Bladeforums age demographic?

How old are you?

  • < 16

    Votes: 3 0.7%

  • 17 - 20

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • 21 - 30

    Votes: 39 8.7%

  • 31 - 40

    Votes: 111 24.7%

  • 41 - 50

    Votes: 99 22.0%

  • 51 - 60

    Votes: 99 22.0%

  • 61 - 70

    Votes: 70 15.6%

  • > 71

    Votes: 28 6.2%
  • Total voters
    450
One can of fish, one... frying pan? of broccoli equals one day of winning. ;)
 
DocJD said:
Yeah , sure ...really cool until the machine ate your favorite tunes and made them into a spaghetti ball of ruined magnetic tape . :eek:
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Growing up, my family's music collection was contained entirely in audio cassette tapes (yes a generation or so after 8 tracks). Thankfully we never had one eat itself, but I knew enough to stop the player as soon as it started sounding... drunk. The pull out the tape and use a pen cap to carefully wind the exposed tape back in. I didn't purchase my first AMCTGR until I was about fifteen years old, but I just looked it up and they were actually first released in 1982! That is news to me. And yes, I retroactively renamed the storage format because although they are indeed discs, compared to flash drives with terabytes of storage capacity, the best thing I can say about them now is they are at least more compact than gramophone records.
 
Today’s kids have it easy. When I recorded songs I like from radio on c-cassette I had to:
1: rewind the cassette to the right spot that I don’t run over to the songs I’ve already recorded.
2: Wait for the time for programs that play the right songs I like
3: Hit the record when the good song comes along (or take the risk and hit record if it seems like a good one)
4: Rewind back it if wasn’t a good one
5: Try recording on another day if there was some annoying speech on the track

Same for movies. I had a big collection of Arnie movies recorded. Every time the commercial brake came you hit the pause so that the commercials don’t end up on the record. Of course you couldn’t react so fast that little bit of ”now, commercials” or ”to be continued” bit wouldn’t show in short second bits all accross the movies but in some way those kind of became part lf the movie as you rewatched them over and over again.

I’m not saying that we didn’t have commercial copies of movies and albums but in the 90’s was the depression and a lot of the times you had to do a little bit of homegrown stuff. Urban survival.
 
I have been lurking on this site for about 12 years now... I lost my original email/account info and just never signed up again until I re-upped with this current account. Love seeing the demographic spread:)

A great forum, great content, great stories... I don't do social media, so this is my favorite time-killer on a device.
Thanks all for making BF a fun place to be!!
 
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tltt said:
Creeping up on 40. I remember when we didn't even have forums like this, but news groups like rec.knives.
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I remember before the internet was a thing. All we had was magazines. I’d stand in the aisle reading as much as I could before being told to leave.

I’d ride my bike 10 miles to a wealthy town near me on Sunday mornings because the dump was closed. Then climb into the recycle dumpster looking for gun and knife magazines. I’d stuff a paper boy bag with my haul and pedal home in time for lunch.

I had an insatiable appetite for knowledge. Information was hard to get back then.

We thought ignorance was caused by inaccessibility to information. We were wrong.

Now everyone walks around with the cumulative knowledge of an entire race on their smart phone. Ignorance is worse than ever.
 
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I’ll turn 54 later this year…..and yeah, I knocked wood as I typed that. I guess that makes me “old skool” right off the bat.

Physically, I’m pushing 80. Full knee replacement 11 years ago, two hip replacements coming up, a bad back and more surgical scars than I have cool stories for.

Lol, about many of those scars; after I put his two kids through college and paid for his yacht, my dermatologist finally awarded me the coveted “Franchise” tag. Honestly, I could’ve been his only patient these past 25 years and the guy could still take early retirement. Lol, if you don’t get it, don’t worry. My dermatologist doesn’t get the joke either…and yet his yacht is named “Courtesea of Zeroedin”.

Demographically speaking, I’m 65 to 70. That’s because I live in southwest Florida. Everyone here is about 65 to 70. Ask how old the guy who lives in the corner house or the lady sitting at the table over there is and that’s the answer you’ll get: “I dunno, 65….maybe 70.” Collectively, everyone simply refers to it as “our age”. I have friends in their 70’s who clump me in with them. They say things like “When the kids get to our age…” or “Guys our age…blah, blah, blah”. I’m 20 effin’ years their junior but I’ve apparently crossed into some magical realm where anyone over 50 and still kickin’ is “our age”. Somewhere along the line Florida must’ve adopted a “herd age-classification system”. Nobody warns ya’ when you move down, ya’ just wake up one morning to the faint chants of “You’re one of us. You’re one of us….”

True story: I recently lied about my age. A few weeks back, a young, attractive saleswomen asked me how old I was. For kicks, I figured I’d look like a stud for my age if I added ten years; so with a chuckle I told her I was 63. She said “Wow, I was gonna guess early sixties, so I was spot-on!” Seriously? Wtf?

It just dawned on me that my post here is starting to read like a classic Rodney Dangerfield monologue. I guess that’s a simple way to sum it all up. I’m old enough to reference Rodney Dangerfield….but young enough to maintain there’s still a very distinct difference between me and an “old man”.

Now, I’m off to grab a knife to trim some of those hairs sprouting up where hair has no business growing. And if you can relate to that, I’ve got some news for ya’. You’re one of us!

Bahahaha
 
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The Aflac Duck said:
…tune in tomorrow, folks, to learn how to count your macros.
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I'm counting...I', counting......

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Why are we counting these? 🙄

n2s
 
not2sharp said:
It is no surprise. You don't need real knives to play video games.

n2s
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Sure you do. Between cryptocurrency miners and covid shortages driving up component prices I haven't upgraded my PC in years - I need something to fidget with as I stare at these increasingly long load screens!
 
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