How old are you as of Jan 09, 2008?

We're all "1"

yakubu is 18.

25 and 72/73

i actually had to do the math because i wasnt sure

^^^ ditto

discriminating against new born babies

vingt

If a baby started posting here it'd get hounded off the board within seconds anyway so it's kind of academic

you mean to say you get hounded off for typing

this forum is awesome

i actually had to do the math because i wasnt sure

I was only going to admit that to my most beloved, but you guys are making it ok to be old and scatterbrained. :)

24

average age 29-30

30

u guys cant actually not know how old u r come on

Hey, it's easily done! My thirties seemed an approximate age between 33 and 38. Now, I only know too well my age. But, hey I'm alive and get away w/ looking younger, but there are medical reasons why I do, so swings and roundabouts.

I assign a basketball player to my age to help me remember. Last year was Larry Bird. This year is Magic Johnson.

To all you 24-year olds out there, those two men used to play basketball in the NBA for Boston and Los Angeles, respectively.

Can't remember how old she is (one doesn't like to ask) but it's my mum's birthday today!

I assign a basketball player to my age to help me remember. Last year was Larry Bird. This year is Magic Johnson.

-- Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, January 9, 2008 11:16 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this is the guy from the burger king commercials

If a baby started posting here it'd get hounded off the board within seconds anyway so it's kind of academic

-- That mong guy that's shit, Wednesday, January 9, 2008 9:34 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

BAN BEEPS

(don't worry Beeps, that's what we always do with newbies here)

-- StanM, Saturday, March 3, 2007 5:27 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Link
I have never had sex. [Started by Beeps (xbeepsx), last updated Yesterday] 28 new answers

-- milo z, Saturday, March 3, 2007 5:35 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Link

^_^

u guys cant actually not know how old u r come on

dude, wait til you're 44.

i'm 32, and i tend to think i'm 30 or 33.

hang on, am i 32? *counts* ... yeh.

going on 60.

don't you mean 42?

xpost

omg grimly otm i'm 32, and i tend to think i'm 30 or 33.

i'm 34, but when put on the spot about how old i am i really have to stop and calculate it.

I'm 28.

i'm 34

Snap, wow we must be twins.

WHYYYY GOD WE HAD A DEEEAL (30 in May)

but i have the mind and experience of a 26 year old

u wish lol!

HI DERE I WEE'D MESELF

king boy pato?

DON'T LIKE POTATOES THEY YUCKY

19

23.

only 6-18 count

OMG Mr. Plains that is the best mnemonic I've ever heard.

I'm 24 now but will I live to be 24? The way things are going I don't know.

I'm 35 and forget sometimes. I think the average age of ilx will be about.. 28.

THAT NICE MISTER MONGUY WAS RIGHT I HAVE BEEN ONLY HERE FOR A LITTLE BIT AND ONE MAN SAID HE WANTED TO BAN ME AND ANOTHER MISTER CALLED ME A BORT.

23, and I know who Bird and Johnson are, my friends had video game consoles thankyouverymuch.

But yeah I used to do the same w/ hockey players. Six years ago I was Wendel Clark. Four years ago I was Steve Yzerman. Now I'm... what, Chris Drury? Meh.

I assign a basketball player to my age to help me remember. Last year was Larry Bird. This year is Magic Johnson.

you went from 33 to 32?

i'm paul pierce for another two days.

I had remembered Magic being #34. Now I don't know how old I am.

http://ibleedbasketballs.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/magic_johnson.jpg

I had remembered Magic being #34. Now I don't know how old I am.

-- Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, January 9, 2008 1:11 PM (Wednesday, January 9, 2008 1:11 PM) Bookmark Link

http://www.any-sports.com/images/news/pic_9.jpg

veinteuno

Barkley. I was thinking of Barkley.

I am Mj. Or Beckham. But he stole his number from Jordan anyway.

come friday...

http://archives.library.wisc.edu/exhibits/images/ameche/Jersey.jpg

now i just have to figure out who the hell that guy was...

beckham? pffff. SOL CAMPBELL

33 TOMORROW! fuck!

Ameche? Wasn't he in Cocoon?

i know, all i could think was "why would the university of wisconsin be retiring don ameche's jersey?"

it occurs to me that it's probably heisman winner al ameche.

