Growing old is mandatory - growing up is entirely optional!

Started by Ithoriel, 08 July 2013, 03:26:19 PM

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Dave Fielder

19 July 2013, 10:43:56 PM #30
What a bunch of kids! Just grow up ...
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Hertsblue

20 July 2013, 08:58:38 AM #31
No, shan't!  :P
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Orcs

23 July 2013, 08:13:37 PM #32
Quote from: fsn on 11 July 2013, 07:16:35 PM
I can however, eke out a few pennies to devote to Pendraken every now and again, as long as I forgo holidays and entertaining, food and new clothes. 

FSN

I do think you are exagerating here - Your a wargamer - why do you need new clothes ?  A 1960's cardi and a pair of Courdroy trousers and your all set  ;D

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Orcs

23 July 2013, 08:15:41 PM #33
Quote from: fsn on 08 July 2013, 06:45:09 PM
I grew up once. Didn't like it so jacked it in as a bad job. 

I got a card two years ago from my two step daughters saying "Happy 5th Birthday"  So I obviously have not grown up, and have no intention of doing so.
The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

fsn

23 July 2013, 08:36:59 PM #34
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 23 July 2013, 08:13:37 PM
I do think you are exagerating here - Your a wargamer - why do you need new clothes ?  A 1960's cardi and a pair of Courdroy trousers and your all set  ;D

The only new clothes I get are the Batman t-shirts my daughter buys me.
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sixsideddice

13 August 2013, 03:36:58 PM #35 Last Edit: 13 August 2013, 03:39:06 PM by sixsideddice
QuoteReading Techno's 1200+ post I realised I'd dived right in to the Forum without saying hi, so I thought I'd rectify that.

I'm a few days off my 60th birthday and played my first wargame (as opposed to battle games with matchstick cannon and marbles) in 1965 using Airfix 1:600 ships in my back garden with the Fletcher Pratt rules from Don Featherstone's "Naval Wargames". I have graduated from solely naval to covering land, sea, air and space!

Bizarrely, as my eyesight and hand-eye coordination deteriorate I find myself drawn to smaller and smaller figures with 10mm now being the largest figures I do.

These days I do more board gaming than figure gaming (six of us on a Tuesday and  four on a Friday most weeks) but I'm planning on getting back in to more tabletop stuff too. First up, WW2 Germans and Russians from Pendraken for use with BKC II.

As to the avatar ... well I do tend to rabbit  Embarrassed  

OMG, FINALLY..... its happened, I`m not the oldest one here any more (does the happy dance). A warm Welcome to the madhouse , sir.  :D


By the way, what board games do you play?

Hertsblue

14 August 2013, 10:36:48 AM #36
You're nowhere near the oldest here, Six, at least, physically (mentally, I'm not so sure)  :-\
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sixsideddice

14 August 2013, 12:27:15 PM #37
QuoteYou're nowhere near the oldest here, Six, at least, physically (mentally, I'm not so sure)  Undecided

=O    *dribbles onto my bib*
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