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

Dramatik · 15-11-2013 12:40PM

Anybody else lucky enough to have one of these as a kid?

http://www.belltractors.com/site_images/product_images/medium/P_269_C_1.jpg

My best mate had one too and we used to play destruction derby and get the older lads to push us up and down the road on them. When one driver was knocked off or over, the other driver was declared the winner ha ha!

danniemcq · 15-11-2013 12:45PM

Deleted User wrote: »

My favourite is:

"You don't stop playing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop playing."

I must get younger in bed...

danniemcq · 15-11-2013 12:47PM

Yellow121 wrote: »

Hey I thought the same as the OP but I went and did it!!!!! I became a child, I quit my job, sold my car so I could buy loads of toys. I spoke in a high pitched voice all the time. I used to hang out in the shallow end in swimming pools, I loved diving in the ball pools and playing with all the colourdy balls. Play on the swings, go weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee down the slides, even played hide and go seek with other kids like me. It was brilliant, I was a child again and I loved it! It all went wrong though. I asked some of the other kids to come back to my house to play. One of the nasty grown ups called the police. :mad: I just wanted to play subbuteo.

I'm now posting this from Mountjoy. I still speak with a high pitched voice but now it's because the other inmates make me. Play time isn't fun with them.

There is no internet access in Mountjoy open to the prisoners.

Warper · 15-11-2013 12:50PM

Had Darth Vader's spaceship as a kid, it was class, it was so real to life, took up the front garden though

Loved Transformers, had the big Scorpion thing, home of the decepticons and also Megatron, he was savage he turned into a gun as well. Tomytronics for the win though

Yellow121 · 15-11-2013 12:52PM

danniemcq wrote: »

There is no internet access in Mountjoy open to the prisoners.

My pimp has access.

marshbaboon · 15-11-2013 12:54PM

Can't wait until my nieces are old enough for Super Nintendo. Have mine packed away in the attic.

Going to absolutely wipe the floor with them in Mario Kart, pair of scrubs.

Malari · 15-11-2013 01:01PM

I had HUNDREDS of cars. These guys:

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Buckets. Catering mayonnaise buckets of them. I must have been getting them for every birthday, Christmas, graze, special occasion and auntie visit since I was tiny.

I used to line them up in "traffic jams" around the house and inch them forward one by one. Maybe this was why it was encouraged, as despite the love of cars I was clearly not showing signs of being a speed demon.

Muise... · 15-11-2013 01:15PM

marshbaboon wrote: »

Can't wait until my nieces are old enough for Super Nintendo. Have mine packed away in the attic.

This was alarming the first time I read it. Free the baboon nieces!

pajunior · 15-11-2013 01:18PM

McChubbin wrote: »

All this talk of Legos and no-one's mentioned the sheer agony of stepping on a pile of them barefoot. Nopenopenope!
I was never really into Lego all that much, to be honest, but today I was in the Art & Hobby Shop with my mother and I spotted pots of Play-Doh for about €10 for 8. So much want. Nothing better than the feel of squishy dough in my hands. Satisfying!
I also miss my SNES. Hope to get one in the R.A.G.E in the New Year if there's a sale on...

Have you looked into emulation?

Once you own the original cartridges it's not illegal as far as I know. Bit murky all the same but you can even play the snes on a smart phone or put it on a computer and pick up some mock SNES usb controllers.

Ridiculous amounts of nostalgia.

marshbaboon · 15-11-2013 01:23PM

Muise... wrote: »

This was alarming the first time I read it. Free the baboon nieces!

Don't be silly, that's what the basement is for.

FutureGuy · 15-11-2013 01:37PM

Hi.

I'm 36. I have a wonderful fiance and a good job. I enjoy alot of the aspects of my "adult" life.

However, I have never (and will never) leave behind the things I loved as a kid. Why? Because it's fcuking awesome. Just because you age, that doesn't mean you have to give up the stuff that you love because "society" says you shouldn't be doing something because of your age.

I used love transformers when I was a kid. Today, I have a two large display cases of ridiculously expensive Masterpiece Transformers. Love them. On occasion, I sit down and transform one of them.

I have a Super Nintendo, a Nintendo 64 and a GameCube on a shelving unit with a 20 inch Sony CRT (a superb TV for the retro stuff). I play Mario, Zelda, Street Fighter and lots of other classics when I want.

Myself and my gf will play Monopoly and other board games, either together or with friends, far quicker than the ways that "society" feels adults should do...ie get sick drunk.

Life is too short to do the things that other people tell you you should be doing. If you like somthing, even if it's considered silly or childish, do it anyways if it makes you happy. If you have friends that give you a hard time, you need to reevaluate friendships.

TL;DR, childhoold = awesome.

FutureGuy · 15-11-2013 01:39PM

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

That's awesome in fairness

Mr. CooL ICE · 15-11-2013 01:45PM

Jaysus. This thread has made me want to go to a toy shop for the first time in 20 years and buy everything. Only thing is, 20 years ago I didn't have a credit card.

This is dangerous.

Plazaman · 15-11-2013 01:58PM

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TAG!!!! You're it.....

*runs away

okno · 15-11-2013 02:36PM

can I play too?

when I was 4 I moved from Poland to Siberia for 18 months as my father had research assignment there.

I insisted on bringing all my lego and I remember building lots of things mostly towers and houses for my dolls.

I have no lego in Ireland ... boo

Mr. CooL ICE · 15-11-2013 02:44PM

Plazaman wrote: »

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TAG!!!! You're it.....

*runs away

That reminds me of a variation.

