How old are you?
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#176
Posté 07 janvier 2011 - 11:20
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12... soon 13... 0_0thought i was e few bioware players in my age to...
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#177
Posté 08 janvier 2011 - 03:56
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Suprez30 wrote...
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Being in high school was alot of fun you guys should be enjoying it before you have to really grow up.
Lol i sound like a old man and just turned 20 yeesh.
Hmmmf .. At 27 i noticed something really bad in the mirror .. receding hair
I think that when you realize you get older.Although it's has nothing to do with age.Well 3.4 years ago it's was bad.No one want to lose their hair . But now at 31 i just accept it and shave my coconuts.Shiny.
In my case it's really no big deal. I'm 27 but all the guys at the gym say I look like I'm 19 and they talk about how buff I am. When they feel my arms they're amazed at just how little body fat is there and I'm constantly getting compliments on how firm my abs are.
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#178
Posté 08 janvier 2011 - 04:08
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I remember someone once complimenting me on looking good for a 40 year old. Shame I was in my 20s at the time. Then again, it was around the same time I was carded for buying alcohol (age limit is 18 here). I'm not really sure what to conclude from all that. That people are generally rubbish at guessing my age, I suppose.
#180
Posté 08 janvier 2011 - 04:20
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Forty-four.
The only time 44 feels old is if you did a lot of very stupid, dangerous and drunken things when you were 22.
The only time 44 feels old is if you did a lot of very stupid, dangerous and drunken things when you were 22.
#182
Posté 08 janvier 2011 - 07:42
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Seems I am one of the older ones here. As my name says I was born in 1944 so am soon to be 67.
#183
Posté 08 janvier 2011 - 10:38
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21, but I don't look a day over 5.
Though I miss the days when you were young enough to be rather insistent that people take notice of the fraction in your age. So that being 9 3/4 makes you better than your classmates that are only 9
Though I miss the days when you were young enough to be rather insistent that people take notice of the fraction in your age. So that being 9 3/4 makes you better than your classmates that are only 9
#184
Posté 08 janvier 2011 - 11:01
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I am actually of that view still and in addition have a bonus :Silver Direwolf wrote...
21, but I don't look a day over 5.
Though I miss the days when you were young enough to be rather insistent that people take notice of the fraction in your age. So that being 9 3/4 makes you better than your classmates that are only 9
One day younger - Shut up kiddo!
One day older - Shut up oldie!
In other words - My age is perfect.
#185
Posté 08 janvier 2011 - 01:27
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dark-lauron wrote...
I am actually of that view still and in addition have a bonus :Silver Direwolf wrote...
21, but I don't look a day over 5.
Though I miss the days when you were young enough to be rather insistent that people take notice of the fraction in your age. So that being 9 3/4 makes you better than your classmates that are only 9
One day younger - Shut up kiddo!
One day older - Shut up oldie!
In other words - My age is perfect.
The problem with that logic for me, is that I'm pretty sure I'm the youngest person in most of my groups of friends, so I'm not allowed be better than them <_<
#186
Posté 08 janvier 2011 - 02:21
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I recall a not entirely dissimilar experience. As a kid I was in an awkward gap between many of my immediate neighbours: the "big 'uns" who were two years older and the "little 'uns" who were a year younger. "You can join the big kids in a year's time!" they'd say, but of course in a year's time they were also a year older, so I was still one of the little kids. But being older than them accorded me no favour whatsoever. <_<Silver Direwolf wrote...
dark-lauron wrote...
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One day younger - Shut up kiddo!
One day older - Shut up oldie!
In other words - My age is perfect.
The problem with that logic for me, is that I'm pretty sure I'm the youngest person in most of my groups of friends, so I'm not allowed be better than them <_<
#188
Posté 08 janvier 2011 - 02:25
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However old I am, it's an age where I have way more grey hair than I'd like. Not that it really says a lot about my age though, as my hair was already turning grey by the time I was 19.
Luckily it has slowed down a bit, so dark brown is still the predominant colour for now.
Luckily it has slowed down a bit, so dark brown is still the predominant colour for now.
#189
Posté 08 janvier 2011 - 06:51
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Busomjack wrote...
