Adult “Play dates” - And the disgust response…

[Sailor Kim Jong Moon]

I encountered an organization that a) received a government grant (lol) and b) has a mission to bring play dates to grown adults. No, not mentally challenged adults. Normal adults. They say that adults need “play” just as much as kids.

They have ball pits, bubble guns, legos, and stickers. Must be 18+. And it’s not a sex thing.

First of all, as an adult with a family, I already have Lego and sticker parties everyday. But even without my kids, there is not a single day of my adult life I have woken up and thought “yeah, I want to spend my day in a ball pit or playing with Legos. That would be a net positive for me.”

Second of all, when I see a ball pit or bubble gun that children are NOT allowed to use, I feel disgusted. Those are resources for child play and to ban children from their use seems so - gross. They say it’s so adults can escape their daily responsibilities so leave the kids at home… but I’m 99.99% sure no one with kids would want to pay a babysitter to go play with fucking stickers on a Saturday. They are all childless.

Also, “play” for an adult =/= play for a child. Do they not have age appropriate activities to engage in? Sports, board games even. Video games? Drawing, painting, gardening. ANYTHING? Why do they think “play” means being as childish as possible?

These adults dress up similar to kids and then go play obvious child activities. I guess they’re not hurting anyone… but I can’t quite put my finger on why I feel so disgusted and why apart of me thinks I’m witnessing something morally wrong.

I believe the disgust response is an early indicator you’re witnessing something wrong before the rational mind catches up.

Thoughts?

 

[Not A Bunny]

We as a culture suffer from arrested development.

I am frequently disgusted by it.

 

[Paper Machete]

Everyone who in engages in something like this should be put before a firing squad. Tax dollars should not be used for such things, or much of anything.

 

[pollution jim]

I think this would actually be better if it was a sex thing

edit: minus the playing with childrens toys that would be worse

 

[Whiskey]

I think this would actually be better if it was a sex thing

edit: minus the playing with childrens toys that would be worse

Have you never experienced the rush of completing a star destroyer lego set at the exact moment you nut into your wife leading to your second child?

Why even live if not?

 

[Sailor Kim Jong Moon]

They also have a a field day rainbow parachute that they’re very proud of.

I love big parachutes… for preschoolers… and for PE class in elementary school.

Not to see dysgenic, fat, rainbow haired people flailing under.

I have no desire to play in a rainbow parachute. Do these people actually like these activities? Are they pretending to like these activities for social validation?

My gut tells me: these people can’t keep you safe or your society running. They’re a danger to your tribe & need to be ostracized. Maybe it’s a primal reflex to recoil from adults acting like children

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

They don't have pellet guns wheel blunted swords this sounds **** gay if I had adult plate dates it would be hard alcohol D and D books 40 fives revolvers 50 Cal Machine guns.
Cigars Unlike mountain biking and canoeing and kayaking but **** canoeing because that **** up your knees

 

[Justice Tony]

Have you never experienced the rush of completing a star destroyer lego set at the exact moment you nut into your wife leading to your second child?

Why even live if not?

Exactly! I can’t cum if I’m not driving hot wheels over her tiddies.

 

[Sailor Kim Jong Moon]

Oh, they also have coloring books. COLORING BOOKS.

Their mission statement says that the reason adults don’t usually play is because they’re too busy fighting systems of oppression…???

It gets worse the longer you look.

Btw, I would understand it more if there were booze and everyone admitted it was some weird age regression kink…

 

[rusty shackleford 1]

My disgust comes from the fact that normal people do this shit all the time, but current year childless adults are so fucking retarded that they need government intervention to make friends. Play dates for adults is when you and your buddy go shoot at the range while the wives get pedicures and the kids are with grandma. When you invite Bob and barb over for a bbq so the kids can play together in the backyard while the adults get drunk and cook.

Double disgust at the way currentyear culture absolutely fucking hates children and everything they stand for - youth, innocence, opportunity, uninhibited creativity and matter-of-fact honesty- but these faggots are willing to appropriate the legos and the coloring book parties while they shit on your kids for being too loud or disruptive or transphobic or mini-chuds in the making. The way children’s media is autistically dissected and every scene or line directly correlates to some profound message on -ists, -isms, and -phobes also ties into this pathetic need to colonize everything meant for children that inspires my disgust.

