Do you lie about your age?

JP Liz

I'm curious do other ladies *coughs* lie about their age cause i do most of the time

Kiera

Nope but people think i'm lying when i tell them i'm nearly 30. I look about 15.:o

RxQueen

nope , altho im only 21 so... but lying your going to get caught out one way or the other in the end

NewFrockTuesday

Yep! I am 31 for the forseeable future!

Ginny

Nope, don't see why anyone would either.

John Mason

No - why would anyone bother

Mr. Incognito

"She told me she was 18 your honour"

Apart from that, I haven't been too bothered.

Creamy Goodness

i just ask for the year of birth, if it starts with 199X, then i back away.

shellyboo

Nope. What is this magical age that we're supposed to lie about? Is there a specific age? :P

Honestly, I don't see the point. But then I'm only 25... that's still youngish.

sillyputty

I'm 25 and i haven't faked my birthdate yet .. I have never seen the point of it.
What age would you start to lie anyway? Mid 30's?

rainbow kirby

I'm 24, and I haven't lied about my age. I look younger though, and people do sometimes think I'm lying when I tell them how old I am.

TerrorFirmer

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

i just ask for the year of birth, if it starts with 199X, then i back away.

But she could be 19?

My girlfriend gets herself into dramatic depressions over her age - and she's only 25.

GirlInterrupted

I'm 27 shortly.

I might start lying then.:D

Curlypinkie

I sometimes do and sometimes don't. I actually hate ppl asking my age so I just go with a random number from 20 - 30.
I never get questioned.

Das Kitty

I haven't lied about my age since turning 18.

I'm not bothered, it's just a number really.

My closest female friend who's 6 days older than me, she's planning on going to ground for the entire month of our 30ths and tells me she won't come celebrate my 30th with me. It makes me a bit sad really.

Snowie

I look 22 maybe 23 im 27 so no but no one beleave's....

I refuse to discuss this topic.....technically that is not lying.

livvy

i think it depends at what life stage you are at and whether it achieves something. I did add a couple of yrs on when 19 got me into the over 21's niteclub but at now at 32 i don't see what i can achieve by it.

stovelid

pink fluffy bunny wrote: »

No - why would anyone bother

This answer immediately places user in 15-29 age percentile.

OldGoat

Add 10 years to your age so that you can bask in the admiring comments from people saying how wonderfully young you look for your age.

jdivision

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

I look 22 maybe 23 im 27 so no but no one beleave's....

I'm the opposite, I'm 30 and look about 35!! So I get a few raised eyebrows. But no i wouldn't lie about my age, what's the point? If you did, when the person found out you'd look a bit of a mug. On facebook you can always tell who's paranoid about their age because they don't put the year of birth up!

Nevyn

No, never saw the point.
Number of years on the planet does not equal a certain ammount of widom or maturity
and if people make assumptions about me based simply on my age that's thier look out
and it can work as an idiot filter.

Dudess

stovelid wrote: »

This answer immediately places user in 15-29 age percentile.

Heh, you're wrong.

Yes, I lie about my age all the time - I think it's important that people who mean nothing to me think I'm younger than I actually am, because... I don't know, it just is.

Seriously though, it's easy to be righteous about it - in some situations (in particular image-based industries) women (men far less so) do get judged unmercifully for their age and it's easier to cave into this pressure than to stand up to it. I know, it's a shame when this only helps perpetuate it. It's also downright sad that it exists in the first place (and women do the judging too, not just men - I'd wager a woman would be far more likely to make a "mutton dressed as lamb" comment than a man would). It kinda reminds me of the way people from areas with bad reputations tweak their addresses or give the address of a relation/friend who lives in a "nicer" area when going for jobs. Very easy to say "oh they're caving into snobbery" etc but it's different if you're actually in their shoes.

But lying about your age when there's nothing at stake other than strangers thinking you're "old"... bizarre.

Das Kitty, ask your friend why she's getting so futilely depressed over something which she can do absolutely nothing about.

