Middle age will only begin at 55 when the average lifespan is over a hundred.
What aspect of the word 'middle' is confusing these fucking idiots?

Alt: I think there are several possible answers:
1) *something* happened to him on his round the world trip - something no man should have to deal with, and it flipped his mind.
2) *something* happened to him when he was a TV inventor in the 1980s - something no man should have to deal with, and it flipped his mind.
3) *something* happened to him when he fell off his bike like a kind of crazy Kevin-Keegan-on-Superstars/Wilf Lunn hybrid, and it flipped his mind.
4) *something* about being binned off his lid on Lithium has flipped his mind.
5) he just is one, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Altalt: No
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 8:30, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

The context in this case for middle age is attitudinal rather than physical.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 8:41, Reply)

In which case in some respects I will never reach middle age
and in others I've been in it for thirty years already.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 8:50, Reply)

you're a hideous old fruit.
Today's tie is powder blue, with pink and purple daisies as a pattern.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 8:53, Reply)

Unlucky.
Maybe you'll get a men's tie for Christmas so you can stop borrowing your mum's.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 9:08, Reply)

To be fair, there probably isn't a great selection of short elasticated ties.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 9:11, Reply)

Most of them have a primary school logo on them, I suppose:
not a good look in the office...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 9:17, Reply)

You call him a fruit and then describe
the very tie Quentin Crisp was wearing on the shocking-for-all-concerned day that he realised he was the world's first bender?
( Kroney, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 9:52, Reply)