I don't understand the obsession of winnie the pooh and other kiddies shows after the age at which they're aimed at. Winnie the pooh for example is aimed at 2 yrs olds yet this year one of my m8s must have spent £20 in one week on pen sets folders and the alike. Can anyone make any sense of this?? Cause at 16 i thought my m8s wud kno beta?????? :confused:

ermmmm well my sister is like 13 and still likes all the stationary crap but i suppose that its either that or a black pencil case with black pencils and blackblack.
Maybe its just like an after image or your 'm8s' trying to keep a hold of their dear childhood happiness (i know i was happier when i was 4- 4 was an excellent time) while still moving forward.
Or maybe they just like winnie the pooh.

I like Tigger... :p

jk... anyhow, my question is: Why are people too lazy to spell out Mate. Come on, man, only two more letters. Would it kill you?

I like the idea that people who butcher the English language should be shot...

Perhaps because some people think m8s looks cool. :rolleyes:

Good notion there Thor.

come on, say "m8s" one more time http://www.dark-smilies.de/pics/Metzel/metzel010.gif

"m8" looks r3tard3d.

Like any other word in which numbers have been inserted.

Ppl hu rite lyke dis shud b shot 2.


Disclaimer: This post was just to illustrate a point. Please don't shoot me.

*moves crosshair from jadeds head*

Anyway...people are either still in touch with their inner child OR Winnie the Pooh is regared as acceptable as almost everyone liked that fat bear at one point or another.

or the tiger...

In our modern society it would not surprise me if someone is sexually attracted to furry cartoon characters.

You know, there must be people who draw these things.http://vcl.ctrl-c.liu.se/vcl/Artists/Dan-Tovar/InuBaka.jpg

I suppose they also like Winnie the pooh

I've stumbled across "pictures" of stuff like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast going at it.

I really should apply a stricter filter on google... :bugeye:

I typed "Daisy" into google and well....

A really good story is a really good story, regardless of its target audience. Look at the millions of adults who love the Harry Potter series.

Some people become a little too serious as they reach certain milestones in their life -- 16, 21, 40, etc. for men, 13, 30, 50, etc. for women. It makes it uncomfortable for them to go back to that space they used to visit when they were younger and enjoy books or any kind of art for children.

The rest of us don't have that problem. Harry Potter is written in words that pre-teens can understand, yet the stories themselves are universal. There are always evil people to watch out for, and you can't necessarily tell who they are. Everyone has dreamed about getting up one morning and discovering that this isn't really their life, that they are actually a wizard/ princess/ king/ warrior/ guitar virtuoso. Bad things happen to good people. Stand by your friends.

Sorry I got a little carried away with Harry Potter, but at something like 3,000 pages it's a little meatier than Winnie the Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner, which total less than 100 pages including the pictures. But the uniersal truths are there too. Some days you have to get up and have an adventure because otherwise life gets boring. The group that you regard as "your crowd" is made up of a bunch of really different individuals -- timid, brave, foolish, morose, worried -- and you have to all learn to accommodate each other. And of course the unexpectedly sad ending: One day you're going to reach an age at which you won't have a teddy bear to comfort you any more, and you'd better know how to get in touch with the teddy bear in your heart when you need him.

That closing sentence, "Somewhere in the woods, a little boy and his bear will always be playing," is really difficult for the last couple of generations of Americans. These are the people who "decided" that they would never get old because the old people they knew when they were young were assholes. The people who desperately hang onto their youth, at the cost of not doing their duty as elders for the subsequent generations. They spend their money on adult toys and divorce each other when one of them shows too many signs of maturity. The only thing they can do right with their own children is play; as soon as they grow too old for that they want to shuffle them off to pre-pre-pre-school when they can barely walk.

I would't worry about your friend going through his Pooh phase. He probably just got a scary look at what adulthood was going to be like and decided to spend a little more time with his "inner child" while he still had the chance.

It's the people who don't want to listen to the message in the book that are going to grow up with problems.

I'm not criticizing you for not being a Pooh fan. No book appeals to everyone regardless of how well it speaks to the human condition. I couldn't wade through "Huckleberry Finn" and I can't imagine where my head would have to be in order to stomach more than half a page of the bible. But I do hope that you have retained the ability to channel the younger person inside you in some way. Attempting to close the door on childhood and march resolutely into adulthood is just as bad as saying "Hope I die before I get old."

Come to think of it, that line is from a British song, so perhaps the same phenomenon is occurring in the UK.

isn't that the Who?

it's a tad old...

Many people try to relive and recapture their childhood by buying things that made them feel good then. It is only natural that most people like something they can relate to as they grow older. There's nothing at all wrong with buying anything that makes you remember those great times you had when you were younger.I still have an old stuffed dog that I played with when I was just a young sprout and see nothing wrong with having it at all.

Some people become a little too serious as they reach certain milestones in their life -- 16, 21, 40, etc. for men,

I think 3 should be added to that list: it was the first time I shat and wiped my own ass - a milestone in my life.

Sorry, whats the topic?

EDIT: fuq it, i'm starting a new thread....

fuq it



*points frantically*

Shoot him! Shoot him!

Ouch!!.............

"Hope I die before I get old."isn't that the Who? it's a tad old...Of course it is. And it was their countrymen, Def Leppard, who sang, "It's better to burn out than fade away," to the next generation.

Old? No way. I was in college when the "British Invasion" hit. Frank Sinatra: now that's old. It ain't old unless it ain't rock and roll.

Kidding aside, it was the "My ge-ge-generation" people, the kids who were in high school in the late 1960s, who seem to have taken that line as their motto. When the first "Baby Boomer" hit 50 in 1996, it was like the Pharmacists' and Cosmetic Surgeons' Full Employment Act. Rogaine, face lifts, a surge in motorcycle sales. . . and finally Viagra.

The first post-WWII babies will be 60 in two years. I can hardly wait to see how they react to that.

I wonder if you'll ever see someone just three years younger than me, conscientiously filling the role of "elder" on these forums.

Sorry, but the 60s IS old. I'm 16, if you didn't know :D

isn't that the Who?

it's a tad old...

If anyone else got the poorness of that joke, im gonna cringe now
<cringe>

But the 60's was excellent.
without the 60's, thered be no austin powers.
and whats more, if it hadnt been for that baby boom thing in the 60s how do you know humanity wouldnt be destroyed by now by some unknown population shortage.

ok, ge-ge-generation then,
generfukination X now? when will it end?

on the topic on cartoon character porn, i have seen things that would make you never buy a pencil again.
(except if you enjoyed it you might.... start buying... pencils)

and on the topic of word shortening and number writing, thats 1337 remember?
1337 was fine as a hacker language,
but now you get fools in chat rooms and games frankly verbally kickin the 1337 out of anyone who doesnt understand what the 1337 their saying. so yes, they really need to be shot.


finally, m8, methinks this ones not so bad
since theres the word mate, which means friend, and theres 8 on its side, which means infinity, sort of like 'friends forever'
even though i h8 (sorry <you put that gun down right now>) HATE phrases like that.