# New fourteen-year-old member saying hello **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 15, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fourteen-year-old-member-saying-hello/618849 "2012-04-15T15:40:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [April 16, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fourteen-year-old-member-saying-hello/618849/41 "2012-04-16T01:46:59Z")
> [@SuperSmartAlex](#): > > **Qin Shi Huangdi** - How much did you pick up? How would you rate your knowledge of German on a scale of 1-10? 0 on most things maybe 1 or 2 on vocabulary. Picking it up mostly from history its skewed toward political and military terms. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fourteen-year-old-member-saying-hello/618849/42 "2012-04-16T01:49:22Z")
Welcome to the Dope, **SSA**. There used to be a 14-year-old member around here, but I guess he’s probably 30 by now. Have fun! BTW, there are a number of Mensa members around here, but we don’t hold it against them unless they act like pretentious idiots. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fourteen-year-old-member-saying-hello/618849/43 "2012-04-16T02:15:14Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > … And just to get your first unwanted attention from a moderator out of the way – [we ask that people post in English only.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7697021#post7697021) … I hope that was directed at those otherwise exemplary posters who were using the non-English word “math”. ---
**Author:** ![Gil-Martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Gil-Martin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gil-Martin)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fourteen-year-old-member-saying-hello/618849/44 "2012-04-16T02:28:35Z")
Greetings. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fourteen-year-old-member-saying-hello/618849/45 "2012-04-16T02:32:51Z")
Wow I wish I were as smart as you ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fourteen-year-old-member-saying-hello/618849/46 "2012-04-16T02:55:05Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Really? I’ve met TONS of teenagers who didn’t think they were bellow average. I think I intended to use a double negative there and didn’t. /headscratch 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fourteen-year-old-member-saying-hello/618849/47 "2012-04-16T05:14:37Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > I was 20 when I joined two years ago and the 90 year olds who make up most of the SDMB population still make me feel like a kid. That’s why I recommend posting in the Pit: Everyone’s a 10-year old there. You mind your manners, sonny boy. > [@Chefguy](#): > > _Ein Bier, bitte_ served me well for three years in Germany. > > **New Kid** : Just stay off our lawns and you won’t get hurt. You’ve been warned. Yeah! > [@Autolycus](#): > > It’s customary when joining to post something TMI. Stories of bodily excretions, sexual picadilloes, or unorthodox uses of bacon are all acceptable. Don’t listen to him. He’s a bad influence. > [@PSXer](#): > > Wow I wish I were as smart as you I do too. 🙂 Welcome, **SuperSmartAlex**. I hope you’ll have a very enjoyable time here. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fourteen-year-old-member-saying-hello/618849/48 "2012-04-16T07:20:27Z")
> [@SuperSmartAlex](#): > > Hello everyone! Welcome! > [@SuperSmartAlex](#): > > My interests are as follows: music (I love composing pieces and I play several instruments). . . I also love studying birds. What kinds of music to you compose and play? What interests you about birds? Are you a birder? Do you study the biology of birds? Their behavior? ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fourteen-year-old-member-saying-hello/618849/49 "2012-04-16T07:25:16Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > You mind your manners, sonny boy. And you stop sending me checks for $7 on my birthdays, grandma! ---
**Author:** ![SuperSmartAlex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@SuperSmartAlex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperSmartAlex)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fourteen-year-old-member-saying-hello/618849/50 "2012-04-16T16:46:44Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Jeff Lichtman** > What kinds of music to you compose and play? I mainly play classical music, especially baroque. My piano teacher says I seem to have a good feel for jazz music, which is strange because I don’t like playing jazz music that much. Most of my compositions are a cross between minimalistic and classical. I love composing pieces. > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Jeff Lichtman** > What interests you about birds? Are you a birder? Do you study the biology of birds? Their behavior? I am not sure what exactly interests me about birds - I just know that I have always been fascinated with them. I am mostly interested in studying their behaviour. My favourite activity is to compose pieces on my piano while looking outside for birds (my piano is pushed up against a large window which shows some natural surroundings). The birds I have observed there include: columbidae (pigeon), Branta canadensis (Canada goose), Erithacus rubicula (European robin) and Pica pica (Eurasian magpie). While these are common birds here, I find them very interesting to observe. Once I got a coupon for a falconer experience day for a combined birthday/Christmas present, which was pretty much the best present I have ever gotten. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fourteen-year-old-member-saying-hello/618849/51 "2012-04-16T17:00:38Z")
Hello. Nice to meet you. I think I might have been a couple of years older than you are now when I discovered the Straight Dope book. I hadn’t heard of alternative newspapers, and I don’t think anybody had heard of the internet. Of course, this was back before the Earth’s crust had cooled, and the Sun was still in the [T Tauri phase](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100401234701AAYNhHq)… I’ve been to Cambridge a few times, and it is lovely. I love the Kings College chapel. Have you read any of Susanna Gregory’s books? She has a series that is set in Cambridge around the time of the Black Death, 1340s and 1350s, that I like very much. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fourteen-year-old-member-saying-hello/618849/52 "2012-04-16T21:01:40Z")
> [@SuperSmartAlex](#): > > **InnerStickler** - I assume you mean “Du hast Kaese in deine Hose”. Anyway, why would you want to say “You have cheese in your pants.”? Wouldn’t you want to know if someone had cheese in their pants? I mean really, who doesn’t have cheese in their pants? 😃 Welcome **SSA**! ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fourteen-year-old-member-saying-hello/618849/53 "2012-04-17T04:42:21Z")
> [@SuperSmartAlex](#): > > Hello everyone! Hello [Blair](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elle_and_Blair_Fowler). 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fourteen-year-old-member-saying-hello/618849.md?page=2)