@darksaber99999 I won't list the name here because I thought the service was not very good, but you can google it; I think there are at least two companies doing it.
But the idea is supposed to be like netflix for lego. You pick out some lego kits you want, they ship you some, you build it, and then break it down and return it, and then you'd get the next kit. My problem was that I wanted more complicated kits, the ones that I'd never buy at the store for $500+. But the service was clearly marketed for kids, so they had mostly small kid-level sets.
@metageist If the service offered the high-end complicated lego constructions, who would check that all the parts came back? Kinda like a subscription rental for jigsaw puzzles.
Good to see that gaming isn't on the list. Some people still think that's "for kids". Either that or whoever wrote the poll just didn't think of it. Either way, it's the best.
@Al_Coholic That's what I came to post, I think 3 things have made gaming more acceptable for adults: 1. Proliferation of casual/mobile games 2. Increased "maturity" of games (as a medium) 3. Kids that grew up on games still play
@cpierce Yeah that makes sense. Although now that I think of it, video games were originally a mostly adult hobby. Not sure when it started to become considered a "for kids" activity. Nintendo maybe?
@Al_Coholic Yup, after the video game crash of the '80s Nintendo decided to market the NES as a toy instead of electronic device like a stereo, computer, or VCR. It's also why we tend to think of gaming as being for boys, because at that point you had to pick if your toy was for boys or for girls.
@cpierce No, mostly just things not targeted for kids, like my favorite, Futurama, which would be fine for kids but they wouldn't understand it, or things they really shouldn't watch, like Rick & Morty, which I know plenty of adults who would find that offensive.
I never did understand the whole "for kids" thing unless it's like, a piece of clothing in a children's size. I say darn the establishment, like what you like. As Eddie Izzard one said on his clothing of choice, "these aren't women's dresses, they're my dresses." Well, these aren't for children... they're for me!
@lisaviolet I mix the very adult sounding No Sugar Added Chocolate Nesquik with protein powder. I think it tastes better than any of the premixed powders they make with Stevia in it anyway.
@The_Baron I volunteer at our Science museum- it's the best part of my week. I love to pull out a Madascar hissing cockroach and freak out the middle schoolers.
@sammydog01 That is cool, I would love to do that. I almost took a job working in IT systems for the Boston MoS. I would have if it wasn't a massive paycut.
@cranky1950 I'd LOVE to nap. I've had about four naps since I was just a couple years old. Hardcore insomniac here. But at this point, any real sleep makes me feel off kilter.
Had them read aloud to me at 2 years old. Buncha command performance repeats, so it's how I learned to read. Still love them - esp the ones with the original illustrations.
Also another kid book I keep lying out:
Time of Wonder, by Robert McCloskey. It's good to stop and look and that one once in a while.
Oh, stuffed animals. They're soft and they're cute and you can hug them! What's not to love? Being a chick seems to make this a little more socially acceptable, but I'm still embarrassed by how infantile it must seem.
I have been known to be "that guy" walking around the park sans kids. Just being there energizes me. One of my favorite things to do is after park closing, go and sit over in Frontierland on a bench and soak up the ambiance until security comes to sweep me out.
@mfladd LOL. There was a really nice guard who swept me out twice on my trip last month. We had some good chats about the state of the resort and whatnot during the slow walks out. He was way nicer than the guy who picked me up 6 years ago after a night of drinking, stumbling across the esplanade between the parks at 4:30 in the morning. That guy was a bit of a jerk.
@f00l BIG YES! My kids are still a little young to appreciate, but my mother still talks about coming home from work and seeing me watching the Three Stooges.
I was probably high at the time. Let's not discuss it.
@mfladd I must have watched The Three Stooges while high at some point. Started watching well before kindergarten. My mother and grandmother would tell us it was stupid and bad for us. But mom watched too, tho she tried to pretend she just really needed to fold in laundry in that room at exactly that time, and folding laundry made her giggle for some reason.
@lisaviolet @mfladd @compunaut @jaremelz If you have never seen the full-length Three Stooges 3D movie, in a 3D setting.... Well, just give up the rest of your life and chase it down. Worth it.
I saw it decades ago as part of a repertory theater 3D festival in the West Village. On a bill with some Warhol stuff (Frankenstein?) and Hitchcock's "Dial M For Murder" with Grace Kelly.
Warhol was both boring and fascinating at the same time; plot, story, character are absent or immaterial, of course.
Hitchcock's use of 3D was just....he is the master. I doubt a director today could handle it so beautifully.
And the Stooges film: let's just say it must have been by "Kitchen Sink Productions" or a similar producer. If they dreamed it, they did it. Thankful that they did. ;)
@lisaviolet My kids tell me: "This is the South. All you need is underwear, shorts & shirt" (catshirt if you're @narfcake) The dryer will hold a week's worth of those
Coloring, riding bikes. Can't say I didn't enjoy play-doh and easy bake oven when my kids were little. I had to get adult-like really quick when we hit clean-up time though.
