As a kid, what did you love/hate the most?

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As a kid, I really loved capture the flag the most. Every summer night the neighborhood block would gather at my friends house to either play capture the flag or hide and go seek. It was probably the best time I had growing up. There was so much excitement and screaming and just the other day I heard some kids doing the same thing after sundown. It really made me jealous and I'd trade my car, games and tv just to relive those moments for a summer.

As a kid, I really hated church. Worst time of my life, and I'm glad I got out when I could. To me if your not paying attention in Sunday School and you don't really give a shit about the sermon or singing you shouldn't be there. I remember my sister stopped going when I was little and hearing her tell my parents that the youth pastor said something like, "if your not in it 100% you might as well not be here because your living a lie" and that really struck home for me.

If you don't like something you're not going to like it, especially if you've been doing it for years and years. I never really pleaded to leave and stop going, but when I finally snapped out of the bubble it was amazing. I actually feel better by doing it. Most people say your a more depressed person if you stop going to church but I never felt so good after not going. It felt like poison on my mind every time I went. And really whats with giving 10% of the income anyway?? That money is obviously going to a human
 
God damn man... capture the flag. I loved that game SOOOOO MUCH.

I got to place it twice at school. And it was the greatest thing ever.

I never got to play it again, because I didn't have anybody I could play with in my neighborhood. The older kids went to play it in the hills once, and I wanted to go but I couldn't.

<sobs>


I'll chime in later on my things, probably.
 
Loved Power Rangers, motocross, BMX, Nickelodeon, handball, bike rides, swimming, camping, making little motocross tracks in the sand at the beach, playing with action figures, and playing Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.

Hated Church. Only had to go a few times for relative's baptisms, communions, weddings, and so on. Still just didn't like being there. I think I considered it bullshit right from the start. Luckily, my parents aren't religious.

Hated having to wait around at the bank, credit union, or DMV while my mom talked to the teller. That was always horribly boring. Errands usually sucked pretty bad, but my dad worked all day everyday and my mom couldn't just leave us at home.

Hated playing team sports like kickball and softball in P.E. I never wanted to participate, so I'd just play outfield and only go after the ball if I had to. If I had to go after the ball, I was never quite sure who to throw it to after I got it. There were always like 4 kids yelling and waving their arms, so I'd just throw it to whoever. Really hated that.

Hated all the cursive writing practice we had to do in like 3rd grade. I kicked ass at it and didn't think I needed any practice.

Hated when our music teacher would show up on Thursdays and make us sing a bunch of lame songs. Some kids loved it, but I just thought it was the dumbest thing ever. I would just lip sync and wait for it to be over.

That's all I can think of right now.
 
I loved red rover and watching all the good saturday morning cartoons. Loved climbing the trees in my backyard and riding my bikes off crappy home made ramps. And I loved making couch cushion forts with my cousins.

I hated school. More specifically, I hate homework, and even way back in the 1st grade I remember just throwing a work sheet away without doing it. The next day my teacher asked me where it was and I said I turned mine in (since all papers were passed to the front), so my logic was that if it was missing, well, it wasn't my fault... little did I know that she had already found it the day before in the waste basket. Got it "big trouble". my punishment from my parents was I couldn't watch the Simpsons that week lol.

I hated mushrooms (still do). I didn't hate church, but I hated dressing up in itchy sweaters when we went. And I hated cleaning my room. Still do.

edit: I hated diagramming sentences. what a f****** waste of time!
 
jurassic park, the new adventures of winnie the pooh, dinosaurs, my old backyard, my old toys.

things I hated- brushing my hair, wearing nerdy shirts because my parents wouldn't let me wear t-shirts to school. which is too bad cuz I had awesome t-shirts.
 
Things i loved:
My SNES, Cartoon Network (Swat Kats, Centurions, Pinky and the Brain etc) Jurrasic Park, Aliens (watched it at the age of 7, didnt sleep for a year, awesome) Playing hide and seek, climbing in scaffolding in my neighborhood, riding my bike, after school candy frenzy's, playing with my friends, having 4 girlfriends at the same time <3

Things i hated:
Homework, school, discipline, parents, cute things, religion, dogs, not having candy, meh.

<3 i had a great youth, id trade 2 cars to have another summer like back in the days :rolleyes:

-dodo
 
I really loved paintballing as a kid. I grew up loving the idea of paintball once I moved to Alaska. Even had my own paintball gun purchased. A VM-68 Sniper.

I had helped out in a national paintball tournament up in Alaska too held at the field of one of my uncles air force buddies. I worked at filling nitrogen for the tournament players who used nitrogen as the propellant for their guns.



As for hated... I really really hated homework. I never did my homework. I apparently stuffed it behind my dresser for some reason, so I was told. I don't honestly remember.
 
