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WCDT Strips 4151-4155 (9-13 December2019)
Near Lurker:
--- Quote from: hakko504 on 12 Dec 2019, 00:03 ---IIRC Dora is canonically the oldest of the gang, and should by now be near her 30th birthday (She was 28 when she dated Jim).
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Do you have a reference for that? Because she was definitely 26 early on, and as you said, she's canonically older than the others.
hakko504:
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 14 Dec 2019, 00:26 ---
--- Quote from: hakko504 on 12 Dec 2019, 00:03 ---IIRC Dora is canonically the oldest of the gang, and should by now be near her 30th birthday (She was 28 when she dated Jim).
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Do you have a reference for that? Because she was definitely 26 early on, and as you said, she's canonically older than the others.
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In 1954 Jim mentions that he's 41, and in 1958 he says that Sam is 13, upon which Dora replies that he must have had Sam when he was Dora's current age. 41-13=28
cybersmurf:
I think it's canonically acceptable to say Dora is 30. +/-. Several winters have passed since the beginning.
Since Marten had been working an office job for some time, I guess it's safe to assume that he was something like 22 to 24 8n the beginning.
I wouldn't be surprised if Dora went "I want to get married before 30". There's surprisingly many people who have an issue getting pregnant or married being 30 or older.
Wingy:
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 14 Dec 2019, 08:41 ---I wouldn't be surprised if Dora went "I want to get married before 30". There's surprisingly many people who have an issue getting pregnant or married being 30 or older.
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That's all about cultural expectations, and still seems to be changing in many respects and groupings.
Getting pregnant: it's turning out there's good reasons to before 30, and certainly before 50. Egg quality something, somesuch, blah blah blah, etc. Look it up; the research is out there and tagged appropriately.
Getting married: for women, especially pregnant ones: keeping a helper around to raise the children is probably an evolutionary advantage. For men, not so much: they benefit from marriage much later in life than women, or so the evidence seems to suggest at the moment.
cybersmurf:
I've been told both within hours years back. "how old are you?" - "21." - "ah, time to start breeding", and "you've got another decade".
Given those exchanges happened more than ten years ago, and I've neither tied the knot nor bred, do I feel like I've lost something? As a guy, I'd say no, but still.
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