Unexpected attack of fun

[hirez]

This afternoon, I are mostly been pottering across the middle of Bristol on the pikey-bike. (a rusty thing unearthed from sheveks shed and re-made, mostly by quercus, as a pub-bike: Something that oughtn't attract the attention of the light-fingered, but it's no great loss if it does.)

It was all very good. After a fortifying ginger ale with mr_tails I was able to cope with the sportswear-clad mob in the middle of Broadmeads. This probably doesn't mean anything to the hardened shopaholics who weekly charge through Camden, but it's a bit of a deal for me. (Is the literal translation of agoraphobia not 'fear of the market-place?)

I suspect it's down to having the Means Of Escape to hand at all times.

If I get anymore into this cycling malarkey, I'm going to have to start an electronic music combo.

Comments

[cybershawn.livejournal.com]

Are you coming to the picnic up at Cabot Tower this evening? It's from about 7pm onwards. Shoulds be a good night.

[reddragdiva]

A machete works quite well. I expect a lawnmower would too.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

So, I come back from a hard week's ontologising (http://www.livejournal.com/users/quercus/18826.html) and you've "given up drinking".
But you're not slow to go out on the piss with your Yorkshire coal-mining mates, are you ? Immanentizing the Semantic Web isn't good enough for you now is it ? Got to go poncing off down Broadmead and showing off your flashy new shell suit.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I'll have you know that the 'ginger ale' was entirely non-euphemistic.

Anyway, the semantic web's pish. All the cool bloggers are saying so. Then it'll be all over Google and therefore Completely True Because The Interweb Says So.

I used to live in Cold Aston...

[(Anonymous)]

I did you know.

Re: I used to live in Cold Aston...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I don't doubt it. (Though I have no particular means of checking.)

I grew up in Charlton Abbots and Brockhampton.

Re: I used to live in Cold Aston...

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

Many people would argue that you have yet to grow up at all. :-)

Re: I used to live in Cold Aston...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Those many would then be parked in the compact and bijou village of Correct and likely enjoying tea and sandwiches at the 'Bang to rights and no mistake, guv' cafe.

(There is no such thing as too much early Fry & Laurie.)

Although... There's this thing wandering round my head that involves UV wear, Pikachu, Hello Kitty, YP-trousers and GROW THE FUCK UP YOU'RE OVER 35 STOP PRETENDING YOU'RE A TEENAGER AND GIVE THE YOUTH THEIR OWN SPACE THAT BLOODY FRED WEDLOCK RECORD WAS ABOUT YOU, YOU HOPELESS TOSSER!

Perhaps someone with a better grasp of the language and concepts involved would like to attempt elucidation?

Real ale and jazz combos are the new black.

Re: I used to live in Cold Aston...

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

I get that too on occasion, but then I turn away from the mirror and go out anyway


Real Ale & Jazz combo? Today's lunch special at the 'Rat and Unix'?

Re: I used to live in Cold Aston...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Bah! That would have been a quality rant if you hadn't defused it... :p

Re: I used to live in Cold Aston...

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

Lance Cpl SarahMum of the Queens own Flouce Disposal Corps. reporting SAH!
Rant defusing and tissy untangling a speciality.

Mind you, that last one, that was tricky, nearly coped a Blighty on that.

Re: I used to live in Cold Aston...

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Girls become women, boys become bigger boys.

I often think of the middle-aged guy in a suit I saw scooting his supermarket trolley down the slope of the car park when he thought no-one was there to see him. It's not much - but it gives me hope.

Re: I used to live in Cold Aston...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I used to think that.

These days it's painfully obvious that chromosomes have no bearing on how 'grown up' anyone may be.

I wonder that not being forced to go off and shoot people in your late teens, or indeed being sent down the pit/mill/bottom paddock earlier, has something to do with it.

Re: I used to live in Cold Aston...

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

We certainly do have it easier than any other generation before us, and you may well be right that that's a factor. With many folks chosing not to have families, or have them later, there's a lot less responsibility going around, for both sexes.

Re: I used to live in Cold Aston...

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

Although any or all of those options may well have prompted our forebears (forebears? I only heard about 3) to 'Grow up' they also precluded them from growing old.

Maybe out extended like expectancy has caused this strange situation. We fought to stop being 'children' became teenages and then realised that if we didn't stop the transition, we'ld very soon become middle aged and have far too much time to be 'old' in. Hence, halting the process at 'teen' behaviour. Middle age now happens at around 60 I believe.

[girfan.livejournal.com]

I hope middle aged starts at 60!

Over the years, I have done some wild/silly/weird things that usually only teens do simply because:
-it didn't exist when I was a teen
-I was too shy/skint to do it when a teen
-it's still fun, so why not do it?

Of course, this upcoming birthday is quite a traumatic one.

Re: I used to live in Cold Aston...

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

Tom? Lurking again.

[ex-halja931.livejournal.com]

I suspect it's down to having the Means Of Escape to hand at all times.

A rocket pack strapped to your back at all times, perhaps? That might do it.