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 Jul 18 2012, 09:45 PM
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 'Trouble Down Pit' now online!  Group: Admin Posts: 10,141 Joined: 22-February 03 From: Southern UK Member No.: 1 Gender: Male  |
A friend just posted on Facebook that she has bought a washing machine for the first time. She is eight months pregnant and married, but buying the washing machine is the thing that felt grown up to her.
I've had a similar-ish thing this week myself - a first kiss in my own house while pretty sober... I think it was the location that did it. Generally the first kiss has been in a bar, at a party, or occasionally at a rented place I'm living, but doing this in my own house felt weirdly different. What's made you feel grown up recently? -------------------- Trouble Down Pit: Still updated every Monday and Friday
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Jul 19 2012, 01:06 AM
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 I could have written a short novel by this point Group: Established Members Posts: 1,579 Joined: 4-August 08 Member No.: 12,759 Gender: Secret |
Despite starting college, having been in a srs* relationship that's ending somewhat gracelessly, and being able to do most things without parental protest, I haven't had one of those moments yet.
I don't feel older, everyone else just seems younger by comparison. Maybe I should move out or get a job or do something else awfully adult-like. *srs is intentionally typed like that because it makes me seriousness seem less serious  ---- Ooh, I actually had a child moment while typing this. Mom: I have a surprise for you. Me: Oh yeah? Mom: Yeah, go get my purse. Me: *excepts money or something awesome* Mom: But you have to clean the kitchen... Me: Yeah yeah. Mom: *hands me smiley face stickers* Me: Oh... Thanks Mom... -------------------- Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget God. The stars died so that you could be here today. ~Lawrence Krauss
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Jul 21 2012, 10:44 PM
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'Trouble Down Pit' now online! Group: Admin Posts: 10,141 Joined: 22-February 03 From: Southern UK Member No.: 1 Gender: Male |
I love stickers
 Anyone else? Or is it just me who is occasionally getting grown up moments? -------------------- Trouble Down Pit: Still updated every Monday and Friday
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Jul 22 2012, 12:05 AM
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I could have written a short novel by this point Group: Established Members Posts: 1,579 Joined: 4-August 08 Member No.: 12,759 Gender: Secret |
Pretty sure it's just you. Weirdo.
-------------------- Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget God. The stars died so that you could be here today. ~Lawrence Krauss
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Jul 22 2012, 10:47 AM
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 Advice for the young at heart Group: Moderators Posts: 2,705 Joined: 26-February 03 From: Essex, UK Member No.: 33 Gender: Male |
QUOTE (Mata @ Jul 18 2012, 10:45 PM)  What's made you feel grown up recently? Pretty much any time that I find myself giving advice on 'grown up' things, like talking about bank accounts, or interest rates, or mortgages, or car insurance, etc. etc. Those moments are definitely "grown up". -------------------- |
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Jul 22 2012, 11:20 AM
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 Obsessive Group: Established Members Posts: 240 Joined: 21-September 11 Member No.: 17,519 Gender: Male |
I sometimes feel like a grownup because I'm studying, if that makes any sense. Of course most of the times it's cancelled out by the fact that the study in question is about games.
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Jul 22 2012, 01:39 PM
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 I plug directly into my computer Group: Established Members Posts: 3,640 Joined: 18-November 04 From: Manchester Member No.: 1,488 Gender: Male |
Signing things make me feel grownup. Or worse, posting someone else a contract for them to sign.
-------------------- QUOTE (Peter Griffin) Math, my dear boy, is nothing more than the lesbian sister of biology. |
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Jul 22 2012, 04:08 PM
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'Trouble Down Pit' now online! Group: Admin Posts: 10,141 Joined: 22-February 03 From: Southern UK Member No.: 1 Gender: Male |
Oo, good one. Yes, I sometimes have to sign things now that effect other people's lives, which feels much more grown up than signing something for myself.
-------------------- Trouble Down Pit: Still updated every Monday and Friday
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Jul 23 2012, 03:19 AM
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 happy.. sad.. happy Group: Established Members Posts: 636 Joined: 11-December 04 From: London Member No.: 1,536 Gender: Male |
Sending out professional looking invoices does it for me.
-------------------- "I'm an introvert, I think you're wonderful and I like you, but please now shush"
"Science is just organised common sense" "All generalizations are dangerous, even this one." "You are unique, just like everybody else." |
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Jul 23 2012, 03:34 AM
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 living in your basement, eating your candy hearts Group: Established Members Posts: 3,418 Joined: 23-February 04 From: cloud cuckoo land Member No.: 959 Gender: Female |
Being trusted to get work done without supervision. Having my new boss sit down with me and talk to me like we're equals.
