THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)
Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: Surgoshan on 20 Aug 2009, 16:01
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I wonder what Jeph's poll will show? Personally, I'm betting on a bell curve heavilly centered on mid- to late-twenties.
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17. :-D
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23
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Seconded surgoshan, right in front of early twenties.
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I'm 16 now, but I started reading QC a couple years back!
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I will be 69 in slightly less than a month. All those checking 70+ will report to me when the poll closes.
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18, will be 19 in Decembre
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Honestly, this poll is skewing much, much younger than I expected. I'm only one of two[/i] in the late twenties bracket.
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21
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I'm 47. I really throw off the curve. :-D
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Nah, you're tied with us 30-34's just now.
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Paul is the outlier.
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And now there are two known to be older than me...
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35.
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The young ones! yay!
You should post a similar thing in Pony Debates and check the difference.
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I'm exactly between 19 and 20. I wanted to feel young again.
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40 - funny and interesting is funny and interesting, regardless of your age.
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This is actually exactly what I thought would happen.
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Quality is quality, regardless if the content is questionalbe. :laugh:
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Well said, sir.
That has the makings of a signature.
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54.
Screw "acting your age".
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24 for now. Im not totaly sure why, but it seems to change every year, and at about the same time too :?
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21. As of two.. four... uh... several weeks ago. Life is hard as a fully grown up everywhere grown up.
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i'm 18, and it makes my head hurt to be placed in a bracket with 15-year-olds.
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i'm 18, and it makes my head hurt to be placed in a bracket with 15-year-olds.
It'll make more sense when you can rent a car.
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i'm 18, and it makes my head hurt to be placed in a bracket with 15-year-olds.
Ahahaha, this.
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So it seems im in the majority age bracket... hmm... Im unsure if should be upset at being so normal, and by extrapolation 'boring', or pleased at the fact that i like something thats actually "popular" (with my age group), like the whole 'paint splattered' look was with shirts are few years back.
Of course then theres the posibility that simply by liking something that is supposedly popular (with my age group), that i am 'normal' and 'boring' as a direct result... dammit...
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So it seems im in the majority age bracket... hmm... Im unsure if should be upset at being so normal, and by extrapolation 'boring', or pleased at the fact that i like something thats actually "popular" (with my age group), like the whole 'paint splattered' look was with shirts are few years back.
Of course then theres the posibility that simply by liking something that is supposedly popular (with my age group), that i am 'normal' and 'boring' as a direct result... dammit...
Fuck you, normy! Why don't you go do something normal! LIKE BREATHING! FUCKING CONFORMIST!
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LOL!!!
If you only knew...
You see, i am actually what could charitably decribed as FUCKING WIERD!
Think of it this way, if Marten and Dora were to have a half goth/half indie boy-child, but with the ocd/anxiety issues of Hanners (on one of her 'good' days admitadly) then you wouldnt be that far off...
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i'm 18.
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37 here! Can't let the average skew TOO low! :-D
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21
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47
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I am 76 and that will help lift the average a bit. It looks like I am the oldest. Whos said engineers were uncouth and have no sense of homour. And remember, old engineers never die, they only smell that way!
LH
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I'm beginning to feel quite young again, as there are now three here older than me. I'm an engineer, too.
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I'm a physicist, but spent a lot of my career as an engineer, so does this mean that old engineers are attracted to this comic and forum?
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I guess that of older people we are more likely to get around the Internet this much.
And you don't appear to have filled in the poll ('cos I know I have).
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The must be a reason for it but I don't know what it might be.
One of the funniest men I ever knew was a physicist - Max Komesaroff, who migrated into radio astronomy - fucking cancer got him and it got his wife about ten years later. Sad stuff and I miss him sorely. Make that miss them both!
I like QC for a lot of reasons - the story lines, the unexpected turns, the characters, the artwork, everything. This a rare talent and it says a lot that it appeals to such a wide range of ages.
LH
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I guess that of older people we are more likely to get around the Internet this much.[/b][/i]
Not sure about that. I know a lot of people around my age who aren't even computer literate, let alone spend time unearthing all sorts of stuff on the Internet. (Cable and a big slab of bandwidth helps, of course.) I have been in touch with people that I attended school with and it is quite frightening how many of them appear to be just vegetating.
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I mean, those of us who have been using computers since before they were fashionable (since 1966 in my case) will be in touch with more stuff than those who have come to them later in life.
OTOH I know plenty of young people who aren't computer literate (I am a computer manager in a university, and I have to keep putting them right on the simplest things) - but they can still find things because they are familiar with the Internet even if they don't do it sensibly.
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16 and I will be 17 in November :-)
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I guess that of older people we are more likely to get around the Internet this much.
And you don't appear to have filled in the poll ('cos I know I have).
Actually, I did fill in the poll. I'm the 60-69 (hehe) answer.
And i got interested in computers in graduate school, but did not have any real opportunity to do anything with them until 1974, but have been involved ever since, on various ways.
I started reading QC when Marten was applying for the library job, (my wife is a librarian) because it was mentioned in Unshelved (http://www.unshelved.com/Default.aspx). I enjoyed it so much that I started reading from the beginning and loved the various physics, library, and science fiction references.
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Actually, I did fill in the poll. I'm the 60-69 (hehe) answer.
How could you get to have more fun being your age then the rest of us?
