You see stories in the papers of guys fleeing the country to Spanish islands or wherever these days, but I was young and daft—I was hauled off my mate's couch in a flat in the Saltmarket (an area in Glasgow's city center) the following day".
You see stories in the papers of guys fleeing the country to Spanish islands or wherever these days, but I was young and daft – I was hauled off my mate's couch in a flat in the Saltmarket (an area in Glasgow's city centre) the following day.
The book kicks off as a fairly pedestrian pastiche of the frequent Hugo winner Robert A Heinlein, complete with that Heinlein standard, an ageing wise-cracker – Louis Wu – who has a talent for seducing younger women, daft 1960s party scenes transmuted to the space age and invented hep slang (most notably the swear word "tanj", an acronym of the Heinlein complaint "there ain't no justice").
Why only the other week they wrote up some spotty, jobless and narcissistic youth from, I think, the north east, who had fathered 15 children with 14 daft young women – it may have been 150 children by 140 daft young women – and wasn't bovvered.
Maybe the bones are beginning to ache a bit and my glasses are glued to my face, but inside I'm still a daft young girl.
In I'm All Right Jack (1959), he played the decent but slightly daft young executive, Stanley Windrush, while Peter Sellers appeared as the pompous shop steward – an even-handed cinematic satire on both management and trade unions.
Fitzgerald clearly likes digging away at the kind of things that keep Daily Mail readers awake at night: drugs, casual sex, the corruption of innocence and how daft young people can be.
Fay talked about the band's inimitable style on stage ("we just made our dresses on the day out of plastic tablecloths") and the sudden decision to split ("we were just young and incredibly daft").
"Using cherrywood is maybe a bit daft with young kids punching around, since the wood is so soft — and it's already been drawn on with a permanent marker," Mrs. Maclean-Bristol said.
