How old will you be in 2015?

[Scheherazade]

Yes, 'tis the season to be merry and answer that dreadful question:

How old will you be in 2015?

Please take the poll!

[Pompey Bum]

Old. And since the site says that "old" is too short a post, let me add: old enough to know better.

[Scheherazade]

... old enough to know better.Also wise enough to do so as well? ;)

Please don't forget to take the poll!

[Pompey Bum]

Please don't forget to take the poll!

Eh? The pill? Time again so soon?

[Clopin]

24 In August

[Calidore]

My last year in that category. :cryin:

[Dreamwoven]

73, but not until the autumn.

[MANICHAEAN]

It's comforting to see a respectable number of old codgers in the 70-75 bracket.

[Marbles]

Maturing in years is a beautiful process. Early youth is grossly idealised. I'm 31 in '15 and I can't wait to be 41, and wiser!

[MANICHAEAN]

Ah, bliss it was that very Dawn to be alive.

[Dreamwoven]

It's comforting to see a respectable number of old codgers in the 70-75 bracket.

I was also surprised.

[Dreamwoven]

Some of the oldies might be interested in the British TV and Radio site . http://whirligig-tv.co.uk.

[Scheherazade]

Maturing in years is a beautiful process. Early youth is grossly idealised. I'm 31 in '15 and I can't wait to be 41, and wiser!That is an urban myth.

Ageing does not necessary do what it says on the tin!

As a side note...

Is maturing overrated a little? Look at mature cheese! Hardened and smelly...

Let's hope that we will remain true to ourselves.

[Pompey Bum]

I answered the poll truthfully, but for some reason my category did not come up on the results display. I am in my mid-fifties in any case. I have been upfront about that since day one here, but I am not surprised in the least to see others older than me. I think the codgers here would be more open about it if the kiddies didn't act like we had some kind of disease.

And it actually is kind of fun to age. You get to laugh at all the little boys who still want to compete with you over women and money (or just 'cause that good ol' testosterone is squirtin' through their veins); not to mention the intended manipulations of young ladies who think you still care all that much about their bra size. Sorry kiddies--been there, done that, still miss it sometimes. But this is so much better.

On the other hand, aging sometimes seems like a mean practical joke. Just when you learn to appreciate beauty, you lose yours. Just when you become comfortable in your own skin, the rest of the machine falls apart. Just when you lose any residual hang ups about sex--well never mind. God has a sense of humor, yes, but He can seem a little frat boy-ish at times. (Maybe in God years He's still a kid--who knows?)

What I object to is the assumption that because I'm having fun, I must be "trying to act young." That strikes me as a kind of prejudice. Everyone tries to have fun. If your parents hadn't been trying, you wouldn't even be here. But maybe that's where the repulsion comes from: it calls to mind the unthinkable. I will conclude my comments with an exhortation toward greater maturity to LitNet's young men (wake up, Clopin). A man your age wrongly believes that the most important organ in his body is his penis. With age and wisdom comes the mature understanding that it is actually his prostate. I have to run.

[Marbles]

That is an urban myth.

Ageing does not necessary do what it says on the tin!

As a side note...

Is maturing overrated a little? Look at mature cheese! Hardened and smelly...

Let's hope that we will remain true to ourselves.

Haha I like the simile. Reminds me of a now gone family elder who got bitter and bitter with advancing age in a textbook case of a cantankerous old man.

[easy75]

I will hit the big FOUR OH this coming year. I am pretty active and healthy, but as a black man in America I think my expiration date may be coming up. Something is bound to get me. Heart disease. Diabetes. The NYPD. Lol.

[Scheherazade]

Interesting to see how things change on the Forum... A few years back, it used to be that more than half of the Forum members (at least those who answered the poll) were in their 20s or younger whereas now it seems like we have a group who is more... rich in years.

[Clopin]

THAT Pomp call out, you would like me in real life, I swear. And I would have pegged you at mid 30's from your writing style. Yung at heart xD

[Dreamwoven]

I answered the poll truthfully, but for some reason my category did not come up on the results display. I am in my mid-fifties in any case. I have been upfront about that since day one here, but I am not surprised in the least to see others older than me. I think the codgers here would be more open about it if the kiddies didn't act like we had some kind of disease.

And it actually is kind of fun to age. You get to laugh at all the little boys who still want to compete with you over women and money (or just 'cause that good ol' testosterone is squirtin' through their veins); not to mention the intended manipulations of young ladies who think you still care all that much about their bra size. Sorry kiddies--been there, done that, still miss it sometimes. But this is so much better.

On the other hand, aging sometimes seems like a mean practical joke. Just when you learn to appreciate beauty, you lose yours. Just when you become comfortable in your own skin, the rest of the machine falls apart. Just when you lose any residual hang ups about sex--well never mind. God has a sense of humor, yes, but He can seem a little frat boy-ish at times. (Maybe in God years He's still a kid--who knows?)

