How old are you?
I am 1 year from AARP - 49 as of January, 7th.
I'm a handful of change short of 52.
43. Feel like I'm 60. Get off my lawn.
32. Experiencing the long walking death.
I don't look a day over 60, btw.
At 44, I have come to terms with--and now fully embrace--my Old Guyism: hating on young people and waiting out the clock.
49
Just for our interest, 50 year old American males have a life expectancy of 79.5. :)
Though I'm not sure I trust the website/tables I'm looking at.
My dad is now 88, and he doesn't look a day over 86.
Ok, this maybe a fun/Depressing website:
http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/mortality/perl/CalcForm.html (http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/mortality/perl/CalcForm.html)
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Life Expectancy Results
Life Expectancy: 84.73 years
Lower Quartile: 76.82 years (75% chance you will live longer than this)
Median Lifetime: 86.18 years (50% chance you will live longer than this)
Upper Quartile: 93.73 years (25% chance you will live longer than this)
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 08, 2015, 07:59:21 PM
43. Feel like I'm 60. Get off my lawn.
a man is only as old as the woman he feels, so Ed is like 18?
Quote from: mongers on February 08, 2015, 08:08:03 PM
Just for our interest, 50 year old American males have a life expectancy of 79.5. :)
Great, so many more years of job applications to look forward to. Ya-fucking-hoo.
And I turn 42 later this year.
I need a drink.
Quote from: mongers on February 08, 2015, 08:16:26 PM
I need a drink.
Make it some kind of fiber drink with wheat grass or you might die.
Quote from: PDH on February 08, 2015, 08:19:54 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 08, 2015, 08:16:26 PM
I need a drink.
Make it some kind of fiber drink with wheat grass or you might die.
'Hard' Cider pretty much matches that? :bowler:
Quote from: mongers on February 08, 2015, 08:21:36 PM
'Hard' Cider pretty much matches that? :bowler:
You get a pass on this one.
I'm 62, will be 63 later this year. I feel like I've felt significant changes in myself, mentally especially, from just a few years ago, and certainly from my youth.
I'm 38. :cool:
Quote from: mongers on February 08, 2015, 08:12:37 PM
Ok, this maybe a fun/Depressing website:
http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/mortality/perl/CalcForm.html (http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/mortality/perl/CalcForm.html)
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Life Expectancy Results
Life Expectancy: 84.73 years
Lower Quartile: 76.82 years (75% chance you will live longer than this)
Median Lifetime: 86.18 years (50% chance you will live longer than this)
Upper Quartile: 93.73 years (25% chance you will live longer than this)
If I lived in NY:
QuoteLife Expectancy: 81.39 years
Lower Quartile: 73.69 years (75% chance you will live longer than this)
Median Lifetime: 83.69 years (50% chance you will live longer than this)
Upper Quartile: 91.30 years (25% chance you will live longer than this)
I'm a year short of 30 :o :bleeding: :weep:
Edit: Hence my 130 by 30 fitness plan :w00t:
48
Quote from: Sheilbh on February 08, 2015, 08:28:25 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 08, 2015, 08:12:37 PM
Ok, this maybe a fun/Depressing website:
http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/mortality/perl/CalcForm.html (http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/mortality/perl/CalcForm.html)
Quote
Life Expectancy Results
Life Expectancy: 84.73 years
Lower Quartile: 76.82 years (75% chance you will live longer than this)
Median Lifetime: 86.18 years (50% chance you will live longer than this)
Upper Quartile: 93.73 years (25% chance you will live longer than this)
If I lived in NY:
QuoteLife Expectancy: 81.39 years
Lower Quartile: 73.69 years (75% chance you will live longer than this)
Median Lifetime: 83.69 years (50% chance you will live longer than this)
Upper Quartile: 91.30 years (25% chance you will live longer than this)
I'm a year short of 30 :o :bleeding: :weep:
Edit: Hence my 130 by 30 fitness plan :w00t:
I optimistically assumed California, because everyone knows Southern England is so like the west coast.
Isn't 9 stone 4lbs a bit on the light side?
It's a bit much perhaps. But roughly in that direction.
30.