In my case it's really no big deal. I'm 27 but all the guys at the gym say I look like I'm 19 and they talk about how buff I am. When they feel my arms they're amazed at just how little body fat is there and I'm constantly getting compliments on how firm my abs are.
I hope your arms are the only thing they're feeling, Busomjack
#190
Posté 08 janvier 2011 - 08:10
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slimgrin wrote...
Busomjack wrote...
In my case it's really no big deal. I'm 27 but all the guys at the gym say I look like I'm 19 and they talk about how buff I am. When they feel my arms they're amazed at just how little body fat is there and I'm constantly getting compliments on how firm my abs are.
I hope your arms are the only thing they're feeling, Busomjack
O_O my eyes!
#191
Posté 09 janvier 2011 - 03:42
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I am 313 months old
or 1,362 weeks old
or 9,540 days old
or 228,979 hours old
or 13,738,783 minutes old
or 824,327,029 seconds old
and my next birthday celebration is in:
320 days 4 hrs 16 mins 12 secs
or 1,362 weeks old
or 9,540 days old
or 228,979 hours old
or 13,738,783 minutes old
or 824,327,029 seconds old
and my next birthday celebration is in:
320 days 4 hrs 16 mins 12 secs
#192
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 02:53
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The bad software on the Social Site makes the Blogs useless as any kind of info outlet, and the "autobio" section of profiles truncates everything so much that the result is worthless. I hope that Moondoggie won't be exceedingly upset with me.
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The first computer I ran was Big Iron, IBM's original "360" mainframe, and that dates back to about 1969. I had a Business degree, a BBA, in Accounting, not an Engineering, Math or Science major, but I worked in insurance, and that industry was among the first to put everything on computers, including the accounting systems.
Over the following 28 years, I worked with every kind of computer, more minis than mainframes, as was the trend, and then on into the micros, before IBM got into those. Software was my original concentration, and from about 1982 onward, I was also at the local Community College, teaching programming in the evenings.
There was still another, among several major overturns in the profitability of the insurance companies, and I was let go during a down-sizing move by my employer, when I was 57 years old. I had no DP or IT degree, and those degrees were a dime a dozen among younger job-seekers for the openings I applied to get. My teaching job, however, was at least initially less conscious of what exact degree I had, and I ended up teaching days as well, although on an hourly, "full time temporary" faculty status.
That turned out to be very rewarding from an emotional point of view, although not anything like the same kind of pay scale I'd been used to living on. When the subject of tenure came up later, the degree, or lack of the "right degree", was a block, and my hours were eventually cut way back, to such an extent that I ended up applying to receive my Social Security before age 65.
Meanwhile, I'd owned personal Apple ][s, and a couple of Z-80 CP/M systems, all before my first IBM PC in 1982 or so. I added a Commodore C64 in 1985, I think, and was playing games regularly back then. The IBM Clone pricing structure was expensive when I started my X86 computing by buying a readymade machine, but I was doing well enough not to be bothered by the costs.
However, before starting to work days also at the college, while living on mostly just unemployment, I was prompted to build the first of my next few clones of my own, and my interest in hardware grew out of that; I'd assembled a couple of them as early as 1987 or so, but got into it in earnest after the end of my last fulltime 8-5 job a few years later.
Eventually, I would build many dozens of them for friends and family, as well as for myself. Games continued to interest me, but more and more, they became the measure against which I compared my system builds. During my earliest days of Internet life, dating back to 1997, I had only dial-up, and the providers kept folding, merging, and jacking the rates out of sight, so I ended up going through a half dozen eMail addresses in as many years.
On gaming forums, I've used every variety of handle starting with a "G", starting from Gorath, who was a character in Raymond Feist's game, Betrayal at Krondor. I've been Gramps, Old Grouch, Grumpy, The Great Gildersleeve, and some assorted variations on those. Arena, Daggerfall, Might and Magic, Wizardry, NWN1, KotOR, and Morrowind have all been favored games at one time or another. Because of the changing ISP provider situation, my game forum accounts also kept changing.
