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."
Spike: Heard what happened up top, offing your dad and all. Don't know if you know this, but, uh…I killed my mum. Actually, I'd already killed her, and then she tried to shag me, so I had to-- Wesley: Thank you. I'm…very comforted.
'Lineage'
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Jesse - Apr 10, 2012 4:58:25 pm PDT #316 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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.
Dana - Apr 10, 2012 5:19:54 pm PDT #324 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I read Ashley Judd's article this morning, and then I read people's reactions to the article, and then I wanted to give Ashley Judd a baseball bat and a list of targets.
erikaj - Apr 10, 2012 5:22:54 pm PDT #325 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
wrod.