Be 84 in July....and I just bought two more basses!! What was I thinking?
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2022 How old are you?
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So far it doesn't seem as bad as I (and perhaps many others) thought it might be. That's if we assume that having a lot of older members is bad?
Members under 50 = 40%
Members 50-65 = 43%
Members over 65 = 15%
So allowing for rounding up/down a 60/40 split so far. Though I guess the age of the person looking at it defines where the line between young and old might fall? I know when I was in my teens anyone over about twenty fives was considered old.
Members under 50 = 40%
Members 50-65 = 43%
Members over 65 = 15%
So allowing for rounding up/down a 60/40 split so far. Though I guess the age of the person looking at it defines where the line between young and old might fall? I know when I was in my teens anyone over about twenty fives was considered old.
We share similar backgrounds and preferences. I was heavily into USENET and, later on, the dial-up BBS scene. Even wound up hosting my own BBSs running Fidonet and Galacticomm software for awhile. Heady days! If you date back to that era you probably remember everybody’s favorite news source - the pages of Boardwatch magazine.
I also am not a social media fan. Never had a Myspace, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, AOL, TikTock, or other mainstream social platform account. Nor did I ever want a membership with them. I had no patience with their pitiful signal to noise ratio. I preferred to confine my online presence to Delphi and The WeLL after the BBS thing finally wound down.
These days the only online sites I frequent are TB, The WeLL, and a few private and highly focused forums hosted by friends.
So far it doesn't seem as bad as I (and perhaps many others) thought it might be. That's if we assume that having a lot of older members is bad?
Members under 50 = 40%
Members 50-65 = 43%
Members over 65 = 15%
So allowing for rounding up/down a 60/40 split so far. Though I guess the age of the person looking at it defines where the line between young and old might fall? I know when I was in my teens anyone over about twenty fives was considered old.
It seems like the demographic for this site is pretty much in line with the MLB audience demographic.
I was huge into baseball when I was younger and played in college and up to 30. Baseball was part of the reason I didn’t have the time to explore music until recently.
I do find it awfully boring and dry to watch though.
I think another poll that we could do is what percentage of bassists follow MLB closely.
I'm 50 (coincidentally the age group with the most members so far). And I adore baseball. I could watch games all day. I've been to Fenway several times. And we're looking at going to a few Spring Training games at JetBlue this Spring. It drives my wife crazy that I almost always know what pitch is coming next, and why.
I'll say something like "He's gotta go for the high fast ball to try to pop him up right here" and within seconds one of the commentators will say almost the same thing word for word. Or the pitch will happen and one of them will say "Yeah he was trying to pop him up right there with the high heat." I get punched in the arm a lot watching with my wife.
If you know the strategy behind the game, it's not boring at all. There's more to it (as you obviously know) than just trying to out pitch or out hit the other team. And with the stats they have access to these days, there's almost nothing left to chance.
One of my proudest moments happened last season. We were watching a game and my twelve year old daughter gasped and said "Why aren't they shifting???? Everybody knows he's a pull hitter!" I nearly cried. We were at Fenway a couple of years ago. And for some reason Cora had put JD Martinez in left field that day (for those of you who don't know he's almost always DH or right field). And my daughter (then 10) yelled at him "Hey why is JD in left field????" Everyone turned around to see what "little girl" was calling out the coach. I got a few high fives from dads around us.
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Should I have "tort" or "pearloid" colored frosting on my cake in November?
Yeah, I intentionally left off carrots for this crowd. But I suppose I shoulda put a "Nunyah beeswax" option in there.
Old enough that I can still leave a good looking corpse.
My dad died at 63, fell over dead. 3 Wars lots of smoking moderate amount of drinking he was not healthy. I took a lesson from that and I am 5 years older than he was when he passed away, I just wish I had some more time for conversation with him.
The data is only as good as the honesty of the input.....which we cant verifySo far it doesn't seem as bad as I (and perhaps many others) thought it might be. That's if we assume that having a lot of older members is bad?
Members under 50 = 40%
Members 50-65 = 43%
Members over 65 = 15%
So allowing for rounding up/down a 60/40 split so far. Though I guess the age of the person looking at it defines where the line between young and old might fall? I know when I was in my teens anyone over about twenty fives was considered old.
