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Anyone read BIG BABIES or: Why can't we just grow up?

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fairyfly · 18/03/2008 17:04

I started it this afternoon, it's fabulous, i can't put it down, i also laughed out loud in my local cafe while sitting alone.

Really enjoying it so far.

This is the paragraph that has tickled me the most, but i am stil only on page 40.

"It strikes you out of kilter that there's a notice at London Paddington Station which says 'Please be ready to move away with your luggage when you reach the top of the escalator' because it implies that otherwise you wouldn't be able to move away with your luggage but, instead, would stand there like a moron with other morons piling up against you so eventually something has to give and you all tumble back down the escalator in a melee of morons and get sucked into the mechanism and ground to hanburger and they'd hose the blood down and scrub the gobbets of stupid flesh out of the machinery and start it up again and the same thing would happen again...... or if not, why the need for the notice"

The book is basically about the state of society and how we are all being treated like
big kids.

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WideWebWitch · 22/03/2008 20:32

I've got it and started it, put it down again and now it's got lost in the huge pile of books on my bedside table. But yes, I love the escalator comment

CocoDeBearisCocoDeBear · 22/03/2008 20:35

It's on my wish list. Will read this thread with interest!

KimiKilledTheEasterBunny · 22/03/2008 20:42

DH1 has got most of them playing monopoly now, DP and sister are cooking, roast duck and chicken for those not liking duck (oh the mess), my mother is not looking happy and I am mumsnetting to keep me away from the sharp things

badgermonkey · 22/03/2008 20:43

I really enjoyed it. There's a part where he mentions how many signs warning people not to do things there are in the average train carriage, and now I look every day and see more and more. We are seriously not trusted to be able to do anything, are we?

KimiKilledTheEasterBunny · 22/03/2008 20:43

And that is on the wrong thread

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