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Originally Posted by macgeek2005 
No no no no no no no NO!!!!
Why have such demeaning stereotypes in your poll. "Still babysitting for cash" on 13-15? and "yarrr I can drive" on 16-20?
You know, some 13 to 15 year olds DON'T babysit for cash. Some 13-15 year olds are in ****ing college, making a life for themselves.
Why feed your **** to the lowest common denominator???
The majority of 13 to 15 year olds aren't in college now are they. I don't know how they could be making a life for themselves if they can't even drive. * Jewish girls don't like cussing or immature kids.
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Originally Posted by macgeek2005
I say to all you "over 30"s out there, beware. Don't fall into the illusion that you've now "reached" an ultimate level of understanding, and that you are "thoroughly experienced". The more you think you know, the less you are open to sometimes beneficial changes.
Thank you SO friggin' much! Gawd, I LONG every day for the advice of know-it-all teenagers who haven't even finished puberty!
Wow. Truly enlightened. This place is great.
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50% of the forums appear to be over 30, but most of them aren't talking about it in the thread. Interesting?
They're tsk tsking us whipper snappers for our youthful arrogance.
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What's to talk about? We're older, and we know it.
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Originally Posted by macgeek2005
No no no no no no no NO!!!!
Why have such demeaning stereotypes in your poll. "Still babysitting for cash" on 13-15? and "yarrr I can drive" on 16-20?
You know, some 13 to 15 year olds DON'T babysit for cash. Some 13-15 year olds are in ****ing college, making a life for themselves.
Why feed your **** to the lowest common denominator???
So…am I supposed to respect 15-year-olds who work and go to school less than 15-year-olds who just go to school? Because I don't quite see how that is. Babysitting may not be the most glamorous job in the world, but you have to start somewhere.
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Originally Posted by macgeek2005
No no no no no no no NO!!!!
Why have such demeaning stereotypes in your poll. "Still babysitting for cash" on 13-15? and "yarrr I can drive" on 16-20?
You know, some 13 to 15 year olds DON'T babysit for cash. Some 13-15 year olds are in ****ing college, making a life for themselves.
Why feed your **** to the lowest common denominator???
Translation:
He's 28, but still babysitting for cash !
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Originally Posted by shifuimam
I am a little surprised. I generally expect most people in a forum to be high school or college age. Once you get into Real Life(tm), you generally have better things to do than hang out in a message forum's off-topic lounge.
Was I just insulted?
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man, macgeek you gotta effin chill! a piece of advice--don't talk down to people you have to look up to to see. although he does have a point, some of the parenthetical quotes are wrong... most places I've been to 18 is legal for porn, and most are drinking well before they hit 21. Legally too--doesn't the US have the highest drinking age? (I know its up there, comparatively...)
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I think macgeek just made my list of 'Perennially Annoying Forum Members'.
My private list.
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23 next month, feel 50+...
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She doesn't realize we root out most of the young. macgeek is an exception because he's an attention whore, and CATS C.E.O. has been majorly tone-downed since his arrival.
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Originally Posted by Dakarʒ
She doesn't realize we root out most of the young. macgeek is an exception because he's an attention whore, and CATS C.E.O. has been majorly tone-downed since his arrival.
Well, macgeek did tone down for, like, two days after the "i dumped my girlfriend" historical thread, but his true colors have turned up yet again.
I'm not old...yet. I'll be 23 in July. Two more years and I get that nice big car insurance drop...
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Originally Posted by Lateralus
I think macgeek just made my list of 'Perennially Annoying Forum Members'.
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30+ isn't old.. unless you're like...a kid.
I'm 52, and I don't feel that old 'cept for my knees....(too much running)
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Originally Posted by Y3a
30+ isn't old.. unless you're like...a kid.
I'm 52, and I don't feel that old 'cept for my knees....(too much running)
Start biking. Easier on the knees, but you do have to do a bit more work to get the same results.
Swimming is great too. I have bad knees and ankles from playing basketball every day for 9 years, and swimming helps me get a GREAT workout without stressing those joints.
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Originally Posted by Timo
One of my favorite discoveries / decisions of being older is the realization that I need not have an opinion about everything; that is, there are whole categories of being that I have no opinion about.
That may be a sort of convex/concave (can never remember which is which) thing, but I find that one of the more annoying aspects of growing older (relatively speaking; ‘older’ is still limited to 24) is that I’m more and more frequently forced (or pushed, or attempted forced) into having an opinion about things that I’ve never had an opinion on, and don’t really want an opinion on.
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Originally Posted by Oisín
That may be a sort of convex/concave (can never remember which is which) thing, but I find that one of the more annoying aspects of growing older (relatively speaking; ‘older’ is still limited to 24) is that I’m more and more frequently forced (or pushed, or attempted forced) into having an opinion about things that I’ve never had an opinion on, and don’t really want an opinion on.
It's amazing what a plain "I don't have an opinion about that" can accomplish.
With important exceptions.
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Originally Posted by Oisín
That may be a sort of convex/concave (can never remember which is which) thing, but I find that one of the more annoying aspects of growing older (relatively speaking; ‘older’ is still limited to 24) is that I’m more and more frequently forced (or pushed, or attempted forced) into having an opinion about things that I’ve never had an opinion on, and don’t really want an opinion on.
Really? I'm curious what kind of situation you're thinking of.
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Originally Posted by Velocity211
14, probably the youngest member here.
nah, kick52 is ~13.
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Originally Posted by shifuimam
Well, macgeek did tone down for, like, two days after the "i dumped my girlfriend" historical thread, but his true colors have turned up yet again.
I'm not old...yet. I'll be 23 in July. Two more years and I get that nice big car insurance drop...
The car insurance drop is great No More High Risk.. Im 25 a 1/4 Century Old.. Woohoo..
