How old are you?

[Robocommie]

I've seen a lot of folks of a lot of different ages on the board, so I'm curious, comrades. How old is everyone? I'm 27, myself.

This poll assumes there is nobody younger than 14, because I really don't imagine there is anyone... but life is full of surprises.

[Spawn of Stalin]

Am 23, feel 40, act 16, look 23.

[Vendetta]

19; 20 in a couple of months.

[leftace53]

I be 19, and find toes weird.

[eyedrop]

24, looks under 18 when shaved. Crappy liquor stores always asking for legitimation.

[Mumbles]

Just turned 17 a few weeks ago.

[Nuvem]

18, a blessing and a curse. Youth is full of potential but it's hard to get anyone over the age of 20 or so who isn't already a convinced Leftist to take me seriously no matter what I say.

[Foldered]

I'm 21, turning 22 this year. Look older and I act like an old man.

[Crusade]

20. I feel like I'm 60 though.

[Kassad]

18.

[Honggweilo]

23 this sunday.. feels old man :(

[Sentinel]

29, so I barely fit in the young adults column (20-29) anymore..

[gorillafuck]

16.

[RedAnarchist]

I'm 24, look a few years younger, feel my age and act in my mid-twenties.

[GracchusBabeuf]

Why does it start from 14?:D

[Foldered]

Why does it start from 14?:D
It can almost be safely assumed that no one younger than 14 are posting here.

If I'm not mistaken, you're not even supposed to be able to register on forums unless you're 14 (or 13).

[leftace53]

I think I first stumbled across here around the age of 14 when I didn't really know what communism was, then I made an account 2 years later :blink:

[Robocommie]

18.

Haha, no shit bud, really? That's so funny, I never imagined I was so much older than you. Kudos to you for being so driven at your age (not to sound patronizing, mind)

[Ocean Seal]

I think I first stumbled across here around the age of 14 when I didn't really know what communism was, then I made an account 2 years later :blink:
Yes I remember being here a couple years ago when I first became a communist. I didn't make an account up till now. I'm 17.

[Kassad]

Haha, no shit bud, really? That's so funny, I never imagined I was so much older than you. Kudos to you for being so driven at your age (not to sound patronizing, mind)

I seem to get this a lot. I was lucky enough to have a grade school teacher help me channel my teenage rebellion into actual class struggle. I wish more people were so lucky.

[9]

22. There is nothing to say about it. It is a very plain age.

[Vendetta]

22. There is nothing to say about it. It is a very plain age.

It means the last year should have rightfully been a blur.

[The Ben G]

14

[Robocommie]

Who's over 60?

[Robocommie]

I seem to get this a lot. I was lucky enough to have a grade school teacher help me channel my teenage rebellion into actual class struggle. I wish more people were so lucky.

Well, you and Comrade Merino out in Long Beach, right?

[Bilan]

22. There is nothing to say about it. It is a very plain age.

Nobody likes you when you're 22?


--
I'm 20.

[MarxSchmarx]

24, looks under 18 when shaved. Crappy liquor stores always asking for legitimation.

there will come a time when you're flattered by that

[AK]

15

24, looks under 18 when shaved.
Anyone else misinterpret that?

[Qayin]

17

To young :(

[9]

Nobody likes you when you're 22?


If this is a reference to a blink182 song, you should be banned multiple times.


It means the last year should have rightfully been a blur.

more like the last seven years tbh.

[AK]

If this is a reference to a blink182 song, you should be banned multiple times.
You ought to be banned for knowing the reference.

[Fullmetal Anarchist]

I'm 24. Due to my awesome beard I look about 30. Act like a hyper active 12 year old.

[Wanted Man]

I've been 20 for some time now, but I still miss being 19. It's much nicer, really. I'm also surprised to see that there are so many people in their 20s here.

[Q]

25

[Chambered Word]

If this is a reference to a blink182 song, you should be banned multiple times.

Goes without saying for referencing Blink 182 at all.

I'm 15, turning 16 this year.

[piet11111]

24 just a little while longer.

[The Red Next Door]

I am 19, i will be 20 in September, I act like i am 16 and i hang out with sixteens year olds. but the ages of my friends vary from 15 to 23 or older, since i am more involved in the movement.

[Chimurenga.]

20.

[#FF0000]

20

[gorillafuck]

Nobody likes you when you're 22?
I'm sorry sir, but the correct answer was 23.

