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The Black Adder
04-12-2013, 14:11
So... how olde are we all, come on... tell the truth. :)

Why?... err.. dunno, just wondering.

I'm 41 I am... :eyebrows:

jollyfix
04-12-2013, 14:42
I will be 48 in 10 days.

Effem
04-12-2013, 14:52
I put the footings in for Stonehenge :eyebrows:

kenworthy100
04-12-2013, 14:53
approaching 45

Gordon Steadman
04-12-2013, 14:55
66 going on 67.

Ali Tait
04-12-2013, 15:08
45.

Marco
04-12-2013, 15:08
48, but 18 in the head!! :D

Marco.

Sand Dancin Donkey Walker
04-12-2013, 15:15
Well I am 53, but feel a lot younger.

Andy - SDDW

Trumpton_Rioter
04-12-2013, 15:36
46 but feel 64 :(

sparrow
04-12-2013, 15:41
I'm the big five O next march..

keiths
04-12-2013, 15:41
33

(in hexadecimal)

Arkless Electronics
04-12-2013, 16:27
48, but 18 in the head!! :D

Marco.

Ditto!

Beobloke
04-12-2013, 16:36
39.

Big 4-0 next May....

prestonchipfryer
04-12-2013, 16:40
62 years :)

Canetoad
04-12-2013, 16:45
51 but feeling a lot older lately. :(

Oldpinkman
04-12-2013, 16:48
Ditto!

+1 but 52 in real years.

dantheman91
04-12-2013, 16:58
Hi

22 :ner:

Tarzan
04-12-2013, 17:01
So... how olde are we all, come on... tell the truth. :)

Why?... err.. dunno, just wondering.

I'm 41 I am... :eyebrows:




Never ask a gentleman how old he is....:steam:



48 and and three quarters:ner::cool:

archiesdad
04-12-2013, 18:42
56 but not counting or caring.

The Black Adder
04-12-2013, 18:49
Never ask a gentleman how old he is....:steam:



48 and and three quarters:ner::cool:


So your 50 then... :lol: hheheheh

The Black Adder
04-12-2013, 18:49
56 but not counting or caring.

The only way to be if you ask me... :)

synsei
04-12-2013, 19:01
A solid half century here although my ears are far younger :D

Lace'd Taste
04-12-2013, 19:22
24 but people tell me i act 50, i take it as a compliment :)

walpurgis
04-12-2013, 19:42
Well so far Gordon is the only one who has the edge on me (just).

It takes one or two of we stately AOS seniors to keep an eye on the unruly younger element! ;)

tommy6206
04-12-2013, 21:26
56 feel young at hart but my body feels 56 lol

shane
04-12-2013, 21:32
Too bloody old.


Put it this way, I'm too old to have been named after a cowboy.

Roy S
04-12-2013, 21:34
54 and ready to retire..... :D

DSJR
04-12-2013, 21:39
57 in mid January :eek:

brian2957
04-12-2013, 21:43
56 and still stoopid :D ( and goin deaf)

DSJR
04-12-2013, 21:44
I 'eard that - pardon? :lol:

brian2957
04-12-2013, 21:45
EH !

walpurgis
04-12-2013, 21:49
I 'eard that - pardon? :lol:

Now you really are showing your age Dave. That was the old codger's line in the TV comedy 'I didn't know you cared', from the mid seventies (and yes I remember it).

The Black Adder
04-12-2013, 21:51
There is a very decent span of ages here I must say...

RichB
04-12-2013, 22:00
Me, 39..... the AoS average incidentally is 46.25;)

brian2957
04-12-2013, 22:04
Young whippersnappers :wheniwasaboy:

r100
04-12-2013, 22:07
as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth

walpurgis
04-12-2013, 22:20
Me, 39..... the AoS average incidentally is 46.25;)

Is that the average of those quoted on this thread, or of all OAS members?



I suppose it may be a little indelicate to ask who's the oldest member. But, hey so what. Who is it? :)

julesd68
04-12-2013, 22:28
Just had to work it out - 45 - senility beckons ...

