Things that Kids Won’t Know

Call cards

Or even phone boxes in general! I don’t think I ever got to own call cards myself, however I used to love seeing as the new ones that came out, with bands and films on it. So what do you do if you stacks of these at home? Well, you could do what my boyfriend’s brother did, which was arrange them into a frame and make it into art!

Dialling tones to Internet

Imagine having to sit through this bloody thing while waiting for the internet to connect?! Seems like an alien concept these days (while the tone itself sounds like aliens). Though, upon searching for this video, I came across this dubstep remix of the tone. So maybe kids these days do know this tone!

Using a pencil to wind a cassette tape

Oh the humanity of it all! In case you’ve forgotten about this yourself, here’s a handy article on WikiHow on How To Manually Rewind a Cassette Tape.

Walkman

Speaking of cassettes, what about Walkman? I’m sure they don’t even remember Discman (oh, the conundrum of trying to walk and listen to one of these!). Though all this talk of cassettes reminds me of when this happened to me

Blowing into a Nintendo game to get it to work

Ah yes, we all knew how to fix a Super Nintendo that was buggy. None of us remember where we heard this advice though. And it turns out it actually BAD for the cartridges as it blows in moisture and can damage it! I’m shaking my head at 9 year old me for doing this.

This sound

Ah, the sweet, sweet sound of the PlayStation 1 starting up! About 2 years ago I managed to snag a PS1 in a charity shop along with controllers and some games for 10 Euro! There’s so many more games I want to get though that I’m missing (Spyro Games and Crash Team Racing come to mind!). Must start looking on eBay really. I envy people who kept their PS1 games (and their SNES! I really really want one!)

Floppy disks

Floppy disks eh? I remember using them in TY to save documents, 8-9 years ago. Though to be fair, they were ‘going out of fashion’ then, for our Coca-Cola Futuristic Fashion entry, we used the plastic shells as armoury.

Den TV

Zig and Zag! Dustin! Ray D’Arcy fighting with Ted! Podge and Rodge and their evil antics around Halloween! And let’s not forget the programmes. Bosco, Echo Island, Draw With Don, The Disney Club. TV just isn’t as good these days.

Prizes in Cereal

Seriously, these are either non-existent these days or just plain shite. Ah, the fights to be the one who got the prize! More pictures here at The Daily Edge.

I could go on and on and on but I won’t. What would you add to this list?

YouTube Pick of the Week

Back to a nice mix of things after last week’s Gangnam Style week!

I love these guys, they always have me in stitches. All Irish people should enjoy this Glenroe Swipe video!

Big week this week as Chanel No.5 has it’s first ever campaign front by a man (that man being Brad Pitt!). To see it click here. I,however, prefer this video. It sums up my reaction to the whole thing perfectly.

I did however love this video about Chanel No.5 and some history behind it. It’s a very charming video.

Bodyform has decided to tell the truth! Very funny.

I’ll admit there was some dust in my eye watching a father describe his daughters wedding day.

Finally RTE released a One Take Lip Dub to The Stunning’s ‘Brewing Up a Storm’. So much going on in this video, I must saw I was impressed by it.

YouTube Pick of the Week!

Another round of YouTube picks!

I had heard about The Marshmallow Test. The idea was to give a child a marshmallow, tell them they can eat it right away or if they wait 5 minutes without eating it they would get a second one. The children’s reactions was filmed and it’s very funny seeing them antagonize over whether or not to eat it!

Sminky Shorts are a delightful piece of Irish humour. I chose this one as I love the Cork accent!

This song from Korean rapper PSY is as catchy as the flu and the video is so bizarre you’ll want to watch it again and again!

I’m a sucker for puns and this video is just pun after pun!

I had heard of VSauce before, I was even told by my boyfriend I’d enjoy it. Of course I didn’t listen to him and only started watching it this week. I’M HOOKED! The show has some simple but fascinating sciencey videos as well as DONGs (stuff to Do Online Now, Guys) as well as videos for funny images and quirky things to buy. I can’t get enough!