Oryx

No I dont lie about it, but then Im hardly ever asked outright what age I am, and I suppose I tend not to volunteer the information. I wouldnt hide it though. Once you get past a certain age people know not to ask anyway...

I wouldnt wish to be younger for all the tea in china. This x number of years experience was hard earned. Im bloody not going through all that again. There are benefits to being younger, but there sure are benefits to being more *ahem* mature.

CheersDarlin'

Now that I actually am 18 I won't but... I have been 18 to a couple guys for coming up to a year now!

Nevyn

hhhm last week I had someone think I was in my early 40s and someone think I was in my early 20s on two different days based on what I was wearing /shrug.

RacoonQueen

No. People are usually shocked when I tell them how old I am...most think I'm older although I think I look younger.

Oryx

Thaedydal wrote: »

hhhm last week I had someone think I was in my early 40s and someone think I was in my early 20s on two different days based on what I was wearing /shrug.

Please advise what you were wearing on the 20s day.

Das Kitty

Das Kitty wrote: »

My closest female friend who's 6 days older than me, she's planning on going to ground for the entire month of our 30ths and tells me she won't come celebrate my 30th with me. It makes me a bit sad really.

I say those kind of things to my friend all the time. She is also 6 days younger and winds me up something horrid about it.
Parties are so much fun....there is no way she will actually miss out. Honest!

Dudess

JP Liz wrote: »

I'm curious do other ladies *coughs* lie about their age cause i do most of the time

Why do I get the feeling that you're 23?

Dudess

Dudess wrote: »

Heh, you're wrong.

Yes, I lie about my age all the time - I think it's important that people who mean nothing to me think I'm younger than I actually am, because... I don't know, it just is.

Seriously though, it's easy to be righteous about it - in some situations (in particular image-based industries) women (men far less so) do get judged unmercifully for their age and it's easier to cave into this pressure than to stand up to it. I know, it's a shame when this only helps perpetuate it. It's also downright sad that it exists in the first place (and women do the judging too, not just men - I'd wager a woman would be far more likely to make a "mutton dressed as lamb" comment than a man would). It kinda reminds me of the way people from areas with bad reputations tweak their addresses or give the address of a relation/friend who lives in a "nicer" area when going for jobs. Very easy to say "oh they're caving into snobbery" etc but it's different if you're actually in their shoes.

But lying about your age when there's nothing at stake other than strangers thinking you're "old"... bizarre.

Das Kitty, ask your friend why she's getting so futilely depressed over something which she can do absolutely nothing about.

I personally don't give a damn about other peoples ages. Interesting people are fun. But I realise that alot of people are more comfortable mixing with people who are like them, and in their own age group. It is for that reason I think it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people make assumptions.

I regularly get mistaken for a Mamie, by real Mamies. I've actually given up correcting people. I moan along with them about hungary mouths now.

Polleta

I rarely lie about my age and its usually a slip of the tongue whereby I say I'm the age I'm closest to turning. Its my 23rd birthday in a month and I said 23 without thinking the ptehr day when someone asked me my age. I think its also that I'm the youngest of all my friends so I can forget my own age sometimes.

Nevyn

Oryx wrote: »

Please advise what you were wearing on the 20s day.

Black cords, red long sleeved t shirt, nightmarebefore christmas hoodie,
red back and white runners, my hair done up in two side buns,
moisturiser and a mischievous grin.

Blush_01

I keep forgetting I'm the age I am, I always think I'm a year younger than I am for about 6 months after my birthday. I couldn't care less about my age or anyone else's.

in2dblue

I get told I look about 4 years younger than I am so it's all good, no reason to lie at all

Redpunto

nope - getting so old now im starting to forget what age I am:D

OldGoat

Thaedydal wrote: »

my hair done up in two side buns,
moisturiser and a mischievous grin.

Princess Leahydal! Permission to Stalk?

Nevyn

Leahydal

*groans*
Oh dear but it's more like Chun Li tbh but with out the ribbons
then the two danishes strapped to the side of the head like princess Layme.

OldGoat

So, more Princess Chun Lidal?

