# Fuck the passage of time. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 12, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592 "2003-08-12T06:07:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/1 "2003-08-12T06:07:18Z")
The passage of time can be quite a bore. It inevitably ends our moments of pleasure. It errodes any and every good feeling. It rotts our food. It ages our bodies. It fucks with our brains. (making the brain too darn sopisticated to enjoy life that the curious brain of a child does) It allows us to become more drunk than we would like to be. Our brains and the passage of time are colluding to make our lives hell. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/2 "2003-08-12T06:10:11Z")
It maketh us to lie in green pastures. [sub]Sorry, dude, first thought that came to mind.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/3 "2003-08-12T07:10:41Z")
It improveth wines and spirits. ---
**Author:** ![Icebrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecb155/32.png) [@Icebrand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icebrand)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/4 "2003-08-12T07:16:11Z")
If time were to suddenly stop and you were no longer able to think or move, you’d feel pretty silly for saying that. No, wait, I suppose you wouldn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/5 "2003-08-12T07:55:45Z")
Aw, c’mon, **Lobsang** , mate – if old farts like me can put up with that dang calendar flipping over, you can! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/6 "2003-08-12T10:20:33Z")
So you want everything to happen all at once, do you? ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/7 "2003-08-12T10:48:30Z")
Slays king, ruins town and beats high mountain down. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/8 "2003-08-12T12:13:39Z")
You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it’s sinking racing around to come up behind you again the sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older shorter of breath and one day closer to death ---
**Author:** ![macabresoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@macabresoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/macabresoul)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/9 "2003-08-12T17:05:44Z")
Whats with all the anti-time threads! What beith thy solution to thine problem ey’? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/10 "2003-08-12T17:39:22Z")
It’s better than the alternative… ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/11 "2003-08-12T18:11:41Z")
You’re older than you’ve ever been And now you’re even older And now you’re even older And now you’re even older -They Might Be Giants ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/12 "2003-08-12T18:24:37Z")
It’s on my side. Yes it is. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/13 "2003-08-12T18:34:40Z")
What is life but an irritating interruption of peaceful nonexistence. ---
**Author:** ![Flang\_Dang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e4f/32.png) [@Flang\_Dang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flang_Dang)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/14 "2003-08-12T18:49:38Z")
I think your beef is more with entropy than with time, though I suppose it doesn’t “sing” as well. In the words of Sinead O’Connor: “Fight the real enemy!”. Or not. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/15 "2003-08-12T21:34:50Z")
I find the juxtaposition of a username inspired by a character in a Pratchett novel who is a member of an order of monks who futz around with Time complaining about the passage of Time to be amusing. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/16 "2003-08-13T00:35:14Z")
(If I remember the book ending correctly) I _am_ time. (I am also relieved to find that my OP looks relatively normal, considering how much I drank) ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/17 "2003-08-13T00:44:23Z")
Honey…is that you? I get the “time sucks” lecture at _least_ twice a week, usually more… ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/18 "2003-08-13T00:46:52Z")
naughty link from who **peperlandgirl**? ---
**Author:** ![Thaidog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/50afbb/32.png) [@Thaidog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thaidog)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-passage-of-time/194592/19 "2003-08-13T04:50:31Z")
But everything happens for a reason… wait a minute… nope, fuck that too.