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

McChubbin · 17-11-2013 06:56PM

I slept in 'til 3:30pm today. I'm still in my pyjamas. Had sticky ribs and chicken goujons for dinner. Winning!

Going to start saving up for a SNES for Christmas.

LizT · 17-11-2013 07:02PM

I work with kids. I try to incorporate play dough into the day whenever possible. Sometimes I even let the kids play with it

McChubbin · 17-11-2013 07:30PM

LizT wrote: »

I work with kids. I try to incorporate play dough into the day whenever possible. Sometimes I even let the kids play with it

I feckin' love Play-Doh! Apparently you can get a perfume/aftershave that smells like the stuff! :eek::D

ShadowHearth · 17-11-2013 07:31PM

Well, I am 27 and I rediscovered Lego last year.

Best toy when I Was a kid and still best toy now!
I have to say building Lego at this age so creator take off stress.

McChubbin · 19-11-2013 05:17PM

Bought myself a Super Nintendo console today. Play ALL the Mario!

old hippy · 19-11-2013 05:19PM

I'm going to see an exclusive screening of something super duper tomorrow and I'm really excited about it

Adamantium · 19-11-2013 05:39PM

marshbaboon wrote: »

Best thing I ever built from Lego was a replica of the first NASA prototype ship designed for a round trip to Mars, complete with detachable stages.

I was an awfully nerdy child.

Not as bad as our obscure one.

My brother and I used to buy these brilliant fischer price toy castles and set up dozens of plastic soldiers in them and recreate the flying garden battles from Final Fantasy VIII on the Playstation 1, running gun battles,cockpits, rapelling plastic soldiers, imagination running wild.

**** me we loved Final Fantasy! And we just wanted more. Great, great games and stories to grow up with.

Hoop66 · 19-11-2013 05:53PM

Wibbs wrote: »

One toy I hankered after, but never got was one a mate had. It was a helicopter attached to a central tower on a long stiff wire that could be flown around in circles and land and pick stuff up and the like. Dunno what it was called. Scalextric I never really got into, cos I couldn't keep the cars on the track and one car was always faster. I did get a clone of it called TCR(total control racing), where the big deal was you could swap lanes, block the other guy and overtake. One car was still quicker though. Action man was brill too. I had the beardy guy with special death grip hands or somesuch. A mate had the one with the eye you could look through. Well you couldn't really as if you did you'd suffer eye failure. Chemistry sets were cool too. Especially the ones that came with potassium permanganate. You could mix that in all sorts of ways to make stuff that would go bang... As said before, how 70's kids survived in any number is a shock to me.

Vertibird! Best. Christmas. Ever.

herisson · 19-11-2013 06:02PM

Deleted User wrote: »

We can still get pissed as kids though right? right?

Yes, yes we can!

God i wouldnt mind having a day to myself where i play with lego and get hammered off vodka.

I Heart Internet · 19-11-2013 06:11PM

I hear ya OP.

Work, responsibilities, bills....they all suck.

I'd like to spend two weeks lazing, on my own, with computer games, junk food, telly, box sets and a small garden for some fresh air.

Sleep 13 hours a day and lounge for the rest.

15-12-2013 10:09PM

I'm sorry for bumping the thread but today I bought these and I am very very excited

Lucyfur · 15-12-2013 10:11PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm sorry for bumping the thread but today I bought these and I am very very excited

omfg I knew they were gonna be roller skates before I even clicked the link.

Will they fit me?

<.<

15-12-2013 10:14PM

Lucyfur wrote: »

omfg I knew they were gonna be roller skates before I even clicked the link.

Will they fit me?

<.<

No :mad:

They were custom made for only my feet.

Swearz.

Professey Chin · 15-12-2013 10:16PM

Ill never understand the way the brake is on the front of those. Thats just asking for faceplanting

Lucyfur · 15-12-2013 10:17PM

Deleted User wrote: »

No :mad:

They were custom made for only my feet.

Swearz.

LIES!!

They're fricken awesome!

15-12-2013 10:18PM

I stood up in them successfully.

Tomorrow I will move from one place to another place.

Aineoil · 15-12-2013 10:19PM

I love lego. I love the windows.

MurdyWurdy · 16-12-2013 02:15AM

Lucyfur wrote: »

omfg I knew they were gonna be roller skates before I even clicked the link.

Will they fit me?

<.<

In my day they were called boot skates! I had a purple and luminous yellow pair and I have a funny feeling they're still in my parents shed. I'll be over there taking a look tomorrow.

I've told my mum if Santa doesn't bring me a Bunty annual and a selection box this year there'll be trouble

Daqster · 16-12-2013 03:09AM

I was in a toy shop today buying a gift and spent two hours looking / playing with remote control helicopters, bow and arrows, guns with lazers that shoot foam bullets, jeep and motorbike set where the bike can be controlled to reverse backwards and then wheelies off, pocket ice hockey game and a floor piano like the one in big.

Then I bought the baby car seat I went in for and left. I'm almost 40

clairefontaine · 16-12-2013 04:38AM

My brother still has the Atari 2600.

wolfpawnat · 16-12-2013 04:50AM

This is the first year my son is old enough to appreciate lego, though I am not sure if he will get as much enjoyment as his father out of it.

Michael D Not Higgins · 16-12-2013 07:07AM

wolfpawnat wrote: »

This is the first year my son is old enough to appreciate lego, though I am not sure if he will get as much enjoyment as his father out of it.

Minecraft is the next generation's Lego

16-12-2013 07:13AM

I was on the beach today with the dog.

There is a small stream which runs out onto it. I spent almost two hours building a dam across it.

I only stopped because the rain got too heavy. Id still be there only for that.

Might go back later on.....just to check on it.

I'm forty years next birthday......

Lucyfur · 16-12-2013 01:56PM

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

Minecraft is the next generation's Lego

You can get lego minecraft too.

It's just green and brown blocks

old hippy · 16-12-2013 02:03PM

I geek out over the idea of seeing The Hobbit next week & I'm very, very old

Cantona's Collars · 16-12-2013 02:09PM

Picked up my PS4 yesterday,amazing the amount of people who as "is that for you?" of course it feckin' is.You're never too old for video games (or Lego)

clairefontaine · 16-12-2013 05:18PM

Lucyfur wrote: »

You can get lego minecraft too.

It's just green and brown blocks

It also doesn't develop manual dexterity in the same way.

Ficheall · 16-12-2013 05:25PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I stood up in them successfully.

Tomorrow I will move from one place to another place.

I bought myself a pair of rollerblades last Christmas - no brakes on the ****ers. I'd practice at night, skating around the office when everyone else had gone home, hoping I wouldn't do myself serious damage and be found lying on the floor in the morning by the cleaner.
Then one night I skated home in them at about 3am - it took about an hour as I had to keep stopping to look casually at my phone any time someone passed so that I wouldn't make more of an eejit of myself. Never took them out again after that

I hope you get better use out of yours!

WilyCoyote · 16-12-2013 05:32PM

I think the OP may have an Electra Complex.

Dyr · 16-12-2013 05:54PM

Years ago me and me best mate used to get the bus into school together, we'd spend most of our time coming up with grisly fates for people and groups we didn't like and such general nonsense.

I wound up dropping out of that school and going to another one, never saw him after that. Anyway years, nay decades later I bumped into him on the same bus and we were yakking away and basically just slipped into the same mode without even realizing it, as though all that time hadn't passed.

Sorta sad moment I guess.

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

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