Marco
04-12-2013, 22:32
I suppose it may be a little indelicate to ask who's the oldest member. But, hey so what. Who is it? :)

I suspect it's Dave K, who I believe is in his early 70s. He looks well on it, though. Apparently its the bracing Sheffield air!

Should we create a 'Pensioners Room' on AoS, where you have to flash yer falsers (or bus pass) to get in?

Marco.

Jonboy
04-12-2013, 22:34
47 as of last month but the kids tell me i act like a twelve year old... but wish i was 21 again and knew then what it know now

walpurgis
04-12-2013, 23:34
I suspect for many older members, fitness is not a major issue, but hearing may be. I'm in my mid sixties and my hearing seems as good as it was thirty years ago. Trouble is I've had partial deafness in my right ear since I was a kid. Should age impact on my hearing, it'll affect me badly I suspect. I think my awareness of somewhat substandard hearing was what made me interested in Hi-Fi in the first place. Wanting to hear sounds, i.e., music rendered as accurately and cleanly as possible!

Audio Al
05-12-2013, 02:04
The WORLD benefited by my arrival in 1955 :)

I'll let you work it out :D

Barry
05-12-2013, 12:05
33

(in hexadecimal)

Why be so coy? Tell it like it is - 51!

Marco
05-12-2013, 15:20
What age are you then, old chap? Don't be coy! ;)

Tabatha tells me you told her that you were 55, or was it 5.5"? I can't remember, she's a 'girth girlie', anyway......... :D

Marco.

Barry
05-12-2013, 15:31
What age are you then, old chap? Don't be coy! ;)

Tabatha tells me you told her that you were 55, or was it 5.5"? I can't remember, she's a 'girth girlie', anyway......... :D

Marco.

Tabatha might have remembered my 5.5" (and yes, girth is more important).

Me? I'm 3F, soon to be 40 (in hexadecimal), or in other words I'll be playing a certain track off the Beatle's Sgt. Pepper album to remind me!

Kember
05-12-2013, 18:02
50 next month, so only another 20 years' porridge before I can retire! :(

Peter

joey
05-12-2013, 18:20
Im 23 ......

bobbasrah
05-12-2013, 18:53
Turning 60 next year unless something goes dreadfully wrong, in which case I won't care anyway....

The Barbarian
05-12-2013, 18:54
45, 46 July..

Marco
05-12-2013, 19:05
Is that around the waist? :eyebrows:

;)

Marco.

twickers
05-12-2013, 19:10
I don't know what happened, but all of a sudden I was 43.. :scratch:

The Black Adder
05-12-2013, 19:27
I was throwing shapes down the club then.... bing!.. Your 41!!! - Eh?..wtf

walpurgis
05-12-2013, 19:35
The WORLD benefited by my arrival in 1955 :)

I'll let you work it out :D

You picked a good year Al.

The Le Mans disaster, the opening of Disneyland and the Connecticut flood disaster.

Joe
05-12-2013, 20:06
I am still a student.

shane
05-12-2013, 20:20
So am I. So much I've yet to learn at 61...

The Barbarian
06-12-2013, 18:38
Is that around the waist? :eyebrows:

;)

Marco.

Well aye not far off the truth, it's gradullly creeping back on

Tim
06-12-2013, 18:54
I was 55 fourteen days ago. Still think I'm 21 though and I really need to grow up :scratch:

MartinT
06-12-2013, 19:16
I'm right in front of you, Tim. 55 just over a month ago :eek:

Oh, and I still sit on the floor to do things...

keiths
06-12-2013, 19:21
I was 55 fourteen days ago. Still think I'm 21 though and I really need to grow up :scratch:

Growing up is overrated IMHO

Rothchild
06-12-2013, 19:23
50 next month, so only another 20 years' porridge before I can retire! :(

Peter

Oh don't! There I was feeling at least a little smug that I'm a fair bit younger than most here and then you go and remind me that I've got carry on wage slaving for not much fewer years than I'm carrying in total!

walpurgis
06-12-2013, 19:25
Growing up is overrated IMHO

Have you actually managed? I'm still waiting.

