The answer is 62 not 42

[TheHateIsNotGood]

Born 1962 now aged 62 and led many years thinking that the Answer was 42. If you're currently 62 born in 1962 then you might have an idea about what I'm posting about.

AND THEN!! da ta di tah I realized on the back of another thread concerning the education of our PM that he too is aged 62 born in 1962. And, concerning his education, not only did the PM pass his 11+ and be one of the 90 boys in a very large catchment area to get in to Reigate Grammar School he stayed through the very tumultuous disintegration of the Grammar Schools which turned Reigate Grammar into a fee-paying Independent School.

I have never crossed paths with Keir although I'm a 62 and who was educated at the Reigate County School for Girls, the other 'grammar school' wiped out of being at the same time.

Just to clarify, Keir wasn't privately educated. 1962 a great vintage.

I’m 44, born in 1980 and not a fucking clue what you’re on about.

Yes it probably is 42 - the age at which I finally got pregnant.

However, I am also 62, where I grew up it made me a product of the change to comprehensive schools. The old grammar schools didn’t turn into private schools they became sixth form colleges and in one case a comp. I think the system worked for me.

As an aside, my late father was born on the 29th day of the month of his birth in 1929. He didn’t make it to 2029 of course but 94 wasn’t at all a bad innings 🙏

The answer for me was deffo 42.
Started seeing clearly who is/was an arsehole and who is/was worth while.
Started seeing myself and the whole world
in a different way.
Decided who is gonna get my time and energy and who gets fuck all.
Stopped having any sexual interactions whatsoever because I always loathed and feared sex.
Started hating most men.
Happy in myself at 46.

@TheHateIsNotGood it appears that we are the only two who own a Babelfish. I understand that Stephen Fry is the only living person to know why it is 42.

Goodbye and thanks for all the fish.

Have used that in every leaving announcement email I've sent to work colleagues my whole career and no one has ever got the reference.

Sigh

So glad to be amongst fellow hitchhikers at last

Simon Jones is vair vair vair posh and if you google him he was born in one of the biggest houses in the U.K.

So, in this analogy, who is the ravenous bugblatter beast of Traal?

Laurence Fox.

A few years ago I went to a local attraction that was running a kid's space activity. As we entered, each person was asked for the essential skill they would be bringing to the mission. I said that I was good at cleaning telephones - and, tumbleweed . No one got the reference.

And the answer is 42. Even Alexa knows that.

You'll have to build an even bigger computer to find that out.

"The Wings"

Nice 😄

Well that took me way too long.

I understand 42 because that's the meaning of life.

62 after being born in 62 is just wazzockwap.

Exactly! People are worrying about climate change, COL, Trump.

BUT NO ONE IS CLEANING THE TELEPHONES!

Three Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters, by the sounds of it.

I've just had a great idea. Not about how people could be nicer to one another and without anybody being nailed to a cross this time - but about the identity of the poster who starts all the woeful threads about Keir Starmer and how awful everything is.

It's Marvin, isn't it?

And thank you to all you posters, no matter if you got the 'joke' or not; I just can't help myself sometimes, but spew it out,

nb: the grammar school 'mention' does relate to several points:

The recent lengthy mn thread on wether Dear Keir was privately educated or not and I can categorically state he was not.

That said, at the same time (due to the State Grammar Schools being wiped out), DK attended the Boys' School and the completely separate, autonomous Girls' State Grammar got wiped out too and there were a fair few girls and young women left with nowhere to go.

I wasn't one of them but some of my peers turned up to start their A-levels to be told they weren't expected.

I'll come up with another thoughtlet, later rather than sooner, because essentially I'm rather kind.

Don't panic

@Agapornis

well, if there's any left it would be rude not to!

in case you're sleeping I'll get going on the Malibu 😄

Somewhere out there is a wildlife park in which a large bull elephant is charging around, smashing and destroying everything he see, trumpeting and stomping in an incontrollable, blistering rage.

Why's he doing that? Because he's in unimaginable, inconceivable, mind-shattering levels of completely uncontrolled physical pain, as well as unthinkable amounts of emotional pain and distress.

Why's he going through all this? Simple. Instead of taking the meds from the vet to Daddy Dumbo, she took one look at them and said to herself "oooh, look! smarties!" and promptly proceeded to scoff the lot...

Event he ASCII code for 42 is * ie life the universe and everything.