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  • We're all big babies

    10/27/2006 10:00:14 AM PDT · by metesky · 10 replies · 658+ views
    The Telegraph London) ^ | 10/22/06 | by Michael Bywater
    We're all big babies Last Updated: 12:01am BST 22/10/2006 How to be an adult Bombarded by petty rules, bossy advice and celebrity tittle-tattle, we have forgotton how to be adults. It's time we grew up, says Michael Bywater I imagine myself to be a grown-up, as, presumably, do you. You think that because you negotiated puberty and developed secondary sexual characteristics, and got qualifications and opened a bank account and subjected yourself to the scrutiny of anti-terrorism laws and anti-money-laundering laws and learned to drive and got a job and perhaps a spouse and maybe children, and quite possibly even pay...
  • The Lost World of Michael Bywater: Hate springs eternal (Super Barf/Deranged Leftist Limey ALerts)

    10/22/2006 8:27:10 PM PDT · by Jacob Kell · 13 replies · 468+ views
    It's that horrible moment when it all comes to a head. You finally know that you were wrong. You know that you were right, too, that things weren't as they seemed, that one day you would come and there she would be, beneath him on the bed, splayed like a starfish, like an exploding constellation, crying out too, but not to you. Even in the full tide of horror, you are astonished at how unsurprised you are. Because you knew. All along, you knew. In my case, it was a love affair that had been going on since I was,...