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TB age with POLL

TB Age ?

  • less than 21

  • 21 to 30

  • 31 to 40

  • 41 to 50

  • 51 to 60

  • 61 to 70

  • more than 71


Results are only viewable after voting.
Fer cryin' out loud.

It's a friggin' number. Has nothing to do with what you do and how you do it. I know youngbloods who belong in a retirement village and geezers who have five times more energy than their Millennial bandmates.

I hope one day to see a corrolation between the predominance of geezer here and the fact that the Fender P bass is put on a pedestral as the Holy Bass
 
But the problem is that your age is changing and the results of the poll will be getting wrong with the time going on.

I voted, but I think the best way to present a poll like this is by asking "What decade were you born".
ex 1940-1950
1951-1960
1961-1970, etc

or something along those lines. That way, the thread will stay relevant forever. Someone who reads this thread 12 years from now will still get an accurate breakdown of age.

Hope that makes sense.

TWELVE years from now? Who's going to be around in twelve years, what with the impending nuclear Armageddon and all? LIVE FOR TODAY, eh! :D
 
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Looking at the poll results, it looks like a graph from a statistics textbook. Very interesting.

For comparison purposes, here is a distribution graph of the general population into age groups. Different age brackets between them, but the shape of the curve is similar. Young at the bottm, old at the top in both. What's notable is that there are so few young people-- the middle and old all seem to follow the curve. Only 16.2% here are 30 or under. Probably at least double that in the general population. Youngsters today-- leaving all the heavy lifting like bass playing-- to their elders.
 

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62 here - and happy to be here to say so.

Age is a state of mind - not a state of grace. I figure if I just refuse to grow old, I can stay young till I die.

Youngest man I ever knew was my great grandfather. He was 28 his entire active and independent life. Stayed that age right up until the day he died, three days shy of his hundred and fifth birthday.

That's where I learned the secret.
 
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