24 Rules For Gentlemen in 2014

[PrettySquareGal]

Something to aspire to…
22 minutes…
Total coincidence BTW

 

[Son_of_Atropos]

In any event, 19 year old boys aren't really men. They might think they are, but their frontal lobes have a long way to go before they catch up with their Other Brain.

I SAW the spires of Oxford
As I was passing by,
The grey spires of Oxford
Against the pearl-grey sky.
My heart was with the Oxford men
Who went abroad to die.

The years go fast in Oxford,
The golden years and gay,
The hoary Colleges look down
On careless boys at play.
But when the bugles sounded war
They put their games away.

The left the peaceful river,
The cricket-field, the quad,
The shaven lawns of Oxford,
To seek a bloody sod—
They gave their merry youth away
For country and for God.

God rest you, happy gentlemen,
Who laid your good lives down,
Who took the khaki and the gun
Instead of cap and gown.
God bring you to a fairer place
Than even Oxford town.

"The Spires of Oxford" by Winifred Letts

 

[Foxer55]

PrettySquareGal,

Where's the humor in your comment?

If you don't get it, you don't get it.

 

[LizzieMaine]

"The Spires of Oxford" by Winifred Letts

Nonetheless, 19 year old boys are not men. Their brains haven't yet fully developed to the point where they process information in a fully-adult manner. Neurologically and psychologically, they are still adolescents, and remain adolescents until their mid-twenties. This explains a lot of the adolescent behavior that they can't seem to shake -- it's simply what their adolescent-wired brains are telling them to do.

When I'm dictator, the drinking age will be raised to 25, driver's licenses will remain provisional until the same age, and all adolescent boys between 18 and 24 will be required to spend at least two of those years in a CCC camp, doing hard labor outdoors. That'll sublimate those urges.