.totally unscientific poll: How old am I?

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sheafrotherdon and I were talking about how we develop a sort of "LJ age" for people we encounter online, and how sometimes that age is nowhere near the actual physical age of the person behind the LJ name. Sometimes it's amusing to find that someone has totally defied your expectations of how a person of a given age would/should/usually behaves.

So, POLL:


538.com, witness my mad scientific polling skillz!

[Poll #1301153]

Also, I invite you to behold the adorable narwhal icon.

Oh oh, and a further point of inquiry, because I saw this going around and forgot to ask: If you saw me riding by in the back of a police car, what do you think I would have been arrested for?

Comments

[tropes.livejournal.com]

...is that Strom Thurmond. Waaaaaaah.

I can't play this game! Everybody knows how old I am!

[amireal.livejournal.com]

Well. I know you're an academic. But I also checked to see which box sheafrotherdon checked.

Is that cheating? :p

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I'm just being a nerd. LOL. In my head you are forever twenty.

I think that police car meme is funny but can never think of any answers no matter who's asking.

[tex.livejournal.com]

I checked 18-21 because every time I think someone is over 35, they turn out to be 21! If not for that, I'd guess that you're between 25 and 30.

[shadowserenity.livejournal.com]

I went with 22-30 because I know you've mentioned your academic career.

[bitter-crimson.livejournal.com]

LOL YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE GIVEN THAT LAST ONE AS A CHOICE, I WAS GOING TO MAKE A SRS BZNS GUESS BUT I COULDN'T RESIST. XD

[let-fate-decide.livejournal.com]

BY THAT LAST ONE, ARE YOU SAYING YOU'RE EITHER 0-80 YEARS OLD, OR ELSE YOU'RE A CRUSTY OLD MAN?! OH GOD.

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

::OMG, is traumatized by Strom Thurmond::

Small fun fact, my father did the wedding rehearsal for his marriage to Mrs. Nancy Thurmond because it was such a security risk to do it in the actual church in Aiken, SC where it was to be held. Senator Thurmond's sister was a member of my father's church...sooo.

Another fun fact: three generations of a family friends of ours were chased around the senatorial desk as interns. None of them thought to warn the others, because surely the old coot would have grown out of it by now....



Police car: Public lewdness with statues.

[geeklite.livejournal.com]

...that last guy isn't actually alive is he?

[pollitt.livejournal.com]

You are almost my twin (okay, we would be Irish twins if we were) so I have an inside tip to your age bracket :)


And, also? You would've been arrested for verbally beating down people who dared to skoff at that awesomeness that is The Hewlett, The Flan, or good literature.

[cathalin.livejournal.com]

I suspect your actual age is younger than I put you, because I remember being surprised you were as young as you are, sometime when maybe something you said revealed it somewhat? Unless I'm hallucinating, which is always possible.*g*

Honestly, I would suck at guessing many people's ages, if they didn't mention some things about their lives sometimes. For me, since I'm a wee bit on the older side *g*, I'm always surprised how young many people are, because they seem so much more together than I would have been at that age.:)

Reason for arrest? Art that was so fricking brilliant and gorgeous and powerful it caused massive controversy! :)

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

I guessed, based on your academic comments. And it occurs to me that I've known you now for eight years. How scary is that? And who is that old guy? Is that Strom?

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

I totally ticked that old guy box, but I'm guessing you're actually in your late twenties. But that's mostly from things you've said and your grad-student-ness - I'm rubbish at guessing age from posts.

[mems-derynicat.livejournal.com]

Is it cheating if I actually KNOW how old you are?

Police car meme...using sarcasm/snarkiness as a weapon against the chronically stupid?

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Thirty-four. You're too good at things to be very young, plus your user name has no cutesy syllables or Celtic references.

I'd maybe give it thirty-one.

[slian-martreb.livejournal.com]

Police car meme: physically assaulting your room mate?

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

I perceive you as being my age while also perceiving you as having the maturity of someone several years my senior.

(And, having now read the rest of the comments, I stand by that, as you are my age, or close enough.)

eta which is to say i was totally debating between 22-30 and 31-40, because you're 25-35.