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To ask you to guess my age from 5 facts..

464 replies

Coldemort · 02/12/2019 17:58

So this one was going round the pub the other night and I thought it was a lot of fun. And actually quite thought provoking. So... can you guess my age from these 5 facts.

  1. I legally bought cigarettes at 16... and had them in the smoking room at work.
  2. my first concert was a Smash hits tour headlining Sean Maguire and Boyzone
  3. I paid tuition fees at university
  4. my favourite outfit as a pre-teen was from tammy girl
  5. I have no IT qualifications, including GCSEs. I never had a dedicated 'IT' subject on my school timetable.

So what year was I born???

And play along... :)

OP posts:
OrlandoInTheWilderness · 02/12/2019 21:20

1984?

Nighttimefreedom · 02/12/2019 21:21

Sounds like you're my age, so 1981?

stucknoue · 02/12/2019 21:21

41 ... I didn't pay fees but the rest sounded like my youth (not that I smoked)

stucknoue · 02/12/2019 21:24

Though I had IT lessons and I must be older than you because I didn't pay fees and got a grant!

shivermetimbers77 · 02/12/2019 21:24

I reckon 1981..

FreedomfromPE · 02/12/2019 21:25

Odd. I didn't have tuition but definitely had IT ! (44)

Aquamarine1029 · 02/12/2019 21:27

1983

Freebiefriday · 02/12/2019 21:27

1984

ContinuityError · 02/12/2019 21:28

@Alsohuman since rationing ended in 1954, I’ll guess 1953?

Incidentally, you could take computer studies as an O level in the early 1970s - by 1976 there were about 3000 entrants in the UK.

Ginkypig · 02/12/2019 21:30

Well I think I did quite well with two of you I guessed 1980 and 1990

So almost spot on.

I think only because I'm somwhere in between and have younger siblings too.

SevenStones · 02/12/2019 21:31
Catapillarsruletheworld · 02/12/2019 21:31

Sounds similar to me, except I had IT at school. I was 1985.

I’d say early 80s

Alsohuman · 02/12/2019 21:32

I made that too easy @ContinuityError!

ArtisanPopcorn · 02/12/2019 21:36

1981

SevenStones · 02/12/2019 21:38

1958 for the last one where you were at High School at decimilisation.

GreekOddess · 02/12/2019 21:43

1979

HalfBrick · 02/12/2019 21:44

81/82 I'd bet on it.

RB68 · 02/12/2019 21:45

@Disfordarkchocolate did you get clue 6 ha ha ha

namechanger00 · 02/12/2019 21:48

1982/83

Disfordarkchocolate · 02/12/2019 21:53

Fraid no @RB68, I guessed on the 5 facts like the thread title said.

ContinuityError · 02/12/2019 21:53

@Alsohuman - the rationing gave it away, although it’s strange to think now that rationing continued so long after the war ended.

MutedUser · 02/12/2019 21:54

1990

Ohdearohdearyme · 02/12/2019 21:59

I'm 1986 and all those apply to me apart from maybe the IT one but I can't remember if that was the case or not.

Endspeciesism · 02/12/2019 22:05

1998

chickenstrippers · 02/12/2019 22:20

1978