Quote from: katmai on February 08, 2015, 08:14:09 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 08, 2015, 07:59:21 PM
43. Feel like I'm 60. Get off my lawn.
a man is only as old as the woman he feels, so Ed is like 18?
32. :glare:
Quote from: katmai on February 08, 2015, 08:47:11 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 08, 2015, 08:45:05 PM
Quote from: katmai on February 08, 2015, 08:14:09 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 08, 2015, 07:59:21 PM
43. Feel like I'm 60. Get off my lawn.
a man is only as old as the woman he feels, so Ed is like 18?
32. :glare:
. I only kid because I care el jefe.
Well technically 29, if I'm on Euro time.
I am 37.
Quote from: Valmy on February 08, 2015, 08:54:37 PM
I am 37.
You look so young because you had green chili from El Conquistador before they closed.
52. I turn 53 next month.
Quote from: PDH on February 08, 2015, 08:57:27 PM
Quote from: Valmy on February 08, 2015, 08:54:37 PM
I am 37.
You look so young because you had green chili from El Conquistador before they closed.
Where do you go for Mexican food in Laramie now? :(
30 & so much gray hair.
Quote from: Valmy on February 08, 2015, 09:29:01 PM
Where do you go for Mexican food in Laramie now? :(
A nice bunch of folks from the Californian town of Tijuana moved here and opened up a place. It is nice, but they speak with a west-coast accent.
Ugh, Californians.
I am as old as Cal. :(
Just turned 33 a few weeks ago. As someone once said, "It's not the years, it's the mileage".
33. Goddamn have we gotten old.
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 08, 2015, 08:45:05 PM
Quote from: katmai on February 08, 2015, 08:14:09 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 08, 2015, 07:59:21 PM
43. Feel like I'm 60. Get off my lawn.
a man is only as old as the woman he feels, so Ed is like 18?
32. :glare:
Uh oh... I thought your wife was younger than mine.
You're still ahead in the cradle robber tables by a couple of years as I'm 40.
I'll take the crown and lord over you all.
44. I feel like I am 66 but I still act like I am 22 so it evens out.
39. My life, at best, is misery.
28. I'm amazed that I'm the youngest so far.
Turning 39 this year. Still refusing to grow up.
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on February 08, 2015, 11:59:46 PM
28. I'm amazed that I'm the youngest so far.
I took a road trip yesterday to the neighborhood I grew up in--my childhood best friend is a new first-time Daddy and visiting his father at the old house; they're starting to pack him up so he could move in with them.
Most interesting thing about the old neighborhood is there are no children. All the children we grew up with, grew up and moved off; most of the homeowners stayed and got old. Those that turned over homes turned them over to other childless adults.
The entire neighborhood is is reaching the end of its generational life cycle. Kinda weird to look at it that way. But Languish is too.
I'm 35 now!
Just for the record, when Languish was new and I was the terror of the forums (at least in my own mind) I was 23. :)
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 09, 2015, 12:18:30 AM
The entire neighborhood is is reaching the end of its generational life cycle. Kinda weird to look at it that way. But Languish is too.
That's because we tried our hardest to run off anyone new. ;)
31. :(
So we don't have much new blood...so as weird as it is to think about as Languish members die off in the next 20-30 years our community will truly be dead. I somehow thought of Languish as something that'd always be here. But we've always been a community of people. There isn't any kind of idea or topic here to draw new people in. We're just old acquaintances and friends who've used this as our medium to stay in touch.
Quote from: Jaron on February 09, 2015, 12:54:02 AM
I'm 35 now!
Just for the record, when Languish was new and I was the terror of the forums (at least in my own mind) I was 23. :)
Remind me, what was your original user name on the previous incarnations of the forum? "Jaron" doesn't ring a bell.
Quote from: Syt on February 09, 2015, 01:00:22 AM
Quote from: Jaron on February 09, 2015, 12:54:02 AM
I'm 35 now!
Just for the record, when Languish was new and I was the terror of the forums (at least in my own mind) I was 23. :)
Remind me, what was your original user name on the previous incarnations of the forum? "Jaron" doesn't ring a bell.
