The generation game"Touch my bum, this is life", glowers Richard "Interw3bz" McBeef. I was recently asked "What colour was your hair?", which made me feel well old. Tell us about moments when you realised you were knocking on a bit. Conversely, perhaps you are a sprightly young whippersnapper who is exasperated by the older folks: do tell.
(, Mon 25 Apr 2016, 15:51)
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What's one of those?Background: girlfriend and I would regularly "babysit" her friend's three kids from down the road. Two of them were just regular, nice kids, but the third was REALLY sharp - the kind of kid you had to remind yourself was only nine when you were talking to him, because he had the facts at his fingertips to back up his opinion of Schumacher's pit stop strategy against Hakkinen.
So my mate and I are talking to him about something one afternoon in about 1998, and we were trying to describe something to him that was gliding around across the floor. "Like a Dalek" I said.
"What's a Dalek?" he said.
Mate and I looked at each other and realised the last time there was a Dalek on the telly, this kid wasn't born. At the time, it seemed reasonable to suppose he'd grow up never really knowing what a Dalek was. And given that he would have been about 15 or 16 by the time Eccleston turned up, he was part of the generation that missed out. Oof.
(, Wed 27 Apr 2016, 7:04, 3 replies)
I'm older than youWhat's a Dalek?
(, Wed 27 Apr 2016, 15:18, closed)
Ooohaaaah
(, Sat 30 Apr 2016, 16:55, closed)
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