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Why you young whippersnapper, I oughta...
Wait a minute, I do have navel lint older that 30, and it has a comb-over! Is Susan Dey still on the TV? Time to get her off there.
posted by
food4thought
on March 8, 2006 at 9:51 PM
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I know EXACTLY how you feel. How did I get here? I'm an old maid yet I feel like I'm not even a grown up yet!
posted by
Holy_Grail
on March 1, 2006 at 5:54 PM
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My husband just turned 30 and he seems pretty happy with me about
to turn 36! So, do what feels right, dude!
angel
posted by
anglofinspirtion
on February 27, 2006 at 5:26 PM
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So I wonder
where all of this puts someone like Madonna? Stuff "them". Confound "them". That's what I say.
posted by
Azur
on February 27, 2006 at 11:20 AM
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cunninglinguist
stopping by to read you.. calm down now... and have a wonderful day!
posted by
Nanaroo
on February 27, 2006 at 11:18 AM
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Age is just a number, right?
I still feel 23.... stuck in a moment. I wonder at what point I'll catch up?
posted by
-blackcat
on February 27, 2006 at 11:10 AM
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DrJPT
Thanks for the visit.
posted by
CunningLinguist
on February 27, 2006 at 10:57 AM
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ATIGAM
The woman I'm crazy about is older than I am, and this would also be deemed inappropriate by the committee known as "Them." I'm aware that the masses are subject to the opinion of corporations and advertisements, which only recognize the 18 to 27-year-old demographic as even existing, because that's who spends the most. So ageism isn't just a reality, but the law of the land. Look at me, a freakin' movie has me pondering my life's progress! They got me.
Thanks for reading.
posted by
CunningLinguist
on February 27, 2006 at 10:56 AM
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DAVE1SPIRIT
I did see that movie and I thought it was underrated. Good flick. a lot of science-fiction will be proved to be dead on. This is because the nerds who come up with this stuff have a lot of time to themselves to think, instead of being at Spring Break. I'm going to stop now, because I'm touching a little too close to home.
posted by
CunningLinguist
on February 27, 2006 at 10:43 AM
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atigam
WTG! 
You know, I never even considered (or heard the term ageism). Glad you pointed it out! 
posted by
David1Spirit
on February 27, 2006 at 10:42 AM
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posted by
Dr_JPT
on February 27, 2006 at 10:38 AM
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Hey, Cunning, I'm 44
and I still play lots of sports, do a lounge act, perform in plays, and go out dancing (although I can't last as many songs as I used to!). Some people frown at me for my "young" ways and some of my female friends berate me for my young girlfriend (she's 27) but I'm just doing what I like to do, not what society says I should be doing at my age. Ageism is the last acceptable prejudice, it seems, but, dude, we shall overcome that too!
posted by
atigam
on February 27, 2006 at 10:33 AM
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It sort of sounds like the movie "Butterfly Effect"
I don't know if you saw that movie or not but that's what the Aston Kucher character did throughout the movie. He would just propel (for lack of a better term) into a different possibility or dimension based on the same reality.
posted by
David1Spirit
on February 27, 2006 at 10:29 AM
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That was supposed to be "what if we have 'no' past"
posted by
CunningLinguist
on February 27, 2006 at 10:27 AM
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DAVID1SPIRIT
Thank you. Albert Epstein said time is relative anyway. (By the way, he married his first cousin, so he was fully comfortable with the idea that everything is relative.) Hey, put this in your petri dish and stir it around: what if we have now past really, and you actually just jumped into this point in Dave's life (like Quantum Leap) and all your memories were just implanted there. To me, that's believable. What's unbelievable is that you wake one day to find all your friends looking like the cast from Cocoon.
Thanks for dropping in, Dave.
posted by
CunningLinguist
on February 27, 2006 at 10:26 AM
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You aint' old dude!
It's amazing how many of us feel the same. I am 46 and I feel like it's all just beginning. Like I had just got out of school recently and am ready to start my life. And for now the least responsibilies they give me, the better. For them and especially for me.
Of course I could be deluding myself too.....! 
posted by
David1Spirit
on February 27, 2006 at 10:09 AM
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