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Title: Age Demographic on here!!!
Post by: Worthing Gooners on March 31, 2013, 05:59:58 am
RP6 mentioned on another thread that he was an old one at 45 :oldman!!!!
Which got me thinking what was the spread of ages that are keeping the arcade feeling alive on here.
To kick things off im 40. :oldman
Who's up Next!
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Post by: TheDude on March 31, 2013, 06:51:58 am
I'm 52
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Post by: bearzilla333 on March 31, 2013, 07:48:02 am
40 here
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Post by: Brian74 on March 31, 2013, 08:44:30 am
39

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Post by: BadMouth on March 31, 2013, 08:45:50 am
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Post by: mgb on March 31, 2013, 08:56:42 am
39
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Post by: jammin0 on March 31, 2013, 09:34:01 am
31
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Post by: t3design on March 31, 2013, 09:47:38 am
49
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Post by: Drnick on March 31, 2013, 11:43:09 am
Another 39 Year old here  :cheers:
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Post by: DaOld Man on March 31, 2013, 12:12:13 pm
55.
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Post by: Generic Eric on March 31, 2013, 12:12:22 pm
35
 

edit1: Voted in poll
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Post by: EightBySix on March 31, 2013, 12:14:02 pm
42.

The kids Were just discussing the age of the pope. "why are they soooo old? He must be, like, nearly 50 or something"
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Post by: DaveMMR on March 31, 2013, 02:24:05 pm
Almost 37
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Post by: Howard_Casto on March 31, 2013, 03:50:51 pm
Wait I'm one of the young ones?

33
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Post by: Nephasth on March 31, 2013, 04:03:00 pm
27.

Wait I'm one of the young ones?

33

Nope, you're still old. ;)
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Post by: yotsuya on March 31, 2013, 05:18:44 pm
I just realized you're only 3 years older than my stepson.
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Post by: Nephasth on March 31, 2013, 05:41:15 pm
I just realized you're only 3 years older than my stepson.

I'm only 11 years older than mine. ;D

So, can I call you Pops?
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Post by: Connorsdad on March 31, 2013, 05:53:57 pm
36
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Post by: lilshawn on March 31, 2013, 06:03:30 pm
33...I think.


I don't really count anymore.
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Post by: Paul Olson on March 31, 2013, 06:10:15 pm
41
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Post by: Dawgz Rule on March 31, 2013, 06:50:44 pm
46 (according to my wife)
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Post by: yotsuya on March 31, 2013, 07:05:28 pm
I just realized you're only 3 years older than my stepson.

I'm only 11 years older than mine. ;D

So, can I call you Pops?

You can consider me your cool uncle.
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Post by: sandheaver on March 31, 2013, 08:48:45 pm
38
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Post by: chopperthedog on March 31, 2013, 08:57:30 pm
Body 39, mind still stuck on 15.



good day.
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Post by: griffindodd on March 31, 2013, 09:37:47 pm
41 but soooo sexy
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Post by: Malenko on March 31, 2013, 09:42:34 pm
be 35 in November, still look 25, and act 15
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Post by: Howard_Casto on March 31, 2013, 11:22:36 pm
Ok guys, don't fight... you're all pretty.  Let's not devolve this into a byoac version of hot or not. 

Then again.... will prizes be involved?  Cause you guys don't stand a chance.  ;)
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Post by: jpac716 on April 01, 2013, 12:30:56 am
20 here
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Post by: 05SRT4 on April 01, 2013, 05:04:59 am
28 and not looking forward to 30....yuck
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Post by: nipsmg on April 01, 2013, 08:16:18 am
33
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Post by: Well Fed Games on April 01, 2013, 08:35:09 am
Another 33 here.
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Post by: dandro on April 01, 2013, 09:09:15 am
LMAO, almost spit my coffee out,.. reminded me of the days on the old Bulletin Board/Modem days:

A/S/L check

LOL..

Anyway, I am 37
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Post by: retrorepair on April 01, 2013, 10:17:57 am
Wow I'm feeling a lot better about myself now, 31  :cheers:
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Post by: matsadona on April 02, 2013, 10:23:11 am
39 until this October :)
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Post by: Vigo on April 02, 2013, 11:26:30 am
Let's see, I was born in Carpathia in the year 1505...that would put me at 508 years old.  ;D


But I suppose you could say that it has been 28 years since I escaped the painting.

(http://apartmentdwellerssurvivalguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Vigo_the_Carpathian.gif)
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Post by: HaRuMaN on April 02, 2013, 11:34:22 am
Added a poll, makes more sense.
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Post by: Woodshop Flunky on April 02, 2013, 12:28:22 pm
43  :)
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Post by: Howard_Casto on April 02, 2013, 12:29:41 pm
Maybe we should up the font size of the site with all these senior citizens.  ;)
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Post by: yotsuya on April 02, 2013, 01:10:24 pm
39... for three more months...  :P
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Post by: Sparkolicious on April 02, 2013, 02:04:37 pm
40.. it's the new 20 right? Damn straight!  :cheers:
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Post by: Dawgz Rule on April 02, 2013, 03:02:04 pm
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40.. it's the new 20 right? Damn straight!


exactly :cheers:
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Post by: Drnick on April 02, 2013, 04:21:28 pm
If 40's the new 20 Then I must be 19 again, Sweet. 
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Post by: Sparkolicious on April 02, 2013, 04:41:20 pm
Exactly!  :cheers:
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Post by: ids on April 02, 2013, 11:31:57 pm
45 - it's the new 25  ;D
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Post by: amendonz on April 03, 2013, 12:08:05 am
26 here, love these threads, been feeling a bit guilty about my man child tendencies. Nothing compared to you old farts though :cheers:
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Post by: Singapura on April 03, 2013, 01:16:10 am
45

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Post by: VanillaGorilla on April 03, 2013, 08:19:47 pm
43 here. My 22 year old girlfriend says she's more mature than me, and most days I'd agree.
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Post by: MD Draco on April 04, 2013, 12:22:20 am
32 here... but they say you're only as old as the woman you're feeling... so that'd be 24 for my wife ;) rock 'n' roll :)
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Post by: Dekieon on April 04, 2013, 01:04:25 am
41 :D
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Post by: lilshawn on April 04, 2013, 02:33:28 pm
who voted 0-9?!?!  :lol
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Post by: yotsuya on April 04, 2013, 06:36:40 pm
who voted 0-9?!?!  :lol

The same guy who could get you those smokin' new CRTs?  :dunno
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Post by: Le Chuck on April 04, 2013, 07:05:30 pm
Is this the thread where we all come out of the closet about our age?
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Post by: Worthing Gooners on April 07, 2013, 12:36:44 pm
Its all therapy...
As for coming out the closet that should be placed into the "woodworking" section so its been built correctly....
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Post by: Player 3 on April 07, 2013, 02:24:25 pm
Just 19. Feels like I walked into a retirement home.
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Post by: Worthing Gooners on April 09, 2013, 10:48:07 am
Just 19. Feels like I walked into a retirement home.
You Cheeky f :censored:er..... :laugh2:
Dont blink because if you do the 40's are waiting for you!!!
19 eh.... Heady days of playing Arcade Machines with no suntan for me.
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Post by: lilshawn on April 09, 2013, 02:44:43 pm
pfft, i remeber 19... then not so much...then i was 30.

I am sad now.
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Post by: Vigo on April 09, 2013, 03:21:49 pm
I was 19 when I joined here. It feels like yesterday when I bought my first cab and had a million burning questions that needed answering. Time flies....
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Post by: keilmillerjr on April 09, 2013, 10:50:35 pm
I'm 26.
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Post by: shrunkenmaster on April 10, 2013, 02:37:47 am
Life, the universe and everything.
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Post by: jpS14 on April 10, 2013, 09:25:09 am
I turn 29 tomorrow so this is the last time i can say i'm 28. So yall are all invited to have a beer with me tomorrow   :cheers:
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Post by: rockyrocket on April 10, 2013, 01:59:48 pm
41 and still doing really stupid stuff! ;D .
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Post by: DillonFoulds on April 13, 2013, 11:13:23 am
Just turned 26 last month. Didn't realize I sit at the lower end of this bell curve!
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Post by: LGC on April 14, 2013, 03:44:15 am
18 (with 26 years experience   ;))
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Post by: Le Chuck on April 14, 2013, 06:45:41 pm
Life, the universe and everything.

Shrunkenmaster is a hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is.
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Post by: Howard_Casto on April 14, 2013, 06:51:35 pm
Life, the universe and everything.

