I am 51 tomorrow (this is not a post to get happy birthday messages I promise!)
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Britvic
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41 years and 5 months
48 and 4 months. Who is 18 ? 70 ?
A mystery no longer: http://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hersteller_detail.cfm?company_id=3858
It never was @H.P. Saucecraft, it never was:
This comment comes from the question about our profile pictures:
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06/03/2015 at 00:04
The first music I listened to was on this particular type of radio, hence the username. I wish I had found something that would tell more about what I like, my passions, but I would be still searching, so it is this radio.
As a child, I used to think that an old radio would only play music from the time it was created (fifties radio fifties radio program, seventies radio, what was nowadays music), and in one way, it was true. […]
Don’t blame me that it was too long to read.
60 and 7 months.
48
21. All of 485 months ago.
Late 40s – forty-eighteen (© @retropath2).
(I love Edith!) (And seeing the HTML.)
48. Looks like I’m average. In many, many ways.
Sadly now forty nineteen………
Done this before haven’t we? I’m 23 going on 67 (in exactly one week’s time)
58 and a bit.
A mere 53,,
Dare I say I thought Beany was slightly younger and that Colin H was a bit older…
I love you. I can still fit in my Disney t-shirts. Not a pretty sight.
Sorry for the delay. I am making the most of the final hours of summer.
21 1/2 and counting.
65½ not out.
48 and a third (nearly).
Notwithstanding the above, happy birthday for tomorrow, Uncle W!
I’ve just embarked on an entire year of soixante-neuf. Don’t knock it until you try it.
Heinz for me – 57
you and me both Mr H
Me too.
And me.
59 yrs, 10 months, 16 days, 21 hours, 47 minutes
Give or take
How old are you now, Niall?
Hi Niall,
Is this some kind of a race?
59 yrs, 8 months, 25 days and not counting the minutes
52 last week.
49 (or in my fiftieth year if you want to make me sound older)
Sixth decade adds even more gravitas (as in nearer to the grave)
55 in 3 weeks. Not liking it.
approaching 64 far too rapidly
Mother, I’m 41!
Snap!
A rough as balls 48 here, too.
61 and a bit
48 (born in same week and year as Rob C, as it happens)
Yet he is ageless as an ashram. Or is that mushroom.
(ahem) 47, for three and a bit more weeks of my current round on the Karmic Wheel.
_/\_ x
Oh God, yeah! He’s right – 47. Coming into an age when each year feels precious, how could I have overestimated like that?
Mea culpa, Mr C – here’s a pome for you:
Hear you go, Saldude. 2 years and eight days ago before our birthday:
Thanks, @rob-c
Delightful viewing, with a dramatic ending to stir the senses.
59 and one day
55….and two months…..
You’re not fooling me, I’ve seen Logan’s Run, I know what’s going on here.
(Two people so far are younger than me. That’s all you’re getting)
Still 55 for another 2 weeks
I’ll be 51 in a fortnight.
53. My username gives it away.
58 and 1 month
38 and more than a half.
I can’t remember.
I can 😉
How can you forget? We were young, in love, and maybe a little foolish … but the world that night, in the carpark behind Curry’s, was surely ours! The Flock Of Seagulls tape in the Cavalier stereo, the heady scent of Hai Karate, Charlie, pine Airwick, and ashtray … the moment seized as only lovers can … what was your name again?
Was that the gear knob or were you just excitable?
Was 49 in Feb
49 on Sunday.
Happy birthday 🙂
Thanks, Colin!
And Happy Birthday to Uncle Wheaty!
That means, if my arithmetic is correct, you’re seven months older than me and have read 4,000 times as many books and heard 12,000 times as many recordings, as well as speaking several times the number of languages in which I am proficient (one).
Clearly, those busy seven months have made all the difference.
Belated but..
happy birthday @Locust.
Thanks @Declan! You can tell I’m old by the fact that I had an allergic reaction to the non-alcoholic beer that I “treated” myself to at my birthday dinner… 🙁
I’m 103 first thing in the morning.
Drop to about 15 when I check sport and music news then settle to 58.875 and counting for the rest of the diurnal anomaly.
45 in September
I’m 55.
Has nobody here said “25 or 6 to 4” yet? We’re getting old.
59 dont feel a day over 70
38. One of the continuing joys of The Afterword is that it’s the only place on the internet where I feel like one of the youngsters!
We’ve bought a bouncy castle just for you. You’re the only one with enough puff left to inflate it.
Oh no. I didn’t say I was healthy. I have the lung capacity of an emphysemic pensioner.
62. And a half.
Interestingly (or maybe not) if you reverse the digits you get 26 which is the age of my eldest daughter and the year both my parents were born.
