to this thread)

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Interesting stats from WIKI

The Baby Boom Generation is stereotypically associated with cultural touchstones like the Howdy Doody children’s TV show, Woodstock, and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement. In general, baby boomers are associated with a rejection or redefinition of traditional values

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The baby boom has been described variously as a "shockwave"<12> and as "the pig in the python."<13> By the sheer force of its numbers, the boomers were a demographic bulge which remodeled society as it passed through it.

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It is jokingly said that, whatever year they were born, boomers were coming of age at the same time across the world; so that Britain was undergoing Beatlemania while people in the United States were driving over to Woodstock, organizing against the Vietnam War, or fighting and dying in the same war; boomers in Italy were dressing in mod clothes and "buying the world a Coke"; boomers in India were seeking new philosophical discoveries; American boomers in Canada had just found a new home and escaped the draft; Canadian Boomers were organizing support for Pierre Trudeau. It is precisely because of these experiences that many believe those born in the second half of the birth boom belong to another generation, as events that defined their coming of age have little in common with leading or core boomers.

More at LINK

[Vidar]

103. 53.

[WI_DEM]

105. Old DUer just fine, thank you.