/Ducking, running, Streetfighting, Failing

LadyMayBelle

Was told today that I look very young to be doing the job I do. As I decline telling my real age in work, I was told "I bet you're really as old as 23 or 24 but you look a lot younger". Great. I'm 26.
Will I ever be taken seriously?? I don't want to look older but I fear it may jeopardize my career ..

nah, wait, i don't care...

Nevyn

OldGoat wrote: »

So, more Princess Chun Lidal?

/Ducking, running, Streetfighting, Failing

oh dear, oh dear
/shakes head and then executes a low level sweep sending OldGoat sprawling
face first into the dust, then sits on his lower back with her feet on his head and adjusts the buns in her hair.

Thaedydal

Thaedydal wrote: »

oh dear, oh dear
/shakes head and then executes a low level sweep sending OldGoat sprawling
face first into the dust, then sits on his lower back with her feet on his head and adjusts the buns in her hair.

See you should have read it backwards before you started this tack Oul Goat.

OldGoat

Moonbaby wrote: »

See you should have read it backwards before you started this tack Oul Goat.

I've just been thrown to the ground and now Thaed is sitting on top of me and using my head as a foot rest. I fail to see the downside here.


Meanwhile, back on topic...
Age matters less and less as you get older. There are fewer milestones to achieve. In youth there are landmark ages to meet but the gaps between those landmarks grows wider as you get older. 13 - 16 - 18 -21 - 25 - 30 - 40 - 50 - 65 - 90. So, in youth there is a greater tendency to lie about your age to achieve or remain at one of the landmark ages, but in your senior years it's pretty pointless trying to maintain that you are 15 years younger then your real age.
Men (generalising here) don't feel the need to lie about age. Everything else is fair game though.

Nevyn

Given that the average life time these days is 70 I think that 35 is a landmark age,
I for one will be thinking thats only the first half done

/wriggles to get more comfortable.

I think the lack of milestone ages is that also time seems to go a lot quicker,
we are busy being and doing rather then worrying about being old cos we are not 20 any more.

I still think that not asking a lady her age goes back to the links between age and fertility.
And that a woman's 'worth' is still measure in that manner or the assumption of what they
want once they hit a certain age, ie once they hit 25+ they are looking to start the mating
dance to start a 'steady' relationship to build towards being a place where they can be
having kids by the time they hit 35 or sooner.

I think often how a person behaves will dictate more how people estimate thier age or thier interstes
which I find really funny.

OldGoat

Yep, time does go faster when you are having fun.
Fretting about age seems so...insignificent... in the larger scheme of things.

/Wriggles to accomodate, spits carpet fluff out

Men don't have such a tie to the biological clock so perhaps that is why we don't fret much about age.

Aisling(",)

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

i just ask for the year of birth, if it starts with 199X, then i back away.

90's kids rule:cool:

Nevyn

/nearly falls of and taps OldGoat on the top of the head with the ball of her left foot to get him to settle.

Well by 30 a man is expected to have 'steadied' where as a woman is heading for 'on the shelf' if you are going by fertity reasons only as a reason to be in a relationship.

Being properly 'grown up ' has changed so drastiacally over the last 100 year from being
grown up enough at 13 to get married and be working full time, to then 16, then 18 and now with a lot of young people not leaving college until the are 22/23 and still living at home at 25+.
What makes a grown up and the skills they should have has changed enormously and what a person is expected to have experienced, so age is becoming more and more
of an arbitrary marker.

brianthebard

A week or two ago one of the women in the class said she thought I was around the same age as her. When I asked how old that was she said 31. I'm 23. How old will I look when I'm 31????

Nevyn

How can we tell unless you post up a picture ?

Doozie

I used to adjust my age depending on the situation but not anymore. Being 31 has its uses. I end up in a certain music venue on Camden st quiet regularly, where the age of the clientele seems to becoming younger and younger. I had some innocent attention once or twice by one or two of the younger children there but generally when you tell them your age and they turn on their heals.*:D

*actually happened. Twice!

brianthebard

Thaedydal wrote: »

How can we tell unless you post up a picture ?

I've posted plenty, are you saying you need another? *raises eyebrow*