| Author | Message | ||
     Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.3.116 |
I'm 40. Today. Bollux. | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.39.177.173 |
Well, happy birthday then! It's not as bad as you think, says someone who turned 42 this year. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 86.131.61.19 |
Hey man, life begins at 40! Just ask... well, ME.  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.165.37.175 |
Happy Birthday, Gary.  (Think of me whose son recently turned 40!) | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Happy Birthday, Gary. You have become part of an elite group of people NOW legally allowed to expound masterfully on any subject you like without fear of interruption from any of these so called whipper-snappers. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.3.116 |
I did that in my 30s, Frank. Now I'm going to adhere to the Socratic maxim of admitting I know fuck all and wind everyone up with it. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Happy birthday mate. I'm only 2.5 years behind you... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.3.116 |
Then tidy your room, young man! | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.25.141 |
Happy birthday, Gary! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 49.226.220.42 |
Happy birthday curry breakfast! Yay! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Gary - yes, mate, currently doing that. Works a treat. | ||
| Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker) Username: Stephen_theaker Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 94.169.3.199 |
You must remember when it was all green fields around here..? Happy birthday! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 94.197.127.179 |
Welcome to the Big Four-Oh-Shit, Gary. Many happy returns. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Happy birthday, man. I partied for four solid days when the big 4-0 hit so have a good one. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 193.89.189.24 |
Happy birthday professor Fry! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
My dear chap the best years of your life are ahead of you - Happy Birthday! | ||
| Darren O. Godfrey (Darren_o_godfrey) Username: Darren_o_godfrey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 64.12.117.80 |
My wish for you, Gary, apparently didn't work out. From last year: !yraG yadhtriB yppaH eht s'tahT .sdrawkcab gninnur strats gnihtyreve hcihw ta ega !ytrof nrut ot evah reven uoy oS } Ah, well. Have a great one, anyway! | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.47.232 |
Happy birthday, youngster! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Happy birthday, Gary. Just think, you're a grown man at last!  | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.59.77 |
Forty? That's nothing. Happy Birthday! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Happy birthday, Gary! Just remember that as you grow older, certain fundamental choices remain the same and don't get any easier. Pakora or bhaji? Jalfrezi or pathia? Merleau-Ponty can't help you. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
"I partied for four solid days when the big 4-0 hit so have a good one." Stevie, don't take this the wrong way, but have you really reached middle age without noticing that life is actually a bit rubbish? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
>>.. but have you really reached middle age without noticing that life is actually a bit rubbish?<< But it's not, Joel. As I've got older and my body's started to fall apart, I've actually got a lot happier. I put it down to my second childhood. For me, that started around the age of 40-something. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Oh, by the way, I know that was directed at Stevie - and I'm not Stevie. My body hasn't started to fall apart THAT much!  | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 94.197.127.207 |
I was watching Diamonds Are Forever the other day, and realised it's probably the last Bond movie of which I'll be able to say in all honesty I have a body like James Bond. Until Never Say Never Again, alas... | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.59.77 |
What I do find disconcerting as I grow older, is the sense that time is accelarating. Happily, I'm not nearly falling apart. My eyesight is not what it was and I get tired more easily - but that is all, for the time being. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Happy Birthday, man! And just remember, nowadays, 40's the new 30. ... unfortunately, that's to 50 year-olds and above. To those actually 30 and below, 40's the new 60. But then 60's the new 40 to 75 year-olds - so in 20 years, yay! You'll be 40 again!  | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Stevie, don't take this the wrong way, but have you really reached middle age without noticing that life is actually a bit rubbish? Joel, I've been doing things in my 40s that my 20-something self could only ever have dreamed of! It comes from the confidence of knowing what makes women tick, after decades of groping my way... if you catch my drift. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