[ContrarianLemming]

I'm 27, act like i'm 60

[Foldered]

I'm sorry sir, but the correct answer was 23.
I hate myself for knowing that that's correct. Haha.

[Palestine]

well i look like a 30 year old, act like a 10 year old, my real age 30-10=20 :D

[Qayin]

My friends say i should act my age.
whats my age again? whats my age again?

[Spawn of Stalin]

My friends say i should act my age.
whats my age again? whats my age again?

WHY WHY WHY can't we neg rep posts in chit chat???

[the last donut of the night]

16

[Palingenisis]

I've seen a lot of folks of a lot of different ages on the board, so I'm curious, comrades. How old is everyone? I'm 27, myself.

This poll assumes there is nobody younger than 14, because I really don't imagine there is anyone... but life is full of surprises.

Wow...I always presumed that you were older but in a good way! :)

[Lyev]

I'm 16 as well.

SWEET SIXTEEN!

[gorillafuck]

WHY WHY WHY can't we neg rep posts in chit chat???
Why would you wish that on me?

[Tavarisch_Mike]

SWEET SIXTEEN!

thats a good movie by Ken loach, check it out http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313670/

btw I'm 21

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

19 years young.

[Nwoye]

It's good to see I'm not the only one whose early adolescence was marred by Blink 182.

[Qayin]

WHY WHY WHY can't we neg rep posts in chit chat???

Problem, Comrade?
http://animeotaku.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/coolface.jpg

[Foldered]

It's good to see I'm not the only one whose early adolescence was marred by Blink 182.
Anyone who grew up in the 90s probably was marred by Blink.

Problem, Comrade?
http://animeotaku.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/coolface.jpg

Gtfo of here.

[gorillafuck]

Blink-182 is good.

I said it.

[Robocommie]

Wow...I always presumed that you were older but in a good way! :)

Well thank you comrade, that's nice of you to say so. :)

[Bright Banana Beard]

20 here.

[Lyev]

It's good to see I'm not the only one whose early adolescence was marred by Blink 182.Where are you? The angel of my nightmare, the shadow in background of the morgue, the unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley, we can live like Jack and Sally if you want, where you can always find me, this sick strange darkness, blah blah blah I miss you

I think that's right :lol:

[NecroCommie]

20 years old. I say old because I have achieved absolutely nothing in my life. Nothing, nada, zip, ingenting!

[Panda Tse Tung]

21, will be 22 in 1,5 weeks.

[Saorsa]

18.

In that time, I have dropped out of high school, been expelled from university, quit my job, broken up with my girlfriend, and I've taken far too many drugs.

[Il Medico]

I am going to say that I am 19 since saying 18 332/365 seems ridiculous.

And that fact that Kassad is 18 floored me. I would have guessed he was 30-40. :lol:

Robocommie is close to the age I expected.

[Franz Fanonipants]

On the sad, pathetic downslope to 30.

Which is to say, 27.

[nrbsl2212]

Going on 23. Still feel like I just got out of high school at 18, however.

[AK]

WHY WHY WHY can't we neg rep posts in chit chat???
And stupid me, I was about to thank you for that post...

[Chambered Word]

I'm 16 as well.

SWEET SIXTEEN!

I thought you were around 20-something.

[farleft]

26

[Lyev]

I thought you were around 20-something.Thanks, that's a real compliment :wub: I would have put you at a around 20, due to your astuteness and wit, but I know your 15 now ;)

[Zanthorus]

17

I was actually surprised at some of the ages people put here. A lot of the older people I thought would've been younger and a lot of the younger people I thought would've been older. My whole perception of reality has just been thrown upside down...

[Nwoye]

Blink-182 is good.

I said it.
They're good because you're 16. Trust me on this one.

[Q]

I'm also surprised to see that there are so many people in their 20s here.
There goes the myth that Revleft is fueled by teenrage. It's adolescense rage instead.


21, will be 22 in 1,5 weeks.
Am I invited to your party?

[Devrim]

I'm in the 40-49 group.

Devrim

[eyedrop]

18.

In that time, I have dropped out of high school, been expelled from university, quit my job, broken up with my girlfriend, and I've taken far too many drugs.
How can you have dropped out of high school and be going to university, shouldn't dropping out of high school prevent you from going to university? Or at the very least delay you a year while you do the exams on your own so you should have been over 18 by the time you started?

Does the New Zealand have some weird requirements for starting university?

[Mälli]

Im turning 16 tomorrow.

[Mendax]

17...

