BY Census: What’s your age?

[Vowelguy]

Curious, I don't see this same poll in the General Women's Basketball section, would it help to attract additional voters if it was also placed and pinned in that section...asking for a potential voter.

Nah. I am primarily interested in this boards demographics.

 

[cohenzone]

I remember when Simon and Garfunkel sang the words "How terribly strange to be seventy". I could not imagine it then, but they were right.

I used to think drivers should have to be road tested every few years starting at age 70. I have done some serious re-thinking. Maybe age 83.

 

[AmeriConn]

Some of the folks on here were friends with Methuselah.

 

[HuskyNan]

Curious, I don't see this same poll in the General Women's Basketball section, would it help to attract additional voters if it was also placed and pinned in that section...asking for a potential voter.

I started one this morning

 

[veryolddog]

I have a revelation for all young people. Old age sucks. I am standing still in a grocery store holding on to the wagon. Someone stops and asks if I need help. I reply: my head says "Go"; my legs say "NO".

 

[JS]

It’s a demographic thing

Yes. it's of interest to us in understanding cultural differences among boards. We've had off-board discussions with visitors as recently as a few days ago to the effect that, when coming here after mostly posting on a board with a different demographic, they may notice adverse reactions to the way they talk about players and to other posters.

 

[Vowelguy]

Good Q.
8450 is the BY, but I'm specifically interested in the WCBB board. How many have posted more than 2 messages here in the past year? Not sure it's >500. I'd say 250-300 responses would be outstanding.

View attachment 66760

At 273 responses, I feel confident this is a pretty representative sample.

• Average age holding steady at ~59.
• 65-74 largest group, just under 1/3
• followed by 55-64, just under 1/4
• 25-39, 40-54, 75-84 all about 14%

 

[Bigboote]

More interested in the Beatles asking "Will you still need me, will you still feed me/When I'm 64?" How about 84?

I saw the Beach Boys at 4th of July on the Mall a few of decades ago. Somehow, seeing a bunch of 50-somethings sing "Wouldn't it be nice if we were older?" seemed . . . not quite right.

 

[Ozimoto]

And then there is the Beach Boys song "When I Grow Up to be a Man." I never used to think about the fact that I am well past the age where the chorus ends on the fade out...

 

[mbr33ct]

I have attached this image couple times before, this poll is now confirming it.

 

[my2cents]

I remember when you had to get up off the couch to change the TV stations.

 

[PacoSwede]

Yes. it's of interest to us in understanding cultural differences among boards. We've had off-board discussions with visitors as recently as a few days ago to the effect that, when coming here after mostly posting on a board with a different demographic, they may notice adverse reactions to the way they talk about players and to other posters.

how so?

 

[Txhoopsalot]

I have attached this image couple times before, this poll is now confirming it.

View attachment 66789

Honestly, based on jokes like these I thought the poll would skew older- more over 80 posters.

 

[Zanzman]

I was the remote; my dad would throw his slipper at me sitting on the floor, and I would get up and change the channel. I also became proficient at holding the rabbit ears in a certain position for better reception. We got very good watching stations through the "snow"!

 

[JS]

how so?

Won't explore this extensively, but to take one example a younger crowd arguably tends to criticize individual players in harsher (or more mocking, etc.) terms than some older people (call them more protective, or more quasi-parental if you will) are comfortable with.

 

[Bama fan]

I remember when you had to get up off the couch to change the TV stations.

I remember how I had to get up and change the channel. I do not recall seeing my Dad doing that. I guess he was in the right age group.

 

[HuskyNan]

I put a poll up on the General WBB board. The posters there are skewing younger

 

[cohenzone]

And then there is the Beach Boys song "When I Grow Up to be a Man." I never used to think about the fact that I am well past the age where the chorus ends on the fade out...

Do you know what it’s like to realize that any chance to play major league sports ended over 50 years ago?

 

[my2cents]

I remember how I had to get up and change the channel. I do not recall seeing my Dad doing that. I guess he was in the right age group.

That was one reason you had kids. Once the remote was invented , the birth rate went down.

 

[mbr33ct]

I remember how I had to get up and change the channel. I do not recall seeing my Dad doing that. I guess he was in the right age group.

I also remember passing the salt shaker to him that was right in front of him at dinner table.

 

[Golden Husky]

If it makes anyone feel younger, my mother is 105. She doesn't hear very well but still has her mental acuity, remembers the names of her 14 grandchildren and can tell a mean off-color joke. Fossils, there's hope.

 

[Magy Cannon]

"One should never ask a grown lady how old she is."

Mỹ mother's worđs to me when I as an 8 year old asked her àge.

 

[Gus Mahler]

A poster named @zymurg said a decade ago he was “older than dirt”. He’s still around - what does he say now?

Mars dirt?

 

[UcMiami]

So I tried to vote today and it wouldn't let me. It took me a few minutes to remember that I had tried yesterday as well without success. A few minutes later a light bulb flashed and I remember that I voted the day before, but I still can't remember who I voted for!

When does the winner get announced anyway?

 

[Cecil9]

Not quite sure, but I do know that my hair shirt is falling out and it's a lot easier to brush one tooth now that the other one fell out. If rings are any clue, a cross section of my big-toe nail reveals that I was a contemporary of Buffalo Bill and an old photo suggests I may have attended a Civil War veterans picnic.