The Off Topic Topic

[celedhring]

The day I truly felt "fuck you're old" was when I saw a post on Facebook from an old work colleague saying that her daughter was getting married. She was pregnant with her when we worked together...

[Jacob]

You're old when people who can drink weren't even born when you were drinking.

42? 36? 32? That's the prime of life.

... and that's assuming you didn't start drinking before it was legal.

[Grey Fox]

I started feeling old 18 years after turning 18.

[crazy canuck]

I started feeling old 18 years after turning 18.

Under 40 is very young 

[HVC]

I started feeling old 18 years after turning 18.

Under 40 is very young 

That's a good point, CC. I agree, thinking under 40 year olds are young is a sign of being old.

[crazy canuck]

I started feeling old 18 years after turning 18.

Under 40 is very young 

That's a good point, CC. I agree, thinking under 40 year olds are young is a sign of being old.

 

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N_6JUd-byk

Finnish PM's tearful defense.

[Sheilbh]

Another amazing BBC archive piece - what Australians expect to find in Britain:
https://twitter.com/bbcarchive/status/1563453766778626048?s=21&t=6GnBXeO970MixZPUEmlv9g

Having spoken about the mid-Atlantic accent, the accents here are really strikingly not very Australian. Also I absolutely love the second woman and hope she had a great time with suave continental men.

[Tamas]

Another amazing BBC archive piece - what Australians expect to find in Britain:
https://twitter.com/bbcarchive/status/1563453766778626048?s=21&t=6GnBXeO970MixZPUEmlv9g

Having spoken about the mid-Atlantic accent, the accents here are really strikingly not very Australian. Also I absolutely love the second woman and hope she had a great time with suave continental men.

I particularly liked the fellow going to London to see the last bastion of a caste system in the world.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Whicker's world was a really good show. He was one of those people who was capable of putting people at their ease so that they said what they thought 

[The Brain]

Another amazing BBC archive piece - what Australians expect to find in Britain:
https://twitter.com/bbcarchive/status/1563453766778626048?s=21&t=6GnBXeO970MixZPUEmlv9g

Having spoken about the mid-Atlantic accent, the accents here are really strikingly not very Australian. Also I absolutely love the second woman and hope she had a great time with suave continental men.

I particularly liked the fellow going to London to see the last bastion of a caste system in the world.

Geography is hard.

[Sheilbh]

Another amazing BBC archive piece - what Australians expect to find in Britain:
https://twitter.com/bbcarchive/status/1563453766778626048?s=21&t=6GnBXeO970MixZPUEmlv9g

Having spoken about the mid-Atlantic accent, the accents here are really strikingly not very Australian. Also I absolutely love the second woman and hope she had a great time with suave continental men.

I particularly liked the fellow going to London to see the last bastion of a caste system in the world.

Like they used to have in India, famously brought by the British

[mongers]

Whicker's world was a really good show. He was one of those people who was capable of putting people at their ease so that they said what they thought 

[Josquius]

Another amazing BBC archive piece - what Australians expect to find in Britain:
https://twitter.com/bbcarchive/status/1563453766778626048?s=21&t=6GnBXeO970MixZPUEmlv9g

Having spoken about the mid-Atlantic accent, the accents here are really strikingly not very Australian. Also I absolutely love the second woman and hope she had a great time with suave continental men.

Saw this the other day and had the same thought.
Maybe it's because the sort of Australian who could afford this is likely from their upper class and would have been actively trying to be British?

[Admiral Yi]

Suety women and neuter men.