[Lyev]

How can you have dropped out of high school and be going to university, shouldn't dropping out of high school prevent you from going to university? Or at the very least delay you a year while you do the exams on your own so you should have been over 18 by the time you started?

Does the New Zealand have some weird requirements for starting university?Comrade Alastair is just making this stuff up to try and impress all the older and cooler kids.

[eyedrop]

Comrade Alastair is just making this stuff up to try and impress all the older and cooler kids.
In poor taste then, if it was joking.
(I seem to remember Alastair posting some news article about some flag burning he did though)

[Tablo]

19

[Crux]

14-60ish.

[Stand Your Ground]

the big 2-0, 21 in a few months

[Martin Blank]

19

[Q]

19

lol

[Tablo]

lol
What's so funny?

[Android]

I'm 20.

[praxis1966]

Fuck me with a wet mop. You people are making me feel ancient and I'm only 31. Seriously, do your mums know where you're at?

[Kassad]

And that fact that Kassad is 18 floored me. I would have guessed he was 30-40. :lol:

Why is every so convinced that I'm that much older than I actually am?

[Crux]

my age is soon to be a palindrome. In other words I am turning eleven soon.

[Lyev]

my age is soon to be a palindrome. In other words I am turning eleven soon.You mean you're 22 soon?

[Crux]

You mean you're 22 soon?
Well, it's not 66 or 55. I suppose I could be turning 33 or 44. Or 25.25. Although that last one would be an anagram I suppose.

[Panda Tse Tung]

Am I invited to your party?


Sure, except that i'll be in Turkey. So it's gonna be quite the trip.

[Devrim]

Am I invited to your party? Sure, except that i'll be in Turkey. So it's gonna be quite the trip.

Am I invited to your party?

Devrim

[Robocommie]

Why is every so convinced that I'm that much older than I actually am?

As far as I'm concerned, you come off well spoken and confident, which tends to imply age and experience. I never figured you for being middle aged though, if only because of the Transmetropolitan avatar. ;)

[Weezer]

19

lolwut

14.

[AK]

lolwut

14.
I'm really quite shocked at this. I always imagined you to be much much older :blink:

[RHIZOMES]

19 but the amount of people I hang out with that are my own age is rather small.

[gorillafuck]

I imagined a lot of you correctly about your ages but some of these surprise me.

[RHIZOMES]

Oh yeah and my girlfriend is 4 and a half years older than me...

In fact I can count how many people in my social circle who are my own age in one hand...

[RedRise]

13. 12 when I joined. It seems weird for me to be only just a teenager because in all honesty I feel at least a decade older.:blushing:

[RHIZOMES]

13. 12 when I joined. It seems weird for me to be only just a teenager because in all honesty I feel at least a decade older.:blushing:

Story of my life.

[AK]

13. 12 when I joined. It seems weird for me to be only just a teenager because in all honesty I feel at least a decade older.:blushing:
...and I thought I was young when I joined.

[gorillafuck]

13. 12 when I joined. It seems weird for me to be only just a teenager because in all honesty I feel at least a decade older.:blushing:
Wow, you were only 12? You're not even supposed to join forums when you're 12, I don't think.


19 but the amount of people I hang out with that are my own age is rather small.
Are your friends older or younger?

[IrishWorker]

26.

[Weezer]

13. 12 when I joined. It seems weird for me to be only just a teenager because in all honesty I feel at least a decade older.:blushing:

Also the story of my life.

[Jazzhands]

16

[RHIZOMES]

Are your friends older or younger?

Older.

[black magick hustla]

21

[Mendax]

How long ago was the big bang again?

[Il Medico]

21
I thought you were closer to my age!

[Raúl Duke]

I'm 21, my friends tend to be born between 1991-1985, I'm in university

[Robocommie]

You guys make me feel fucking old.

[FriendlyLocalViking]

The Viking has been about for centuries. Indeed, I remember fighting with Harald Hardrada, acting as a paid distraction for the Norman troops in 1066.

[Comrade B]

I am 19, can't say I am not a little insulted to be grouped with 14 year olds.

[Robocommie]

I am 19, can't say I am not a little insulted to be grouped with 14 year olds.

Walk it off, Comrade Unicorn. Another year and you can leave the kid's table.

[lombas]

23 and one year released from Uni...

[Agnapostate]

Damn, people here are young. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, of course, but I do worry about falling prey to the "naive young utopianists" stereotype about students with no working knowledge of the "real world." :D


Well, you and Comrade Merino out in Long Beach, right?