35, going on 15/78, with all of the worst characteristics of all three ages.

the only basketball player's number that i can regularly remember is robert parrish's, and that's not helpful at all, so i tend to forget my age.

though i really should be able to remember that my age is larry bird's number. that's easy.

28, oy.

31, will be 32 in nov 2008

is the ilx median age going to just keep increasing as all the fresh meat passes b+w 90's style conversation board opportunities up for "social networking" sites with their wacky bells and whistles?

er, yes? we have nothing to offer VER KIDS.

which is a good thing.

17

one more year until louis is legal!!!!

Thirty-two. I'll feel young until just after I celebrate my 33 and a third birthday... then I'll think fucking hell. My knees are those of a 60 year old, my temprament that of a 20 year old. I'm stil silly, and I have no mortgage.

GO ME.

if it helps, by 34 you give up.

17? no no nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. half my age. *weeps*

a lot of us *old soolers* are 34. i know dan, ned and uh a bunch of others are.

Ned's 35 going on 36!

No wait, Ned is already 36!

LOL OLD

louis isn't 17 stevie

he is? shit, figured he was of the same year as us.

i am 34, but more middle school than old school

JAGGER IS TIMELESS

28

The 1973 posse runs strong on ILX.

I just turned 50

xpost it was a great year. :-))

wau pwned by m coleman

1973 REPRAZENT!!!

I can one day tell my grandchildren that there was no vice-president in office when I was born.

1973 reprazent.

I must be ok: I remember that thread. Not senile yet.

People always think I'm older, both online and IRL. Maturity or cynicism?

-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 20:50 (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

I am part of the 34-but-had-to-think-about-it posse.

According to some evaluation I did yesterday I have the metabolic age of an 18 year old (I'm 33). nfi how they do this.

You 1973ers have no idea how much 1972 ROCKED

am thoity

twenty seven rules!

I thought Dom was like 19.

Just 40 and the first time in years I haven't had to think about it when asked my age.

THAT NICE MISTER MONGUY WAS RIGHT I HAVE BEEN ONLY HERE FOR A LITTLE BIT AND ONE MAN SAID HE WANTED TO BAN ME AND ANOTHER MISTER CALLED ME A BORT.

-- A baby, Wednesday, January 9, 2008 6:58 PM

^^^ you are nabisco and i claim my 5 dollars

BIG RONG aka the claimmaker

BIG JOHN aka the youngpretender

?

I'm 36 but spent agood portion of the last six months saying I was 37 and not realising I was wrong. Way to age myself!

I'll be 37 in 2 months though.

LJ, I am not "a baby" sockpuppeteer, if thats what you mean.

24

34 in a few months

Jesus Age

I can't believe I was 12 when ILX first started. And I probably would have posted if I had known about it back then.

I was trolling the IMDb boards since October '99! I'm a true veteran of internets!!

James Blunt has caused distinct un-rockage of 1973, surely?

now I r BIG RONG aka the claimmaker too :(

JTS, I don't think I actually used the internet at all until some point late in 2000

(My webforum teeth-cutting took place on the BBC cricket discussion boards, fwiw)

replace BBC cricket discussion boards w/YTMND and I'll agree with you.

23

I'm 39. I'll be 40 next month.

I turned 27 yesterday.

Happy birthday then!

Thanks! It felt much better than turning 20 or 25 did, whatever that entails for the future ...

closer to 40 than 20

23 in exactly a week.

hello everybody, i'm back online after a month without internets. felt like being back in the dark ages.

Yeah they used to take monthly intervals from the internet in the dark ages too.

35 years old, getting perilously close to 36

I'm 36 but spent agood portion of the last six months saying I was 37 and not realising I was wrong. Way to age myself!

my wife spent about 6 months thinking she was 38 when she was 37. when i finally pointed out the mistake it was like she got a whole year of her life back.

Jesus Age

Since Jesus was born on December 25th and died on whatever day Good Friday happened to fall on that year, I've got him beat by, oh, six months or so.

I accidentally told someone I was 22 last week and my wife was like: 'No. You're 23.'

And then I started counting on my fingers like an idiot.

20.

