# Stereotypical Kid / Teen things you do as an adult? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 4, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847 "2025-02-04T00:47:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/21 "2025-02-04T10:46:35Z")
I still like Mad Magazine. I know it no longer publishes, but I’ve never thrown one out. Although I’ve only ever bought it at the newsstand, I still have those I bought as a child for 35c (cheap!) and the ones I bought for $5.99 (still cheap!). And they’re fun to reread: MASHUGA, 201 Minutes of a Space Idiocy, All in the Family Fare, The Guru of Ours (with Liza Minelli and Ed Sullivan), Catch-All-22—still hold up today, if you know the source material. Plus Jack Rickard, Dave Berg, George Woodbridge (who was that girl in the long coat with the big round glasses that he always managed to work into his art?), Don Martin and his sound effects, Norman Mingo who did the definitive portrait of Alfred E. Neuman, and Bob Clarke, who nailed advertising parodies. Oh, and Al Jaffee’s Fold-In. Yeah, I may be rereading stuff that I read when I was 9 years old. But it’s still fresh and funny to me. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/22 "2025-02-04T10:58:18Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I gave up comic books more than twenty years ago. Not because I outgrew them, but because I got sick and tired of how they marketed them. The final straw came when I was reading _Nightwing_ and the story line was interrupt by some crossover event I would have had to purchase a bunch of other comics I don’t normally purchase the follow along. I can identify very strongly with this, for sure. I don’t want to read twenty different series and keep track of a fragmented narrative, I just want to read a story. I didn’t quit comics entirely, though. I just cut way back, and refocused on strictly standalone titles. _Lumberjanes_ is great. I also liked _D4VE._ Stuff like that. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/23 "2025-02-04T11:24:03Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > I can identify very strongly with this, for sure. I don’t want to read twenty different series and keep track of a fragmented narrative, I just want to read a story. If the comics industry dies, it will be because you cannot understand _Ultra Man_ No. 132 until you’ve read _Universe 2: The Next Chapter_ nos. 3 through 38, and _Amazing Girl_ numbers 48 through 61. Well, you can skip no. 61, where Amazing Girl’s secret identity is revealed to the newsdealer on the corner … Anyway, she picks it up in Issue 62, where she needs Ultra Man’s help, but he calls in Megaman, who you need to read from _Megaman_ Issue no. 1 to understand. At least until Issue 12 … Blah-blah-blah, and no interest in buying all the issues necessary to understand it all. Pfft. Give me those old Gold Key Yogi Bear, Fred Flintstone, Bugs Bunny, or Daffy Duck (or Harvey’s Richie Rich, Casper, or Baby Huey) comics. One to three stories per issue, no continuity, but funny and entertaining as hell, even now. Yes, I read those old comics, and yes, I am still entertained. If the comics industry dies, it’s their own fault, for making things (a) superheroes only; and (b) too damn complicated. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/24 "2025-02-04T11:55:07Z")
I still enjoy _The Three Stooges_, and still laugh as hard at some of the gags as I did as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/25 "2025-02-04T12:10:46Z")
I bought My grandson a chocolate milk mixer for Christmas. I liked it so much I decided to keep it for myself. It froths the milk! His palette hasn’t developed enough to appreciate something like that anyway. So I kept it. Lol That’s what I tell myself anyway. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/26 "2025-02-04T12:16:31Z")
At 63, I’m … -still a horse-crazy 12yo girl -as happy to flop down on the ground as sit in a chair -prefer to be barefoot -love to sit cross-legged (though my knees do have to remind me that we’re NOT actually 12 any more :/) -get shy at parties and would prefer to go play with the dog or pet the cat -want to climb trees ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/27 "2025-02-04T15:16:41Z")
I play pinball everyday. That was a young guy thing when I was a young guy. It’s an old guy thing now that I’m an old guy. It’s the same with comic books. They were for kids 50 years ago; now they cater to all ages and their most fervent fans now are those same people now in their 60s. I do love a good corn dog. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/28 "2025-02-04T16:17:03Z")
> [@saje](#): > > -prefer to be barefoot This is the only thing is this thread so far that remotely describes me. I do like to go barefoot. But otherwise, I guess I’m an old man at heart. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/29 "2025-02-04T16:21:02Z")
I love to read fairy-tales. My grandparents had an illustrated collection of Grimm stories I loved to read as a kid, and the fascination with fairy-tales never left me. The original “Kinder und Hausmärchen” by the brothers Grimm is still one of my favorite books, but I read fairy-tales from all over the world, the more obscure the better. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/30 "2025-02-04T16:37:22Z")
I’ve played video games for thirty-five years, I’m not likely to stop any time soon. I have only recently (since COVID) gotten into Warhammer; I build models and play when I can. Not big into painting them though. I occasionally watch anime, but my tastes have changed and most of it seems to be garbage. After 20+ years away, I have relatively recently taken up playing a tabletop RPG (Pathfinder, and occasionally Imperium Maledictum.) ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/31 "2025-02-04T16:40:34Z")
