I like the term "time-sink"
Five years ago, I went back to college to study a couple of A levels as an immature student. This did mean having to sit in classes where everyone else was 15 years younger than I.

One day, whilst waiting outside the Physics lab, a girl came trotting over. A more stereotypical female student I have yet to see. Long hair, tie-dye shirt, long skirt with tassels at the bottom, pair of Doc Martin boots and an accent that only students have and certainly a long way from a standard Hull accent.

She was flapping about asking people "Dangermouse or Superman", obviously with the motive that Dangermouse is cool because it was a cartoon in the 80s that she never grew up with. A lot of other student types were saying Dangermouse. Then she came over to me and asked me. I said Superman. She wasn't impressed.
"But DM is far better than Superman."
"In what way? Can he fly? Can he leap over buildings in a single bound? (that was wasted on her). Does he have laser vision? No, because he's blind in one eye. He doesn't even have binocular vision. and his sidekick was about as much use as a wooden frying-pan"
"Pah!" she retorted and flapped off to ask other people.
The physics teacher had seen this exchange and was quite amused. He gave me a look of bemusement to which I answered.
"Tut! bloody students"
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 9:09, 1 reply)

I'm a bit of a mature student myself
Although, at 24, only barely. There's a couple of things that go over my head, like 4chan, or facebook. Never seen the appeal, to be honest. Found a couple of mates in the same age group, though, so we can have discussion like "Which was better - Biker Mice from Mars or Toxic Avengers?"

Sometimes, it feels a bit like being back at high school, only with more casual sex and less bullying of teachers.
(Godwin's Lawyer is more evil than Hitler, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 16:36, closed)