Comments on: Teenage Kickings http://thermalblog.co.uk/teenage-kickings/ Its just a lot of hot air... Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:40:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chris http://thermalblog.co.uk/teenage-kickings/comment-page-1/#comment-8621 Chris Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:44:09 +0000 http://thermalblog.co.uk/?p=1556#comment-8621 Five? :shock: Truly you are a saint Curmudgeon. Tell me it gets better..... :cry: Five? :shock: Truly you are a saint Curmudgeon.

Tell me it gets better….. :cry:

]]> By: The Curmudgeon http://thermalblog.co.uk/teenage-kickings/comment-page-1/#comment-8619 The Curmudgeon Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:06:57 +0000 http://thermalblog.co.uk/?p=1556#comment-8619 Well, only three are completely through the teen years -- the other two are 19 and 16. According to my handy Google currency converter, 9,000 pounds comes to $12,420 USD. Which is not quite, but depressingly close to the weekly grocery bill when the kids are home for the holidays.... But they were selling to us, too, back long ago when we were in that favored demographic. In my day it was the new shape in stone hand axes. All the kids in the next cave had them, so we absolutely had to have them in ours too. I remember the grumbling well: The regular, old-fashioned hand axe will skin a woolly mammoth just as well... better maybe.... Well, only three are completely through the teen years — the other two are 19 and 16.

According to my handy Google currency converter, 9,000 pounds comes to $12,420 USD. Which is not quite, but depressingly close to the weekly grocery bill when the kids are home for the holidays….

But they were selling to us, too, back long ago when we were in that favored demographic. In my day it was the new shape in stone hand axes. All the kids in the next cave had them, so we absolutely had to have them in ours too. I remember the grumbling well: The regular, old-fashioned hand axe will skin a woolly mammoth just as well… better maybe….

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