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I don't know if this is a rude question to even ask on the internet? But seriously, I am 19.

Ha!  nice Bison!

 

I'm 27ish...

42 year old... body look 65, mind look 5... on my way to be senile...

2 billion years old.

Hi, I am Denial from USA and i am 30 years old.

I went back and looked through the thread mumble linked. Doesn't seem so long ago, but i was 34 in that one. Now 38 and still occasionally kicking around the GC2 forums. Was hoping by now to be kicking around the GC3 forums

Like Bison and Thoumsin I am 42. 

Looking at the age of some others, I feel kinda old. But Mumblefratz (and especially the Dark Knight) help me feel like I am not so old. 

34.  With a growing patch of grey hair.  And memory going.  I'm 34.  With a growing patch of grey hair.  And memory going ...

faq

Gah! I didn't get to that old thread 'til late December and my birthday hasn't happened yet this year, but it's close enough to four frakkin' years for a 45-year-old.

I'm with Mumble in having come to miss some forum folks, even before I shifted to spending most of my time over at Elemental. Those boards are coming up on their 2nd year of operation and there are already some very interesting voices that have left the scene.

My least favorite thing about aging: other people's mortality, both physical and virtual. (Mind you, the lack of adolescent physical rebound powers is a photo-finish second. Youth isn't wasted on the young, but you can't fully appreciate the bodily aspects until they start fading.)

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By ready to retire I mean I've reached financial independence and could afford to retire if for some reason I absolutely had to. However given that at this point I'm saving close to $100K of *after tax* dollars per year which essentially converts to an extra $4,000 of yearly post-retirement income (assuming a not too unreasonable 4% return on my high grade corporate bonds), I find it difficult to outright quit just yet. I figure in another 2 years I'll have reached my goal of $2,000,000 of *after tax* savings which represents at least $80K per year of interest income, so even if you right wingnuts manage to privatize Social Security it will be no skin off my back. At that point I'll be 60 and ready to finish out my life on permanent vacation.

What I do find amusing is that a thirty something year old can be so assured of their financial future that they can spout the right wing drivel that you do. However to be able to do so you must already have a fully funded trust fund. How else can you be so assured that you won't end up eating cat food? But then there are no shortage of folks that are stupid enough to cut off their own nose just to spite their face.