Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I shall report back in November.
Death begins at 40
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I shall report back in November.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Whhhhaaat? You're gonna be a Dad Tea? I didn't know that. Blimey.
But yeah, I have observed that that is one of the main factors determining people's apparent age. Definitely remember first working in office jobs in the early 2000s and you'd have me and another guy same age sitting near each other, both temping I think. I'm on the phone arranging weekend with someone - pubs, clubs, more pubs and clubs etc - and when I put the phone down the guy next to me said "You make me feel so old". The reason being that despite being 23 years old or whatever going to pubs and so on was basically out of the question with two young kids in terms of both money (especially in that job) and time. And I think that once you stop doing that for ten years or whatever you can never start the same again. But the weird thing is that people like that despite the fact that they have fewer late nights, a generally more healthy lifestyle and so on always seem to go bald and wrinkled and old first too. It's like the aged spirit ages the body or something.
But yeah, I have observed that that is one of the main factors determining people's apparent age. Definitely remember first working in office jobs in the early 2000s and you'd have me and another guy same age sitting near each other, both temping I think. I'm on the phone arranging weekend with someone - pubs, clubs, more pubs and clubs etc - and when I put the phone down the guy next to me said "You make me feel so old". The reason being that despite being 23 years old or whatever going to pubs and so on was basically out of the question with two young kids in terms of both money (especially in that job) and time. And I think that once you stop doing that for ten years or whatever you can never start the same again. But the weird thing is that people like that despite the fact that they have fewer late nights, a generally more healthy lifestyle and so on always seem to go bald and wrinkled and old first too. It's like the aged spirit ages the body or something.
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Leo
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IdleRich
IdleRich
Article is interesting enough but the kicker which comes at the end and sort of undermines the whole thing and makes it totally depressing to me is;
I would have thought that the author who admits to not having grown up would still think that the best time might still be to come. In other words it's not a long lasting development but rather a loop of stunted growth that she's stuck in.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Stress!
Plus as far as I can tell for the first two or three years at least you don't get a proper sleep.
It used to be women who stole all my friends and now it's babies.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
It used to be women who stole all my friends and now it's babies.
Make friends with women, then.
And babies.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Is this the Harry met Sally argument?
I say that cos I think of you as Dissensus's own Billy Crystal. (Barty is Meg Ryan, faking orgasm in a crowded caff)
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
The argument is that you can't be friends with a woman (as a straight man) - and visa versa - because there's always underlying sexual feelings on the part of one or the other.
Actually the argument seems to be more that MEN can't be friends with WOMEN because the MAN will always have some sort of sexual angle on it.
Actually the argument seems to be more that MEN can't be friends with WOMEN because the MAN will always have some sort of sexual angle on it.
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luka
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The idea that male friendships are based on nothing beyond shared vices seems largely correct to me. If you abandon that vice your friendship group will disappear. As soon as you fall off the wagon they all appear again. It's a contract for mutual destruction. Very dark and sinister.