are you really looking at member's ages?

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for some reason everyone thinks im lying about my age when im really not

i guess i might aswell play along being something im not because its just so much fun, yay.

or not

as long as one is not trying to do anything that requires a certain age, why bother?

Some people are concerned that, should they give their exact date of birth, it is another item that could be used in identity theft.

As a suggestion... throw a couple of dice, add them up, toss a coin, if it is heads, add that number of days, else subtract them, from your true date of birth, and enter that.

You may want to retry the process a couple of times, say, if you wish to ensure that your star sign remains correct.

Well the way I see it is if someone puts their age as 150 years old, they don't expect you to believe them obviously so in a case like that I don't think it's necessarily right to see the person as an absolute liar for use as a basis for reviewing his or her posts on the forums or anything else, it was probably just either a joke or a creative way of saying "I'm not telling".

Although if someone were 27 and set their age at 25, it's a bit more understandable if you wanted to accuse that person of possibly being a general liar.

that was me, i believe

the stillnotone-year old has to own up to 1956 - you beat that grmps

but where is age1600 when you need her

I am looking at people's ages, yeah.

This? Made me laugh. Out loud.

As well it should. I find it amazing that so many people are so gullible as to think astrology has any meaning, beyond a minuscule association that I can imagine to exist between some aspects of nurtured personality and the broad season (winter/summer) you were born in.

There is a rather nice experiment you can try. You take the set of twelve horoscopes from yesterday's newspaper, and cut them out so that the star sign is not visible. You then get people to identify which was their one. Zero correlation.

Of course, you may have to choose a set that don't include phrases like "as a typical Leo...", or edit such things out. I suppose this is a reaction by the astrologers, in a vain attempt to make this experiment less trivial to do.

I'm not inclined to believe in astrology, but I think it's more than just people being gullible.

It has to be noted that traditions of astrology cropped up independently in a whole lot of different cultures all over the world. Some of the ancient astrologers were incredibly skilled at observation and careful recording of information. They tracked the motion of the individual planets, and I remember reading about astrologers in China recording a supernova. Was it 741 AD? I'm not sure. And I understand the Mayan astrologers correlated their observations and records with some sophisticated math involving the use of the zero to be able to predict eclipses.

So I don't think we can just say it's people being dumb.

Seems there's something intrinsic in the makeup of the human psyche that makes people inclined to believe in astrology. I don't know what it is.

If you can predict the seasons, you are a magician. You get justified respect.

If you can predict where the wandering stars (planets) are going to be, you are an awesome magician. You can obviously predict everything.

There's an adult forum. The person/people with the erroneous ages could be 12 year olds looking for access.

Hey what's all this about ages!! !

Do you people really doubt I'm 148 years old?

I'd offer to show you my birth certificate but I lost it during the Boer war.

Here is a photo of me as I type this post:

LMAO.