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Do you think that you are younger than you actually are?

  • 04-11-2009 10:54pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭


    So the other half and I were watching a soap the other day and she asked me if I thought a character was sexy. I replied that she was ok but not as nice as 'X'.

    She looked at me aghast and said "but she's only 18 - that's a bit wrong"

    It was then that it dawned on me that I think, subconsciously, I am still in my late teens/early twenties. Despite being a responsible father, husband, employee etc., etc. I think I still reckon I'm a young 'un.

    Does anyone else feel the same?


    P.S. Brummytom, if you answer this in the affirmative, you will be banned from every forum except the junior cert and possibly reality tv.

    Do you think you are younger than you are? 108 votes

    Yes, I rage against the dying of the light
    0% 0 votes
    No, I aspire to be Connery-esque
    77% 84 votes
    I said Boo-urns
    22% 24 votes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    Yes, and I'm 20.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭WeeBushy


    But judge, I still feel like a 14 year old...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 324 ✭✭~me~


    who's 'X' and who does she look better than?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,575 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Yep and I'm 39 and a half!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭Keogg


    poor Brummytom:D

    Im only 18 so i can't say much either though:pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Your only as young as what your feeling


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    I'm 18 but i'm really a mature six year old. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Long Onion


    ~me~ wrote: »
    who's 'X' and who does she look better than?

    Now that would be telling - suffice to say that it was Hollyoaks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Im 23 but keep thinking im 24 :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,472 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    the old saying comes to hand...

    Once there's thatch on the cottage it's time to move in :p


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


    I'm 16 so erm...



    yes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭pikachucheeks


    I'm 21.
    I've been told I look from between 16-25.
    In my head, I feel about 30.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,368 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    Well i'm 33 but still think i'm mid to late 20s. I even thought about going back playing rugby and taking up boxing again but it took me 3 days to recover after an hour in the gym so i'm only fooling myself really. I am still cool though:). Now where's me pipe?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,476 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    I'm 20 but I still feel like i'm 16. I don't know why, the years just went flying by and before I knew it, I had an I.D and was in college.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Long Onion


    Daroxtar wrote: »
    Well i'm 33 but still think i'm mid to late 20s. I even thought about going back playing rugby and taking up boxing again but it took me 3 days to recover after an hour in the gym so i'm only fooling myself really. I am still cool though:). Now where's me pipe?

    You sir, are my carbon copy - I salute you and feel your pain, confusion and slightly uncomfotable leering during term time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Long Onion


    I'm 21.
    I've been told I look 16.
    In my head, I feel dirty.

    Niiiiiiiiiiice;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    i feel about 15 tbh and i;m 23.

    i have such a childish humour, watch kids programmes, collect toys etc.
    not normal for a 23 year old :(


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,971 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Opposite here. I often think as though I'm older than 21...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭pikachucheeks


    i feel about 15 tbh and i;m 23.

    i have such a childish humour, watch kids programmes, collect toys etc.
    not normal for a 23 year old :(

    There's no such thing as normal, silly! :)
    I like your sense of humour.
    It's perfectly normal to watch kids TV and collect toys!
    Pokemon's deadly!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭Jackobyte


    I'm definitely younger than I am. I look much younger than I am, I'm 15 since august but look like a young 1st year. In places like Irish College I always find myself attracted to people who are much younger than me. There was a girl older than me by a month at IC and I understood that she was good-looking but much prefered a 13 yr old, a 2nd yr. Most of my friends thought this was wrong but I always find I'd rather people a year of two younger than me than my own age...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 697 ✭✭✭chocgirl


    I'm 25 and look about 19 or so everyone seems to think.

    I feel about 21 and don't intend telling anyone when I reach 26! I'm 25 forever now!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    I like your sense of humour.
    welcome to the club, population 2. :pac:

    ahh i know there's no such thing as normal but also there's no such thing as a jaggy snake :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,592 ✭✭✭Ro: maaan!


    Use to think like this. Not anymore so much. Now when someone asks me how old I am I usually say (x-1), no x. Where x is my current age. Of course in this scenario "someone" is usually a bouncer. Which probably means I currently look about (x-7), which is how young I felt when I was about (x-3).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Long Onion wrote: »
    P.S. Brummytom, if you answer this in the affirmative, you will be banned from every forum except the junior cert and possibly reality tv.

    Actually, no.. I feel older than I am - I'm much more comfortable having an adult conversation with older people.

    It normally makes me come across as a twat


  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,957 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    I've just turned 24, and I keep telling people I'm 22. Not ashamed of my age or anything like that, I just keep forgetting my actual age. Shudder to think whatI'll be like when I'm 70!