-------------------- Being corrupted by candice since 2004
teal and orange is the way forward |
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Jul 23 2012, 12:41 PM
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'Trouble Down Pit' now online! Group: Admin Posts: 10,141 Joined: 22-February 03 From: Southern UK Member No.: 1 Gender: Male |
Ha, yes! I can remember the first time that I was treated like an adult. I went on a holiday with a bunch of juggling friends when I was 17 and they were all in their mid twenties or older, some had kids. I was treated as an equal by grown ups for several days... It was quite weird. It's still strange today sometimes. What's weirder is when I am given authority in a situation over people who I consider more experienced than me, and who are definitely older than me. I've had a 'promotion' so I'm now a line-manger for a small team of lecturers... I wonder if that one will ever stop feeling strange? I think that's something you get used to rather than it going away!
-------------------- Trouble Down Pit: Still updated every Monday and Friday
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Jul 25 2012, 10:16 PM
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Obsessive Group: Established Members Posts: 240 Joined: 21-September 11 Member No.: 17,519 Gender: Male |
QUOTE (Mata @ Jul 23 2012, 02:41 PM) I've had a 'promotion' so I'm now a line-mangler This is what I read o,O |
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Jul 27 2012, 09:18 AM
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Technically a giant, intellectual midget. Group: Established Members Posts: 4,319 Joined: 29-March 03 From: Enger-land Member No.: 197 Gender: Transgender |
Filling out security clearance forms for several government buildings, MPS, HMPS and the royal households.
Other than that, I'm avoiding it pretty well, still! -------------------- He's a freak of nature, but we love him so.
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Aug 9 2012, 03:12 PM
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I plug directly into my computer Group: Established Members Posts: 3,640 Joined: 18-November 04 From: Manchester Member No.: 1,488 Gender: Male |
I bought a carpet for my flat today. An actual real carpet that's going to be delivered and fitted and replace the one that's here now.
I've never felt so much like a grownup. -------------------- QUOTE (Peter Griffin) Math, my dear boy, is nothing more than the lesbian sister of biology. |
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Aug 9 2012, 07:30 PM
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I could have written a short novel by this point Group: Established Members Posts: 1,579 Joined: 4-August 08 Member No.: 12,759 Gender: Secret |
I had to stay awake and play navigator for someone else driving the other night. Fighting every urge to sleep after a day of fun seems rather adult-like.
*edit* Heh, also went grocery shopping without my mommy. Butcher: How thick would you like the ham? Me: Uh, do you have a size reference chart? Butcher: *shows me the nutrition label* Me: ... Okay. -------------------- Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget God. The stars died so that you could be here today. ~Lawrence Krauss
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Aug 11 2012, 04:41 PM
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 suggestive cupcake Group: Admin Posts: 6,435 Joined: 21-April 03 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 260 Gender: Female |
opening a savings account, saving for a *nice* laptop, and spending my work tips on oxyclean products to make sure this SATAN MADE WHITE POLYESTER SMOCK stays as white as it can. that thing is so evil.
-------------------- i'm like oh kimosabe, your body is my hobby    the official 'you bitch' count: a whole lot last updated 11/05 |
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Aug 11 2012, 11:51 PM
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Obsessive Group: Established Members Posts: 240 Joined: 21-September 11 Member No.: 17,519 Gender: Male |
Sometimes I amaze myself by doing very grownup stuff, or well, grownup by my standards. I'm a self-described lazyass gamer, but I spent the greater part of today trying to learn Javascript because I think it'll come in handy some day. I guess that could be considered character development, right? I sure hope so after 126 exercises!
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Aug 18 2012, 05:10 AM
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 Lord of the Keys Group: Established Members Posts: 2,197 Joined: 1-October 04 From: Wonderful-smelling dwelling in French-Canada Member No.: 1,329 Gender: Female |
hello, it has been almost two years since i have been here. is everyone doing well?
