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Most children love to color and draw, most children also like playing on slides, swings, Fireman’s poles and in ball pits. But for no apparent reason children are weaned from these beloved objects when entering high school. When faced with a lunch hour to kill and nothing to do, many teens take up smoking,
other teens want to express themselves somewhat creatively and have the urge to doodle end up scrawling stylized versions of their name in black marker over every piece of unguarded public property they can.
I know there must be many of us adults that enjoy doodling but lack skill, creativity, or time and would like coloring books but don’t care for Sesame Street or star wars. And I know of plenty well adjusted adults that would love for nothing more than to jump into a ball pit or go down a slide if it weren’t for their size, fear of being labeled crazy or a creepy child predator of some kind. So basically the idea I am proposing is for adult/teen sized jungle gyms to be placed at high schools and businesses, as well as adult oriented coloring and activity books to be marketed.
Adult playrooms would just be scaled up models of childrens playrooms, (why mess with a good thing?) but the coloring/activity books would be more adult-themed and more hip, containing projects like adult-oriented secret desguises so that you could cheat on your spouse and not get caught, adult paper dolls with sexy lingerie, and games adults could construct and play on their lunch hours using only tear out pages from the book and standard office supplies.
Adult coloring books
http://book.netstor...ndex/bkbcx551.shtml
...are quite Baked (and not what you think they are). [DrCurry, Jul 01 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Adult coloring books
http://www.amazon.c...16397521/halfbakery
...the kind you (well, polartomato, anyway) think they are. [DrCurry, Jul 01 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
The C*** Coloring Book
http://www.amazon.c...002-9804338-6704849
By Tee Corinne. "I truly admire the author's purpose in attempting to liberate women. Honestly, though, the illustrations are a terrible mishmash of illustrative techniques." (Anon) [pottedstu, Jul 02 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Would it be wise for me to list the jungle gym and colouring books as seperate ideas? |
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Could i get some adult feedback as to what they would like to see most in a colouring book? |
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(see link - better take out the coloring books) |
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I've tweaked my idea a bit with more influence on the activities and less on coloring. do you feel it is still baked? |
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I really thought there would be more interest in this sort of thing. Perhaps everyone i know is just immature. Or is it that the average halfbaker is far to mature to do silly things? |
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How about "adult" coloring books, while you're at it? |
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Or alternatively, you could channel your energy into the jungle-gym biz. |
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Goshdangit! You've foiled my plans yet again Dr. Curry, I suppose I shall have to make my fortune through begging then. |
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//Perhaps everyone i know is just immature.// |
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Had I previously given you the impression that my associates were mature individuals? |
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Croissant!
I've always felt gypped that I can't (legitimately) go into
ball pits anymore. Giant slides and playrooms would be so
much more fun than a day at the gym. Treadmills are so
dull, running to the top of a slide with a hessian mat is
the way to go.
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Can we persuade McDonalds to lift their age/height
restrictions on the play areas?
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Golly gee whiz, thanks for the link [DrCurry]. Now I can color my perversions to my heart's content. |
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I'm with [madradish]. It's time that grown-ups had their own play areas. How about large-sized bounce houses too? That would be great. It would be a heckuva lot better than those damn health clubs. |
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Once, while at work, I received a package from a noise-reducing foam-stuff company about their products, company, etc. Your usual engineer's sales packet. But also included were a set of large, rubber ears, hinting that the company sales staff were experts at listening and the noise engineers there had really sensitive ears. It made my day. |
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Well, that Harmon-Kardon speaker set that shipped with my office computer seemed to have a sub-woofer mouth; and with the addition of my safety goggles, some well-placed push-pins, and the ears hanging on the sides, let's just say that Harmon's sporting new look would've made any Mr. Potatohead jealous. |
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Needless to say my more straightlaced boss was less than amused. I kept it that way for weeks. |
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I find the logic questionable. At a certain age, ball pits are out, cigarettes are in. I think there's more to it than that. |
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I've always believed that the adult variant of colo(u)ring books is a healthy interest in art, and perhaps a talent for it. Instead of jungle gyms, adults can partake of gymnastic sports. |
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(aside, FYI to madradish: "gypped" is a racial slur. From 'Gypsy'.) |
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//When faced with a lunch hour to kill and nothing to do, many teens take up smoking, other teens want to express themselves somewhat creatively and have the urge to doodle end up scrawling stylized versions of their name in black marker over every piece of unguarded public property they can. // |
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The teenagers in my area think of much more "creative" ways to spend their lunch hours!