Yes well, might be time to listen to “26 0’clock” from that fab new Counts of Omnisphear album…
My mother is 96, and the reversal is giving her a certain amount of innocent pleasure. Last time that happened she was 63 and I was 36.
To paraphrase Dave Grohl’s typically excitable quote about Lemmy, I’m old enough to remember a time before rock and roll existed.
Who isn’t?
Tell us what you remember about the rise of that upstart Glen Miller, Mike.
Perhaps a retrospective on Satchmo’s first gigs with the hot five that you saw in New Orleans
Robert Johnson. What was he REALLY like?
Mike was waiting at the crossroads and he never showed.
This lot showed up instead.
http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g401/mikethep/crossroads_zpsluxsjezb.jpg
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT ADVISORY
Actually no. Labelled for non-commercial reuse. GRASS ALERT.
Yeah. H.P, the little copper’s nark, blabber, informer, rat, squealer, stool pigeon etc
I don’t make the rules. In the current climate, we can’t be too careful. And as the mods have made me their intern …
If we get through the day without someone posting either (i) the sleeve or (ii) the YouTube clip for Benny’s single then I will be very disappointed.
This should be enough of a cue for the Conch to get out the albums and head out to those much photographed sun room tiles.
Here’s one I made earlier. Tiles just out of shot
http://i.imgur.com/WwmxWCQ.jpg
And what a great clip that is, despite the seizure-inducing camera work. The band is tight as a gnat’s chuff with Jack and Ginger carrying Eric aloft on the best rhythm section in the business
@Mikethep was the switch from cylinders to shellac more traumatic for you than the switch from vinyl to cd to streaming ?
I was sorry to see the back of those pianola rolls
If I were 20 years younger, I might ask “What’s rock n roll? Is it a kind of ice cream?”.
56 and a smattering of months
Me too, but the smattering is more like six.
53 and three quarters
I’m a bit of a toy boy…..
64 and 7 months exactly, as it happens, and getting older every day.
Forty three. I am fortunate enough to work with teenagers, though, and am busy devising the means of stealing their youths from them. As soon as I come up with an effective method, I’ll let everyone here know…
A very average – 55
36 (Hex) = 54 (Dec)
I’m 47. You probably thought I was younger, but that’s because I moisturize.
So does minibreakfast.
Maybe she does, but I do it without using moisturizer.
That’s called “sweating.”
I’ve always felt the young’un on here (and The Word site) – I’m 43
The new admins could probably make a fortune selling adwords and making the new Pink Floyd Box Set pop up everywhere on the site
54 for one more week..
48. Mental age of 3, prone to tantrums and vomiting from too much spinning around. Occasional bouts of 17 year old teenager moodiness and angst. Increasing outbursts of ‘old geezer’ curmudgeonliness.
60 and three months, and very much looking forward to retirement next summer.
52 & a half – how did that happen?
Still in my 40s – until next week.
55 – A young grandad!
54 and an old dad!
(Just took me 6 attempts to remember/type my password correctly too)
Fiddy-deuce but still down with tha kids, aii
58
Amazing.
Holy gremlins! The most amazing thing is that my avatar has changed to batman.
Yes, dear, of course it has! Time for Mr Happy Pill!
A bog standard 51.
Born in ’58, which makes me 58!!
Not actually true because I’m still 57, but only for a wee while longer.
Recently turned 56.
same here
ooh first chance to edith a comment 🙂
So all younger than the oldest Stone. (Youngest stone, even? Ronnie Wood was 69 on 1st of June, Mr Thep, so depends on your definition of “just”) Bill Wyman is 79.
My definition of “just” makes me younger than Ronnie Wood…
I don’t have much input here but for what it’s worth in December will attain the grand old age of 70. Geriatrics rule ok 🙂
Alan, @h-p-saucecraft, @johnny-concheroo and @junior-wells (aka The Axis of Pisstake) were wondering if you had anything to say about the first performance of Beethoven’s Ninth.
That’s very unkind to Alan @mikethep you should be ashamed. But I am interested in What it was like when @Alan-Balfour interviewed Charley Patton
OK, so we have someone older than a Rolling Stone. Anyone got the ages of the Kinks? (Beatle ages don’t count as they stop prematurely.) (Yes, I did forget about Brian Jones when I wrote that.)
I am exactly the same age (to the day) as Lord Anderson of Tull, if that helps.
While I am the same age as Lord Hepworth of Word and Simon Nicol out of Fairport Convention (within a week or so, anyway)
Captain Sensible and I shared birthday drinks at Dingwalls in ’79.
