No more hero's?

[Ezteq]

Next week i'll be hitting the grand old age of 26 and a few things have started going through my mind


yea yeah cheap shots here get em while there hot!!
1) your mind took 26 years to kick in??
2) wondered what that noise was
3) thought the hampster was looking knackered

Any way as i was saying before i was so rudely interrupted, it suddenly dawned on me that all my heros from when i was a kid are either dead or so old theyre less used appendages have started to petrify, and while watching superman 3 this afternoon i actually got increadibly sad watching the movie and remembering that superman actually spent the last years of his life in a wheelchair paralised from the neck down before dying at a rediculously young age.

The cogs started turning then and i realised that indianna jones is about 63 and will no longer be Han solo... in a short while i doubt he will be able to do anything solo and as for indianna jones, well i hear theyre making a new one but whats he going to be looking for his dentures? Indianna jones and the escape from shady acres? with lines like "enemas... why'd it have to be enemas??"

Clint Eastwood 75: Dirty Harry, one of my all time heros the hard bastard no one wants to cross "Did i fire 5 bullets there or 6, to be quite honest i cant quite remember, ask your self a question punk do you feel lucky??" and the sad truth of it now is that he truely cant remember how many shots he fired, what he was firing at, where he is and he's thinking "man i'd rather be at home writing angry letters to the people that cancelled the antiques roadshow"

Arnold schwarzenegger 58: The Terminator, man what a hero gun toting muscle pumping the essence of action hero, now what is he? a flipping polititian!!! "I'll be back... with more to say on this years policies on cleaning chewing gum off the sidewalks!" man the less said the better imo.

Bruce willis 50: Officer John Mclean NYPD! man could anyone ever pull off the string vest look, can i get a hell yeah! but now err podgy bald guy in a swetty vest, well tbh if i want to see one of them i'll just take a stroll past the DSS on gyro day. Die hard? again i hear theyre making another die hard movie whats it going to be this time? [john mclean hooked to an iv drip] "Nuuuuuurse, i need a bed pan and i think i spilt jelly down me vest" <deep cheesy voice over voice> *it was his last assignment... and he found it wasnt that hard* "" coming soon Die Hard4: just get it over with so the kids can spend the inheritance!""


It goes to show we all get old and we all one day will be sitting there infront of a little 2 bar gas heater with a cup of ovaltine, a tartan rug over our knees and one giant slipper in to which we've inserted both bunion riddled feet in to.

we'll probably forget about the slipper as we stand up to go to the toilet from drinking too much ovaltine as our bladder just cant take the strain any more and topple head first in to the gas fire only to be discovered days later when the milk on the doorstep keeps piling up and the neighbours cant quite bring themselves to live with that smell any more, come in to the one room flatlet we occupy and find us half devoured by a scabby old terrier called wuffles.

so with that thought to keep you company when you turn down the bed covers tonight just remember the moral of this story.

giant one footed slippers are killers!!! get out there and enjoy your life before they strike you down!





love and kisses

 

[Fana]

Will also be 26 this summer, but im less concerned about my childhood "heroes" getting old than about me getting old =.= Feels like the years are just starting to fly away, so fast In notime ill be 40 myself and wonder where my youth went - at least those guys have some pretty interesting lifes to look back on, and are in most cases still doing stimulating and interesting things.

Wish you could freeze life until you figure out what it is all about and what you want to do, so you wont waste so much of it.

 

[Job]

Sorry to tell you, but 26 is the last age you will ever be described as young, it's downhill from now on.
You'll start to feel uncomfortable in the pub full of 16 yr olds.

You suddenly find your to old to start in those jobs you dreamt of as a kid,
adverts with 'looking for people aged 19-27' start to slam home.

The good news is as you age the less of a fuk you give about it.

 

[Thorwyn]

On the other hand:

-Victor Korchnoi is still playing chess and having a great time at Grandmaster level at the age of 77 (iirc).
-Andor Lilienthal, another Chess Grandmaster just celebrated his 94th birthday. He´s the only one (alive) who has beaten Emanuel Lasker
Alexander Aljekhin and Jose Raul Capablanca, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th chess worldchampions.
-Steve Davis is still playing Snooker at a pretty high level I hear.
-Mick Jagger is still can´t get no Satisfaction.
-Duke Nukem is done when it´s done.
-George Foreman - when he´s not busy selling grilling machines or talking religious BS - is still hitting people.

sorry...must go to bed now, the nurse is calling.

