This post is mostly to push that animated gif of my face further down the page and away from our eyes, but it’s also mostly about how popular different decades of people are. Look, I have “compiled” some data about that.
That’s how often the different decades of people are being mentioned on the internet. We can interpret this information in many different ways, including the ways in which I’m about to. There are three points of interest here.
1. Being In Your Thirties is The Least Remarkable Thing.
A popular tricenarian is probably Dara Ó Briain from Mock the Week. But there are no search results for “dara ó briain the tricenarian”.
2. There Is An Awed Hush In The Run Up To One Hundred.
This is around the time when people should perhaps be dead, and a ten year drumroll, whether metaphorical or literal, would be deemed by many to be inappropriate.
3. Octogenarian is the one everybody knows.
So shut up.
