How old are DUers?

[ConcernedCanuk]

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I'm between 50 - 60

57 to be exact

Where do you fit in?

[RB TexLa]

1. 39, but I tell people I'm 44

[guitar man]

11. I'm 44

but I tell people I'm 39 :hi:


(I don't think it works though) :evilfrown:

[RB TexLa]

12. Try telling them you are 48 or 49. And you get to hear about how great you look.

[guitar man]

17. I'd probably

have to tell them I'm 55 for that to work :(

[Kittycat]

2. Do you honestly think 25-35 belong in the same age range?

What kind of information or opinion were you hoping to form from this?

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. You asked two questions- I'll try and answer them - I never suspected an issue with the age ranges

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You didn't offer an alternative, so I have no idea what a "better" age differential would be.

BUT

I suspect from your response that SOMEBODY would complain about whatever age groups I picked.

As for what kind of information I was seeking, and not just for myself,

I thought other DUers would be interested to see the demographics of this board.

It is a simple poll - How old are the people that post on this board?

If you do not like this poll,

then ignore it.

[Kittycat]

9. Let me help explain...

It seems that polls are often posted like this, and please don't take offense... but typically by someone on the farther end of the poll. When you're discussing age ranges, 25-35 is a very inaccurate representation for many reasons.

Professionally speaking - many on the lower end of 25-35 are just getting established in their careers (not started, but established). Many in the upper end of the range are in senior positions, management or further.

Personally speaking... 25 yo's are either still single or just getting started in their families. 35yos are more likely to have established families.

I could go on, but I think the point is clear. It's just not a very scientific way of "lumping" people. Even five year ranges would be far more accurate.
PS. Please try not to take offense - it just seems to be a common theme on this board that I find somewhat odd.

[ConcernedCanuk]

13. Not taking offense - was not trying to "lump" people into categories.

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I just picked them numbers out of my 57 year old brain

As for being scientific

We know it is not.

[Quantess]

60. I once saw a DU age-range poll that looked something like this:

under 13
13-15
15-18
18-25
25-45
46-60+

Dear Kittycat, you might actually find that a 25 year old has as much in common with someone 10 years older, as someone her own age, just as a 35 year old may find as much in common with someone 10 years older, or younger.

If I were conducting a poll between the ages of 25 and 35, I would give a poll choice for each of those ages.

In my own case, as in everyone's case (unless you were a YFZ Mormon) I was very different at age 25 than I was age 35.
Anyway, polls are meaningless.

[madokie]

4. I'm older than a big assed tree

[ConcernedCanuk]

46. I noticed your post some time back - and still laugh - what exactly is a "big assed tree"?

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So I gather that you are probably over 50 anyways . .

Not really asking, but I did find your response amusing

Thanks for the levity.

[Quantess]

62. Do you have roots growing out of your butt?

:shrug:
Just askin'
:hide:

[FredStembottom]

5. Do you honestly think those are GOOD colors for the bars!?!?

I mean...... get a CLUE!





;-)

[Historic NY]

7. Who cares when you can have a shot with your beer...........

:beer:

[FredStembottom]

10. At 8:30 AM?

Rock on.

[Historic NY]

57. Its noontime some where on the planet.........I'm 52

I've done some hard drinking in my time.

[PRETZEL]

6. I turned 49 in February. n/t

[Binka]

31. I Did Too 2-14 To Be Exact

Howz it feeling for you to be 49? I have a six year old daughter so I am a spry thing!

[ConcernedCanuk]

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:hi:

[Binka]

45. Hi There!

Howz it going?

[seabeyond]

8. at least i am not in 46 and up.... i had my first poll a while ago where at 46 i

was on the open end of the poll.

took my breath away.... wink

[movie_girl99]

14. I am 42 n/t.

[Jennicut]

15. I'm am 32 and just happy to be healthy and well as a diabetic

I have to be so careful about everything I eat, my blood pressure, cholesterol, etc. that I guess i feel much older than I am sometimes but at the same time I realize life is very delicate and you have to take good care of yourself.

[flvegan]

16. Putting the "Over 75 years old" category at the top is elitist.

:popcorn:

:rofl:

36, btw.

[ConcernedCanuk]

19. Well, I'm 57- so that's 75 backward- and no motive was behind any of my choices

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I coulda started off with the younger ages

what's with you guys tryna read things into this post anyways?

It's just a simple query as to the demographics of this board

That is all it was meant to be.

...Sheesh!...

