Scarlet ([info]scarletdemon) wrote,
@ 2007-11-07 19:51:00
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Careless Whispers
Much love to everyone who commented on my last post! So nice to hear from you all. Awww. I've only borrowed Unimag's computer for a bit, so I'll crack on and make a new entry shall I?

Translation Of The Things People Say To You, When They Find Out Your Boyfriend Is Twenty Years Younger Than You:

1) "Enjoy it while it lasts"

Romantic relationships do tend, by their very nature, to have a varied life-expectancy but in your case I'd like to draw special attention to the fact that it may not last because you've landed someone twenty years younger than you and I haven't.

2) "Has he had many girlfriends?"

Wow, your boyfriend is twenty years younger than you? I've never felt more compelled to suggest to someone (through the power of an amazingly subtle remark) that they may be the Hobson's Choice of a socially inadequate, desperate loner.

3) "You'll meet someone else"

It won't last, we've all embarrassed ourselves enough just by you mentioning it. NOW, let's move you on to the next man and never mention this again.

4) "You dirty bitch!"

I'm so shallow I can never imagine a relationship with an age-gap being based on anything but sex. What is sex like anyway? I've forgotten.

5) "Don't take it too seriously"

Romantic relationships do tend, by their very nature, to have a varied life-expectancy but in your case I'd like to draw special attention to the fact that it may not last because you've landed someone twenty years younger than you and I haven't. Bet nobody has hinted that at you before...

6) "I bet you teach him some things..."

Because you have a large age-gap in your relationship I feel totally free to suggest that either your boyfriend is rubbish at sex and needs your help, OR that your are a demented old whore corrupting an innocent lad with your vast array of carnal tricks.

7) "Sugar Mummy!"

I'm so shallow I can never imagine a relationship with an age-gap being based on anything but money.

8) "What do you find to talk about?"

Personally, I have a mental illness that prevents me from communicating with anyone who wasn't born in the same year as me.

9) "Mrs Robinson!"

You're in love? Awww! Let me take this opportunity to compare you to a fictional psychotic old drunk who trapped a younger man into a purely sexual relationship, in a film directed by Simon & Garfunkel!

Why can't people just be nice?

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[info]medusa
2007-11-07 08:32 pm UTC (link)
Feh, fuck 'em, they are just jealous because they are so bloody boring that they have to date within their own decade.

And I thought people were repellently insolent enough about the eight year gap between the atheist and I. Of course, if it was the other way round they would be tripping over their stupid, dribbling, oversized, village idiot tongues to congratulate him. :(

Anyway! Hope you are very happy and that Brandon is now King Of His Respective Hood, or whatever the young people call it these days. x

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[info]drjon
2007-11-07 08:33 pm UTC (link)
Why can't people just be nice?

That would be because they're busy being Jealous Bitchy Bastards.

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[info]magicmarmot
2007-11-07 08:33 pm UTC (link)
Because they're jealous.

Go for it. :)

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[info]ladyfox7oaks
2007-11-07 08:35 pm UTC (link)
My thoughts?
"Bravo! You GO, Girl!"
Meaning,
"Good for you! I hope you are happy, and while I'm shallow enough to contemplate the idea that you probably wear him out- >:P - I also have enough depth to realize that age, -gap or not- does not define where love may or may not strike."

Glad to hear from you- I was just wondering if you were still out there and what the _____ was going on. - and - of course, what LGB was getting into these days... :D

Take care!

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[info]ncsuj
2007-11-07 08:40 pm UTC (link)
I love it!

Other than the fact that I am jealous because I'm pretty sure I'd do dirty dirty things to him, I am overjoyed!

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[info]kitlizzy
2007-11-07 08:41 pm UTC (link)
I just have to say congrats and squee to you both. :)

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[info]ms_elusive
2007-11-07 08:42 pm UTC (link)
Haha.
I'm glad you're happy.

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[info]emmabovary
2007-11-07 08:44 pm UTC (link)
Hear hear. Here's the thing. He looks far older than his chronological age, and you look far younger.

At least that's what I say.

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[info]unimag
2007-11-13 09:33 pm UTC (link)
You cheeky fucker.

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[info]redherring
2007-11-07 08:45 pm UTC (link)
Screw hearing about people's comments to you - I'd way rather hear about your responses to them, either spoken or left unsaid :)

And congrats! I'm glad you're happy.

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[info]myfirstkitchen
2007-11-07 08:45 pm UTC (link)
Someone I was friends with at school married a man close to 40 years her senior. They've been together 9 years now. If she's happy with him looking like Jack Straw, which is more of a flaw I think than being a bit wrinkly, that's dandy.

