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I don't want to be a grown up any more

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  • #92
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Anyone remember the Swatch craze. My Dad bought me one for my 16th birthday. I was shocked when my Mum told me he'd picked it out and bought it himself. I think that was probably the only present I ever got from my parents that my Mum didn't pick out:) I should have known it was a Dad present, it was pink and white, I'm not a pink kind of girl:D


  • #93
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Waffles, chicken nuggets and beans for dinner..... I made the right decision.


  • #94
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    alwaysadub wrote: »
    Himself and I decided this year we were gonna get each other a Christmas pressie from our childhood that we always wanted as a kid but never got.
    So I'm getting Screwball Scramble and he's getting a Mr Frosty. Can't frigging wait :D
    Yeah Mr P is getting me a popcorn maker and I'm getting him a hooded Jedi knight dressing gown:D


  • #95
    [Deleted User]
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    I forgot about stickle bricks! :eek: Epic!


  • #96
    [Deleted User]
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    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Yeah Mr P is getting me a popcorn maker and I'm getting him a hooded Jedi knight dressing gown:D

    I needs these things. I neeeeeeds them.


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  • #97
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    I'm getting him a hooded Jedi knight dressing gown:D

    So a dressing gown? :v There isn't a person who enjoyed star wars that hasn't put on any dressing gown and played jedi for a few minutes....


  • #98
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,773 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    best thing out of lego i ever made was a set of three battlestar galactica vipers. around 1982/83 whenever it was shown on one of the 5 tv stations we had back then, the first one was all white and red like the real thing, the other two were all sorts of colours and didnt look quite right, but they were awesome.
    I tried making another with my mechano set but ended up with a tower crane for some reason.

    Mechano was awesome too.


  • #99
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    minidazzler wrote: »
    So a dressing gown? :v There isn't a person who enjoyed star wars that hasn't put on any dressing gown and played jedi for a few minutes....
    He chose it, he's 6'3 and has wanted a floor length hooded robe for ages. I'll be getting a few other smaller gifts, we want to keep it cheap this year to try to get to Rome next year for our 10th wedding anniversary. Personally, I find Star Wars very tedious


  • #100
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I needs these things. I neeeeeeds them.
    I found a great one on Amazon, an air popping one. All ya need to do is put the corn kernels in and put a bigggg bowl in front of it:D


  • #101
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    I found a great one on Amazon, an air popping one. All ya need to do is put the corn kernels in and put a bigggg bowl in front of it:D

    Wow, I didn't think a dressing gown could be so cool :eek:


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  • #102
    Silverfish
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭Silverfish


    Archeron wrote: »
    I'm glad to see that even the ghost from the Amityville Horror knows what sticklebricks are.

    Who remembers fuzzy felt kits?

    Me, just reading through this thread wondering where it was. I would LOVE to quit my job and spend all day making fuzzy felt artwork and colouring inside the lines and making snowflakes and building stuff with lego and meccano AND stickle bricks and my Fisher Price dolls house with the ringy doorbell AND driving my matchbox cars all over the floor making brummbrummm noises and drawing on my magna doodle and what was that thing with the little clear coloured pegs you put into a board to draw a picture and then you turned it on to light up? A lite brite or something? and then just run up and down the garden roaring my head off for no reason other than I can and nobody has said not to.


  • #103
    Lucyfur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,513 ✭✭✭✭Lucyfur


    Last Christmas, I got a gift from a boardsie of fuzzy felt penguin puppets :D


  • #104
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Might get myself a Soda-stream. :p


  • #105
    Silverfish
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭Silverfish


    ... while watching Fingerbobs and Bagpuss and Jamie and the Magic Torch and Button Moon :mad:


  • #106
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Lucyfur wrote: »
    Last Christmas, I got a gift from a boardsie of fuzzy felt penguin puppets :D
    Fuzzy felts were great. I got a set at one of those kids Christmas parties where my mum worked when I was a kid. Those parties were great, we'd go to 3, my mums, dads and grannies employers had em every year. I can still remember being dolled up in posh dresses and black patent shoes. I think kids were boob tubes and miniskirts to em these days:D


  • #107
    Billy86
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    Hate to ruin it for the OP, but Lego is no longer Lego. It is now a computer game with shoddy looking superhero characters.



    The world makes me sad... someone has shat on our growing up. :(


  • #108
    Czarcasm
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    Silverfish wrote: »
    Me, just reading through this thread wondering where it was. I would LOVE to quit my job and spend all day making fuzzy felt artwork and colouring inside the lines and making snowflakes and building stuff with lego and meccano AND stickle bricks and my Fisher Price dolls house with the ringy doorbell AND driving my matchbox cars all over the floor making brummbrummm noises and drawing on my magna doodle and what was that thing with the little clear coloured pegs you put into a board to draw a picture and then you turned it on to light up? A lite brite or something? and then just run up and down the garden roaring my head off for no reason other than I can and nobody has said not to.