I posted this video the other day when I wrote my Childs Play post but it’s worth posting again in case you missed it.

Childs Play (Your Inner Child)

I watched the above video on YouTube last week and it really struck a chord with me. It’s all about the games we’d play as children, the silly things we did to entertain ourselves. And I realised that it wasn’t something I did when I was younger but it’s still something I do from time to time!

The video opens with games the narrator and his sister used to play in the car. I did these too, both of them. I used to ‘chop’ all the hedges and trees to the same height. Or failing that I’d pretend someone was travelling beside the car, doing somersaults and flips on all the objects so they wouldn’t touch the ground. I still do this when I’m a passenger in a car.

And while I no longer try to stop a stopwatch on the exact ‘perfect’ time, I do try and get my petrol pump to stop at the exact number!

To entertain myself going down the street, I would try not step in cracks, limit myself to 2 steps per pavement stone and balance along the curb. I’ve been known to do the balance thing when walking back to a friends house after a night out! When I was around 7 I would also walk across the top of my closed gate, something I don’t think I’d try do now!

I would run and (unsuccessfully) try to touch leaves and other things at heights, try to successfully predict when the light will turn green, hold my breath will going through a tunnel (something my boyfriend and I still do to this day!).

I would get the sweeping brush, line it up against the couch so it was at an angle and try and walk up it! I would turn off the light at night and try to run into my bed as quick as I could so the monsters wouldn’t ‘get’ me. I used to tuck my teddies in with blankets so they wouldn’t get cold. I used to sleep my head under the covers as I was afraid that people such as my teachers had a secret view into my bedroom at night! (that one is quite weird I admit!). And I wouldn’t let my feet out of the bed covers in case they got eaten.

And then we come to the classic ‘Don’t Touch the Lava’. It’s funny as I was playing this game last month in the Burren with two friends of mine!

This has reminded me of how many of the ‘games’ I still play and it makes me happy, as I think it’s important to be in touch with your inner child from time to time. But it’s also reminded me of how fearless you can be as a child. I used to walk across my closed gate when I was 7-8 and I was never afraid to do so. Now I don’t time I’d have the courage to try that! I would hop up on skateboards and the likes without fear. Now I see my younger siblings zipping around on whip sticks and yet when I’ve tried to go on them, I get straight off as it’s terrifying! It makes me sad how much fearless we become as we grow older and release responsibilities and other things like that. It’s certainly necessary but I hope I can tap into my inner child when I need it, to help me relax and play when things become to serious or too stressful. I suppose that’s the good thing about having younger siblings (or for some people nieces and nephews, children, grandchildren), they are great to be silly around!

Do you play any of these games? And how do you stay in contact with your inner child?

YouTube Pick of the Week!

So I had planned last week to do a Olympic pick of the week, even had it written out but then all the videos got taken off YouTube due to copyright. Grrr! Very annoying. So here’s this week’s very mixed pick!

I decided to start with the Olympics, a compilation of very scary looking synchronized swimmers. That make up is crazy, I might possibly use it as a Halloween costume!

Somebody I follow on Twitter posted a video from this account and I’ve been hooked every since! I love lists so this is perfect. This ice cream one has been one of my faves so far, very weird altogether!

It takes a while to get into it, but the end just cracks me up! (Show me a good cat video and I’ll love you forever).

I heard about Being Elmo on the Pop Stuff podcast from Howstuffworks.com. It’s about Elmo and his puppeteer Kevin Clash. I was never a big Elmo fan until I saw this trailer. I’m dying to watch it!

I only discovered Awkward Black Girl this week but I thoroughly recommend watching it! If you can’t wait, please watch this video from 4:14 to 7:14. It just cracks me right up, so so funny! But it happens that I’m a Sister Act fan so that probably helps!

Last is a short clip on Salton Sea, in the desert of California. It’s just fascinating. I can’t even begin to describe it in words. Just watch it! It’s very eerie.

