Observer's Best Young People List

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Shaznay Lewis is the future, I woz robbed, and -- what a way to spend your Sundays!

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

46 is young?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

One of those young people is 46. (xpost, honest)

Hope for me yet.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I love how they've redefinited "young" to mean, erm, anyone under 50, apparently.

― He wants to be me (kate), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ahem. I second that limit, actually.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't. I don't exactly feel "young" at my age (33). I think I qualify as middle aged, so I don't see how someone can be "young" at 46.

― He wants to be me (kate), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Simon Amstell was robbed.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Mutter mutter, grrr, I think all this complaining is proof of my Old Curmudgeon status.

(I see we're not very interested in who is *on* the list, just assigning our own age group.)

― He wants to be me (kate), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I felt 'old' at 25. When I hit 30, I got a lot of "You are not!" so I felt OK. And so it's continued. Either that, or I just don't worry about it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Charlie Brooker, 33

Yep, after the success of the TV Go Home: The Series on E4, nothing can stop him.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I kind of see it this way - the average life expectancy in the West is around 77 or so. (This might just be women, though, can't recall.) Depends whether you divide your life span into "young" and "old" - which would split it in half. Half of 77 is 38.5 - which is still waaaay under 46. Split into thirds, as most people do - "young" and "middle aged" and "old" and you are no longer "young" at 27, and "old" at 51. That's not even getting into the idea that perhaps there is not just "old" but also "elderly" to be coping with...

(Hands up who works in marketing and is obsessed with classifying the ridiculousness of demographics...)

― He wants to be me (kate), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

This guy will get a serious going-over at customs if he tries to return to Australia in the summer:

Wolfgang Bopp, 35
Gardener
German-born Wolfgang Bopp won acclaim as curator of the National Botanic Gardens of Wales, a £43 million lottery-funded millennium project featuring a dome designed by Sir Norman Foster. Enthusiastic and exuberant, he brought plants from all over the world, only to torch them - the Australian trees were set alight to simulate a lightning strike and brush fire. Bopp has now taken over Hillier's arboretum in Hampshire, one of Europe's leading collections.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

46is not young. period.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

it is! *stamps foot/sulks*

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex Kapranos, 29?

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 28 June 2004 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I am pleased alice oswald is on this list.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 28 June 2004 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

zoe williams...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 28 June 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't get over shaznay lewis. what possible reason...?

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 28 June 2004 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

MiU - at least, yes.

― chris (chris), Monday, 28 June 2004 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

what possible reason? she is extrememly attractive, for one

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 28 June 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, that's true Dave, but have you heard her new single?

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 28 June 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

does that matter when you're just printing a picture and putting a blurb on it to fill some space - talented people are often not goo-looking

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 28 June 2004 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

We haven't met, so you can go on beliveing that... Dave, is it me or do you have a somewhat cynical view of the Observer's poll...? Sienna Miller was robbed.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 28 June 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

they often can't type, either. it's impossible not to be cynical about polls like that. especially when it includes guardian writers

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 28 June 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I much preferred reading the one from 1979 - it was charmingly archaic. The two bands it tipped for future legendary status were The Jam and Sky.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 28 June 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

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