What???
 

Dana,

correct me if I'm Wrong, you are saying that I need more experience to talk about this???

Here is my point, This forum is comprised mostly of middle-aged people, (24-48)

if I started to talk about teenage topics, everybody would show me the door and maybe even be expelled by Undertoad.

so i thought: Ok, what do Middle-aged people mostly talk about?
and then I thought, : Ok, What do I like?

I combined the 2 together and voila! this thread was born >}}}*> <*{{{<

Tomas you got it wrong..middle aged people talk about boring things

wars and house prices etc


don't come back until you are boring enough, hit the books and get boring for us, thats an order!

obligitory woody allen quote

"don't knock masturbation, its sex with someone you love"


sorry for outing you as a teenager...but did he just call us middle aged :worried:

Y'know I believe he did! But hey.....if the zimmerframe fits....

Tomas, read my last response again please. I did not say you shuoldnt talk about this until you are older or more experienced. I merely pointed out that you are not qualified to compare the two if you only have experience of the one. Not that you cant have an opinion of which may or may not be better.....Just that you were rather emphatic in your assertions that the one you have experienced is better than the one you have not.....

.....Dont feel you have to pander to us in your topics of conversation. Talk about what interests you, just dont be surprised if some of us hold firm opinions on all kinds of things. You never know who might post in agreement and who might turn it into a miniflamewar.

Trust me Tomas if I were to start a thread entitled How men Think and then proceed to give my opinions on how a man's mind works ( or doesnt *grins*) there would be a pile up on the cellar steps of people rushing to tell me I didnt know what the fuck I was talking about.

Re: What???
 

No, it's good to explore your feelings on things, even when you don't have a frame of reference. What is bad is when you start making blanket statements like this one:

Fact is, you don't know. Food *can be* but *is* is far too definite a term when you obviously aren't old enough to know. When you are, you'll realise how ridiculous statements like that are.

So my problem is not that you have an opinion. My problem is that you've formed the opinion having precious few facts and experiences to back it up.

Well, that depends really. There's a lot of topics here that would appeal to both teenagers and us "old folk". Music, movies, video games, books. If you have an intellectual bent, and I suspect you do, there's politics, religion, philosophy and anything else that interests you. Even sex. Just keep an open mind, and try to avoid the broad gerneralisations unless you have the facts to back it up. It's okay to be a teenager here, just don't pull an April and you'll be fine.

Yeah, but how much fun would that be? C'mon, I really wanna hear about this.

Know your target audience, though it is rather hard to do when you're on a BBS and know little about the people with whom you converse.

I think thats why people who lurk for a while before posting tend to stay around longer and contribute more.

Seriously, we see all these ""Hi guys! just found your forum! Think I'll stick around" posts from people who never ever ever post again. But when someone new comes on and they don't start with a faux pas, it's almost always learned later on that they lurked for a month or two and already knew us pretty well.

Ok, I read what dana and perth had to say and I agree.

But

two questions still linger : 1) what do we do with this thread? so far its 13pages long and I suspect that is no longer relevant.

and

2) originally posted by Yelof:Are y'all tired of me asking ridiculous questions or does the statement above implies for me to leave?

from Tomas

I don't think I've been posting here enough to have dismissal powers (
I have however been on the planet long enough ;) )

No I was just trying to be self depreciating about middle :eek: aged interests while at the same time steer you towards reading more books. Books are cool.

Stick around but be yourself, if you think your subject of limited interest start a new thread. You may have been giving opions on a subject you are not yet qualified to, but in general we've been having fun on your thread.

1. Let the thread do whatever it does. Who cares?

2. What Yelof said. Don't leave. I'm sorry I was a dick.

And you did a good job starting a thread that has had over a hundred posts already. If it was a bad idea to start, nobody would have joined in.

Yeah, Tomas, its cool. Stick around, for what my opinion is worth since I'm new here myself. I didn't lurk at all, just jumped right in and got all kinds of people mad at me and called Wolf a guy, but I haven't been excommunicated yet, so what the hell? I love your thought that 24 is middle-aged. I guess that officially makes me a pre-historic fossil. I hope nobody decides to burn me as fuel!

No problem apologies acepted, just one question? What do y'all talk about? I have pondered on this question for too long (and also I have been on the egde of leaving this forum twice so far)

Not wanting to make it thrice, I ask : What thoughts and concerns do you people converse in here everyday?

I mean, its not like I started this thread by: I believe that if the lenght of the hand is longer than that of te foot means that one masturbates to much.

any way, just my opinion (Maybe I shouldn't have said that, I realy have to shove my fist into my mouth

Check it out, there's a list, here! ;)

Thanks HM:)

Glatt what do you mean with this:?Is it really hard to make people chatter,cringe, and cry over a simple opinion? At first I thought I was going to receive maybe just 30-50 posts.

Anywhay: Thanks for the feedback.

