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My age is

I am between

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23.

Yet, I feel 100+ at times. Why? I feel as though I've experienced many, many things.... and that not much excites me anymore.
 
BDBoop said:
Just curious. Seems a recent influx came in after school got out.
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Way, way, way back in the old days, back when people used dial-up modems to get online, there were two periods of the year that most of us dreaded. First was right after Christmas, when a bunch of kids got modems as gifts and spread their infantile nonsense far and wide. The other was June, when people got out of school and could spend all summer trolling the net.

Sucked then, sucks now.
 
Oh, and I might as well answer. I'm 44, turn 45 in October.
 
Cephus said:
Way, way, way back in the old days, back when people used dial-up modems to get online, there were two periods of the year that most of us dreaded. First was right after Christmas, when a bunch of kids got modems as gifts and spread their infantile nonsense far and wide. The other was June, when people got out of school and could spend all summer trolling the net.

Sucked then, sucks now.
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Funny post, but I actually enjoy being around young people. Increasingly I have to explain my dated cultural references to them, but for the most part I find them often witty and fun.

Oh. I'm a few months shy of 50.
 
59, which apparently is 10 characters too short to be a valid post.
 
I am seeing an obvious correlation here with age and politics. Most young people are lib, older people are cons. I was a lib kid myself so I cut them a lot of slack, it’s the old libs that I have a hard time not being annoyed with.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
I am seeing an obvious correlation here with age and politics. Most young people are lib, older people are cons. I was a lib kid myself so I cut them a lot of slack, it’s the old libs that I have a hard time not being annoyed with.
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It was ever thus. There's a great Churchill quote on that observation.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
I am seeing an obvious correlation here with age and politics. Most young people are lib, older people are cons. I was a lib kid myself so I cut them a lot of slack, it’s the old libs that I have a hard time not being annoyed with.
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“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
-Winston Churchill
 
Turning 60 next month.
May grow old, but will never grow up.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
I am seeing an obvious correlation here with age and politics. Most young people are lib, older people are cons. I was a lib kid myself so I cut them a lot of slack, it’s the old libs that I have a hard time not being annoyed with.
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Young people are more open to change, and older people are more set in their ways. And what would be considered a liberal idea at one point in time, can be considered a conservative idea at a later point in time.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
I am seeing an obvious correlation here with age and politics. Most young people are lib, older people are cons. I was a lib kid myself so I cut them a lot of slack, it’s the old libs that I have a hard time not being annoyed with.
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I think you're seeing what you expect to see. Look at BDBoop, Boo, Tess, Hevlidius, and others.
 
Cephus said:
Way, way, way back in the old days, back when people used dial-up modems to get online, there were two periods of the year that most of us dreaded. First was right after Christmas, when a bunch of kids got modems as gifts and spread their infantile nonsense far and wide. The other was June, when people got out of school and could spend all summer trolling the net.

Sucked then, sucks now.
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You have to go back further. Old days were no internet, no computer. I remember in school having to use a slide rule for physics and math. In college, it was a big deal to have a hand calculator that did trig functions. Computer was a main frame where punch cards were used for program entry. Any one under 50 is soft, soft I tell you.:lol:
 
Your Star said:
Young people are more open to change, and older people are more set in their ways. And what would be considered a liberal idea at one point in time, can be considered a conservative idea at a later point in time.
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May be true, but brings up an "old saying", if it isn't broke, don't fix it. Change for change sake is not always good.
 
mike2810 said:
Turning 60 next month.
May grow old, but will never grow up.
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Red Rover, Red Rover, Send him on Over.

60 isn't all that bad. Of course you know we are both getting ready to skid down that final hill. But before I make that final skid I am still able to kick ass and take names later.
 
mike2810 said:
May be true, but brings up an "old saying", if it isn't broke, don't fix it. Change for change sake is not always good.
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It's not necessarily change for changes sake, but a disagreement on what works, and what is good.
 
Helvidius said:
“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
-Winston Churchill
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That quote is full of ****. I want to stab something every time I see it.

If my time here at DP has been any indication, i've seen both conservatives and liberals, old and young posters with absolutely no brains.
 
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StillBallin75 said:
That quote is full of ****. I want to stab something every time I see it.

If my time here at DP has been any indication, i've seen both conservatives and liberals, old and young posters with absolutely no brains.
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The quote seamlessly combines an of appeal to authority (in the person of Winston Churchill) and a witty play on words into a maxim for the ages. As far as political rhetoric goes, it is a masterpiece.

I'm 21.
 
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Morality Games said:
The quote seamlessly combines an of appeal to authority (in the person of Winston Churchill) and a witty play on words into a maxim for the ages. As far as political rhetoric goes, it is a masterpiece.

I'm 21.
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as am I. There are a lot of us running around lol.
 
Your Star said:
It's not necessarily change for changes sake, but a disagreement on what works, and what is good.
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I'll agree with that. Hope things work for you in the future. I'm glad I am on the downhill side of life. I just plan to keep on spending my retirement doing what I enjoy.
 
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