Originally posted by DimPrawn
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At 40+ you are pretty much unemployable
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You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostIs it if you ARE 40+ or LOOK 40+?
Luckily, due to wearing a wig and some cool surfer clothes at work I only look 39.Comment
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Originally posted by bogeyman View PostThat's going in my 'All time favourite quotes' file.
Agree with you slightly, but I feel a lot of the 'professionalism' you see these days is naught but a thin veneer under which there lies a yawning pit of sheer incompetence.Comment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostI dye my hair when looking for a new contract...
Mind you if I was as young as you and had grey hair I would dye it too."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostIs it if you ARE 40+ or LOOK 40+?
I often see people my age on TV and think - "no you aren't, you're twenty years older."
Or am I fooling myself?Comment
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostIs it if you ARE 40+ or LOOK 40+?
Luckily, due to wearing a wig and some cool surfer clothes at work I only look 39.It's Deja-vu all over again!Comment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostYour so vain........
Mind you if I was as young as you and had grey hair I would dye it too.
At least at my age I can spell.
And it is not grey - silver highlights.Comment
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Originally posted by IR35 Avoider View PostThat witness to the girl who was killed in India is 8 years younger than me but looks several years older. (He's supposed to be 35, but has a partly-grey beard.)
I often see people my age on TV and think - "no you aren't, you're twenty years older."
Or am I fooling myself?
Some people age very badly."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostYou're
At least at my age I can spell.
And it is not grey - silver highlights.
When I've reached your age I will be able to spell to.
I won't have grey "highlights" though as I don't have any children or an ex-wife to stress me out."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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I have grey hairs, but then again I'm growing old disgracefullyConfusion is a natural state of beingComment
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