 

[Kami]

Real heroes are the soldiers and support staff over in iraq and Afghanistan.

oh and well said Job

 

[old.Tohtori]

Real heroes are the soldiers and support staff over in iraq and Afghanistan.

....just have to bring that "oh soldiers are heroes" crap over here too...

Sorry but i had enoguh of that glorification!

Anyway, now that i got that out of me.

*ahem*

As they said, your mind is the first thing to go. Like me, you better start waiting for the rest.

Though i'm only turning 26 like..err...in this many months!

Optimus prime is dead. Long live optimus. Only thing wrong.

 

[Outlander]

Gotta say I feel like there are no heros left! Ez described how Im feeling and Im only 23! such babeh! :touch:

about the iraq stuff...such bleh!

 

[Hawkwind]

1. You'll start to feel uncomfortable in the pub full of 16 yr olds.

2. You suddenly find your to old to start in those jobs you dreamt of as a kid,
adverts with 'looking for people aged 19-27' start to slam home.

3. The good news is as you age the less of a fuk you give about it.

1. Don't go to the pub unless meeting friends and generally take the piss out of all the 16 year olds drinking their alco pops. Most of the time your tastes change and you start drinking in different places. Avoiding the kiddies.

2. Those jobs that specify 19-27 don't pay enough anyway. With a family, mortgage and several cars to pay for your priorities change.

3. /agreed

 

[Marc]

Aye whats with all the kids drinking alcopops in pubs? Id be embarassed. When i was their age i wouldnt of dreamed of asking for an alcopop. Still wouldnt. They for women, not men.

 

[Conchabar]

live young die young

 

[Mojo]

Real heroes are the soldiers and support staff over in iraq and Afghanistan.

Yer it takes a real Hero to sign up for a job then QQ when they have to do that job

 

[Aragyn]

live young die young

Live Fast, Die Young

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today

Afaik he died a long time ago.

 

[Conchabar]

Live Fast, Die Young

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today

Afaik he died a long time ago.

yup best way to live

 

[Brite]

sombody sounds depressed ;P

 

[Stunned]

I think most sports are less interesting, having hit the big 30 myself. When the players are "kids" to me, its not as fun watching anymore.

 

[yaruar]

Live Fast, Die Young.....

And leave a bloodied mangled corpse lying on a gurney.

 

[Gear]

The turning point is when you start reminiscing about the past. Hitting 31 this summer, and sometimes it's quite hard to let it go and chase after the future despite knowing that if I don't, that'll be the time when I'll get "old".

And indeed, I had my crisis 5 years ago when I was hitting 26. Oh the memories...

 

[Rediknight]

Real heroes are the soldiers and support staff over in iraq and Afghanistan...*snip*

See, i was in the unenviable position of being FOR the war, but AGAINST the troops. You can understand why that was so difficult a stance. See, they're all out there with their weapons catalogues, "What's G14 do, Tommy?", "Says it destroys everything 'cept the fillin's in their teeth - helps pay for the war effort!", "Well hell, lets bring that one up!" *WOOOOOSSSSHHHHH.....*























*BOOM!!!!!*
"Wow... Whats G15?"

In a War, the only REAL heroes are the ones who are trying to STOP IT, tbh - everyone else is just in it for the badge...

 

[Ezteq]

ok ok hands up i admit real as in REAL heros are those dudes that go in to a burning building and save 2 babies, a kitten and some old womans giant slipper, or those families where the couple cant have kids of their own so devote their lives to fostering and giving kids who havent got a real family a nice life but i dont know any of them so cant get sad at the thought of them getting old.

However reading through your replies i realised that infact im not really all that upset about getting older, i mean hay it happens to everyone (except those who do die young) the people i feel sorry for are those that cling desperately to their youth and spend and waste what should be the prime of their life wishing they were 16 again,
Tbh if i had the choice no way in hell would i want to be 16 ever again the hormones, the agony of unrequited love, not being able to have a beer when i want, waiting for years for my boobs to grow and finally giving up and realising that this was as good as it gets. Sod that for a laugh.

I think im actually relishing getting older i get to do all sorts of stuff that when i was 16 i'd have been waaaay too embaressed about like go in to a shop and buy giant pants cos theyre comfy and im sick of wedgies, walking about in a hawaiian shirt and bamuda shorts, not being self consious when i dance, fluffy pyjamas and ofc with age you get the great benifit of being able to blame everything on being senile (though i've been doing that since i was 14).

