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34 e Sag city!!
and sticking posters on my wall
not grown out- of playing(hockey)
buying trainers
sportshops
doodling
chocolate
bleach
grown into-
IT
the Internet
talking to strangers on forums!
Psi,
If you still like Lego, then you'll love this:
http://www.henrylim.org/Harpsichord.html
Other things not grown out of:
Kylie - 15 years and counting
Heavy Metal - 18 years and counting
Kebabs - 14 stone and counting
rum 'n' black
eating wierdly
thinking men and women were the same and wanted the same things
making machine gun noises whenever I saw nuns
Grown into
champagne
running (obviously)
truly not caring what most people think
being my own boss
men (oh I suppose you're alright - apart from the burping, farting and snoring)
Not grown out of
Worrying that it will all end tomorrow
grown into - broccoli spinach tomatoes raisins dried figs and apricots (mmm)
never grown into - cheese peas (except mange tout!) midget gems and sports mixtures
Grown out of - sophisticated drinks that you have as a teenager (pernod & black, southern comfort steamboats etc)
-Running
-Being thinner rather than fatter than most of my contemporaries
-Olives
-Ferociously dark chocolate
-Ferociously dark red wine
-Sticking on a smile when I really want to tear someone's head off
-Wanting grandchildren
Grown out of:
-Hating the English
-Reading the Sunday Post and the Daily Express (which makes me more grown-up than my parents)
-Cosmopolitan
-Putting contrasting patches on the knees of my jeans
-Asking people smoking in public places to stop
-Macaroni cheese
Never grown into:
-Voting Conservative
-Wearing a panty-girdle
-Taking medicines
-Using fish cutlery
-Wearing jewellery or make-up
-Reading Good Housekeeping
-Sun loungers
-Caviar
-Disguising my increasing number of white hairs
-Watching soap operas
-Drinking neat spirits - apart from smoky whiskies
nailbiting
brown over bitter
yielding to pressure to have a drink when I don't really want to
the English (British?) obsession with class and social distinction
expecting anyone or any party to genuinely change the way this country is run
allowing sporting failure to spoil my day completely
not grown out of:
talking to myself
being late for everything
bingeing on chocolate every so often
expecting to improve over time (running, cricket,...)
a very dark taste in music
looking through the lingerie pages in catalogues
think that'll do for now....
Mike - I'm intrigued by this "incredibly dark taste in music" are we talking Leonard Cohen here or something utterly more sinister?
28” waist trousers
38” waist trousers
Being a couch potato (although this is something I grew into during my 20s)
Fry ups
Constantly drinking from Thursday to Monday
Being a Stress head
Working stupid long hours
Thinking runners were all daft
GROWN INTO:
34” waist trousers
Endurance sport
Running
Rum and peppermint
Good food well cooked
New world wines
NEVER GROWN OUT OF:
Thinking breaking wind was funny
Picking my nose
Cartoons
Bagpuss
No, about Leonard Cohen level. Something I've always had - I find listening to something like "Berlin" (the Lou Reed album not the crappy 80's perpetrators of The Final Countdown) a cathartic experience.
Never grown out of
Vimto
Dandelion & Burdock
Colemans English mustard
Grown out of
All proportions
Cocteau Twins
A Pedant writes:
It was Europe wot did "The Final Countdown". Berlin did the equally marvellous "Take My Breath Away".
I'm having a bad day
Beakers with lids that leak all over your packed lunch and leave soggy purple sandwiches
Wearing white socks with black leather shoes
A fear of anyone seeing me naked
A fear of soap and water
Wearing the hood up on my tracksuit indoors and not speaking to my dad
Not grown out of cont....
Love of LFC
Apathy to music and a love of literary fiction
Boiled sweets
Inability to talk to atractive women without going red and getting tongue tied
Plus must congratulate Mike S on the catalogue call...I still look forward to a new avon catalogue arriving every other week
Ah, now here's a good link:
http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/FriendsReunited.asp?wci=afterschool#memories
If you look in the middle-ish of the page, there's something called "Lifeslide": put in your DOB, and it'll tell you what you were listening to / watching / etc at different stages in your life.
From this, I can certainly tell you that I've grown out of Glenn Medeiros (not that I was ever into him in the first place, but it's amazing how you wipe these things from your minf....).
Oops, should have said "mind" not "minf".
But I haven't grown out of "Betty Blue" which is still one of the greatest films ever made (Director's Cut version).
Also grew into - my features ("I was a teenage Patrick Stewart" - now showing at a cinema near you!!!), cooking, films with subtitles, conversation.
Never grew out of : laughing at Mackems
The only sad thing is learning the new songs of derision, takes up drinking time.
Ah, Bay City Rollers, Hanley Town Hall - happy days.
Grown into: endurance sports, the Web, dark dry red wine, wolves, olives, paella, talking on Forums.
Never grew out of: loud rock music, dogs, running, sci-fi, beer, chocolate anything,
Lord of the Rings.
However, the average reading age for comics (as they have on average become more 'adult' since the eighties) has increased almost exactly with my own age (now 23)!
So I suppose that's less to do with me and more with the publishers..