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when did you realise you were an adult? was there a particular life changing event or did it dawn on you gradually?
what are the best and worst parts about being an adult?
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 14:59, 160 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
I'll let you know when it happens
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:02, Reply)
Hello mate. Aplogies for delay replying, computer died.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:23, Reply)
and the girl, sorry, angel that did it had tattoos and piercings on her face, I properly fell in love a little bit today, I'm turning into Gonz ffs.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:32, Reply)
Glad you enjoyed the experience though mate. Money's CHANGED you, man
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:36, Reply)
I'm becoming something I'm afraid of.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:37, Reply)
Though in that respect, it is nice to have my own place to live independently of my parents' support and jurisdiction, to be able to drink beer and boff an adult human female.
On the downside, it will soon, therefore, be up to me to find a source of income so that I can continue to live in my own place, purchase beer for the drinking thereof and in order that said adult human female not leave me for the down(s)-and-out alcoholic tramp I risk becoming.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:03, Reply)
This is the best part - that and 'getting served'.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:05, Reply)
was receiving your sentence from the beak?
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:07, Reply)
Although even now I'm barely half and half.
Neither is anybody else, which makes it frustrating when you're attempting to do something that requires adult attention and you get the fucking immature half instead.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:06, Reply)
I think I was in my early twenties and she started making sense. It was like a switch had been turned on.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:06, Reply)
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:09, Reply)
I pay my bills on time, does that count?
I think being able to laugh at farts when you're an adult is pretty cool though.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:07, Reply)
You've also drawn another comparison between us there. I feel myself becoming dirtier by association.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:25, Reply)
I am now supremely pissed if my roommate keeps me up until midnight.
Best: feeling rested because you haven't been drinking all night, and went to bed early and so you can function properly
Worst: not doing all of the things I used to do like going out to dinner during the week
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:08, Reply)
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:12, Reply)
As it forces you to be the adult.
But I'm sure I knew I was an adult when I turned 18.
Best part - I can stay up late.
Worst part - I have to get up early.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:20, Reply)
I've always been quite centered and responsible. Maybe it'll be the knowing that now I'll never get to have sex with that guy at Uni that I liked so much (I don't like him so much now, but there's something about not having done it then and not being able to do it anymore, that upsets me)
The best thing is being economically independent; although that'll finish soon (and I'm terrified about it)
The bad thing... I miss going out with my friends, but I think that's mostly because we live far away. Maybe the pain on the hips, then.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:21, Reply)
There was a guy when I was eighteen that I didn't sleep with because
1: I was a coward
2: He was joining the army and I was a bit of a CND hippy nut at the time.
I regret this as he was nice.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:26, Reply)
kissing, and touching and stopping to buy the condoms.
The moment he came back, I don't know why, I decided I didn't want to do it. I'm so stupid. I liked him for years. Since I got pregnant he's been a couple of times on my dreams, on the time back at uni, and we sort out the problem very quickly.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:29, Reply)
I've had all kind of weird sexy dreams with all type of people since I'm pregnant, so I'm not too worried.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:30, Reply)
but I've been doing that for years. It's also partly having my own income and managing it (albeit badly). I think I'll only feel like a proper grown up when I get to the end of every month and have substantially more than £3 left in my account...
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:25, Reply)
And I think that scraping the very bottom of your bank balance every single month without failing is suggestive of poor financial management. And of not being paid enough, in my case...but I really ought to try harder to live within my means. When I manage that, I'll be a real grown up.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:40, Reply)
I have all the trappings of being grown up (except kids) but I don't consider myself grown up at all.
Best: I have my own house to which I can take a sledgehammer should I so desire.
Worst: responsibility. and having to get up and go to work.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:28, Reply)
THIS IS TO DO WITH TATTOOS, NOT AN STD.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:29, Reply)
the hair growing back was part of it I think, the healing actually went very well indeed.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:31, Reply)
I had the power lines done on my arm the other day so that will finally be finished on the 10th and my back on the 4th, annoyingly I have found another one to do before my main back piece starts so it is going to be itching from now until September.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:34, Reply)
it could benefit from a little touching up as one patch is a little light, but on the whole I'm well pleased with it.
Couldn't be happier with the placment, the woman totally nailed it first time.
I'll take a pic at some point and show you
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:36, Reply)
I miss swimming chronically now but the bike is cool as hell.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:38, Reply)
so won't be too much of an issue
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:52, Reply)
not sure I could stand that much itching, and also not being able to surf!
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:37, Reply)
Your missus told me, don't be angry with her.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:32, Reply)
it's a continual process of changing.
I work and pay my bills and support my child, this is all anybody has a right to demand of me.
Beyond this I intend to continue to please myself and be as silly as I feel like being.
Only time will tell if this is a mid-life crisis or wisdom.
I suppose the point I became an adult is the point I realised that I no longer have to conform to other people's notions of adulthood.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:29, Reply)
and a succession of questionable relationships?
No, I don't think so either, but if I've learned on thing over the years it's that whenever I think I've got it sussed, I'm wrong and in a couple of years I'll have another idea.