I spent years being the oldest teenager in town, then many more years of being forty. At the moment I'm going through my second childhood! ;)

Thing Fish
06-12-2013, 20:06
51 but feel 21 as never had the stress of marriage or kids. My house is one big hairy man cave.

Macca
06-12-2013, 20:57
51 but feel 21 as never had the stress of marriage or kids. My house is one big hairy man cave.

Yeah me too. Broke up a couple of really good relationships because that was the way they were headed. 45 but in my mind 25. Did a lot of crazy running around when I was younger and almost all the people I did it with are dead now or disappeared into obscurity. I do wonder if I made the right choices, I suspect I didn't.

walpurgis
06-12-2013, 21:06
Yes, choices are difficult. I'm more or less in the opposite situation. Smallish house with screaming grandkids in, daughter who screams at them and neurotic wife who has hysterics at everything, not to mention her geriatric mother who just sits there all day gazing into space. Me, I'm retired and would like some peace and quiet and a simpler life! Soon maybe.

brian2957
06-12-2013, 21:37
Yup , shouldn't have to make choices . Life would be much simpler . Made a few bad choices in my lifetime but no regrets . Regretting the past is just a waste of energy since I can't do anything about them now. I try to learn from my mistakes , but not always successfully :uhho:

Roy S
06-12-2013, 21:48
one big hairy man cave.

Same her since losing my partner a couple of years back, two of us here though (16 year old stepson's still with me) & his room is significantly hairier than the rooms I inhabit. He's been stopping at his half sisters & I've found out where all the glasses & spoons in the house had disappeared to :rolleyes:

struth
06-12-2013, 21:49
Soon to be 60:doh:

youth is wasted on the young:D

Marco
07-12-2013, 19:37
Smallish house with screaming grandkids in, daughter who screams at them and neurotic wife who has hysterics at everything, not to mention her geriatric mother who just sits there all day gazing into space.

You have my sympathies, Geoff. That sounds like utter hell to me!! I'd have to leave or I would lose the plot.

Marco (who insists on having peace and tranquility at home at all times).

Thing Fish
07-12-2013, 19:56
You have my sympathies, Geoff. That sounds like utter hell to me!! I'd have to leave or I would lost the plot.

Marco (who insists on having peace and tranquility at home at all times).

I too have engineered my life to be tranquil and quite. Which is how I have always wanted it.

I crave peace and quite when at home. I have always been someone who is happy with their own company and like to potter about doing exactly what I want when I want.

A noisy house would drive me to dispair.

It all stems from growing up with an alcoholic father who was constantly wrecking the place and slamming doors. But that's another story.

walpurgis
07-12-2013, 20:16
It all stems from growing up with an alcoholic father.

Sounds familiar. The 'old man' was a pisshead, albeit a very clever and accomplished person. Home life was dire until he did me a favour and died when I was sixteen. We, the family, finally managed to get on with our lives.

Alex_UK
07-12-2013, 21:09
44, but having two whipper-snappers enables me to still play with Lego and Hot Wheels cars, and pretend it isn't because I enjoy it! :eyebrows:

Year of manufacture is largely irrelevant in the journey of life IMO - a bit like a car, mileage and condition is more important than age. :)

synsei
07-12-2013, 21:29
Year of manufacture is largely irrelevant in the journey of life IMO - a bit like a car, mileage and condition is more important than age. :)

I'll take myself off to the local scrappy right now then... :lol:

Alex_UK
07-12-2013, 22:21
Me too - shagged out like a rep's Vauxhall Cavalier... :lol:

Tim
08-12-2013, 00:46
a bit like a car, mileage and condition is more important than age
Thank feck for that, I should be OK then :eyebrows:

MartinT
08-12-2013, 12:37
Whereas I've been through the wars, had major damage which required a spell in the 'shop' and require lots of maintenance and servicing now. You wouldn't think it to look at me, though, thankfully.

