- "I just can't drink the way I used to", replaces, "I'm never going to drink that much again".
- A £4.00 bottle of wine is no longer "pretty good stuff".
- A 'late night' now ends at 11 pm.
- All you want for your birthday is to not be reminded of your age.
They go on and on ....... personally I was talking this over with a mate (who is ageing as disgracefully as me) over a beer or eight this week, and one of the things we concluded was that it was when people you knew were more likely to be dying, than getting married or divorced!
I was reminded of this conversation with the announcement of the sudden death of the punk singer Poly Styrene (sadly, apparently after cancer) ...
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| Singer Poly Styrene |
I remember seeing her and her band X Ray Spex's in 1977 or 1978, and buying their album 'Germ Free Adolescents', in 1978 .... I still have that album ( .... nearly mint), and the single from it "Oh Bondage Up Yours!" .... I was only a young(ish) punk fan back then.
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| XRay Spexs Album |
Sadly I am not young, or even much of a "Punk" now ... but I still have the Sex Pistols on my MP3 play list, and will be adding "Oh Bondage Up Yours!" today as a little homage ....
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| The world will be a tiny bit more boring now. |
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