Ages? here's the poll

[Jerry]

I turned 66 on Feb 28. Social security says I can go back to work now.

[Pleater]

When I was born, we still had rationing - not for everything, but I had my own ration book for a couple of years.

There was only one TV channel and it was in black and white, computers were science fiction, and programmed using switches.

No one had an electronic calulator, most phones were solidly fixed inside red or blue boxes, women wore stockings, petticoats and high heels every day and often a hat and gloves. Men wore suits, or 'flannels' and sports coat. Shoes were polished leather or brushed suede or pigskin.

Renting a house was the normal thing, as was buying on hire purchase, or saving up and doing without in order to afford something - though you bought it in the sales if you could.

If you had a fitted carpet you invited people in to look at it.

And now - it's just not like that any more.

Anne the Pleater

[Livingston]

Anne, you're still a youngster in my eyes.

[Pleater]

Anne, you're still a youngster in my eyes.

Awww - I should have known it was no use looking for a smilie that giggled and batted its eyelashes.

Anne the Pleater

[O'Callaghan]

When I was born, we still had rationing - not for everything, but I had my own ration book for a couple of years.

There was only one TV channel and it was in black and white, computers were science fiction, and programmed using switches.

No one had an electronic calulator, most phones were solidly fixed inside red or blue boxes, women wore stockings, petticoats and high heels every day and often a hat and gloves. Men wore suits, or 'flannels' and sports coat. Shoes were polished leather or brushed suede or pigskin.

Renting a house was the normal thing, as was buying on hire purchase, or saving up and doing without in order to afford something - though you bought it in the sales if you could.

If you had a fitted carpet you invited people in to look at it.

And now - it's just not like that any more.

Anne the Pleater

I reckon that makes you a decade older than me at least, Anne, just due to the ration book. Everything else I remember the same.

We also had tradesmen deliver everything to the door, i.e. we were regularly visited by a milkman, a coalman, a baker's van, a 'rag'n'bone' man with a horse and cart who rang a handbell and yelled out a traditional unintelligble cry, French onion men on bicycles, and even tinkers who sharpened knives on a wheel that they spun with their feet. We lived in London.

My parents owned our house, but both of them grew up on the same council estate (that's a housing project, for the benefit of Americans). My dad's dad had bought his own house by the time I was born, but IMHO his house was worse than the house my other grandad still rented on the council estate!

[thescot]

So, as of right now, 3-3-09 @ 6:00 PM EST, about 50% of the respondents are over 45.

Well, awright! Age and cunning will overcome youth and skill every time.

Geezers rule.

[Declan Rowan]

Ok, in this poll the pretty bell curve has been shot to hell and back compared to the older post discussed earlier.. Maybe its because there is just a 55+ grouping at the end rather than broken down further?

[Pleater]

Ok, in this poll the pretty bell curve has been shot to hell and back compared to the older post discussed earlier.. Maybe its because there is just a 55+ grouping at the end rather than broken down further?

Broken down by age over 55?

Not yet, Sir, not yet.



Anne the Pleater

[piperdbh]

Marshal,
Some of my 9th graders recently referred to middle-age as "in your thirties". Ouch!

[Jack Daw]

Marshal,
Some of my 9th graders recently referred to middle-age as "in your thirties". Ouch!

The way kids eat these days, they may be right.