Totally agree with that quote from the last page about living like today was your last, face it how many folks have spend a whole weekend doing bugger all thinking "i'll do it tomorrow" and the next day they get run over (though seeing as i am now safely ensconsed in my giant pants i do live in fear of being in a car accedent the paramedics will die laughing if they ever see these babies)

And on the plus side when we really are old we'll probably be able to dl our self in to a newer model body and go out and do all the stuff you were meaning to do when we were kids but never had the confidence.

 

[Marc]

Tony Martin is a hero

 

[Conchabar]

sombody sounds depressed ;P

when you realise what the point of life is what do u expect

And leave a bloodied mangled corpse lying on a gurney.

when ure dead why do you care the way you leave the world? you wont have to pick up the pieces at least you wont end up dieing from a disease, old age and have to see the youth abuse you as you trodd around old and useless with wisdom that no kidd will ever listen to

although each to their own... live the way you want you only have one chance to shine ^^ and only your self to blame if you dont live the life you want to live

 

[Funkybunny]

cheap shot!

"what do you have between yer tits now that you didnt have a few years ago? - YER BELLYBUTTON! whapam!"

 

[Rookiescot]

Yer it takes a real Hero to sign up for a job then QQ when they have to do that job

Yeah I can see how your an acute millitary observer who knows lots about a soldiers job.
Fact is you dont see soldiers in the media QQ'ing about their job.
You do see "some" mothers or fathers QQ'ing about how their poor little kid is getting sent to war.
Most of the soldiers over in Iraq or any other war zone are far more worried about something else.
They are worried about making a twat of something and letting their mates down.
Of course in their quieter moments they will have reservations about what is going on or might be round the corner.
But when its all said and done it aint about politics or the right or wrong or why's.
It's about you and your mates.



And there is oddly something else.....
You wanna know if ALL that training and hard work was really worth it.
And what better way to test it than to try it for real.

Huuuuuraaa!!

 

[Natswoo]

If you're feeling old at 26, i must be feeling ancient, seriously 26 is young.....

 

[old.Tohtori]

True hero is the guy who actually gives money to the beggers in the street.

True hero is the guy who gives his seat for a lady.

True hero is the guy who stays with a friend when their sick.

True hero is the lady who keeps her house as a shelterfor homeless or the battered wives.

Police, soldiers, fire department...their doing their f*cking job. I don't wanna be glorified as a hero for making a pretty tree into a game and don't glorify the guy who cleans my dumbster.

Heroism is going out of your way to help another human with no personal gain.

 

[yaruar]

Tony Martin is a hero

if you like your heros as deranged murdering psychopaths who should have been locked up years ago for their own and others safties.

if tony martin is a hero then so is the Yorkshire Ripper, he did the world a favour getting rid of all those prostitutes off the streets............

 

[yaruar]

Police, soldiers, fire department...their doing their f*cking job. I don't wanna be glorified as a hero for making a pretty tree into a game and don't glorify the guy who cleans my dumbster.

I know in the US at least the majority of firefighters are unpaid volunteers, I didn't realise this until i went out there to work with one of my collegues over there who puts in his free time to train and save the lives of others.

 

[Bahumat]

its gr8 when your old. you can play daoc all day with your pension and you dont need to say AFK toilet....you just pee yourself.

 

[Rediknight]

I been thinkin about this for a couple of days, and i figured i DO have a couple of heroes, and yeah, most are dead.

Jason Thirsk - Pennywise
Bill Hicks - dark little poet
Brad Nowell - Sublime

however, some aren't, but it's strange how they SHOULD all be dead, for various reasons;

Howard Marks - Smug druggler
Steven Tyler - Old Aerosmith Pensioner

and even stranger, some aren't even real!!

Butch & Sundance
Brian the Dog (Family Guy)
Jacen Solo (yeah yeah, im a SWnerd - read the NJO series and get over it)

Some of the above have inspired me, some have spoken out loud the things i can't, some have made me jump about all night, some have made me re-assess my views on issues, but ALL of them have one thing in common - They all make me smile (some in a happy way, some in a sad way... dunno if i get that, but... whatever), and they are the only people in the world i'll ever be jealous of, cos i'm not any of them.

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right, who's for cookies???

 

[Conchabar]

my heros consist of

James Joyce r.i.p

Bob Marley r.i.p

My family r.i.p

Cypress Hill <for believing that one day weed will be legal>

Pirates all around the world ^^ <long john silver and pirate hook in particular>

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