Ten Forward Lounge - Miscellaneous General Chat & Welcome Thread

[Timewalker]

Has being an adult become more childlike? I ask because I was perusing Amazon and found a metric shit ton of "adult coloring books" on a bajillion different topics. There's even one titled "fuck off I'm coloring" and to be honest I have one but it was literally a birthday gift from a model friend who knew I liked Dita Von Teese, and it was a coloring book of Dita pictures.

But yeah the whole concept of adult coloring books makes me think WTF?

Adult coloring books have been around for quite a few years. I have a medium-sized pile of the Creative Haven ones, and my favorite is the stained-glass mandala one. That one was made with special paper that makes it look like stained glass if you use wax crayons to color it. Unless you have atrocious color sense, it's hard to make those ones come out badly.

The downside is that there are several of them featuring a Sun in Splendor centre, so I had to buy a whole bunch of extra yellow crayons. I have about 3 different copies of this one, to try new color combinations.

There's nothing childish about most of these books. Depending on how skilled a person is at blending colors (with pencil crayons), the results can be amazing.

 

[Bekk Ishy Z]

@Gingerbread Demon, they've been around for years. I think part of it is kids aren't even doing coloring books much any more. They're doing tablet kids games and videos. The coloring book industry likely wanted to find a new market.

 

[Timewalker]

@Gingerbread Demon, they've been around for years. I think part of it is kids aren't even doing coloring books much any more. They're doing tablet kids games and videos. The coloring book industry likely wanted to find a new market.

Yep, it's intended as anything from a casual activity to de-stress to a whole new hobby for people. The local library here has a stash of pencil crayons and pictures for people who want a session of adult coloring. I've donated some of the pictures from my own books that I don't like, and once I just gave them the book and told them they could take it apart, put it on the shelf, sell it as a discard, whatever (discovered it was not as described on Amazon and the return window had closed, so what's the point of keeping a coloring book I won't ever use).

 

[Fantasy Lover]

Blame gatekeeping

 

[Bekk Ishy Z]

Blame gatekeeping

I don't get it.

 

[Fantasy Lover]

Gatekeeping is when somebody (parents/society) can't do something past a certain age. Colouring books for example, they had be made more complicated than children's Colouring books because it was considered immature. Hence the adult version

 

[Bekk Ishy Z]

On some level, I blame life today. It's so brutal and complicated. We have tools (phones) that are supposed to help, but have made things just more complicated. Having a coloring book and pencils is simple relaxation.

 

[kkt]

From All Good Things: PICARD: "I could use your help with the infuser array."

Me: Oh No! Picard's teapot isn't working right! How will he be able to function as captain without his morning and afternoon cups??

 

[Bekk Ishy Z]

A. You obviously aren't a tea drinker. It's a "cuppa," not "cups."
B. Even so, a good teapot (and also a tea cozy) is indespensable.
It's OK. You must be an instant coffee person.

 

[kkt]

Excuse me? You apparently think your own dialect is the language of all the world.
You probably get your tea from a replicator.

 

[Bekk Ishy Z]

Well, I'm glad I pulled it off as "my dialect." I'm in the US, and originally from Kentucky. I know The Queens English only from TV and visiting there one week 20 years ago. I guess it was convincing. I'm just playing around, bored with the VP debate at that moment.

To be honest, I am a tea drinker. But I was surprised when I was there that milk was put into it automatically. I had to specifically request it black.

 

[Blathering Ginger Ghost]

OMG I found a new fun word

Popplebong

It's the name of a frog that makes a popping sound

 

[kkt]

Well, I'm glad I pulled it off as "my dialect." I'm in the US, and originally from Kentucky. I know The Queens English only from TV and visiting there one week 20 years ago. I guess it was convincing. I'm just playing around, bored with the VP debate at that moment.

To be honest, I am a tea drinker. But I was surprised when I was there that milk was put into it automatically. I had to specifically request it black.

My impression is "cuppa" is not so much the Queen's English as Cockney-influenced English.

I drink a lot of tea too, and I don't put milk in it.

 

[Blathering Ginger Ghost]

I thought cuppa was Australian slang

 

[Bekk Ishy Z]

We need a Brit in here...