Macca
08-12-2013, 12:45
I've got high mileage, patchy service history, bit of rot around the sills and I'm a bugger to get started especially on cold mornings but I can still keep pace with modern traffic...

pjdowns
08-12-2013, 14:06
I'm 35 but feel about 100 :lol:

Covenant
08-12-2013, 14:42
It's the decades that hurt. I cannot believe I am 60 next year. I really don't feel any different that when I was 21. Apart from mild diabetes and a bit too much weight around the belly my health is good and I can still do a good silly walk.
I tried to buy some skinny jeans yesterday but the missus wouldn't let me. I suppose they wouldn't go with the beer gut. :lol:

hard1175
08-12-2013, 18:05
55 but the wife still think's I'm like a kid with a new toy when a new piece of hifi comes into the house.

MartinT
08-12-2013, 18:30
So many of us in the 50-59 age range, what does that say?

Marco
08-12-2013, 18:40
Sounds familiar. The 'old man' was a pisshead, albeit a very clever and accomplished person. Home life was dire until he did me a favour and died when I was sixteen. We, the family, finally managed to get on with our lives.

I'm very glad about that for you, mate. Things must've been very difficult.

Thankfully, it was *so* different for me, as I grew up in a very stable, un-stressful family environment and wanted for nothing, especially love and attention from my parents, who are thankfully still with me, and we're a very close family - always have been.

I've never been used to rowdy or stressful situations (even though Del and I have been married for 23 years, we almost never argue), so there is always a happy and contented atmosphere at home, and therefore I've gotten used to that and doubt I could cope with anything different.

Marco.

pjdowns
08-12-2013, 18:54
too much Berkshire ale mate... lol

Probably very true Joe ;)

pjdowns
08-12-2013, 18:56
I'm very glad about that for you, mate. Things must've been very difficult.

Thankfully, it was *so* different for me, as I grew up in a very stable, un-stressful family environment and wanted for nothing, especially love and attention from my parents, who are thankfully still with me, and we're a very close family - always have been.

I've never been used to rowdy or stressful situations (even though Del and I have been married for 23 years, we almost never argue), so there is always a happy and contented atmosphere at home, and therefore I've gotten used to that and doubt I could cope with anything different.

Marco.

Wow how the other half live :lol:

My wife and I argue almost all of the time, well bicker but I guess that's because we're pretty passionate people!

P.

walpurgis
08-12-2013, 19:23
I'm very glad about that for you, mate. Things must've been very difficult. Marco.

Cheers Marco. It was all a long time ago, but you don't forget!

Puffin
08-12-2013, 19:23
Sounds familiar. The 'old man' was a pisshead, albeit a very clever and accomplished person. Home life was dire until he did me a favour and died when I was sixteen. We, the family, finally managed to get on with our lives.

As Philip Larkin wrote :-

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.


But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.


Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.


My dad's idea of fatherly love and encouragement was to growl though gritted teeth "Gertcha Cowson" (years before Chas & Dave made it comedy material) or promise that he was going to punch me up into the air. Clearly he was a frustrated and misunderstood poor soul who was only able to voice his frustrations with such inappropriate and hurtful language.....either that or he was an arsehole:D

I will be 59 in March......is there no end to this purgatory.

Marco
08-12-2013, 20:58
Wow how the other half live :lol:

My wife and I argue almost all of the time, well bicker but I guess that's because we're pretty passionate people!

P.

Lol - of course we have the odd disagreement (it would impossible otherwise living with someone else under the same roof 24/7), but it's almost instantly forgotten, and we move on. There's none of that grudge-bearing crap, with things dragging on for days and a horrible atmosphere existing, until one person, who feels the most 'wronged', demands an apology...! :nono:

F*ck that shit.

Also, Del doesn't do the ridiculous 'moody bitch' thing, like many other females. Yes, I know I'm lucky :)

Marco.

Ninanina
08-12-2013, 21:18
So many of us in the 50-59 age range, what does that say?

I'm 51, so another in the 50-59 range ;)

Marco
08-12-2013, 21:28
It'll be another two years before I join that club! :eyebrows:

Besides, the most important thing is how you feel, physically and mentally - and also how you behave. The rest is just numbers. The question is, do you feel your age? I certainly don't! I feel the same way now as I did when I was 30 (there's nothing I can't do now that I could do then) - and I'm still as daft in the head :D

What I hate are folk who are 'old before their time', as it were... You know the type: 30-year olds who act (and even dress) like 50-year olds, and 50-year olds who act like 70-year olds, etc - and I'm talking about able-bodied people here in perfectly good health.