K. Johan.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 09, 2015, 12:18:30 AM
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on February 08, 2015, 11:59:46 PM
28. I'm amazed that I'm the youngest so far.
I took a road trip yesterday to the neighborhood I grew up in--my childhood best friend is a new first-time Daddy and visiting his father at the old house; they're starting to pack him up so he could move in with them.
Most interesting thing about the old neighborhood is there are no children. All the children we grew up with, grew up and moved off; most of the homeowners stayed and got old. Those that turned over homes turned them over to other childless adults.
The entire neighborhood is is reaching the end of its generational life cycle. Kinda weird to look at it that way. But Languish is too.
Nah. You are just 44. DGuller can post the actuarial tables, but odds are we have decades of going back and forth over the same old shit. :)
Also, there is a new generation of languishites coming up. I think one of the youngsters is even named Tim, which will be a great replacement for our own Tim once his students rise up and massacre him for teaching them the deeply flawed version of english he knows.
39, turning 40 next month.
It sometimes depresses me that I can officially call myself "middle aged", but I have to remind myself I'm still pretty much on track with the vague life goals I had.
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Also, there is a new generation of languishites coming up. I think one of the youngsters is even named Tim, which will be a great replacement for our own Tim once his students rise up and massacre him for teaching them the deeply flawed version of english he knows.
[/quote]
:)
Wow, we are old. I'm 37.
As of a few weeks ago, 40.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 09, 2015, 12:18:30 AM
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on February 08, 2015, 11:59:46 PM
28. I'm amazed that I'm the youngest so far.
I took a road trip yesterday to the neighborhood I grew up in--my childhood best friend is a new first-time Daddy and visiting his father at the old house; they're starting to pack him up so he could move in with them.
Most interesting thing about the old neighborhood is there are no children. All the children we grew up with, grew up and moved off; most of the homeowners stayed and got old. Those that turned over homes turned them over to other childless adults.
The entire neighborhood is is reaching the end of its generational life cycle. Kinda weird to look at it that way. But Languish is too.
The neighborhood I grew up in was already like that 40 years ago.. My brother and I, and a few kids 2-5 years older than me, were the only children living in the neighborhood when I was a kid. By the time I was a senior in high school, I think my brother and I were the only people living there who under 50.
Quote from: Barrister on February 09, 2015, 01:06:12 AM
It sometimes depresses me that I can officially call myself "middle aged", but I have to remind myself I'm still pretty much on track with the vague life goals I had.
Not sure which one is more depressing. :hmm:
Maybe we'll all be reincarnated and can do it all over again.
Quote from: Jaron on February 09, 2015, 01:16:48 AM
Maybe we'll all be reincarnated and can do it all over again.
I think you just defined hell.
Well, if Cloud Atlas is correct, in one transmigration or another I'll get to fuck Halle Berry. SOLD.
Quote from: Ideologue on February 09, 2015, 01:25:21 AM
Well, if Cloud Atlas is correct, in one transmigration or another I'll get to fuck Halle Berry. SOLD.
Only if I get to fuck Ben Whishaw.
Quote from: Grey Fox on February 08, 2015, 09:32:27 PM
30 & so much gray hair.
:cheers: 30 as well. No grays here, but I'm thinning a bit near the crown.
I'm 32. I'm no longer thinning near the crown. :(
I forgot to shave my head for the new week. Fuck.
I turned 42 at the end of 2014.
Up until now, it doesn't seem to be the correct answer to life, the universe and everything.
L.
58 here, which turns out to be better than expected.
There is the gradual physical deterioration of course, but most of the other stuff is good. I start getting my first pension in 21 months :cool:
26
35 :weep:
29
:w00t:
Quote from: Habbaku on February 09, 2015, 01:45:28 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on February 08, 2015, 09:32:27 PM
30 & so much gray hair.
:cheers: 30 as well. No grays here, but I'm thinning a bit near the crown.
I'm 37. No grays, no thinning.
35 here. :showoff:
Add me to that golden generation of 1973 that katmai and C.C.R. are part of.
I turned 41 in November. And I admit, since turning 40, I have actually started to look my age too. Being blond, it's not that easy to spot all the grey hair, but it's there.
I remember wooden ski pairs and black and white television.
If I am not mistaken, this forum has lasted us for 12 years or so now.
