Happy happy happy happy

JimRob · Post by **JimRob** » Tue Apr 02, 2002 12:25 pm

I am, as of today, 18.

Frankly, I'm less than pleased. I've gained the right to buy cigarettes and alcohol, neither of which I need or want, and I've lost my last claim to angst, immaturity and irresponsibility. My sense of yearning nostalgia for a time when I could act like a child because I was one has increased threefold. To hell with this - I want to be back in single figures.

Anyway. New Super Furry Animals ('Bad bad! Bad bad behaaaaviour!'), e-mail from the Pope, bashing out a rant on what's wrong with Albion Fuzz (and what's to be done to put it right), and laying down ink far too thickly have helped, a bit.

It's been a funny kind of day
But Sian Lloyd says the sun will come and play...

That is all.

El SillY · Post by **El SillY** » Tue Apr 02, 2002 9:05 pm

YEY! Hooray for JimRob! Think of all the fun, taxes for one. Don't worry I'll join you soon, just 118 days to go...

JimRob · Post by **JimRob** » Wed Apr 03, 2002 3:23 pm

I'm glad to hear that. Then you too shall experience the misery of the quarter-life crisis.

And you've changed your sig! To something which makes even less sense than before.

JimRob · Post by **JimRob** » Wed Apr 03, 2002 4:52 pm

New Super Furry Animals

I'd also like to curse them for writing Something for the Weekend, which is the catchiest song ever and consequently won't leave my head. It's why I'm up now, for instance.

El SillY · Post by **El SillY** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 12:49 am

Yes, I have changed my sig, I posted that on the Jack board and then I liked it so much I made it my sig. You have also changed your sig, it was a few weeks ago but still.

Nslashk · Post by **Nslashk** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 2:46 am

Oh, hush, you're still a teenager, you're expected to retain teen angst for another 2 years at least. And if THAT expectation doesn't fill you with said angst, well..

n/k
If you can read this, your life is already at least 15% over.

TwoDifferentSox · Post by **TwoDifferentSox** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 4:33 am

Happy Birthday Mr Robertson!
Be assured, I can re-feel your quarter life crisis, I've got it regulary since I got 16...and now, as I lost the ending "-teen" on my age last month, it got even worse...
*sniff*
When one can start moaning about his lost youth nowadays? I feel like calling someone "young whippersnapper" already...

Tek Roo · Post by **Tek Roo** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 4:25 am

You young punks had better stop making me feel old or I'll start telling you about the "good old days" when the hottest home computer around was the Commodore 64 because it actually came stock with 64K of RAM! You can't even flip the power switch on a PC with 64K of RAM nowadays! Back then, Bill Gates hadn't even made his first million! Now that's old!

ZOMBIE USER 5169 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 5169** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 10:08 am

On 2002-04-05 04:25, Tek Roo wrote:
You young punks had better stop making me feel old or I'll start telling you about the "good old days" when the hottest home computer around was the Commodore 64 because it actually came stock with 64K of RAM! You can't even flip the power switch on a PC with 64K of RAM nowadays! Back then, Bill Gates hadn't even made his first million! Now that's old!

I think we've still got a ZX81 around somewhere. You know, the little black thing with 3K memory and no keys.

JimRob · Post by **JimRob** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 10:24 am

Well, plugged into my bedroom TV at this very moment is a BBC Micro. Unfortunately I haven't worked out how to use the disk drive yet, so its 16k of memory and full complement of BASIC commands are practically useless. (I can still program a mean 'beep' noise, though.)

I still love my Amigas dearly, though, and maintain that Sensible Soccer is still the best computer game ever. Except, possibly, for Mario 64. And that's as far as my leisure computing knowledge goes.

Tek Roo · Post by **Tek Roo** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 11:15 am

Never did figure out what I was supposed to do with that C64 though -- I learned my early programming skills on an Apple IIc! I did the wildest things with Applesoft Basic! The advanced students couldn't figure out if I was a genius or merely insane!

Ah, but it was the thermionic valve that got me where I am today -- North Yorkshire. Reliability is what I call it! You can take a direct lightning strike and still have a 50% chance of surviving! Not like those newfangled solid state amplifiers! Bah! Two sheep five miles from you rub against each other and the resulting static electricity messes everything up!

Feeling younger yet?

Oh, and in other news, Scotty just released a totally cool Commander Kitty clock! Download it, and pretend it's a birthday present!

Happy Birthday!

Crash · Post by **Crash** » Sat Apr 13, 2002 11:41 pm

Wait, you have to stop being immature when you turn 18? That's now how we do it in the States, I assure you. The baby boomer generation has enshrined adult (even geriatric) immaturity as a virtual right.