 

[National Defense Advocate]

Once you're passed 10, it's just called hanging out.

 

[Not A Bunny]

My disgust comes from the fact that normal people do this shit all the time, but current year childless adults are so fucking retarded that they need government intervention to make friends. Play dates for adults is when you and your buddy go shoot at the range while the wives get pedicures and the kids are with grandma. When you invite Bob and barb over for a bbq so the kids can play together in the backyard while the adults get drunk and cook.

Also, calling it "adulting" when they do what they are God damned supposed to do.

Double disgust at the way currentyear culture absolutely fucking hates children and everything they stand for - youth, innocence, opportunity, uninhibited creativity and matter-of-fact honesty- but these faggots are willing to appropriate the legos and the coloring book parties while they shit on your kids for being too loud or disruptive or transphobic or mini-chuds in the making. The way children’s media is autistically dissected and every scene or line directly correlates to some profound message on -ists, -isms, and -phobes also ties into this pathetic need to colonize everything meant for children that inspires my disgust.

It's weird projection. They want to be able to be infantile in their actions and emotions and not have children. Also, children are adult enough to be able to tell you about their gender identity.

Weird shit in these times.

 

[We Are The Witches]

I find ball-pits disgusting & generally unhygienic, that for one.

Now the next actual important thing is: I should not be paying that with my taxes, if you want to do a legit business about it then go ahead, I don't care.

Then in terms of morality in a vacuum, I do not see anything inherently wrong with this. You talk about this being resources for kids, this is nonsense; it is not taking away from the resources aimed at kids, it was just fabricated/made for this activity instead: it's just plastic and a room, no kid is being left without Legos because of them.

The appeal to emotion or repulse you feel is not enough for me to consider it immoral in any way. Some adults coloring a book may be seen as retarded, but there's no wrong with it, and has virtually a non-existent degree of degeneracy as opposed to what other adults do.

You can make a case that drinking alcohol is more immoral than doing this, for example, since you purposefully inhibiting your rationale & logical thinking, in potentially uncontrolled ways, could be a problem for other people. Building Legos with other adults? Sure, waste of time or stupid, but far less damaging than the prior example in most scenarios.

 

[Sailor Kim Jong Moon]

I find ball-pits disgusting & generally unhygienic, that for one.

Now the next actual important thing is: I should not be paying that with my taxes, if you want to do a legit business about it then go ahead, I don't care.

Then in terms of morality in a vacuum, I do not see anything inherently wrong with this. You talk about this being resources for kids, this is nonsense; it is not taking away from the resources aimed at kids, it was just fabricated/made for this activity instead: it's just plastic and a room, no kid is being left without Legos because of them.

The appeal to emotion or repulse you feel is not enough for me to consider it immoral in any way. Some adults coloring a book may be seen as retarded, but there's no wrong with it, and has virtually a non-existent degree of degeneracy as opposed to what other adults do.

You can make a case that drinking alcohol is more immoral than doing this, for example, since you purposefully inhibiting your rationale & logical thinking, in potentially uncontrolled ways, could be a problem for other people. Building Legos with other adults? Sure, waste of time or stupid, but far less damaging than the prior example in most scenarios.

I think disgust can give you a heads up that you’re witnessing something - maybe immoral? - maybe bad for you? Like when you get grossed out watching two gay guys kiss. Is it immoral? Is it hurting anyone? No, I’d argue it isn’t.

I imagine it’s like watching a trans woman buy up tampons. It’s not like it’s depriving a woman of a tampon. It’s not even that degenerate if they’re just taking it to the privacy of their home. But it seems wasteful and not something beneficial for society in aggregate.

If it’s not immoral (presence of immoral behavior) - then maybe it’s a reaction to an absence of “virtue”. Where we expect adults to be mature & engage in activities that are appropriate for their development and physical/psychological needs (that are different than that of a child.)

