Old Tropers...Gather Round!

I'm going to put over 30 as "old"...After all, in Internet years over 30 is practically ancient.

Anyone else in this boat? (I'm 31)

35. Will be 36 in 19 days and 25 minutes.

Nice to know I'm not the dirty old man here. Anyone else?

Give me five years and I'll be able to join you.

I do know of one troper who fits your criteria. She may not post on here because she might not think she is "old". She prefers "manly", anyway.

Older than you guys.

Older than everyone who's posted so far except the cat with the ornament.

I suppose my birth barely postdating "Saigon" becoming "Ho Chi Minh City" qualifies me, technically...

-Prepares to wait for about 12 years-

7 months and 3 days 'til I'm one of the Old Ones!

See you guys in a year or so.

How old is too old?

I don't think we have that.

We better not.

33 here. I'm the same age as the original Star Wars.

I wish all these damn kids would get off my lawn.

edited 16th Dec '10 9:05:09 AM by Karalora

I wasn't over 30 when I started reading TV Tropes but now I'm 32.

Now that we have some members, I'm going to give us a subject...hangovers.

Everyone remember when we could drink till the crack of dawn and not feel an iota of consequence? Those glorious golden years when downing a fifth of Buttershots or three bottles of Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill only meant a slightly fuzzy head and a bit of fatigue upon waking?

No so much these days. Now, hangovers are Serious Business.

They mean a long period of lying in bed, groaning and wishing for death. Naturally followed by a laughably extended mission to find the toilet that's in the same damn place its always been (yet for some reason finding it is a stone-cold bitch) so we can slough off a layer of stomach lining and spew it at the Great Porcelain God along with a fistful of heartfelt promises never to do something so foolish ever again.

Yessir, hangovers past 30 are no longer a punk inconvenience.

I find such a great example of God's vicious sense of humor; as soon as we reach the legal age to get shitfaced, our bodies lose the ability to cope with the aftermath.

Fuck you, evolution! I'll take each one of my sessions in front of my commode as a badge of honor...every last instance is a middle finger in the face of conventional wisdom about "growing up" and "acting your age".

I know its coming, and I'm willing to do it. And why? Because that's where God hid the wild stories that last a lifetime.

OH HAI THREAD. And I'm the same age as Kara, for what it's worth.

I have never had a hangover. I might not drink enough, though.

My hangovers just involve me being sleepy and sluggish the next day, with the occasional sore stomach or dull headache.

I've been "stumbling along and staying upright only by the grace of God" blitzed recently, and didn't have to worry about a hangover any more than I did when I was getting fit-shaced around the time I crossed the magic boundary.

Fortunately I know restraint, because none of the people I've done said drinking with are so lucky, and otherwise I'd be tempted to be all HEY GUYS! GOOD MORNING! HOW'S IT GOING?!

I'm 32. Can't comment on hangover though, I'm a teetotaller.

edited 28th Feb '11 1:13:48 AM by Blurring

I'm 35. Sad to say, my hangovers were always Serious Business, but they certainly haven't got more pleasant with age.

Will hit fifty this year, and am a literal greybeard.

Have never had a hangover, due to not drinking...alcohol.

Thing I notice most is not being able to stay awake 72 hours, take a four hour nap, and be good to go to work anymore.

Will be 34 soon (so I'm a bit older than the Voyager probes). Has never been hungover. I saw enough passed out soldiers and the smell of fresh vomit sort of deterred me.

Gah, I still remember that hot acrid smell.

I'm 34 now. Most people in this thread are over 40 now.

Are there any 30+ tropers around?

Edit: Oh, we literally have a forum sub-section called Old Folks' Home. Should have looked there.

Edited by Snicka on Sep 13th 2020 at 2:30:22 PM