GD fun dip!!
@KDemo First thing I thought of.
@phoebus13 - Love the movie.
Kids' meals at restaurants
We tried one of those Lego subscription services and I couldn't figure out why they didn't market it to adults.
@metageist Wait, what? Lego subscription service?
@darksaber99999 I won't list the name here because I thought the service was not very good, but you can google it; I think there are at least two companies doing it.
But the idea is supposed to be like netflix for lego. You pick out some lego kits you want, they ship you some, you build it, and then break it down and return it, and then you'd get the next kit. My problem was that I wanted more complicated kits, the ones that I'd never buy at the store for $500+. But the service was clearly marketed for kids, so they had mostly small kid-level sets.
@metageist @darksaber99999
Lego rental service? Sounds like fun. (Provided they have a fairly decent catalog to choose from.)
@metageist
If the service offered the high-end complicated lego constructions, who would check that all the parts came back? Kinda like a subscription rental for jigsaw puzzles.
@f00l They did some sort of weight and sanitizing process when you are done. They had nice kits, just not enough to keep subscribing.
Camping... remember?
Get out people!
@Veloslave That's a very adult-sounding pitch.
@Veloslave Thanks all the same. 20 years in the Army, so I've done enough "camping out" for ten lifetimes, and it stopped being fun a long time ago.
Having mom change my diaper.
@awk Nice choice, seconded.
Having awk's mom change my diaper
@matthew Not sure if this was a sick "your mom" burn or genuine nostalgia, but either way, I like it.
Good to see that gaming isn't on the list. Some people still think that's "for kids". Either that or whoever wrote the poll just didn't think of it. Either way, it's the best.
@Al_Coholic That's what I came to post, I think 3 things have made gaming more acceptable for adults:
1. Proliferation of casual/mobile games
2. Increased "maturity" of games (as a medium)
3. Kids that grew up on games still play
@cpierce Yeah that makes sense. Although now that I think of it, video games were originally a mostly adult hobby. Not sure when it started to become considered a "for kids" activity. Nintendo maybe?
@Al_Coholic Yup, after the video game crash of the '80s Nintendo decided to market the NES as a toy instead of electronic device like a stereo, computer, or VCR. It's also why we tend to think of gaming as being for boys, because at that point you had to pick if your toy was for boys or for girls.
Swings.
I was going to say Current Cartoons, but then realized the current cartoons I watch are not for kids.
@jqubed ...do you mean the kind with naked cartoon ladies? Because I watched plenty of those as a kid even though they weren't for kids
@cpierce Archer, Bob's Burgers...really anything with H. Jon Benjamin
@jqubed Venture Brothers and Robot Chicken
@cpierce No, mostly just things not targeted for kids, like my favorite, Futurama, which would be fine for kids but they wouldn't understand it, or things they really shouldn't watch, like Rick & Morty, which I know plenty of adults who would find that offensive.
Classic Spongebob FTW
I never did understand the whole "for kids" thing unless it's like, a piece of clothing in a children's size. I say darn the establishment, like what you like. As Eddie Izzard one said on his clothing of choice, "these aren't women's dresses, they're my dresses." Well, these aren't for children... they're for me!
Nerf
@chr I bought a pile of these badboys cheap at Toys-R-Us. I like to chase my kids around the yard and shoot them.
Minecraft. Maybe not "for kids" only, but it sure has become a big part of kids' culture.
@BethanyAnne shh the kids don't realize it's retro...
Anime! Domo arigato!
Damn near everything 'for children' is made by adults . . .
'Nuff said.
No skylanders?
Is RC helicopter considered as a toy? Anyway, my daughter never had a better gift, at least in my opinion!
Baking?
Spaceballs the flamethrower
Skipping school/calling in sick to go do some Ferris Bueller type stuff. It's actually more fun when you are part of the faculty.
Video games
Pokémon!
Classic AND current cartoons.
But since I can vote for only one: Superheroes (which can be found in classic and current cartoons).
Steven Universe is the best.
Nestle's Quik. Chocolate.
@lisaviolet //sung by Farfel// N-e-s-t-l-e-s, Nestles makes the very best. Chocolate!
@lisaviolet I mix the very adult sounding No Sugar Added Chocolate Nesquik with protein powder. I think it tastes better than any of the premixed powders they make with Stevia in it anyway.
Science Museum. I have just as much fun as my son when I take him to these museums.
@The_Baron I volunteer at our Science museum- it's the best part of my week. I love to pull out a Madascar hissing cockroach and freak out the middle schoolers.
@sammydog01 That is cool, I would love to do that.
I almost took a job working in IT systems for the Boston MoS. I would have if it wasn't a massive paycut.