> [@saje](#): > > At 63, I’m … > -still a horse-crazy 12yo girl > -as happy to flop down on the ground as sit in a chair > -prefer to be barefoot > -love to sit cross-legged (though my knees do have to remind me that we’re NOT actually 12 any more :/) > -get shy at parties and would prefer to go play with the dog or pet the cat > -want to climb trees All of these. When I was given a horse at age 58, it was exactly like being twelve again, only with money. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/32 "2025-02-04T16:44:45Z")
In water-related activities, I love to (attempt) body surfing in the ocean and jump/dive off of (increasingly hard to find) diving boards. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/33 "2025-02-04T16:54:01Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > I have only recently (since COVID) gotten into Warhammer; I build models and play when I can. Not big into painting them though. About twenty years ago, my D&D group all got into Warhammer. I really tried to get into it. It just isn’t for me. For me, combat is usually the least interesting part of an RPG. I cannot paint miniatures worth crap. To compete in league events, you must use official miniatures. I understand the business model and the need to turn a profit. I just don’t like this. To compete in league events, you must buy at least one new codex each year. I also remember threads on the Dope when Games Workshop switched from using metal and whatever standard plastic they used before to a new, special plastic. After buying an army, one fan came home to find that the new special plastic melts if left in sunlight too long. I am a HUGE fan of Talisman though. For the unfamiliar, it is a fantastic board game. Players play as various charecters (The Troll, The Ghoul, The Monk etc) they fight monsters to get gold and possibly magical items. the board is divided into four regions. The outermost region is the biggest and least dangerous. The next section smaller and more difficult. The next section is the finale section and is excedingly dangerous. The center of the board is The Crown Of Command. Essentially, if you can get to the Crown first and no other player is able to get their in a few turns to challeng you, you win. I am not certain just what edition or mixture of editions I have. Mom got Talisman for me (Thanks Mom!) at a garage sale. It was complete. I think I have the ‘Age Of Dragons’ or "Attack Of Dragons’ expansion cards. There were 3 optional expansion boards- The City. The Dungeon. The Time Warp. Sadly, I don’t have those. The game was updated and reissued a few years ago. Everybody should rush right out and buy it. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/34 "2025-02-04T16:55:02Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Guess I’m the first to mention video/computer games but I know I’m not alone! ✅ > [@Odesio](#): > > Let’s see, things I do that are still kid/teen thigns. > > 1. I still play Dungeons & Dragons and other table top role playing games. > 2. I still paint little toy soldiers, vehicles, and creatures. > 3. I still laugh at fart jokes. > 4. I still love pizza. ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ > [@Kron](#): > > I’ve played video games for thirty-five years, I’m not likely to stop any time soon. > > I have only recently (since COVID) gotten into Warhammer; I build models and play when I can. Not big into painting them though. ✅ . . . although I’m a BattleTech guy. Tripler What am I up to now . . . +6? ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/35 "2025-02-04T17:00:57Z")
I’m 68 years old. I’m addicted to old school cartoons, specifically, Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies and classic Disney. I have several bookmarks for websites which show these cartoons and I don’t think I’ve gone to sleep without watching one or two of them for years now. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/36 "2025-02-04T17:16:18Z")
That’s basically what I was going to say, except I’ve been watching the reboot of _Animaniacs_ on Hulu, which they officially classify as a “kids’ show”. That said, I think that there’s an argument to be made that shows like Animaniacs, classic Looney Tunes, etc. are really for all ages, not just kids. There are plenty of references that adults would get but would go over kids’ heads. And Animaniacs in particular I’m sure is targeting both kids who are new to the franchise and Millennials who are nostalgic for the original series. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/37 "2025-02-04T17:46:30Z")
The OP is slanted toward “things you did as a kid that you have continued to do,” but there’s one thing I do that is a _now_ young person differentiator I wouldn’t have predicted: I watch way, way more YouTube than any other kind of TV. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/38 "2025-02-04T17:48:41Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > I watch way, way more YouTube than any other kind of TV. Good call. I haven’t watched normal TV in a long time (literally approaching decades); and nowadays I usually either watch movies or YouTube, though I’m more likely to just listen to podcasts or audiobooks while I play a game or work. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypical-kid-teen-things-you-do-as-an-adult/1013847/39 "2025-02-04T18:49:55Z")
I still like to build Legos. I just won’t buy 'em, because 1) (relatively) expensive & 2) what the 'ell am I going to do after I build one; it’s not like I’m going to put in on the bookshelf in my bedroom like when I was a kid. - The Millenium Falcon is $850 & dimensions are 8" x 33" x 23". Do you have somewhere in your house to display something that big, even if you wanted to? I still dress up for Halloween ---
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