Wossat shite all about, then? :scratch:

Marco.

loo
08-12-2013, 21:31
a bit like a car, mileage and condition is more important than age. :)
well after a recent service I have been condemned ,apparently my emissions are toxic , I have rotted from the inside out and am destined to be broken up for parts
still lifes good;)

Roy S
08-12-2013, 21:34
What I hate are folk who are 'old before their time', as it were...



Know exactly what you mean (bit chilly in here, where's me cardy with the football buttons & tartan slippers?)

struth
08-12-2013, 21:39
It'll be another two years before I join that club! :eyebrows:

Besides, the most important thing is how you feel, physically and mentally - and also how you behave. The rest is just numbers. The question is, do you feel your age? I certainly don't! I feel the same way now as I did when I was 30 (there's nothing I can't do now that I could do then) - and I'm still as daft in the head :D

What I hate are folk who are 'old before their time', as it were... You know the type: 30-year olds who act (and even dress) like 50-year olds, and 50-year olds who act like 70-year olds, etc - and I'm talking about able-bodied people here in perfectly good health.

Wossat shite all about, then? :scratch:

Marco.

always felt about 30, even when I was 20.lol, but in the last 3 years I have had numerous health issues which have me feeling like 90 at times.....bad health like buses can all come at once and often tries to run you over.:steam:

Marco
08-12-2013, 21:56
Sorry to hear that, Grant. I've also had serious health issues to contend with (spinal tumour), but thankfully have got over them. Of course I realise that others aren't always as fortunate.

However, I'm referring to people who are perfectly healthy acting much older than they are. Generally, they tend to be rather staid and boring types with little personality or sense of humour. I call them the 'po-faced squad': folk who seem to permanently sport a scowl and appear as utterly joyless.

I just don't get it... There's plenty of time to act old and moody, when you ARE old and can't do anything about it. Until then, my view is always to enjoy a good laugh and stay as young as you can (and most of the latter, physical disabilities aside, is controlled by what goes on in your head).

Marco.

walpurgis
08-12-2013, 21:57
It'll be another two years before I join that club! :eyebrows:

Besides, the most important thing is how you feel, physically and mentally - and also how you behave. The rest is just numbers. The question is, do you feel your age? I certainly don't! I feel the same way now as I did when I was 30 (there's nothing I can't do now that I could do then) - and I'm still as daft in the head :D

What I hate are folk who are 'old before their time', as it were... You know the type: 30-year olds who act (and even dress) like 50-year olds, and 50-year olds who act like 70-year olds, etc - and I'm talking about able-bodied people here in perfectly good health.

Wossat shite all about, then? :scratch:

Marco.

Right on both.

At the moment I reckon I'm fit for my age, but I feel like a zombie. I'm on tablets to stop me smoking. My god do they bugger your brain up!

I've got an old mate/ex colleague who I've known since his twenties and even back then he relied on his mum to buy his clothes. Consequently she dressed him like his dad, Tweed jackets, knitted waistcoat, check flat cap and Hush Puppies. His mum passed away years ago but he still looks exactly the same forty years on.

struth
08-12-2013, 21:59
too true Marco.....a wicked sense of humour and not taking yourself too seriously is the best medicine imho. I wont lie down to it anyways; I have limits now but I like to push them.;)

Colin Wonfor
09-12-2013, 05:35
I am in my mid 20-65.
But it does depend on the morning injection of coffee.:cool:

Yes friends can screw you up but family can really f--k you up.:)

MartinT
09-12-2013, 07:09
I certainly believe in staying young of mind and agree with like-minded posts. Age is mostly in the mind - excepting the bits that we can't control when looking in the mirror. However, I do my best to avoid old-before-their-time miseries as I don't want any negative people around me, dragging the conversation down into a constant drone of complaints.

