Random Rants LXXIII: "You've had this place redecorated, haven't you? I don't like it."

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Synsensa said:
Not a week goes by without me asking myself, "How old am I?"

24. Ugh. Just put me in a retirement home already.
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Ha! i'm only...........................30?
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You're as old as I am, Synsensa, and I don't feel that old.
 
But 24 IS pretty old. I still rememb- ...I mean, in 8 years, when I'm 24, I will likely look back at my youth and wonder what I've done in all of those years.
 
Israel's nation-states law passed, not that this is too surprising. Now that it has, God should smash people who claim Israel is a democracy with a giant fly swatter.
 
Good luck with that!

Just remember: If you make him or her cry, that's a good thing, because it establishes an emotional connection.
 
Synsensa said:
This thread title cured me of all ailments.
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Then it has accomplished something positive. You're welcome.

rah said:
It's too long.
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The original quotation was longer. I didn't know how long titles can be, so I shortened it.

Synsensa said:
Not a week goes by without me asking myself, "How old am I?"

24. Ugh. Just put me in a retirement home already.
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I was on my second go-around with college by that time (I went back later, with adult student status). Around the time you were born, I was running a Star Trek club, active in the Society for Creative Anachronism, and running a couple of home businesses. At that time I had 4 cats: Maggie, Lightning, Tomtat, and Gussy (assuming you were born in 1994).

Arakhor said:
Some of us were already in secondary school when you were born. :old:
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I remember one day during a meeting of the aforementioned Star Trek club we started in college... one of the members started complaining that her 25th birthday was coming up. Then another one said, "Wait'll you hit 30." The rest of the younger members opined that turning 30 would be really horrible.

Well, I was past 30 at that point (the SCA group threw me a nice surprise party :)), and the oldest person in the group was 20 years older still. We had a good, long laugh about that. I wonder how those people feel now, 20 years later?

choxorn said:
You're as old as I am, Synsensa, and I don't feel that old.
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I've known people who got old because they lost their sense of imagination.

And it was rather sad when I had a conversation with a 12-year-old at a bus stop. I'd just bought a book called Dicing With Dragons (about tabletop RPGs, written by one of the creators of the Fighting Fantasy Gamebook series). I started reading it while waiting at the main bus stop downtown, and a girl came up to me. She saw the title of the book and said, "There's no such thing as dragons."

I told her, "Yes, there are... in the imagination."

This whooshed right past her. At age 12.
 
I would've probably responded with "I wish you were a dragon, then." but I tend to be unkind when randomly accosted. :dunno:
 
Synsensa said:
I would've probably responded with "I wish you were a dragon, then." but I tend to be unkind when randomly accosted. :dunno:
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She was a kid, and I was well into adulthood. It would have been inappropriate to insult a kid over something like that. She didn't say anything personal against me, just an implied attitude of "You're silly to believe in dragons" and she wasn't capable of understanding how it's possible to be into imaginative things and knowing they're not actually real in RL. It's how I can be into space opera, time travel, and alt-history while knowing it's not real.

Dragons in the imagination are fine. But if (for example, and note that this incident happened long before the internet was something most people have) the conversation had gone along the lines of "Megan Fox, Creationist Mom" making videos insisting that dinosaurs were really dragons and mocking paleontologists and museum interpreters who try to explain fossils to her precious rugrats, that's something that I'd have gotten snarky about.
 
24 does feel old. #1994
 
If you think 24 is old, try 26. You're still in your mid-20s, but psychologically you know you're already mounting the peak of your youth. :p
 
My aunt gets more upset about my birthdays than I do. I just look at it as having completed one more trip around the Sun.
 
Upon attempting to leave the Neolithic barrow this afternoon, it transpired that we had a flat tyre (and a second tyre that really needs looking at). The weather was pleasant enough, but I didn't particularly relish the experience of spending an hour and a half in a field waiting for the AA to turn up. I'm also still picking bits of grass and other stuff out of my trousers turn-ups.
 
Arakhor said:
I can hardly take credit for the phrase, but when Britain wants to do 'old', it can really do 'old'. :)


I'm old enough to be someone's dad, not someone's granddad. :p
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While it varies by person, a 12 year old can technically have a child. So Even Syn is old enough to be a grandad.
 
I prefer to leave teenage births out of those sorts of comparisons, simply because it makes them fairly meaningless.
 
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