18

im aged 21

old enough to be your father ;_;

now i know why i long back to the old ilx days: i feel like i am walking on my last legs. :-(

26

28

tuomas wtf

seriously

by all accounts you should be struggling in some urban area and acting demoralized about the time and money you spent on postgraduate study at that age. instead, you're tuomas. fucking finland. of all the countries to make brooklyn look bad. finland. tuomas. oh what do I care.

27. Only, what, forty or so years until I can retire. Shame my body will be a mess held together with duct-tape by then.

of course what I really mean is KIPPIS, BITCH

xpost

Oh fine, just xpost me why don't you

by all accounts you should be struggling in some urban area and acting demoralized about the time and money you spent on postgraduate study at that age. instead, you're tuomas.

I think people go the in here uni/college later than in most countries. I started there at 21, which is not uncommon at all. Admittedly, I've spent over 7 years there now, but I've also changed my major two times, and these days I'm working 20 hours a week, so my graduation has kinda been postponed.

"people in here got to the uni/college"

"7 years of college down the drain"
http://www.ugo.com/versus/images/characters/gallery_Bluto_1.jpg

34. There was a time when everyone on ILX was born in 1973.

Tommy: You know a lot of people go to college for seven years.
Richard Hayden: I know, they're called doctors.

and architects

and Gary

i'm 26

haha gershy

im 27 :(

28 & not quite sure where the last 10yrs have gone

28. No complaints.

not quite sure where the last 10yrs have gone

^^^

I'm going to be 40 at the end of the year but I will be lying about my age from here on in.

I'm 31, which is OK really.

you're pretty with it tho (xp)

twenty-eight, yo. every year better and bette-HEY stop throwing things!

xpost

Gee thanks son I like to keep up with what you kids are "into".

another 19 here

27 still :(

so young lol

im 27 :(

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it,

srsly?

for realsies

also, i would like to add that i have the market cornered when it comes to number of years wasted at uni: i've now reached 6yrs+1 semester... and i'm STILL and undergrad!!! (not consecutive years, but like that makes any difference)

You must be really smart by now...

i think i've got progressively less smart

well, you'd think so... but i think i may actually be more stupid than when i started.

hahaha xpost!

"still AND undergrad" - proof positive that i am dumber.

ay, yer whippersnappers, ya most of ya...

Well, at least it's nice to hear I'm not the only perpetual undergrad here.

(x-post)

for realsies

haha sorry i've always assumed you're like 45!!

another 19 here

-- That mong guy that's shit,

yeah right

:O

38 years old and already feeling like I'm staring down the barral of the big four-oh.

And my typing deteriorates with age too.

lol, old ILX are old!

25

31

lol when i was a teenager i thought people in their 30s were the lamest cause they hadnt realized the world had past them by still acting like they were cool

i now im in my 30s and i think im still cool

fwiw i never try to bro down w/teenagers when i encounter them

Girls half my age are now 19. But I still feel horrible perving on 'em.

28, will be 29 in a month or so though.

I am "cooler" than my dad was when he was my age, whatever that's worth (not much).

my dad was way cooler than me when he was my age

he didn't make "friends" with internet people, for a start

he would've HAD IT BEEN POSSIBLE

I am "cooler" than my dad was when he was my age, whatever that's worth (not much).

-- Dr Morbius, Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:17 AM (Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:17 AM) Bookmark Link

when my dad was my age he had a wife, three kids, a house, a mortgage... can not imagine that.

30.

I'm cooler than my dad was at any age.

http://www.soccerfans.com/images/_full/ADI_40183_A.jpeg

i dont know if there are any other 22 y/o's on ilx. hoos and jessie are right around there.

I'm 53. I think there have been a few ILXors older than I, but they couldn't stick it out. Perhaps in this thread a lurker will uncloak who is older.

Yay for Aimless the Kool Elder!

(my five-0 is still a coupla years away:)

29. I feel about 8.

I may not actually be a Kool Elder(tm), but at least I know enough to stay the hell away from ILM. They'd have my guts for garters in nothing flat. ILE has much lower standards for coolth, thank god.

I wasn't trying to be "witty" or "ironic", really.

I didn't think you were. I was only saying my coolness bone-fides were pretty weak, compared to someone like, let's say, Tom Waits or Shaggy.