While I usually ignore the telltale aches and pains that I've earned with the years, sometimes I feel more testy than other times, and I always have the same attitudes about many things that exemplify my senior age status, such as having always been somewhat sarcastic, like almost all of the rest of my generation.
I won't molly-coddle the kiddies, use softsoap euphemisms, and play nicey-nicey in the currently approved milksop fashion of being "Politically Correct" about every little tiniest thing. I will review my comments while the edit window remains open, and sometimes notice that what I wrote sounds a bit more blunt / harsh than is even my own usual. I still won't sweeten the truth, however, my edits are intended to make it clear I have no personal animosity toward anyone.
When I answer some of the message threads, I am not always thinking about the individual who authored it, but about the many readers who are thinking more or less the same thing. For every question asked, there are perhaps 6 - 10 others who do not ever write, but have had a similar problem. For every forum member enrolled, there are 25-30 game owners who never read any game forum anywhere to learn about Tech problems.
I generally will ignore threads with useless subject lines, ridiculous spelling,and / or the stupid "L33t"/TM style spelling. I generally will not finish reading any message with no paragraph breaks in it. I do not care if the author is black, brown, red, yellow, or green. I do not care whether he or she has a learning disability, an emotional disturbance, or mental retardation. I will answer as truthfully as I can, as plainly as I can, and will be as pragmatic as is my own nature. The answer will often be couched in terms that address the unheard- from game players, instead of much in the way of individualization.
While teaching, I wrote most of the texts I used in my classes, and that writing style now colors the "lecture-style" that my forum answers often appear in, until or unless I catch myself doing it, and try being more folksy. I never will be intentionally uncivil without severe provocation (and then will almost always just send a report to the administrators / moderator), and that's no matter if it's occasionally got a little sarcastic tone, when I'm feeling more like Archie Bunker than like Mr. Rogers.
Flaming *isn't* my way, and I prefer to ignore attempts to get my goat, troll, or start arguments, although the more blatant of vulgarity is too offensive to not report it. Incidentally, this is an informational post, placed here as a necessity, due to the failures of the Social Site's software intended for this sort of material. It is not an invitation to argue about attitudes, social mores, or style (or anything else, really).
Gorath
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The first computer I ran was Big Iron, IBM's original "360" mainframe, and that dates back to about 1969. I had a Business degree, a BBA, in Accounting, not an Engineering, Math or Science major, but I worked in insurance, and that industry was among the first to put everything on computers, including the accounting systems.
Over the following 28 years, I worked with every kind of computer, more minis than mainframes, as was the trend, and then on into the micros, before IBM got into those. Software was my original concentration, and from about 1982 onward, I was also at the local Community College, teaching programming in the evenings.
There was still another, among several major overturns in the profitability of the insurance companies, and I was let go during a down-sizing move by my employer, when I was 57 years old. I had no DP or IT degree, and those degrees were a dime a dozen among younger job-seekers for the openings I applied to get. My teaching job, however, was at least initially less conscious of what exact degree I had, and I ended up teaching days as well, although on an hourly, "full time temporary" faculty status.
That turned out to be very rewarding from an emotional point of view, although not anything like the same kind of pay scale I'd been used to living on. When the subject of tenure came up later, the degree, or lack of the "right degree", was a block, and my hours were eventually cut way back, to such an extent that I ended up applying to receive my Social Security before age 65.
Meanwhile, I'd owned personal Apple ][s, and a couple of Z-80 CP/M systems, all before my first IBM PC in 1982 or so. I added a Commodore C64 in 1985, I think, and was playing games regularly back then. The IBM Clone pricing structure was expensive when I started my X86 computing by buying a readymade machine, but I was doing well enough not to be bothered by the costs.
However, before starting to work days also at the college, while living on mostly just unemployment, I was prompted to build the first of my next few clones of my own, and my interest in hardware grew out of that; I'd assembled a couple of them as early as 1987 or so, but got into it in earnest after the end of my last fulltime 8-5 job a few years later.
Eventually, I would build many dozens of them for friends and family, as well as for myself. Games continued to interest me, but more and more, they became the measure against which I compared my system builds. During my earliest days of Internet life, dating back to 1997, I had only dial-up, and the providers kept folding, merging, and jacking the rates out of sight, so I ended up going through a half dozen eMail addresses in as many years.
