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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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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?
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?
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!