Marco
09-12-2013, 10:05
Indeed, Martin. You can't hold back 'the sands of time', as it were, physically, but you can try to stay as young as possible by at the very least acting your age, not 20 years older than it!

When you reach middle age, it's very easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you're 'past it', simply because you no longer look the same as you did 20 years earlier, but the chances are that what's going on inside your head (the things which make you the person you are) have remained virtually unchanged.

Therefore, for as long as you remain mentally and physically able to do so, I think it's vital that you continue staying true to the person you were in your younger years, as with the increasing demands of life, it's so easy to let things slip and simply 'become old' WAY before your time... It saddens me when I see that effect in people.

One of the instances where I see this most is in women, after having kids, where they often almost metamorphosize into entirely different people - and a lot of it is not just down to the effect of taking on increased responsibilities, and therefore justified; but an almost self-imposed resigning to the onslaught of age, coupled with a seemingly insatiable desire to conform to an 'expected norm', where all of a sudden the outgoing, fun-loving person you married turns into a joyless and domineering 'old battle-axe' :(

Anyway, I digress....


However, I do my best to avoid old-before-their-time miseries as I don't want any negative people around me


Same here. I can't stand it. I like being surrounded by happy, smiley people, as that's what I've always been used to. Life's too short to be dragged down by 'old-before-their-time miseries', who seem intent on making you feel as miserable as they are!

Marco.

Joe
09-12-2013, 11:32
However, I'm referring to people who are perfectly healthy acting much older than they are. Generally, they tend to be rather staid and boring types with little personality or sense of humour. I call them the 'po-faced squad': folk who seem to permanently sport a scowl and appear as utterly joyless.


You mean Yorkshiremen?

Marco
09-12-2013, 11:36
:lolsign:

Not specifically, but one encounters quite a few of those types on forums (although not very often on AoS) ;)

Marco.

Gordon Steadman
09-12-2013, 12:25
You mean Yorkshiremen?
Or ex-pats in France?

Joe
09-12-2013, 12:30
Or ex-pats in France?

Them an' all.

Actually, we English are mostly gloomy buggers by nature, perhaps because of the climate. The only exceptions are Scousers, to whom everything is a joke, and Cockney geezers.

Marco
09-12-2013, 12:35
Actually, we English are mostly gloomy buggers by nature, perhaps because of the climate.

Why do you think I'm glad that I'm Scots/Italian! ;)

Marco.

Joe
09-12-2013, 12:36
Why do you think I'm glad that I'm Scots/Italian! ;)

Marco.

Deep-fried Mars Bar pizza?

Macca
09-12-2013, 12:40
The Jocks are even more miserable than the English. Look up 'dour' in the dictionary you'll see a picture of a Scotsman, probably Gordon Brown as he was their flagship product.

Gordon Steadman
09-12-2013, 12:44
Them an' all.

Actually, we English are mostly gloomy buggers by nature, perhaps because of the climate. The only exceptions are Scousers, to whom everything is a joke, and Cockney geezers.

Well, me dad was born within the sound of Bow Bells. A good East End boy, one of 13 kids in a small terraced house - I'm sure a Yorkshireman could beat that:eyebrows: - married up into a middle class Irish family!! Not sure what that make me apart from a miserable old ex-pat git.

Marco
09-12-2013, 14:33
The Jocks are even more miserable than the English. Look up 'dour' in the dictionary you'll see a picture of a Scotsman, probably Gordon Brown as he was their flagship product.

Lol - that's largely a myth, just as much as the one is that 'the French' are snooty! It depends very much on the individuals concerned, and to an extent, which area they come from in the country they live in.

I lived for over 30 years in Glasgow, and dour was most certainly not an accurate description of the vast majority of people there. 'Warm and cheery, friendly and down to earth' would be a far more accurate description - just indeed are like most Geordies, Mancs, Scousers and Cockneys that I know! ;)

Marco.

walpurgis
09-12-2013, 20:44
I have a lot of Irish friends and they are the most cheerful people I know and they certainly know how to party!

