• Hauskrampf@ttrpg.network
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    1 year ago

    I think it just something about public figures and that they can’t possibly live a life like us or something.

    I have the same thing, but opposite direction with the stranger things cast. Still can’t belive they’re the same age or older than me.

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      1 year ago

      I think it also ties in with the “olders and betters” mentality that we’re brought up with. There’s a sense of gravitas to the office of Prime Minister, and even if they’re doing stupid shit there’s a monkey bit of my brain that’s like “ah, but they’re old enough to know better than me”. But now the PM is only four months older than I am, and my mum worked for his dad for a few years, so we could have (theoretically) turned in the same circles*, and he’s up there in the highest office in the land, doing stupid shit and I’m looking at him and wondering who let this idiot kid be in charge.


      *We really couldn’t have though, he went to a very fancy school and was already married to a billionaire by the time my mum started working for his dad. His dad’s actually sound.