How old are you, DUers? (poll) Please vote! lol

[DemocraticPatriot]

Last edited Sat Mar 5, 2022, 04:58 AM - Edit history (1)

I was driven to create this poll by the seeming absence of DUers in the late-night hours, so I have my suspicion as to how it will turn out... hell, I would not be awake myself at this time, and lately am not-- except I woke up so early yesterday (5 am) that I fell asleep in the early evening for 5-6 hours, and am thus now awake in the middle of the night... lol


Love you all!

Edit: sorry, I forgot, I am 59 years old... but looking good for my age-- genes from my father. lol

159 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Under 18 years
	0 (0%)
	18-29 years
	0 (0%)
	30-39 years
	6 (4%)
	40-49 years
	17 (11%)
	50-59 years
	32 (20%)
	60-69 years
	55 (35%)
	70-79 years
	41 (26%)
	80 and above years
	8 (5%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[DemocraticPatriot]

1. What I am hearing on the radio right now...

Love this station, 60s-70s and a little 80s


I was born in late 1962, was "in utero" during the Cuban Missile crisis....
I was raised on 'flower power music' coming from the AM radio in the car, many years before I knew what 'flower power' meant... but that music still touches my soul......

[PlanetBev]

34. Always loved that song

And the Grassroots. Great group.

[canetoad]

2. I think you forgot something DemocraticPatriot

You haven't voted.

[DemocraticPatriot]

5. Now i have. 59

[canetoad]

8. Thank you!

Can't have us all letting our secrets out without a bit of quid pro quo.

[DFW]

3. Ask me two weeks from today

My category changes then

[róisín_dubh]

4. Are you finally turning 40?!?

Hello from England.

[DFW]

26. Well.................don't tell anyone this, OK?

Our elder daughter just turned 39 last Tuesday, and we don't want her to get wise to us.

Hello back from, umm, hold on, let me check, ah, OK--Germany! (I was still in Spain this morning)

[DemocraticPatriot]

6. but we ask tonight, not 2 weeks later

lol

[DFW]

27. I use my DU right to refuse to answer

On grounds that it might tend to intimidate me.

[Dial H For Hero]

33. I turn 60 myself in about three weeks.

[DFW]

41. Been there, done that:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/101879659

[DemocraticPatriot]

7. 'Early returns' suggest that we are mostly older than shit

but everyone needs a place to hang out, yes?


(I presume the returns would have been younger, if posted on 'TikTok'... but wtf is tiktok? jajajaja)

[canetoad]

10. Periodically

Someone runs a poll on DUers ages. As far as I remember, it's always been an older group here - growing older by the day.

[DFW]

28. I'm not the same age I was when I joined

Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.

[ms liberty]

29. Thank you for that reference! Many of us here will get it

But IRL I'd draw a blank stare, more often than not!

[DFW]

30. As the saying goes......

"We are of an age"

[MuseRider]

38. And what a great age!

Love the song quote.....somehow I am going to have to look it up as the song and that line are running through my head frantically and I cannot for the life of me remember who and what! Age and a heart that somehow decided that O2 was not needed for a while and I may as well be 120 years old!! (only 68)

[DFW]

77. It's from a Bob Dylan song

"My Back Pages"

The best cover was by the Byrds on their Younger Than Yesterday album. That album was so full of fabulous songs, the Dylan song was only average compared to the others on there. That album was full of omens as to where the members of the Byrds were going--McGuinn and Hillman tending toward country rock, with Crosby doing some avant-garde stuff like his work with the Jefferson Airplane on their Crown of Creation album before joining up with Stills, and then Graham Nash, and finally, Neil Young.

[DemocraticPatriot]

55. Love 'The Byrds' too... nt

[DFW]

75. Musically, their version was by far the best

Like so many of their well-known songs, this one, too, was written by Bob Dylan.

[DemocraticPatriot]

69. yes, the site started about 20 years ago, yes?

I know I had a previous username around 2004, maybe something having to do with John Edwards (what a disappointment he turned out to be), but I forgot it long ago and migrated to some other online interests....


Love the Byrds reference. lol. It is very obscure now, but I recognize it. I believe Tom Petty did a cover for that song, but not sure now..... I still mourn his passing.

[DFW]

74. Tom Petty was indeed a loss! Btw, it was the Byrds who did the cover

My Back Pages was a Dylan song

[orleans]

9. bedtime is 3am

and it's been that way thru the decades (not because i'm old or young)

some people are just night owls.

[True Dough]

12. You're a true night owl

I consider myself the same, but I usually pack it in around 1:30 a.m.

Up now because of falling asleep in my recliner. Will be trying to catch a few more ZZZs shortly.

[Raine]

15. Same here, I'm a night owl plus I have terminal insomnia. I've always been up when everyone

else is sleeping, young or old makes no difference.

