The answer is 62 not 42

[TheHateIsNotGood]

Born 1962 now aged 62 and led many years thinking that the Answer was 42. If you're currently 62 born in 1962 then you might have an idea about what I'm posting about.

AND THEN!! da ta di tah I realized on the back of another thread concerning the education of our PM that he too is aged 62 born in 1962. And, concerning his education, not only did the PM pass his 11+ and be one of the 90 boys in a very large catchment area to get in to Reigate Grammar School he stayed through the very tumultuous disintegration of the Grammar Schools which turned Reigate Grammar into a fee-paying Independent School.

I have never crossed paths with Keir although I'm a 62 and who was educated at the Reigate County School for Girls, the other 'grammar school' wiped out of being at the same time.

Just to clarify, Keir wasn't privately educated. 1962 a great vintage.

I was born in 1978 ( number one was the most depressing fucking song in the world-
Mull of Kintyre by Paul McCartney and The Wings ) just thought I would add that random info cos I’ve just read your op and I am baffled and I won’t get those few
minutes back so I hope you read mine op.

or- please enlighten us.

Shouldn't you be busy building the Earth?

""What do you get if you multiply six by nine?""

well in 1984, just as Orwell predicted, all the 42 year olds, born in '42, thought it was them.......

and I expect they had thier towels at the ready

Marks and Spencer towels

Obviously.

I'd just done my O levels.

But Im only 58 so I probably dont know the answer. I DID think it was 42, but my son says it's Pi. Or a never ending Fibonacci sequence.

In the book the answer was 42 but the question was 5 x 8.

It's all a major fuck up.

So possibly Keir was predicted by Deep Thought.

Now, if Slartibartfast hadn't been obsessing over the fjords ...

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. 👀

I’m so sad that Douglas Adams killed Arthur Dent.

The dolphins still know the answer is 42

I'm 42, born in 81. The answer is 42.

It's definitely 42...sorry OP 🤣

It will only ever be 42.

Kids born in 2012 are also 12 this year. Just sayin.

Douglas Adams eat your heart out

Keir is definitely not the answer. It remains 42.

This ^^

I just googled born in 1962 62 age and it came up with a Beddian Birthday. It's when you're the age of the year you were born.
Apparently something to be celebrated. I've got a while to get to 79.

It can be 62 but just for you and just for today.

Were you a Christmas/NY baby @Zoflorabore ? The number one at that time of year is usually something catastrophically crap and my pub quiz knowledge includes knowing that particular dirge was a Christmas no1. I was born 2yrs later on NYE 1980 and it was Theres No-one Quite Like Bloody Grandma by the St Winifred's School Choir.

(It's 42 btw op. Love to Sharon)

in that case im inclined to guesstimate shower of arsehole pish wafflers pandemic was rife

Was just reading about the significance of 42 a wee while back.

One example is Alice in Wonderland (crammed full of hidden meanings) which has 42 illustrations by John Tenniel.

Meth is a hell of a drug