Since people are always shaving 6-10 years off their guesses, maybe I should start doing it!
Some of the questions are, as it so often happens, missing the real option: Baseball caps look best… not on anybody’s head. Seriously. And wearing them backwards is copied from a TV cop (TJ, the sniper in SWAT) Hilarity, an ice lolly is one of those ice creams which are colored-ice-on-a-stick. A Magnum is a brand of ice cream on a stick (they usually involve chocolate and I understand they’re supposed to be geared towards women). And an ice cream cone is, well, an ice cream cone.
56/43. Odd questions, some are impossible to answer. Yeah, lolly or magnum? Whu? And after dinner, I go home and go to sleep, not drink coffee or go get blotto.
Cronologically: 56
Mentally: 37
Physically, according to my Wii Fit: anywhere from 26 to 44, though one time it said 61
The fact that I have a Wii Fit proves I’m indeed over 50.
Jessica Simpson is definitely “so over”. I’m sure that took 10 years off my score.
Some questions I couldn’t answer correctly. When planning a party, the first thing to decide is whether musicians will be bringing instruments or not. But I had to pick “Consider inviting neighbors.” I wonder what that did to my score. In fact, I don’t usually have to “consider”, I just invite them. They’re mostly older, but mentally young enough to enjoy being invited to a crazy party with ad-hoc live music and great food.
Chronological age, 59 on 7 January. Mental age, 42, which is basically how I still think of myself. I think I hit my peak right around then, in just about every field.
“I still think of myself as I was 25 years ago. Then I look in a mirror and see an old bastard and realise it’s me.”—The late Dave Allen, may he rest in peace!
They’re the ultimate ice cream, chocolate, caramel-y bar. And when I partake in the tropical sun I get chocolate all around my mouth and dripping on my swim-suited chest.
I just tried taking it twice, to see how reproducible the results were. The good news is, its two mental age estimates for me were within a year of each other. The bad news was, it asked 19 of the same 20 questions both times.
Oh, and the worse news is, it never actually asks users for their real age, so it can recalibrate as needed. They’ve got a perfect opportunity for data collection, here, and they’re passing it up.
Ain’t that the truth? I kind of expected my mental age would be about 12, but it’s 42. Of course, I also expect I would have gotten the same results when I actually was 12.
(TJ, the sniper in SWAT)