When I was quite little I Really hated school, and loved coming home to play with my brother in the back yard or playing some computer games. Particularly Spyro, Crash Bandicoot and Gex 3D, this is around the time the Ps1 was released.
 
I used to be football mad when I was a kid. I used to play with a small spongey ball in the hallway with my dad when I was young, using the doors as goals.

Then I turned 12 and joined my local school's team. Our *school name* Wasps team screamed through the league and won it 2 years in a row.
I was always a big lad, not fat, just big, and I built a reputation as pretty much the most feared defender in our league and age group.

Highlights I will NEVER forget were:

1 - Being the ONLY player out of 30 teams to score all 5 penalties in a charity penalty shootout in the SOuth West in my age group, still have the trophy.

2 - Saving our team in the championship final. We reached the final, and scored somehow from a freekick, cant remember how far out. In the last 5 or so minutes, our goalie scuffed a save and it bounced under him and rolled with a bit of pace toward our net. I dont think ive ever run that fast before, and I somehow ran INTO our goal, fell backward as I spun and kicked the ball away and out for a throw-in just as it rolled onto the line. Goal didnt count, and I got dog-piled in the goal by my teammates, whislt looking up at the sky and trying to catch my breath. We won the game 1-0, and although it was just a kid's game of football, we felt like gods when we raised that shield and got those medals. God that was one of the best days of my life.

And then we got a PC and I played Command and Conquer...and ive been PC hooked ever since I guess. Bye bye football.
 
I remember my pyro stage being a fun time in my life. It's not because I burned down about a square mile of forest, but just being with friends and stopping at CVS for a handful of free matches just seemed so...right.

As far as hate, I hated far less than I hate now...to the point where I can't even think of anything. However, I'll just add the things I hate now:

-paying rent
-full time jobs
-asthma
-living directly above my landlord
-spending 100 dollars at a bar and not even getting drunk

to name a few.
 
Building bases in the woods! Me, and this family from just across the road would go into a small wooded area a few streets away. It was overgrown with long grasses, nettles and crap and we'd just work on making a series of clearings in different areas, with connecting paths and such. Each of us had a rank (I was second in command ^^). Each clearing had a certain function... the bigger spaces were 'storehouses' for... well, I don't think there ever was anything to store. We'd just collect bits of wood, stone and metal and put them in piles... Yes, exactly like a strategy game... I think we tried to build shelters and traps with them, but the construction skills of an 8 year-old are pretty poor. The spaces near the edge were lookout posts, so we'd see people walking their dogs and pretend that we were under-attack and go on 'high-alert' or something.

So we'd be sitting, crouching in a ditch, clutching poorly sharpened sticks we'd found, pretending that the dodgy lady from five doors down was attempting to Zerg rush our resource pile. Ok, so it was about half a decade before Starcraft, but I'm pretty sure the whole fantasy was structured around some strategy game or other. I don't know if that reflects poorly on our imagination, or whether it shows how games can actually have a positive influence. I remember when we decided that the base was complete, so we expanded our territory over to the big forest we weren't supposed to go to :)O)...

That whole role-play thing is just something you leave behind, or probably should leave behind anyway... but it used to be a major part of my day. I always played along at the sport stuff (I suck) but just the whole fantasy of being part of a team was enough to string me along... I'd design football kits and footballs for the teams (why does a ball even NEED designing?)... or draw overhead diagrams of motor-racing circuits, when in reality there'd just be two kids would ride along pavements on bicycles...

Damn I was lame. I think I was an 'away with the fairies' kind of kid. Makes a lot of sense to me.

As for stuff I hated, just the stuff that I carry with me to this day. I just distracted myself differently :)
 
f*cking yer mom


but seriously, base building.

and then f*cking yer mom inside it
 
I loved making snow forts and going to music camp. Music camp was a defining time for me. I learned it was okay to be myself, that's there's no use being anyone else.

I still make snow forts, but it's not the same. :/ College security always stops us and says we're mucking up the landscape.

Oh! And Jurassic Park! I had a bunch of the dinosaurs and I would spend all day outside playing with them. Aww, and Stephen! I forgot about him. He was my childhood buddy. We would jump off garages together and whatnot.

Oh nostalgia. Anyway...

I hated church, too. Went for what, fifteen years? And 13 years of Christian education. What am I today? An apathetic atheist. I had the Gospel beat so deep into me I didn't even know why I needed it. Raising kids like that makes them shells of what their religion teaches them to be, nothing more.

Ah well. I guess this is how it goes.
 
Love - Playing POWER RANGERS
Hate - Playing POWER RANGERS alone.
 
Loved: Any and all new technology. Playing Goldeneye for hours on end with my friend and brothers. Playing Warhammer 40k even though me and my friends didnt know how to play. Hanging out with my cousin and his friends every friday. Watching high school drama play out and making fun of the kids involved. Power Rangers.