She looks even younger than she is because of her small stature. She could probably pass for being in her early to mid teens at first.

[Robocommie]

Damn, people here are young. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, of course, but I do worry about falling prey to the "naive young utopianists" stereotype about students with no working knowledge of the "real world." :D

I'm sure part of it is due to this being the internet.


She looks even younger than she is because of her small stature. She could probably pass for being in her early to mid teens at first.

That's pretty funny. Must be disarming to bourgeois opponents. If I do end up joining the PSL I just may end up meeting her myself, I suppose.

[Joesky]

20
21 in November

[Raúl Duke]

but I do worry about falling prey to the "naive young utopianists" stereotype about students with no working knowledge of the "real world."

Hmm...that depends.

Even if I do end up "quitting/giving up" and saying "we'll never have a revolution" I doubt I would ever vote for any party or believe in reform anyway. I mean, it's plain obvious that reform is over for "developed countries" and electoral parties of a bourgeois system will never represent my interests one bit.

[064]

133 dog years

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

23 years old.

[piet11111]

23 years old.

I thought you where older 26-27 ish

[Mumbles]

Damn. Everyone is a lot younger than I suspected.

If I had known this I wouldn't have tried to make myself special by naming a thread "Teenager". :lol:

[Zanthorus]

I think we should take into account that this is an internet forum. Therefore it'll naturally attract people of a younger age anyway.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I thought you where older 26-27 ish

I take that as a compliment. :)

[x371322]

I be 20. I turn 21 next month though. Hello legal drinking! It's about damn time.

[Joesky]

The number of teenagers explains the large amount of anarchists this forum has got.

[Qayin]

The number of teenagers explains the large amount of anarchists this forum has got.

Douche.

[Bilan]

The number of teenagers explains the large amount of anarchists this forum has got.

You spelt stalinist incorrectly.

[Q]

The number of teenagers explains the large amount of anarchists this forum has got.

So says the one from Students With Placards.

[Saorsa]

The number of teenagers explains the large amount of anarchists this forum has got.

duuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrhuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Joesky]

So says the one from Students With Placards.

You're just jealous of the Socialist Workers Party's large membership comrade and resent the fact that anarchists couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.

[HEAD ICE]

The number of teenagers explains the large amount of anarchists this forum has got.

actually it explains why there is a large presence of SWPers on this board, after all arent they entirely composed of trust fund college kids running like a headless chicken to the nearest protest?

ZING!!!!!

I'm 19

[Q]

You're just jealous of the Socialist Workers Party's large membership comrade and resent the fact that anarchists couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.

:lol:

1. Large membership? Yeah, the SWP is a real mass party... What is the claimed number again? 6000? My personal guess is that the actual (active and dues paying) membership is around 800 to 1000. You think this is a low count? I refer to my post here (http://www.revleft.com/vb/lindsey-german-resigns-t129095/index.html?p=1675275#post1675275) for the rationale.
2. I'm not an anarchist myself (although it wouldn't be bad if we saw some more anarcho-syndicalism in the workers movement).
3. The SWP sucks at organising the class and is mostly geared towards its own sectarian goals. It is infamous for taking over movements for example or actively frustrating ones that do not submit to their infallible leadership.

[RHIZOMES]

You spelt stalinist incorrectly.

I'd say it'd explain both.

[AK]

The number of teenagers explains the large amount of anarchists this forum has got.
Oh hurp fucking durp. Stereotypes are funny things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_M._Bonanno

...and:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/lEbYVgJz_7U/0.jpg

[Joesky]

I'm just trolling, of course i respect anarchists, specially the ones that know their theory.
And the criticisms that Q made could be made about most groups on the left so that's pretty redundant.
My honest opinion is that the left needs more energy and youth, however if the left is just full of teenagers, the working class can't take us seriously.

[Sam_b]

The SWP sucks at organising the class and is mostly geared towards its own sectarian goals. It is infamous for taking over movements for example or actively frustrating ones that do not submit to their infallible leadership.

Coming form a tendency that in the UK theatened to 'grass up' Poll Tax rioters and is currently cosying up with reactionary members of the Prison Officers Association this is pretty funny.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Coming form a tendency that in the UK theatened to 'grass up' Poll Tax rioters and is currently cosying up with reactionary members of the Prison Officers Association this is pretty funny.

You can say that when the SWP stop interfering (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10140911.stm) with the BA strikes.

[Jeoh]

These SPEW vs SWP debates make me feel like I'm gurgling cold diarrhoea.

