I am something akin to a... «Is It Just Me?»
Polkadot19 января 2017I am something akin to a buffoon. At school, I was one of the funsters – fairly popular, very sporty – and it wasn’t the done thing to be a brain box of any kind. Being a swot or a nerd or a geek was, well, swotty and nerdy and geeky, so I didn’t bother. Then, at university, being fun and having fun were still far, far more important. I bought into this vibe wholeheartedly. I made sure I was always the first person to suggest hiring a bouncy castle or trying to invent a cocktail with cornflakes or hold a ‘Make a David Hasselhoff out of Chocolate Buttons’ competition (feel free to try that at home). But now, at the age of thirty-eight, I’m coming to realise that my ignorance of all things cultural and ‘newsy’ (please note that even though I call myself a buffoon, I have just coined another brand-new word), can at times render me a little bit of an outsider.
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