Back when you were a kid? Its Friday around 3pm school is getting out, you know you don’t yhave shit to do but eat cereal and watch cartoons? Is that only happiness a kid can feel? I can’t say I feel that kind of happy anymore…
I remember
I sometimes see tv shows or things of that nature that take me back, but never that happy lol
[quote]GorillaBiscuits wrote:
Back when you were a kid? Its Friday around 3pm school is getting out, you know you don’t yhave shit to do but eat cereal and watch cartoons? Is that only happiness a kid can feel? I can’t say I feel that kind of happy anymore… [/quote]
No, because there was either practice or a game, and then there was homework, and then there was piano practice.
And no, that is not the only kind of happiness a kid can feel. The happiness of being surrounded by family and friends far outweighs the happiness of television or captain crunch.
[quote]GorillaBiscuits wrote:
Back when you were a kid? Its Friday around 3pm school is getting out, you know you don’t yhave shit to do but eat cereal and watch cartoons? Is that only happiness a kid can feel? I can’t say I feel that kind of happy anymore… [/quote]
Man, watch Waking Life, I guarantee you that, taking that movie sincerely will certainly help you feel happiness.
But do not forget, escapism is only one form of happiness found in the world.
Not happiness of the tele, or cereal…more like the happiness of the carefree life of a child lol. I also had pracitice, games, everything except piano practice.
Lately I’ve been feeling like a kid again because they are taking all the cool shit I used to watch and play with and they are now making movies about it (G.I. Joe, Transformers, Xmen, new Star Wars movies, etc…) I keep thinking how much cooler the toys are now than the toys that we had… <<>> gotta get back to work to pay for the bigger toys!
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
Lately I’ve been feeling like a kid again because they are taking all the cool shit I used to watch and play with and they are now making movies about it (G.I. Joe, Transformers, Xmen, new Star Wars movies, etc…) I keep thinking how much cooler the toys are now than the toys that we had… <<>> gotta get back to work to pay for the bigger toys![/quote]
http://www.cobratoys.com/PhotoGallery.asp?ProductCode=L99131
I picked up one of these for $60 CAD(close to this model, but not exactly) and OMFG I cannot believe how cool remote control toys have become!!!
So then I find for $35 at toysrus I also got two airhog mini helicopters. Just awesome! Hours of fun. I recommend everyone run out and buy one, two or three of these!!
Seriously, you WON’T regret it.
A grown woman actually playing with remote control helicopter = Awesomeness.
I’m so going to buy one for myself and the gf just to have battles. I would fly it into hers every chance I get.
[quote]Fuzzyapple wrote:
A grown woman actually playing with remote control helicopter = Awesomeness.
I’m so going to buy one for myself and the gf just to have battles. I would fly it into hers every chance I get. [/quote]
=D
Just be sure that if you get more than one of the air hogs, to make sure they are on different channels because you can’t change them. It says on the box, channel A, B or C. But having more than one s good too because the charge doesn’t last long.
DON’T let it crash into her hair. That was shitty trying to untangle that mess! 
I had a dumptruck worth of dirt in our yard (renovations) so I’d spend all weekend building mountains and carving rivers with the hose, daming up the rivers to flood big pits, and then of course breaking the dam and flooding everything lol
And obviously the pit with rancid water as the toxic waste pit which unfortunate trucks crashed or army men were eaten by the monsters within.
That is some childhood stuff I miss
LEGO is still the best toy ever. I still play with all my LEGO lol
ive been thinking about this lately as well. The whole happiness as a kid thing. I feel like i havent felt that carefree and happy in a while but then again i think they are different kinds of happiness that cannot be compared. Because when youre a child you dont know about these other happy feelings that we now experience as an adult. So im just gonna chalk it up to it is what it is and dont drown in self pity.
http://www.traxxas.com/products/nitro/maxx/tmaxx/trx_tmaxx_over.htm
I used to have one of these. It was the most badass toy ever.
When I want to feel like that I go out and catch bluegill on a lightweight fly rod.
Those helicopters look neat too. I’m thinking about getting a couple and taking them to work.
Do you guys/ gals remember the trucks that if they got stuck up against an obstacle, lion claws would come out of the tires and it would climb?
[quote]GorillaBiscuits wrote:
Do you guys/ gals remember the trucks that if they got stuck up against an obstacle, lion claws would come out of the tires and it would climb?[/quote]
it wes called “The Animal”.
Haven’t bought any RC helicopters yet, but I did go sledding yesterday for the first time in more years than I want to remember.
I’ve started thinking there’s nothing wrong with playing with toys and stuff, even as an adult. Other people might think it’s weird, but that’s their problem.
There’s a great inscription by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw at a public park near where I live:
“We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.”
But i was more into He-man.
That best feeling of total abandon and happiness as a child occurred when I spent hours alone just drawing in my room. Making fun pictures out of thin air was quite gratifying.
Wait… I still do that now, only I get paid for it.
lol
I like how you said cereal and TV after school, because that is exactly what I did. Lucky charms or rice crispy treats while watching Malcolm in the Middle, Home Improvement, Simpsons x2, and then Seinfeld (I think that was the line-up). Yeah I had good taste as a kid. A nap was definitely possible somewhere in there.