32yo I'm feeling middle aged now. There was an influx of young people at work. I've a daughter and a mortgage.
Did you ever become an archeologist, Archy?
Quote from: Norgy on February 09, 2015, 06:40:45 AM
Did you ever become an archeologist, Archy?
Yes, this forum will be his lifes' work.
Quote from: Martinus on February 09, 2015, 04:44:50 AM
I'm 37. No grays, no thinning.
Same. :cool:
Gray and white hairs are starting to show up in my goatee though. I remove them as quickly as I find them. :blush:
I'm 28 years old.
How long as this place been around, since the early 2000s? I can't remember how I even came upon this forum. Must have been some hyperlink from EU OT.
42, but my knees are about 57. Thinning on top, greys in beard. Very happy where my life is right now.
Quote from: Fate on February 09, 2015, 07:39:47 AM
I'm 28 years old.
How long as this place been around, since the early 2000s? I can't remember how I even came upon this forum. Must have been some hyperlink from EU OT.
2003.
47 <_<
Strangely I'm reminded of that cute Dane who got circumcised on a whim; what was his name again? And TopCat... wonder if he made it as he wanted.
G.
Quote from: Grallon on February 09, 2015, 08:47:20 AM
47 <_<
Strangely I'm reminded of that cute Dane who got circumcised on a whim; what was his name again? And TopCat... wonder if he made it as he wanted.
G.
KC4.
Damn, 'we' been in this abusive relationship That long. :hmm:
Quote from: dps on February 09, 2015, 01:16:09 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 09, 2015, 12:18:30 AM
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on February 08, 2015, 11:59:46 PM
28. I'm amazed that I'm the youngest so far.
I took a road trip yesterday to the neighborhood I grew up in--my childhood best friend is a new first-time Daddy and visiting his father at the old house; they're starting to pack him up so he could move in with them.
Most interesting thing about the old neighborhood is there are no children. All the children we grew up with, grew up and moved off; most of the homeowners stayed and got old. Those that turned over homes turned them over to other childless adults.
The entire neighborhood is is reaching the end of its generational life cycle. Kinda weird to look at it that way. But Languish is too.
The neighborhood I grew up in was already like that 40 years ago.. My brother and I, and a few kids 2-5 years older than me, were the only children living in the neighborhood when I was a kid. By the time I was a senior in high school, I think my brother and I were the only people living there who under 50.
I bought and live in my childhood home and most of the older residents have died or moved away, some in with their kids. There are still a few left but for a while now there are a number of newer families with children. When I was a kid all the neighborhood streets had twenty or so kids, which is about what my street had when I count it up. So there aren't as many kids as in my childhood but the neighborhood has gone through some change from old timers to new families with kids.
I'm 35 in six weeks.
41. Some days I feel like I'm in my 20s and others I feel like I'm in my 60s. Come to think of it, a day I feel like 20-something is usually followed by a day I feel like a 60-something.
Quote from: derspiess on February 09, 2015, 10:24:08 AM
41. Some days I feel like I'm in my 20s and others I feel like I'm in my 60s. Come to think of it, a day I feel like 20-something is usually followed by a day I feel like a 60-something.
When you feel like a 60something, do you feel like feeling a 20-something? :P
Quote from: mongers on February 09, 2015, 08:51:42 AM
Damn, 'we' been in this abusive relationship That long. :hmm:
If you would just listen, we'd stop hitting you.
Quote from: mongers on February 09, 2015, 10:27:08 AM
When you feel like a 60something, do you feel like feeling a 20-something? :P
Yep. At least in that sense I haven't aged much.
29. Sorry, Colossus, you're still the youngest. :blush:
Quote from: derspiess on February 09, 2015, 10:24:08 AM
41. Some days I feel like I'm in my 20s and others I feel like I'm in my 60s. Come to think of it, a day I feel like 20-something is usually followed by a day I feel like a 60-something.
Strangely enough, I always thought you were a couple of years my senior. :blush:
Quote from: Caliga on February 09, 2015, 07:37:18 AM
Gray and white hairs are starting to show up in my goatee though.
Yeah, the hair on my head is still has only a little gray, but my goatee is almost entirely gray.
