Half Your Age, Plus Seven

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Oh wait, he won't be over 24.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I think we need a rule that makes it so that all women think that short, balding 45 year olds are what they should aspire to.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 September 2004 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link

All women should be short, balding and 45?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 September 2004 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link

don't discriminate against the tall.

xpost dammit ned

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 19 September 2004 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link

There are cults for that sort of thing, Martin.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 19 September 2004 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I doubt I'll be baldING by 45

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 19 September 2004 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Mickey Rooney fan clubs

(x-post)

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 19 September 2004 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link

When I'm 80 and can still date 47 year-olds, I'll probably be thankful for this rule.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 19 September 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought this was a Chinese proverb. Or maybe Yiddish. Well, I read it somewhere, a book concerning grandmothers. I just can't remember if it was Wild Swans or something by Erica Jong.

― Anna (Anna), Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link

That post kind of sums you up, Anna.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link

In a very nice way, I mean.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link

How? Tell me. Feed my self-obsession.

― Anna (Anna), Sunday, 19 September 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I think it was the vagueness, coupled with the Erica Jong / Wild Swans mash-up.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 19 September 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link

18-years old is my limit. I always thought that seemed young, but I'm okay with it.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 19 September 2004 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I have gone as much as four years under my limit, three years or so back. I am unaware of any evil consequences.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I don;t know any 23 year old who would want to date me, so I think I'm ok.

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

18 is almost my limit anyway, but it's all a moot point.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link

No, Luna, it's a one-way thing, so you should be dating someone aged 50!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm about to be limited to 18.5 and up

― Free the Bee (ex machina), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link

17.5 is pretty close to my own shame threshold, too. This is clever. In related news, I was hit on by a fourteen year old, today.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link

chris is turning 39. i'm turning 28. I think I'm too old for him.

― A. Atom Gorgon (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Man, Aja's in deep doo-doo. Half her age plus seven is still, like, prenatal.

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link

My limits supposed to be 23... my partners 21. Meh *shrugs* works for me.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I can date 15 year olds, then. Envy my youth.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Whoo, I'm looking forward to picking up some 17-and-a-half-year-olds.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 20 September 2004 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link

hmm, i'm 25 and dating a 50 year old man right now. 50/2 + 7=...32. numbers schmumbers.

― the intern, Monday, 20 September 2004 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

23. That puts the Olsen twins out of contention. OH NOES HOW WILL I SURVIVE.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 20 September 2004 00:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Turns out I shouldn't have been so wary of all those college guys dating my female friends in high school, they were just following the rules.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Ben Franklin advised men to marry women who were older in years. And then added: "Because they are more grateful". Good ol' Ben. What a knucklehead.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I think it sucks a werewolf's hairy asshole.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Dude, half Aja's age plus seven is...Aja's age!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Does that mean that when my first sexual encounter as a 12-year-old was with a 15-year-old girl, I was just following the rules? At what point does this stuff cease to apply? Is it okay for a 4-year-old boy to be with a 9-year-old girl? This madness must stop!

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 20 September 2004 02:19 (nineteen years ago) link

No! The madness must continue! How else will 4-year olds learn about sex and relationships? They need to learn from people older and more mature than themselves.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 20 September 2004 02:33 (nineteen years ago) link

(Does that mean that when my first sexual encounter as a 12-year-old

No. Way.)

According to this, I should be sticking to a 19 - 34 age range.

Wow. That opens up a whole world of possibilities. Though I'd still feel vaguely dirty about going with someone between the ages of 19 - 21. Like I'm their babysitter or their mom or something.

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― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 20 September 2004 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link

No. Way.

Way.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 20 September 2004 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link

16.5! yes!

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Monday, 20 September 2004 03:03 (nineteen years ago) link

22, good.

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 20 September 2004 03:14 (nineteen years ago) link

My ex-drummer once almost punched me for saying to him "dude, half plus seven rule!". He is 32 and his girlfriend is 17.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 20 September 2004 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link

19.

p.s. hasn't this been discussed before on another thread?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 20 September 2004 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link

No way am I dating any 19-year-old boys.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 20 September 2004 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, dating, no.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link

i know a band who use this rule for groupies. and they're not very old. and it's pretty gross. i don't know. i have always been attracted most to girls who are my always-current age. aside from a particular weakness for bitchy attractive 43-ish y/o women.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Half times seven = 98
Half minus seven = 7
Half divided seven = 2

I can see why they stuck with plus seven.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Well okay, I don't know any 50 year olds who want to date me, either.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Luna, when I get there I'll give you a call (assuming i can read the number without the glasses I left....where?)

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I've tried dating women in their early 20s but they all seem to like Radiohead a bit too much.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link

better then not liking anything too much... maybe.

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I couldn't date a 22 year old. I can imagine it being fun for a couple of weeks, but then there'd open up a huge bleeding void where common ground should be. Nein danke.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link

A major problem with this is that if you find a woman the right age (any 29.5 year olds out there looking for a 45 year old?) it'll all go wrong quickly anyway. We need women who age at half the rate of men, apparently.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

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