Ali Tait
09-12-2013, 21:06
It's just the southerners that are gloomy. :lol:

Marco
09-12-2013, 21:11
;)

Marco.

MartinT
10-12-2013, 07:05
Right now, I would say it's the young who are gloomy. They haven't quite learned to hold their heads up high in the face of adversity. Mind you, I have some sympathy - even for my son, who now works in a bank(!)

jandl100
10-12-2013, 08:18
It's certainly my experience that Brummies are the most miserable buggers in t'world.

Age? - I'm
http://images1.makefive.com/images/experiences/dining/top-five-condiments/heinz-57-sauce-5.jpg and not very miserable at all. :)

Marco
10-12-2013, 09:03
I just like people with a cheery disposition, and struggle to cope with bad-tempered moody and depressing fuckers :)

Marco.

Joe
10-12-2013, 10:58
I just like people with a cheery disposition, and struggle to cope with bad-tempered moody and depressing fuckers :)

Marco.

Prozac in the water supply; it's the way forward.

Personally I quite like moody buggers; some of the best artists, writers and musicians have been miserable sods.

MartinT
10-12-2013, 11:01
some of the best artists, writers and musicians have been miserable sods.

Yes, but I don't have to live with them!

Marco
10-12-2013, 11:13
Indeed, I may buy their books, paintings and music, but I wouldn't want to live with them - unless that is they had some other redeeming qualities I admired which would balance out/nullify their annoyances!

Marco.

Joe
10-12-2013, 11:16
Indeed, I may buy their books, paintings and music, but I wouldn't want to live with them - unless that is they had some other redeeming qualities I admired which would balance out/nullify their annoyances!

Marco.

Well, I wouldn't want to live with them, but sharing their company for a while is fine. I often end up counting my blessings!

Marco
10-12-2013, 11:21
Yeah, sharing their company for a while would be interesting. Trust me I'd rather be in the presence of quirky 'arty/creative types', despite their moodiness, than with some rather dull, po-faced, 'scientifically-minded intellectual'!

:exactly:

Marco.

MartinT
10-12-2013, 12:07
'scientifically-minded intellectual'

Not all scientists are dull. Look at Brian Cox.

I would have done anything for 30 minutes with Richard Feynman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman). What an intellectual giant, and what an interesting man he was.

Joe
10-12-2013, 12:17
Not all scientists are dull. Look at Brian Cox.

He always reminds me of

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Marco
10-12-2013, 12:25
Not all scientists are dull. Look at Brian Cox.

I would have done anything for 30 minutes with Richard Feynman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman). What an intellectual giant, and what an interesting man he was.

Yes, but those are real scientists, not the pretenders (pseudo-scientists and reductionists) I was referring to that one usually encounters on forums (hence my earlier use of inverted commas)! ;)

Still, in general, I relate more to arty/creative types, as that's how my own brain works.

Marco.

khapahk
10-12-2013, 12:48
57, heading for 58 in February.

It's just a number albeit a largish number but one redeeming factor is that I'm a "toy boy", as I need to remind SWMBO occasionally.....!

k

MartinT
10-12-2013, 12:56
Just do like me and start quoting your age in hex. That makes me 37 :)

Macca
10-12-2013, 12:57
Just do like me and start quoting your age in hex. That makes me 37 :)

Still too old ;)

MartinT
10-12-2013, 13:11
:lol:

pjdowns
10-12-2013, 19:15
I just like people with a cheery disposition, and struggle to cope with bad-tempered moody and depressing fuckers :)

Marco.

Marco,

I'm sure you meant no halm by this statement but it is incredibly shortsighted and could be seen as somewhat offensive.

Paul.

Marco
10-12-2013, 19:26
Paul, when I say "bad-tempered moody and depressing fuckers", I mean those who have no justified reason for being so - they just seem to be born like that, and in some cases, appear to revel in it!

Marco.

pjdowns
11-12-2013, 21:28
Paul, when I say "bad-tempered moody and depressing fuckers", I mean those who have no justified reason for being so - they just seem to be born like that, and in some cases, appear to revel in it!

Marco.

Well that's fine, sounds just like one of my Grandparents :)

Paul.