Enjoyed, but not all the time: Baseball, football, golf. Pretty much any sport. Being completely invisible and unknown to my whole class.

Hated: Working out/running for the sake of running. Playing football without my glasses so I couldnt see shit (I'm legally blind without them lol. I'd lost 80% of my vision by this point. Dunno why they let me play). Practicing football every ****ing day after school for 3 hours and having no freetime whatsoever due to having to do homework afterwards. Homework.
 
I played hide and seek a couple of times toward the end of my first year at Uni with like 20 others, yeah we were all like 18-20 years old playing kids games, but damn it was fun.

I dont think our halls of residence liked us much though, running around all 3 buildings at like 11pm.
 
I remember me and my friend re-enacted crash bash in real life. :p
 
Also loved: camping, fishing, snowforts, tree forts, catching animals, bike rides in crazy places, abandoned building looting, setting random fires, trampolines, summertime with no school, sleepovers

Also hated: mushrooms (still do), dressing up, going to bed early, homework, yardwork, and getting in trouble. I'd get in trouble at church then I'd have to come home to get a punishment like a spanking or good yelling. but i can remember getting in trouble at school and i'd have to take a note home to my parents, but only 1/60 would actually make it to my mom. she said one day she had to talk to the teacher about the notes and basically they'd meet once in a while to discuss my behavior. i used to interrupt a lot during class but i'm so glad i kinda grew out of that.
 
Oh, by the way... that paintball hat I mentioned in my post? Yeah... it's on the middle of my floor right now.

I've been too lazy to pick it up for the past 3 months.
 
I loved fishing in the rockpools along the seafront.
 
Raziaar said:
Oh, by the way... that paintball hat I mentioned in my post? Yeah... it's on the middle of my floor right now.

I've been too lazy to pick it up for the past 3 months.
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Make a foto each day of it for the next view years, then once you pick it up, you'll have an awesome video of your hat sliding around on you floor, collecting dust and losing color.
Then you become an artist and publish it under the title "The dusty dullness of Joy" ...

Do it!

-dodo
 
Loved: Saturday morning cartoons (Transformers!), Jazz, running thru sprinklers, swimming, McDonald's Happy Meals, spicy food, going to the park to smash the shit out of a wiffle ball, summer, trombone, cats, cake, dinosaurs, skateboards, general mayhem.

Hated: Broccoli, mushrooms, medicine (cough syrup), going to the doctor, getting yelled at because of setting things on fire, bratty kids, long car rides cross-country.

Hmm...most of this hasn't changed for me over the past couple decades (except I do love broccoli & mushrooms now and I don't give rat's ass anymore if someone yells at me for setting something on fire).
 
I still love Gaga, but if that weren't the case, then that. And N64 and Pokemon. Wait, I still love both of those too, ****.
 
When I was about 9 or 10, me and my buddies at recess made up our own game based on the movie THE THING. It was f*cking AWESOME.

Essentially what we would do is, we would approach a recess guard and we would ask them to tag one of us when we had our eyes closed. That person who was tagged was THE THING. We then had to split up in teams of TWO, so naturally, the person who had the infected person on their team, also got infected, and then they went and searched out other teams to "team up with" (possibly infecting them)
Our only defense was pretend flame throwers. If you burned someone who was human, you lost.

I even found a WW2 bomber jacket my uncle gave me that looked like the jacket Macready wore.

 
Loved Sour Patch Kids, Gushers, and Haribo Peaches. My parents would save up aluminum cans and take them to the grocery store to get money for recycling, then use the money to buy the Sour Patch Kids and Peaches. Those were the only times we ever bought that candy and we never got a lot since you only get $1 or $2 for recycling. So I would keep count of how many candies I had. One time my grandma ate one of my peaches and I cried.

I also loved Jurassic Park which seems to be pretty common around here. We had an assignment in 6th grade English class to write a letter to an author, so I sent one to Michael Crichton and his agent sent back a signed photo of him (I'm pretty sure the signature was just printed on the photo though, not written with actual ink... kinda lame).

Loved Land Before Time too. They had it for sale around Christmastime at McDonalds for $5 when I was a kid so I asked for it. Didn't think I would get it ($5 seemed like a lot at the time) so whenever we went to McDonalds I'd ask for it again, so finally my parents just told me "Maybe Santa got it for you"... that shut me up and then I felt guilty for asking for it all the time.

Hated yellow squash. I would sit at dinner trying to get all the seeds out and I never could.
 
Dodo said:
Make a foto each day of it for the next view years, then once you pick it up, you'll have an awesome video of your hat sliding around on you floor, collecting dust and losing color.
Then you become an artist and publish it under the title "The dusty dullness of Joy" ...

