You after 20 years
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Topic: You after 20 years
Posted By: Guests
Subject: You after 20 years
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 12:06
| Ok, can you imagine yourself after 20 years? Do you have a clue how will you look like or what will be your occupation? Do you have a vision for yourself? |
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Posted By: The-Bullet
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 13:17
I did 20 years ago. And I couldn't have been more wrong  ------------- 
"Why say it cannot be done.....they'd be better doing pop songs?" |
Posted By: 3.1415926535897
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 13:24
At any particular moment I have a vision for myself all mapped out; but then it keeps changing  The only thing I am reasonably sure of is that my occupation will be math-oriented in some way. I'm not sure if that's something to be nervous about or to be excited about; probably both.
------------- Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened - Winston Churchill |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 14:13
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i'll be an unemployable hikikomori living in a one-room apartment full of garbage
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 14:23
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I'll be "too old to rock and roll but too young to die". ------------- 
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 14:33
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Resquiecat in Pace
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 15:38
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I'll be retired, living somewhere desolete like Chiapas or Belize, and looking something like this:
 ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 16:55
I'll be the guy at the nursing home who has to be told to turn down "Gates of Delirium" because it's scaring the younger residents and keeping them up all night.  ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 16:57
dead most likely 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 16:59
Seconds on that.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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micky wrote:Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 17:03
Being a scientist, I might end up with either this:
 Noble prize
But most probably this:
 Ig Noble prize....
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 17:05
OR... if still here at PA's .... expanding the prog collection   ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 17:09
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Retired? (Not bloody likely ) |
Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 17:13
Eh, Micky... that's me right now... But this guy is lucky... He has shoes....
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Posted By: cynthiasmallet
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 17:18
Probably in a fairly steady job, hopefully with a partner. There's no humour in it, but what's wrong with a bit of honesty?  ------------- Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat? |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 17:19
Nothing wrong with that.........
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 17:23
 hmmmmmm...Prog v. Shoes and Roof over head. Sounds like a great poll idea hahahhaha ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 17:24
| Me in 20 years...I imagine myself with a PhD in something related to Chemistry with a huge prog collection. Massively huge prog collection. Hopefully still with hair. |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 18:09
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I'll be in the same situation as laplace, methinks.
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Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 18:12
By the way, i didn't know you were into Chemistry..have you always been or has it come to you recently? ------------- 
'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..' |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 21:03
  or maybe even:  if not: Seriously, this thread would seem to presume a certain youthfulness, no?
 ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 21:25
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^ hehehehe I would imagine I'd be pretty much how I am now, but that portrait in the attic is going to be looking really bad.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 01:51
Hopefully not  ... I am not planning to be! After all, at 67 many people are still in good shape. I know my own mother was, and she still would be now if she hadn't died. Let's be a bit optimistic for once! |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 01:57
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I haven't even lived 20 years, do I already need to think what 20 years from now will make me look like?
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 02:10
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With any luck, dead. Not that that's a fairly original response, t'would seem. Progsters must be a dour lot... ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 03:26
God I thought this was a prog-rock forum, not an Emo meeting place! 
Face it in 20 years time, some of you may just have reached puberty!
CHEER UP YOU MISERABLE GITS! ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 03:35
Hah! One of my favorite scenarios - in about 20 years time (if you take assorted chavs etc out of the equation) there will be old peoples' homes full of elderly hippies/proggers, playing their ancient CD collections at ear splitting volume. Well meaning but talentless youngsters will pop in every week to play bad acoustic versions of songs we know & love, like 'Suppers Ready', 'The Revealing Science Of God' and 'Tarkus'... Young nurses will make sure we're taking our drugs on a regular basis... 
The place will smell of a combination of boiled cabbage, wee and patchouli oil (something like a present day Rolling Stones gig). ...and Genesis will still be denying rumours of a Gabriel reunion... -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 04:10
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20 years ago I imagined that I would now be working in a bank in Stoke. Now I live in Greece and have a job I like. Sometimes life turns out better than you expect. The secret is to have low expectations. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10"> 
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 04:37
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Or even better: have no expectations whatsoever! Well I'll be 47 in 20 years time and I hope I have all my hair and faculties still. Nicky will be 58 and will still look younger - and be fitter - than me. Such is life. -------------
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 05:29
I'll be a rich and famous poet living in a haunted mansion. 
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 10:14
Pornstar (with a huge... Prog collection!  )------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 12:30
I hate all you people saying what you'll be in 20 years time... when most of you will still be younger than I am now
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 12:33
I am 47, and I have all my hair and faculties still - and I'm not planning to part with either of them any time soon ! |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 13:06
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The real interesting question for me is where the heck am I going to put all of my music collection in 20 years?
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 13:19
Ah but Raff, women age more gracefully than us blokes. We lose hair and go a wee bit crazy in the head. It'll also be the time I likely have my mid-life crisis. -------------
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Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 13:38
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WHAT????? ARE YOU CRAZY???? HOW COULD YOU INCLUDE THEM IN HERE??? YOU #%&()^**()&$%$%$@@))(.... ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 14:40
Chemistry has always been a love of mine...pretty much equal with music which is basically at the top of the list. |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 15:01
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I've probably lost some of my hair in 20 years time. But i'll never shave my head completely bald!
In 20 years i think i'm working with art or something, i'll have a HUGE CD collection, a LARGE vinyl collection, and look almost like i do now, but 20 years older.
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Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 22:33
| I will smell like a wall. |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 18:32
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i'll have conquered space and time, soi wont have to worry about 20 years into thefuture ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 19:02
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If you're really curious you can go http://www.careerbuilder.com/age-o-matic/Default.aspx?siteid=ageomatic&loc=interstitialskip&cbRecursionCnt=1&cbsid=a0e566c0432049aeb63aa9e01d3cf151-251491807-J8-5 - here to see what you'll look like when you're old. ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 19:02
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Probably the same, except I will have moved out, maybe to some other country (probably within Europe though). Might be studying stuff still or have some pretty interesting job involving art-related things. I could also be heavily involved with music. Basically, I have no idea, and I prefer to keep it that way rather than giving myself unrealistic goals and getting disappointed when I end up on the street or something. Sounds pessimist, but it's more like... Well it's not really pessimist anyway. |
Posted By: the_id
Date Posted: January 02 2008 at 21:14
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20 years? Make it 25 years ago. I was a happy go lucky music lover, more open minded than i am today, less cynical, less negative and more optimistic about our great place.
20 years from now? being alive would be a start, still waiting for ELP to play that elusive gig i never have gotten to see. ------------- Why apologize? There is no great shame in thinking you are right. |
Posted By: asimplemistake
Date Posted: January 02 2008 at 23:39
ahaha thats great. too bad I don't know how to post that here... Ah-ha! I found a way. Heres me in the future: http://www.careerbuilder.com/age-o-matic/?mid=25301293 - http://www.careerbuilder.com/age-o-matic/?mid=25301293 I couldn't think of anything clever for my guy to say |