[underpants]

18. 41

[Cresent City Kid]

20. Just in time

I'm glad you put this up before I reached the next age bracket.

[Jamastiene]

21. 37, Gen X'er here. n/t

[BlueFireAnt]

22. I'm 32, but act 12.

At least that's what my wife tells me.

[HardWorkingDem]

23. Kind of suprising because...

lately in the GD-Primaries it seems like a lot of people are petulant, spoiled children because that is how they are acting.

[Fox Mulder]

24. I'll be 26 in a little over a week.

I'm getting old. :(

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. 64 - Old enough to be joyously retired cynic.

Now, I can sit back and do whatever I please. And, if I don't do it today, I can do it tomorrow.

[LSK]

26. 35 - how do I vote twice?

[ConcernedCanuk]

58. Republicans can vote more than once; doncha know?

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Diebold

Touch screens

Worked for Dubya twice

[ChickMagic]

27. Egad

For my birthday this year, I move into another bracket. That's a crapmonster thing to do.

[laststeamtrain]

28. Old enough to know better. (56). n/t

[Cabcere]

29. 22 n/t

[sakabatou]

30. Geez, most DUers are clunky geezers...

:hide::yoiks:

[Ghost in the Machine]

44. I don't clunk, but I do rattle a bit at times...

[SalmonChantedEvening]

32. I turn 50 in September

And few are more suprised then I am. :rofl:

[cloudbase]

33. Thirty-nine

[Binka]

34. I Love Me Some Jack Benny!

He and I and Florence Henderson (Mrs Brady) share a birthday....Valentine's day.

[laststeamtrain]

43. Hi Blinka. I like Jack too.

I listen to a certain amount of old-time radio tho I'm not old enough to have heard it the first time around.

I always laugh at the JB bit where a guy is mugging him:

Mugger: Alright, your money or your life?

JB: (Long silence.)

Mugger: OK. What's it going to be?

JB: I'm thinking.
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It always cracks me up.

Have a good evening...
:hi:

[Binka]

47. JB Was The Master Of The Pregnant Pause!

It is BINKA btw not BLINKA, that sounds like a pole dancer! :hi: :silly:

The only pole BINKA cares about is the eighth pole at the horse track.

[laststeamtrain]

52. I'm sorry 'bout the 'blinka'.

I think all the poles are rigged.

I prolly got that wrong 2.

Gotta go, headin' for the dog track.

"There goes Rusty."

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

35. If you are 35, 45, 55, or 65 you fit into two categories...

I guess you can choose whether you what to be associated with older or younger people.

BTW, I just turned 29 almost two weeks ago. I feel like I've been in my twenties forever. I can't believe I'm still as young as I am.

[Solly Mack]

36. Younger than dirt but older than the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation

[ConcernedCanuk]

37. Only 3% under 25 - and the young ones are the people sent to war . . .

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So they have no idea what they are getting into

We just get to read the tragedies when they get back home.

War creates weird people,

And it was all so unnecessary

[slackmaster]

38. Fifty is nifty!

:toast:

[marmar]

39. 36-yr-old aging GenXer here.....

n/t

[Individualist]

40. 65 nine days from now

[libodem]

42. I'm in the most popular range

at 52.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

48. 56 here. :)

[scarletwoman]

49. I always enjoy these age demographic polls. Interestingly, the majority age range has been pretty

consistent over the years -- the 30 to 40 or 35 to 45 ranges. My age group, whether it's 50 to 60 or 55 to 65, has been always the next highest age range on DU -- although the under 50 or under 45 cohort is always breathing down our necks.

In any case, the over 30s always outnumber the under 30s. I have no idea what it means, but I do find it interesting. :D

sw

[nam78_two]

50. I turn 30 next month-am feeling a bit ambivalent about that.nt

[east texas lib]

51. Old enough to be slap-ass wore out at the end of the work day. 50yrs.

And poor enough to have to keep on doin' it!;)

[Botany]

53. DU = a liberal AARP

:rofl:

[Indenturedebtor]

55. LOL yeah

That would explain the twice weekly "Get Off My Lawn" post

:hide:

[livetohike]

54. 55 n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

56. I'm in the majority!!

That's a rare treat! :bounce:

[Quantess]

59. Kicking for more votes.

[stillcool]

61. 51.

I don't mind typing the year I was born, but there's something wrong with the way that number looks.

[New Dawn]

63. This poll surprises me...

Only 3% of the votes for under 25.