Would an adult sized playground encourage more of this behaviour? |
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I'm with bobofthefuture on this one. Adults should spend much more of their time arsing about and a damn sight less of it being grown-up and mature about things. Have a croissant and don't worry if some of it gets on your shirt. |
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Although adults don't often use coloring books, I believe painting by numbers is a popular pastime among all ages. It is even exhibited under the category of folk art or outsider art (or sometimes one imagines by the Museum of Bad Art). |
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Also, I recall reading (on one of the radical feminist websites I frequent) about a coloring book containing various drawings of external female genitalia, looking kind of like mountain ranges reflected in lakes, for you to color in and learn to appreciate your vulva.
I think it might be The Cunt Coloring Book by Tee Corinne, but I'm not certain. |
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Cover the walls with removable canvas so tag artists can take their work home to hang on the fridge |
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Waugs - sorry I didn't know that. No racial slur was
intended! |
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eeyipe! interest in "art"? partaking of gymnastic sports? This sounds too organized! I'll stick to Calvinball and Ultimate frisbee.
Seriously though, our society (or the governmental agencies concerned with urban planning) does far too little to encourage any public play. Aside from the aforementioned kiddie playgrounds, there's a skewed ratio of common areas to more industrial land uses.
Oh, ok, I guess the roads are large open public spaces, but where I come from "go play on the freeway" is a serious insult... |
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<rant>I remember once going to a place called a Wacky Warehouse. It was just great, with a 3 foot deep ball pond and slides and ropes and loads of fun stuff. The next time I tried to get in, I wasnt allowed as I was too tall... oh, the curse of altitude. I was gutted and have never been in a ball pond since. Never does a day go by without me feeling deprived.</rant> |
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If... no, when... i become a millionaire, i shall have a giant ball pond made for myself - anyone watch that disney thing about the ducks when they were younger; with that 80-foot tall money bin? Well, something like that, filled with balls. Yay!! |
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Jungle gyms, slides, swings, teeter-totters, and human-powered merry-go-rounds (especially the ones with push-pull drive levers so you can drive and ride at the same time) should all be fair game for adults. When my wife and I were in college, we considered them fair game anyway. I am convinced that the biggest reason people want to have kids is so that they can have an excuse to use the playground. I love this idea. I'd order a whole set of playground equipment for my backyard if I knew it would hold up to me using it. |
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Unfortunately the trend these days is injection molded plastic crap that's engineered to barely hold up a 4 year old. We need to bring back heavy welded steel construction, and engineer all playground equipment to withstand dancing elephants. We'd still need separate jungle gyms for adults though. Adult-sized bar intervals are too big for kids, and kid-sized bar intervals are too small for adults. Everything else could be shared easily enough. |
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I love this. I would have the whole set. BUT I must also have an adult sized BIGWHEEL of yesteryear. And maybe even the inchworm to sit on and race the others. This would be a great boost to america's health. |
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Well folks It pleases me to see that you would enjoy adult sized kidstuff. Because I am soon to be opening a place that I describe as a "Discovery Zone for Adults" It will contain adult sized ball pits, as well as trampolines, moonwalk, habit trails, a whole nerf war room, etc etc. |
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I once saw a vulva colouring book. When my girlfriend asked for it for Christmas I knew our relationship was over. Now she's dating a girl named Becky.
Do State and National Parks constitute adult playgrounds? Could we contract them down to their constituent parts and place them around the workplace? Big boulders, little rivers, tiny mountains to scramble up during the lunch hour. |
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[Jaraleth] When are you opening a branch in Australia? |
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yea!! what about adult cubby houses? |
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I had an idea called Rent-A-Kid. Like Big brother/Big sister, but there is no long-term commitment. If you're an adult but you want to see "A Year with Frog and Toad", go into the Hello Kitty store, play in those cool kid-computer stores with the cool science programs, or any of a myriad activities that you can only do if you're with a kid, simply call the Rent-a-Kid hotline and you'll find a child in your area with the same interests. |
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