Ask Lemmy

According to my spouse: play D&D.

Sleeping with a cuddly toy. My parter converted me and they're great. Tbh, they actually make a lot of sense as a middleaged person. Now that I'm old and less flexible, I end up with a sore back or shoulder if I don't have proper support when sleeping. And I'd much rather have a big lion buddy than some weird orthopedic pillow or Dutch wife.

Just turned 50 and still ride a skateboard.

Asking strangers for permission to pet their dogs.

Petting strangers' dogs.

Play video games, according to a lot. Be absolutely enamored by cats? Some people have told me only toddlers like kitties so, what? Confusing.

Bold & easy coloring books. People are very judgemental about it since it looks like a children's coloring book, but there's a reason it's in the top selling books lists online. Got some cheap alcohol markers and an audiobook on my headphones and I'm gone for the next few hours.

Drink like I'm still 24.

Feed pigeons. I am not an old lady, although I sometimes feel like it :' )

Snicker, exist. Almost 70.

Lego. I mean, it's perfectly appropriate for all ages, but some people (mostly older folks) still seem to think it's for children only.

I don't have a car nor a house and I'm in my 40ies. I've been told multiple times that I'm not a responsible adult as long as I don't have one of these.

Well... Last night I watched the original Care Bears movie, in VR as a Care Bear avatar and would join in on every Care Bear Stare since the avatar had that as a feature.

I am 40 years old.

work for low wages

Eat shrooms and play The Fractured but Whole.

Watch anime I guess, if people still think it’s only for kids and young adults.

In spring, I like to find puddles on forest roads and trails and dig small ditches and watch the water flow out.

I also do other kinds of forest infrastructure maintenance - trimming branches on narrow trails, clearing fallen trees, and building small bridges over wet spots. Occasionally, I mark hard-to-see trails by tying orange tape to branches along the way.

Ride my bicycle with no hands. I'm told it is undignified for a 45 year old man.

This probably isn't out of the ordinary, but I'm not against playing video games that were made for children even though I'm going to turn 30 at the end of the year. I don't always play them but if I try one and it turns out to be good, then I'll play it.

I'm also not against watching shows or movies meant for children either but it's pretty rare that I do.

I try to get around by means other than driving myself in a car.

Also, in this thread: cool ideas

I watch animated. Just started Justice League for probably the 20th time.

Go out dancing.

I play Animal Crossing.

I'm 46

Fantasize about murdering politicians

I am in politics and want to open my own game studio. I am 22 and have been wanting to go into politics when i was 11

I enjoy things to the fullest extent and don't let being an "adult" hold me back. I'm still going to enjoy that waterslide.

I'm in my late 40s, and have so many Doctor Who toys on desks and shelves.

My spouse is sweetly tolerant of the sheer quantity of TARDISes in our small apartment (which is, alas, not bigger on the inside) and has even gifted me some of them.

I don't moderate my emotions and responses very well so the way I act could be seen as slightly immature. Sometimes I get very opinionated on things that don't seem like a big deal.

Am in my early 40s. And yet I do not have my shit together in any meaningful sense. With each passing decade that becomes less and less sexy.

Clean and cook for myself.

Apparently I'm supposed to hire maids and cooks or something.

Play Beyblade. I'm in my late 30s.

Watch a lot of Antiques Roadshow, documentaries, etc.