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[info]saladbar
2007-11-07 08:47 pm UTC (link)
Why can't people just be nice?

I ask myself that all the time. Really. Why do people want to wish you ill? Even my dad, when I told him part of the SF bridge was down a few months ago.

HIM: Well that is really going to mess your schedule up.
ME: No, I rarely drive to SF
HIM: But I bet you'll have to while it is down!
ME: I doubt it.
HIM: No, I am sure you'll have to go. What a headache you'll get.
ME: I am not going to SF Dad

... ad nauseum how this is going to be bad for me. WHY WISH UP SCENARIOS that will likely NEVER happen to me?

Same with you? Why do people insist on those scenarios? Instead of: Are you happy? Congratulations!

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[info]accordingly
2007-11-07 08:47 pm UTC (link)
Nothing wrong with age gaps. It's all good.
Unless you were my age going out with someone 20 years younger than you, because they would be a baby.

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[info]andrewducker
2007-11-08 09:20 am UTC (link)
I have a nephew I could introduce you to...

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[info]teddywookie
2007-11-07 08:50 pm UTC (link)
Did you ever see the movie Best of the Best? Chris Penn (holy crap he's dead) at one point takes off his Texan hat and screams "Yeah! Ride him like a toilet seat!" Somehow this seems appropriate.

Best wishes to you both.

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[info]sarahsavant
2007-11-07 08:55 pm UTC (link)
Because people are assholes, you dirty minx.

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(Anonymous)
2007-12-03 10:56 am UTC (link)
hahaha genius!

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[info]cindy_reddeer
2007-11-07 08:56 pm UTC (link)
I say "good on you!" for being open enough to embrace the relationship.

A woman I used to work with was 40 and met a great guy of 34 (she had been worried she would never get married and have kids up to this point and had had a scummy boyfriend she finally kick to the curb). I had to talk her into dating him (he was persistent as well) and they are now married and have twins. But it took so much convincing cause she had a heck of a time getting past the fact he was younger than her.

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[info]dativesingular
2007-11-07 08:58 pm UTC (link)
We're going to play "Mrs. Robinson" at the wedding, since I'm "Old Woman" to the man anyway. ;)

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One misanthropist's thought
[info]solar_diablo
2007-11-07 08:58 pm UTC (link)
Why can't people just be nice?

I realize that's a rhetorical question, but - you HAVE actually dealt with people, haven't you?

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Re: One misanthropist's thought
[info]casecob
2007-11-08 01:48 pm UTC (link)
this was my first thought, too, actually.

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[info]cocoskeeper
2007-11-07 09:10 pm UTC (link)
Wait a second... You forgot: "I bet he gets along great with your kids." ;-D

But saying it to ME gets you this answer: "YAY for being happy!!! Congrats!!!!"

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[info]brak55
2007-11-07 09:12 pm UTC (link)
I'm pretty sure that the proper response to any of these would be "I'm so glad that my happiness has provided you with such a strong reaction but, now, would you be so kind as to go fuck yourself."

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[info]pdx6
2007-11-07 09:18 pm UTC (link)
I always knew you were a cougar. :)

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Why can't people just be nice?
[info]liddle_oldman
2007-11-07 09:21 pm UTC (link)
'cause they're assholes?

In the meantime, welcome back! (Even if momentarily)

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[info]hookncrook
2007-11-07 09:30 pm UTC (link)
Ah the joys of people who are scandalized by the fact they aren't having your relationship!

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[info]eskimolimon
2007-11-07 09:44 pm UTC (link)
What does "Cor! *does fist pumping like steam engine thing*" translate as?

Sorry.

Good to see you back and happy. Don't spend so long away next time. Though I imagine having a new lover is much more interesting than talking to us bunch of freaks on the internet.

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[info]sarahdelynn
2007-11-07 09:45 pm UTC (link)
I'm 8 years older than my husband, which means I did kind of instigate things when he was *gasp* a minor, so we get the stink eye from time to time. But, fuck em all. He'll be a rich lawyer soon and they are just jealous I bagged his fresh young ass while the getting was good. Or something. Besides, his cranky old man soul really evens out any apparent age difference.

At any rate, I'm sure you won't have any problems letting them know where the train to Fuckoffville deboards.

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[info]burkesworks
2007-11-07 09:50 pm UTC (link)
Sod what *they* say, it's about whether you're both happy that counts. Age gaps should have nothing to do with it; I know from experience!

Great to see you posting again.

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