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Maturity
Oct 7^th, 2021 at 3:55pm

When you're a child being a teenager looks great. Once you get there though you can't wait to be an adult. When you hit eighteen you think you're an adult but you're not even remotely close. When you hit thirty you feel like you must be mature. Most likely you're more mature than you were but you've still got a long way to go.
The fact is that it's a continuing process. I am sixty seven now and only have to go back five or six years to find a point where I was less mature than I am now. I guess the process continues until either you die or become senile.
It's a shame that life is set up this way. Once we gain a smattering of sense or wisdom we're old and left with little time or energy to use it. It would be nice if it worked the other way around.

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xud9a - call me zud 👍 Funditor Offline Ringing Slocks ! Posts: 575 Nottinghamshire, England Gender:	Re: Maturity Reply #1 - Oct 8^th, 2021 at 7:50am Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. F**k maturity !
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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 13682 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Maturity Reply #2 - Oct 8^th, 2021 at 9:22am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MOGGnOvGis
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perpetualstudent Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1405 Gender:	Re: Maturity Reply #3 - Oct 8^th, 2021 at 9:50am I've met fools of all ages but the young cannot have payed for and earned and grokked what they think they know. "the young think intelligence is a substitute for experience, the old the opposite"
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xud9a - call me zud 👍 Funditor Offline Ringing Slocks ! Posts: 575 Nottinghamshire, England Gender:	Re: Maturity Reply #4 - Oct 8^th, 2021 at 11:28am Mein gott rattle mensch, Never thought I would see a skirt shorter than Uhuras' with better thighs ! My trousers are now inappropriate !
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Re: Maturity
Reply #5 - Oct 8^th, 2021 at 12:56pm

we're basically cheese.

Start out as mozzarella: soft, tasteless and a little bit of a waste of space.

Then we gradually go though the phases:

We learn to walk and become processed cheese.

Then we learn to talk and think and become a mild cheddar.

Hormones kick in and we turn into brie and gradually start leaking out the wrapper.

Past the teenage years we become a good solid mature cheddar.
Gradually devoloping a hard rind and crumbly bits as we hit middle age and head on into the end days.

Where we suddenly turn into a blue veined stilton. mature, flavoursome and with a smooth creamy texture and rich taste.

And then finally, as we die and the maggots feast on our brains, we become Carsu Marzu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8F-0Ogp4fU

Let's hear it for the cheese Thumbs Up

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Slyngorm Funditor Offline Slingit... Posts: 508	Re: Maturity Reply #6 - Oct 8^th, 2021 at 3:10pm I've only ever wanted to grow older at one point in my life: when I was 11 and had to be 12 to take a diving license. otherwise I have been happy/content with my younger age.
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Re: Maturity
Reply #7 - Oct 8^th, 2021 at 3:16pm

Curious Aardvark wrote on Oct 8^th, 2021 at 12:56pm:

we're basically cheese.

Start out as mozzarella: soft, tasteless and a little bit of a waste of space.

Then we gradually go though the phases:

We learn to walk and become processed cheese.

Then we learn to talk and think and become a mild cheddar.

Hormones kick in and we turn into brie and gradually start leaking out the wrapper.

Past the teenage years we become a good solid mature cheddar.
Gradually devoloping a hard rind and crumbly bits as we hit middle age and head on into the end days.

Where we suddenly turn into a blue veined stilton. mature, flavoursome and with a smooth creamy texture and rich taste.

And then finally, as we die and the maggots feast on our brains, we become Carsu Marzu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8F-0Ogp4fU

Let's hear it for the cheese Thumbs Up

Wonderful!! Grin

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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Maturity Reply #8 - Oct 8^th, 2021 at 3:16pm the problem is you get older whether you want to or not, and the older you get, the faster it all happens. I'd swear my nieces were small girls last week - but they're both in their 20's with jobs and partners. Time, cruelly, goes faster the more of it you see.
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