Do it!

-dodo
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lol. That would be interesting.
 
I saved up my allowance for a long time, and I bought a freshwater stingray, but it was dead the next morning. Aww that thing was awesome.

But I always loved pet creatures.

I used to love to go catch lizards, snakes, salamanders, newts, turtles, and fish. I had about 10 aquariums at home to keep stuff. Nothing really did well though, they were too wild. But we would leave no stone unturned, and it was fun. I remember finding a bright colored newt - really rare find. It was like discovering new species.
 
VirusType2 said:
I saved up my allowance for a long time, and I bought a freshwater stingray, but it was dead the next morning. Aww that thing was awesome.
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Cool, I love aquarium fish. One of my favorite kinds was the bala shark... nowhere near being a shark but it looks cool. I also always wanted a black ghost knife fish but it seems like they might be difficult to take care of.
 
Eejit said:
I loved fishing in the rockpools along the seafront.
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Me too! although New Zealand doesn't have much to offer in the way of sea life in rock pools, around my city at least.
 
dfc05 said:
Cool, I love aquarium fish. One of my favorite kinds was the bala shark... nowhere near being a shark but it looks cool. I also always wanted a black ghost knife fish but it seems like they might be difficult to take care of.
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The bala shark. I don't know it by name any longer, but I remember this fish, or one extremely similar. These fish are extremely interesting because they are constantly moving. They are very powerful swimmers, with one flick of their tail they move a great distance. They seem entertained by their own ability to swim so well, and so they do not stop. I believe it to be a schooling fish, and if you get several of them, they swim almost in unison.

The ghost knife fish is extremely unique and odd looking and so it is immediately desirable. However, the interest may not last, because they are poor swimmers and are completely blind. They will seek a tunnel, cave, or some kind of refuge and stay there most of the time. A special clear tube is sold specifically for this fish. Since they are blind, they do not know that they are in a clear tube and think they are hidden. They will not eat flake food and you need to feed them live bloodworms, which can be purchased at any fish store. These worms need to be stored in a refrigerator. You also need a special feeder that the worms can be placed in, so they wriggle through the mesh slowly, otherwise the worms will just fall to the bottom of the aquarium, burrow into the gravel and die.

If you feed them correctly, and give them a cave slightly larger than themselves to live in, this fish is very easy to keep.

You should check this online though, because I might be wrong on that info -


Best bet before getting any pet is to read a little about it. For fish, you need water type: PH, salinity, water quality tolerance - things like that

you also need to know the temperature range that the fish can tolerate, the recommended size of the aquarium, and what it eats. If you get more than one fish in a tank, you have to make sure they are compatible.


I wrote (borderline plagiarism) and illustrated a hardback book on keeping tropical fish when I was about 8 years old. I still have it. :D

but I colored the fish with crayons and everything! :D
 
I haven't seen it in quite a few months now. But the cool thing is that I uncovered it recently, after 25 years having forgot about it. So there it was one day and I was - oh shit. awesome. So it's around here somewhere.

I'm really proud of it because - god, I was just a little kid, and here is this manual on how to ****ing take care of fish, with recommendations and equipment and several good fish to start out with.

The cover looks especially awesome.
 
I used to love making little sand forts on the beach and try and make them withstand the tides that inevitably would destroy them. Then I would go and hunt for sand crabs that lived in the.... sands.

I hated church, and Barney the Purple Dinosaur.
 
15357 said:
I used to love making little sand forts on the beach and try and make them withstand the tides that inevitably would destroy them.
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Oh man, forgot all about that, I did that alot... Once made a castle that kept standing all day/night, till the next day. I reinforced it. Wonder if its still there...

-dodo
 
I loved watching YTV and TeleToon on Friday and Saturday nights. Especially YTV. They had these 3D interstitial videos instead of commercials between shows. One was of a duck walking through a series of increasingly-odd rooms before returning (if I was lucky and the gap between shows was really long) to the original, featureless room. Another was of a salt and pepper shaker dancing in a closed diner. For some reason I always loved watching them, seeing whether I'd get to see the end of the video each time.

And the shows were awesome. Doug, Rocko's Modern Life, Felix the Cat...

I hated homework. I did stuff like read encyclopedias for fun when I was about 8 but I have never, ever done my homework.
 
One of many things; LEGO

The only reason I stopped playing with lego is that I got my own computer.
I sort of regret that. Lego is really wonderful.

I've been planning to organise it all, but I'm currently several thousand miles away.

I didn't hate anything as a child. The world was too good to me!
 
Stigmata said:
And the shows were awesome. Doug, Rocko's Modern Life, Felix the Cat...

I hated homework. I did stuff like read encyclopedias for fun when I was about 8 but I have never, ever done my homework.
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This!
 
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