"When you're older"

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This a thread to discuss all the things that you were denied as a child and promised "when you're older"? Did you finally get to see/do them or not?

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 23:48 (twenty years ago)

The judge thought otherwise.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 23:49 (twenty years ago)

your old mentor, the judge?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 23:52 (twenty years ago)

Judge Dredd, actually.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 23:53 (twenty years ago)

Did the judge say "be like me, grow your hair long and flowing, but dabble not in the sideburns" and then slip away into death?

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 23:53 (twenty years ago)

To answer the original question, I HAVE now seen Wild At Heart and I do currently play with the big kids.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 23:54 (twenty years ago)

i haven't played that gabriel knight game, but would like to.
i can now drink beer and drive a car and stay out as late as i want!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 26 January 2006 00:00 (twenty years ago)

I thought a bed full of cheerleaders would be more... organized.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 26 January 2006 00:02 (twenty years ago)

Can't think of any!

I still don't smoke. My parents did, and they always told me not to. Not even "when you're older" there.

tum. ti tum, thinking thinking.

nope.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 26 January 2006 10:02 (twenty years ago)

i did get my ears pierced when i was 11 or 12, after about 6 or 7 years of asking.

i never got to see 'delinquents' though.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 26 January 2006 10:12 (twenty years ago)

1) Drum lessons. Instead I was forced to play the piano for 8 years and hated every minute of it.

2) A trip to Disneyworld. Actually it was: "when your sister's older", but we still never got to go,

Don't care so much about Disney now, but the drums still get to me a little since I taught myself to play later, and have been told by reasonably accomplished drummers that I have a bit of a knack for it.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:15 (twenty years ago)

"One day lad, all this'll be yours"

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:18 (twenty years ago)

I was forced to play the piano for 8 years and hated every minute of it.

Well, that *is* a long time to sit at a piano for.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

I can go to gigs by myself! But it just feels sad now...

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

i never got to see 'delinquents' though.

A lucky escape.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:20 (twenty years ago)

I can drink all the green ginger wine I want now.

― ratty, Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:22 (twenty years ago)

I went through a phase of eating pizza for breakfast... but it just gave me heartburn, so I guess my mum was right to deny me.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:30 (twenty years ago)

I can stay up late and even have friends over for midnight feasts.

― ratty, Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:31 (twenty years ago)

when i was younger, i was really close friends with this girl and once we said that when we're older and grown up, we were going to meet up one day by this fountain down the road.

i never knew that she'd have got married, leaving me sitting there on my own on that damp and lonely thursday years ago. i even thought about phoning her, to ask her what she was up to on sunday, and whether she would like to come and meet me, maybe. She could even have brought her baby! but my phone ran out of batteries and made a noise that went "dooo... do do do do do doo" :(

― oo oo oo ooo ooooo (ken c), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:32 (twenty years ago)

I can drink by myself! At home!

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:32 (twenty years ago)

I got Mr Frost last Christmas - not from my mum who had denied me it 'cause I'd make a mess, but from Mr R who was fed up hearing me harp on about how I never got it.

It's shit. I tried to use it once and it was not worth the hassle.

Mum was right not to buy me it.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005NK20.02.LZZZZZZZ

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:51 (twenty years ago)

Mr Frosty more like. Makes no difference. Still shite.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:52 (twenty years ago)

I did get to watch Grange Hill, yes.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:55 (twenty years ago)

It's shit. I tried to use it once and it was not worth the hassle

YES! the ice is inordinately difficult to crush.

i wanted to join cubs/scouts when i was a kid, but mum wouldn't let me for some reason. i joined saturday football instead, for five years. the last eyar, our team only won one match all season, one half of a two leg match where we got pummelled in the second leg, so i guess we lost the one match we won. i can't shake the feeling that this had some effect on me somehow.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 26 January 2006 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Rumpie = Johnny B. I wanted one, didn't get one, and nearly bought one before xmas, until I read that it was shit.

I didn't think there was anythign except that, but I remembered that when I was little my Mum told me not to read 3 Men In a Boat until I was older. I still haven't read it - maybe I will.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 26 January 2006 13:18 (twenty years ago)

By the time you've ground the ice (sweat pissing from your brow) whats gathered in the little tray has melted again.