Afterword T-Shirt (remaindered, special offer)
I had three gins last night, and today I have a headache. Three blinking gins. I do not feel 41 this morning.
How many fingers per drink ?
I don’t know, they were ‘dad’ measures (it was a family get-together with dad on bar duty), so probably big, even though I asked for small.
I try to keep my fingers out of my drinks, but maybe that’s because I know where they’ve been. (Work based joke)
My Dad’s G&Ts are 100% gin (ice cold from the freezer) with a mist of tonic spray from an opening can. And the zest of lemon (never the juicy bit). He’s a bit stern when it comes to drinkies.
Sounds a bit like my Grandad’s measures at Christmas. ¾ of a glass of Bacardi, a splash of Coke, and if you were lucky, some ice. This was when I was 13 years old.
I’m now reminded of the year he left the Viennetta out on top of the fridge-freezer for a couple of hours – “to defrost”.
I decided to give up the hooch after I woke up with a hangover after two glasses of red wine. Two! And they weren’t even Buckfast, which would have made it more respectable
(I’m pretty sure this is the first time that last sentence has ever been written).
*scrolls up to check Hawkie’s age*
I am 51.
And happy birthday, Uncle.
‘Saga for you’ – 50
Nudging that average ever upwards, I was born in 1950 so am currently 66. Sixty-bloody-six? How did that happen and, more to the point, when?
I’m 51, quite a few from a good vintage 1965 here. Life is good. Life sucks.
I am 41. One of the babies round here.
Hop up onto Unkie Saucie’s lap, Andielou!
(*cracks knuckles*)
*hops up onto Unkie’s lap*
So, what was it like in the old days?
Sort of like this. Only more often.
And in black and white.
Just over 54 and a half
Helping to boost the demographic ever upwards, sixty one and three quarter.
Another relative youngster (not many places I can say that these days) at 48
53 and 3 months.
49 & 3/4.
Manufacture of the SR 9000 began at the tail end of 1966. Production ceased almost immmediately once its creator realised his handiwork was too good for this world. He set about destroying every last one, but the effort caused him to expire before he could dismantle the last unit. Devastated by the loss of his kind and lost without the creator he knew hadn’t wanted him to live, the Sewer Robot remained hidden from the world in a gothic castle situated at the end of a suburban cul de sac waiting for the day Winona Ryder reached sexual maturity…
So, 49.
46, but mentally more like 26 and physically around 86.
Happy Birthday Wheatyhead.
OM
OMG
Cheers dude.
51
48
Does anyone have the time or inclination to compute the average? – shirley a point of interest. If so I’ve now had me dinner, things are clearer and I recall I am 56 and not 21 1/2. Sniff.
48
9 months older than my teeth (and about 53 years older than the front ones on the denture).
It appears that I am exactly 5 years older (to the day) than Trent Reznor.
Cathy’s Clown is my birthday number 1.
A half century come October. What can you do…
60 & a bit (3 months actually).
A half century now. But 50 is the new 30 according to the Daily Mail so it must be true!
Psychology Today would beg to differ though and gives a few reasons why being 50 is an improvement.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/bouncing-back/201511/50-isnt-the-new-30-and-why-s-good-thing
54 and never felt better ….. with my glass half empty attitude ( some say grumpy old git) i am not expecting this to last, something shit must be around the corner!
43.
Should we award a prize for the oldest and youngest?
A sprightly 54, due to my healthy diet and plenty of exercise [are you sure about this, duco – Ed.]
45 and a half
Turned fifty on Saturday. No big deal. Turning thirty on the other hand was utterly traumatic.
63. Only four and a bit months till I get a telegram from Sir Macca.
50 (and a quarter).
Same as Mousey. 62. And a half.
We’re similar in many ways. Well, leaving aside the fact that he’s a professional musician, composer and made his latest album at Abbey Road
I’m 46. Next year it will be 30 years since final year at school and I’m still trying to get my head around it.
A well-worn 62.
56 and five sixths next Thursday.
46.
Mind of a 24 year old, body of a 65 year old
Where does the time go?
I’ve just found a watch down the back of the sofa*, if that’s any help?
(*I haven’t really)
For @attackdog
Average age: 53.5
(hmm – edit function, and I still can’t work out how to post images)
Ooh ooh, could we have median and modal (say, 3-year intervals) as well, please?
PS Hi Sal!
Hi backatcha, Jeff!
At the time I did it (before sixdog and John Walters added their details), median was the same as mean. Modal, you can see from the graph, of course. The 48-50 and 54-56 age groups seem to be leading the pack.
Thanks for the reply Sal.
Ah right, gotcha re median and mean.