Being 18 just means that your parents can't say anything when you do act immature!

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Sun Apr 14, 2002 3:43 am

I would sympathise with you if it weren't for the fact I don't think I can...

Lost Youth? Wassat? I don't think I had a youth to loose in the first place. I'd rather be strung up by my figgin and flogged with large thistles than relive my single figure days *shudder* Immaturity, now that's not something I miss, since I still have it! I'm probably more immature than I was five years ago. My dad, the great teacher in immaturity... *sigh* Doing kart wheels and handstands at 35 for his kids.

On the other hand I'm still only 17... Young days indeed... Meh, you're never too old for immaturity, go play with your toy cars, I still do

*VroOOoM! ScreeCH!* *VrooOoOoo, pop! VrooM!* *NEE NAW NEE NAW!* -siren sound, really...

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Sun Apr 14, 2002 11:12 am

You know... you're only young once... but you can be immature forever.

And, geez, you people are scaring me. I'll be 18 in September... Of course, I'm told that some aspects of life are actually easier for girls. Like for instance, I can get married and have somebody to take of my needs, rather than me having to take care of somebody else's needs. Um... right? Devon?...*suddenly remembers that Devon isn't here* Er, yeah. Except that he's lazy and so chances are I'll be working in a factory to support both of us and buying guns for him to support his addiction... *mock glare*

But seriously, forks... I'm looking forward to freedom. I have 6 younger siblings. I have a right to look forward to adulthood.
;

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Sun Apr 14, 2002 3:07 pm

Ergh, I'm sort of looking forwards to my freedom...

It's just... Meh, there're bad points 'n' good points. Freedom for one, can't wait for that. But money... That's where it'll all be an arse, I'm already making a mockery of my 'trail life'. 7 months to get myself a job and so far I've spent the time making a rather lame comic, fan art and lazing around trying to get myself drunk...

Hrmpf.. Life's hard. I just wanna' live in a room, have a kitchen, an ohkay job and not starve to death... And have time spare to do what I like to do, computer stuff...

Alas no, work work work. Makes you wonder what it's all worth for...

Gah! Well it ain't over yet! I've a few months till september and I'm gonna' get that job whether they like it or not! AHAHAHHA!

*runs off screaming to 3D Studio max*

Crash · Post by **Crash** » Sun Apr 14, 2002 8:32 pm

LAG, I know what you mean. I found the perfect job this last year: I worked construction. Well, maybe not perfect, but the company paid for my hotel room, my food, gave us a truck, and I hung out with a bunch of drunks, so I never had to buy (much) (expensive) beer. Yeah, I had to work eight hours a day in the sun, but the pay and the lack of rent, insurance, utilities, etc. etc. more than made up for it.

Of course, if you don't like doing grunt work, it really sucks.

El SillY · Post by **El SillY** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 11:24 pm

Work is evil, that is why I have decided to win the lottery (some people I went to school with had that plan for real).

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Tue Apr 16, 2002 7:19 am

Yes, work is the bane of all things Human... And drunken...

But alas, it has to be done. Winning the lottery sounds like a fun prospect but on the other hand I actually enjoy working... To a degree... Gah, I need a job! Hrmpf. Guess I should stop modelling this tea cup and saucer... But it's so fuUUUuuuUn! Oh I know! I'll model a chocy biccie to go with it! YAY!

Humdehum... Gah, work, I'll just get pissed and then go back to sleep. Yay... Man, when I go back to college in a year I'm so screwed... o.O

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Tue Apr 16, 2002 3:14 pm

Hey, now's the time to jump on my evil plan to get out of society: Let's start a commune!

Everybody contributes to helping build little log cabins or whatever, farms a patch of land or whyatever other work they can do, and we all live in our happy little intellectual community in the woods.

Yeah. too bad it wouldn't actually work out, and we'd still have jobs, but they'd be guaranteed jobs, and you know that at least *I* would be really nice to everybody!

The other problem is elecricity and internet access... how can I keep my comic running from the middle of nowhere?

Oh well. It was a fun idea while it lasted.

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Tue Apr 16, 2002 3:39 pm

Oh yay! I'll be the village idiot! Since I'll go completely insane without the cable connection or even the unthinkable; A lack of a computer. *lightning strikes* *Shudder* oh man I had a scary thought...

Still, commune sounds fun! Just as long as I get the top bunk and all the electricity and bandwidth.

Mmm, maybe we could invade a scottish isle and set up a commune of average folk with a little farm all for a BBC documentary and be really really boring every week with our little "Video Diarys" and "weekly Bitchings" and-... Yes, I think you can tell I never liked the show -.-