I think the reason your joy and anticipation changes and diminishes as you grow up is because you slowly learn the real limits the world has. As a child, you really think anything is possible so the only barrier to anything is your imagination. As an adult, we are acutely aware of how much really isn't possible and it destroys so much childhood wonder.
Austin Stratton
2023-04-18 22:53:36 +0000 UTC
'Would of' is fascinating to me as a logophile.. It's slowly replacing the correct 'would have' over time.. It's started to crop up a lot on social media. Not often you get to witness the gradual changing of language..
Austin Stratton
2023-04-13 20:03:57 +0000 UTC
@John Where did that come from??
Saul
2023-04-13 16:29:37 +0000 UTC
My first thought was: get a pane of glass, sellotape it all over, both sides, then drop it on the floor(or crack it all over with a blunt object). You've broken it successfully, but the sellotape stops all the pieces from disappearing all over the shop, so you've also immediately reassembled it.
Saul
2023-04-13 16:28:42 +0000 UTC
...Personally, I loved Lego pamphlets that showed all the Lego sets you could get arranged as towns. I vividly remember just staring at them for hours on end, imagining how fun it'd be if I had more than one fire truck and a fireman with no head. The joy of anticipation and expectation as a kid is really intense, more intense than it ever is when you grow up.
Saul
2023-04-13 16:25:30 +0000 UTC
I like this episode but I am a bit baffled as to why there's a giant mural painting of Jeremy Corbyn in the main room of the house. Seriously, it's uncanny.
Saul
2023-04-13 16:20:35 +0000 UTC
There was a recent indie game called Tunic - a kind of top-down 16-bit-era Zelda style game - that had quite a clever conceit: as you wandered the game world, you'd pick up pages of the game's manual that revealed important things about the game world and its map. The pages from the manual were designed to look exactly like a SNES/Mega Drive era manual in a foreign language, really lavish, beautiful, colourful and interesting artifacts that went through everything in the game. It was a kind of tribute by the developers to the lost art of the video-game manual.
Saul
2023-04-13 16:18:05 +0000 UTC
would of broke choc up and place it in a large oven pan and let it melt together again
girlsdrinkfeck
2023-04-13 10:50:40 +0000 UTC
LOL the manuals in games and booklets in CDs.
After Work Reactions
2023-04-13 10:09:10 +0000 UTC
Agreed =]
After Work Reactions
2023-04-13 10:08:41 +0000 UTC
Thanks for the link bud =]
After Work Reactions
2023-04-13 10:08:35 +0000 UTC
Feels a bit harsh.
Dylan
2023-04-13 07:39:44 +0000 UTC
The classic example of sniffing things as a child that springs to my mind is freshly printed instruction manuals in my video games! Usually in the car on the way back from the store and there wasn't a lot you could do with it while waiting to get home :)
David Lyons
2023-04-13 04:56:31 +0000 UTC
As requested, outtakes from the series so far:
Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwBl7FB5BP0
Episode 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h04Zgrt6fc
Episode 3 (a): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9VaFslDpVk
Episode 3 (b): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfwtrK8HOtI
Ian Richards
2023-04-13 02:54:42 +0000 UTC
Well done! Aaaand youve won.... the biggest sad cunt award. Any words? π