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Becoming older than characters you’ve liked for years and years

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Started by msd in Chit-Chat

I was watching Withnail and I for about the 46th time this evening when I realised I was now older than the characters I’ve known and loved for 10 years (I didn’t see it until years after it had been realesed). Freaked me out a bit. Has anyone else experienced this “film character age catch-up” weirdness?

Posted on Sat, 1 November 2008 at 22:09

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msd wrote:

released even

Posted on Sat, 1 November 2008 at 22:10

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Squall wrote:

I’ve always been older than ren and stimpy.

Posted on Sat, 1 November 2008 at 22:24

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msd wrote:

What part of the thread title “Becoming older than characters you’ve liked for years and years” did you not understand?

Posted on Sat, 1 November 2008 at 22:27

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Alan wrote:

Slightly similar, I’ve had the same weirdness with football.

When I was young I collected all the sticker albums which contained footballers date of births and they all seemed so much older than me, most of them being born in the 60’s etc. I idolised them and the dream of being a footballer was still a possibility. Now there are footballers in the premiership born in the 90’s! It makes me realise how old I’m getting and that weird “somehow I’ve missed the boat” feeling.

It’s weird to think that kids these days look at these overpaid pricks with the same awe which I looked at footballers back in the 80’s.

Posted on Sun, 2 November 2008 at 10:52

#5

Taunty Dan wrote:

YES! Blues Brothers!

Posted on Sun, 2 November 2008 at 12:09

#6

mrs h wrote:

Welcome to my world :( …

Posted on Sun, 2 November 2008 at 12:12

#7

msd wrote:

I didn’t know you were a Nora Batty fan, mrs h

Posted on Sun, 2 November 2008 at 12:14

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Taunty Dan wrote:

Don’t be so hard on yourself, the cast of Cocoon still have years on you!

Posted on Sun, 2 November 2008 at 12:14

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msd wrote:

Ha ha

Posted on Sun, 2 November 2008 at 12:16

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Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:

I am older than one of MY favourite characters;

God’s dog

:(

Posted on Sun, 2 November 2008 at 12:27

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mrs h wrote:

I wasn’t thinking of Nora Batty, Sammy, I was thinking of Steptoe and Son.

Dan - that’s so sweet! Thankyou :)

*note to self - find out what Dan is after*

Posted on Sun, 2 November 2008 at 12:31

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g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:

I got it with page 3 in the sun the other day, I thought it was wierd how the girl in it was 18 which is near enough my age. kinda scary, cus i dont feel any older than i did when i was 15

Posted on Sun, 2 November 2008 at 14:29

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msd wrote:

mrs h wrote:

I wasn’t thinking of Nora Batty, Sammy, I was thinking of Steptoe and Son.

Steptoe or his son? :p

Posted on Sun, 2 November 2008 at 19:39 in reply to an earlier post

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mrs h wrote:

Both :(

Added together.

And Hercules. By which I mean both the horse in Steptoe and legendary Greek…

Posted on Sun, 2 November 2008 at 19:47

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Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:

lol

Posted on Sun, 2 November 2008 at 19:54

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mrs h wrote:

:mad:

Posted on Sun, 2 November 2008 at 19:58

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chr1s (I can't remember my own name) wrote:

Gimme Back My Brainsaw wrote:

I got it with page 3 in the sun the other day, I thought it was wierd how the girl in it was 18 which is near enough my age. kinda scary, cus i dont feel any older than i did when i was 15

They never use their real ages anyway. I remember looking at a pic of Zoe around 8 years ago, and it said she was 18. She was in the paper again the other day and it claimed she was 22!!!

Posted on Mon, 3 November 2008 at 09:23 in reply to an earlier post

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g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:

maybe it was a different zoe?

Zoes a common name in the world of page 3.

this 18 year old girl was in zoo though, and i know shes 18 cus she lives by me and she’s in my year.

Posted on Mon, 3 November 2008 at 14:12

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buffalo-boy wrote:

Oh God yes! I watched the Goonies the other day and they are all little kids! I looked up to them when i was young! Totally weird!

And I find it weird that I am now older than Metallica when they made Kill em All, i still can’t play all those songs on guitar!

Posted on Mon, 3 November 2008 at 14:32

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Dermot wrote:

I completely agree with Alan here. I think a lot of men have the same feeling! I used to look up to / idolise footballers, but now I’m older than half the professionals these days… :-( It hasn’t stopped me loving football though, if anything, I like it even more now than I did when I was a kid.

Apart from that, I suppose new bands breaking through gives me a similar feeling. So not so much fictional characters for me then, it’s more real people!!

Posted on Mon, 3 November 2008 at 15:33

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Gav wrote:

buffalo-boy wrote:

Oh God yes! I watched the Goonies the other day and they are all little kids! I looked up to them when i was young! Totally weird!

And Josh Brolin is now playing dubya Bush in a new movie!!

Posted on Mon, 3 November 2008 at 20:32 in reply to an earlier post

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buffalo-boy wrote:

God, I thought he gave up acting ages ago! Thats cool tho.

Posted on Tue, 4 November 2008 at 08:25

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Gav wrote:

He was recently in ‘No Country For Old Men’ and the second Grindhouse film ‘Planet Terror’

Fucking weird when you think about him riding down the hill on the kiddies bike!

Posted on Tue, 4 November 2008 at 12:14

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