Quote from: dps on February 09, 2015, 01:32:34 PM
Yeah, the hair on my head is still has only a little gray, but my goatee is almost entirely gray.
Me too. Looks kinda neat, actually. :D
I look like a haggard teenager.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 09, 2015, 01:48:04 PM
Quote from: dps on February 09, 2015, 01:32:34 PM
Yeah, the hair on my head is still has only a little gray, but my goatee is almost entirely gray.
Me too. Looks kinda neat, actually. :D
I'd be captain Ahab/Birdseye if I left it two weeks.
I need not to shave for 3-4 days if I want to look like I have a five o'clock shadow. :P
Quote from: Martinus on February 09, 2015, 03:19:09 PM
I need not to shave for 3-4 days if I want to look like I have a five o'clock shadow. :P
I need to not shave for about 15 minutes to achieve that look. :sleep:
Sometimes I think I should grow a beard. But then it would be too much of a hassle.
Quote from: Syt on February 09, 2015, 01:00:22 AM
Quote from: Jaron on February 09, 2015, 12:54:02 AM
I'm 35 now!
Just for the record, when Languish was new and I was the terror of the forums (at least in my own mind) I was 23. :)
Remind me, what was your original user name on the previous incarnations of the forum? "Jaron" doesn't ring a bell.
:lol:
43 and getting younger.
By the way, why is it that we have no new people?
What is the market dynamic that keeps people away from massively joining Languish and making this a success equal to Facebook?
Quote from: Siege on February 09, 2015, 03:34:36 PM
43 and getting younger.
By the way, why is it that we have no new people?
What is the market dynamic that keeps people away from massively joining Languish and making this a success equal to Facebook?
We suffer from the monopolistic over-regulatory tyranny of vM. New people cannot join even if they want to I think....not that many want to. Our marketing leaves something to be desired.
Remind me, who's in the marketing department now?
Quote from: Valmy on February 09, 2015, 03:36:39 PM
Quote from: Siege on February 09, 2015, 03:34:36 PM
43 and getting younger.
By the way, why is it that we have no new people?
What is the market dynamic that keeps people away from massively joining Languish and making this a success equal to Facebook?
We suffer from the monopolistic over-regulatory tyranny of vM. New people cannot join even if they want to I think....not that many want to. Our marketing leaves something to be desired.
Because "come, watch the sad old farts bitching at each other - oh, and if you do, they will aim all their bitchery at you until you go away" lacks a certain something. ;)
Quote from: Norgy on February 09, 2015, 03:38:13 PM
Remind me, who's in the marketing department now?
CdM's cat.
36. No thinning, no gray hairs, no mortgage, no wife, no kids. What have I done all this time?
Quote from: Malthus on February 09, 2015, 03:39:07 PM
Because "come, watch the sad old farts bitching at each other - oh, and if you do, they will aim all their bitchery at you until you go away" lacks a certain something. ;)
Our slogan certainly needs work.
Quote from: Norgy on February 09, 2015, 03:38:13 PM
Remind me, who's in the marketing department now?
That was Crunchie, right? :unsure:
Quote from: Valmy on February 09, 2015, 03:39:49 PM
Quote from: Malthus on February 09, 2015, 03:39:07 PM
Because "come, watch the sad old farts bitching at each other - oh, and if you do, they will aim all their bitchery at you until you go away" lacks a certain something. ;)
Our slogan certainly needs work.
Maybe we could promote as a live fire training area for security services that want to toughen up their fledgling cyber-warriors/agents ?
I'm not sure this forum would make much sense to an outsider now :hmm:
Even spambots leave us alone.
That says something.
Yeah, we're like some isolated, archaic Moose Lodge chapter.
Quote from: Valmy on February 09, 2015, 03:39:49 PM
Quote from: Malthus on February 09, 2015, 03:39:07 PM
Because "come, watch the sad old farts bitching at each other - oh, and if you do, they will aim all their bitchery at you until you go away" lacks a certain something. ;)
Our slogan certainly needs work.
Well, it starts with the name of the forum. :D I mean, "Languish" really says it all. :lol:
:lol:
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 09, 2015, 03:43:52 PM
Yeah, we're like some isolated, archaic Moose Lodge chapter.
