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62. It is what it is.

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Mon Mar 7, 2022, 11:32 PM

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How old are you, DUers? (poll) Please vote! lol [View all] DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 OP

What I am hearing on the radio right now... DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #1

Always loved that song PlanetBev Mar 2022 #34

I think you forgot something DemocraticPatriot canetoad Mar 2022 #2

Now i have. 59 DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #5

Thank you! canetoad Mar 2022 #8

Ask me two weeks from today DFW Mar 2022 #3

Are you finally turning 40?!? róisín_dubh Mar 2022 #4

Well.................don't tell anyone this, OK? DFW Mar 2022 #26

but we ask tonight, not 2 weeks later DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #6

I use my DU right to refuse to answer DFW Mar 2022 #27

I turn 60 myself in about three weeks. Dial H For Hero Mar 2022 #33

Been there, done that: DFW Mar 2022 #41

'Early returns' suggest that we are mostly older than shit DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #7

Periodically canetoad Mar 2022 #10

I'm not the same age I was when I joined DFW Mar 2022 #28

Thank you for that reference! Many of us here will get it ms liberty Mar 2022 #29

As the saying goes...... DFW Mar 2022 #30

And what a great age! MuseRider Mar 2022 #38

It's from a Bob Dylan song DFW Mar 2022 #77

Love 'The Byrds' too... nt DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #55

Musically, their version was by far the best DFW Mar 2022 #75

yes, the site started about 20 years ago, yes? DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #69

Tom Petty was indeed a loss! Btw, it was the Byrds who did the cover DFW Mar 2022 #74

bedtime is 3am orleans Mar 2022 #9

You're a true night owl True Dough Mar 2022 #12

Same here, I'm a night owl plus I have terminal insomnia. I've always been up when everyone Raine Mar 2022 #15

I'm definitely a night owl, and I wish I could get to sleep by 3 wackadoo wabbit Mar 2022 #19

Same here, but I'm more like 3-4am to 10-11am. smirkymonkey Mar 2022 #44

I have found the supplement "melatonin" to be helpful for sleep.. DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #71

Way back when, I was presented with option of a desk job with regular hours. I was 23. I passed. DFW Mar 2022 #78

i'd be up later too if i had more options orleans Mar 2022 #59

same here I was always a night owl. yellowdogintexas Mar 2022 #58

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I'm about to exit the category you just entered True Dough Mar 2022 #13

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The really interesting thing about our age is that when (a lot) of us joined we were two categories Eureka Mar 2022 #14

It's hard to believe that I first joined DU 17 1/2 years ago. StevieM Mar 2022 #53

I don't think age matters. A person is an idiot, or they're not. betsuni Mar 2022 #16

+1 brer cat Mar 2022 #24

Agreed. I've been an idiot for over half a century. DFW Mar 2022 #79

I rarely engage in discussion because of time zone difference. Myrddin Mar 2022 #17

Yes, not all of us are in the U.S. betsuni Mar 2022 #18

Boomers Baby! denbot Mar 2022 #20

I thought you needed less sleep as you got older? Shermann Mar 2022 #21

Will DU grow old and fade away? Kaleva Mar 2022 #22

It's the weekend berniesandersmittens Mar 2022 #25

Some of us older DUers occasionally find fun shit to do, too (state secret) DFW Mar 2022 #81

Have you considered the time zones we live in? Hekate Mar 2022 #31

Celerity is just a baby! milestogo Mar 2022 #32

Thankies! Celerity Mar 2022 #72

Old enough to know better, but young enough to not really care... Wounded Bear Mar 2022 #35

I jumped on DU when I was 50 PlanetBev Mar 2022 #36

This message was self-deleted by its author PlanetBev Mar 2022 #37

DUers are mostly older. MineralMan Mar 2022 #39

It's because the younger ones are all busy FakeNoose Mar 2022 #40

yes, "message boards" have somewhat fallen 'out of favor' DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #70

Just turned. . . ironflange Mar 2022 #42

Somewhere between 40 and Death. Golden Raisin Mar 2022 #43

Yes, but how many states were there? A HERETIC I AM Mar 2022 #54

I was in my 30's when I joined! smirkymonkey Mar 2022 #45

I was, too! AwakeAtLast Mar 2022 #47

And I thought it was bad back then, which is what prompted me to join DU! smirkymonkey Mar 2022 #48

No kidding! AwakeAtLast Mar 2022 #50

This is by far the oldest forum that I'm on (and I'm on like 50) Polybius Mar 2022 #46

38! Elessar Zappa Mar 2022 #49

Well, the calendar says 60. Iggo Mar 2022 #51

At 34 I'm def on the younger end JonAndKatePlusABird Mar 2022 #52

wow there are more 80+ than 30-somethings. WarGamer Mar 2022 #56

well I a, 73 and I usually check in here before I go to bed...at 1:00 am nt yellowdogintexas Mar 2022 #57

Almost 35. sakabatou Mar 2022 #60

It appears that the vast majority of us either lived through the 1960's or were born during them, artemisia1 Mar 2022 #61

It is what it is. DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #62

I was born in 1962, 2 months after the Cuban missile crisis... DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #63

Geez, we're like Congress TexasBushwhacker Mar 2022 #64

I tried hard for the first year or 2 after I joined in 2018 to get some of my friends/schoolmates/ Celerity Mar 2022 #67

You are one of my favorites here, DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #73

Awww, thanks, I appreciate that and your posts as well. Celerity Mar 2022 #76

so disheartening that out of 324 replies, there are only 2 of us under 30, & only 11 total under 40 Celerity Mar 2022 #65

Blame my parents DFW Mar 2022 #80

I don't like my Chinese Zodiac animal, lolol, 1996, year of the Rat, Fire Rat to be precise Celerity Mar 2022 #83

I should look that up DFW Mar 2022 #84

The numbers do explain a whole lot Bettie Mar 2022 #82

I was a young 56 when I joined DU in 2003. Now I'm 74. Elwood P Dowd Mar 2022 #66

Was it the Iraq War that brought you here? Celerity Mar 2022 #68