I was talking to some friends earlier today and as happens the conversation went in strange directions until suddenly we were talking about imaginary friends we had when we were kids. Some said they had them, some didn't (or claimed not to or don't remember), one girl then started going on in great detail about how awesome her imaginary friend was. Then I asked her- 'So what was she?'
'What was she what?'
'What animal was she?'
'...she was my imaginary friend...She was a girl....'
:hmm:
Now this strikes me as quite odd, you see myself and most kids back home tend to have imaingary animal friends.
I had a mouse, originally named Mousey. Though he was unquestionably a small mouse (maybe bigger than a normal one...more guinea pig sized) he had some anthropomorphic qualities; he went on holiday occasionally, had a nanna who occasionally came to visit him, etc...
A friend of mine I remember had a very weird one, he had a cow. Nothing weird and human like. Just a cow. In the garden. He'd occasionally just stand up and stop playing and say 'I've got to go milk my cow now' and off he'd go into the garden where he had a bucket and a stool and he would mime milking a cow for a little while.
This friend despite being a fit sports guy has a very very fat girlfriend now. Which makes me wonder.
Did you have an imaginary friend? Or do your kids have one?
No, I didn't really go crazy until about high school.
I didn't need an imaginary friend because I always had a little brother to yap at and pick on.
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I have never had an imaginary friend but I have always had conversations with myself; does that count?
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Quote from: Tyr on March 10, 2010, 06:10:59 PM
I was talking to some friends earlier today and as happens the conversation went in strange directions until suddenly we were talking about imaginary friends we had when we were kids. Some said they had them, some didn't (or claimed not to or don't remember), one girl then started going on in great detail about how awesome her imaginary friend was. Then I asked her- 'So what was she?'
'What was she what?'
'What animal was she?'
'...she was my imaginary friend...She was a girl....'
:hmm:
Now this strikes me as quite odd, you see myself and most kids back home tend to have imaingary animal friends.
I had a mouse, originally named Mousey. Though he was unquestionably a small mouse (maybe bigger than a normal one...more guinea pig sized) he had some anthropomorphic qualities; he went on holiday occasionally, had a nanna who occasionally came to visit him, etc...
A friend of mine I remember had a very weird one, he had a cow. Nothing weird and human like. Just a cow. In the garden. He'd occasionally just stand up and stop playing and say 'I've got to go milk my cow now' and off he'd go into the garden where he had a bucket and a stool and he would mime milking a cow for a little while.
This friend despite being a fit sports guy has a very very fat girlfriend now. Which makes me wonder.
Did you have an imaginary friend? Or do your kids have one?
The only kid who had an imaginary friend that I knew had a friend that was a boy. I never heard of imaginary animal friends, they've always been shown as other children in the fiction I've seen/read unless the main characters were animals themselves.
Quote from: Tyr on March 10, 2010, 06:10:59 PM
Did you have an imaginary friend?
When I was little, I remember a miniature green Vulcan that would hide in my room. But he was only there when I ran a fever, so go fig.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 10, 2010, 06:40:13 PM
Quote from: Tyr on March 10, 2010, 06:10:59 PM
I was talking to some friends earlier today and as happens the conversation went in strange directions until suddenly we were talking about imaginary friends we had when we were kids. Some said they had them, some didn't (or claimed not to or don't remember), one girl then started going on in great detail about how awesome her imaginary friend was. Then I asked her- 'So what was she?'
'What was she what?'
'What animal was she?'
'...she was my imaginary friend...She was a girl....'
:hmm:
Now this strikes me as quite odd, you see myself and most kids back home tend to have imaingary animal friends.
I had a mouse, originally named Mousey. Though he was unquestionably a small mouse (maybe bigger than a normal one...more guinea pig sized) he had some anthropomorphic qualities; he went on holiday occasionally, had a nanna who occasionally came to visit him, etc...
A friend of mine I remember had a very weird one, he had a cow. Nothing weird and human like. Just a cow. In the garden. He'd occasionally just stand up and stop playing and say 'I've got to go milk my cow now' and off he'd go into the garden where he had a bucket and a stool and he would mime milking a cow for a little while.
This friend despite being a fit sports guy has a very very fat girlfriend now. Which makes me wonder.
Did you have an imaginary friend? Or do your kids have one?
The only kid who had an imaginary friend that I knew had a friend that was a boy. I never heard of imaginary animal friends, they've always been shown as other children in the fiction I've seen/read unless the main characters were animals themselves.
You've never read Calvin and Hobbes, then?
None of the imaginary people wanted to be friends with me. :(
I used to talk to mine every night before I went to sleep
Actually I did have an imaginary friend named Rosie. She was alright. She wore my ring. :cool:
Quote from: DGuller on March 10, 2010, 06:55:12 PM
None of the imaginary people wanted to be friends with me. :(
That's okay, they were probably communists anyway. Hey, what would the Russian be for "The Committee for Imaginary Friends"?
Quote from: sbr on March 10, 2010, 06:25:50 PM
I have never had an imaginary friend but I have always had conversations with myself; does that count?
Yesss, my preciouss, it does.
Quote from: Razgovory on March 10, 2010, 07:19:42 PM
Quote from: DGuller on March 10, 2010, 06:55:12 PM
None of the imaginary people wanted to be friends with me. :(
That's okay, they were probably communists anyway. Hey, what would the Russian be for "The Committee for Imaginary Friends"?
Komitet voobrozhaemyh druzei.
I'd like to think there would be a Soviet KVD handing out imaginary friends to Soviet children. Though there would be a waiting list and most kids would only get them at around 16 years of age.
