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Inspired by sphynxcatvp
It seems like as we get older, we start looking back fondly to our childhoods and conveniently forget just how much it actually sucked to be a kid. There is a reason that we want to become adults when we are still kids - You can't really do anything you actually want to do because there is always an adult there to stop you. When you hit adulthood the rules change...

Here are just a few of the reasons why being a grownup rocks!

We get better Go-Karts and bikes

Being an adult means that we can drive whatever we like and should we want a motorcycle, money permitting, we go out and get one. It is as simple as that! When I was a kid, I was fascinated by motorbikes and was told in no uncertain terms that I would not be getting one when I was seventeen. I guess this had a lot of bearing on my lack of enthusiasm for learning to drive.


We can eat whatever the hell we like

"You can't eat that, you will ruin your appetite", "You can't eat chocolate for breakfast, it isn't good for you", "If you don't eat your dinner, you get no dessert"

Bwhahahaha! As an adult you can eat icecream for breakfast, chocolate for lunch and follow it up with a bucketful of candy for dinner. Ok.. you will probably end up being sick, but you are free to do it whenever you like. Sometimes it is nice to eat junk food and watch movies instead of eating healthy food:D


Pirates and ninjas and ponies, oh my!

We can dress however we like too. After gorging on our breakfast of cake and last nights pizza, we can amble off into the bedroom and choose to wear pink skintight lycra if we want to. We can indulge in the latest fashions, dress like whores and skip off into town with a dead squirrel on our heads if we so desire. I am personally a born pirate (colimbina would have something to say about it if I ever switched allegiances) and as such can be seen walking through town in tight pants and a tricorn hat:D I can also wear black without anyone telling me that it is just a 'phase'. At 31 years old it is not a bloody phase, I just like wearing black dammit!


However....

Some people take this a little too far....


We get cooler rooms

Once you are in your own home and under your own roof, you can decorate it in any way you please. Want a halfpipe in your lounge? No problem! Want to sleep in a coffin and have skulls set into your walls? Absolutely go for it! It is the right of every adult to have a house that would make every teen sick with envy. In our case, we live in something akin to a borg cube with the addition of my bones and my weaponry collections - which brings me to the next cool thing about being a grownup:D


We can collect bones and interesting weapons

My nephews think that trophy skulls and chainsaws are the coolest things of all time. I agree with them. The difference between me and them though is that I can own such things and they cannot. Their mother doesn't think that the heads of dead tribesmen fit in with her decor so they will be denied these items of amazing until they are at least 16. Instead they will be made to live in rooms that she thinks are good for them - pink with art prints of kittens on the walls I suspect;)


We get much cooler toys

What? Tesla coils are toys! They are! As are lasers, crossbows, flamethrowers, giant robots, majorly cool computer systems, surround sound movie systems and vibrating cinema chairs.


Mmmm pyro loveeee

And last but by no means least.. adults get to play with fire! We can firebreathe, swing it around on the ends of chains, set fire to our yards and run around with matches. If we really want to, we can set fire to our hair and jump into hotel pools, shoot fireworks out of plastic pipes and throw petrol onto bonfires to see what happens. I like to burn effigies and make pretty coloured flames with chemicals and meths on my patio. People can look at me disapprovingly, but importantly they can't actually stop me from doing it because I am a grownup!

A quick non picture list of a few of the other fun things we can do:D

Pick our noses
Have members of the opposite sex in our rooms
Pull a sickie so we can stay at home and watch cartoons
Stay up all night
Get tattoos and piercings in odd places
Walk around the house in the nude
Spend a fortune on comic books and action figures
Watch hentai and 18 rated horror films
Take up extreme sports
Masturbate in front of the TV
Drive to the peak district at 2am because it is a pretty night and you want to see the sunset from the top of a mountain
Sleep til 3pm on weekends
Take up poledancing
Be taken seriously