What I object to is the assumption that because I'm having fun, I must be "trying to act young." That strikes me as a kind of prejudice. Everyone tries to have fun. If your parents hadn't been trying, you wouldn't even be here. But maybe that's where the repulsion comes from: it calls to mind the unthinkable. I will conclude my comments with an exhortation toward greater maturity to LitNet's young men (wake up, Clopin). A man your age wrongly believes that the most important organ in his body is his penis. With age and wisdom comes the mature understanding that it is actually his prostate. I have to run.

This was a fun read, so true and the funniest for a long time. Thanks Pompey!

[Pompey Bum]

This was a fun read, so true and the funniest for a long time. Thanks Pompey!

You're welcome, DW.


THAT Pomp call out, you would like me in real life, I swear. And I would have pegged you at mid 30's from your writing style. Yung at heart xD

Oh I like you fine as it is. But yes, like Sigmund Freud before me, deep down inside I'm still Jung. :)

[Scheherazade]

Seems like now only 1/3 of the Forum members under 30.

[domclaudefrollo]

I'll be twenty and it terrifies me.

[BartV90]

Turning 25 in September.

[Jalhan]

I'm the only one in my age group, I am only but a child.

[unmadmildred]

I answered the poll truthfully, but for some reason my category did not come up on the results display. I am in my mid-fifties in any case. I have been upfront about that since day one here, but I am not surprised in the least to see others older than me. I think the codgers here would be more open about it if the kiddies didn't act like we had some kind of disease.

And it actually is kind of fun to age. You get to laugh at all the little boys who still want to compete with you over women and money (or just 'cause that good ol' testosterone is squirtin' through their veins); not to mention the intended manipulations of young ladies who think you still care all that much about their bra size. Sorry kiddies--been there, done that, still miss it sometimes. But this is so much better.

On the other hand, aging sometimes seems like a mean practical joke. Just when you learn to appreciate beauty, you lose yours. Just when you become comfortable in your own skin, the rest of the machine falls apart. Just when you lose any residual hang ups about sex--well never mind. God has a sense of humor, yes, but He can seem a little frat boy-ish at times. (Maybe in God years He's still a kid--who knows?)

What I object to is the assumption that because I'm having fun, I must be "trying to act young." That strikes me as a kind of prejudice. Everyone tries to have fun. If your parents hadn't been trying, you wouldn't even be here. But maybe that's where the repulsion comes from: it calls to mind the unthinkable. I will conclude my comments with an exhortation toward greater maturity to LitNet's young men (wake up, Clopin). A man your age wrongly believes that the most important organ in his body is his penis. With age and wisdom comes the mature understanding that it is actually his prostate. I have to run.

This was definitely worth the read! And funny because I was just thinking earlier tonight how getting older is cruel joke...for most of the reasons you'd mentioned.




While I'm approaching the richly ambiguous age of 29 (in 2015) when the life of my early 20's seems fruitless and exhausting, but the perception I have of life in my thirties seems either boring or too far away to see clearly...I've given up on age. There are plenty of more important things to define myself with.

[bare-elf]

let us just say that I am old enough to know better and young enough to still attempt things I would be better not doing like riding a bicycle without a helmet because it will mess up my hair.

[Clopin]

Pfffft, I don't ride a bicycle in the first place because it messes up my hair.

[YesNo]

At my age, I blow dry my hair to mess it up and make it look like there's still some hair there.

[Lemual poot]

I don't take polls if I can help it especially online polls. Anyhow it's 2015 now so I'm already at the inquired about age. Until November 14 that is, when magically I'll be a year older than I was on November 13, how does that work anyhow?

[Lemual poot]

I was just reading a bit of some of your comments about aging. I'm sorry guys but I can't help but to pity your ladies. I'll be 70 in a year and a few months and I make love to my woman almost every day. ("Almost on Monday, then almost on Tuesday, then almost..." Jack LaLanne) Seriously though, I fervently believe you don't lose what you always use, so she and I still engage in a daily equipment check so to speak.

I still try to hide my drool when I see a hottie walking across a parking lot. It's just that now instead of giving me a smile and hopefully a phone number she holds the door for me. Sure it now takes me all night to do what I used to do all night but it's still worth the effort. The reasons most men my age don't engage in sex are usually alcohol, stress, or their wives don't turn them on anymore. Hey we don't cut much of a figure either but our women cope. Learn to deal with it. It's not always a bed of roses you know. You have to work and sacrifice as I do to keep a marriage interesting. When my wife complained about me pasting Playboy centerfolds on her bag I stopped doing it; I'm not too big to make concessions!

[wrc]

No matter how old you are, you're not dead 'til you're dead, and when you are you won't know it. So keep writing and having fun 'til you run out of days.