How old are (were) you as of Jan 09, 2011?

22

30

(24 fwiw)

34

27 tbh

26

49. Okay with that, although not ecstatic.

TASTE IT MOTHERFUCKERS

― jaymc, Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:24 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

3^3

47

I always felt I was ~5 years younger than the avg ILXor...I am sure this has changed over the years.

All of your ages are actually in the polled range. Just use the polling system so no one has to scroll through the whole thread and write you down, one by one?

yes'm

Wait til I turn 4^4, Laurel – your advice will no longer apply!

I do love taking your advice tho.

I'm really sorry, guys! It was a bitchy thing to say. But, like, that's what polls are FOR. Well, that and the element of surprise.

I am just being a silly, Laurel! I am sorry if I conveyed any impression that you were being bitchy, bcz you were not imo.

I checked the poll option, and also posted. The poll isn't enough--you have to publically confess.

63

I think I'm feeling like I may have given offense in other areas of my life today, and self-conscious about what behaviors of other people are "my" "fault". But anyway, sorry if I was kinda short. No worries, abbs.

xp DON'T DO THAT, or you'll get counted TWICE!!

19

really curious to see if there is anyone younger around

Oops--make sure you deduct one 49-year-old. Sorry.

18

really?

no

i didn't realize you were that young -- pretty sure you're the youngest ilxor, flopson

so samosa gibreel was 15?

17 iirc

his first ever ilx post your 11 favourite songs of the moment, fuck.

Can't believe I've been on this board 17-27.

I think rufusmagufus is the youngest.

21

53

34 (+1/2)

haha 'jaymac' was a typo btw

only just noticed that

34

35 here. Feeling it physically more than mentally.

37 :(

36

(am 37 now, though)

39, and just in case anyone is logging the posts, don't count me again, I have voted!

In January 2008 I was in the largest ILX age bracket (28), interesting to see if that is still true... Are all those people born in 1979 still around, or have they dropped off and been replaced by young whippersnappers?

http://www.threewordphrase.com/dungeon.gif

i'm somewhere around panel 3

29

The average age of the board would've been late 20s in the 2000-2005 era. Pretty sure it skews older now.

32 anyway.

I am as young as the person I'm feeling.

..um.

That post makes you 65

30. Joined when I was 19 or 20. Haven't really grown up in the intervening years.

Loving the Jan 9 cut-off date, as it has given me one final opportunity to be 48.

27. Damn I will have to now calculate when I turn 33 and a 1/3rd.

49

i actually had a 33 1/3 party last month! most people thought it was a dumb idea.
xpost

Well they're dumb!

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Went with "37"

o_O

To see age 31 over all the others is quite staggering.

wau for my age being in second

To see it take it by such a margin I mean

xp

33. First posted on ILX in 2002. First posted on a message board in 1992!

I think my first message board posting was like 1995. good ole BBS days

saturn returns maaan

Legend of the Red Dragon!

mean: 33.16

that's assuming no lol votes - but even if there are the 2 13s and 2 62s more or less cancel each other out / don't matter

1995, me too. BBS'es - had one myself - and dial-up. Times is weird.

i still remember when the closest thing to facebook was people updating their AOL profiles

who else is under 20 besides me & gospodin simmel

(3 years ago the mean was 30.599) xp

http://i.imgur.com/P9qdj.jpg

red = 2008
blue = 2011

Previously, no ilxors would own up to being older than I. Now there are 5 (presently anonymous) folks who claim to be older than 56. The torch has passed to a new gerontation, or so it would seem. Who's up for a bit of shuffleboard?

Sorry, too busy chasing kids off my lawn.

well there's also a good chance that somewhere from 1 to 5 of those were joke votes cause 62 was the new upper limit

"Gerontation" = shorthand for "Geritol nation."

damn fellas we officially have an aging population a la europe or a small town in japan.

where is the new blood!

yeah kinda surprised at the low # of college age posters

a good thing imo. if yr in college u shd be out there in wavy line the world wavy line imo, not debating sitcoms and posting pics of actresses with a bunch of old bloggers.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/41/109772077_fec0a2c4de_z.jpg?zz=1

Ah, the old Wavy Line shops, they all gone / shut now.

36.

13-19: 11
20-24: 23
25-29: 55
30-34: 66
35-39: 49
40-44: 21
45-49: 16
50-54: 7
55-59: 2
60-64: 4

In January 2008 I was in the largest ILX age bracket (28), interesting to see if that is still true... Are all those people born in 1979 still around, or have they dropped off and been replaced by young whippersnappers?

― Tuomas, Monday, February 21, 2011 12:53 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Seems like my first guess was true. I'm still in the largest bracket, ILX is aging with me. :)

31, FTW

largest bracket = common, right?

a good thing imo. if yr in college u shd be out there in wavy line the world wavy line imo, not debating sitcoms and posting pics of actresses with a bunch of old bloggers.

― this odyssey that refuses to quit calling itself (history mayne), Tuesday, March 1, 2011 4:38 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

i still get a fair bit of ~the world~ in in between ilx & studying but sometimes when i'm on too much it really gets to me and i get to feeling like one day i will look back at my youth and be overcome w/ regret. also prob a lot of college students are just on other lame forums & some of them are shy or not that interested in ~the world~

http://i.imgur.com/6T0Dw.jpg

same graph w/ 3 added to the 2008 numbers, interesting how closely some individual peaks/troughs match.

this doesn't 100% imply that ilx has a constant group of users, could also just mean that when people leave they're quite likely to be replaced w/ similar aged users and not teenagers. but I do think you can look at this and think that there's a decent amount of stability in the group of people here. I feel like 31 year olds should consider themselves keepers of the torch.

pleased to see i'm roughly in the middle.

I think that this is the right thread to confess to--I'm 40, not 42. I changed my birthdate because I wanted to obscure some of the ties to my real name; I was going to lie to everyone about some other things but never got around to it. (Everything else is true. I swear.)

I've been on discussion boards since 1989 and here (thanks to rockcritics.com) since 2001.

i've been alive since 1989

you say tomato

I don't believe there are really 4 13-year-olds on ILX.

I am a 52-year-old siamese quadruplet.

I think it's safe to assume that the tail ends of the blue line are jokes

where's Aja?

No one knows.

Aja was reabsorbed into her progenitor.

The ILX poster Aja, yes. (I don't believe either that she posted anything that appeared under her name.) The real Aja, I have no idea.

i am 34, but soon 35.

hey me too!

Now there are 5 (presently anonymous) folks who claim to be older than 56.

I can't remember if I participated in this poll or not (Cue memory joke....) I'm 52.

http://www.kelleytown.com/images/Simpsons/HansMoleman.jpg