Years 'of age'????

[StillSmallVoiceOfCalm]

What else could it be???

31 years of what???

So why 31 years 'of age'?

Why not 31 years old? Or just 31 years?

No apostrophe required.

No apostrophe. Just '' to emphasise the annoying but.

Sel - where's the apostrophe? The OP used single quotation marks to quote a certain phrase

It could be 31 years of wear and tear for example.
31 years of being married.
31 years of owning a house

Shall I go on?

But when talking about a person sailing a boat or riding a bicycle it just wouldn't be 31 years of home owning or painting.

A pointless moan I know. But I needed to let it out.

Almost as annoying as 'work colleagues'. As opposed to all those other kinds

I fucking hate that expression. It's even worse than 'navy blue in colour'

Nobody really says it out loud though do they? Apart from Tony Blackburn.

And another thing.

When an interviewer asks a question why would the interviewee answer with a sentence starting with 'yeah'?

Such as

'How did winning that medal feel'

'Yeah.. It felt OK'

Or even worse (as witnessed yesterday)

'How does that feel'

'Yeah. No. It felt awesome'

S/he could be 31 one yeasts dead.

If the yeast was dead the bread wouldn't rise.

I hear you OP, pisses me off too.
It seems to by used when someone is exceptionally young or old.

'And winning the triple jump is USA's Chuck Fuckington at only 16 years of age.'

Or 'every calendar month' - what other sort is there?

I think in some stuff a month can be 28 days.

Yeah. Chuck Fuckington is awesome. Like.

Every calendar month refers to Jan Feb March etc every month can be every 4 weeks I think

Or 'every calendar month' - what other sort is there?*

Lunar. Or every 4 weeks.

I like the expression "years of age." It very neatly excludes every other possible interpretation of the number of years.

Chuck could have win high jump at 16 years of training.

Calendar month is usually used to distinguish it from a financial month in business. A financial month can be 4 or 5 weeks.

I hate '85 years young'. It sounds so bloody patronising when somebody younger says it about an older person, and so bloody stupid when they say it about themselves.

I could try to put it more eloquently, but I'm very tired. I'm right, anyway.