Favourite age?

Honestly, I think I look back at age 18 most fondly. The one year I did spend in college was filled with the most memorable and new experiences - although very few of them were academic ones, which led to that only being one year. Throughout high school, I was generally unhappy, as everything was a bit of a popularity contest (which I never won). There were some bonds I made in high school which are still solid to this day, but college presented a fresh start and a lot of more open-minded people. I often wish I could live that year again (and I'd go to class a lot more if I could, too).

Favourite age = current age + 1

Occam wrote:Favourite age = current age + 1

Occam, That is the answer I wish I would have thought of first !

Make mine: Current + how.so.ever the number of good years I have left, on this good earth.

katesawjack wrote:

Occam wrote:Favourite age = current age + 1

Occam, That is the answer I wish I would have thought of first !

Well, in fact it was more or less inspired by your signature...

Occam wrote:

katesawjack wrote:

Occam wrote:Favourite age = current age + 1

Occam, That is the answer I wish I would have thought of first !

Well, in fact it was more or less inspired by your signature...

Occam, I really appreciate that, even though you may not have meant it that way, I will take it as a very nice compliment.

SunburnedPenguin wrote:Oooh do you know what subjects you want to concentrate on yet?

Yeah, I'm dropping Art, Dt definatley and probably Geography, I'm not sure how many I get to drop. I probably want to go and do Engish and Maths at sixth form and maybe History or Physics.

SunburnedPenguin wrote:My youngest turns 13 on thursday so is in the same year as you, and looking forward to dropping some subjects that she hates.

Yep I've been counting down the days since I came to high school.
I think your youngest must be in the year below me becuase I'm only barley in my year. Maybe they choose a year earlier.

katesawjack wrote:Occam, I really appreciate that, even though you may not have meant it that way, I will take it as a very nice compliment.

Well, as any regular Hobbit would tell you, compliments are --of course-- not true. So that wasn't one, okay?

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Im a hobbit freak. I want to buy a plot of land in in West Wales (Erid Luin to be precise - Middle Earth was based on Wales....I currently live in Gondor) and build a hobbit holiday village.....how cool would that be!

SunburnedPenguin wrote:

Im a hobbit freak. I want to buy a plot of land in in West Wales (Erid Luin to be precise - Middle Earth was based on Wales....I currently live in Gondor) and build a hobbit holiday village.....how cool would that be!

Oh no you don't! Next you'll say 'But I don't have the money ' then I say 'I have some money' and you take my money and run off somewhere. I'm not falling for it.

What would be the height restrictions in this West Wales "Hobbit Village?"

Seriously... you would need height restrictions because you would get lawsuits from tall people who suffer brain damage from hitting their heads off the tops of the doorways in all of your public buildings.

Ah see theres the secret.....I would make the hobbit holes and inns human size, but with oversized furnishings to make it feel smaller! No law suits for me!

So your "Hobbit Village" is really... in essence, a "Giant's Village." Because it would be big enough for giants, but make us feel tiny and cute?

Speak for yourself, JW. Some of us are cute regardless.

I meant tiny AND cute... I know we are already cute, but we aren't tiny.....

I think I saved myself nicely there.

SunburnedPenguin wrote:I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Im a hobbit freak. I want to buy a plot of land in in West Wales (Erid Luin to be precise - Middle Earth was based on Wales....I currently live in Gondor) and build a hobbit holiday village.....how cool would that be!

SP, I can't believe it before Lost I was completely obsessed with "Lord of the Rings"
I have all of the DVD's. When they had the tour with a lot of the props, I went and I simply love Aragorn, and of course Merry & Pippin too. I have a picture Of my daughter and I taking turns at being Hobbits.

katesawjack wrote:Before Lost I was completely obsessed with "Lord of the Rings"

Yeah, me too...

katesawjack wrote:I have all of the DVD's.

Oh, you meant the movie... that's not "Lord of the Rings", that's quite another story I'm unable to recognize...

Haha Occam, true.....but the movies did introduce Tolkiens world to a lot of people who went on to read not only the original books, but his other amazing work too. People who would have otherwise missed out on the glorious world that is Middle Earth.

I love the movies, and they do capture the essence of the original story, even if a lot of lore is missed out. I love the way they portray the close bonds between the hobbits without making it seem homo-erotic....well not much anyway

I loved my childhood. didn't need to study. didn't need to work to earn money.

I also loved it when i was 22 cos I married to the love of my life.

As of now, it's hard to study and work at the same time. especially my job. it's very difficult, time consuming and technical. I need more money to be able to enjoy myself more and pay for the mortgage! I look forward to future and especially my 30s.

SunburnedPenguin wrote:Haha Occam, true.....but the movies did introduce Tolkiens world to a lot of people who went on to read not only the original books, but his other amazing work too. People who would have otherwise missed out on the glorious world that is Middle Earth.

I love the movies, and they do capture the essence of the original story, even if a lot of lore is missed out. I love the way they portray the close bonds between the hobbits without making it seem homo-erotic....well not much anyway

After I saw the first two movies I read all the books. It was at an unhealthy age though. I was in year 4 I've read them three or times since then.... I like books.