[wackadoo wabbit]

19. I'm definitely a night owl, and I wish I could get to sleep by 3

My body's ideal sleeping time is ~6 a.m. to ~2 p.m.

I've been a night owl all my life. When I was a small child, I'd go to sleep later than my parents.

[smirkymonkey]

44. Same here, but I'm more like 3-4am to 10-11am.

Which kind of sux when you still have to work a regular 9-5 job. I had to start taking sleeping pills to get to sleep on time during the week, but it's still very hard to wake up in the morning.

On the weekends, I just let myself go with my natural body clock, but Monday is always an adjustment, which is why it is nice to be able to wfh. I can sleep in until the very last minute.

[DemocraticPatriot]

71. I have found the supplement "melatonin" to be helpful for sleep..

Stronger sleep drugs left me with a "hangover", such as 'sominex'....

Melatonin is natural and had no such effect, so I would recommend it to regulate sleep.

[DFW]

78. Way back when, I was presented with option of a desk job with regular hours. I was 23. I passed.

I have been doing this "get your sleep when you can" job ever since. Five countries a week is not unusual (sleep is). It is definitely more stressful now (I'll be 70 in a week) than it was when I started at age 23. But I don't regret it. I would die of boredom at a desk job, and love being on the road, seeing friends and colleagues in places like Paris, Barcelona, Zürich, Brussels, Utrecht, and a lot of etc. every week. The pay is great, and I get to take as much vacation as I can justify. No boss or supervisor looking over my shoulder. So far, I take the downside part in stride, because not many people have the perks I do, and I am not blind enough to ignore that.

[orleans]

59. i'd be up later too if i had more options

and i'd sleep later than i do (and longer)

when i was in my teens and twenties 5 or 6am -2 was my sleep time too

(drove my parents crazy but they understood. they even put up black out shades on my bedroom windows!)

summer was the hardest time to get to sleep because the birds would be waking up and they were LOUD.
i had one friend whose sleep schedule was like mine. i remember how we'd bitch about those morning birds.

[yellowdogintexas]

58. same here I was always a night owl.

Probably would have functioned well as a third shift worker.

At least now I don't have to be somewhere masquerading at 7:00 am, pretending to be awake

I go to bed after I check in here at 1:00 am or so, then read until I fall asleep on my Kindle

[True Dough]

13. I'm about to exit the category you just entered

Not right away, but next January, I turn 50. My wife and most of my immediate relatives are older than I am so they've been waiting several years to heckle me for finally climbing that hill (and then tumbling down the other side, no doubt).

[Eureka]

14. The really interesting thing about our age is that when (a lot) of us joined we were two categories

earlier.

There are so many here (even with low post counts!) that have put in the better part of two decades.

DU rocks!

[StevieM]

53. It's hard to believe that I first joined DU 17 1/2 years ago.

I can't believe how long I have been here for.

[betsuni]

16. I don't think age matters. A person is an idiot, or they're not.

[brer cat]

24. +1

[DFW]

79. Agreed. I've been an idiot for over half a century.

So far, it hasn't been so bad.

[Myrddin]

17. I rarely engage in discussion because of time zone difference.

Your middle of the night was my late morning (10:50, here in the Middle East).

In the mornings, I watch live Eastern time MSNBC - All in, TRMS & Last word - just before I go to work. Many discussions are initiated by these shows and I have a class full of students when said discussions are at their most interesting/active. By the time I finish work most of the US has turned in for the night.

[betsuni]

18. Yes, not all of us are in the U.S.

My morning is the end of the American day and I'm often puzzled by posts assuming everyone knows what happened. Have to root around to find out.

[denbot]

20. Boomers Baby!

[Shermann]

21. I thought you needed less sleep as you got older?

One's late night is another's early morning.

[Kaleva]

22. Will DU grow old and fade away?

A large percentage of us are 60 or older. I was 49 when I joined. I'm 63 now

[berniesandersmittens]

25. It's the weekend

Younger DUers may have fun young shit to do.

Im a waaay older 40something in body and soul.

Love you, you old farts

[DFW]

81. Some of us older DUers occasionally find fun shit to do, too (state secret)

You never know who you're gonna run into if you get around a bit:







And sometimes, I even get to show other DUers around when they visit me over here:






Or when we visit Dallas:


So, MAYBE we old farts don't have much fun shit to do..........
But if that's true, I definitely haven't heard about it.

[Hekate]

31. Have you considered the time zones we live in?

[milestogo]

32. Celerity is just a baby!

We love you

[Celerity]

72. Thankies!

[Wounded Bear]

35. Old enough to know better, but young enough to not really care...

[PlanetBev]

36. I jumped on DU when I was 50

Now I’m 71. How the hell did I get this old?

Still fighting the same regression politics and the same RW lunatics, only worse.

[MineralMan]

39. DUers are mostly older.

Every poll like this demonstrates that.