Shrunkenmaster is a hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is.

And with that, the thread is dead.

So long!  Thanks for all the fish!
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Post by: lilshawn on April 16, 2013, 12:24:54 am
you forgot:

</thread>
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Post by: Gray_Area on April 18, 2013, 02:12:10 pm
Ah (and while I am decently fair), looks ain't the only test of youth, you know.

By the way, I reported this thread, see if that method gets it moved to the right place.....

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Post by: ChadTower on April 18, 2013, 02:23:37 pm

Of course, a lot of us have been here so long, we should probably put that poll next to a "How old were you when you joined BYOAC?" version.


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Post by: lilshawn on April 18, 2013, 02:32:01 pm

Of course, a lot of us have been here so long, we should probably put that poll next to a "How old were you when you joined BYOAC?" version.

you WOULD have to ask how long people have been here...post count is not indicative of time...  ::)  coughChadTowercoughcough  ;D
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Post by: ChadTower on April 18, 2013, 02:54:05 pm

I've been around a while but not nearly as long as some.

There are a few guys around here that predate the forum, the website, and were probably part of the original BYOAC telegraph club. 
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Post by: ids on April 18, 2013, 03:05:03 pm

Of course, a lot of us have been here so long, we should probably put that poll next to a "How old were you when you joined BYOAC?" version.

you WOULD have to ask how long people have been here...post count is not indicative of time...  ::)  coughChadTowercoughcough  ;D


Do we count the first 3 years of lurking before signing up?
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Post by: javeryh on April 19, 2013, 04:01:23 pm
38 here.
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Post by: JMB on April 19, 2013, 04:38:34 pm
45 for me.

43 here. My 22 year old girlfriend says she's more mature than me, and most days I'd agree.

 :cheers:  Are you older than her parents?  ;D

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Post by: ark_ader on April 19, 2013, 08:09:45 pm
Ancient.
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Post by: matsadona on April 20, 2013, 09:58:37 am
So, to sum up - most people here was born during the seventies? And then most have experienced the early/glory days of videogaming, hence the interest of retro gaming as a mid-life crisis?  ;D
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Post by: Howard_Casto on April 20, 2013, 11:24:31 am
Not really.  I can't speak for everyone, but I got my first video game console when I was 4ish.  I've gotten a new console every generation since then.  I honestly don't understand how anyone can leave gaming.  It's like saying.... "nope, no more reading for me"
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Post by: lilshawn on April 20, 2013, 03:16:08 pm
Not really.  I can't speak for everyone, but I got my first video game console when I was 4ish.  I've gotten a new console every generation since then.  I honestly don't understand how anyone can leave gaming.  It's like saying.... "nope, no more reading for me"

I don't remember how old I was but it was definitely an Atari 2600 (woodgrain...not aluminum), with pacman included. Eventually had a dozen games for that. I guess i was about 6. ('85? or so) I don't think we got it new. I don't recall. Don't recall what happened to it either.

didn't get another game system till gameboy in the 90's. still got it to this day.
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Post by: ChadTower on April 20, 2013, 07:23:28 pm

I was born in the 70s.  I missed the arcade heyday because it didn't extend out as far into the country as I lived.  Hell, not even gas stations extended out to there.  But I did have consoles and grew up console gaming, and then got into console repair/mods and collecting, then eventually into arcade games, and now I'm building myself a small arcade.  So it's not like I left.  I'm just having a ton of fun experiencing the machines from the golden arcade era now.   :cheers:
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Post by: Gray_Area on April 21, 2013, 05:35:10 pm
I honestly don't understand how anyone can leave gaming.  It's like saying.... "nope, no more reading for me"

If there ain't nothin interesting.....like right now for me. Of course, I'm so busy playing with other things, I don't have time to read. But if I encountered something interesting (enough) I'd do it. But I *am* an exception. I'm passionate about love-making, it's possibly the thing I'm best at, and yet if the conditions aren't cricket - nope. No wood, even.
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Post by: matsadona on April 22, 2013, 07:47:15 am
Not really.  I can't speak for everyone, but I got my first video game console when I was 4ish.  I've gotten a new console every generation since then.  I honestly don't understand how anyone can leave gaming.  It's like saying.... "nope, no more reading for me"

