The LL and BW thing doesn't bother me nearly as much as I thought it would. Naveen Andrews just said something in EW the other day--something like Michael Douglas can look 70 years old and marry Catherine Zeta-Jones and nobody bats a fucking eyelid. Which is true. Naveen is 36 and living with Barbara Hershey (57). I < heart > him muchly.
I think for me, it's because she's 18. Naveen and Barbara don't bother me. I don't think Ashton and Demi bother me, despite the fact that I made a crack about them earlier. I assume he's well in his 20s. In 7 years, I probably wouldn't care about LL and BW, either. In my head, 21 and under, with people too much over thirty makes me sad.
As for the non-talking, in my experience 19 year olds don't know any more about what they're doing than they would know about what they were saying. Best to look at them from afar.
MBNA is SATAN
I've got to speak up for them - since I transferred my television purchase debt to them from President's Club VISA all but about $3 of my payments have gone toward principal rather than being eaten by high interest rates and excessive fees.
President's Club now shows that I've overpayed them by $40... I'm waiting til next month's statement to see if that credit mysteriously evaporates due to some hidden fee (as I expect), and if it's still there I'll buy a nice meal for exactly that and then cancel the account.
I am hoping he hung out with a group of peeps and she was one--maybe he was scamming autographs for his daughters. I know someone BW pursued in the last year, and she was 38, so he isn't all about the youth.
As I've gotten older, I've become more intellectually flexible; but when I was 18, I was a notable dingbat. I think there must be some kind of sine curve on a chart somewhere that explains the sudden "worthwhile conversationalist" threshold that people cross at a certain point, after which they may be taken generally to be adults. I think I didn't make the threshold till I was at least 23.
If we're generalizing, I'm with Cindy -- 18 isn't a clear-cut "adult" age in my head, and that's where the squick comes from.* But I've also known more than enough individual exceptions to give them the benefit of the doubt.
[*Re: making out with someone over 50. 50 year olds conversing with 18 year olds is just fine.]
I think I didn't make the threshold till I was at least 23.
Either I passed it early, or I haven't passed it yet. There hasn't been a quantum shift in my conversationalistimicity since I was 18. Well, not in the dingbat reduction, anyway.
Sophia, BW (in this case) = Bruce Willis. LL = Linsay Lohan.
Marble Slab sundae
SundaeSundaeSundae!! (Say it like the Monster Truck Rally announcers--it's fun!) Although I have recently discovered the yumminess that is B&J Strawberry Cheesecake and Graham Cracker swirl ice cream. Yummmmm.
but when I was 18, I was a notable dingbat.
This is hard for me to imagine.
Sophia, BW (in this case) = Bruce Willis. LL = Linsay Lohan.
This does squick me. Although, I personally would probably date someone under over 18 and under 20, given the opportunity. Maybe they are "soul-mates"
I am just glad it is not bradley Whitford--what would he be thinking, cheating on Jane Kazmareck?
Maybe they are "soul-mates"
Sounded more like drunken grope-mates.
"I totally made out with Bruce Willis last night!"