Nap time
@cranky1950 I'd LOVE to nap. I've had about four naps since I was just a couple years old. Hardcore insomniac here. But at this point, any real sleep makes me feel off kilter.
OZ books.
Had them read aloud to me at 2 years old. Buncha command performance repeats, so it's how I learned to read.
Still love them - esp the ones with the original illustrations.
Also another kid book I keep lying out:
Time of Wonder, by Robert McCloskey. It's good to stop and look and that one once in a while.
Climbing trees.
Oh, stuffed animals. They're soft and they're cute and you can hug them! What's not to love? Being a chick seems to make this a little more socially acceptable, but I'm still embarrassed by how infantile it must seem.
@currawong It's ok. I hug my little sister's stuffed animals good night sometimes. She's turning 21 in a few months.
@currawong Nah!
(I've yet to buy the bad kitties, though.)
@currawong
Stuffed voodoo dolls.
Disneyland.
I have been known to be "that guy" walking around the park sans kids. Just being there energizes me. One of my favorite things to do is after park closing, go and sit over in Frontierland on a bench and soak up the ambiance until security comes to sweep me out.
@SpenceMan01 If you were the creepy guy on the bench that day, it was I who called security.
@mfladd LOL. There was a really nice guard who swept me out twice on my trip last month. We had some good chats about the state of the resort and whatnot during the slow walks out. He was way nicer than the guy who picked me up 6 years ago after a night of drinking, stumbling across the esplanade between the parks at 4:30 in the morning. That guy was a bit of a jerk.
@SpenceMan01 Well, in his defense, you were getting a little out of hand that night.
@SpenceMan01 This is our last year for annual passes. We renewed last October and haven't been yet. We've been passholders since the late 80s.
But I have my videos.....here's one from February 1994....
double dipping:
1) strawberries in hot chocolate coating
2) celery in blue cheese dip
3) corn chips in salsa
@pskemp2
The Three Stooges
@f00l BIG YES!
My kids are still a little young to appreciate, but my mother still talks about coming home from work and seeing me watching the Three Stooges.
I was probably high at the time. Let's not discuss it.
@mfladd
I must have watched The Three Stooges while high at some point. Started watching well before kindergarten. My mother and grandmother would tell us it was stupid and bad for us. But mom watched too, tho she tried to pretend she just really needed to fold in laundry in that room at exactly that time, and folding laundry made her giggle for some reason.
OMG remember when people actually folded laundry?
@f00l I fold laundry. It doesn't fold itself, yanno.
@mfladd
@lisaviolet The alternative is to leave it in the dryer until it's needed.
This way it's not still on the bed when I want to sleep
@lisaviolet
@mfladd
@compunaut
@jaremelz
If you have never seen the full-length Three Stooges 3D movie, in a 3D setting.... Well, just give up the rest of your life and chase it down. Worth it.
I saw it decades ago as part of a repertory theater 3D festival in the West Village. On a bill with some Warhol stuff (Frankenstein?) and Hitchcock's "Dial M For Murder" with Grace Kelly.
Warhol was both boring and fascinating at the same time; plot, story, character are absent or immaterial, of course.
Hitchcock's use of 3D was just....he is the master. I doubt a director today could handle it so beautifully.
And the Stooges film: let's just say it must have been by "Kitchen Sink Productions" or a similar producer. If they dreamed it, they did it. Thankful that they did.
;)
@compunaut But the dryer only holds so much...
@f00l I honestly don't think I've ever seen a full length Three Stooges movie. At all. Ever.
@lisaviolet My kids tell me: "This is the South. All you need is underwear, shorts & shirt" (catshirt if you're @narfcake)
The dryer will hold a week's worth of those
@compunaut
@lisaviolet
Febreeze....the frat house most-consumed product, beating out both bullshit and beer.
@lisaviolet
Perhaps it was the only full length film they made.
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Stooges-Blu-ray-Moe-Howard/dp/B008W8TO9U
Runs $10-$15 on Bku-Ray for the 3D version. Do you have 3D at home, or can you beg, borrow, steal it?
@compunaut Hah!, but beyond that I now have to dress "more professionally" at work, I don't wear catshirts every single day.
Maybe just on days that end in Y.
@compunaut @lisaviolet @f00l If I don't fold the laundry as it comes out of the dryer and goes in the basket, it will never be folded.
@jqubed
@lisaviolet
@compunaut
If God had meant laundry to be folded, it would come out of the dryer that way.
@narfcake
Do they now make you leave the old torn catshirts at home?
@f00l The only torn up/worn out shirts I've kept around in recent times are a couple copies of http://shirt.woot.com/offers/nocturnowl.
Coloring, riding bikes.
Can't say I didn't enjoy play-doh and easy bake oven when my kids were little. I had to get adult-like really quick when we hit clean-up time though.
cigarettes.