What am I, you?
You are entirely the "what, have you no common sense? look here!" person. Don't even front. I can get witnesses.
Gunn: Well, how horrible is this thing? Lorne: I haven't read the Book of Revelations lately, but if I was searching for adjectives, I'd probably start there.
'Hell Bound'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Apr 10, 2012 4:39:42 pm PDT #314 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
§ ita § - Apr 10, 2012 4:55:55 pm PDT #315 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Unrelated to everything preceding, Matt Damon sure has worn a lot of different faces over the years. He's got a lot of different personas under his belt for a guy I wouldn't call properly middle-aged yet.
Jesse - Apr 10, 2012 4:58:25 pm PDT #316 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I've been having the debate with my family recently about when middle age starts. I guess we came down on 45, but I could still make an argument for 40. I've sort of decided we should reclaim "middle aged."
javachik - Apr 10, 2012 5:00:47 pm PDT #317 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I think it starts about 5 years older than whatever my current age is at any given time.
tommyrot - Apr 10, 2012 5:01:20 pm PDT #318 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I used to say that, "Middle age is always ten years older than you are."
I'm 47 now, so that doesn't work as well anymore.
x-posty!
(But I first said this at the first f2f.)
Kate P. - Apr 10, 2012 5:01:43 pm PDT #319 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
No one by either of those names!
Thanks, Jesse!
Cass - Apr 10, 2012 5:12:24 pm PDT #320 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I think it starts about 5 years older than whatever my current age is at any given time.
My brother just turned 45 and I got him a funny book entitled something like Old Age Is 15 Years Older Than You Are Now in addition to his gift. As a pick-me-up. Or pick-him-up. Or to snark. Definitely one of those.
javachik - Apr 10, 2012 5:14:46 pm PDT #321 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I remember turning 30 and someone told me I was "now middle-aged" and I wanted to sock him in the face. I didn't though. Because that's no way to treat the elderly (that's what I told him).
§ ita § - Apr 10, 2012 5:15:30 pm PDT #322 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Matt Damon, subjectively, is way younger than George Clooney, who is on the young side, subjectively, of middle-aged. At 42 and 51, that sentence has almost all true words.
Steph L. - Apr 10, 2012 5:15:56 pm PDT #323 of 30001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I've been having the debate with my family recently about when middle age starts. I guess we came down on 45, but I could still make an argument for 40. I've sort of decided we should reclaim "middle aged."
Now that I'm 40, I feel like "middle-aged" should be, like, 53. (I picked that arbitrarily.) Because my brain feels like it's 25. Seriously.
That said, my physical state is decrepit and way past "middle-aged" and well into Old Fart stage. (I say this as I lie in bed on a heating pad for my back, full of flexiril and painkillers. Stoopid back.)
So if you average together my "mental" age and my decrepit Old Fart physical age, I guess it all works back out to...middle aged. Dang.