How old are you?

[mtosev]

I'm 19.

[Canuto]

Does it really matter?

[DanTheBanjoman]

Does it really matter?

Yes, under a certain age it'll be illegal to "love" fellow TPU members.

[Canuto]

Ok... So how old are you?

[Alec§taar]

41

(I'd wager I'm one of the 'more ancient' members here, but probably NOT the oldest!)

:)

* "Old-School"...

Sitting here on my "time-machine" (PC, it is what I call them @ times - 'time warping machines' actually), it is hard to believe...

Time passes fast when you're having fun (& for me, especially during my time on these things learning about them)... & it's why I call them "time machines"...

I have spent a great deal of time on them & it seemed to have "rushed by" in a blink of an eye!

APK

P.S.=> I treat everyone the SAME age for the most part, online... I consider whoever I am speaking to in places like forums, the same age as myself... apk

[wtf8269]

17.

[Ketxxx]

22 :o

[zekrahminator]

16, Markkleb was the oldest member at around 47 until he decided to leave.

[Ketxxx]

scary....another 22 years and ill still be here.....

[DanTheBanjoman]

scary....another 22 years and ill still be here.....

The good die young, W1z will die long before that and this site won't exist anymore.

[DaMulta]

:shadedshu 26

[SeeK]

I'm 15. People tend to think I'm older, though.

[technicks]

I am 25.

[Alec§taar]

Whew... lol!

See my subject-line/thread reply title above, & understand why I said it:

:)

* I appear to be the "elder statesmen" here... @ least, up to this point!

APK

[DanTheBanjoman]

Whew... lol!

See my subject-line/thread reply title above, & understand why I said it:

:)

* I appear to be the "elder statesmen" here... @ least, up to this point!

APK

Your usertitle should be changed to gramps.

[magibeg]

The fine age of 20yrs... little less than half alecs age ;)

[Alec§taar]

Your usertitle should be changed to gramps.

Yea, lol... NO KIDDING!

:)

* Please mods/staff: DO NOT CHANGE IT TO THAT!

APK

[DaMulta]

LOL Change it to Gramps!

[ktr]

19 Ftw!

[Canuto]

Yea, lol... NO KIDDING!

:)

* Please mods/staff: DO NOT CHANGE IT TO THAT!

APK

Change!

Change!

Change!

Change!

:p

At least you'll have a user title :D

I'm 15 btw

[Kasparz]

18 here

[DR.Death]

i am almost 19 just under 3 mounths

[i_am_mustang_man]

20

[JC316]

20, but I look frickin 15. It's embarrasing to go buy an M rated game and be carded for it.

[technicks]

20, but I look frickin 15. It's embarrasing to go buy an M rated game and be carded for it.

On my 21st birthday i went to the store to buy some beer for later that night.
The stupid girl (15 or 16) in the store asked me if she could see my id. Because you can't buy beer under 16.:eek:

Another time when i was already 24 they asked for id when i went to buy some smokes.

I laughed at them and said they could shove it.;)

[Boneface]

good old 32 here

[ktr]

On my 21st birthday i went to the store to buy some beer for later that night.
The stupid girl (15 or 16) in the store asked me if she could see my id. Because you can't buy beer under 16.:eek:

Another time when i was already 24 they asked for id when i went to buy some smokes.

I laughed at them and said they could shove it.;)

you know what they say, the biggest risk is taking a risk...:pimp:

[DanTheBanjoman]

On my 21st birthday i went to the store to buy some beer for later that night.
The stupid girl (15 or 16) in the store asked me if she could see my id. Because you can't buy beer under 16.:eek:

Another time when i was already 24 they asked for id when i went to buy some smokes.

I laughed at them and said they could shove it.;)

Can't blame them for being idiots when they're from the east :P

[technicks]

Can't blame them for being idiots when they're from the east :P

As long as we don't speak like we have a hot potatoe stuck in our throtes.:D Then i am glad to live in the east. :laugh:

[AsphyxiA]

19 almost 20

[Zedicus]

24. havent been carded for alcohol or movies since i was like 16... which came in really handy being able to buy alcohol that young here in the states.