Well I did my fair share of marketing by inviting all and sundy I knew; for some reason none of the women stuck around or just looked and never registered. :totallybaffled: :hmm:
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on February 09, 2015, 03:42:47 PM
I'm not sure this forum would make much sense to an outsider now :hmm:
The comprehensible days of 2003 are long gone. Who wouldn't want to jump into a thread discussing Incan torpedo boats?
Has anyone stated in this thread that languish is dying yet?
Quote from: Norgy on February 09, 2015, 03:43:37 PM
Even spambots leave us alone.
That says something.
That is a result of vM shutting down new registrations.
Quote from: mongers on February 09, 2015, 03:45:57 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 09, 2015, 03:43:52 PM
Yeah, we're like some isolated, archaic Moose Lodge chapter.
Well I did my fair share of marketing by inviting all and sundy I knew; for some reason none of the women stuck around or just looked and never registered. :totallybaffled: :hmm:
Huh. Shocking
Quote from: lustindarkness on February 09, 2015, 03:47:15 PM
Has anyone stated in this thread that languish is dying yet?
No. Feel free.
I tried to get some of my friends who frequent somethingawful.com to join. They said it's too vile. :unsure:
Quote from: lustindarkness on February 09, 2015, 03:47:15 PM
Has anyone stated in this thread that languish is dying yet?
Languish isn't dying. Only its component members.
Eventually, we will all succumb to old age and only Grumbler will be left. :(
Quote from: Malthus on February 09, 2015, 03:49:09 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on February 09, 2015, 03:47:15 PM
Has anyone stated in this thread that languish is dying yet?
Languish isn't dying. Only its component members.
Eventually, we will all succumb to old age and only Grumbler will be left. :(
In the long run "there can be only one!"
Quote from: Malthus on February 09, 2015, 03:49:09 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on February 09, 2015, 03:47:15 PM
Has anyone stated in this thread that languish is dying yet?
Languish isn't dying. Only its component members.
Eventually, we will all succumb to old age and only Grumbler will be left. :(
I figured you would leave your handle and account to Carl in your will.
Quote from: Valmy on February 09, 2015, 03:48:01 PM
That is a result of vM shutting down new registrations.
I think that exonerates Seedy's cat for the lack of new members, then. :unsure:
Quote from: Valmy on February 09, 2015, 03:50:16 PM
Quote from: Malthus on February 09, 2015, 03:49:09 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on February 09, 2015, 03:47:15 PM
Has anyone stated in this thread that languish is dying yet?
Languish isn't dying. Only its component members.
Eventually, we will all succumb to old age and only Grumbler will be left. :(
I figured you would leave your handle and account to Carl in your will.
What you have overlooked is that I want to be remembered fondly by my family. ;)
Quote from: Norgy on February 09, 2015, 03:51:20 PM
Quote from: Valmy on February 09, 2015, 03:48:01 PM
That is a result of vM shutting down new registrations.
I think that exonerates Seedy's cat for the lack of new members, then. :unsure:
Well, let's not be too hard on him. I thought "My daddy loves me hates you" is a great slogan.
Quote from: Malthus on February 09, 2015, 03:49:09 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on February 09, 2015, 03:47:15 PM
Has anyone stated in this thread that languish is dying yet?
Languish isn't dying. Only its component members.
Eventually, we will all succumb to old age and only Grumbler will be left. :(
Nah. The technological singularity will make us immortals talking shit here in languish for eternity.
Languish is dying :(.
Good
Quote from: Malthus on February 09, 2015, 03:52:04 PM
What you have overlooked is that I want to be remembered fondly by my family. ;)
Well the only members at that point will be me and BB's sons...and grumbler.
32 years old
Quote from: Siege on February 09, 2015, 03:34:36 PM
43 and getting younger.
By the way, why is it that we have no new people?
What is the market dynamic that keeps people away from massively joining Languish and making this a success equal to Facebook?
:D
Quote from: Norgy on February 09, 2015, 06:40:45 AM
Did you ever become an archeologist, Archy?
