We traded my legos for this?
polycounter lvl 18
Let's break it down....
I Pros for being a child:
-Mom making me my favorite food on at LEAST a bi-weekly basis (usually way more often than that)
-home-made toys like blow guns, sling-shots, bmx ramps, paper ninja stars, home-made armor, ninja costumes on haloween.
-TIME! I actually had time to do so many things I wanted to do
-snow forts
-Nintendo
-Amusing myself for hours burying my He-Man in the dirt and then getting him to surprise attack the Crimson Twins and Destro.
-Snow forts
-Rollerblading for 6 hrs at a time and never feeling sore.
-Most movies rocked cuz I wasnt jaded yet.
-hip-hop seemed new and fresh, not pathetic and derivative.
-I said snow forts too many times. I really fucking loved snow forts!!
Pros for a 30 year old:
-driving a real car and not getting in deep shit for doing it.
-playing with boobies
-doing a job that 'remotely reminds me of' the kind of fulfillment i had playing any one of the other cool things i mentioned. So I guess that doesn't count as a pro does it!
-buying some of the things I want, basically the same amount of toys my parents bought me. So I guess that doesn't count either!
-I can goto bed whenever i like.
-shooting really big guns.
You know what??? Fuck this idea, I'm not gonna do cons cuz I already feel like shit after writing this crap. Man, being an adult sucks a big fat one. It's never been even CLOSE to being as cool as being a kid.
Experience stole away my appreciation for simple pleasures that made me way happier than anything I do nowadays.
It's not worth the sacrifice...
-R
I Pros for being a child:
-Mom making me my favorite food on at LEAST a bi-weekly basis (usually way more often than that)
-home-made toys like blow guns, sling-shots, bmx ramps, paper ninja stars, home-made armor, ninja costumes on haloween.
-TIME! I actually had time to do so many things I wanted to do
-snow forts
-Nintendo
-Amusing myself for hours burying my He-Man in the dirt and then getting him to surprise attack the Crimson Twins and Destro.
-Snow forts
-Rollerblading for 6 hrs at a time and never feeling sore.
-Most movies rocked cuz I wasnt jaded yet.
-hip-hop seemed new and fresh, not pathetic and derivative.
-I said snow forts too many times. I really fucking loved snow forts!!
Pros for a 30 year old:
-driving a real car and not getting in deep shit for doing it.
-playing with boobies
-doing a job that 'remotely reminds me of' the kind of fulfillment i had playing any one of the other cool things i mentioned. So I guess that doesn't count as a pro does it!
-buying some of the things I want, basically the same amount of toys my parents bought me. So I guess that doesn't count either!
-I can goto bed whenever i like.
-shooting really big guns.
You know what??? Fuck this idea, I'm not gonna do cons cuz I already feel like shit after writing this crap. Man, being an adult sucks a big fat one. It's never been even CLOSE to being as cool as being a kid.
Experience stole away my appreciation for simple pleasures that made me way happier than anything I do nowadays.
It's not worth the sacrifice...
-R
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I laugh at kids.
on my birthday this year i took myself to Flamingo Land to do what the hell i wanted, surrounded by kids who weren't allowed to go on the rides they wanted or visit their favourite animal first. I would have had two ice creams if the first one wasn't pretty nasty. On the way back i went on a whim to Toys R Us to buy myself something really expensive. There was nothing worth buying, but then i also wasn't forced to have something i didn't want. Later on i went to the pub and got slightly cunted
we're doing christmas for the extended family again this year, and again i'm going to hide the remote control again so i don't have to have the TV on. I'm then going to drink wine and play with new toys. If the toys aren't exciting any more, i will drink more wine until they are
it's ace really
Yeah, I hate the EU for bringing in that law forbidding people over 16 from using "fun-related snow equipment".
I remember when this was all fields...
Pros:
- You can teach your kid to say things they think are HI-LAR-IOUS.
There's a lot more but I'll stop.Cons:
nice!
but come on.. boobies are way better then legos!
