What’s one activity you couldn’t do as a kid that you’re now embracing as an adult & why?

[Bespin Copilot 10,731]

As kids, we had rules, restrictions, and questionable judgment (let’s be honest). Now, as adults, we can finally do all the things we weren’t allowed to... whether that’s staying up late, eating cake for breakfast, or fully embracing tax fraud.

 

So, what’s something you couldn’t do as a kid but now fully enjoy as an adult? Drop your answers, bonus points for nostalgia, bad decisions, or pure chaos, of course.

[Jay 45,801]

Hmm, nothing comes immediately to mind. What about you?

[Jill Sandwich 11,030]

Collecting dolls

[Bespin Copilot 10,731]

7 hours ago, Jay said:

Hmm, nothing comes immediately to mind. What about you?

 

Well, nothing is funnier to me than knowing my childhood piggy bank savings have evolved into funds for booze, regrettable Amazon purchases, and, oh yeah… ordering things online that vibrate and aren’t electric toothbrushes.

[Richard P 5,241]

Had ice cream for dinner once on holiday. We'd done a ton of walking - I have no regret.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,173]

1 hour ago, bespinGPT said:

 

ordering things online that vibrate and aren’t electric toothbrushes.

 

Belt sanders? Electric hedge trimmers?

[Edmilson 12,208]

No one mentioned sex yet?

 

That's one of the few advantages being an adult has over being a children.

[Bespin Copilot 10,731]

Just now, Edmilson said:

No one mentioned sex yet?

 

That's one of the few advantages being an adult has over being a children.

 

Those who where raised in religious schools will not understand your comment.

[Jill Sandwich 11,030]

I haven't had a root in over five years, so adulthood doesn't feel much different anyway.

[Bespin Copilot 10,731]

8 minutes ago, Lady Dimitrescu said:

I haven't had a root in over five years, so adulthood doesn't feel much different anyway.

 

A poet once said: There's always someone for someone / There's always a society / No, it's not made for dogs, the Club Med, right? / Loneliness does not exist.

[TolkienSS 518]

Order food 

[Bespin Copilot 10,731]

28 minutes ago, TolkienSS said:

Order food 

 

Well, as long as you can pass the bill to someone else!

[Mr. Hooper 8,623]

I had Reese's Peanut Butter Cups for breakfast today. Not that my childhood breakfast was much better ('Lucky Charms' cereal, brown sugar on toast, and a sugary 'Flintstones' chewable vitamin tablet.)

[Bespin Copilot 10,731]

3 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:

I had Reese's Peanut Butter Cups for breakfast today. Not that my childhood breakfast was much better ('Lucky Charms' cereal, brown sugar on toast, and a sugary 'Flintstones' chewable vitamin tablet.)

 

Hey, that's not Can... Sorry, I said nothing.

 

[Mr. Hooper 8,623]

5 minutes ago, bespinGPT said:

Hey, that's not Can... Sorry, I said nothing.

In my defence, I bought them before...you know what.

 

I'd buy 'Cherry Blossoms' instead now, but they stopped making them, as you probably know. 

[Bespin Copilot 10,731]

21 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:

I'd buy 'Cherry Blossoms' instead now, but they stopped making them, as you probably know. 

 

Last time I ate a Cherry Blossom was in the summer of '86. I remember it like it was almost 40 years ago. I fell into a sugary coma for about 40 minutes. It might be a good thing that they stopped producing it in the end!

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,173]

2 hours ago, Lady Dimitrescu said:

I haven't had a root in over five years, so adulthood doesn't feel much different anyway.

 

Does it work anymore even?

[Jill Sandwich 11,030]

5 minutes ago, #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal said:

 

Does it work anymore even?

 

It works, but I just haven't had the motivation in the 2020s.

[Quintus 6,319]

Ironing. To remove the creases.

[Thor 9,347]

Eating potato chips every day. I must have endless amount of salt and fat.

[Jurassic Shark 16,355]

A steady income.

[Jill Sandwich 11,030]

4 hours ago, Thor said:

Eating potato chips every day. I must have endless amount of salt and fat.

 

And carb

[Ollie 1,375]

Buying my own shoes / clothes. Not having to be told “Nike shoes are too expensive / these <insert name brand clothes> are too expensive….” Granted that was more my dad than mom, but still…😆

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,173]

Not worrying about money i miss that 

[Nick1Ø66 8,119]

On 13/2/2025 at 6:21 PM, bespinGPT said:

Drop your answers, bonus points for nostalgia, bad decisions, or pure chaos, of course.

 

Well isn't it obvious? Drinking of course. Which can lead to all of the above.

[filmmusic 3,205]

Watching R-rated movies.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,173]

Why do so many of Bespin's threads devolve into sex talk. Its quite desperate now...

[Nick1Ø66 8,119]

It's a cry for help.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,173]

Yes. 