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Everyone involved should be forcibly conscripted and sent to the front lines in Ukraine. I'm not even going to be fussy about on who's side

 

[libRT]

Whoever runs it never had friends growing up or some shit. Anyone seriously attending should be put on a list.

 

[⚞⛇⚟]

legos

To be fair, I don't think that children are the ones buying the multi-hundred dollar lego sets. But I also don't get why adults would buy it either. If you want a model of something for some reason than just buy something made out of regular plastic or metal or wood. If you want to build something than learn cad and buy some $50 Ender 3, or make something out of wood. I don't get it.

 

[rusty shackleford 1]

If it’s not immoral (presence of immoral behavior) - then maybe it’s a reaction to an absence of “virtue”. Where we expect adults to be mature & engage in activities that are appropriate for their development and physical/psychological needs (that are different than that of a child.)

On a very human, tribal level as well, it’s terrifying to witness and realize “these people hold positions of authority in government, they teach my kids etc, and none of them have age-appropriate hobbies or interests.” You look around and realize there’s a whole generation of stunted people who resent everything you and your family stand for because it’s too heteronormative and ewwww kids come from heteronormative families, and heteronormative families produce more heteronormative standards etc. They’re subverting, and even inverting the very concept of a childhood. Like @Not A Bunny mentions, kids can tell you their gender and make huge decisions about killing their fertility and when they grow up, then they get the coloring books and ball pits.

It’s like if in the past, caveman grug just fucked off and drew cave art instead of helping take down the buffalo. And he started saying that you have to feed him while he finger paints and convinces other tribe members to abandon the hunt and finger paint too.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

How big is the ball pit, and what kind of stickers we talking here, do they have spiderman and sonic or just generic stars and smiley faces? The people have a right to know.

 

[We Are The Witches]

I think disgust can give you a heads up that you’re witnessing something - maybe immoral? - maybe bad for you? Like when you get grossed out watching two gay guys kiss. Is it immoral? Is it hurting anyone? No, I’d argue it isn’t.

I imagine it’s like watching a trans woman buy up tampons. It’s not like it’s depriving a woman of a tampon. It’s not even that degenerate if they’re just taking it to the privacy of their home. But it seems wasteful and not something beneficial for society in aggregate.

If it’s not immoral (presence of immoral behavior) - then maybe it’s a reaction to an absence of “virtue”. Where we expect adults to be mature & engage in activities that are appropriate for their development and physical/psychological needs (that are different than that of a child.)

I don't agree with this viewpoint at all, and it complicates things for other stuff/scenarios as well.

Being grossed out by something does not necessarily implicate that something is immoral, as you seem to hint towards to but in an unclear manner, and in regards to the other point you make, the logic does not follow, and if it does, it would heavily & negatively impact on the freedom of others.

The criteria you put forward is wasteful & not being beneficial to society, we can say that for a lot of things, specially when it comes to leisure even if in an innocent manner.

Your last paragraph is heavily subjective, and it boils down to a personal feeling of repulse. If these people are competent in what they do (and if not, they should be criticised & face the appropriate consequences), why would I care that they build Legos in their free time? I'd actually rather have them do that than getting drunk on bars, having sexual encounters in a negligent manner, watching vast amounts of pornography, doing mild drugs, etc.

I.e: if they pose a problem in other environments (such as a work environment), manage this appropriately as it should (such as corrective measures, like firing or having them gain discipline/skills that they lack), if they do this in their free time, autistic activities but without hurting anyone, let them have their fun.

You also don't have to interact with them in their ball-pits either, it literally does not affect you any more than someone buying 5000 sheets of papers to practice their origami skills, then throw it away when done (retarded & wasteful, does not benefit society in any way, arguably more immoral than coloring a book), or buying 10 extra sex toys (wasteful & does not benefit society in any way, just the seller of the items, like the seller of the coloring books), or someone buying hair-gel just to look good for 10 minutes in the mirror to maybe take a photo and delete the next week, just before showering and getting rid of it (wasteful, useless), etc.