Change your name, change your sex, now change your age.

KQ · 11-08-2018, 11:59 AM

69-year-old Dutchman starts legal bid to become 20 years younger

(CNN)Lying about your age on dating websites is usually considered a bit of a faux pas. Now a 69-year-old Dutchman wants the courts to make him officially 20 years younger, likening the change to identifying as transgender.

Emile Ratelband has launched a legal bid to change his age by 20 years in order to improve his chances with women on dating applications like Tinder and help with job prospects, according to reports in Dutch media.

"You can change your name. You can change your gender. Why not your age? Nowhere are you so discriminated against as with your age," Dutch paper De Telegraaf quoted Ratelband as saying.

On Monday, he asked a court in his hometown of Arnhem, in the east of the country, for his date of birth to be changed from March 11, 1949 to March 11, 1969.

He told the court that he "suffers" as a 69-year-old and has been feeling "20, 25 years younger" than his official age, according to Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad.

According to the newspaper, the court is skeptical about Ratelband's case as there is no legal precedent in this area. It is due to make a ruling in four weeks.

Ratelband, whose website describes him as a personal development entrepreneur, told De Telegraaf he is a "young god" and said a change to his legal age would help him live life with gusto.

"If I put on Tinder that I am 69, I will not get a response...[As] 49, with that face of mine, then I'm rammed," he said.

Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated Emile Ratelband's preferred date of birth.

**iceman** · 11-08-2018, 12:06 PM

He wants to get rammed?

**Timberridge** · 11-08-2018, 12:12 PM

ewe, that's disgusting

**Woodsy** · 11-08-2018, 12:33 PM

you will always be 29 to me D!

**Meadow Skipper** · 11-08-2018, 12:41 PM

Change your face:

**Ted Striker** · 11-08-2018, 12:53 PM

Originally Posted by iceman

He wants to get rammed?

Well that's his problem right there. He should be on grindr.

**SumJongGuy** · 11-08-2018, 01:20 PM

I'm going the other way, adding ten years so I can start collecting my Social Security and Medicare now..

**Timberridge** · 11-08-2018, 01:23 PM

I never trust the Dutch. They're shifty.

**OregonDead** · 11-08-2018, 01:32 PM

I identify as age 72. I can't help it and it's not my fault. Hurry up and make this official so I can get my free senior ski pass in time for opening day at Mammoth.

**I've seen black diamonds!** · 11-08-2018, 02:09 PM

I think we would replace age with "life stages." Mr. Ratelband would be in the "wants to get rammed" stage.

**SumJongGuy** · 11-08-2018, 02:32 PM

Originally Posted by OregonDead

I identify as age 72. I can't help it and it's not my fault. Hurry up and make this official so I can get my free senior ski pass in time for opening day at Mammoth.

LOL I like the way you think!

**liv2ski** · 11-08-2018, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by SumJongGuy

I'm going the other way, adding ten years so I can start collecting my Social Security and Medicare now..

Yup, I am down for that.

**Benny Profane** · 11-09-2018, 04:31 PM

I'll betcha he splits the bill with his date when he goes out with them.

**mooseknuckles** · 11-09-2018, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

I'll betcha he splits the bill with his date when he goes out with them.

Customary

**Jong Lafitte** · 11-09-2018, 06:07 PM

This is sure getting some run for a case that's not even been decided at trial level. Far stupider cases just a pendin' in the US right now.

KQ · 11-09-2018, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

I'll betcha he splits the bill with his date when he goes out with them.

The Dutch going Dutch?

**Benny Profane** · 11-09-2018, 07:42 PM

Der.

**reckless toboggan** · 11-09-2018, 07:54 PM

Originally Posted by Timberridge

I never trust the Dutch. They're shifty.

**GeezerSteve** · 11-09-2018, 10:07 PM

I'm a 49 year old man trapped in a 62 year old body and I sure as fucked have no desire to get rammed

**GeezerSteve** · 11-09-2018, 10:08 PM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

I'll betcha he splits the bill with his date when he goes out with them.

That'd be before he gets split?

KQ · 12-03-2018, 07:40 PM

Dutch Court Rules 69-Year-Old Man Can’t Legally Declare Himself 20 Years Younger

The court said allowing people to change their age would “have a variety of undesirable legal and societal implications.”

**Conundrum** · 12-03-2018, 07:47 PM

Dude needs a Mclovin ID.

**ICantLogIn** · 12-04-2018, 09:38 AM

Poor guy is trapped in a younger persons mind. Imagine the horrors of everyone always telling you that you are immature or to act your age. Just let do what he wants, hes not hurting anyone. #saynotobullying

**old goat** · 12-04-2018, 10:44 PM

According to what I was reading today time is an illusion--events only seem to occur in order. So really we're all the same age, or every age, or no age at all--I'm not sure which.