Quote from: Razgovory on March 10, 2010, 07:36:15 PM
I'd like to think there would be a Soviet KVD handing out imaginary friends to Soviet children. Though there would be a waiting list and most kids would only get them at around 16 years of age.
It would be for the better. Being Soviet-made, those imaginary friends would probably die within the next few months.
Quote from: DGuller on March 10, 2010, 07:40:55 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 10, 2010, 07:36:15 PM
I'd like to think there would be a Soviet KVD handing out imaginary friends to Soviet children. Though there would be a waiting list and most kids would only get them at around 16 years of age.
It would be for the better. Being Soviet-made, those imaginary friends would probably die retire to their dacha in the Crimea for health reasons within the next few months.
Quote from: Caliga on March 10, 2010, 07:45:19 PM
Quote from: DGuller on March 10, 2010, 07:40:55 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 10, 2010, 07:36:15 PM
I'd like to think there would be a Soviet KVD handing out imaginary friends to Soviet children. Though there would be a waiting list and most kids would only get them at around 16 years of age.
It would be for the better. Being Soviet-made, those imaginary friends would probably die retire to their dacha in the Crimea for health reasons within the next few months.
I agree.
No, didn't have any imaginary or animal friends. I like to be alone.
Quote from: Ideologue on March 10, 2010, 06:51:29 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 10, 2010, 06:40:13 PM
Quote from: Tyr on March 10, 2010, 06:10:59 PM
I was talking to some friends earlier today and as happens the conversation went in strange directions until suddenly we were talking about imaginary friends we had when we were kids. Some said they had them, some didn't (or claimed not to or don't remember), one girl then started going on in great detail about how awesome her imaginary friend was. Then I asked her- 'So what was she?'
'What was she what?'
'What animal was she?'
'...she was my imaginary friend...She was a girl....'
:hmm:
Now this strikes me as quite odd, you see myself and most kids back home tend to have imaingary animal friends.
I had a mouse, originally named Mousey. Though he was unquestionably a small mouse (maybe bigger than a normal one...more guinea pig sized) he had some anthropomorphic qualities; he went on holiday occasionally, had a nanna who occasionally came to visit him, etc...
A friend of mine I remember had a very weird one, he had a cow. Nothing weird and human like. Just a cow. In the garden. He'd occasionally just stand up and stop playing and say 'I've got to go milk my cow now' and off he'd go into the garden where he had a bucket and a stool and he would mime milking a cow for a little while.
This friend despite being a fit sports guy has a very very fat girlfriend now. Which makes me wonder.
Did you have an imaginary friend? Or do your kids have one?
The only kid who had an imaginary friend that I knew had a friend that was a boy. I never heard of imaginary animal friends, they've always been shown as other children in the fiction I've seen/read unless the main characters were animals themselves.
You've never read Calvin and Hobbes, then?
Not when I was a kid, I came across Calvin and Hobbes when I was in my late teens I think.
I had siblings.
No imaginary friends here when I was a kid. However, we were poor and couldn't afford such luxuries.
I had an imaginary friend that was a dude. He looked like a stick figure but was bigger than me. We use to box. And that was about it.
Quote from: Korea on March 11, 2010, 02:03:11 AM
I had an imaginary friend that was a dude. He looked like a stick figure but was bigger than me. We use to box. And that was about it.
Did you imagine your imaginary friend was on top of you when you used that purple dildo for the first time?
Loner. Not big on friends, imagined or otherwise.
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 11, 2010, 08:11:55 AM
Quote from: Korea on March 11, 2010, 02:03:11 AM
I had an imaginary friend that was a dude. He looked like a stick figure but was bigger than me. We use to box. And that was about it.
Did you imagine your imaginary friend was on top of you when you used that purple dildo for the first time?
No. Sadly, I killed him in our last boxing match. :(
Didn't have an imaginary friend.
I count all* of Languish as my imaginary friends.
*Most of you.
I'd also like to point to my signature.
I overthought the whole imaginary friend thing. I didn't have one until popular children's literature made me feel I should have one so I thought up a ghost boy called Jonathon who died in the Great Fire of London.
Quote from: DGuller on March 10, 2010, 06:55:12 PM
None of the imaginary people wanted to be friends with me. :(
Was about to say the same thing. :(
Quote from: Brazen on March 13, 2010, 04:27:45 AM
I overthought the whole imaginary friend thing. I didn't have one until popular children's literature made me feel I should have one so I thought up a ghost boy called Jonathon who died in the Great Fire of London.
Haha same. From the popular literature and movies one would assume most people have an imaginary friend, but hardly anyone ever admits it.
Quote from: ulmont on March 13, 2010, 12:01:23 AM
I count all* of Languish as my imaginary friends.
*Most of you.
<_<
Never had one. Maybe because I had a younger brother, or always had real friends.
Quote from: Martinus on March 13, 2010, 05:05:09 AM
Quote from: DGuller on March 10, 2010, 06:55:12 PM
None of the imaginary people wanted to be friends with me. :(
Was about to say the same thing. :(
I think that was common in the communist world. In the west people had imaginary friends. In the east they had imaginary
enemies.
Quote from: Razgovory on March 13, 2010, 05:40:02 AM
Quote from: Martinus on March 13, 2010, 05:05:09 AM
Quote from: DGuller on March 10, 2010, 06:55:12 PM
None of the imaginary people wanted to be friends with me. :(
Was about to say the same thing. :(
I think that was common in the communist world. In the west people had imaginary friends. In the east they had imaginary enemies.
Most of our imaginary "friends" were really Stasi plants. :(
Quote from: Razgovory on March 13, 2010, 05:40:02 AM
I think that was common in the communist world. In the west people had imaginary friends. In the east they had imaginary enemies.
:lmfao: