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

[Coldemort]

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... :)

1982 - smash hits was amazing! By my time at school we were forced to do IT (born 1985)

I vote 1981!

Weirdly I thought 1981 too!

I was born mid 70s and we did IT?
So I guess you're about 48?

81

@Alsohuman and @TheQueensNose

@Lamarchellin, nobody born in 1980 can remember decimalisation!

Yes, I know.
I thought it was a pretty obvious (albeit not terribly good) joke, implying I thought you were about my age and pretending to guess 39, followed by "mumble54mumble".

54 being the actual age I was suggesting.
Obviously I'm more subtle than I previously realised.

Sorry - I meant @TheQueensCousin.

"The Queen's Nose" is a book, I think. Oops.

1980 or 1981? I was born in 1978, but was the last year (I think) to not have to pay tuition fees...

I'm going to have another guess - 1979. You're forty now.

1980, I was born in 1975 and I was in my very late teens when Sean Maguire was a thing.

1981? (I'd have said earlier, but I didn't pay tuition fees and was born in 79 so....)

Ah... Tammy girl!!!!! Shopping for cassettes in 'Our Price', and getting your holiday snaps developed in boots! Those were the days!! Thanks for memory lane OP!!

1977? I’m definitely older than you

I was going to say you’re the same age as me, I was born in 1982 so I was almost right!

I didn't look at any of the other answers on here;
I will say 1980

1980

83 because that's my year and these could all be me!

86?

Somewhere between 1980 and 1984

I was born in 1978 and didn’t pay tuition fees (last year not to I think). We did have IT lessons at school, which were compulsory in the early years of secondary, but we just didn’t do a GCSE in it.

I think I’m the same age as the OP, so 1983

Come on op, put us out of our misery please!

OK for a bit of fun try me, one clue, I have not lived my life in the traditional order.

1. I did Computer Studies / Science at school and for A Level
2. I paid tuition fees
3. I remember the Queen's silver jubilee
4. My first passport was a blue one with a hard cover

1972

1979

70s

1982