Death begins at 40

IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
Clinamenic said:
I may actually prefer to witness this portion of history than perhaps any other before it. We get to witness the emergence and metastasis of the digital.
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When people are given that choice "Imagine you could travel to any time and place in recorded history and witness any event" there are a few classics that come up aren't there; be at the last supper and warn Jesus, go to a grassy knoll in Dallas and find out who really killed Kennedy, simply meet Julius Caesar and so on... but I think that by far the most popular out of all those things has to be the desire to witness the emergence and - particularly, in fact - the metastasis of the digital. Rich or poor, old or young, whether someone lived their entire life in a remote village in Papua New Guinea or as a bricklayer from Bradford they all make this same choice again and again.
 
shakahislop

shakahislop

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IdleRich said:
When people are given that choice "Imagine you could travel to any time and place in recorded history and witness any event" there are a few classics that come up aren't there; be at the last supper and warn Jesus, go to a grassy knoll in Dallas and find out who really killed Kennedy, simply meet Julius Caesar and so on... but I think that by far the most popular out of all those things has to be the desire to witness the emergence and - particularly, in fact - the metastasis of the digital. Rich or poor, old or young, whether someone lived their entire life in a remote village in Papua New Guinea or as a bricklayer from Bradford they all make this same choice again and again.
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for me it's Oasis at Knebworth 1996
 
sufi

sufi

lala
IdleRich said:
I think the question got people's back up a little, pretty much everyone claimed to spend their time in out of control drug-fuelled orgies on the summit of Everest or whatever, pausing momentarily from their cocaine clusterfucks to talk about how much they hate young people.
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Yeah that is realistic
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
The thing is I turned 45 in August so I've only just become an old person and obviously, at the moment, I don't really have much experience of being old and I wasn't really the right person to answer the question in any depth. I did finally get my Old Person card through the door the other day which is good of course, and in the package with the card was some information and details of upcoming meetings. I haven't attended any of them yet but I will probably will do soon - maybe the underwater gangbang one or possibly the jigsaw evening (they are doing a 10,000 piece puzzle based on a watercolour by Monet and he is one of my favourites). Also in the package with the card was some info on the secret handshake at last which means that now I can identify which people are old without having to rely on my failing eyesight.
 
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“Forty was my father’s age. All fathers were forty. I keep fighting the idea I’m fast approaching his age. As an adult I’ve only been two ages. Twenty-two and forty. I was twenty-two well into my thirties. Now I’ve begun to be forty, two years shy of the actual fact. In ten years I’ll still be forty.”
 
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