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I'm getting older. You know, growing up or whatever

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Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

03:08 / 30.11.05

The other day I said to myself, while driving down the road to work, listening to NPR: "You know, nobody's talking about social security anymore. I wonder what's going on with that."

Oh sweet jesus, I'm an adult now, aren't I? No more staying out all night, no more watching cartoons, no more hanging around naked just because, just work and the news and responsibility and obligations and oh god I can't take this I'm not ready to be old

03:35 / 30.11.05

Calm down, man. Deep breath and think about the last thing that made you hap-hap-happy. It's not like you're over 25 innit

Brigade du jour

03:45 / 30.11.05

The trick to getting older is to behave more like a child. I mean, by the time you're about eighty you'll be sitting in your own shit anyway.

Still, it could be worse. Could be sitting in someone else's.

pointless & uncalled for

08:15 / 30.11.05

Still, it could be worse. Could be sitting in someone else's.

Some people pay good money for that.

But on a more serious note. Being allegedly grown up and settling down does have some advantages over being a young punk trying to persuade a cabbie to take you south of the river at 3am for the £8.37 you have in small change along with some scheckles you think you picked up at the Tibetean restaurant, a can of Irn Bru (because the kebab shop ran out of Sprite) and your watch which is a real Casio and can tell the time underwater in Rome.

Do you remember the dreams you had when you were younger, the "One day I'd like to...." dreams? Instead of spending your time on "I wish I could still...." dreams, get to making those old dreams come true so that you don't end up regretting things when you're genuinely to old to parachute over the Niagara Falls, strapped to a stripper coated in chocolate whilst giving the best damn Hamlet speach the world has ever heard.

Growing old and settling down doesn't mean growing up and settling.

10:46 / 30.11.05

Having just returned from a naked cartoon-watching all-nighter, I'd be forced to concur.

A

10:55 / 30.11.05

Did you watch Super Friends?

10:58 / 30.11.05

I am a Super Friend. A Super Naked Friend. Debbie Harry mentioned me in a song, y'know.

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:02 / 30.11.05

You know, having a kid will really put this comparatively carefree period of your life into perspective.

STOP WHINING AND ADOPT.

11:11 / 30.11.05

Everyone's getting older, except for my cousin Steve. He's getting younger.

11:13 / 30.11.05

Not the Steve?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:11 / 30.11.05

Please tell me he's still legal, at least...

the virgin queen

12:29 / 30.11.05

I knew I was geting older when I was walking into town to meet some friends a few months ago and saw a 14- 15 yo Goth Girl in the shortest dress in the world and thought 'O! You'll get cold later! You should have worn a jacket!'

I wept for days

12:47 / 30.11.05

Growing up rules. There are way too many ways to embarrass and humiliate yourself when you're young.

the virgin queen

12:59 / 30.11.05

I don't mind it but I will *not* buy slippers!

13:02 / 30.11.05

I'm wearing mine now, in the lab, oh the perversity of it!

13:05 / 30.11.05

There are way too many ways to embarrass and humiliate yourself when you're young.

Actually, the best thing about growing older is that there are suddenly plenty of ways to embarrass and humiliate other people, through their association with you and your behaviour in public.

14:36 / 30.11.05

I favor farting, myself. You?

16:43 / 30.11.05

Dragging one foot behind me and/or bursting into song.

16:54 / 30.11.05

E. Randius is secretly my Dad when I was 13, and I claim my ten dollars.

Goodness Gracious Meme

16:55 / 30.11.05

I don't mind it but I will *not* buy slippers!

I have just bought slippers and very comfy and warm they are too. Although I have also just seen even better slippers - knee high feet, in bagpuss fun-fur.

So, grown up? Little from column, little from column b.

Growing up is cool. You know how to do stuff and not make a twit of yourself. (clue: don't hang out with Grant and Randy)

Brigade du jour

20:10 / 30.11.05

Growing up is cool. You know how to do stuff and not make a twit of yourself.

Indeed, and best of all, if you do make a twit of yourself, at least it's by choice and not by accident.

ONLY NICE THINGS

20:23 / 30.11.05

I, for example, have absent-mindedly worn pale trousers today - even though it was Winter!

This is in itself a minor failure, but I also pissed myself in Sainsburys. Like a horse.

20:27 / 30.11.05

What I find annoying about getting older is that all of the online survey places I've signed up to - you know, the ones that ask you stupid questions in return for paying you 50p a time which you never see, and maybe knowing that your vote has been entirely ignored in some Daily Telegraph article - now ask me to do things like keep a diary of my soap-buying habits, rather than offering me sweet deals on cool young people things like phones.

Note to the youth: being 30 is rubbish. Kill yourself now. Even if you're not pretty at the moment, you're not going to get any prettier, so you might as well leave the best-looking corpse you'll ever manage.

20:30 / 30.11.05

virgin queen, you're really missing the boat on the slippers issue.

Dressing gowns, on the other hand, are highly overrated.

20:31 / 30.11.05

I like to think that I've gone from being ugly to growing into a face that has 'character' as I've got older.

20:38 / 30.11.05

I used to be a bit of a shag. Now I'm just shaggy.

20:41 / 30.11.05

Dressing gowns, on the other hand, are highly overrated.

i thought so too until i heard them described as house coats. somehow being reminded of their use as indoor coats, over your clothes rather than your pyjamas/towel/nudity, revamped the dressing gown for me. watching jeremy brett's sherlock holmes changing into it as he arrived home to cogitate helped. if the worlds greatest detective can smoke a pipe, play the violin and take cocaine in his then they must be cool.

i reckon in winter a dressing gown is the tits.

sexy? no.
warm? yes.

20:54 / 30.11.05

I dunno. A thickly quilted Noël Coward job would be quite sexy.

20:57 / 30.11.05

see, that was whatmr h had...
mine is a fleecy one.
its about as sexy as a one piece pyjama suit with feet.

21:01 / 30.11.05

Anybody is sexy in a dressing gown if they're just coming back into the bedroom of a morning after a shower, all moist and appealing.

You, on the other hand, in your ratty bit of towelling that stinks of fags and fry-ups, are not.

ONLY NICE THINGS

21:01 / 30.11.05

Haaaaaaaang on.

Jeremy Brett was wearing a smoking jacket, surely?

21:02 / 30.11.05

That's a general "you" there, incidentally, incorporating "me". Not just toksik. Though he really does need to give his a wash.

21:14 / 30.11.05

Why? is it´s back plastered with poo from his canary?

21:18 / 30.11.05

His parrot, more like. But it's also soaked in tinned spaghetti sauce. More care needs to be taken.

22:09 / 30.11.05

it seemed a bit long for a smoking jacket, going atleast to the knee. i may well be wrong.
perhaps i have my sherlocks muddled..?

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