Nope choose for an operational job in a forwarder at the airport, more job security. I succeeded in finishing the studies, if i could do mu life again i wouldve studied economics
Quote from: Valmy on February 09, 2015, 03:36:39 PM
Quote from: Siege on February 09, 2015, 03:34:36 PM
43 and getting younger.
By the way, why is it that we have no new people?
What is the market dynamic that keeps people away from massively joining Languish and making this a success equal to Facebook?
We suffer from the monopolistic over-regulatory tyranny of vM. New people cannot join even if they want to I think....not that many want to. Our marketing leaves something to be desired.
I need to work on that. Last time I opened up registration we were getting 1000+ spambot registrations per day, completely burying the trickle of legit registrations. I have not devised a good way to handle this.
Could you open up pm'ing to nonregistrados, and tell people on the home page to pm one of the mucky mucks a request for membership?
And I'm curious, if you know the answer, of how the few spambots who managed to breach the defenses did so.
Quote from: Baron von Schtinkenbutt on February 09, 2015, 06:51:45 PM
Quote from: Valmy on February 09, 2015, 03:36:39 PM
Quote from: Siege on February 09, 2015, 03:34:36 PM
43 and getting younger.
By the way, why is it that we have no new people?
What is the market dynamic that keeps people away from massively joining Languish and making this a success equal to Facebook?
We suffer from the monopolistic over-regulatory tyranny of vM. New people cannot join even if they want to I think....not that many want to. Our marketing leaves something to be desired.
I need to work on that. Last time I opened up registration we were getting 1000+ spambot registrations per day, completely burying the trickle of legit registrations. I have not devised a good way to handle this.
vM, I think that's a side issue; what stops new people registering is it's unique ambiance/ethos as others in the thread have mentioned. :D
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 09, 2015, 06:55:59 PM
And I'm curious, if you know the answer, of how the few spambots who managed to breach the defenses did so.
Those were my friends, damn it. :mad:
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on February 09, 2015, 03:42:47 PM
I'm not sure this forum would make much sense to an outsider now :hmm:
Yeah, it was hard enough to catch up with all the inside jokes in 2005. Must be impossible by now.
Quote from: Tamas on February 09, 2015, 07:01:16 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on February 09, 2015, 03:42:47 PM
I'm not sure this forum would make much sense to an outsider now :hmm:
Yeah, it was hard enough to catch up with all the inside jokes in 2005. Must be impossible by now.
Isn't this a metaphor for Life as a whole/hole?
Quote from: lustindarkness on February 09, 2015, 03:55:22 PM
Languish is dying :(.
Aren't we all? I'm curious who'll pull the plug and when. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Quote from: Archy on February 09, 2015, 07:19:33 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on February 09, 2015, 03:55:22 PM
Languish is dying :(.
Aren't we all? I'm curious who'll pull the plug and when. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Hence why we need to put the 'Languish server' in a tall black box and launch it into space. :)
Quote from: Baron von Schtinkenbutt on February 09, 2015, 06:51:45 PM
Quote from: Valmy on February 09, 2015, 03:36:39 PM
Quote from: Siege on February 09, 2015, 03:34:36 PM
43 and getting younger.
By the way, why is it that we have no new people?
What is the market dynamic that keeps people away from massively joining Languish and making this a success equal to Facebook?
We suffer from the monopolistic over-regulatory tyranny of vM. New people cannot join even if they want to I think....not that many want to. Our marketing leaves something to be desired.
I need to work on that. Last time I opened up registration we were getting 1000+ spambot registrations per day, completely burying the trickle of legit registrations. I have not devised a good way to handle this.
Is it possible to put in one those "captcha" things a lot of sites use? Or has the Borg adapted to that defense already?
Quote from: Baron von Schtinkenbutt on February 09, 2015, 06:51:45 PM
I need to work on that. Last time I opened up registration we were getting 1000+ spambot registrations per day, completely burying the trickle of legit registrations. I have not devised a good way to handle this.
I vote we let them all register. We could use new blood around here, and who knows some of the spambots might be interesting.
Embrace the singularity; it is our future.
We don't need more random "preved" posts from Russian bots.
I'm old enough that most of my dates to high school dances requested "Eternal Flame" and dedicated it to me. That happened at least three times, maybe four.