[Solaris17]

18

[jjnissanpatfan]

29

[ace80]

Just turned 26 a week ago
(not to offend any ladies that mite be reading this) as the saying goes ur only as old as the woman u feel, and my gf is 20;)

[Tatty_One]

Damn this isnt good, I am the great Silver one of TPU. bet i look younger than Alec tho! This just aint funny anymore, am thinking of retiring from forums now. Shit I have a 21 year old daughter! Sorry just woke up and realised how old I was!

[DanTheBanjoman]

Damn this isnt good, I am the great Silver one of TPU. bet i look younger than Alec tho! This just aint funny anymore, am thinking of retiring from forums now. Shit I have a 21 year old daughter! Sorry just woke up and realised how old I was!

Is she single? Pic?

[stealthfighter]

I'm 435,453,678,321,653,743,562,456,214,733,663,246,32 4,763,432,643,123,657,653.19631355322 years old.

[xylomn]

19 years here

[pt]

18 years here :cool:
according to my dad 18 months for staying to much time on front of a computer :p

[Protius]

16

[Tatty_One]

Is she single? Pic?

She is single and no you aint gettin a picture! ohhh and I am 46 by the way, forgot to mention that.

[Chewy]

Im 25

I got asked for id the other day for wanting to buy a pack of captain black cigars for my playing of Company of Heros, first friggin time I got id checked in a long long time usually getting checked is nice cause than you feel younger... but fuck I even had a lil bit of facial hair ffs. (she said she has to id anyone under 25, meh Im over 25 but ohwell).

[Canuto]

So how old are you Dan?

[DanTheBanjoman]

So how old are you Dan?

In the time you wrote that you could have clicked my name and have known my age already. It's listed in my profile. That, and more.

As for tatty: pretty please?

[Tatty_One]

In the time you wrote that you could have clicked my name and have known my age already. It's listed in my profile. That, and more.

As for tatty: pretty please?

NO! She's a bit of a "Looker" as well, but then she takes after her Dad :twitch:

[DanTheBanjoman]

NO! She's a bit of a "Looker" as well, but then she takes after her Dad :twitch:

In these times you can't deny her seeing me, or me seeing her pic. She has the right to her own opinion. I vote for asking her if she wants me to see her.

[Tr4cker]

ohhh and I am 46 by the way, forgot to mention that.

Wow, u really cant know someone's age these days. I would never have assumed u for being that old.

[Tatty_One]

Wow, u really cant know someone's age these days. I would never have assumed u for being that old.

Lol, I like to think of myself as a pretty young 46, having spent 27 years in the army and seeing a bit of the world etc etc I would like to think that my outlook is at least fairly "modern".

[ghost101]

18

[Pinchy]

lol yea i wouldnt have known tatty was 46

16 btw :)

[Tatty_One]

In these times you can't deny her seeing me, or me seeing her pic. She has the right to her own opinion. I vote for asking her if she wants me to see her.

Lol....."I can't deny her seeing you" Watch me Danny boy!

[Pinchy]

(dan i dnt think u can win :p)

[Canuto]

Dan has Balls :p ;)

[DanTheBanjoman]

(dan i dnt think u can win :p)

I'm used to being rejected, it has its charmes.

[regg187]

40, I'm hoping between A.S. and Tatty One and W1z, I won't get the Bronze medal.

[Alec§taar]

Damn this isnt good, I am the great Silver one of TPU.

No, it's VERY good... now, those guys can't alter my signature & be truthful about it: YOU are the one who'll get the "gramps" title (DaMulta & a few others wanted my usertitle altered to that one), lol...

bet i look younger than Alec tho!

Hmmm, maybe! You never know... uhm, what is your age in years, anyways? EDIT - Got it! Apparently, you've got 5 years on me, & are 46.

This just aint funny anymore, am thinking of retiring from forums now. Shit I have a 21 year old daughter! Sorry just woke up and realised how old I was!

Don't listen to the "hounds" here inquiring about your kid, lol... they're guys! You KNOW how that is, you are one also, lol!

