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Submitted by Fructuous Frederick on Thu, 08/02/2007 - 10:04pm.
I've been trying to figure out the approximate age of several OlyBloggers based on the content of their posts. To be honest, I'm having a hell of a time with some of you. One day, you sound like you're twenty. The next, you sound like you're old enough to be one of my grandparents. I'm in my mid-20s, so I had the joy of spending some of the '90s as a teenager. (Generation X. Hooray.) I guess I'm just curious as to what the median age is, here. I think it would help me (and others) to understand where some of you are coming from with your viewpoints.
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the poll
Submitted by enpen on Thu, 08/02/2007 - 10:42pm.Nice poll, enpen, but-- who
Submitted by stevenl on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 5:00am.Actual Birthday
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Thu, 08/02/2007 - 11:08pm.In the Course of Events
Not crazy
Submitted by Sarah on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 5:28am.You are wise to keep your actual birthdate to yourself.
I was born...
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 5:33am.On February 30th
"There is only one race, the human race" - The Neville Brothers
me too!
Submitted by oysterpreserve on Sat, 08/04/2007 - 7:29pm.If you were a teen in the
Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 6:49am.We are the precious chosen few, let all the rest be damned. There's only room for one or two, we can't have Heaven crammed!
Age differences
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 8:02am.Mark Twain: When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.
"There is only one race, the human race" - The Neville Brothers
Hmmm...
Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 8:51am.Perhaps you can ask about our ethnicity using a poll like this:
I mean, really now.
Shit, some people are so
Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 9:15am.We are the precious chosen few, let all the rest be damned. There's only room for one or two, we can't have Heaven crammed!
Hold on...
Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 9:25am.My dear mother is 75. It would hurt her feelings to see a poll like this. Some people are not particularly sensitive to these matters, so I pointed it out. But perhaps you are correct: We are the precious chosen few, let all the rest be damned.
Did you ever stop to think
Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 9:30am.My ex-wife's Grandma was mortally offended by the song "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer". Oversensitivity.
My parents are on the top end of that poll too. I'm sure they won't need to go to therapy should they see it.
We are the precious chosen few, let all the rest be damned. There's only room for one or two, we can't have Heaven crammed!
I see
Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 9:48am.Uh, what exactly would
Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 9:53am.We are the precious chosen few, let all the rest be damned. There's only room for one or two, we can't have Heaven crammed!
I guess we're all "those" people then
Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 10:23am.Did you read Janet's
Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 10:27am.Did you read Janet's comment?
Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 10:38am.Point Taken. Similar to my
Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 10:56am."fractious specimen?"
Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 3:18pm.Ah, you read my other blog!
Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 3:39pm.I'll create a special flickr set
Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 3:54pm.Seriously, you've got some
Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 3:56pm.Plus any friend of Josh Carbomb can't be all that bad.
Yeah
Submitted by Guglielmo on Sat, 08/04/2007 - 4:36pm.Here's one thing that's in my head
Submitted by jlw on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 4:10pm.But I do like the
Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 8:53am.Excuse me!
Submitted by jlw on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 9:39am.mmm...sorry...?
Submitted by enpen on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 1:06pm.Yeah, I can be a bit of a disappointment. I was aiming more for the idea that at a particular age people stop really caring about age except to say, "kids these days." For example, I can't imagine a question about OlyBloggers ages coming from anyone over 30. I only included the poll because I thought the chance of people answering increased with greater anonymity.
Never!
Submitted by jlw on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 4:20pm.Yeah...
Submitted by Guglielmo on Sat, 08/04/2007 - 4:48pm.Why should it matter to you?
Submitted by Norm on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 1:13pm.why should what matter to me?
Submitted by enpen on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 1:58pm.Whether or not people would answer the question? I just wanted to help facilitate a more active discussion (you never know what you're going to get).
What people's ages are? It doesn't.
Whether or not somebody is older than 50? Here's where I made the mistake in language. The way I wrote it, it looks like "who the hell cares" how old the person responding is. Not at all what I was shooting for right before crashing for the night. I really did want to capture the notion that at some point in people's lives we typically stop getting hung up on it, and it usually coincides with people feeling removed from the youth cultures. To me this typically happens in the 50's, so that's where I put it. Unfortunately I was careless in my language and now it just makes me look like an ageist. Stupid words...
You're not ageist
Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 2:03pm.errr
Submitted by Norm on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 2:03pm.I was actually trying to give Janet a compliment there.
why the hell should she care? She is only what, 27? or 28?
ie Janet is a young looking woman........
I'm waiting, Norm
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Sat, 08/04/2007 - 6:31am.Don't I look 27 or 28? Is this a sexist thing?
"There is only one race, the human race" - The Neville Brothers
I haven't run into you yet
Submitted by Norm on Sat, 08/04/2007 - 12:17pm.Seeking a compliment, not truth
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Sat, 08/04/2007 - 3:53pm.You need not be accurate when complimenting me. By the way, I grew a goatee, therefore Wilford Brimley is past tense.
Maybe you can join EG and I for coffee and take a tour of the real Larry, live and in living color.
"There is only one race, the human race" - The Neville Brothers
I'm game for coffee....if I
Submitted by Norm on Mon, 08/06/2007 - 10:28am.Sure thing...
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Mon, 08/06/2007 - 3:28pm."There is only one race, the human race" - The Neville Brothers
Not everyone automatically
Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 2:04pm.By the way, how long has it been since any of us added "and a half" to our age?
We are the precious chosen few, let all the rest be damned. There's only room for one or two, we can't have Heaven crammed!
I like there to be lots of boxes after the one I check
Submitted by jlw on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 4:22pm.Shucks
Submitted by jlw on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 4:21pm.Merwyn's right Fred your not
Submitted by Rob Richards on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 9:42am.Technically I don't consider
Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 9:56am.We are the precious chosen few, let all the rest be damned. There's only room for one or two, we can't have Heaven crammed!
Ok...this is officially bothering me....
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 9:54am.I'm over 51 and I don't give a damn....or is it "I don't give a hell"?
"There is only one race, the human race" - The Neville Brothers