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Post by wickedgrin on Sept 30, 2016 22:43:48 GMT
When you get past a certain age you become completely invisible in public I am pleased to say. So I never receive any attention wanted or unwanted.
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Post by showgirl on Oct 1, 2016 3:32:50 GMT
When you get past a certain age you become completely invisible in public I am pleased to say. So I never receive any attention wanted or unwanted. Indeed. Online, however, neither age nor appearance offer any protection. But to return to the point, I was wondering about a discreet version of the badge for the more retiring amongst us. Unfortunately the first abbreviation which came to mind was obviously "TB", which would be more likely to cause other theatregoers to back off. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2016 7:05:22 GMT
When you get past a certain age you become completely invisible in public I am pleased to say. So I never receive any attention wanted or unwanted. I was thinking the same as you, wickedgrin... I have a very hazy memory of a time when I did used to get some. But I can't remember for the life of me when I started to fade into the background. Hang on! I can just about make out a tune... Cellophane... Shoulda been my name... Coz you can look right through me...  Even andrew couldn't remember me after Children Of Eden at Southwark Playhouse recently... And I spoke to his party, offering to move my chair forward for them... Never, ever know... I'm there... |
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Post by anthony40 on Oct 1, 2016 7:24:28 GMT
When you get past a certain age you become completely invisible in public I am pleased to say. So I never receive any attention wanted or unwanted. I was thinking the same as you, wickedgrin... I have a very hazy memory of a time when I did used to get some. But I can't remember for the life of me when I started to fade into the background. Hang on! I can just about make out a tune... Cellophane... Shoulda been my name... Coz you can look right through me... Even andrew couldn't remember me after Children Of Eden at Southwark Playhouse recently... And I spoke to his party, offering to move my chair forward for them... Never, ever know... I'm there... That's very clever. I see what you did there. (In truth) that's how I sometimes feel. "A human being made of more that air, with all that bulk you're bound to see him there" |
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Post by stanne on Oct 2, 2016 9:19:11 GMT
Rule of thumb: if a woman complains about the things some men do to women, and you're a man and have never done that then, awesome, well done, we're not complaining about you. Don't take it personally. Saying 'but I've never done that!' makes it sound like you don't believe us. Like you are trying to dismiss what we're saying. And there's a reason for that, too - it's not the first time most of us have mentioned this stuff online, and generally those responses don't lead to a pleasant conversation, to say the least. Human beings are great at recognising patterns, you know? Pattern recognition is how we learn from past bad experiences to avoid future bad ones. Best post I've read on the subject for a long time.
Thank you, Kathryn.
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