Are there any other women in The Lounge?
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Women are pretty rare around here - we're nerds, after all, and the vast majority of nerds don't do well (in behavioral terms) in the company of members of the superior sex. Mostly we get so excited that our tongues become too stiff to talk properly and we end up falling down, drooling and making odd, gurgling sounds. Not attractive... But we do get paid obscenely large salaries, and tend to produce intelligent children, even if we have to resort to making them in the laboratory. The average age is difficult to determine. When I first joined, we had a demographics page, but that disappeared ages ago. We have a scattering of precocious youngsters (hence, the Kid Sister Rule), a bunch of thirtysomethings give or take a few years, then there's us old farts. You can spot the old farts by their inherently superior breeding and all around good personalities and looks, along with spiffy-looking suspenders to go with our sensible plaid flannel shirts. I'm older than most, approaching 59 years of ever increasing wisdom, but there are some older. Pete, for instance - he's ancient! I, too, got my start with Hollerith cards, punched late at night on huge, noisy machines, in a language not quite dead; apropos, I suppose. I spent about 10 years getting paid to program, not as my primary job, but as an adjunct function - the devices I designed needed software and firmware to operate, and who better to do the programming than the guy that designed the hardware? :-D Since then I've dabbled in programming, while doing lots of other stuff for a living.
Will Rogers never met me.
Roger Wright wrote:
You can spot the old farts by their inherently superior breeding and all around good personalities and looks
Me - spot on! :thumbsup: Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go buy a pair of suspenders... ;)
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Anonymous
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Greg King
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My gender is irrelevant - as it is for the whole site. There are a few ladies here that I am aware of, but it's up to them to reveal themselves. My average age is the same as my real age, plus VAT and postage.
OriginalGriff wrote:
My average age is the same as my real age, plus VAT and postage.
But at least you're not dead yet! Or are you? :confused:
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Anonymous
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Greg King
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I don't think any women will answer that question. :-D Our lounger is about six years old.
Is that a _bark_alounger[^]?
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Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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OriginalGriff wrote:
My average age is the same as my real age, plus VAT and postage.
But at least you're not dead yet! Or are you? :confused:
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Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, ActressIt's difficult to tell. Ask my wife.
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Wonna tell you a secret? When you have been asked this trick question. You should do the following: 1) You first Look 2)If the thing is acceptable you say that the girl(sheep or whatever ) never looked as good as today and that girl friend from highschool will look like a beggar next to her. 3) if the clothes are terrible on the person you say : Love(Pumpkin or whatever) i think the red dress with the naked back will make more women jealous. 4) if you mess up or you take too long time to answer you should RUN very fast and don't look back... ever Good luck :)
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No, no, no - never, ever take the time to look! If you do, that counts as "hesitation" and will be counted against you. Instead, train your brain: I am no longer even aware of the question. My ears receive the sound "Does my bum look big in" and my mouth has started to answer automatically. We now refer to this as "Does my bum look big in this No!?" as in extreme cases I can answer the question slightly before the question is finished. This is an acceptable time period for Herself and many other ladies. Any perceptible delay will lead to accusations that you think the lady is over her optimum weight, and things go downhill from there pretty rapidly regardless of what you do or don't say or do. Learn this skill! Practice with your mates! It could save your love life! :laugh:
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No, no, no - never, ever take the time to look! If you do, that counts as "hesitation" and will be counted against you. Instead, train your brain: I am no longer even aware of the question. My ears receive the sound "Does my bum look big in" and my mouth has started to answer automatically. We now refer to this as "Does my bum look big in this No!?" as in extreme cases I can answer the question slightly before the question is finished. This is an acceptable time period for Herself and many other ladies. Any perceptible delay will lead to accusations that you think the lady is over her optimum weight, and things go downhill from there pretty rapidly regardless of what you do or don't say or do. Learn this skill! Practice with your mates! It could save your love life! :laugh:
If you don't look its the same thing as saying its bad . Normally you should get the response "But you didn't look". Which is worse because you don't pay "attention" to her. Imagine that Your Herself is wearing something really bad that adds more shape to the problematic areas. If you don't follow step 3. After the evening you will be blamed that you didn't say anything. Either case you lose. I will advice you to tell that she is looking good but will look better in something else. That way it wont hurt you that long if you leave her with something that looks terrible on her
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It's difficult to tell. Ask my wife.
I did. She says she doesn't care because the postman always comes twice... ;P
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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stgagnon wrote:
what is the average age of Loungers
That is a particularly difficult question as some of us are coming in to our second childhood. I don't think CM collects age info on the profiles, and probably doesn't care as it is not a factor in the value of the contributions.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
some of us are coming in to our second childhood.
Meh! You're not trying hard enough, I'm on my third or fourth already! :-D
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stgagnon wrote:
Also, what is the average age of Loungers?
Many of us are quite timeless, while others are long past their use-by date. Some appear to be reanimated corpses; many are of uncertain gender, or, possibly, frequently change gender. CP has a few hundred-thousand larvae: their names always begin with "Member," and are followed by a number. They migrate in the late autumn as the days shorten, and nights lengthen, and can often be seen roosting in cell-phone towers along their migratory path where they are, evidently, warmed by the radiation. bill
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts. Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
BillWoodruff wrote:
frequently change gender
You're spending :laugh: too much time in Thailand
speramus in juniperus
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Not true: the first thing you should know is how to answer the question "Does my bum look big in this?" A millisecond of hesitation can result in a world of pain...
The correct response is: "Yes, it looks great!"
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No, no, no - never, ever take the time to look! If you do, that counts as "hesitation" and will be counted against you. Instead, train your brain: I am no longer even aware of the question. My ears receive the sound "Does my bum look big in" and my mouth has started to answer automatically. We now refer to this as "Does my bum look big in this No!?" as in extreme cases I can answer the question slightly before the question is finished. This is an acceptable time period for Herself and many other ladies. Any perceptible delay will lead to accusations that you think the lady is over her optimum weight, and things go downhill from there pretty rapidly regardless of what you do or don't say or do. Learn this skill! Practice with your mates! It could save your love life! :laugh:
You are lucky, if I delay OR fail to look I get shot down. :sigh:
speramus in juniperus
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Not true: the first thing you should know is how to answer the question "Does my bum look big in this?" A millisecond of hesitation can result in a world of pain...
-- Lying to a police officer is never a good idea. -- The uniform trousers issued to police officeresses always make their bums look big, no matter how sylphlike they are. Let's face it, we're screwed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just wondering. Are there any other women of a certain age in here with more that a couple decades of software behind you? Also, what is the average age of Loungers?
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I did. She says she doesn't care because the postman always comes twice... ;P
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, ActressJohnny J. wrote:
I did. She says "Baaaaa!"
FTFY. ;P
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Just wondering. Are there any other women of a certain age in here with more that a couple decades of software behind you? Also, what is the average age of Loungers?
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Male, 52 years old, 33 years of professional programming experience. Yes, I did programming on punch cards. No, I don't know COBOL.
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Just wondering. Are there any other women of a certain age in here with more that a couple decades of software behind you? Also, what is the average age of Loungers?
stgagnon wrote:
Also, what is the average age of Loungers?
I do not admit to being older than 6.5E8 µfortnights.:suss: First machine was an IBM 1130.
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