It didn't have to be a gap, so sorry for not being clear about that. I never left gaming either, but me and most people traded their old consoles when going for a next gen during the years. Of course, some kept the old an just add new ones, but not everyone had that kind of economy.
But still, now when you are older the financial situation might be that you can buy all those old systems again, which is exactly what I am doing. And I never bothered to get any 360, PS3 or later models and most of my PS2 games are "Arcade classics" etc =)
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Post by: kahlid74 on April 22, 2013, 10:56:44 am
30 here.  Going to be 31 tomorrow.
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Post by: abcmanusn on April 22, 2013, 11:35:05 am
I'm 48. Where did the time go??
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Post by: degenatrons on April 22, 2013, 04:47:29 pm
In "Logan's Run" I would have been terminated 9 years ago.
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Post by: lilshawn on April 22, 2013, 07:15:30 pm
In "Logan's Run" I would have been terminated 9 years ago.

book or film?

the book was 21 film was 30 (making you either 30 or 39)
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Post by: Hoopz on April 22, 2013, 07:38:22 pm
TV show was 30 too, right?

And I would have ran.  Screw the going easily crap.
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Post by: degenatrons on April 22, 2013, 07:42:02 pm
In "Logan's Run" I would have been terminated 9 years ago.

book or film?

the book was 21 film was 30 (making you either 30 or 39)

I prefer the book now that you mention it.
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Post by: Ginsu Victim on April 22, 2013, 08:08:06 pm
I'm 35.
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Post by: Gray_Area on April 25, 2013, 03:09:49 am
I guess you didn't wanna....touch.....that one, eh Howard?
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Post by: RandyT on April 25, 2013, 04:44:56 am
I'm 47 and have been doing the BYOAC thing since wiring square Radio Shack pushbuttons for a DIY Asteroids panel, into an Atari 2600 controller when one could still buy a new one off the shelf.  Man did those make my fingers hurt.

whippersnappers.....  :oldman ;D
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Post by: CoryBee on April 25, 2013, 05:06:33 pm
I'm 47 and have been doing the BYOAC thing since wiring square Radio Shack pushbuttons for a DIY Asteroids panel, into an Atari 2600 controller when one could still buy a new one off the shelf.  Man did those make my fingers hurt.

whippersnappers.....  :oldman ;D

Is it fair to assume that is you in the "KeyWiz" logo?


Just about 25 here and I feel the old creeping in on me.
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Post by: Flip_Willie on April 25, 2013, 10:44:56 pm
I'm 22 now, and signed up when I was 16. Good times!
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Post by: Gray_Area on April 26, 2013, 03:47:13 pm
Just about 25 here and I feel the old creeping in on me.

EHN.....I was feeling that way at 27.....dropped the ex and kid (hers, not mine), jesus did that make a world o diffrence. Other elements of lifestyle sure help, too.
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Post by: Dawgz Rule on April 27, 2013, 06:30:35 am
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EHN.....I was feeling that way at 27.....dropped the ex and kid (hers, not mine), jesus did that make a world o diffrence. Other elements of lifestyle sure help, too.

Funny, went to the doctor a few years back for my first "post divorce" physical.  His immediate observation was that for the first time in years my blood pressure was normal.   I will never forget when he looked at me and said, "Well I guess we now know what was causing your high blood pressure."   Been normal ever since.
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Post by: Gray_Area on April 28, 2013, 06:49:19 pm
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EHN.....I was feeling that way at 27.....dropped the ex and kid (hers, not mine), jesus did that make a world o diffrence. Other elements of lifestyle sure help, too.

Funny, went to the doctor a few years back for my first "post divorce" physical.  His immediate observation was that for the first time in years my blood pressure was normal.   I will never forget when he looked at me and said, "Well I guess we now know what was causing your high blood pressure."   Been normal ever since.

Yup. Some thrive in (arguably need) domestic co-habitation an offspring. Some don't.
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Post by: jasonl2972 on May 03, 2013, 11:23:00 pm
40 here,and after seeing all the others right around my age i can now tell the wife that i'm not the only guy my age still playing with my old toys.
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Post by: darkSSide on May 04, 2013, 12:19:30 am
40 here,and after seeing all the others right around my age i can now tell the wife that i'm not the only guy my age still playing with my old toys.
Same here but the wifey is use to it,she just deals with it :P

Sent from my Atari 2600