Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Autumnal]

Dad used to joke about the guy who traded in his 40 for two 20s. Alas, not a joke but a goal for too many.

 

[RealAlHazred]

I don't see any slippery slope involved.

Apropos of nothing, when I talk about "slippery slopes," y'all should probably know the only slope I really mean is the one where people start disagreeing with me, and then it just continues with their disagreement. Which I try my best to prevent, since I am always right about everything I say, all the time!

 

[Thomas Shey]

There is at least one author who i look at and think, "Between this book and that book, you went through a bad divorce and went batstuff insane."

Steve Perrin used to comment about one particular SF author who you could tell at what point in his life he had a bad break with his adult child and which point he reconciled with them.

 

[Scribe]

Dad used to joke about the guy who traded in his 40 for two 20s. Alas, not a joke but a goal for too many.

I thought on that joke when I turned 40, and my son was nearing 20 and bringing around girls of that age.

I quickly discarded the idea as a mistake to be avoided at all costs.

 

[Umbran]

“Spot the post-breakup story” is a hardy perennial topic in various fandoms.

In the case i am thinking of, it isn't just one story. The author goes down a misogynistic and regressive rabbit hole and has not yet emerged.

The quality and coherence of his writing wasn't improved by this either.

 

[Ryujin]

I thought on that joke when I turned 40, and my son was nearing 20 and bringing around girls of that age.

I quickly discarded the idea as a mistake to be avoided at all costs.

I work in a university, as I have stated before. Back in my mid-30s I asked out a girl who works in our Registration department; beautiful girl who looked to be in at least her late 20s. Turned out she was 19. Zero experience in common. Last time I ever did that.

 

[trappedslider]

There are some genuinely good people that are celebrities. There are some genuinely bad people. But most of them are just people- with good and bad.

"don't try to be a great man. just be a man, and let history make its own judgments?"

 

[RealAlHazred]

In the case i am thinking of, it isn't just one story. The author goes down a misogynistic and regressive rabbit hole and has not yet emerged.

The quality and coherence of his writing wasn't improved by this either.

For the first time in this thread, I think I know who you're talking about. And it's tragic, I really liked his stuff before he lost his freaking sense.

 

[RealAlHazred]

"don't try to be a great man. just be a man, and let history make its own judgments?"

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I work in a university, as I have stated before. Back in my mid-30s I asked out a girl who works in our Registration department; beautiful girl who looked to be in at least her late 20s. Turned out she was 19. Zero experience in common. Last time I ever did that.

I cannot imagine deciding, at my age, to learn all about 20something TikTok influencers so I could hold up my end of a conversation about youth culture.