You can still play with Legos, they are not a toy for kids exclusively. Brickcon started some days ago, and being a lego fan i always look at photos. Guys in this flickr album from last year are not kids: http://flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/sets/72157600044861822/
So, we can enjoy as kids being adults. BTW, toys and videogames are created by adults, don't forget the kid inside you :poly122:
Pros... cons.. all depends of us. bad prejudices... bad mentality, that's all. What makes a person to be so adult? you can enjoy aswell. Different resposabilities and that's all. When we are young we go to school and we must study, we don't have all the time to play and enjoy. When we grow, we need to work, and we also have time to enjoy. Although if you have a bad work... the thing changes :poly127:
All adults wish to be a child again... my parents wished that several times, and my grandparents too. This is life law, we had our cycle.
Same sept I trades in my roller blades for having my dog pull me on my skateboard... and I still do... he's big enough.
Snow forts are still very much win. But when your older you get to organize the neighborhood kids into to squads against your older friends who are also generals of snow war.
I lost a lot of 12 year old in the battle of mount frosty...
well yeah ;-)
Blaizer, looks like my older brothers second bedroom.
Vig, yep those are the main reasons that i want a kid.
and kissing other kids?
I've always hated that quote.
Irony?
I think finding significance in song lyrics is usually pretty lame, but Pearl Jam totally nailed this. I'm Open, from No Code:
A man lies in his bed in a room with no door.
He waits hoping for a presence, something, anything, to enter.
After spending half his life searching he still felt as blank as the ceiling at which he's staring.
He's alive but feels absolutely nothing. So is he?
When he was six he believed that the moon overhead followed him, by nine he had deciphered the illusion trading magic for fact.
No tradebacks.
So this is what it's like to be an adult.
If he only knew now what he knew then...
I feel much better
oh yeah, and my roomie and I played with my connex magnet set last night, that was cool :P
-R
-caseyjones
haha priceless!
I also get to enjoy drinking smoking boobs and bajingos now.
I love making art all day and not having to worry about math class.
I miss playing rollerhockey/basketball/baseball/soccer 6 hours a day.... and quakeworld
That is pretty fun
Although we have more responsibility now as adults, I'm still an immature kid at heart. I just show it in different ways now. Instead of GIJoe and TMNT, I get excited about Cintique's and multicore CPU's. I still day dream about stupid kid shit, like being a manga hero or getting into a fight with super powers. Why? Beats the hell out of me! I'm 28, damnit! It's not like a I plan on thinking this way, it just happens. I think I'll always be young at heart.
There's still a lot of fun shit I want to do as an adult though. Stuff that I never could do as a kid, like skydiving and river rafting (want to learn how to swim, first!).
Being an adult has it's advantages, but I seriously miss that complete lack of responsibility, and the newness that came with everything unknown. Good times.
-R
Man...what do smoking boobs taste like, and where can I get some!?
What's with all the emo? You're getting older, suck it up, make life fun. I loved being a child, and I love being an adult. I'm sure I'll love being an old fart too!
Plus, the boobs.. need I say more?
-Andy
Playing with a naked lady> any childhood toy. >:D
Would like to have kids soon. Glad I will be raising them in the Northwest. Midwest while fun doesn't have the geography I love and would love to take the future kids hiking or snowboarding in.
I had the same experience in that I thought the world was perfect, recently i turned a little to the cynical/realistical point of view and it SUCKS! i loved my way of looking at the world, and i really miss it now. "Truth is in the eye of the beholder" (I'm only 18, so i have a long way to go too
Cheers
On a side note, until you have access to enough naked ladies to make a tower, lego will always have the edge.
hmmm never mind the first thing that came to mind was a tower of oblivion naked women stacked on top of each other forming a tower...
.. and played with these..
Now that I'm no longer a kid, I'm planning on buying myself one of these....
.. and I play around in one of these...
Some things don't change with age... they just get bigger, faster, and a whole lot more expensive. 8)
.. you people? :poly132:
haha :P.
Its fucking awesome.
Plus, one of the added bonuses of the 1986 gem top gun is with the green flying suit, comes an ample supply of boobies. Win win.
... and they're Aussie boobies, no less. :poly124: