@aperson,
I've been places ap. Not much use any of them. Same old **** everywhere. You can always tell somebody who has never been anywhere of significance. They always want to go places. Like they are frustrates. You can tell they haven't found out how useless these places all are. They still have ambitions based on having swallowed the bullshit from a load of carrot danglers.
A2K self selects for folk who still fancy going places. And who want to share. That can give you the false impression that you're in a majority who think going places has something worthwhile on the end of it. It is a bad mistake.
I've been inside the rim of Mt Etna and it looks just the same as any other rocky outcrop above your sightline.
The hero of Titantic left his life in Wisconsin to go to Paris to "be an artist". Spendius left his comfy hearth to seek his fortune buying and selling women. Both are fictional characters of course but the authors were trying to tell you something.
effemm runs a rat run you know. He dangles a diploma under their noses for proving they have paid rapt attention to his spiels, which can be decoded as paeans of praise to his own numinosity, which glows don't you know if nobody laughs. The reason he thinks I think I'm good is because he can't imagine anybody not doing. So he projects that twee sentiment onto me. As if I don't know what a hopeless asshole I am. Then he has these little fantasies which are just strings of cliches he's picked up on his weary way through this vale of tears and woe. They cheer him up. They have as much effect on me as Colonel Hall had on Bilko. He probably read them in one of those crap books he spends his time on. He reads crap so that he can continue aspiring to be a writer. I read class books and gave up such a silly aspiration on realising just how far back I am. If writing was a cross-country race effemm would be among the stragglers.
Getting through life in one piece is all I'm interested in and having a bit of fun along the way watching the jackdaws strut in peacock's feathers.
You should never show disrespect to older gentlemen you know. You might as well jump off a high building.