The past four years have been an adventure of grown-up stuff like FIND A JOB, feed yourself, acquire pets, get and furnish an apartment and so on. Which is cool! It got terrible a few weeks ago with a lot of bureaucratic immigration things looming at me and feeling generally trapped by my decisions (have to immigrate because job have to job because apartment have to apartment because otherwise homeless etc) rather than excited/fulfilled by them. Which is the worst aspect of grownup-ness, I think, that exhausted malaise from your own decisions weighing on you, obligations, etc. And then I remembered that I am young and dumb still and get to make dumb decisions like--pick up and go without looking back!--and spent several happy minutes cruising fantasy apartments in any American city that struck my fantasy. (New Orleans wins.) Then today I got stoned and called immigration and figured out à travers my inept français the forms I needed and sent thum. A good combination, I think, of grown-up and not at all. -------------------- can I kiss your dopamine? In a way I wonder if she's living in a magazine |
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Aug 19 2012, 12:17 PM
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Advice for the young at heart Group: Moderators Posts: 2,705 Joined: 26-February 03 From: Essex, UK Member No.: 33 Gender: Male |
QUOTE (elphaba2 @ Aug 18 2012, 06:10 AM) Which is the worst aspect of grownup-ness, I think, that exhausted malaise from your own decisions weighing on you, obligations, etc. True. The biggest difference between childhood and becoming a grown-up (generally speaking) is the taking-on of new obligations and responsibilities. You never realise how carefree life was, until it isn't. -------------------- |
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Aug 20 2012, 05:48 PM
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'Trouble Down Pit' now online! Group: Admin Posts: 10,141 Joined: 22-February 03 From: Southern UK Member No.: 1 Gender: Male |
The trick seems to be to get as many of those things to be as automatic as possible. I don't think about paying the mortgage or most of my bills, and I enjoy my job, so it feels like living for free!
-------------------- Trouble Down Pit: Still updated every Monday and Friday
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Aug 22 2012, 08:01 AM
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Obsessive Group: Established Members Posts: 240 Joined: 21-September 11 Member No.: 17,519 Gender: Male |
QUOTE (Mata @ Aug 20 2012, 06:48 PM) The trick seems to be to get as many of those things to be as automatic as possible. I don't think about paying the mortgage or most of my bills, and I enjoy my job, so it feels like living for free! You're sounding a little bit more Dutch every day 
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Aug 22 2012, 09:30 PM
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'Trouble Down Pit' now online! Group: Admin Posts: 10,141 Joined: 22-February 03 From: Southern UK Member No.: 1 Gender: Male |
I overheard some students talking about me last year as I walked off to get on my bike: 'he really suits living in the Netherlands'. I think that was a complement...
-------------------- Trouble Down Pit: Still updated every Monday and Friday
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Aug 24 2012, 08:25 PM
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I could have written a short novel by this point Group: Established Members Posts: 1,579 Joined: 4-August 08 Member No.: 12,759 Gender: Secret |
I overheard my mom telling my grandma that I'm an adult and can go away with my friends for the weekend without her having to worry about it. I mean, my grandma stuck with the "But she's just a child!" response, but it's nice to think that my mom thinks otherwise.
-------------------- Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget God. The stars died so that you could be here today. ~Lawrence Krauss
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Oct 24 2012, 12:13 AM
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 If my woman were a fire... Group: Established Members Posts: 3,328 Joined: 14-November 04 From: hole-in-the-ground, Texas Member No.: 1,473 Gender: Female |
Gah. I haven't been here in awhile...
My life seems constantly full of those moments where I think to myself "Whoah. I'm getting old." Some of them are due to actual adult like things like buying my own groceries, paying bills, filling out tax forms, finding and maintaining a job, putting myself through school with my own money, so on. More often, though, it's things like realizing that instead of just texting someone to hang out five minutes beforehand I have to actually make plans in advance (things were a lot easier when all of my friends didn't require full-time jobs.) or realizing that i can no longer stay up until 4am with no consequences the next day. And my sudden inability to drink all day and feel fine in the morning. (Edit: Suddenly realized how odd reading all of that about myself is when I think that I was 11 when I joined these forums. Christ.) -------------------- Her dignity shone so bright like a light on a hill and she burned for me, no other man came near her flame. Bad country songs - the deafening twang of the rich white kid blues. You can own the strange, but the lights and glares will not make you real. |
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Oct 24 2012, 04:19 PM
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Advice for the young at heart Group: Moderators Posts: 2,705 Joined: 26-February 03 From: Essex, UK Member No.: 33 Gender: Male |
Big difference between childhood and adulthood:
An envelope comes through the door, printed with my name and address. Child Me: "Oooooh! I got some post!!! Woweeeee! What possible treasure could this beeeee?!" Adult Me: "Oh for ****'s sake. Who wants more of my money this time? Who did I forget to pay? Siiiiiighhh..." -------------------- |
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