I started reading QC when Marten was applying for the library job, (my wife is a librarian) because it was mentioned in Unshelved (http://www.unshelved.com/Default.aspx). I enjoyed it so much that I started reading from the beginning and loved the various physics, library, and science fiction references.
Did you buy her that "She Blinded Me With Library Science" shirt?
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I always have fun. And "60-69 (hehe)" is an actual poll answer.
No, I bought myself that shirt, and I also bought one for my son-in-law, since my daughter is also a librarian.
I did wear the shirt to a conference on software for libraries (since I had a consulting business which was concerned with free library software), and it garnered a number of comments, which allowed me to mention QC to a bunch of people.
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I know it's the actual answer, that's why I find it unfair. None of the rest of us got so much as a half-harted chuckle for our brackets.
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Actually, I did fill in the poll. I'm the 60-69 (hehe) answer.
Well so did I, and the highlight confirms it - so that answer's me! I guess what we are saying is that the forum software can't count; how odd.
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Hmmm... Well, you know that 57% of all statistics are made up on the spot, don't you? Perhaps that what the poll software is doing.
Of course, there is also the distinct possibility that I thought I had voted, but in reality I totally forgot to press the button.
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Just recently turned 25.
i'm 18, and it makes my head hurt to be placed in a bracket with 15-year-olds.
It'll make more sense when you can rent a car.
Yes, now I can rent a car without paying the "You're young and reckless" penalty fees! Also, this is my last year of being eligible for the draft, not that it's likely to be an issue. Can't say I'll be sorry to be past it, though.
It is kinda sad to be past all those meaningful coming-of-age benchmarks, like 16 (I can drive!), 18 (You can't tell me what to do!), and 21 (Mud in your eye!). 25 (Screw you, Hertz and Enterprise!) was the last one. Now it's just the long road off into the distance.
The Undiscovered Country, from whose bourn no traveler returns...
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You still have 30 to look forward to! That's seems to be the universally accepted "Oh, shit! I'm getting old!" point where teens start looking at you like you're soooo old and everyone expects you to be mature and have your shit together.
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You still have 30 to look forward to! That's seems to be the universally accepted "Oh, shit! I'm getting old!" point where teens start looking at you like you're soooo old and everyone expects you to be mature and have your shit together.
HAH! Not likely!
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You still have 30 to look forward to! That's seems to be the universally accepted "Oh, shit! I'm getting old!" point where teens start looking at you like you're soooo old and everyone expects you to be mature and have your shit together.
I once had someone tell me they knew this person I was describing was wise.
"Why?" asked I.
"Because she's over forty," this twenty-year-old replied.
Still haven't stopped laughing about that one.
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39...and dreading the whole...man im turning 40 thing
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Now I feel guilty.
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Now I feel guilty.
Sentenced
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I'm 14, and I started reading the comic at I think 12.
EDIT: In actuality, it seems that I started reading it at 10 or maybe even 9! Oh god... My posts back then were so stupid.
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35 :|
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My sister, two years younger than I, was all uptight about turning thirty. She was all bitchy and sullen about it. Turning thirty didn't bother me in the least. Even finding my first gray hair didn't weird me out. I just told my mother that, now that one of her children has gray hair, she has officially hit ooooooold. She's only 52. Pretty young for a grandma with teenage grandkids ... not mine, my sister's, thank goodness.
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Remember reading some zen master who said something along the lines of: The secret to staying young was to never grow up!
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We need a few more samples to get the bell curve, but its looking good, except for the statistical blip at the 40-49 bracket.
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You won't get a real, official Bell Curve, because the two tails aren't the same -- there are people 40 years older than the average, but none 40 years younger.
I'm 35. If I'm this serious now, I shudder at the thought of how I'll be at 45. But by then it will feel like same old me...
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One year away from making the OP happy.
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Started reading right after Sven and Faye stopped seeing each other. Was confused, started at comic one and stayed up late three nights in a row after work reading the background story. Have gotten at least one coworker interested, as well as several Daft Punk friends after the "Daft Punk Disco Dong" panel. We still randomly look at each other during work and say "You'll be saying one more time all night long!"
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I'm 35. If I'm this serious now, I shudder at the thought of how I'll be at 45. But by then it will feel like same old me...
Fear not. I'm told that at some point the trend reverses itself. Not that I'd know about that yet. Serious as a heart attack, am I.
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23 here.
I hope I am still enjoying whatever web comics have become in 20+ years time.
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They will be information directly implanted in your brain. And you will become one of the characters after you complete a fun and easy questionnaire by licking the pressure point on your right upper canine for yes, and the left for no.
Life in the support pod will be bitchin'!
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i'm 18, and it makes my head hurt to be placed in a bracket with 15-year-olds.
Amen!
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i'm 18, and it makes my head hurt to be placed in a bracket with 15-year-olds.
Amen!
From this end of things, the 10-14 and 15-19 brackets are indistinguishable ... :-D
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I was suprised by the 10-14, I feal sorry for them really, Im sure the 2% misses about 90% of the humor in the comic.
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Im sure the 2% misses about 90% of the humor in the comic.
I wouldn't be placing any bets on that comment ...
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There was that 11 year old who made jeph a comic.
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i'm 21, and will be turning 22 in october. i started reading the comic around 2003-2004.. hah wow
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62...and NOT an engineer or a scientist.
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26. Started reading about 2 or 3 years ago.
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Seventeen