And, about retiring from forums? Naw... they're good stuff, especially for learning!

APK

P.S.=> DanTheBanjoMan, also: HOW OLD ARE YOU MAN? Ah, upon skimming thru this thread, I noted your signature being mentioned, & you are 22... disregard question on age inquiry directed your way from me... apk

[DaMulta]

Gramps, and Grandpa

[Alec§taar]

Gramps, and Grandpa

Ok, & you can be "grandma"... how's that?

:)

APK

[DaMulta]

LOl I'm young silver one, I'm 26 with a head of silver hair. In fact, I have to keep my head shaved now because of it.

[Alec§taar]

LOl I'm young silver one, I'm 26 with a head of silver hair. In fact, I have to keep my head shaved now because of it.

Got ya... I wouldn't shave your head though man (err, grandma, lol)!

I.E.-> Just let yourself, BE YOURSELF... nobody can take THAT away from you, & there is always that hair dye stuff, but that's a 'vanity expense' & not worth it.

I think folks give you more respect generally when you are older, on the job especially, than when you are younger...

I do @ least, I respect my elders around me immensely, they are generally better to talk to imo, in that they are more mature (w/ out question) & know more 8/10 times.

See, I figure it THIS way:

If someone's lived longer than I have, the odds are generally w/ them that they have seen & experienced more...

Also, the odds also are in their favor, thus, for being better sources of information & experience than younger folks are generally (if they lived their lives educating themselves instead of being idle that is)...

APK

P.S.=> In any event, Grandma (lol)... don't you see it that way yourself too? apk

[Judas]

Got ya... I wouldn't shave your head though man (err, grandma, lol)!

I.E.-> Just let yourself, BE YOURSELF... nobody can take THAT away from you, & there is always that hair dye stuff, but that's a 'vanity expense' & not worth it.

I think folks give you more respect generally when you are older, on the job especially, than when you are younger...

I do @ least, I respect my elders around me immensely, they are generally better to talk to imo, in that they are more mature (w/ out question) & know more 8/10 times.

See, I figure it THIS way:

If someone's lived longer than I have, the odds are generally w/ them that they have seen & experienced more...

Also, the odds also are in their favor, thus, for being better sources of information & experience than younger folks are generally (if they lived their lives educating themselves instead of being idle that is)...

APK

P.S.=> In any event, Grandma (lol)... don't you see it that way yourself too? apk

35 phew i am not the oldest :p

in most cases its true that an older person will know more and be more experienced

But for instance i have only just got into this pc stuff 2 years a go so i am still learning.Some one youger than i will/might know more than i do,
and i dont know that much :)

[malware]

I'm 20 years old...doing computer related stuff since I was 8.

[Alec§taar]

When all is said & done? When folks stop posting here, I am going to compute the "average age" here... on a guess? I would say it's around 25 @ this point...

APK

[Sasqui]

I'm 42. spent good part of highschool programming in Basic and Fortran, pirating AppleII E games, and also writing Lunar Lander for the same (succesfully, with the help of a compiler it ran fast enough), attempted to write Pac-Man with miserable results :o

I design software for a large CAD company.

Got hooked on overclocking with a celeron 466 - wish I could say it was a 300A, LOL.

I still get carded like once a year!

[Alec§taar]

Ah... see? The "scales are beginning to balance" more towards the guys who are around MY age now...

:)

* I am still betting the average age around here will be 25 when all is said & done...

APK

[Canuto]

Here i am with 15 and to think about Alec has the age to be my father lol :p

Alec you have kids?

[Alec§taar]

Here i am with 15 and to think about Alec has the age to be my father lol :p Alec you have kids?

No, thank goodness... to some extent, I will say that, & others? I won't...

Don't get me wrong: I LOVE KIDS, especially little ones (sub 5 years of age), because they are FUN to teach new things & such! My niece & nephew were a great joy to me over time, & why I say that.

I got to be a kid again, while hanging out w/ them (looking at plants, bugs, & other stuff kids like)... nobody could give me guff about it either, lol!