On gaming forums, I've used every variety of handle starting with a "G", starting from Gorath, who was a character in Raymond Feist's game, Betrayal at Krondor. I've been Gramps, Old Grouch, Grumpy, The Great Gildersleeve, and some assorted variations on those. Arena, Daggerfall, Might and Magic, Wizardry, NWN1, KotOR, and Morrowind have all been favored games at one time or another. Because of the changing ISP provider situation, my game forum accounts also kept changing.
While I usually ignore the telltale aches and pains that I've earned with the years, sometimes I feel more testy than other times, and I always have the same attitudes about many things that exemplify my senior age status, such as having always been somewhat sarcastic, like almost all of the rest of my generation.
I won't molly-coddle the kiddies, use softsoap euphemisms, and play nicey-nicey in the currently approved milksop fashion of being "Politically Correct" about every little tiniest thing. I will review my comments while the edit window remains open, and sometimes notice that what I wrote sounds a bit more blunt / harsh than is even my own usual. I still won't sweeten the truth, however, my edits are intended to make it clear I have no personal animosity toward anyone.
When I answer some of the message threads, I am not always thinking about the individual who authored it, but about the many readers who are thinking more or less the same thing. For every question asked, there are perhaps 6 - 10 others who do not ever write, but have had a similar problem. For every forum member enrolled, there are 25-30 game owners who never read any game forum anywhere to learn about Tech problems.
I generally will ignore threads with useless subject lines, ridiculous spelling,and / or the stupid "L33t"/TM style spelling. I generally will not finish reading any message with no paragraph breaks in it. I do not care if the author is black, brown, red, yellow, or green. I do not care whether he or she has a learning disability, an emotional disturbance, or mental retardation. I will answer as truthfully as I can, as plainly as I can, and will be as pragmatic as is my own nature. The answer will often be couched in terms that address the unheard- from game players, instead of much in the way of individualization.
While teaching, I wrote most of the texts I used in my classes, and that writing style now colors the "lecture-style" that my forum answers often appear in, until or unless I catch myself doing it, and try being more folksy. I never will be intentionally uncivil without severe provocation (and then will almost always just send a report to the administrators / moderator), and that's no matter if it's occasionally got a little sarcastic tone, when I'm feeling more like Archie Bunker than like Mr. Rogers.
Flaming *isn't* my way, and I prefer to ignore attempts to get my goat, troll, or start arguments, although the more blatant of vulgarity is too offensive to not report it. Incidentally, this is an informational post, placed here as a necessity, due to the failures of the Social Site's software intended for this sort of material. It is not an invitation to argue about attitudes, social mores, or style (or anything else, really).
Gorath
#193
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 06:35
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another 20 year old here! only for another 5 months. Loving life atm.
#194
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 07:15
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lets just say that, if the ''the world wil end in 2012'' theory is right, the world needs to end in the evening for me to see 19.
#195
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 07:41
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Darthnemesis2 wrote...
another 20 year old here! only for another 5 months. Loving life atm.
No idea we were the same age! 1990 FTFW!!!
#196
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 07:43
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dark-lauron wrote...
Darthnemesis2 wrote...
another 20 year old here! only for another 5 months. Loving life atm.
No idea we were the same age! 1990 FTFW!!!
1990 was a great year!
#197
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 07:47
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Best gawddamn year in my life. *sigh* I was just waxing gawddamn nostalgic...
#198
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 08:44
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Ah 1990, Back when i didn't mind getting up early because it meant cartoons. Now it just means another day of work *sigh*
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Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 08:50
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"Hello boss. I can't come in 'til 10am because I'm ill and I need to watch the cartoons as part of my recovery programme." Don't see why it shouldn't work every day.Moondoggie wrote...
Ah 1990, Back when i didn't mind getting up early because it meant cartoons. Now it just means another day of work *sigh*
Sigh. Nobody warned me that working life would mean an eternity of 6am awakenings that meant I was already knackered before the day had even started. If I'd been forewarned I'd have embarked on a much more satisfying life as a delinquent instead.
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