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, same age as my daughter.

Let us know op. I'm curious now!

80

I think IT at school is a red herring. We did have dedicated IT classes (or computing as it was known then) but I am definitely older than OP from other clues (I was born 1974).

I'd guess 1981.

Anyone care to guess my vintage?

1. I remember walking home from primary school through the notorious London smogs, pre Clean Air Act.
2. I remember Kennedy’s assassination when I was a child
3. My first boy band crush was one of the Monkees 4)When I first qualified as a doctor, the hospital cleaner earned more per hour than I did for working at night.
4. My first house - a detached 4 bed in rural Scotland- cost just £29,000.

1976

42

1983

39?
I'm 40 and just missed out on tuition fees, starting uni age 18 in 1997.
I did have half a gcse equivalent IT course (we were a trial year for the school).

53 to 55
IT was a slight red herring sorry not sorry. I studied it up to year 9 but it came under the guise of 'design and technology'. So one month I'd be doing woodwork, the next IT (or actually IS) back then. I believe it became compulsory much earlier in England than Wales...

But well done mostly clever people. I was born 1981

@doadeer I reckon 1989 same as me your clues resonate!

Housing? I think that was supposed to be boyzone*

I was born in 1986 and have no IT qualification. For GCSEs, we did English Lang, Lit, Maths, Double Science, a humanities, a modern foreign language, a 'tech' subject and then two 'options'. So IT would be an option, but I didn't choose it.

Ha love that game op!

@babdoc. Mid 50's?? I'd guess 54? (Thought the clean air act was earlier but you through me with the Monkees!)

Tuition fees came in the year I went to uni which was 1998. I was born in 1980 but I had GCSE IT lessons at school.....I reckon you were born in 1979 or 1980.

*threw

@babdoc I'd say you were in your late 60s/early 70s - born around 1948-50 or so?

Oops....didn't see your update

Pretty similar to me, going for born in 1981

1981

Clean air act was 1956.

Was typing when your message was posted!

Lots of people guessed yours OP!

I've had two guesses of 1989 for mine

In the spirit of the game I'll see it I can do some clues for my age!

1. My favourite gift I ever received as a child was a princess jasmine costume

1. The first film I can remember seeing at the cinema was Jumanji

1. I did IT classes at school but they mainly involved playing roller coaster tycoon

1. I owned a blackberry and thought I was so high powered (think ally mcbeal)

1. My first crush was Peter Andre 😂😂😂😂

1978