:)

* Yes, kids are great... especially when you do NOT have to deal w/ them everyday (this is what my sister & bro tell me, & they both have kids)!

APK

[Sasqui]

Ah... see? The "scales are beginning to balance" more towards the guys who are around MY age now...

:)

* I am still betting the average age around here will be 25 when all is said & done...

APK

LOL - I saw you were 41, I think? Who was the oldest, do I get the silver medal so far, or just bronze?

[Alec§taar]

LOL - I saw you were 41, I think? Who was the oldest, do I get the silver medal so far, or just bronze?

Tatty_One @ 46, so far...

:)

* There's a few of us though, around OUR age, @ this point @ least... there'll be more!

APK

[JdPower]

21... :toast:

[Migons]

Couple of months over 16..

[Tatty_One]

Tatty_One @ 46, so far...

:)

* There's a few of us though, around OUR age, @ this point @ least... there'll be more!

APK

bah you reminded everyone :shadedshu and I like kids as well, but could not eat a whole one in a single sitting.

[gR3iF]

18

but alec youre way too old ;P
stop acting like a child^^


(sry iam just kidding no way dude go on like always :D)

[Canuto]

We like our "Gramps" as he is :D ;)

[DanTheBanjoman]

We like our "Gramps" as he is :D ;)

Old you mean?

[Canuto]

No, like he is you know... cool

[Tatty_One]

Dan I mentioned you to Katie, she said she couldnt possibly let someone from a nation without a decent football team see her pic, sorry m8.

[pt]

Dan I mentioned you to Katie, she said she couldnt possibly let someone from a nation without a decent football team see her pic, sorry m8.

ahah, that one is a killer :laugh:

[Tatty_One]

ahah, that one is a killer :laugh:

Don't know what your laughing at.....that rules you out as well!

[PVTCaboose1337]

A week over 16, yeah.

[Canuto]

Don't know what your laughing at.....that rules you out as well!

Excuse me :wtf: who won in the eurocup and the world cup :p

[Chewy]

2010 baby 2010! I will win, Tatty gonna hate me lol. hope not.

I had a very ugly encounter with a bad Englishman because I was wearing a Brazil jersey at the airport, lucky I'm not to into the sport and dident care much about his vocal of how Brazil sucks at soccer, or some crap.

[Canuto]

I don't want to discuss soccer we'll end up mad at eachother so till 2010 :)

[Polaris573]

Bah we all no the U.S. is going to win the next one....... lol :rolleyes:

[OOTay]

im 15

but alec can i have a dollar since your 41? :P

[Alec§taar]

but alec can i have a dollar since your 41? :P

Yea, ok... if you send me $10 for the shipping & handling charge to send it to you!

:)

http://games.activision.com/games/simpsons/images/front_burns.gif

* Got my "Grandpa Burns" thing going on in reply to THAT... lol!

APK

P.S.=> And, besides, I'm NOT "Grandpa" here, lol... Tatty_One is so far, iirc... he's 5 years past me! apk

[Thermopylae_480]

I'm 20.

[DanTheBanjoman]

Dan I mentioned you to Katie, she said she couldnt possibly let someone from a nation without a decent football team see her pic, sorry m8.

So, now I know her name :)

Number 7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Rankings) of the world isn't too bad, it's only 2 places lower than England. I think this could work out.

[OOTay]

Yea, ok... if you send me $10 for the shipping & handling charge to send it to you!

:)


That sounds like an excellent deal. Ill have that to you by tomorrow...

[GLD]

Xxxvi

(Dang, I can't get it to stay all caps.)

[OOTay]

haha your 36....

[Azn Tr14dZ]

It would be great if someone was 69 Years Old...damn that would be great.:laugh: Lol 69...

[pt]

Don't know what your laughing at.....that rules you out as well!

:ohwell: :cry: :ohwell:
but we beat you... :slap:

[Pinchy]

We have the best football team (or as we call it soccer in AUS) over here :D...we only got ripped off :rolleyes:

:laugh: :ohwell: :p

[tigger]

37 here.

one compo i cant beat you on alex.lol

[Solaris17]

question (though somewhat biased because of the few members) what do you olde generation folks think about so many young people getting into computers and knowing sometimes just as much as yourself in the feild?