Shaggy? ;)

Shaggy - so definitely so not a kool elder :)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/397128802_170ffe332b.jpg

Like I said:

http://www.fetefatale.com/meddlingkids/images/shaggy.jpg

also, i would like to add that i have the market cornered when it comes to number of years wasted at uni: i've now reached 6yrs+1 semester... and i'm STILL and undergrad!!! (not consecutive years, but like that makes any difference)

Hahaha, me too, I think exactly! And mine are consecutive. How long until you graduate? I'm either 2009 0r 2010.

It feels weird typing years that are that soon...I've been in college so long it feels like I should just never graduate by now.

if i manage to not fail these two classes i'm taking, i'll hopefully graduate in 5 weeks.

i can't believe that this time last year i was considering graduate studies. fuck that. i'd rather stick my hand in a deep fryer.

i dont know if there are any other 22 y/o's on ilx. hoos and jessie are right around there.

-- max, Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:06 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

max > jessie > hoos > louis > curtis > j0rdan > tape store

WHO ELSE????

Yeah, who else was born when I WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL jesus fuck

if your first video game had thirty-two colors on the screen at one time, you are a punk

my first video game was on gameboy

curtis that list is srsly devoid of gays

u rite, should be louis > stevie d > curtis

whither ramzi, tiarnan :p

I don't know how old he is

haha, those are 2 different names, tiarnan is "I know, right", he's more or less the same age as me

Yeah Curtis, you should really know the ages of posters listed by names that aren't the ones they use on the board, what the hell is RONG with you?

I thought tiarnan was Louis's creepy new pet name for me

nah but u have now given me, the idea

haha well SOME of us remember these things (i'm sad like that) xpost to DP

tiarnan's other half also posts here under the name 'o-ess', i'd assume he's about 20 too

and I thought I was the one being creepy here!

haha you think THAT'S creepy, well i've just located BOTH of them on Facebook based on nothing more than initials and intuition :D

my sweet chumpylumps

That is the grossest pet name I've heard in a while of whiles.

I thought it was the name of the new Black Eyed Peas song.

Anybody else in the mood to expose ILX username identities?

HINT: Just Got Offed is a guy who sometimes wears a dress.

If you take the letters in my name, alphabetize them, put them in reverse order, and then put them in their original order YOU HAVE BROKEN THE CODE.

my first video game was Winky Dink.

http://www.tvparty.com/requested2.html

wau

i had super mario land and my real name is william

i had space invaders. it was a funny little box, and the spaceship moved horizontally across the bottom and you had to shoot the invaders. except it was actually my bro's and he was a shit who would hardly let me play it.

and you may call me justine

I don't like where this thread has gone.

I played "Sabotage" and "Neptune" on an Apple IIe. There was one color, and it was green.

I played "Sabotage" and "Neptune" on an Apple IIe.

SABOTAGE!!!!!!!! fuck, i haven't thought about that in decades.

A kid down the street from me had this new thing called the Odyssey.

Right about the same time we got our first color tv, now that I think about it.

They put that game on iPods now! Although I'm not even sure it's still possible to shoot just the little parachutes on the little men, so they free-fall, screaming, and plop onto little men already on the ground, killing both. (God, I used to love that)

Yeah, who else was born when I WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL jesus fuck

-- HI DERE, Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:33 PM (Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:33 PM) Bookmark Link

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if your first video game had thirty-two colors on the screen at one time, you are a punk

-- El Tomboto, Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:35 PM (Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:35 PM) Bookmark Link

fuk u if you cannot remember when Reagan was prez

whoa, Sabotage and Neptune... was the former a game where you had to avoid spotlights or get shot, and the atter a game where you had ot plant bombs on "nodes"?

...while scuba diving and avoiding sharks and other scuba divers with guns or something?

