Evidence that you're getting oldYouthful as I am, I realised yesterday that I no-longer know, or care, who is #1 in the charts. Furthermore, it takes all day to get rid of a hangover and I now seem to have a profound interest in gardening. Worst is that I now use words like 'furthermore'.
What makes you think that you are getting old?
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chthonic, Thu 28 Oct 2004, 13:01)
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A mass of contradictionsAs a teenager I liked all the classic 'old people' things of life: black and white films, MOR ballads, gardening, walks in the country, sensible haircuts and boring clothes.
As a 27 year old, I quaff as many drugs as I can get my hands on, listen to hard house and electonica and refuse to wear a suit in the office (I actually look odd in combats sitting among the suited people). I have lots in common with the 'alternative' youth of today (I just dont mention kids TV from the '80s).
The thing that makes me feel old are my friends who, at my age, meet in quiet pubs to talk about babies, pensions and mortgages. Their lives are going to be predicable and dull for the rest of their sorry lives. Should I grow up and embrace this premature mediocrity?? I've got as long as I have my own hair and no wrinkles to enjoy myself before I have to stop (wouldn't want to become one of those clueless aging men in clubs who get laughed for trying to fit in with people 20 years younger than themselves.)
Oh shit. I just realised I wrote "youth of today" NO!!!
PS: Whats happened to Treats? Peanut M&Ms just don't cut it.
PPS: All these people saying kids TV was better in the 80s are wrong. Theres some very clever and funny stuff out there now. He-Man was shit. Its all Rose tinted spectacles. I watched the Phillias Fogg cartoon (the Gentleman lion) on an aeroplane last week and all my happy memories were destroyed in one go by this poorly animated piece off poo being projected at me.
(, Mon 1 Nov 2004, 14:20, Reply)
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