Topic: I'm curious (age poll) (Read 18656 times)

Surgoshan · « **on:** 20 Aug 2009, 16:01 »

I wonder what Jeph's poll will show? Personally, I'm betting on a bell curve heavilly centered on mid- to late-twenties.

Merrick · « **Reply #1 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 17:41 »

17.

LeeC · « **Reply #2 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 18:16 »

cgarci21 · « **Reply #3 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 18:18 »

Seconded surgoshan, right in front of early twenties.

onlymatthew · « **Reply #4 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 20:07 »

I'm 16 now, but I started reading QC a couple years back!

celticgeek · « **Reply #5 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 20:33 »

I will be 69 in slightly less than a month. All those checking 70+ will report to me when the poll closes.

Be My Head · « **Reply #6 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 20:49 »

18, will be 19 in Decembre

Surgoshan · « **Reply #7 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 21:26 »

Honestly, this poll is skewing much, much younger than I expected. I'm only one of two[/i] in the late twenties bracket.

All_¥our_Bass · « **Reply #8 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 21:45 »

dps · « **Reply #9 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 22:25 »

I'm 47. I really throw off the curve.

maddness · « **Reply #10 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 22:47 »

Nah, you're tied with us 30-34's just now.

JD · « **Reply #11 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 23:11 »

Paul is the outlier.

pwhodges · « **Reply #12 on:** 21 Aug 2009, 00:28 »

And now there are two known to be older than me...

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #13 on:** 21 Aug 2009, 02:31 »

snalin · « **Reply #14 on:** 21 Aug 2009, 03:46 »

The young ones! yay!

You should post a similar thing in Pony Debates and check the difference.

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #15 on:** 21 Aug 2009, 03:55 »

I'm exactly between 19 and 20. I wanted to feel young again.

Border Reiver · « **Reply #16 on:** 21 Aug 2009, 04:16 »

40 - funny and interesting is funny and interesting, regardless of your age.

The Duke · « **Reply #17 on:** 21 Aug 2009, 06:10 »

15

This is actually exactly what I thought would happen.

greensis · « **Reply #18 on:** 21 Aug 2009, 11:48 »

41.

Quality is quality, regardless if the content is questionalbe.

The Duke · « **Reply #19 on:** 21 Aug 2009, 11:59 »

Well said, sir.

That has the makings of a signature.

Binary · « **Reply #20 on:** 21 Aug 2009, 12:18 »

54.

Screw "acting your age".

jonarus_drakus · « **Reply #21 on:** 21 Aug 2009, 15:02 »

24 for now. Im not totaly sure why, but it seems to change every year, and at about the same time too

alienatedduck · « **Reply #22 on:** 21 Aug 2009, 16:13 »

21. As of two.. four... uh... several weeks ago. Life is hard as a fully grown up everywhere grown up.

nichidani · « **Reply #23 on:** 21 Aug 2009, 21:47 »

i'm 18, and it makes my head hurt to be placed in a bracket with 15-year-olds.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #24 on:** 21 Aug 2009, 21:56 »

Quote from: nichidani on 21 Aug 2009, 21:47

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.

plethora · « **Reply #25 on:** 22 Aug 2009, 08:30 »

Quote from: nichidani on 21 Aug 2009, 21:47

i'm 18, and it makes my head hurt to be placed in a bracket with 15-year-olds.

Ahahaha, this.

jonarus_drakus · « **Reply #26 on:** 22 Aug 2009, 18:09 »

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...

Surgoshan · « **Reply #27 on:** 22 Aug 2009, 18:35 »

Quote from: jonarus_drakus on 22 Aug 2009, 18:09

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!

jonarus_drakus · « **Reply #28 on:** 23 Aug 2009, 00:16 »

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...

Freya · « **Reply #29 on:** 23 Aug 2009, 04:42 »

i'm 18.

TLT Thomas · « **Reply #30 on:** 23 Aug 2009, 08:47 »

37 here! Can't let the average skew TOO low!

Heavyoak · « **Reply #31 on:** 23 Aug 2009, 23:12 »

Kugai · « **Reply #32 on:** 24 Aug 2009, 21:35 »

Les Harris · « **Reply #33 on:** 25 Aug 2009, 01:42 »

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

pwhodges · « **Reply #34 on:** 25 Aug 2009, 12:29 »

I'm beginning to feel quite young again, as there are now three here older than me. I'm an engineer, too.

celticgeek · « **Reply #35 on:** 25 Aug 2009, 16:20 »

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?

pwhodges · « **Reply #36 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 00:11 »

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).

Les Harris · « **Reply #37 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 00:15 »

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

Les Harris · « **Reply #38 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 00:21 »

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.

pwhodges · « **Reply #39 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 02:49 »

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.

Mr. Doctor · « **Reply #40 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 07:10 »

16 and I will be 17 in November

celticgeek · « **Reply #41 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 10:09 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 26 Aug 2009, 00:11

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. I enjoyed it so much that I started reading from the beginning and loved the various physics, library, and science fiction references.

maddness · « **Reply #42 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 11:40 »

Quote from: celticgeek on 26 Aug 2009, 10:09

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?

Quote from: celticgeek on 26 Aug 2009, 10:09

I started reading QC when Marten was applying for the library job, (my wife is a librarian) because it was mentioned in Unshelved. 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?

celticgeek · « **Reply #43 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 12:01 »

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.

maddness · « **Reply #44 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 13:32 »

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.

pwhodges · « **Reply #45 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 13:39 »

Quote from: celticgeek on 26 Aug 2009, 10:09

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.

celticgeek · « **Reply #46 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 14:08 »

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.

FourNineFoxtrot · « **Reply #47 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 16:57 »

Just recently turned 25.

Quote from: Surgoshan on 21 Aug 2009, 21:56

Quote from: nichidani on 21 Aug 2009, 21:47
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...

maddness · « **Reply #48 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 22:08 »

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.

jonarus_drakus · « **Reply #49 on:** 27 Aug 2009, 00:37 »

Quote from: maddness on 26 Aug 2009, 22:08

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!

THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)

Poll

How old are you?

Author Topic: I'm curious (age poll) (Read 18656 times)

greensis