quote:Seethru calculates that you are 52 % an ageing hypocrite
50-50, halfway there, middle of the road. That's me.
Have I changed in 5 years? Hell yes, ditched the well paid job, ditched the husband, moved out of the comfortable 2 bedroomed garden flat in the suburbs into the bright city lights, set up my own business, got myself into thousands of pounds worth of debt and started digging myself out of it again. I look better than I did 5 years ago and I've given up smoking. Highs and lows, ups and downs, all of it. Ageing, it happens no matter what we do. You gotta keep rolling with the punches. But Misc had a good point - why would you want to be the same as you were 5 years ago? Grow and learn all the time.
The thing that gets me down is things that are out of my own control, realising that for some things there is a time (age) limit and that suddenly that time is drawing closer and right now there's bugger all that I can do about it.
quote:Originally posted by discodamage: there's nothing wrong with olives.
There's one variety that actually works very differently in relation to this ageing business though. Apparently, as you get older you lose your Willt Olive.
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quote:Originally posted by Boy Racer: Is it just me, or do people here not think that it's absolutely fine to show your age? Do people not think that most of the things on that quiz are perfectly acceptable parts of growing up?
Have one of these. They're ever so good.
I think London's quiz played on the irrational dread of ageing (and the ludicrousness of some of the supposed signifiers of 'youth') rather than trying to tap into actual anxieties about age and mortality. I found it pretty funny, fwiw.
quote:Originally posted by discodamage: theres nothing wrong with olives.
I've tried and I've tried and I've tried but those fuckers still taste of rancid, vinegar-soaked cork. This coming from someone who practically wolfs down that lime chutney sheeit when out for a curry.
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quote:Originally posted by discodamage: LIME CHUTNEY ohmyfuck that shit is rank. its like eating part of a cleaning sponge soaked in citrus multi-surface cleanser.
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quote:Originally posted by ben: I think London's quiz played on the irrational dread of ageing (and the ludicrousness of some of the supposed signifiers of 'youth') rather than trying to tap into actual anxieties about age and mortality.
Er, ok, where did I say that it didn't? My intention wasn't to criticise the quiz, but simply to ask people if anyone honestly sees those things as being negative.
Oh and it's called Lime Pickle guys.
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That seems about right. I think the nuptual/breeding bit pushed me right past the halfway mark.
My life today in no way resembles my life five years ago. Other than the fact that I'm in it, obviously. In 1999, I had taken a sabattical from my work as a journalist after getting tired of too many nights over five years of working the overnight news beat. Since then, I've moved to a new city, finished two degrees (or very nearly; two months to go!), made time to travel, started paying down the debt accumulated during my years as an underpaid radio news reporter, and most recently, gotten married and all the rest.
It seems the pace of my life is accelerating as I get older; I wonder how much faster this ride goes?
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quote:Originally posted by ben: Maybe I misread the tone of your post.
Sounds like yer eyesight's going.
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Is fine Ben, can see how you might have got that impression.
Also re: olives. Tesco's 'Finest' Olives, big green ones in a jar with olive oil and lemon and red pepper and coriander seed and stuff for about £3.50, are IMO about as nice as olives get.
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I blame Teh Passion Teh of Teh Christ, which we watched on Friday night and was one of the worst Mel Gibson films I've ever seen.
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Well, teh Vikram, it was that or Matrix Revolutions. Friday night was a quiet one: I had to paint the ceiling of the room next to the kitchen and after that all we had the energy for was a video. Not wanting to come across all kermode but we watched The Exorcist last night and that struck me as being a much more serious and interesting film about religion than TPTOTC - regardless of the distracting resemblence of Fr Karras to Democrat hopeful John Kerry.
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quote:Originally posted by discodamage: how is matrevs zionist?
It has a city called Zion in.
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It's the voice. And his arms. It's just not right that something like that should be seen as entertaining. I used to hide behind the sofa when I was small and he was on the telly.
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On another note, who watched QI on Friday instead of going out to a youth club or discotheque? It was a LOLcall of the funniest jokes ever made. I thought. Is that a sign of age when you like QI?
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quote:Originally posted by dang65: On another note, who watched QI on Friday instead of going out to a youth club or discotheque? It was a LOLcall of the funniest jokes ever made. I thought. Is that a sign of age when you like QI?
I did, because I love Stephen Fry.
One day he and I will be lolling around a living room wearing dressing gowns, drinking tea and reading the Sunday papers. Occasionally one of us will read aloud something amusing about cultural decay in modern Britain and the other will chuckle appreciatively.
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Carved TMO on her clit just to make you feel bad
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Age shall not wither me/ Nor custom stale my infinite variety. Though I've got significantly more wrinkles, and a slightly more mundane outlook than the purple/black one I cultivated five years ago.
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quote:Originally posted by vikram: I found the BEST movie review site!
quote: The criminal who kills Spidey's uncle Ben is White, of course.
Of COURSE.
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one guy on the matrix 2 thread says that matrix is 'mud people' propoganda, and then recommends starship troopers. now maybe i am a bit dense, but wasn casting doogie hower in an ss coat etc meant to be anti-militarist / american / nationalism....?
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Back on the subject of aging again: In the SeeThru quiz, one of the questions asks whether you have lost touch with modern music. Well, what about modern slang? Not down with that? Well, get down with these wack flashcards, dawg.
Edit to add: NPR's "here and now" did a segment on these. It's amusing listening. Realaudio here.
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