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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow old are you, DUers? (poll) Please vote! lol
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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
183 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited | |
Under 18 years | |
0 (0%) |
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18-29 years | |
1 (1%) |
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30-39 years | |
7 (4%) |
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40-49 years | |
22 (12%) |
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50-59 years | |
37 (20%) |
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60-69 years | |
64 (35%) |
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70-79 years | |
44 (24%) |
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80 and above years | |
8 (4%) |
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DemocraticPatriot
(4,500 posts)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
(4,104 posts)And the Grassroots. Great group.
canetoad
(17,210 posts)You haven't voted.
DemocraticPatriot
(4,500 posts)canetoad
(17,210 posts)Can't have us all letting our secrets out without a bit of quid pro quo.
DFW
(54,483 posts)My category changes then
róisín_dubh
(11,802 posts)Hello from England.
DFW
(54,483 posts)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
(4,500 posts)lol
DFW
(54,483 posts)On grounds that it might tend to intimidate me.
Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)DFW
(54,483 posts)DemocraticPatriot
(4,500 posts)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
(17,210 posts)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
(54,483 posts)Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.
ms liberty
(8,620 posts)But IRL I'd draw a blank stare, more often than not!
DFW
(54,483 posts)"We are of an age"
MuseRider
(34,136 posts)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
(54,483 posts)"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
(4,500 posts)DFW
(54,483 posts)Like so many of their well-known songs, this one, too, was written by Bob Dylan.
DemocraticPatriot
(4,500 posts)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
(54,483 posts)My Back Pages was a Dylan song
orleans
(34,094 posts)and it's been that way thru the decades (not because i'm old or young)
some people are just night owls.
True Dough
(17,366 posts)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
(30,541 posts)else is sleeping, young or old makes no difference.
wackadoo wabbit
(1,167 posts)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
(63,221 posts)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
(4,500 posts)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
(54,483 posts)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
(34,094 posts)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
(22,288 posts)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
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True Dough
(17,366 posts)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).
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Eureka
(523 posts)earlier.
There are so many here (even with low post counts!) that have put in the better part of two decades.
DU rocks!
StevieM
(10,500 posts)I can't believe how long I have been here for.
betsuni
(25,764 posts)DFW
(54,483 posts)So far, it hasn't been so bad.
Myrddin
(327 posts)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
(25,764 posts)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
(9,901 posts)Shermann
(7,477 posts)One's late night is another's early morning.
Kaleva
(36,388 posts)A large percentage of us are 60 or older. I was 49 when I joined. I'm 63 now
berniesandersmittens
(11,347 posts)Younger DUers may have fun young shit to do.
Im a waaay older 40something in body and soul.
Love you, you old farts
DFW
(54,483 posts)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
(90,990 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)We love you
Celerity
(43,695 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,769 posts)PlanetBev
(4,104 posts)Now Im 71. How the hell did I get this old?
Still fighting the same regression politics and the same RW lunatics, only worse.
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MineralMan
(146,345 posts)Every poll like this demonstrates that.
FakeNoose
(32,864 posts)... 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
(4,500 posts)in the past 10 years.... only us old people now seem to still use them.
ironflange
(7,781 posts)Golden Raisin
(4,614 posts)Let's just say Truman was President when I was born.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,381 posts)There was 49 when I was born. There was only 48 when the entire rest of my family was born.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)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
(14,134 posts)34 to be exact. That was 2004!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)If we only knew what was to come!
AwakeAtLast
(14,134 posts)I am so thankful for DU over the years, I would have completely lost my mind!
Polybius
(15,519 posts)Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Elessar Zappa
(14,124 posts)Im a youngster here apparently.
Iggo
(47,586 posts)Im still at the point where maybe if I keep saying it Ill eventually feel it. But it still sounds weird combing out my mouth.
JonAndKatePlusABird
(315 posts)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
(12,494 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,288 posts)sakabatou
(42,200 posts)artemisia1
(756 posts)myself included. Could there be something to that?
DemocraticPatriot
(4,500 posts)Thank you for your response.
DemocraticPatriot
(4,500 posts)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
(20,237 posts)We need some young blood!
Celerity
(43,695 posts)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
(4,500 posts)I think our perspectives are similar...
Celerity
(43,695 posts)Celerity
(43,695 posts)sigh
DFW
(54,483 posts)I didn't ask to be born in 1952. I just was.
On the other hand--year of the Dragon. Supposedly very auspicious.
Celerity
(43,695 posts)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
(54,483 posts)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
(16,144 posts)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
(11,443 posts)Hard to believe it's been that long ago.