The 40s is great. You are pretty much done giving a shit and you still have (fingers crossed) half your life left to live.
Being in your late 40s means not only forgetting how old you are, but forgetting what year life events ocurred in. A couple of years ago i was sure i was 46, then realized I was "only" 45. And relating stories has now become a clusterfuck - "We went down to Virginia in '93 and stayed at the . . .no wait, it couldn't have been '93, it must have been 2003. Or was that 2004? Shit."
Given my lifestyle prior to about age 40, chances are pretty good I have less than forty years remaining.
Is there some sort of game with those horse masks? I saw two guys walking around the mall with them on a couple days ago. They were walking completely rigid and upright and not talking to each other. I thought someone would be filming reactions for them but couldn't see anybody.
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Pity. I was hoping it was a Pony Play thing and The President of the United States was unwittingly drawn into some guy's weird fetish.
Ah. So it's a Golden Palace-sort of thing. I think they're funny, but they really freak some people out. I remember cracking up seeing that one guy on the news jogging while wearing one during that last horrible hurricane.
Age discussions freak me out. Not because of my own age, but because of my parents'. I am the 5th of 6 kids and they had me (relatively) later in life. My dad turns 68 this summer and my mom turns 61 in a week. My relationship with them is really awesome now that I am not a child living with them and I want more time on the clock.
"Do you have the link to that?" No, I don't, but Nat Geo gives a test to a bunch of people about once a year and the results are astounding. It often hits the TV news (if the Kardashians aren't misbehaving). Maybe try googling Nat Geo. Edit: Here's one from 2006: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/roper2006/findings.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.nationalgeographic.com/roper ... dings.html</a> For those too lazy to view the above, here's a brief example: ◾Only 37% of young Americans can find Iraq on a map—though U.S. troops have been there since 2003. ◾6 in 10 young Americans don't speak a foreign language fluently. ◾20% of young Americans think Sudan is in Asia. (It's the largest country in Africa.) ◾48% of young Americans believe the majority population in India is Muslim. (It's Hindu—by a landslide.) ◾Half of young Americans can't find New York on a map. Apparently I wasn't the only one reading old Nat Geo magazines for the titties.
This was my very first time seeing that thing and it was gloriously WTF: Spoiler Also, ever since someone said the nose and mouth looks like a gaping frog, my love of the mask has only gotten stronger.
The random company that makes those horse heads has to be patting each other on their backs for such good fortune.
Get this: apparently the American author who co-wrote a book on surviving the Bulls Of Pampola just got gored during the running of the bulls.
Not astounding at all. From that link: I think they demonstrate an understanding of the world just fine - those 18-24 yo realize that speaking a foreign language fluently is of very little importance. Young adults are lousy at geography and world geography, and part of that reason is because of poor educational effort on the part of the student, their parents and the system. But, that particular stat is of no consequence, im my opinion. 6 in 10? Whoopity do. I'm curious - this group at TiB seems to be a well-educated bunch. I bet 60% of the regular posters here do not speak a foreign language fluently.
Yeah, me too. If I make it to 60 with my memory and limbs intact, I'm calling it a win. EDIT: Oops, sorry, forgot. Happy 40th Angel!