Poll 2019: Age at last birthday

[Tin Can]

Also depends on how we count

East Asian age

[pepeguitarra]

In English we ask: "How old are you?"; in Spanish they ask: "Cuantos años tienes?" (How many years do you have?). When someone asked me "Cuantos años tienes?", I responded 65, to which they responded: No, you already spent those. How many years do you have LEFT?. If you think that way, you probably start doing the things that you really care, like taking more photos, or hugging the grand kids, etc.

[Jac@stafford.net]

I am not yet at my last birthday, but based upon my heritage I can estimate my last at over 100 years-old.

pepeguitarra put it well.

When I retired a student in class asked why I was retiring. I replied that I had been working for fifty years, and I was currently working on a plan for my next fifty years. A student responded, "Mr. Stafford, may I suggest you put the fun stuff up-front?" I laughed.

That was the same student who announced, "Mr. Stafford I just realized you were born in the first half of the previous century!"

I thought of slapping him but I was too tired.

[Tin Can]

I only count on the next 20 minutes and that may be too long

I have been knocked out and it is instantaneous

ymmv

[mrred]

At 56, I am just starting LF. I got my battered speed graphic last November. A lens too wide and another newer lens (to me) with a bad shutter and a winter not inviting to drag my gear out the door. Started the learning curve real hard.

[mdarnton]

I just turned 70. My first or second camera was a 2-1/4 x 3-1/3 FR press camera around 1960 (the alternate choice is a Beauty Canter 35 but I think that was the second camera).

Something from that time and that camera;




Me in high school and a couple of years ago:

[Leszek Vogt]

Ha, being "over the hill" is totally meaningless. It's a silly number (61, 62 or whatever) and it does NOT make a statement how one actually feels. Those that wish to internalize it, they have my permission.

Les

PS Pepe, I've been camping all my life (& no reason to stop it) and usually go for a week once a year with my buds, anywhere between Crater Lake or Brookings, OR and S. Diego....last time we were near Mendocino. My best trip was for 70 days in the SW and only one night I stayed at a motel, since it was bone-chilling cold. Without getting into misogyny, I don't consider myself a porch lady (not yet).

[mmerig]

Anyone who's 61 shouldn't feel left out!

After all, the moment your 61st birthday arrived, you were, technically, over 61, and already into your 62nd year.

So checking "over 61" covers you if you'd like to think about it this way.

I don't feel left out. But at the risk of being pedantic, the poll question was "Your age at last birthday", not how old are you now, which would more easily include fractional years. How a poll's question is stated matters a lot to the results. This one is simple but there is still some room for interpretation outside what could be the original poster's intent. Common sense points to "61 or over" instead of "over 61", as the real intent, but sometimes the intent can be much more ambiguous.

Using Heroique's logic, someone that just turned 60, on their birthday, would still fall between a category boundary and have to use "Other", because they were greater than 60, but still not 61 and a little bit more.

[Heroique]

A handful of respondents have shared their age.

Maybe not enough to be very representative of the forum – but the early results are in:

Average age: 54.

Hmm, a quick look at the "poll results" graph suggests this may be too young. ;^)

[Eric Woodbury]

I haven't had my last B-day yet...I hope. If you know something otherwise, do let me know. Now where's that bus ?

Just turned 64 in Feb.

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