Anybody ever spread the disease? Every class had one weird, smelly person that nobody wanted to be near. Usually a farmer or butcher's son. In my class, it was somebody called Ken. But when waiting in the yard after lunch, somebody would always touch them on the arm and then run around saying "I've got Ken disease!!!" and everybody would run like hell. It sucked being the last person to get the disease when the teacher came along and told everybody to shut up.

Billy86 · 15-11-2013 02:45PM

Ohmigodohmigodohmigodohmigod!!

http://images.oyster.com/hong-kong/areas/kowloon/photos/kowloon-lego-city-v1825419-1600.jpg
http://media02.hongkiat.com/amazing_legos/lego_obama_white_house.jpg
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05_02/legoupPA0605_468x669.jpg

FutureGuy · 15-11-2013 03:02PM

okno wrote: »

can I play too?

when I was 4 I moved from Poland to Siberia for 18 months as my father had research assignment there.

I insisted on bringing all my lego and I remember building lots of things mostly towers and houses for my dolls.

I have no lego in Ireland ... boo

Then go buy some fcuking lego!!!! Argos has a sale on it right now!!! GO!

Sleepy · 15-11-2013 03:22PM

I got this for Christmas the year before last at the age of 31: http://c745.r45.cf2.rackcdn.com/img/2009/vw_camper_van_lego.jpg

Started building it at about 8pm when the kids were in bed and the wife decided we'd have a few beers... I had 2/3 bottles and finished it at 3:30am. Had to carry herself up the stairs as she got bored watching me build lego (no interest in helping) and polished off a heap of beer and fell asleep on the couch!

We've actually bought quite a lot of vintage toys on ebay for each other / the kids:

I've gotten her an original Mr. Frosty and a Cabbage Patch Koosas. She's gotten me an original Gameboy with carrier case and accessories. We got the kids the original Speak'n'Spell after it was in Toy Story, our daughter has the old Fisher Price Ladybird Buggy and Doll, her own Cabbage Patch Koosas (that matches mammy's). I think there's a few other things as well.

If you're stuck for what to get an other half for Christmas, find out what their "always wanted but never got from Santa" toy was. You'll have at least a month worth of brownie points for it. (hint for this year in case the wife is reading: http://img3.toysperiod.com/img/cache/f8/800x600/t203c4v2a4w2f4540334b4h4p5l213v234s2a4u254.jpg

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jimgoose · 15-11-2013 03:41PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Not at all Pumpkinseeds, I got my young lad Mecanno for Christmas when he was about 3...

Mecanno is the absolute shiz-nit. I had a few sets of it in the late '70s/early '80s, and I built everything from a circular saw (yes, some of the sets came with electric Jaysis motors! :cool:) to a replica of a Ford Type 9 gearbox.

jimgoose · 15-11-2013 03:54PM

Lucyfur wrote: »

Stickle bricks were the best. I still have a big box of them. I love lego too. I have the lego Italian police Lamborghini. Not mad about mechano.

Right! That DOES it!! I'm getting me some Lego this Christmas!!

fonda wrote: »

Tonka trucks......best toy ever. The metal ones that is not the crappy plastic ones they have now!

This is a Dinky Ford D800 tipper-truck that I had when I was a kid. I loved that thing, and I moved more sand with it than the real thing!!

:D:D

http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/193/366193/366193_120625141927_CC7413A-400.jpg

murria · 15-11-2013 06:26PM

Sleepy wrote: »

I got this for Christmas the year before last at the age of 31: http://c745.r45.cf2.rackcdn.com/img/2009/vw_camper_van_lego.jpg

Wow, that is just amazing, I have to buy it for someone this Christmas. Off I go for a Google.

Jonny Blaze · 15-11-2013 06:28PM

The_Pretender wrote: »

WTF are stickle bricks?

They are effing awesome is what they are!

Call Me Jimmy · 15-11-2013 06:32PM

LordChessington wrote: »

That reminds me of a variation.

Anybody ever spread the disease? Every class had one weird, smelly person that nobody wanted to be near. Usually a farmer or butcher's son. In my class, it was somebody called Ken. But when waiting in the yard after lunch, somebody would always touch them on the arm and then run around saying "I've got Ken disease!!!" and everybody would run like hell. It sucked being the last person to get the disease when the teacher came along and told everybody to shut up.

Yea we had Madeleine Germs. We use to play imaginary baseball with a wad of it. Absolute Intolerable Cruelty...

Muise... · 15-11-2013 06:37PM

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

Yea we had Madeleine Germs. We use to play imaginary baseball with a wad of it. Absolute Intolerable Cruelty...

you went to school with Proust?

Itwasntme. · 15-11-2013 06:47PM

African children don't do lego. We do sunshine, outdoor games and shit :cool:. *Trying to make you feel as bad as I feel* I've never played with lego

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Shark · 15-11-2013 08:36PM

When we were kids we had one of these

Absolutely loved it. We had loads of babies, sindy's, horses, cars and all sorts of accessories and even ken! Still miss it but not for long as today I have just purchased this for my daughter for christmas!!! Oh I really can't wait for Christmas morning!!!!

ps I really hope my links work!

Voodoomelon · 16-11-2013 01:25AM

sullivlo wrote: »

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.

Snap!

I built this a few months back, still in bits in the attic. I'm 29. Modified it to use 9.6V airsoft battery packs too.

ringadingding · 16-11-2013 01:48AM

Maybe it was more an English thing, but I've still got the full set of coca cola yoyos.

I showed them to the kid, she raised an eyebrow and went back to her Lego friends.

That said, she has a car street rug mat thing, the imagination kids have is amazing.
3 cars and a talking horse and she's playing for hours

[-0-] · 16-11-2013 03:34AM

Just remember you can have great orgasms as a grown up. Makes the whole thing worthwhile tbh.

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

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