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How Old Are B&B Active Members?
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I'm at that awkward age of 53, too old for some of the fun stuff, too young for the discounts!!
Poor Abbie Hoffman...sounds like a lieutenant in the Bader-Meinhoff Gang.
The ones over 30 are the only ones interesting enough to listen to. Once while I was eating brunch at a restaurant I met a veteran U.S. Navy destroyer man from WW2. He liked the B-2 bomber jacket I was wearing, and from that I learned he was in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. On a Fletcher-class.
Hoffman was wrong. Always seek out someone over 30 to talk too. They will more likely have done stuff worth listening to.
The phrase was coined by Jack Weinberg, and it's typically quoted out-of-context. During the campus protests at Berkeley, he warned the students (average age 20ish) that just because someone older was with them on one issue didn't mean that person was with them on every issue. Thirty was about 1/2 a generation older than the average student there. After all, they grew up in a different time and were formed by different experiences.
Which is why I agree with Ashley. If you're smart, you don't want to limit your data gathering to people in lock-step with your way of thinking. You want to hear arguments and stories from a wide variety of opinions, beleifs and experiences.
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors style! That was quite a harrowing time to be a destroyer man. Those guys went through hell, especially at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Is there really someone over 100 active on this forum?
66 in a week ...... Social Security says I’m now officially retired !
I'll be 34 in May.
This year I will turn 22,265 days old.
Reminds me of a song by my favorite group (see signature), the Moody Blues 22,000 days
Reminds me of a song by my favorite group (see signature), the Moody Blues 22,000 days
I'd read that book before I met the man. I don't remember the name of his destroyer, but it was not one in Taffy 3. I think it was one with the main U.S. naval force.
I dislike that I ticked over into a new decade. Bonus, I hear that I'm about to be eligible for (lowest level) senior discounts in the US! Gimme gimme gimme 
I’ll be 44 in September
Do we know the guy over 100 really exists? I'm not sure he does.
But I exist, and I'm one of the 2 guys in their 80's with a birth date of November 1936
But I exist, and I'm one of the 2 guys in their 80's with a birth date of November 1936
At 51, I’m glad to finally be in the primary demographic for something. Thanks, B&B!
Another middle of the road, 51 yo here.
Don't if I mentioned it but 59 this april, but I don't feel 59. Can't say feel like 18 but mid 20s
rbscebu:
I'm 60yrs 'young' (a
...and yes...I'm stubborn as a bull), and I welcome getting older because (through a prism), I get the chance to look and think of the past with the same passions of living
the present.
In reflection, I try to reach 'deep' within myself and find a peace that is not elusive: that is the benefit of 'the circle of life'.
"[Getting on in years] should merely indicate where the smiles have been". Mark Twain
I'm 60yrs 'young' (a
the present.
In reflection, I try to reach 'deep' within myself and find a peace that is not elusive: that is the benefit of 'the circle of life'.
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Kinda interesting - roughly 44% under 50. Roughly 55% over 50.
a good majority of the Barbershop threads make a lot of sense now.
a good majority of the Barbershop threads make a lot of sense now.
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