But yeah my insurance dropped 200 dollars after I turned 25.. Now I pay something like 75 bucks a month for both vehicles for just PL PD on it. Then again they arent the greatest.. an 88 Ford Ranger XLT and an 81 Ford Bronco Full Size.. both good trucks..
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Originally Posted by Timo
It's amazing what a plain "I don't have an opinion about that" can accomplish.
It's always better if you work some kind of excuse for drinking beer into your opinion.
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Originally Posted by Timo
It's amazing what a plain "I don't have an opinion about that" can accomplish.
With important exceptions.
Originally Posted by Chuckit
Really? I'm curious what kind of situation you're thinking of.
There are lots of situations, really. Mostly about sports or politics, since everyone is expected to care about those and have an opinion, but, apart from some very basic and rudimentary political general attitudes, I have no opinion whatsoever on either of them. This was great when I was a kid—nobody expected me to. But nowadays, whenever people ask me and I reply with an, “I don’t know, I don’t care about such things”, I’m invariably met with a veritable onslaught of questions on why/how I can possibly not care about that, and don’t I realise that the world can only change if everyone gets involved, and how can I be so nonchalant about my surroundings, etc.
Same with being a vegetarian and not drinking alcohol (sorry, Doofy, I know I’m the elephant in your porcelain store): people will pester me to no end and try to ‘challenge’ my viewpoints about both. They will just not accept it that I don’t have an opinion on either, and that the only reason I abstain from them is because I can’t stand the taste. “Oh, but it’s just an acquired taste, I mean, no one really likes alcohol the first few times, you just have to get used to it”. Horribly annoying.
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17. Yarr I can drive! Well, I could if insurance wasn't so freaking expensive.
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Originally Posted by Oisín
TSame with being a vegetarian and not drinking alcohol (sorry, Doofy, I know I’m the elephant in your porcelain store)
I've no idea what you're on about but hey, no worries. 
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It doesn't matter how old you are... it's all about how old you look. And I look 30 (blessed with good genes... thanks mom and dad) but am quite a bit older. Did I mention I'm shallow?
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Originally Posted by Atheist
It doesn't matter how old you are... it's all about hold old you look. And I look 30 (blessed with good genes... thanks mom and dad) but am quite a bit older. Did I mention I'm shallow?
Weren’t you the sexually confused 18-year-old?!? Or am I getting you mixed up with someone else?
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Originally Posted by Oisín
Weren’t you the sexually confused 18-year-old?!? Or am I getting you mixed up with someone else?
LOL... 18 was a long time ago... you definitely have me mixed up.
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Originally Posted by Oisín
Weren’t you the sexually confused 18-year-old?!? Or am I getting you mixed up with someone else?
Thinking of Salty?
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No no, not Salty. The other one. Canadian, too. Made a thread like “I think I’m bi” or something like that once, where he seemed actually confused about his own sexuality. Talks a lot about his boyfriend recently. Still can’t recall the guy’s name.
*brain meltdown*
Edit: Got it! Search function to the rescue. I’m thinking of Athens, not Atheist. Mystery solved.
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34.
And hey, give macgeek what's-his-name a break. A LOT of teenagers have no defense against the flood of ego and hormones that they get at his age. Reminds me of me, except by that time I was actually getting laid.
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Originally Posted by smacintush
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And hey, give macgeek what's-his-name a break. A LOT of teenagers have no defense against the flood of ego and hormones that they get at his age. Reminds me of me, except by that time I was actually getting laid.
Ah, but did fate almost introduce you to a nice Jewish girl?
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"30+" ?? WTF?!! 30+???!?!?!!?!
Why not just put "OLD PEOPLE?" Holy cow. Like 30 is somehow equivalent to 50 or 60. It's just generic "Old People."
Crap.
(Today's my birthday. I'm officially getting close to 40 now. Can you tell?)
You little effing bastid.
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Originally Posted by wolfen
"30+" ?? WTF?!! 30+???!?!?!!?!
Why not just put "OLD PEOPLE?" Holy cow. Like 30 is somehow equivalent to 50 or 60. It's just generic "Old People."
Tell me about it. Makes me feel like I should have one of these...
(Those of you under 30 may not get the reference.)
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Heh, it's still not that obscure. I once knew this cute little Japanese girl who wore a Logan's Run costume for Halloween. I wanted to assassinate her boyfriend.
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Crap I keep meaning to watch that, but that means I'd have to go out and rent it, and that's like work or something.
Sadly, my main motivation is because Dave and Bill talk about it fondly on an episode of NewsRadio.
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"protien from the sea!"
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Originally Posted by design219
"protien from the sea!"
God, now I do feel old.
"Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!!!!"
I stopped feeling "old" because of that sort of thing the first time I told a teenager about how it felt to have the Star Destroyer cruise over my head in a HUGE theater the first time I saw Star Wars. Which was about a week after it was released (I didn't stand in line quite that whole time!) and about a day or two after I graduated from high school. It didn't sink in until that kid actually saw that sequence on a really, really BIG screen. Moving from "old fart" to "mentor" has its advantages. 
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Originally Posted by ghporter
"Moving from "old fart" to "mentor" has its advantages.
Sex?
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Originally Posted by Dakarʒ
Sex?
Depends on how you mean that question. I do not "mentor" anyone in that arena-I'm interested in WOMEN, not girls (or boys), and who'd want to break in some newb anyway?
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Originally Posted by Dakarʒ
Sadly, my main motivation is because Dave and Bill talk about it fondly on an episode of NewsRadio.
"If this were Logan's Run, I'd be Soylent Green by now."
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Originally Posted by ghporter
I do not "mentor" anyone in that arena-I'm interested in WOMEN, not girls, and who'd want to break in some newb anyway?
FRESH MEAT!
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