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[Jennie_Kermode]

Originally posted by Gettingold@Aug 29 2005, 05:07 PM Sorry to hear you are unwell, all the best for a speedy recovery.

Ah, it doesn't work that way, I'm afraid. I'll be this ill until I'm more ill, and more ill until it kills me. But I get by. It does change one's perspective, however; I've long tended to relate better to older people, who're more aware of their mortality. I wouldn't say that's necessarily a bad thing.

Originally posted by Gettingold@Aug 29 2005, 05:07 PM I have a few young friends, and they tend to keep me quite youthful, thankfully.

One of my partners is only twenty three, so I have that on my side. ;) It has been a bit of a struggle, mind, to convince friends that I'm serious about him and that he's interesting for more than just his age and appearance.

Originally posted by Gettingold@Aug 29 2005, 05:07 PM Ahh, I see you are in Glasgow so not too far from my location.

Aye; I'm just off to the GFT this morning, actually, to review something called 'On a Clear Day'. I don't know anything much about it, but I'll hunt down the press information afterwards - I like to see films fresh if I can, as that's how most of my readers will experience them.

Jennie

[Jim]

OK! I turned 65 at the end of May and I can't believe that I've just said that! In my mind I am still 35 but when I get up in the morning, in know I'm not 35!!!! David Brent in Australia wished me a happy retirement - Dave mate, I'm still in harness!!!

It's not that I am irreplaceable; it's just that they can't find anyone to do my job, because it is so BORING!!!

[Jim]

Sam my boy, you have it in rather large nut shell and you certainly have a way with words!!

[samkydd]

In a slightly smaller nutshell, I'm just glad I'm not twentysomething again because I couldn't stand being so bored living in a second-hand culture with crap remakes of films, rubbish cover versions of music, copied fashions, copied hairstyles, retro cars, retro furniture, zero political activism and not an original thought or idea expressed anywhere! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbdown.gif[/img] What the f*** is going on? Have they been lacing Big Macs with some sort of brain numbing mogadon type drug or something?

I was in a cafeteria a few weeks ago and the teenage Friends cliche spouting youth in front of me ordered a baked potato. "Would you like anything with that?" the smiling catering assistant enquired. "Yeah, chips!" he replied. That just about sums it all up really!

But my old man used to call us "....long haired bleeders!" and "......you're not playing that rubbish on my radiogram!" so being an old misery guts is just cyclical, an age thing!

[Steve Crook]

Originally posted by samkydd@Aug 30 2005, 01:37 PM I was in a cafeteria a few weeks ago and the teenage Friends cliche spouting youth in front of me ordered a baked potato. "Would you like anything with that?" the smiling catering assistant enquired. "Yeah, chips!" he replied. That just about sums it all up really!

And I thought that the dullest they could get was to ask for a baked potato with mashed potato filling

Steve

[Jennie_Kermode]

Ach, there are still some thinking twentysomethings out there (teenagers, too, for that matter) - they just tend to keep their heads down when surrounded by their peers.

Jennie

[red squirrel]

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[Steve Crook]

Originally posted by Jennie_Kermode@Aug 30 2005, 04:02 PM Ach, there are still some thinking twentysomethings out there (teenagers, too, for that matter) - they just tend to keep their heads down when surrounded by their peers. Jennie

As many of us probably did when we were younger. Sometimes it doesn't do to show off your intelligence and the most intelligent thing to do is to keep quiet.

Steve

[Johnny English]

Originally posted by Billy Liar@Aug 29 2005, 05:06 PM 30

Liar!!!

I believe that you're only as old as the woman you feel!
So I'll tell you tonight......if I'm lucky

[Jim]

Originally posted by red squirrel@Aug 30 2005, 08:40 PM 38

Belated congrats Red Squirrel!

[Jennie_Kermode]

Heh. I wouldn't say that reviewing constituted making a living - it's _part_ of a living, but I need to find a more reliable employer if I'm to survive on it.

The 'Wicker Man' remake is surrounded by confusion, even within the industry. What seems to have caused this confusion is that Robin Hardy, who is directing it (still set in Maine with a preacher as the main character) has also written a film exploring Pagan rituals in Scotland. This latter is not a remake or a sequel, but it will 'explore some of the same themes', and it will star Christopher Lee. The two films are expected to be released around the same time (though no-one has yet said when that will be).

Jennie

[Freddy]

Do you find it disturbing that they like to cover themselves in oil or that only a small number like to do so? Steve

Am not sure actually Steve, I was too busy concentrating on keeping small, members, covered in oil, separate.

what does roftl (the emoticon above mean) 'cause I like it

Freddy

[Fellwanderer]

Originally posted by Freddy@Aug 31 2005, 09:45 PM Am not sure actually Steve, I was too busy concentrating on keeping small, members, covered in oil, separate. what does roftl (the emoticon above mean) 'cause I like it Freddy

Rolls on the floor laughing

FELL

[Billy Liar]

Originally posted by Johnny English@Aug 31 2005, 07:10 AM Liar!!!

Sir, this is an outrage, if I had a pair of gloves handy I would slap you with them.

I am 30 though.

[Gibbie]

Originally posted by samkydd@Aug 30 2005, 12:37 PM In a slightly smaller nutshell, I'm just glad I'm not twentysomething again because I couldn't stand being so bored living in a second-hand culture with crap remakes of films, rubbish cover versions of music, copied fashions, copied hairstyles, retro cars, retro furniture, zero political activism and not an original thought or idea expressed anywhere!* What the f*** is going on? Have they been lacing Big Macs with some sort of brain numbing mogadon type drug or something? I was in a cafeteria a few weeks ago and the teenage Friends cliche spouting youth in front of me ordered a baked potato. "Would you like anything with that?" the smiling catering assistant enquired. "Yeah, chips!" he replied. That just about sums it all up really!

Don't pile on the 20 somethings, they have a long way to go to get past the shackles of what the past few generations have put on them, particularly the Baby Boomers!