[tigger]

i think these young uns are lucky,when i was a tad younger all we had was the speccy and vic20 etc.i wish there'd a been these sorta machines around then.

[tong]

26 turning 27, American born, Portuguese raised, living in america... now to start a riot: Viva Benfica

[Tatty_One]

Excuse me :wtf: who won in the eurocup and the world cup :p

Not Portugal or Holland thats for sure...........:rockout:

[Tatty_One]

Excuse me :wtf: who won in the eurocup and the world cup :p


Ahhhh you actually mean who beat England in those 2, well the same answer would come from Katie to an englishman!!!

[Tatty_One]

2010 baby 2010! I will win, Tatty gonna hate me lol. hope not.

I had a very ugly encounter with a bad Englishman because I was wearing a Brazil jersey at the airport, lucky I'm not to into the sport and dident care much about his vocal of how Brazil sucks at soccer, or some crap.


I already do so no worries there! :D

[Tatty_One]

So, now I know her name :)

Number 7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Rankings) of the world isn't too bad, it's only 2 places lower than England. I think this could work out.

Damn!!!:eek:

[Tatty_One]

question (though somewhat biased because of the few members) what do you olde generation folks think about so many young people getting into computers and knowing sometimes just as much as yourself in the feild?

It saddens me because I had a life before I got into them!!!!!:D

[DanTheBanjoman]

Not Portugal or Holland thats for sure...........:rockout:

My father is from Greece, I have both Greek and Dutch nationalities (can't get rid of a Greek one). Which works in my favor today, who is the European champion again?

[Tatty_One]

i think these young uns are lucky,when i was a tad younger all we had was the speccy and vic20 etc.i wish there'd a been these sorta machines around then.


When I was younger it was an abacus!

[Tatty_One]

26 turning 27, American born, Portuguese raised, living in america... now to start a riot: Viva Benfica


They need all the Viva you can give them m8 cause they are cr*p!! :D

[INSTG8R]

I'm 31

[tong]

They need all the Viva you can give them m8 cause they are cr*p!! :D

Wow it's that early in the afternoon there and you've already been drinking, damn, that's like 10 replies when u could of done it all in one post. Next time at least offer some beer to the rest of us, god know i haven;t had any good beer since i left Europe, the stuff they sell here is bottled, carbonated, horse piss. Then there's the import beers: they add so much preservitaves that it tastes worste then the bottled horse piss. Buy me a pint.

[Canuto]

Benfica lol, Sporting!!!

:p

[tong]

BENFICA, and don't make me fly my ass back over there to prove it...

[Alec§taar]

question (though somewhat biased because of the few members) what do you olde generation folks think about so many young people getting into computers and knowing sometimes just as much as yourself in the feild?

I have met a couple that qualify on that account, & I can say this:

You younger folks DO have 2 great advantages most of us older folks didn't:

#1. Being the INTERNET (as it is today)!

(Yes, I had the 'advantage' over most folks I knew around my age, of being able to @ least use it SPARINGLY ONLY in the 1980's & it was mainly on UNIX BBS' type systems)...

However, ever since oh, around 1994 or so? That's when the web of today started up imo, & that's when I got "into it" again!

That's when webbrowsers came along (like NetScape &/or MOSAIC)... & the earliest search engine that was GOOD that I can recall in AltaVista!

The web of today is SO much better than Telnet, FTP, Archie, & Gophers, via working the web thru search engines, especially HTML & port 80/8080/443 out there now, blow away the internet of the 1980's & early 1990's... trust me on that account!

More content, better organized & categorized, & better search, AND FASTER BY FAR!

MOST OF ALL?

I remember using 1200-2400 baud modems...

Sure, you didn't NEED as much speed, as the content was often WAY smaller (e.g.-> Programs especially) back then, in the 16-bit world, even for a while during the transition to 32-bit...