    I won't embed the image as it's huge resolution, but imagine a giant lite brite board -

    http://www.lobsterboyandshrimpgirl.com/lite_brite.jpg


    Did anyone else get chemistry sets as children? Ammonia in a test tube was nasty, but sulphur, Jesus, rotten eggs, and yet you couldn't resist a sniff :D

    I was talking to a Dutch mate of mine there a while back and he was telling me what they do over there is everyone makes hand crafted gifts for each other rather than just going into shops and buying stuff. I'd love something like that, but I'm not sure my wife would appreciate a paper made water bomb or a knitted jacket for Christmas :D


  • #109
    [Deleted User]
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    Silverfish wrote: »
    ... while watching Fingerbobs and Bagpuss and Jamie and the Magic Torch and Button Moon :mad:

    And Cockleshell Bay? :)


  • #110
    murria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 396 ✭✭murria


    alwaysadub wrote: »
    Himself and I decided this year we were gonna get each other a Christmas pressie from our childhood that we always wanted as a kid but never got.
    So I'm getting Screwball Scramble and he's getting a Mr Frosty. Can't frigging wait :D

    At the risk of stating the obvious, make sure you have plenty of ice for Christmas morning. We got a Mr. Frosty for our son back in the days when we didnt have a fridge with an ice dispenser and with the 101 things parents have to do on Christmas Eve, plus a few drinks, we never thought of ice. It took forever to freeze up some ice cubes.


  • #111
    sullivlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    I'm 27.

    I have a PhD.

    I am between jobs.

    I spent the past 2 weeks buying and building lego technic.

    I don't want to grow up again. Ever.


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  • #112
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    I hope we get a massive dose of snow soon. Actually I hope the whole world snows under for a while to restore peace and normality to the world. So much snow that it wont be feasible to get rid of it and allow the boring, monotonous everyday humdrum of life to continue.

    The all-consuming beast that is the economy will eventually die if nobody shows up to work anymore. People will realise they can survive without all the unnecessary consumer goods they buy now and that all they really need is a bit of a sled and a hill to slide down.

    The dail will be looted for firewood and the kegs in the dail bar (Im sure they have many in reserve as a matter of national security).

    Snow should melt just before people start to starve. The whole modern world is really just a pointless rat race filled with unnecessary rules and organised by dryshytes of the highest order.


  • #113
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Karsini wrote: »
    And Cockleshell Bay? :)

    I still have nightmares about robin and Rosie, they really creeped me out.


  • #114
    Billy86
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    minidazzler wrote: »
    Imagine all the awesomeness of being an adult (drink, sex, staying up as long as you want) and all the awesomeness of being a child (cereal for breakfast, playing games all day and insisting pants are the devil) and you will understand how my life works :D
    :confused:

    And here I've been using it to try and power my sweet ride!


  • #115
    Lucyfur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,513 ✭✭✭✭Lucyfur


    I miss toys in cereal. And I miss everyone thinking that cereal was the healthy choice


  • #116
    Pumpkinseeds
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    I remeber Santa bringing me some sort of hard resin kit for making stuff. You could make jewellery and put shells and stuff in it and it would set like a hard clear plastic. Jesus the smell of it was atrocious and I used to get sent out to the shed to use it. Whatever it was is probably outlawed now. It's a wonder any of us who were born in the 70's survived to adulthood. Especially with all the E numbers etc, Angel Delight anyone?:D


  • #117
    [Deleted User]
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    Tomorrow I'm going to go to Marks Models and buy a diecast car kit and build me a dodge viper.

    I'm gonna be 13 again \o/


  • #118
    SherlockWatson
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Tomorrow I'm going to go to Marks Models and buy a diecast car kit and build me a dodge viper.

    I'm gonna be 13 again \o/

    I still have an old blue and white one from my childhood! One of few things that survived.


  • #119
    [Deleted User]
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    SherlockWatson wrote: »
    I still have an old blue and white one from my childhood! One of few things that survived.

    I had a blue and white one too!

    I asked my mam recently were any of my model cars still in her attic but she had thrown them out last year :(


  • #120
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I still have a little handmade teddybear that my aunt bought when I was born. It's 40 now, to hell with sentiment, I wonder if it's worth anything.


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  • #121
    Czarcasm
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    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    I still have a little handmade teddybear that my aunt bought when I was born. It's 40 now, to hell with sentiment, I wonder if it's worth anything.


    It could well be, I was watching "Flog It!" or one of those auction programmes anyway one afternoon and a woman turned down £60 for a brown polar bear which she sold at auction later for £200! :)


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