[FakeNoose]

40. It's because the younger ones are all busy

... on Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, etc.

I'd rather be on DU any day because people here are nicer and respectful of other opinions. Besides that, I've learned a LOT on DU because posters really know things here, and they share their knowledge generously.

[DemocraticPatriot]

70. yes, "message boards" have somewhat fallen 'out of favor'

in the past 10 years.... only us old people now seem to still use them.

[ironflange]

42. Just turned. . .

[Golden Raisin]

43. Somewhere between 40 and Death.

Let's just say Truman was President when I was born.

[A HERETIC I AM]

54. Yes, but how many states were there?

There was 49 when I was born. There was only 48 when the entire rest of my family was born.

[smirkymonkey]

45. I was in my 30's when I joined!

I suppose all the younger people are on Twitter or somewhere else, but this has been home for me for two decades. I also go on Twitter and some other sites, but there is nothing out there quite like DU.

[AwakeAtLast]

47. I was, too!

34 to be exact. That was 2004!

[smirkymonkey]

48. And I thought it was bad back then, which is what prompted me to join DU!

If we only knew what was to come!

[AwakeAtLast]

50. No kidding!

I am so thankful for DU over the years, I would have completely lost my mind!

[Polybius]

46. This is by far the oldest forum that I'm on (and I'm on like 50)

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[Elessar Zappa]

49. 38!

I’m a youngster here apparently.

[Iggo]

51. Well, the calendar says 60.

I’m still at the point where maybe if I keep saying it I’ll eventually feel it. But it still sounds weird combing out my mouth.

[JonAndKatePlusABird]

52. At 34 I'm def on the younger end

One fun thing about my age cohort (people born 1986 ~ 1992) is that we entered kindergarten in an analog world, and graduated high school in a digital world. Technology kinda “grew up” alongside us.

[WarGamer]

56. wow there are more 80+ than 30-somethings.

[yellowdogintexas]

57. well I a, 73 and I usually check in here before I go to bed...at 1:00 am nt

[sakabatou]

60. Almost 35.

[artemisia1]

61. It appears that the vast majority of us either lived through the 1960's or were born during them,

myself included. Could there be something to that?

[DemocraticPatriot]

62. It is what it is.

Thank you for your response.

[DemocraticPatriot]

63. I was born in 1962, 2 months after the Cuban missile crisis...

I never realized how quickly my life could be "snuffed out" by nuclear weapons, before I was almost an adult..... I read about it in the newspaper....

[TexasBushwhacker]

64. Geez, we're like Congress

We need some young blood!

[Celerity]

67. I tried hard for the first year or 2 after I joined in 2018 to get some of my friends/schoolmates/

co-workers/students, etc from my 18 to 35 yo cohort to join (Americans, Brits, Swedes mostly, but also some other EU citizens who are fluent in English, a lot of them from Eastern Europe and one Canadian girl, who told me to sod off (in a nice way, lol) after lurking around for a week). I had almost no luck. They almost to a person said the board was not remotely younger people friendly, and were appalled at many of the stances expressed on student loans/debt, electric cars, fracking, and health care affordability etc etc (the American ones only, of course, for that first and last one although uni in the UK is certainly not cheap now either).

Only one of the dozens and dozens stuck, and he (an American bloke I went to uni with in Los Angeles before I joined here, hell, before I had even really heard much about DU, lol) bailed after a few months, as he was/is a huge AOC fan and was pretty argy bargy about how often she was slagged off here (the 2020 primaries was when he finally said fuck it, and left). These people are often very politically active (or at least very aware) too.

[DemocraticPatriot]

73. You are one of my favorites here,

I think our perspectives are similar...

[Celerity]

76. Awww, thanks, I appreciate that and your posts as well.

[Celerity]

65. so disheartening that out of 324 replies, there are only 2 of us under 30, & only 11 total under 40

sigh

[DFW]

80. Blame my parents

I didn't ask to be born in 1952. I just was.

On the other hand--year of the Dragon. Supposedly very auspicious.

[Celerity]

83. I don't like my Chinese Zodiac animal, lolol, 1996, year of the Rat, Fire Rat to be precise

Most of the Chinese horoscopes about it could not be more off about me, so it's even more bollocks than usual. I am the reverse of multiple key traits claimed.

[DFW]

84. I should look that up

My younger daughter is year of the Rat (1985, but early enough in the year to just make it).

At age 2, a neighbor once called her "Madame 10,000 volts." She just turned 37, and the description is still as accurate now as it was then.

[Bettie]

82. The numbers do explain a whole lot

though.

I joined in 2004. I was 37 and am now 55.

Weirdly enough, I have become more liberal over the years.

[Elwood P Dowd]

66. I was a young 56 when I joined DU in 2003. Now I'm 74.

Hard to believe it's been that long ago.

[Celerity]

68. Was it the Iraq War that brought you here?