STILL, the net until 1998 or so? It was MEGA-SLOW, & the content often questionable as to how well it worked etc. (no time for debugging or critiques of it, not enough folks got to the material yet by that point etc. to do so).

The second advantage you younger folks have?

#2. Older folks (like us)!

By our writing down SO much info. in our time out here, having it 'debugged' & critiqued to "perfection" (or, a more perfected state rather) & publishing it out here online for ALL including yourselves?

WELL, it's yours to grow from... you & I both, stand on the shoulders of giants in THAT area.

Believe me, in my day? We didn't have the amount of TRULY SOLID CONTENT AVAILABLE & getting to it using Telnet, FTP, Archie, &/or Gophers? Not nearly as good or easy.

I say this especially about programming, 1/2 of where this all comes from (the other side being hardware advancing as well)...

I.E./E.G.-> The SHEER wealth of the volume of literature, help files, forums & sites, + EXCELLENT 3rd party controls (like Delphi/C++ Builder VCL &/or ActiveX OLE Server Controls & libs + the amount of code snippets available today are astounding too!)... It's TRULY outstanding by comparison to what we had available in my day, when I was YOUR age(s).

Where'd all that come from? US OLDER DUDES!

:)

* You youngsters? You OWE us I figure... lol!

APK

P.S.=> That's my unbiased & straight take on that... You youngsters are the future & all that, so get out here, learn a TON, get some kick-ass skills & do something wild for us oldsters to use & have fun with... make it a better world, faster, in SOME capacity, & make yourself wealthy too if possible via learning... it's there, take it, do something worthwhile w/ it... apk

[Canuto]

Benfica got owned last night 3-0(against Celtic) :p

[tong]

That doesn't count, i wasn;t in the country to watch it.... LOL.. last game i saw was in the 90's and they won, so they still pwn

[i_am_mustang_man]

That doesn't count, i wasn;t in the country to watch it.... LOL.. last game i saw was in the 90's and they won, so they still pwn

i follow this logic for most every thing i support :)

[Tatty_One]

My father is from Greece, I have both Greek and Dutch nationalities (can't get rid of a Greek one). Which works in my favor today, who is the European champion again?

I think it's that team that were not good enuff to qualify for the world cup, .....damn what they called????????:confused: I think they were named after a film starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton whatshername!

[pt]

26 turning 27, American born, Portuguese raised, living in america... now to start a riot: Viva Benfica

GLORIOSO SLB :D
pena termos levado 3 secos :o

[cdawall]

why is this thread still going man its like a bad penny

[giorgos th.]

**off topic**
I`m 25..

[Casheti]

15 FTW! *ahem*

[Canuto]

Good old 15 ;)

[Casheti]

Yeah, 15 is t3h pwnz0r. Ain't got much money at this age tho :(

[Polaris573]

Yeah, 15 is t3h pwnz0r. Ain't got much money at this age tho :(

Haha I'm 20 and I don't have much money. Get used to it. Especially if you go to college.

[tong]

Haha I'm 20 and I don't have much money. Get used to it. Especially if you go to college.

Wait, it gets worste, all the tech toys you want, then the GF/wife and the kids... it doesn;t get better. I'd rather be 15 and broke, at least the bills came in someone elses name. Now i'm 26 and broke and they come in my name.

[Casheti]

I just got £50 from work experience. I wasn't supposed to get paid at all. Ownage.

[OOTay]

when i get older i want to be a fireman! weeeeeeeee not.

[Casheti]

=0

[strick94u]

16, Markkleb was the oldest member at around 47 until he decided to leave.

Does that make me the oldest at 46?can I add that to my signature? Beware of old guy

[Canuto]

:eek: :eek:

[Tatty_One]

Does that make me the oldest at 46?can I add that to my signature? Beware of old guy

perhaps not :D

[savor_of_filth]

21...

Live Fat Die Young...

[Tomcat81970]

i am 10001 in binary, 11 in hex, and 17 in decimal.

[Tatty_One]

I'm just old and knackered.

[Canuto]

Now now being old isn't bad at least you have a job and can buy all the techie stuff you want :D

[Pinchy]

good point ;)