These should all make you feel like you’re nine again.
We’e certain that all of our readers are refined, cultured and self-respecting adults that pay their bills, go to work and are generally great at being all ‘adulty’, but there’s still some things that make most Irish adults start acting like they’re infants.
Here are some of them.
Swings
There’s something hypnotic when you see a swing set because it always causes people to drop everything, lose any notion that they’re indeed a fully fledged grown-up as they yell ‘higher, higher’ while people look on.
Feck them, we say, because swings and slides are still endless craic.
Old Video Games
Goldeneye, FIFA ’97, Super Mario, Streets of Rage, Zelda, Street Fighter II: Turbo, Mario Kart, Sonic the Hedgehog…we want them all.
Bubble wrap
Jennifer Lawrence could be making ‘come here to me’ eyes two-feet away from me but I’d probably still be too distracted by this.
Soldiers with an egg
Saturday mornings will never be the same again.
Image via – Reddit
The Late Late Toy Show
Take a look at your Twitter or Facebook timeline whenever this Irish institution is on air.
You would almost assume that all of your mates have magically turned into eight-year olds in some weird reverse situation like the Tom Hanks film ‘Big’.
Clip via RTÉ – IRELAND’S NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA
Binging on sweets
Yes, we know that adults are supposed to have proper diets, cook for themselves and something about ‘five a day’ malarky but sometimes you just have to say ‘feck that’.
There’s nothing better than going into your local shop and buying an absolute s**tload of refreshers, jellies, crisps and more.
Staying in your pyjamas for the day
This quirk has now entered the domain of a hungover Sunday but we still say that there’s nothing wrong with staying in your robe and slippers for an entire day.
Just don’t walk out to the shops dressed like this though.
Retro cartoons
This writer has a two-year old niece and I’m actually counting the days when it’s acceptable for me to show her MASK, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Earthworm Jim and more.
Controversial klaxon alert. This was the best cartoon to watch as a child growing up in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Cue the debate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaMo4k7iG7s
Clip via – ExcelsiorUK
Your tune of choice
Have you ever been in a bar or a nightclub before and never quite ‘felt it’?
Maybe you were too tired, bored or tipsy but once you hear ‘your song’, it’s like you’ve instantly got more energy and life than Jedward after taking 100 Red Bulls.
This and always this did it for me.
Kicking a can of coke or a plastic bottle
I don’t care what age a man is because if you see a can of coke or a plastic bottle that’s lying in the street, it has to be kicked. No exceptions.
Stopping into your Xtra-Vision
Yes Netflix and online streaming are the way forward but we have so many fond memories from this movie mecca.
This writer absolutely lost his fecking mind as soon as I stepped foot into the store. There was so many choices on offer.
Bouncing castle / trampoline
Much like a swing, all adults have this innate desire to get high (no Cheech and Chong pun intended here) while simultaneously losing their s**t in pure giddy euphoria.
This writer has a friend that hired a trampoline for his 21st birthday and it was one of the best drinking sessions that you could ever imagine.
Running down a hill
We’re big admirers of Kate Bush here in JOE Towers but we’re not talking about the talented singer here.
Are we the only ones that felt like we were quicker than Usain Bolt in dire need of the bathroom when running it down a hill?
You can’t catch me!
Seeing a classic film
We’ve discussed some of our favourite childhood movies at length before but if it comes down to a choice between The Goonies and anything else on TV then there’s only one winner.
When it snows
Irish people’s attitude towards the snow has sort of changed now – enduring about five consecutive winters full of it will do that – but we still have nostalgic memories of playing football, building snowmen and chucking snowballs at our mates.
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