[Q]

These SPEW vs SWP debates make me feel like I'm gurgling cold diarrhoea.

But they're what the trot revleft is all about! :lol:

[Sam_b]

You can say that when the SWP stop interfering (http://www.anonym.to/?http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10140911.stm) with the BA strikes

Dealt with at length already (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=1754555&postcount=3). Keep up.

[Jazzratt]

14


15


14.


13. 12 when I joined. It seems weird for me to be only just a teenager because in all honesty I feel at least a decade older.:blushing:

Christ. When I was that young I didn't know shit about shit. Hats off to you guys.

That said I'm still quite young myself (22).

[Redswiss]

I'm 14.

[RED DAVE]

I'm 66.

This month is 50 years since my first political action: attending a mass meeting up in Harlem, New York City, of the Committee to Defend Martin Luther King Jr. However, I starting calling myself a socialist when I was 14, in '58.

Those were the days, my friends; we thought they'd never end.

RED DAVE

[x359594]

...This month is 50 years since my first political action...

Congradulations Dave! I'm encouraged when I hear about people in it for the long haul.

I'm 59 myself. I realized I was a socialist at age 16 when I read some Peace and Freedom Party campaign literature and found myself in agreement with the 10 point program of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.

I'm also encouraged by all the young leftists here. I hope they stick with it.

[Lyev]

These SPEW vs SWP debates make me feel like I'm gurgling cold diarrhoea.Yeah, it leaves me with a similar feeling too. There are faults in both organisations - no one is bloody infallible.

And I respect massively the comrades who have been part of the movement for so long.

[Comrade Wolfie's Very Nearly Banned Adventures]

I am

over 9000

[Robocommie]

I'm 66.

This month is 50 years since my first political action: attending a mass meeting up in Harlem, New York City, of the Committee to Defend Martin Luther King Jr. However, I starting calling myself a socialist when I was 14, in '58.

Those were the days, my friends; we thought they'd never end.

RED DAVE

I like you, because you prove socialism isn't just an "awkward phase."

Do you got any awesome stories about back in the day?

[Chambered Word]

Do you got any awesome stories about back in the day?

This. :)

[Q]

I'm very impressed Dave. Congratulations on the anniversary!

[JacobVardy]

Now 31. Called myself an anarchist at 16 after reading Homage to Catalonia (my teachers made me read Orwell after catching me reading the Communist Manifesto). My first major DA was at 19, against the uranium mine at Jabiluka.

[Redswiss]

Heh, it seems your teachers were quite the cappies.

[Il Medico]

Now 31. Called myself an anarchist at 16 after reading Homage to Catalonia (my teachers made me read Orwell after catching me reading the Communist Manifesto). My first major DA was at 19, against the uranium mine at Jabiluka.
Your teacher made you read Orwell? Becuase you read the Manifesto? Haha. Cappies.

I read the manifesto in school as well. Read it in JROTC, you have no idea how pissed almost everyone in there was. :lol:

[JacobVardy]

Heh, it seems your teachers were quite the cappies.

Yes, this has been making comrades laugh since the 1990s.

[Black Sheep]

All of you youngsters will be at the frontline in the civil war of the revolution, while we old and wise will sip our Matte back in the HQ.

[BeerShaman]

15. Good or bad? Heh!

[BeerShaman]

All of you youngsters will be at the frontline in the civil war of the revolution, while we old and wise will sip our Matte back in the HQ.
Don't listen to him, he's very young! Hah! Scoundrel!:D

[Barry Lyndon]

21.

[RED DAVE]

I don't know the source, but I read somewhere that on the barricades during the Paris Commune, there was "beardless youths" and "old gray-beards" who had been waiting since 1848 to get another crack at the bourgeoisie. :D

RED DAVE

[redasheville]

27.

I've already started balding. :-(

[BeerShaman]

I don't know the source, but I read somewhere that on the barricades during the Paris Commune, there was "beardless youths" and "old gray-beards" who had been waiting since 1848 to get another crack at the bourgeoisie. :D

RED DAVE
Hahahah! Yeah I'm wholeheartidly loving this! Come on granny, it's time to fight! A las barricadas!:thumbup1:

[Il Medico]

That said I'm still quite young myself (22).
Bah. You're senile old timer.

[Q]

Chit-chat really isn't popular with the 30-plussers.

[Martin Blank]

Chit-chat really isn't popular with the 30-plussers.

I know what you mean. It's terrible.