That's the funniest thing I've heard all week. | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 92.4.185.111 |
Happy birthday. 40's good. I'm 54 and I've become a teenager again. My kids are grown up and fighting their own battles and all I do is play. I've got a loads of toys (harmonicas, two guitars [be great if I could play just one of them well], a telescope, a million cds, a billion books, I write when I want, see my grandson and wind him up to a fever pitch then hand him back to his mum and dad etc etc). Yeah I have to work but I can take that in my stride these days. Plus, all that accumulated wisdom and sleek grey hair makes one irresisstable to women. Why, they'e alway giving up their seats on buses and trains (sometimes I even remember to get on the right one) for me and calling me dear and love and telling me to sit down and have a little rest. But seriously, have a good one and know that in my opinion, you are a skilled, original, clever and very very good writer. Cheers Terry | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
I have a body like James Bond. It's in the freezer. Hit him with the car last week. Haven't got round to burying it yet. Hippo Bathday Mr Fry | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.3.116 |
Thanks, guys! I "Like" you all. And Joel's right. In this forlorn existence, the real question is . . . which curry is best? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.3.116 |
Just as a serious aside, isn't the realisation that life is rubbish a source of pleasure? That is, it's when you think life isn't rubbish and it actually is, that you're unhappy. But when you know it's rubbish and it is, then you're happy, because there's no gap between perception and reality. Me, I think life is shit and I'm ecstatically content! But I am being serious. | ||
| Darren O. Godfrey (Darren_o_godfrey) Username: Darren_o_godfrey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.200.116.133 |
I've learned that being 50 is shit (for me), but I've yet to reach but only a low level of contentment over it. Hoping that improves, though. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
Good lord this thread makes me feel young(ish). Happy buffday, Gary. | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.195.182.194 |
Happy Birthday, Gray Friar. Drink heavily and prosper. | ||
| Pete_a (Pete_a) Username: Pete_a Registered: 07-2011 Posted From: 75.85.10.161 |
Happy Birthday, Gary! To a 55 year old like me, you're practically a teenager. So act accordingly; take as many drugs as you can and wake up on someone's lawn in a car you can't remember stealing. | ||
| Seanmcd (Seanmcd) Username: Seanmcd Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 193.113.48.17 |
Happy Birthday Gary! Welcome to Heart Attack Alley, lol! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.127.208 |
Happy birthday prof! | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.203.218 |
Happy birthday! 40 is fine. ˙ʇnoʞɹoʍ ɐ ʞɔǝu plo ɹnoʎ ǝqʌıƃ plnoɥs sıɥ┴ | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.3.116 |
Thanks, guys. You're all too kind. (Where's my fucking present?) | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.30.38 |
I think it got stuck to your future. If you know where that went, you could find them both. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.3.116 |
I'm past caring. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
If ever a Stevie Statement called out for a list to be made... C'mon Stevie - top ten hints for getting it on wiv da lay-deez | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Weber, listen closely to the lyrics of 'Find Her Finer' by Frank Zappa for therein lies wisdom... pile on the flattery, humour, cheese, a touch of bravado, laced with vulnerability, don't mention the ex, play dumb, avoid drooling, lots of cheeky innuendo without descending into crudity (unless she does first) & all delivered with the air of a gentlemanly rogue. Depending on the woman she'll either jump on you or call the police. Then again you could just try being yourself. Though in your case, Weber, I'd leave out the jokes. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.3.116 |
You know fuck all, mate. THIS is how to do it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUuK-frvczs Learn from a master! | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.161.78 |
Sure you didn't turn to Chris de Burgh for inspiration, Stevie? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Nah, Weber - "Dinah-Moe Humm"'s the one. | ||
| Skip (Wolfnoma) Username: Wolfnoma Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 70.160.12.142 |
Happy Belated Birthday. (I rarely follow protocol on this sort of thing) | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.19.77 |
Craig, shagging her sister is what I call the Nuclear Option! | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.241.163 |
No, That's calling her by her sister's name in the throes of passion... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Stevie, people will do awfully desperate things, for forty-dollar bills.... | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
What are "cooties" anyway? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
They're what you've got! |