I suspect these were both computer knock-offs of actual arcade games:

Sabotage = you have a central gun turret; helicopters fly by and drop little paratroopers; if four paratroopers reach the ground on either side, they form a tiny human pyramid and blow up your turret

Neptune = you are in a little undersea submarine (more like a spaceship) going through caves, some of which get narrow and you have to steer all crazy; you have a straight-ahead gun and a bomb-drop that arcs out the back like poop; there are undersea enemies; there are little thingies for either gas or oxygen (can't remember) which you have to shoot to not run out of said thing

OMG we also had KARATEKA:

http://www.webomatica.com/images/blog/2e/karateka_lg.gif

^^^^^^ this fucking game

new desktop

okay, from an adult perspective, does the name "karateka" make me anyone else feel like it's going to be some kind of martial-arts softcore?

w/o the "me"?

reference info for young whippersnappers:Old Age Stuff

also, GET OFF MY LAWN

I guess technically my first video game was a Sesame Street game on a Texas Instruments computer that hooked up to our TV

40 as of last October. If anyone wants to stop on by and shoot me in the fuckin' head, that'd be perfectly swell.

re: KARATEKA

how do you get pass the gate that kills you as you walk past?

Sabotage = you have a central gun turret; helicopters fly by and drop little paratroopers; if four paratroopers reach the ground on either side, they form a tiny human pyramid and blow up your turret.

I remember this game! I used to play it on my cousin's PC back when PC screens had four(?) colours and IBM was the only company making them.

I'm pretty sure my first video game was Super Mario Bros, back when the 8-bit Nintendo had been just released in Europe. Though I had Commodore 64 before that, can't remember what the first game I played on that was.

'sabotage' = 'paratrooper' (paratroo.exe)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

how do you get pass the gate that kills you as you walk past?

HOLY CRAP WHY DO I REMEMBER THIS: you come out of the run and go into your fighting crouch, then advance ever so slowly, ever so slowly, until your toe touches the line and the gate slams down, but AHA, you have nudged back, and now as the gate rises back up, slowly, you run through

Either (a) that works, or (b) I thought that would work and kept trying it but never actually got it to work

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

who can make a quick average?

hahahaha nabisco OTM on karateka gate solution.

HEY LADIES

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/59/Yiearkungfu.png/180px-Yiearkungfu.png

1979 BITCHES

http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/princeofpersia/pop-pc1.jpg

Better than Karateka.

HOW YOU DOIN

27

CONGRATULATIONS

1979 BITCHES

-- bell_labs

HELL YEAH

SUP GIRL

you people are psyched now, but none of you had friends in high school!

/don't even know what that means.

TASTE IT MOTHERFUCKERS

Actually, you know, I'd be curious to know how this has changed over time. Has the average age (I guess this poll measures the mode) increased as a core group of posters has gotten older? Or is this counteracted by other people not posting as much as they get older and younger people discovering ILX for the first time?

20 6

?

1 1 ?
1 100 ?

lurkers xpost

100 1?

lurkers xpost

this would make a great handle

20s: 131
30s: 76
40s: 27
50s: 6
10s: 5

27-30: 68
23-26: 48
31-34: 46
19-22: 29
35-38: 23
39-42: 20
43-46: 13
47-50: 5
over 50: 3
15-18: 2
joeks: 10

Actually, you know, I'd be curious to know how this has changed over time

http://www.garnersclassics.com/pics/billted/stare.jpg

Results look intersting

18 1

barely legal, identify yoself!

The person who clicked '69' would like to chat.

"sixty-nine, dude!"

xp to gabbneb

guys, somehow i get the feeling that it was '69' that voted 69, you know?

When we did this about 5 years ago the answer was 29, and it looks like it's still 29.

well, 28, but i take your point.

18 1

barely legal, identify yoself!

-- gershy, Saturday, January 19, 2008 6:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

prob. Tape Store

1979 BITCHES

-- bell_labs

HELL YEAH

Represent!

I'm sure there's a pocket of the elderly, and possibly some centurians lurking....

I think we can safely assume that the 5 answers in their 90s and the one answer of 100 were fraudulent. The percentage of the population that reach age 90 or above is quite small and only a tiny percentage of those who do would find ILE worth their while.

That leaves three suspect, but remotely plausible answers of 78, 77 and 69. The answer of 69 is too obviously a lol and needs to be tossed. I would not be so cavalier with the other two, if only because of the enduring Google bait of the "TS: Olivia de Haviland vs. Joan Fontaine" thread, which may well have attracted some older folks as lurkers on ILE.

I invite the people who clicked those ages to come forward, either to receive their well-merited congratulations or to confess to their perfidy.