Why are some people not growing up?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122049836#Comment_122049836

I still watch studio Ghibli, and manga in general, and I am in my 50s. Art is a better description than anything and both the Japanese and French fully understand the distinction.

My daughter complains I deprived her of Disney as a child (totally untrue) because we always watched Ghibli.

SuperBowserWorld

Irish society has decided to make it incredibly expensive and risky to raise a family. Also, society is selfish. So, people are not having children. So, they never grow up. It's a vicious circle. Who the **** wants to have kids to be slaves for the **** show created by the previous generations.

CWMMC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058348269/why-are-some-people-not-growing-up

Why cant people enjoy themselves? Does it have any affect on your life?

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122049161#Comment_122049161

So he looks down on me building Lego sets and watching the Muppets but he's an avid First Dates fan?

OK, well I'll not be losing any sleep over his opinion of me any more.

CalamariFritti

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122048725#Comment_122048725

Sort of a fascist viewpoint though isnt it? The 'unfit' need sorting out.

If it was meant tongue in cheek I will counter saying what we need is a Golgafrincham event. But it really didn't come across as tongue in cheek tbh.

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122049887#Comment_122049887

It is just a QUESTION, like a lot of threads on boards.

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122049850#Comment_122049850

Fair enough, so would you say it's immature for someone to go to a studio Ghibli movie or a Spiderverse movie?

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122049899#Comment_122049899

A bit childish, yes.

Eclectic Econometrics

Firstly, kids are back at the coalface - https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/child-labor-industrial-capitalism/

Secondly, humans are very adaptable. Everyone thinks they are person who will survive a zombie apocalypse. It is always people who cannot run a mile without having a heart attack who think they have a better chance than the naive kids. Those kids are in their absolute prime and filled with testosterone. They're the ones who will be eating your fat ass when the tin goods run out.

It's comical how every older generation looks down on the next. I remember how we were talked about when we were young. That said, it was nowhere near as bad as today. The last ten years have been a bombardment of this type of rhetoric, non-stop "in my day" crap. The Gen Z, X etc. garbage is so pervasive that I have genuinely started to make a concise effort not to engage in it, lest I sound like everyone else that does, a right c***.

magicbastarder

Studio Ghibli movies are works of art (even though I've only seen a few)

You wouldn't say someone who is watching Hollyoaks, for example, is being childish, not sure how you could square that with saying someone watching a studio Ghibli movie is childish.

magicbastarder

People got old quickly back in the 70s and 80s too. Maybe it was partly to do with the economic state the country was in, they were less able to pander to their extra curricular interests?

Rocket_GD

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122049906#Comment_122049906

But First Dates isn't?

magicbastarder

Anyway, I started this thread last year. Seems kinda apt.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058286616/the-each-to-their-own-i-guess-thread

xhomelezz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122048709#Comment_122048709

49 here and still enjoy SpongeBob sometimes. Growing up is different for everybody.

RoboRat

I will be 47 next week and I'm delighted to still be 'immature' by many standards. I love jokes and messing and being honest, the day I start acting my age will be the day that I'm ready to check out.

There are way too many serious people around, who take everything so seriously and expect everyone and everything to be serious. It's like they feel the whole world is watching and they must act their part. They are about as much fun as ironing your nutsack.

freshpopcorn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122049849#Comment_122049849

It's something that annoys me a little.

A person of an age expects a stranger to have a conversation with them.

On a bus for example somebody sits next to you. You share Hello's, a small bit of small talk and make the odd question about a nice restaurant in the area.

However just because your lonely or can't sit in silence. They think the other person is the problem for not keeping them entertained.

*This isn't aimed at you.

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122049906#Comment_122049906

Have you ever seen a Studio Ghibli movie? Eg I watched Spirited Away recently and the amount of metaphors in it would go over a lot of adults heads, let alone children. The art and score is superb etc. I think it's a bit naive to discount animation just because you associate it with children. Plenty of animated material will continue to be viewed as art, centuries from now. The fact you don't understand it doesn't make the people who appreciate it immature.

Rocket_GD

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122049934#Comment_122049934

Some people are just more open to enjoying life than other's it seems who have to like what some people deem suitable for different age demographics.

Cartoons = Bad

Soaps = Proper high brow "grown up" entertainment

Kimbot

Each to their own in life, at 41 I would be considered a big child but I dont care what anyone thinks, I'm happy and thats all that matters.

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122049474#Comment_122049474

That kind of proves the point that some people don't grow up.

Tony EH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122049849#Comment_122049849

Mmmmm…I've noticed this as well with a lot of the younger end of the Millennials and Gen Z'ers (if I can use those annoying terms). An awful lot of them are incapable of holding a conversation unless it's either about them or it's something they have a deep interest in. Coupled with that their attention span seems to be miniscule.

Now, obviously this isn't every single person in those generation brackets. But it's been an easy observation to make.

89897

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122049895#Comment_122049895

Come on, it might be meant as a question but its one loaded with judgment. You could have asked something along the lines of "adults who watch cartoon movies, what do you enjoy about them?" if it was the case of you being genuinely curious.

xhomelezz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122049944#Comment_122049944

Soaps = Proper high brow "grown up" entertainment

Think I'll never grow up in that case haha, hated them 35 years ago and hate them today too.

As you say some peeps are more open to enjoy life their own way.

I still do that and if anyone think I'm not grown up..well it's theirs own problem imo. I'm fine with my own way of living, think that's all what matters.

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122049849#Comment_122049849

This seems unfair.

What's the topic? Last time I went home, all anyone wanted to talk about was motor vehicles and English soccer. I know very little about either so I see no reason why I'd bother discussing either with anyone.

Packrat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122050024#Comment_122050024

Maybe if you did actually try to make polite conversation or ask a question you'd learn something about either which would broaden your mind and leave you in a better place to chat to the next person you meet who you feel is beneath you.

I've 0 interest in soccer but I've a peripheral knowledge of whats going on in that world because it's important to many people.

Packrat

See below

Packrat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122049892#Comment_122049892

Possibly... I don't really consider myself a fascist, but it's a kinda topical dogwhistle to use on anyone you don't agree with and suspect to be older/wealthier/more square than you these days. That or 'boomer', and I'm not one of those either.

In fact I don't really hold that view, it's more of a daydream.

But, yes, an easier society allows people to avoid responsibility and be a child for longer. Whether that's a good thing or not is down to personal opinion.

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122050284#Comment_122050284

What you and the OP are classifying as childish is art that invariably isn't made solely for children. My father is in his mid 80s, he literally kept his childhood meccano and rebuilt it a few years back, is he childish because of that too? This amounts to the OP complaining about interests that other people have that he doesn't have any familiarity with by the sounds of things.

It's nothing to do with the "softening" of people. "Maybe if you did actually try to make polite conversation or ask a question you'd learn something about cinema which would broaden your mind and leave you in a better place to chat to the next person you meet who you feel is beneath you." is plenty applicable to both you and the OP. 😂

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122050245#Comment_122050245

I'm not interested in countering points I never made, particularly when they're made by someone who wants suffering and misery but only for other people.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122050245#Comment_122050245

I always politely say I don't watch soccer and see if they want to carry on. Always interested to talk to anyone if they can get over this hurdle.