With the company of two young men, I am reminded daily that I am a dinosaur. Not intentionally, but it is obvious. I am not so old that I don't enjoy hearing Phyllis sing along in his bathroom to Dupa Lipa's Training Season. Whatever happens in the future, I will always associate the song with Phyllis.
My step sister, who I chatted to at the funeral yesterday, has brought up her twin granddaughters and at the age of 14, they love playing soccer.
Step Sister to them: Have you seen the film Bend it like Beckham?
Them: No Gran. What is Beckham?
Step Sister: The soccer player. David Beckham, of course.
Them: Never heard of him.
I would guess if further questioned, they would not know who the Spice Girls are either.
I feel sorry for the soccer younguns who never experienced the rise and never fallen Beckham.
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Poor David. What happened to his pants?
ReplyDeletePerhaps he lacks opposable thumbs? I guess it would not matter in soccer.
DeleteMaybe it's my fault for trying to imagine them off.
DeleteWho are their stars now, I wonder. I thought everyone young and old, would know David Beckham, but I'm a dinosaur too. On the road of life, most of my heros are back at mile 25 or so and here I am now at mile cazillion and two. Most of the people i run into joined me on the road just a few miles ago.
ReplyDeleteStrayer, I really was surprised. Perhaps they just enjoy playing soccer and aren't fans and followers. They probably wouldn't know Christiano Ronaldo either.
DeleteOh I know the feeling, and it is okay. We had our day, let the young have theirs.
ReplyDeleteYes TP. Those were the days my friend. We thought they'd never end.....
DeleteI went with an old friend to a talk at our shared former uni library about some (extremely obscure) typescripts of early Sylvia Plath poems which the library had purchased. (Tbh, I'm not that keen on Sylvia P., but we had a nice chat on the bus there and back on our Senior Opal Cards and there were free refreshments afterwards.) We chatted over refreshments to a first-year student. My friend and I were both gobsmacked when it emerged she (the student) hadn't heard of Patrick White.
ReplyDeleteMarcellous, while it wouldn't surprise me that a young person would not know of White, I would of thought a local Sydney person who was interested in literature would know of him.
DeleteI was born in the nineteen fifties. Popular culture and sport of the 1920s and 1930s was pretty much unknown territory to me. I guess it's the same with the those twin girls.
ReplyDeleteYP, we are different age now though, whereby we can learn heaps about heaps, all at the tip of your fingers. I am sure you would now know more about the history of your favourite football or cricket team.
DeleteTime like an ever rolling stream
ReplyDeleteBears all its sons away
They fly forgotten as a dream
Dies at the opening day
"Old Hundredth". Roderick
Nice and quite true, Roderick.
DeleteOhj those youngin's ......
ReplyDeleteBob, I try not to be like that, but...
DeleteHa! Actually, I'm surprised they haven't heard of Beckham by age 14. He's still in the news now and then. But maybe not on TikTok!
ReplyDeletePS -- GET YOUR SHOES OFF THE COUCH, DAVID!
Delete"Take my shoes off, Steve." You are on your way.
DeleteLOL
DeleteYes lolling around on the couch definitely shoes off. Dinosaurs become more intelligent with age, and then they became extinct!
ReplyDeleteYour time line of a dinosaur is quite concise, Thelma.
DeleteI think I've been a dinosaur all my life, never keeping up with, or even being aware of much of modern culture. Not quite as bad as someone I knew who, at the height of their fame, had never heard of the Beatles!
ReplyDeleteJB, perhaps his focus was on courting you. I was not up with The Beatles, mainly because I was a bit young for them.
DeleteI regularly talk to my kids about great films or tv shows and then realise the thing I'm talking about is 20+ and my kids cant possibly know it
ReplyDeleteKylie, many of us are guilty of that.
DeleteLike jabblog I am largely a dinosaur, but I did once trey to watch Bend it like Beckham when it was on TV. Didn't like it and changed channels.
ReplyDeleteI've seen it and I thought it was underwhelming.
Delete"trey"? how posh! "try"
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