I thought I was doing something wrong. I guess I was, I was expecting a delicious, refreshing ice drink.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 26 January 2006 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Yes it's true Three Men in a Boat is full of filthy man on dog action and most unsuitable for small Johnnies. As it were.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 13:39 (twenty years ago)

i had mr frosty as a kid. i thought it ruled.

for me:

1. ive had some nice adult periods of not driving (i was forced to get my drivers licence at 17 - it was a bitter 3 month long battle that i lost)
2. i can watch tv 24/7, which i sometimes do.
3. i can be really messy but im mostly not.
4. i can play music really really loud but i only do that in the car.
5. i can paint my walls black but i dont.
6. i still dont own a pony named henry.

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:11 (twenty years ago)

I ignored my dad and read Great Gatsby when I was twelve. He was right, I should've read it when I was older, because I didn't appreciate it at all. (Not that I do now. I didn't like it enough to read it again.)

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:34 (twenty years ago)

How can you force someone to get a driver's license? I'm 26 and perfectly happy not having one.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:49 (twenty years ago)

it's easy to force someone to get a driver's license! if you live somewhere without public transportation, you can just refuse to give them rides ever :P threats of other types of deprivation also work

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad to live in a city with a good public transportation, then.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:57 (twenty years ago)

How can you force someone to get a driver's license? I'm 26 and perfectly happy not having one.

-- Tuomas (lixnix...) (webmail), Today 8:49 AM. (Tuomas) (later)

you have a catholic mother who starts with the 'WHAT IF I HAVE A HEARTATTACK? HOW WILL I GET TO THE HOSPITAL? AN AMBULANCE WONT ARRIVE IN TIME!!' and, when shes gets snickers in response, ends with 'OH YOURE GOING TO GET YOUR LICENCE, MISSY OR IM GOING TO MAKE YOUR LIFE HELL!!'

i love driving now. public transport is a boring snoring pain in the ass. ditto for walking. one of my favorite things about america is that cars are considered a right and a necessity and there are carparks for EVERYTHING. i havent parallel parked in the 13 months ive been here! i still hate interstates and the general lack of indication.

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:03 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't want to live in a world where a car is considered a right and a necessity for everyone. The environment couldn't handle it, it can't even handle the current situation.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

You live in a city?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:24 (twenty years ago)

when i was ten i got ping pong balls and paddles for christmas, under the pretense that the actual table would be delivered the following week. it never came.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Wtf?! Did your parents plan it that way? Sounds kinda cruel.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

they were sort of... forgetful.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:28 (twenty years ago)

tuomas how large is your town? try living in a city with the sprawl of sydney and see how much you care about the envornmental effects of cars. i can see being happy with using public transport most of the time in a city like Portland, OR.

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Well, obviously every city should have a working public transportation system. Espoo and Vantaa, the two cities adjoining Helsinki are spread on a rather wide area, yet you can get everywhere by bus or train. Of course it's not your fault if it isn't so in Sydney, I was just pointing out that everyone's right to own a car shouldn't be a fundamental right or anything, because it would lead into a catastrophy.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

sydney has public transport. i just hate sitting on a bus, then a train, then another train, then walking for 20 minutes just to get to work. squished like a sardine for an hour and a half, esp in summer w/ no windows and crap airconditioning, is the definition of suck. oh and you get to do it all over again at 5pm! yay!

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:42 (twenty years ago)

I never got that rock tumbler, which I needed to pluck harmless-looking stones from the dirt of my backyard and shock everyone when they turned out to be diamonds and rubies!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like the public transport network could be a bit thicker if you have to use two trains and one bus to get to work. Why don't the buses or trains have windows or air conditioning? Anyway, I don't like crowded buses or trains either, but - and I know this is gonna sound rather smug - I don't believe in unlimited individual freedom, if the said freedom will endanger the future of the planet. Using public transport is a price I'm glad to pay if it makes the world a bit more sustainable.

(x-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

But yeah, as I said, I can't really blame anyone for using a car if the public transport system isn't really working. So a lot of the blame lies on governments and city councils. Dubya retracted America's decision to join the Kyoto treaty perviously affirmed by Clinton, saying that the American standard of living isn't on sale. I guess the environment is, though.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Lately in Helsinki the city council has kept raising the ticket prices, explaining that there are fewer commuters so they need more profits per ticket. Of course there are fewer commuters if you keep on pushing the ticket prices up, bloody idiots!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

I ground up crayons in my Mr. Frosty.

Now that I'm older, I can drink all the coffee I want (but I drink tea instead).
I can stay up all night (once in the past year).
I can use the good china and silverware (what exactly is the point of having two sets again?)
I can sit at the grown-up table (honestly, the kids table is much more interesting).

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:29 (twenty years ago)

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