YouTube Pick of the Week

I liked the last time I did this so I might make it a (semi) regular thing!

First up is Will Ferrell weighing in on the whole Kristen Stewart cheating on Rob Pattinson. You’d have to be living under a rock not to have heard of it. Well, in this clip Will gets very emotional indeed!

Another Flathan video! The comedy gold this guy produces just doesn’t stop! Here he says the F word (bold Flathan!).

Speaking of bad words, here a weather man gets very confused! Thanks to Beaut.ie for bringing this to my attention!

My boyfriend has a habit of calling me a ‘casual gamer’ to wind me up, just because I prefer playing things like Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Bejewelled Blitz and Nintendo DS games instead of pwn-ing n00bz on Call of Duty. Drives me nuts! And finally this video gives me the perfect way to react next time it’s brought up!

Ah, Jimmy Kimmel. I love his antics. The video where the parents told their kids they ate their Halloween candy? Had me in STITCHES for days. This one is very funny, he gets celebrities to read out bad tweets directed to them.

And finally ‘Real Actors Read Yelp Reviews’. Dramatization of actual Yelp reviews. It just makes the silly things people say even sillier!

YouTube Pick of The Week

I decided to share some of my favourite YouTube videos at the moment, things that have tickled my fancy during the week!

First up is a video from Irish beauty blog What Katie Did. Katie shows us an easy way to get the Imelda May quiff, something I’ll definitely be trying out in the future!

TV3 show psychic readers from midnight and while I’d heard about them and saw some things on Twitter, I hadn’t heard of Flathan. Until I read this blog post from Beaut.ie. Flathan is a TREAT! Definitely worth watching some of his videos for his outfits alone.

Film of the week has got to be The Dark Knight Rises. This video I found when a friend posted it on Facebook, a cross between modern day Batman and 60s Robin. Brilliant!

Another hot topic these days is 50 Shades of Grey. You can’t look anywhere without seeing something about it! This video has some of the naughty bits included (and the writing is so bad that it’s hysterical). Word of warning though, potentially NSFW.

Recreating a Beyonce video is great but want to make it more interesting? Add a snuggie! This guy gets the video so so close to the original, you can watch a split screen of the two here.

And to round it off it’s a video of Micky Flanagan which came up in conversation when visiting my cousins in London.

Facebook Flashback Part 2!

Back in March I did my first Facebook Flashback and I held back until after 30 Days of Pinterest to post another. While the first one concentrated more on me, I decided this one would be centred around my family. And mainly some of the silly things that have been said by them!

He hasn’t told me though.

So close! But for my technophobic Dad (who can just about send a text message), the fact he knows what a Blackberry is is a miracle!

You know those microwaveable heating bags you can get shaped like animals and the likes? Well, we had a Happy Feet one. Until he almost caught fire one day for being in the microwave too long. I can not even begin to describe the stink in the house after this!

Some times it takes the easiest of things to baffle someone!

The sign of a true college student? When they forget they might need things like paper and pens to record notes in lectures. Mind was obviously elsewhere (more than likely on parties and freedom!).

 

As the saying goes ‘Out of the mouth of babes come all wise sayings’. It funny the things kids pick up on. In this case, my brother seems to have it bang on!

Traumatic to say the least! The terror of birds flapping around your head. And then after this we discovered one of my brothers upstairs. Had I known that before hand, I would have made him go in!

I’m beginning to doubt that he actually knows where Atlantis is…

30 Days of Pinterest Project: Day 5

So seeing as I’m away from the computer all day today, I thought I’d share some of my favourite images from my LOLs board. I decided to go with all smartphone ones I have. Enjoy!

From Parents Shouldn’t Text

From Failbook

From Smartphowned

From Smartphowned

From Parents Shouldn’t Text

Not sure where this is from originally, it’s from a Tumblr

Again, not sure where this is from.

I think the last one is my current favourite, partly because it’s so catchy! Though I’m a sucker for puns and love the Hungary one.