I secretly love that song. Don't tell. :P
By the way, whatever happened to the remaining female Languishites? :(
Quote from: mongers on February 10, 2015, 05:55:23 PM
By the way, whatever happened to the remaining female Languishites? :(
Would you hang around here if you were female??
Spicy drove them off with his Misogyny.
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on February 09, 2015, 03:42:47 PM
I'm not sure this forum would make much sense to an outsider now :hmm:
Tamas arrived, what ten years ago. He's new.
And a few olds returned.
Quote from: Sheilbh on February 10, 2015, 06:12:22 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on February 09, 2015, 03:42:47 PM
I'm not sure this forum would make much sense to an outsider now :hmm:
Tamas arrived, what ten years ago. He's new.
And a few olds returned.
~9 years ago I was nominated as the best new poster of the year.
Isn't Mihalia newer than that?
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 10, 2015, 06:36:40 PM
Isn't Mihalia newer than that?
Mihalia has never been new, born jaded, rough cigarette in one hand, cradled in the other a dubious alcohol.
No, he was born with that cigarette in his mouth and a six gun in that hand.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 10, 2015, 06:36:40 PM
Isn't Mihalia newer than that?
I think Mihali and Ide showed up around the same time, late 2004.
Mihili showed up around the same time Sir Hockey left. :hmm:
Mihali and Ide were some of the last holdouts on The Exodus from Kapland. Also, some of us who were here earlier (2003 and earlier) were pretty inactive and mostly made accounts to help Sask or CCR rig PMOLOT elections.
I miss Sask. Too bad our extreme right wing politics drove him away.
Quote from: Valmy on February 11, 2015, 08:23:08 AM
I miss Sask. Too bad our extreme right wing politics drove him away.
:lol: Considering how he chose to conduct himself in PMOLOT elections, I think "left-wing populist" would be a pretty good description, come to think of it.
I have very good memories of our elections. :)
Quote from: lustindarkness on February 11, 2015, 08:50:45 AM
I have very good memories of our elections. :)
Only because you rigged the election <_<
:o Slander! :mad:
The negotiations were necessary to ensure the proper rule of the masses.
:ph34r: :pope: :contract:
Rigged is such a dirty word.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 10, 2015, 11:15:04 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 10, 2015, 06:36:40 PM
Isn't Mihalia newer than that?
I think Mihali and Ide showed up around the same time, late 2004.
I've enjoyed watching Ide and Timmy grow up throughout the time here.
Quote from: Valmy on February 11, 2015, 08:23:08 AM
I miss Sask. Too bad our extreme right wing politics drove him away.
LOL
Quote from: Valmy on February 11, 2015, 08:56:12 AM
Quote from: lustindarkness on February 11, 2015, 08:50:45 AM
I have very good memories of our elections. :)
Only because you rigged the election <_<
I was a loyal soldier of CCR :blush:
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 10, 2015, 11:15:04 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 10, 2015, 06:36:40 PM
Isn't Mihalia newer than that?
I think Mihali and Ide showed up around the same time, late 2004.
I registered in November 2003, and started posting in earnest around that Christmas/New Year's... I think I slipped in a couple of months before the "Who the fuck are you?" Wall was constructed.
Quote from: mongers on February 10, 2015, 05:55:23 PM
By the way, whatever happened to the remaining female Languishites? :(
I shamed Brazen for not being brazen.
I forgot why.
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on February 11, 2015, 12:07:40 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 10, 2015, 11:15:04 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 10, 2015, 06:36:40 PM
Isn't Mihalia newer than that?
I think Mihali and Ide showed up around the same time, late 2004.
I registered in November 2003, and started posting in earnest around that Christmas/New Year's... I think I slipped in a couple of months before the "Who the fuck are you?" Wall was constructed.
Who the fuck are you?
Quote from: Siege on February 12, 2015, 02:19:37 PM
Who the fuck are you?
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The first image on a google search of my nickname here is now a My Little Pony. :(
Quote from: lustindarkness on February 11, 2015, 08:50:45 AM
I have very good memories of our elections. :)
Good times :cheers:
I have no recollection of any elections.
:pinch: