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Smops
2006-03-17 06:39:38 am
Instead of filling in your age, why not your birth date, which auto calculates your age?
You can even show the current birthdays on the main page, as a reminder or something.
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Banjonator
2006-03-17 06:49:19 am
I absolutely agree with you, but it's phpBB -- a standard forum. I don't know if you can change this so easily.  :?
Smops
2006-03-17 06:51:04 am
You can. :P
SABERinBLUE
2006-03-17 08:32:08 am
Cook of the Sea
You can change standards?  That's counter-revolutionary talk!
trh
2006-03-17 08:50:15 am
Banjonator
2006-03-17 11:57:28 am
Hey this site is very useful. Thanks for the link.
*bookmarked*
nate
2006-03-17 12:15:26 pm
yeah, the problem with the birthday mod is that i'd have to be modding so many already-applied mods that it would not be worth the minimal gain in functionality.
arkarian
2006-03-17 03:11:41 pm
red chamber dream
I like the idea, though. If only it were easier to do.
spineshark
2006-03-17 05:44:12 pm
in the name of justice!
I dunno, I already get like seven "Happy birthday from blahblahblah forum" emails every April 1st.  But that's because I check my mail two weeks late.

Hahaha, of 3,454 registered users on FESS, I am the only one whose birthday is today and has listed it.
doninss
2006-03-17 07:04:57 pm
Mmm, birthdays. You made it another year without dying prematurely. You're also a year closer to the inevitable. It's a wash.

We need a php mod for that? Wink

There are of course those special birthdays. Sixteen ("Look out world, I can drive!" or "Ooo, swweeet!"). Eighteen - link. Twenty-one. (Mmm, beer... *drool*). And probably some more I've forgot.
arkarian
2006-03-17 08:19:20 pm
red chamber dream
Quote from doninss:
Sixteen ("Look out world, I can drive!" [...]).

Depends on where you live.

Quote from doninss:
Twenty-one. (Mmm, beer... *drool*).

Also depends on where you live.

I dunno, I find sixteen to be quite stupid, even though driving IS nice. It's like, still too young to be considered an older kid, and everyone still looks down on you.
Personally, I'm waiting for seventeen. All my life I've wanted to be seventeen, and it's finally coming this year. It just seems like the perfect age to me - sixteen, like I said, is too young, while eighteen has all the responsibilities. What could a seventeen year-old possibly be worried about?
Also, nineteen and twenty sound like fun ages, simply because you don't hear much about them.
Chanoire
2006-03-17 09:00:17 pm
As I commented at another time, 20 was best because it meant I was no longer a teenager. :P

Other than that I'm pretty much only interested in my age if the number is interesting.  This year I'll be 2^5.
nate
2006-03-17 09:02:15 pm
i was the closest to death i've ever been since birth when i was 19.
spineshark
2006-03-17 09:41:18 pm
in the name of justice!
Heh, split?

Honestly, I haven't particularly been interested in the benefits of age.  I still don't have my driver's license (which has finally come back to hurt me), for some reason I don't think I'm going to vote much, and I'm not just itching to go and start drinking either.

The only thing I know of that a 17-year-old has to worry about is school.  Which is okay in my book.  Of course, I've only been one for 12 hours.
Banjonator
2006-03-18 10:28:08 am
Quote from doninss:
Sixteen ("Look out world, I can drive!" [...]).

16?? wow, here in Austria it's 18 and with a special driving education 17...

Quote from doninss:
Twenty-one. (Mmm, beer... *drool*).

21?? sish... that's sick man. Driving with 16 and drinking with 21...
in Austria it's, and now sit down Ladies and Gentleman: 16!! o_O

Laughing
nate
2006-03-18 10:54:13 am
i think it's like that most everywhere except the us.
arkarian
2006-03-18 04:00:45 pm
red chamber dream
I think our drinking age would be lower if our driving age was higher.

I, too, have no interest whatsoever in drinking. I plan on not even having a twenty-first birthday party (never much been one for parties). I'll probably just stay home and watch TV ... I don't get to do that often.
Consequently, I have been planning all my life to have my eighteenth birthday party at McDonald's. What better place?
And I guess a good thing about being eighteen is being able to vote. I never really thought about it, but I'll be able to vote in the next election. Registering as an Independent ftw.
nate
2006-03-18 04:12:29 pm
Quote from Arkarian:
I have been planning all my life to have my eighteenth birthday party at McDonald's. What better place?

O_o
13M13
2006-03-18 04:31:58 pm
l'appel du vide
o_0

Many better place.
Izo
2006-03-18 06:53:39 pm
soaking through
Quote from Spine Shark:
The only thing I know of that a 17-year-old has to worry about is school.  Which is okay in my book.  Of course, I've only been one for 12 hours.


That's kind of your entire life when you're 17, at least here.  I'm gonna have my A2s (probably the most important exams of my life) distributed variously around my birthday, and I'll be studying for them pretty much the whole time I'm 17.  >_>
SonicandTails218
2006-03-18 07:08:43 pm
Quote from nate:
Quote from Arkarian:
I have been planning all my life to have my eighteenth birthday party at McDonald's. What better place?

O_o


WiFi DS party at McDonalds!
nate
2006-03-18 07:09:18 pm
again, to americans, or at least to me, that seems otherworldly. exams like that would stand no chance here. the sat and act (pretty much our only important standardized tests before graduate school) are constantly under attack for everything. iirc the sat was even on the cover of time magazine when a bunch of colleges dropped it as a requirement for application. go different culture.
The Link
2006-03-18 07:24:47 pm
400400
My Mock exam results should be back next week. I've already got 38% in Applied Maths and have probably failed Maths and Irish as well. Not much time till june where i'll hopefully do better. :(
Also, I can't be bothered to get a driver's license.
nate
2006-03-18 07:31:22 pm
whoa, do you speak irish to your family/friends, or are you required to learn it and then you'll never use it?
kwinse
2006-03-18 08:15:41 pm
Quote from Arkarian:
I think our drinking age would be lower if our driving age was higher.

I, too, have no interest whatsoever in drinking. I plan on not even having a twenty-first birthday party (never much been one for parties). I'll probably just stay home and watch TV ... I don't get to do that often.
Consequently, I have been planning all my life to have my eighteenth birthday party at McDonald's. What better place?
And I guess a good thing about being eighteen is being able to vote. I never really thought about it, but I'll be able to vote in the next election. Registering as an Independent ftw.
Heh, that's pretty much my entire view in a nutshell... except I had no party at McDonalds when I turned 18.  I just had a nice birthday pie.