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Immaturity Level Rising in Adults
Ant writes to tell us that a Discovery News article is exploring the old adage, "like a kid at heart", which may be closer to the truth than we would like to admit. New research is showing that grown-ups are more immature than ever. From the article: "Specifically, it seems a growing number of people are retaining the behaviors and attitudes associated with youth. As a consequence, many older people simply never achieve mental adulthood, according to a leading expert on evolutionary psychiatry."
They are all just poopy-heads! Big, smelly, ugly, poopy-heads!
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Case in point: How many "adults" have a myspace account? I'll admit it...
Karma: Bad (mostly due to all those "In Soviet Russia" jokes)
I want to think M&Ms are better than money, because you can eat them.
Clearly you were unimaginative as a kid, and thus missed out on the special trip to the hospital.
I want to go back to the time when green was a flavour.
Some people have commented that this is only happening in developed nations. But if it happens all over teh globe, would that make it a Peter Pan-demic?
Wow, you guys went to a hospital ?
We went to a place called "Enterprise Village", but I was sick on the day everyone picked jobs, & got stuck working a dead end job as a cashier at Eckerd Drugs instead of the radio station like I wanted.
Holy Shit ! I just realized that thoose special trips really do have an effect on the rest of your life !
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Did it happen during english class when they were teaching the word "throw"?
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
I'm sorry, my ex-wife already has that position filled.
Absolutely! You are only young once, but you can be immature forever!
*** Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?
I'm telling Congress on you.
My lawyer could beat up your lawyer.
Boy: I never said I knew where the WMDs were.
Father: We saw you do it, son.
Boy: No, no, no, no, no.
Boy 1: That idea is mine!
Boy 2: No, you gotta share!
Boy 1: It's mine! (punches boy 2)
Boy 1: Wanna play Kerberos?
Boy 2: Yeah! Only you gotta show me how.
[They play]
Boy 2: No, you can't use MD5.
Boy 1: Yes I can, we always used MD5.
Boy 2: It's my house, we play by my rules.
Yup, sounds about right.
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Gentle Reader,
As a fellow curmudgeon, I have to say that you're not doing it properly. You have to do something to hide it, or you won't get invited to peoples' birthday parties. When you attempt to paint yourself as "a carefree guy with a sense of humor," don't follow it up immediately with the humorless excoriation of a popular comedian. That undermines your message and makes your curmugeonosity obvious. Instead, try following it up by complimenting some piece of popular culture.
WRONG: I have a sense of humor, and am usually a pretty carefree guy. Jeff Foxworthy is stupid, and is betraying his fellow southerners to make money.
RIGHT: I have a sense of humor, and am usually a pretty carefree guy. For example, this morning's Family Circus had me chuckling all day. Billy wandered the entire neighborhood looking for a spatula. Why did he expect to find one down by the river? Nobody knows.
In the case of the WRONG example, people see that you've become so adept in your curmudgeoning that you can't even think on the subject of humor without going on a rant about the parts that piss you off. In the RIGHT example, you are shown to share your audience's taste for shallow, hackneyed popular culture. This will get you invited to social gatherings.
If, on the other hand, you're like me and have embraced your inner misanthrope, then there is no reason to describe yourself as either funny or carefree in the first place. I find it to be a refreshing way to live.
I'm AOC, and I hate pretty much everything! C'mon, now you give it a try. It will be like a weight lifted off your shoulders.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
If you are sufficently self centered and poor/uninterested in reading social cues, you'll never realize that you are pathetic middle aged man sponging off his parents and frittering away all his time on their broadband connection.
In a way if you are sufficiently far from realizing you are pathetic, it is indistinguishable from not being pathetic. It's like being so far away from being a normal human being that you approach a semblence of it, as it were, coming from the other direction.
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How _OLD_ are you exactly? Frittering?
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Well, depends on how you measure age:
(1) Old enough to remember a 300 baud modem as an upgrade.
(2) Old enough to have used TIPs to access the ArpaNet.
(3) Old enough to remember bang notation on email addresses.
(4) Old enough to remember V7 Unix and have worked on Multics.
(5) Old enough to remmeber how sdb was big improvement on adb, but still using adb sometimes because it was easier to patch object code with it if you knew machine language.
(6) Old enough to remmber CPU clock speeds measured in KHz.
(7) Old enough to have worked on a system with a 5MB hard disk.
(8) Old enough to have seen punched cards, drum memory and CRT memory in the flesh, albeit as surplus hulks in the basement and not working machines.
(9) Old enough to have bootstrapped a computer via its front panel switches.
(10) Old enough to remember when "core" memory was actually made out of cores -- magnetic beads.
(11) Old enough that when I started in the business, I had older colleagues who would say things like, "I remember getting 4K of RAM on our 1401; we thought we had the world by the balls. That was a stored program jobbie, you know". Sometimes, as we sat around on the cracker barrels whittling new dot matrix print heads, a few would admit to being old enough to have worked on Whirlwind (which was programmbed by plug boards).
(12) Old enough to have a five digit
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Luxury!
I had to catch a bird and press it's beak against a revolving stone slab!