As for modal, actually I couldn’t see that as I do all of my posting / reading on my phone these days (since my laptop died of Vista Unsupportibus back in January), so I can’t see any small details at all without wearing a Zeiss-quality jewellers loupe in each eye. And vanity precludes that, obvs.
Btw, it’s really good to see you posting here again – a belated but heartfelt Welcome Back from me.
Ooh that’s clever!
Think you forgot Alan B out there to the right.
Don’t worry about it, especially as I’m an old fashioned “lefty” 🙂
He did say he would be 70 later this year – he’s still keeping you company for a bit longer, @mikethep.
That’s great, Sal. A 31 year Grumpspan.
I bet you enjoyed colouring that in.
Clutching at straws, obviously…
Why the half years on the Y axis, sal?
Hi @tiggerlion!
The y axis is just numbers of AWers, not years. As to why it goes up in units of 0.5, I have no idea. I just grabbed the first online graph converter that worked and didn’t look too closely at the results. Very slapdash, I know…
I have to say – I love the return of the edit function – means I can play around with my comments!
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W-W’
I wish I’d reread my comment before Edith left the building. I meant to make a joke about cutting JC in half.
Before it’s too late:
?HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE WHEATY!!
63 here
So average person here is about 53, male and British. It’s me!
* except I am 54
So am I, so it’s actually me.
46, although only for another three weeks.
Mental age: 19
Actual age: 45
Always told I look a good few years younger so not totally freaking out just yet. Although I was utterly horrified when a couple of former schoolfriends became grandmothers a few years ago.
‘ray, another returner!
Good to see you back too, Scarlet.
Thanks @jeff.
I hadn’t really gone away as such, I just always seem to wander in right at the end of a thread’s life and find that anything I might add has already been said, and very eloquently at that.
Must try harder 🙂
52. Fucking hell.
I turned 37 a week ago. Which, from a brief perusal of the thread, appears to make me the youngest person here. Or at least the youngest who is willing to post their age.
Junior ‘Worder Styrofoam Plates went to bed early as he has to be up at dawn to do his paper round..
Dr J used to be well young back in the old place, or, at least his shoulders were. (Old head, young shoulders? With me?) Probably as grizzled as the rest of us by now.
Aww look everyone, it’s a bairn!
I’m 42. I’d have thought the average age here was considerably older than what the results show.
Watch yer tongue ya whippersnapper!
61. A few days younger than Annie Lennox.
53. But I look 53.
Night,night afterworderburners.
Also 53 and starting to feel it.
44. But I don’t look a day over…well…44.
Rumour has it I will qualify for bus pass next year.
It is lies I say damn lies.
But I do remember the days before Rock’n’Roll well Beatles version of R’n’R.
I’m 66 and 26 in me head. I was so much older then I’m younger than that now errors that a copyright infringement?
64 – I think my son still needs me, but I feed myself.
People tell me I look a lot younger. I reply – yes, but I’m falling apart inside.
54, which obviously a 45 played backwards for the Satanic voices.
I know this could go on forever but an update taking account of the laggards would be good @salwarpe
Hi @junior-wells – only just alerted to your, um, alert…
When I have a free moment, I am happy to do this.
cheers
Long time lurker, seldom poster and 56 years 51 weeks today
Happy birthday next week Sir!
sixty, six months and two days.
Getting used to the fact that I will be working ’til I drop in an industry already overcrowded with the semi-senile – some of them in their forties.
I shall be 66 and 8 months this coming Sunday. Which makes me two weeks younger than Paula Wilcox, and Robert Lindsay.
44
61.75 on Monday. Younger than Mick Jones and Topper Headon, two weeks older than Paul Simonon.
This is my first post
You’re off to a fine start.
Welcome, Mr Onion, sir.
And welcome to the top end of the demographic.
A Tom Waits man too! Actually, this song is a treasure trove of potential Afterword handles: Satchel Pudding, Lord God Mose, Blackjack Ruby, Nimrod Cain, Birdy Joe Hoax, Scarface Ron…
https://youtu.be/vMP9e3cqKns
I’m 42 and three-quarters.
I feel surprisingly youthful all of a sudden.
I’m “00101010” and this is my 1st Post 🙂
Hey there welcome – have you come out of the lurkers closet or new to the blog?
I was on a version of the Blog years ago, but lost my Log In details when my PC died and I ended up being too busy in my spare time, so I was pretty much “away from my keyboard” 😉
The sad news of James Blaasts demise brought me back here to pay my respects, as we had been close friends many years ago. All in all my interest in hanging out here has been rekindled 🙂
Well, that’s great that you have come back and found enough to keep you here.
54
Born in 1950 – like Mr. Hepworth, I got the golden lottery ticket. Makes me 66…I think….