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm the other way round... I've jus turned 22 but feel 25 because I everyone I work with is 25-35 :(

    In a nightclub tho, I feel like i'm 18.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭Reindeer


    I'll say this, having just shook off the H1N1 like it was allergies, age is good for some things.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,460 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Im 26.

    When I was 18 people taught I looked bit older maybe cause I was tall (6ft 2in)

    anyway when I was about 23-24 people taught I was about 20

    Now people think I look about 30 hence why i seem only score with older women. Like few weeks ago I was in Ennis scored with this oldish bird. She brought me back to her place, all was looking good for me she told me she 34. No problem there then she goes how old am I? I said 26 well she looks at me in utter disgust and wanted throw me out cause I was too young for her (not even kiss on cheek after that balls up eh). This girl taught I was her future husband I say;). But in general its works well but this time not so well.

    Jesus people make up there mind :D:D:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Yes I keep thinking I'm 30 when I'm not, then I remember I'm not and have to stop and figure out how many years more I am past it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 929 ✭✭✭TheCardHolder


    I feel older. 95 percent of my friends are older.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    I feel older. 95 percent of my friends are older.
    I'm 25 but feel more like 35 in terms of my mentality and how i perceive things.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    My heart says no but my drivers license says Yes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭bob the bob


    Still feel about 18. I'm 30.
    Both my parents think the same about themselves.

    You are young and life is long
    And there is time to kill today
    And then one day you find
    Ten years have got behind you
    No one told you when to run
    You missed the starting gun


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,613 ✭✭✭✭Clare Bear


    I'm 28 and feel 22. Sometimes I have to remind myself how old I am. I don't feel or act 28, I don't want to be a grown up. I'm seriously going to have a freak attack when I turn 30 :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭Cupcake_Crisis


    I refuse to progress past the mental age of 18. I was cool back then.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭itsallaboutheL


    Jackobyte wrote: »
    I'm definitely younger than I am. I look much younger than I am, I'm 15 since august but look like a young 1st year. In places like Irish College I always find myself attracted to people who are much younger than me. There was a girl older than me by a month at IC and I understood that she was good-looking but much prefered a 13 yr old, a 2nd yr. Most of my friends thought this was wrong but I always find I'd rather people a year of two younger than me than my own age...

    anyone under the age of 19 is in fact 12...

    now get off the internet so the adults can talk about bewbs and fapping and other grown up topics.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    I'm not too far off 29 yet i still look and feel, and sometimes act 21 lol, sure i still watch cartoons:p

    People getting my age wrong when they first meet me helps alot in this regard:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    25 forever baby! Yeeeaaahhhhh! SPRINGBREAK!!!

    Ack! *cough* *cough* *cough*







    I feel old. So very very old. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    God yes. I'm 31 and e.g. I'd be engaging on thread with someone here whom I presume is around my age... then I discover they're 10-12 years younger than me. D'oh! :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    I've always been considered the 'older', more 'sensible' one of the group... even if there's older people than me there!!!

    I've also been referred to as ''A forty year old in a teenager's body''... Aside from the obvious sexual innuendos attached to that statement, I don't particularly like being viewed as older and stuffier when I'm only in my early 20's!!! But then, only myself to blame I guess.:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    I'm 21. I've been told I look around 25-26 (as recently as Saturday, you know who you are).

    I don't feel like I'm at any particular age, I just feel like myself.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    You are young and life is long
    And there is time to kill today
    And then one day you find
    Ten years have got behind you
    No one told you when to run
    You missed the starting gun

    Man, Hallmark have gone to the dogs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭VinnyTGM


    Keogg wrote: »
    poor Brummytom:D

    Im only 18 so i can't say much either though:pac:

    Same here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭dan719


    Only twenty but getting younger mentally by the minute. I mean, I certainly don't feel old enough to be graduating next year.

    Brummytom, 3000 posts? Do you even have time for porn anymore?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    I don't feel like I'm at any particular age, I just feel like myself.

    A 46 year old Portuguese man perhaps? =P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Abigayle wrote: »
    A 46 year old Portuguese man perhaps? =P

    I look good for my age, don't I?


    /smug


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,470 ✭✭✭TheBigLebowski


    Long Onion wrote: »
    I replied that she was ok but not as nice as 'X'.

    And she didn't take a pair of rusty scissors to your member? Some guys have all the luck...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    I look good for my age, don't I?


    /smug

    I so would.

    /legs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭I_am_Jebus


    i turned 26 a few days ago.
    I feel 20 most days.
    Act 18 or younger half the time
    Act 30 the other half.

    And wish I was 17 again...

    I don't handle the passage of time well at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭dublin 16 lad


    Nearly 20, I look 16 though with the aul baby face

    Feel 18 still


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