# How old are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 2, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122 "2011-06-02T20:33:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/121 "2011-06-07T16:31:05Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I waited till today to vote because \ _today is my birthday._ … Many Happy Returns! ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/122 "2011-06-07T16:40:31Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I waited till today to vote because \ _today is my birthday._ Unfortunately, that means that at a newly-minted 31 years of age … I fell into the next bracket up in the poll than I did yesterday. Pbbth. I don’t know what this has to do with me, but happy birthday just the same! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/123 "2011-06-07T16:53:24Z")
Looks like the median Doper is about 39 years and 10 months old. I’m 57, but I doubt I look like I’m old enough to be **Onomatopoeia** ’s dad. People are surprised to find out I’m over 50. ---
**Author:** ![Craneop2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Craneop2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craneop2)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/124 "2011-06-08T02:17:34Z")
I’m 61 and the oldest in the SDMB poker group. They make sure to remind me every now and then. They throw a pot or two to the old guy out of pity sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/125 "2011-06-08T02:32:23Z")
47 ish… old enough to know better and young enough not to care. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/126 "2011-06-08T03:46:35Z")
I am old enough this year to know the meaning the life, the universe and everything. So 42. Really, I’m in the best shape of my life, in school, my kid’s heading towards college, my husband is awesome and my life is really very amazing. I just wish this had started at 22, so I’d have more time to enjoy it! ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/127 "2011-06-08T05:04:13Z")
I am fourteen years of age. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/128 "2011-06-08T08:24:32Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > 57 here. > > Someone’s checked the 91 - 100 box. Wow. Looks like they voted in **Giles** ’ poll from last year too. Alright, which one of you clowns is it? ---
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/129 "2011-06-08T09:05:28Z")
26, lurking since I was 15 or so. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/130 "2011-06-08T09:18:40Z")
What a delightfully normal distribution - although you picked extremely odd age brackets, since it virtually drops off at 60+. That should have been a single category, with finer gradations in the age ranges below it. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/131 "2011-06-08T13:15:24Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > 35 as of a few months ago. Fucking shit pig motherfuckers. I’ve lived on my own since I was 18, but never until now felt like a fucking adult motherfucker asshole piss on the cocksuckers. Want to find a real fucking job, stupid fucking can’t finish damned good dissertation not enough books write it on my own publish as monographs fuckers can’t get enough work fucking piano sucking assmouth get a car fuckers need my teeth fucking cleaned too. We’ve switched **Jaledin’s** favorite decaf brand with Starbucks High Output Megacaf Ultracondensed Espresso. Let’s see if he notices… ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/132 "2011-06-08T13:55:20Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I waited till today to vote because \ _today is my birthday._ Unfortunately, that means that at a newly-minted 31 years of age … I fell into the next bracket up in the poll than I did yesterday. Pbbth. > > Incidentally, tomorrow’s “South Park” is about getting old and milestone birthdays. 🙂 > > I look older in some photos taken of me at 15 than I do in some photos of myself now. Mostly: I SUCKED at applying makeup at that age, and now, I just don’t bother. That fresh-faced look must work for me, I guess. Happy Birthday! ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/133 "2011-06-08T17:18:31Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Jaledin** > 35 as of a few months ago. Fucking shit pig motherfuckers. I’ve lived on my own since I was 18, but never until now felt like a fucking adult motherfucker asshole piss on the cocksuckers. Want to find a real fucking job, stupid fucking can’t finish damned good dissertation not enough books write it on my own publish as monographs fuckers can’t get enough work fucking piano sucking assmouth get a car fuckers need my teeth fucking cleaned too. This post is a thing of transcendant beauty and I humbly bow before its awesomeness. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/134 "2011-06-08T17:25:06Z")
Twenty-six. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/135 "2011-06-08T19:00:39Z")
Fifty three. ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/136 "2011-06-08T19:11:25Z")
I’m 41. The greatest reward? Looking younger than I did at 31. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/137 "2011-06-08T19:35:27Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > This post is a thing of transcendant beauty and I humbly bow before its awesomeness. I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/138 "2011-06-08T23:45:26Z")
61 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/139 "2011-06-09T15:05:16Z")
Here’s a comparison with the results from the poll **Giles** posted a year or so ago: ```auto http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=610944 View Poll Results: What age range do you fall into? http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=554352 View Poll Results: How old are you? 13-19 years 6 1.00% 13-20 9 1.82% +0.82% 20-29 years 136 22.67% 21-30 106 21.41% -1.26% 30-39 years 150 25.00% 31-40 138 27.88% +2.88% 40-49 years 159 26.50% 41-50 148 29.90% +3.40% 50-59 years 110 18.33% 51-60 68 13.74% -4.59% 60-69 years 34 5.67% 61-70 23 4.65% -1.02% 70-79 years 2 0.33% 71-80 2 0.40% +0.07% 80-89 years 2 0.33% 81-90 0 0% -0.33% 90 years and older 1 0.17% 91-100 1 0.20% +0.03% Voters: 600 Voters: 495 -105 ``` Draw your own conclusions about what this means. Note that this thread is only 105 voters short of that poll last year, and that last year poll had the most voters in any poll that I have been able to locate! ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/140 "2011-06-09T17:02:03Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Here’s a comparison with the results from the poll **Giles** posted a year or so ago: > > ```auto > > http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=610944 > View Poll Results: What age range do you fall into? > > http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=554352 > View Poll Results: How old are you? > > 13-19 years 6 1.00% 13-20 9 1.82% +0.82% > 20-29 years 136 22.67% 21-30 106 21.41% -1.26% > 30-39 years 150 25.00% 31-40 138 27.88% +2.88% > 40-49 years 159 26.50% 41-50 148 29.90% +3.40% > 50-59 years 110 18.33% 51-60 68 13.74% -4.59% > 60-69 years 34 5.67% 61-70 23 4.65% -1.02% > 70-79 years 2 0.33% 71-80 2 0.40% +0.07% > 80-89 years 2 0.33% 81-90 0 0% -0.33% > 90 years and older 1 0.17% 91-100 1 0.20% +0.03% > > Voters: 600 Voters: 495 -105 > > ``` > > Draw your own conclusions about what this means. > > Note that this thread is only 105 voters short of that poll last year, and that last year poll had the most voters in any poll that I have been able to locate! Now that was impressive. **Zeldar** , YOU tha MAN. 🆒 (I searched your name in the “what’s your gender” threads to be able to write this post.) It makes sense that it got the most voters. Not everybody has an opinion on fashions or cilantro or whatever. But age is, after all, something that _everyone_ here has. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122.md?page=8)