Hey, man, don't take everything so seriously. This place is all about opinions and people getting offended/having fun/making fun/disagreeing with them. It's a GOOD thing if your thread gets 100 posts. Means people are interested in what you are saying. Anyway, glad to see you are getting involved.

And on that note, even if someone seriously tells you to leave (and Yelof wasn't really being serious) you shouldn't listen to them--that's what people do here, they disagree with each other. If everyone agreed there would be nothing to discuss.

Oh, geez. You can do better than that. LJ, help her out here. :)

better than "recently unperthed."

how about:

afterperth....it rhymes with afterbirth

a nithe perthon

don't take me perthonally


sorry, "perth" is a motherfucker to work into a good title line

Those were fucking great. I figured it might require that the "th" be treated as a lisped "s". I really like "Afterperth".

how bout suPerthluous and Case dismissed

That's a good one too. :)

Deperthonithized

That's good, too.

Say, who hijacked this thread, anyway?

i'll hit you with my perth, you bathtard! i'll scratch your eyes out!

Anti-perthpirant

AH! WE HAVE A WINNER!

I agree. That one is very good.

It is VERY good, although the judge might be a tad preJIMdiced! ;)

Yea, he's just trying to get laid...

or fed

......remember the original thread topic.

Re: What???
 

Laughs hysterically at the thought of someone who considers 24 to be middle aged ...

Hey, at least you are not elderly and/or disabled (65->>>)

So if "elderly" is over 65, and "middle aged" is 24 - 48, then what are 49 - 64 year olds?

Over the hill?

Mature Adults

Did we just get patronised?

Tomas, I don't know what the range is in Spain, but middle age here in the US is generally 40-60.

Ok.

here are the range groups that I have developed. they are not, in any way legal, nor are they used in common lang.

0-9mths. babies
10mths - 3yrs toddlers
4-7 kids
8-10 pre-teens
10-19 teens
20-24 adolescents
24-48 middle-aged
which comprise of
24-35 young adults
36-48 mature adults
48-65 ????>>> My nomenclature doesn't reach. Help!
65->> Elderly

So I'm both middle-aged and a young adult? I'm torn between wanting to be flattered and wanting to express outrage. :)

Ha Hah. You've got some weird ideas there, Tomas. Interesting.

I especially enjoyed the "20-24 adolescents" one.

I know some 24 year olds that would definitely qualify as adolescent. Some even older than that.

I'm disabled and beyond the help of nomenclature (or anything else, including God). Does this mean you won't speak to me anymore, Tomas? Say it ain't so!:p

No, I'm not going to stop talking to any of you. But 2 major events might happen during the summer

1- well, school's over, so I can't talk to you from school.

2-My 3 month free period from AOL is due on 18 or 19 of June which might mean no Internet from home either.

here is an idea. Tell me which ISP (internet service provider) would be within a reasonable range ($10 and down/month) I am not asking for high speed or DSL, just good ol' fashioned dial-up

with that over. yes, it is facinating the way it seems, ever since you are 24 you become both middle-aged and a young adult.

I'm 15 going on 16, so I don't have to really worry.

Suddenly, everything makes sense.

Considering I was about the same age when I started here I really should be more forgiving. Should.

Jesus the concept of me being considered middle aged is more than a little scary.

Hah! Hah! Just you wait until you ARE middle-aged, Jag. It happens faster than you think. Yesterday, I was only 20 years old and flying over the mouth of the Amazon for the first time, watching the colors of fresh water from that giant river mingle with the color of the ocean's salty waves. I was getting ready to land in Belem where the air smelled like flowers and I didn't speak a word of Portuguese and no one there spoke a word of English. I woke up this morning to discover myself turned into a fossil overnight, but life continues to be an adventure, so what the hell?

evil woman!!! Now I`m going to be lieing in bed unable to sleep because of nightmares.

I love destroying the illusions of the innocent young! Step into my gingerbread house, little boy! (cackles evilly).:D

mummy make the bad woman go away :P

HAH!

You could do her doggy style or put a bag on her head. It's just a matter of how many beers you've had. Bad sex is better than no sex assuming it's not forced, and not against your own sexual preference.

No doubt you speak from experience. Was she your prom date?:D

No, my prom date was Karen Schierhoff, a lovely strawberry blond 16 year old, whom I later deflowered. :)

ahh, those good ol' days. you never forget them.

But, when you "started here" were you in the midst of a bunch of other people of similar age?

Or was there a whole crop of (pardon the expression) "middle-aged" folks hanging out?

marichiko: I know what you mean about the fossilization. That's exactly how my knees feel most mornings!!

A gentleman does not "kiss and tell," but then I never suspected you of being one, anyhow.

Yes, you do.

only old people do :P

I don`t get that post coming from him though.

I don't either. But I'm "middle-aged", which is practically "geriatric" so I'm probably not expected to understand much.