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Topic: What constitutes a man child?
+Anonymous A — 9.3 years ago #47,122
Do you fit the description?
Personally, I think man children are those that still play video games and watch kid movies like anything marvel shits out.
+FME !2CQezZ7g6I — 9.3 years ago, 49 minutes later[T] [B] #511,098
A man child to me is a whiny ass or someone not able to take care of their responsibilities or self despite their age. Who gives a shit if you play games, that is going to be more common as my generation gets older anyway.
·FME !2CQezZ7g6I — 9.3 years ago, 39 seconds later, 50 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #511,099
I will say I am not fond of marvel or any superhero movies at all but I don't really think people that like them are man children
+Anonymous C — 9.3 years ago, 6 minutes later, 57 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #511,100
An abominable creature that is not truly man or child.
+Anonymous D — 9.3 years ago, 2 hours later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,111
@511,098 (FME !2CQezZ7g6I)
> A man child to me is a whiny ass or someone not able to take care of their responsibilities or self despite their age.
Described Bert perfectly!
+Anonymous E — 9.3 years ago, 18 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,112
@OP
I'm kind of curious: if a man buys model trains for his children and spends most weekends playing with them, is he a man child?
·Anonymous C — 9.3 years ago, 8 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,115
@previous (E)
I don't think it has much to do with anyone's hobby. To me it's someone who is neither emotionally mature or a functioning member of society... like Matt or Bert.
+Nugget Syntaxroll !Uvm54ORbmo — 9.3 years ago, 1 hour later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,125
by op definition I am a man child
feels gud meng
·Nugget Syntaxroll !Uvm54ORbmo — 9.3 years ago, 49 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,132
Ah wait I dun even watch marvel disregard Im not man child at all
feels bad meng :(
·FME !2CQezZ7g6I — 9.3 years ago, 23 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,136
@511,111 (D)
I'm not trying to single anyone out but if you fit the description I cannot help that
·Anonymous E — 9.3 years ago, 7 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,139
@511,115 (C)
I can't imagine how playing with toy trains contributes anything to society...
·Nugget Syntaxroll !Uvm54ORbmo — 9.3 years ago, 53 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,141
@previous (E)
since when did hobbies need to be contributive to society?
·Anonymous E — 9.3 years ago, 31 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,143
@previous (Nugget Syntaxroll !Uvm54ORbmo)
I'm just using the OP definition; on a personal level, I think having a hobby is a perfectly acceptable use of one's free time.
On, the other hand, if one's hobby consists entirely of drinking Everclear...
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·Nugget Syntaxroll !Uvm54ORbmo — 9.3 years ago, 1 minute later, 8 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,144
@previous (E)
well thats a hobby too, just with consequences of fucking one's own liver up
·Anonymous A (OP) — 9.3 years ago, 1 hour later, 9 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,148
@previous (Nugget Syntaxroll !Uvm54ORbmo)
Self harm doesn't necessarily mean it's a poor choice for a pastime. Reading damages your vision and a martial art can give you serious injuries yet they're both seen as positive.
Over the years my thoughts on what constitutes a constructive hobby vs one that is non constructive is whether or not it is based solely on escapism.
Video games, in my opinion, are solely built for escapism and thus are a crap hobby. Sports watching, while non-constructive, can potentially give you net returns because of it's social factor.
·Nugget Syntaxroll !Uvm54ORbmo — 9.3 years ago, 19 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,149
@previous (A)
Not arguing with your POV on what being a crap hobby coz well it's p subjective, but you do realize now video games go online and actually involve socialism?
Self harming hobbies, on the other hand, the two examples you gave isn't really appropriate: Reading damage your vision but you get to learn the knowledge from the book, Martial art practicing may damage your body but process with caution it can be avoided and makes you tougher and stronger. The profit of the hobbies here outweights the (potential) harm. Drinking hurts your liver, and what profit does it bring?
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·Anonymous A (OP) — 9.3 years ago, 10 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,150
@previous (Nugget Syntaxroll !Uvm54ORbmo)
> but you do realize now video games go online and actually involve socialism?
Online video games as well as anything long distance is nowhere near what true socializing is. Take us for example, we're here on a friday night, shooting the shit, and will probably be here in the future shooting the shit again. Yet we will NEVER be friends. We simply cannot be because the fundamental interactions that real relationships require aren't there. That's the cold truth. It's why people always wonder why their lifelong e-friend suddenly disappeared. It's because there was never really any anchor holding them together.
> Drinking hurts your liver, and what profit does it bring?
I wasn't' defending drinking, you're right it's a shit hobby, I was just stating that a hobby that brings you injury doesn't necessarily mean that it's a poor one and thus it's a poor criteria for categorization.
+Anonymous G — 9.3 years ago, 14 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,151
@previous (A)
It might not be the gratest form of socializing, certainly shouldn't be the only one, but it's still a form of it.
·Nugget Syntaxroll !Uvm54ORbmo — 9.3 years ago, 1 hour later, 11 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,153
@511,150 (A)
> Online video games as well as anything long distance is nowhere near what true socializing is
Then we're shifting the topic from what makes a good or bad hobby to what socializing should be. I won't deny online or long d socializing is nowhere as deep as physical face-to-face socializing, but IMO what online socializing lacks in depth, it made up with a widen reach.
Yeah we're shooting the shit here on a tiny internet community, not even knowing who we're talking to. You and I maybe on the different side of the world, never get across each other in our lives. Without the internet and this little board, we would stay being completely stranger for the whole lives, coz it's not like we'll fly over to another country and find a random guy on the street to buy him a beer; But now, we're talking about trivial shit on this little community. This is a tiny step up from being complete stranger, first step of building up a relationship. How it goes from here is all upon us, we can stay talking about random stuff in here, we can get to know each other better, or we can throw shit and hate each other for the entire life, but the point is, without this long d socializing, we wouldn't even have this slightest possibility to be linked up.
I've got to know some p cool guys in TC throughout the years, do I ever meet them? nope; do I consider them gud buds? yeah sorta; would I buy them a beer and socialize the shit out of it if given the chance? FUCK YEAR BABY.
> I was just stating that a hobby that brings you injury doesn't necessarily mean that it's a poor one
Alright, point taken. I should have rephrase it as "drinking is a hobby that gives you hangover fucks your liver all over and doesn't give you any profit whatsoever".
·FME !2CQezZ7g6I — 9.3 years ago, 21 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,155
@511,150 (A)
@previous (Nugget Syntaxroll !Uvm54ORbmo)
I feel like there is a line somewhere between drinking as a hobby and drinking due to addiction though....
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·Nugget Syntaxroll !Uvm54ORbmo — 9.3 years ago, 9 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,156
@previous (FME !2CQezZ7g6I)
not much room to debate about addiction, it's plain bad
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·FME !2CQezZ7g6I — 9.3 years ago, 26 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[T] [B] #511,157
@previous (Nugget Syntaxroll !Uvm54ORbmo)
Yeap
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