I AM being a grown up …
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blamebramptonI'm trying to read and comment more on LJ in a bid to support everyone's mission to keep the LJ-based fandom going. I just had a quick skim through a commentary on part of Deathly Hallows and despite the writer raising loads of interesting and a few excellent points, I am now obsessed with one line, and I paraphrase: 'Rowling minimises our experience of the torture of this old man.'
The writer was talking about Xenophilius Lovegood. HE IS MY AGE OR A LITTLE OLDER OR POSSIBLY EVEN YOUNGER!!
I am so filled with righteous indignation! I ride hundreds of kilometres a month! I could do that a week if I didn't have to go to work! I have all my own teeth! In a fight with Snatchers I would probably go down because they are Wizards, but I would go down biting and they would seriously regret their life choices!
Bloody young people today! Where's someone Gen Y or younger so I can patronise them? I bet you can't do long division without electronic assistance! There! That'll show you! Bah!
Excuse me, I require a cup of tea and a good lie down.
*Exits, muttering.*
The writer was talking about Xenophilius Lovegood. HE IS MY AGE OR A LITTLE OLDER OR POSSIBLY EVEN YOUNGER!!
I am so filled with righteous indignation! I ride hundreds of kilometres a month! I could do that a week if I didn't have to go to work! I have all my own teeth! In a fight with Snatchers I would probably go down because they are Wizards, but I would go down biting and they would seriously regret their life choices!
Bloody young people today! Where's someone Gen Y or younger so I can patronise them? I bet you can't do long division without electronic assistance! There! That'll show you! Bah!
Excuse me, I require a cup of tea and a good lie down.
*Exits, muttering.*
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Date: 2014-01-06 12:31 pm (UTC)An older friend of mine pointed out that the younger folk need to have space that they feel is theirs, and asked me how realistic was my view of elders when I was 25--ouch!
I think what gets me is younger folk asserting that the reason someone they know in their 40s 50s or 60s is being racist or homophobic, etc. is an inevitable result of the times they were raised in. Of course someone in their 50's is naturally racist, anti-feminist, etc. because "the late 70s were all "Leave it to Beaver" and segregation" and they just didn't know any better, poor dears...
Having said that, my lovely RL and online friends in their 20s never act like that, so I'll just give my walker a couple of shakes in tumblr's direction :-)