[mrbellamy 8,062]

9 hours ago, filmmusic said:

Watching R-rated movies.

 

This is probably the thing that still quietly delights me the most. I can go see whatever movie I want and I haven't so much as looked at a rating in years. I remember that vulnerable time when I would anxiously wait to see if a movie I wanted to see would be rated PG, PG-13, or R, and then either celebrate or despair. And/or figure out how to persuade my parents to let me go. I still love reaching back to those very grown up movies from the 90s or 00s and it's somehow all the more satisfying if it turns out I wasn't missing much. 

 

That and I can order a lovely cheese pizza, just for me. 

[Jill Sandwich 11,030]

My parents let me watch Friday the 13th movies, Halloween movies, and Nightmare on Elm Street movies when I was a kid.

[Thor 9,347]

My dad was pretty liberal when it came to this. In fact, he allowed me to stay up to see ALIEN one night in the 80s (when I was probably around 10-11 years old), despite my mother's concern, and while it was a traumatic experience, it was also instrumental in triggering my film interest (I wanted to know how a film could have such an impact on me).

 

Also, back in those pre-internet days, we always found workarounds. Someone knew someone who had an uncensored VHS tape that he had gotten from England or some such thing. So watched plenty of R-rated movies at much too young an age that way.

 

These days, where everything is available all at once, kids have it easy. But the thrill of the hunt is gone.

[GerateWohl 6,473]

When my little brother was 15 I traumatised him by watching Cannibal Holocaust with him on VHS. That made him a fan and collector of classic gore movies. Interesting how our childhood nights consisted about 100% of nightmares, but we still were fascinated by such frightening movies. Luckily my kids are not at all interested in horror. 

[Bespin Copilot 10,731]

My father also loved making me watch horror movies with him. Thanks for all the nights of nightmares, Dad!

 

[Mr. Hooper 8,623]

Thank goodness for lax parenting in the 1980s!

 

My folks were fine with me watching Horror, but did draw a line at nudity. When watching 'The Howling,' and the werewolf lady disrobed, I was asked to cover my eyes...but I peeked through my fingers. 

[Xander Harris 9,546]

On 13/02/2025 at 7:11 PM, Lady Dimitrescu said:

Collecting dolls

 

Make money.

 

Kids are useless, particularly if they are downtrodden, which they all seem to act like they are nowadays, by the way. I actually contribute to society, which is something my parents didn't do, nor was I ever even encouraged to do because these people didn't care that I even existed. I'm now better than them and realistically enjoy adulthood while everyone else seems fixated on their childhood and complain about everything. 

 

Everything is better. You make money, you can buy what you want, go where you want to go, orgasm and eat a high protein and fiber diet that keeps you fit and taking big rewarding dumps every morning rather than painfully squeezing out hard stools once a week because you're starving.

[Bespin Copilot 10,731]

15 minutes ago, Jamie Dutton said:

 

Make money.

 

orgasm

 

I agree on that.

[Mr. Hooper 8,623]

27 minutes ago, bespinGPT said:

 

I agree on that.

And not on taking the big, rewarding dumps?

[Bespin Copilot 10,731]

4 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:

And not on taking the big, rewarding dumps?

 

Listen, I'm comfortable with a lot of topics on this forum, but there are some that I find frankly disgusting, so I don't comment. There are always limits to the limits a man can endure!

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,173]

11 hours ago, Mr. Hooper said:

And not on taking the big, rewarding dumps?

 

After a weekend on the ale. The kind big dump that nearly fils the toilet bowl.

[Bespin Copilot 10,731]

Wearing pajamas all day, because who needs real clothes when working from home?

[mstrox 7,339]

Murder

[Bespin Copilot 10,731]

1 hour ago, mstrox said:

Murder

 

It was funnier when we were still minors.

[Jill Sandwich 11,030]

Mark my words, therll be killuns next!

[Bespin Copilot 10,731]

Kunilingus?

 

This is disgusting!

[Mr. Hooper 8,623]

 

[Edmilson 12,208]

On 15/02/2025 at 4:57 PM, Nick1Ø66 said:

It's a cry for help.

As the great Rick Astley once sang:

 

Why must we hide emotions?
Why can't we ever break down and cry?
All that I need is to cry for help.
I will be there when you cry for help.
Why don't I hear her cry for help?
All that I need is to cry for help.
Somebody please hear me cry for help.
All I can do is cry for help.
All that I need is to cry for help.
I will be there when you cry for help.
Is it so hard to cry for help?

[Naïve Old Fart 12,881]

8 hours ago, mstrox said:

Murder

Mr. mstrox, murder can be fun 

[Naïve Old Fart 12,881]

Morning wood.

Yeah, I said it.

[Bespin Copilot 10,731]

4 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Morning wood.

Yeah, I said it.

 

That still happens to you at your age? But it's a blessing!