Re: Re:Childish things was Re: That Age Thing

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>From: <devans@uneb.edu>
>To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 11:09 AM
>Subject: Re:Childish things was Re: That Age Thing
>
>
>>to just a waste of time and space
>
>    That's something else I've noticed in this day and age:  The
downright
>hostility toward hobbies of anykind.  Gamers like ourselves, stamp
>collectors, models builders, amatuer historians, fly fishers, and other
>esoteric pursuits have probably heard the phrase "get a life" more than
>once.	Just what, pray tell, I am SUPPOSED to be doing when I'm not
sleeping
>or working to fed, clothe, and shelter myself?

The things that the mundanes DO consider to be socially "normal" - drink
yourself senseless, wash the car, beat the wife, spend thirty quid to
scream like a moron at a couple of dozen overpaid idiots chasing an
inflated sheep's pancreas round a field on Saturday afternoon, things
like
that....  ;-)

Jon (GZG) - probably feeling particulary cynical tonight....

PS: A classic case in point: to the mundanes, a person walking down the
street wearing a football shirt with a player's name and number on the
back
= OK, a keen fan.
A person out in public in a Star Trek uniform = a loony.
Discuss.

>
>Later,
>Mark A. Siefert
>
>	"Live each day as if it were your last. It's an extremely
> stressful way to live, but it does motivate a person."
>
>     --Michael J. Nelson
>	"Life 101"
>
>E-MAIL: siefertma@wauknet.com	 WWW: http://www.homegame.org/siefert