Things you do to clutch on to your youth?

VWsurfbum

So Just admiting here that yes i am that 30 something guy who wears skate rags and still listens to the odd bit of gangsta rap.
Skating shaped my youth, very hard to let that go?
i guess thats why i still enjoy riding bikes (cant skate anymore, to heavy and brittle)

What do you lot do (apart from riding) that helps you hold on to the past?

.blitz

Post on br :P

projectsome

watch tv

stuart_c-2

I act immaturely (apparently).

stuart_c-2

I see 16 year old girls and think "I'd like a go o...."

No, wait... :oops:

CraigXXL

I tend to drink like I could in my youth and always end up suffering more than I did then those days

psymon

visit uni friends and drink into the small hours. talk about the good old days and how radio 1 is crap now and how radio 4 is actually quite good if you are driving.

Gazlar

I'm the same, I dress like McFly, still go to raves and I play around on bikes. I really don't act 30 either, not when theres no need to

I just enjoy myself, I'm capable of being sensible, but why should at times I don't have to be.

Kiblams

By 'youth' do you mean my penis?

El Capitano

VWsurfbum wrote:

So Just admiting here that yes i am that 30 something guy who wears skate rags and still listens to the odd bit of gangsta rap.

Dammed kids these days...

At the ripe old age of 46 (I'm 47 next week), I do the following to clutch onto my youth:

Ride my bikes, obviously.
Build awesome stuff out of Lego.
Play with the Grandkids - football, water pistol and Nerf gun fights.
Play computer games.
Build Scalextrix circuits all around the house (not quite got enough track yet to go all the way up the stairs, but we keep looking and car-boot-sales for more)
Watch cartoons - Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry (the original ones), Scooby Doo etc
Maintain a very warped sense of humour and outlook on life.
Ignore the aches and pains of my joints.

According to Mrs C, I never grew up. And, TBH, I don't really see the need to. Might change when I turn the big five oh and just become a grumpy old man...

psymon

but there is nothing like biking to make you feel hip and cool.
i get all fox'd up in my black kit and nobody can tell how old i am (unless they are eagle eyed action man and see the lack of hair through the holes in the helmet).

i blast through the park in the town centre and show the kids half my age how its done on the double stair set.

then into the woods, where getting tutted at and verbaly abused by walkers around my age makes you feel like a dangerous rebel living life on the edges of society.


but waking up the next day brings the reminder of my actual age.

welshkev

i still dress like i did when i was younger. it was brought home to me even more when i was away in newquay last week and a kid about 17 had on the same quicksilver hoodie as me :shock:

but riding my bike is definately a throw back to my yoof. i stopped when i was bout 22 and only started again properly last year at the age of 31, it feels great hammering down the side of a mountain at this age and at least i can stop now as i'm not using cantilever brakes

stuart_c-2

El Capitano wrote:

Might change when I turn the big five oh and just become a grumpy old man...

And I'm sure the roadie section will be glad to have you.

Gazlar

El Capitano wrote:

Play with the Grandkids - football, pistol and gun fights.

Thats what the kids by us are doing too, playing with their grandkids, well I say youths, possibly by the time they are 30

El Capitano

psymon wrote:

then into the woods, where getting tutted at and verbaly abused by walkers around my age makes you feel like a dangerous rebel living life on the edges of society.

LOL! A few years ago, my sons and myself were braping around an area of disused land in Barry. For those in the know, it the "Ashey" or what used to be Dia Woodham's scrapyard. This old(ish) lady and gent walking their dog came up to us and complained that we were causing a nuisance. Approaching Dan, my son, they said, I've a good mind to tell your parent's what you're doing. I'm right next to Dan, he turns to me and says, "Dad, I'm riding my bike" I removed my FF helmet and the pair of us burst out laughing. The old people left the scene quite bemused.

Pics from the day:

Me:


Dan:


Dan & Me:

CraigXXL

welshkev wrote:

i still dress like i did when i was younger. it was brought home to me even more when i was away in newquay last week and a kid about 17 had on the same quicksilver hoodie as me :shock:

Poor lad was probably having a good day until grandad turned up in the same top.

El Capitano

Stuart_C wrote:

El Capitano wrote:

Might change when I turn the big five oh and just become a grumpy old man...

And I'm sure the roadie section will be glad to have you.

Already prepared for that day:

welshkev

CraigXXL wrote:

welshkev wrote:

i still dress like i did when i was younger. it was brought home to me even more when i was away in newquay last week and a kid about 17 had on the same quicksilver hoodie as me :shock:

Poor lad was probably having a good day until grandad turned up in the same top.

i don't know about grandad but i could definately have been his dad

Alex

I play with lego.
I make things out of cardboard.
I like angel delight.
I take things apart just to see what's inside (live plugs when I was in single figures, these days it tends to be cars and heavy machinery)
I play with bicycles in the mud
I build trails and jumps for my bicycle
I'm first on the bouncy castle

I'm 24, I'm an adult, and it's up to me to work out what that means.

psymon

if you want to feel old go play modern warefare on xbox live.

you arrive into a game, finish usually 3rd place at best but mid table more often than not.
then in the lobby before the next map you notice that the top players gamertag is something like.

SnIpErSkILLz1998.

takes a minute to think that isnt when he registered his account (XBLA didnt exsist) its his bloody year of birth, and he just destroyed you!

Twonk

I embrace every situation with the idiocy of an angry teenager

psymon

Grondel wrote:

I embrace every idiotic teenager by the throat with anger

Tartanyak

24 is still a yoof Alex, but you know you've been middle-ages in cinicism since birth.

VWsurfbum

well i'm glad i'm not the only one.
I must admit i'm enjoying living through my kids too, my daughter has the best Go Kart, and she said to me the other day the words every dad wants to hear while watching the F1 "Dad can i have a go at that, i want to race"
Next year i'll be entering her into the local Karting championships i think :twisted: Pushy parent me :?:

tlw1

Never intending to grow up.

My kids are 5 & 3 and I take them cycling & skateboarding - I am enjoying this time as I am currently better than them!

whyamihere

I'm 22. My youth is still well and truly intact.

Kitty

I'm 21 and get ID'ed when buying 15 dvds which makes me feel more youthful than I already am.

psymon

i got id'd at my local spar (that ive been to a thousand times) at the age of 30.
i have a face full of beard and shaved head/male pattern challenging hair line, plus i was buying either an overpriced 4 pack of corona or a £5+ bottle of wine and a copy of the times, hardly under-aged getting hammered in the park stuff and zoo magazine.


carrots!

Anonymous

psymon wrote:

SnIpErSkILLz1998.

takes a minute to think that isnt when he registered his account (XBLA didnt exsist) its his bloody year of birth, and he just destroyed you!

Pah, fricking noobs. I was deathmatching online before he was born! (and it was free).

I'm in that group of people who still dress the same since they were a teenager. Luckily I have a job and a lifestyle where that is pretty much accepted

jay12

well i do the following:
....oh wait i don't have to :P

psymon

jay12 wrote:

well i do the following:
....oh wait i don't have to :P

too busy smashing bus stops and hanging out outside the tesco express asking us lot to buy you some booze, then calling us gay when we dont?