I think that this time I am actually OK, but I've been thinking that as long as I can remember and been wrong every time.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:40, Reply)
Onwards and upwards CQ.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:44, Reply)
You're FreeFair's Dad, not the other way round
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:32, Reply)
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:34, Reply)
I refuse to believe that sir. If you'd said Graham Norton, or some other famous queen I may have believed you!
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:42, Reply)
He'll always be the one who's never picked, it'll bring back his childhood P.E. trauma's
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:46, Reply)
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:04, Reply)
put me down for shitting up Ernie Wise good and proper.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:10, Reply)
www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/local/firefighters_rescue_cow_from_river_1_2899258
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:35, Reply)
My dad had decorated it all in colours I'd chosen, and I was going up the steps of the house with a new rug and vase for the living room.
I felt like Mary Tyler Moore.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:36, Reply)
Never doing it again unless I'm sharing with a partner.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:42, Reply)
Unfortunately the rent's so cheap where I am at the moment that this is almost impossible to do without flat sharing.
I will probably end up moving and being just as poor.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:46, Reply)
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:50, Reply)
and whether it would be rude to ask. However, since you've asked already... have you managed to carelessly impregnate someone?
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:55, Reply)
I have been accused of a total lack of tact, but I prefer to think of it as being refreshingly straightforward.
Howdy Berk.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:56, Reply)
but I've never asked a question I would have been offended by if it had been asked of me. People are just weird.
Alright CQ?
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:00, Reply)
There's very few questions I'd be offended by, probably none actually, a few I might refuse to answer, but how can a question be offensive?
As my granddad used to say "They're all queer, 'cept me and thee - and thee's a bit peculiar."
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:04, Reply)
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:09, Reply)
*continues to wilfully not get your piss-poor joke*
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:24, Reply)
I will likely be sharing for the first time in, ooh, 7 years maybe? I am fucking dreading it.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:46, Reply)
Have you achieved "being an adult"?
Er... my dad still takes care of putting up shelves/car maintenance/etc. for me
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:42, Reply)
HUGE flat.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:45, Reply)
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:49, Reply)
I have only ever used the more traditional method of hiring a sander, but I shall bear your idea in mind should I ever sand another floor.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:52, Reply)
Get exercise, have fun, frighten the man downstairs.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:06, Reply)
I think I should be the one who is frightened then.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:12, Reply)
but I did feel like that when I bought my sofa. As sofas go, it's bloody lovely.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:44, Reply)
Was in WHSmith at lunchtime and spotted a headline on the cover of one of those godawful middle-aged women's gossip rags "DUMPED for being a fat bride (but I had the last laugh!)"
With nary a moment's pause, my brain went
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:38, Reply)
But, yes, I had the last cake.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:55, Reply)
We would be getting on with our work instead of arsing about on here
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:56, Reply)
And I've taken the dog to the park.
Where, I might add, there were dead leaves all over the place. It looked just like autumn. What the actual fuck is wrong with the weather????
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:57, Reply)
We are in the middle of a triangle formed by the dry and hot Med, the wet and cold Scandinavia and the wet and warm Gulf Stream. This causes unsettled temperatures at best. We are in a cool period, which is causing cooler, wetter weather and thereby prompting deciduous trees to prepare for autumn slightly earlier than usual.
We are not outside the seasonal averages.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:06, Reply)
are apparently completely oblivious to the fact that our summers are almost always the same as this one.
Edit: And most of them seem to feel the need to display their idiocy to me.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:09, Reply)
it's acting as though it's somehow unusual that irritates me.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:11, Reply)
Now tell us why so we can take this piss out of your deeply personal problem.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:18, Reply)
as it's so completely absurd.
This piss? This one right here?
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:19, Reply)
Right, as you are sensibly not answering the question about what is wrong I'm going to start spreading the rumour that you are saving up for gender reassignment surgery in the hopes of seducing Monty.
Yes, that piss, not any other piss, just that one.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:21, Reply)
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:24, Reply)
It may be why I'm universally unemployable.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:26, Reply)
Then it's up to her how many punters she services during her shift
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:31, Reply)
I do have to give all the money to my pimp, but he's very nice and lets me have enough for something pretty.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:34, Reply)
Safest to go for a flat room rental, towels are extra
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:35, Reply)
I thought that was the very genesis of the pimp-slap.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:36, Reply)
I gave up smoking, joined a gym, started cooking for myself and I've finally done something about the terrible state my house had fallen into.
Admittedly that something was moving out - and I plan on a charity house clearance followed by flogging it as a fixer-up - but at least I've got a plan now.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:14, Reply)
Huh, ya big hippy?
...
I miss my long hair.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:20, Reply)
For you it's like 10 years or something?
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:33, Reply)
I make plans and decisions and generally enjoy the company I keep. I don't need to surround myself with people to feel important or popular.
And I can actually tell someone to fuck off now and remove them from my life without feeling guilty.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:22, Reply)
I only see them occasionally, mostly when my roommate invites people over.
Oh, and I've lost two more friends it seems. Woo.
It seems to be that people only hang out with me when they want to party. So. Take that as you will.
WHO IS WILLING TO LOOK AT MY RESUME AND TELL ME IT IS OR ISN'T WONDERFUL?
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:30, Reply)
That's too long, why are people making me wait? I just don't get it.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:35, Reply)
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