Adult colouring books for a mere £1! Living wonders, Natural wonders and Floral wonders. The living wonders one is great as it has loads of cute animals :-)
Found in Dunfermline.
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richandpaula
18 Nov 1555#1
'Adult Colouring Books' - Not nearly as exciting as the title suggested. :disappointed:
lillianhom to spendnodosh
18 Nov 1524#14
I don't think it's like that at all. Adult colouring books have been proven to reduce stress and are great for therapy and mindfulness. Also it's really difficult to stay between the lines, come on.
lianne21
18 Nov 1523#10
Going to buy some after I put my Lego away.
tjack01
18 Nov 1521#26
My autistic teenage daughter enjoys colouring and painting and this ups the difficulty level to enable her to enjoy it as an adult. Unfortunately the human race do not all work on the same level. Facebook and Twitter carry far more responsibility for dumbing down society then ever a simple colouring book did!!!
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richandpaula
18 Nov 1555#1
'Adult Colouring Books' - Not nearly as exciting as the title suggested. :disappointed:
louiselouise to richandpaula
18 Nov 151#7
You CAN actually get them (though I'm stating the obvious, probably). I got a gay friend "The C**t Colouring Book" a while back, as a joke Xmas present!
sexyswift07
18 Nov 151#2
also at Poundworld
toonarmani to sexyswift07
18 Nov 155#4
How much are they there? :confused:
barmanste
18 Nov 153#3
you would only use the pink in the adult colouring books that I thought of......
aing69 to barmanste
18 Nov 151#6
Depend if Brazilian or Hollywood finish :smirk:
Scorpion to barmanste
18 Nov 152#16
I'm pretty sure you'd use a little brown too :confused:
zakeywak to barmanste
19 Nov 15#36
Better watch for racism :wink:
deb8z
18 Nov 154#5
This craze baffles me,Adults and colouring in books :neutral_face:
Fleabum to deb8z
18 Nov 156#9
Its actually found to relieve stress.
Regards
Flea
PhilK to deb8z
19 Nov 15#52
Yes. Noticed it myself. Maybe they need something comforting they understand ? :laughing:
lianne21
18 Nov 151#8
Adults colour in ? :neutral_face:
lianne21
18 Nov 1523#10
Going to buy some after I put my Lego away.
spendnodosh
18 Nov 1510#11
All part of a bigger picture (excuse the pun) if you ask me. The dumbing down of society. We already have a how to bake a cake programme, How to do your garden programmes, how to hang wallpaper and decorate your house programes, how to settle family differences programmes etc etc. Now we have adult colouring books?
I thought as a human race we where suppose to move forward. Not backwards? All these type of programmes convince us that we need help, where not capable of dong things for ourselves anymore and that it normal not to be able to solve simple everyday problems or do things for yourself. These adult colouring books are just another step in a worrying trend in my opinion. The dumbing down of society.
Rant over. Anyone else agree with me?
chimp14uk to spendnodosh
18 Nov 15#12
Yep.
mrew42 to spendnodosh
18 Nov 1517#13
I'd rather be colouring in than watching "Jeremy Kyle". Or "Eastenders", or "I'm a fat loser celebrity dinner in a bed makeover attic reality junkie"
lillianhom to spendnodosh
18 Nov 1524#14
I don't think it's like that at all. Adult colouring books have been proven to reduce stress and are great for therapy and mindfulness. Also it's really difficult to stay between the lines, come on.
lukec36 to spendnodosh
18 Nov 152#18
Yeah, Josef Mengele...
robertoegg to spendnodosh
18 Nov 155#19
The bigger picture of people's intolerance for what others might find fun or entertaining? Too right mate...
akersj to spendnodosh
19 Nov 15#35
In a word ... no.
Satan_Claws to spendnodosh
19 Nov 154#39
I'm not sure the programs you listed really qualify as "dumbing down", teaching someone how to bake, garden, do diy etc is surely not dumb? The implication being that you should know how to do all this by sheer ability of being human.
Can you bake a cake? If so how did you figure out what ingredients to use? Let me guess someone told you or you read it in a book...so you must be dumb then right???
My point is NO ONE just instinctively knows how to make a cake or build a wall etc... they need to learn it from somewhere, just because these days we have TV shows doesn't make it any dumber then using a book or being told from a parent. The principle is the same - you learnt how to do it from an external source.
Now TV shows that don't educate could certainly be used as an argument for dumbing down, but that's not what you suggested. I fail to see how something that encourages you to go out and create something yourself can be classed as dumbing down.
ganderthepanda to spendnodosh
19 Nov 15#40
I dont see how colouring in takes us backwards, everyone likes what they like
davej1710 to spendnodosh
19 Nov 151#43
Welcome to the future ... :smirk:
Oh wait ...
TygerrTygerr to spendnodosh
19 Nov 151#46
As opposed to the loftily intellectual activity of posting rants to nobody in particular on the internet? At least nobody is deluding themselves about the self-gratification of relaxing by colouring in.
soldierboy001 to spendnodosh
19 Nov 15#56
How did you learn anything, were you born with all these talents. For myself I did not have the availability to learn cooking at school as it was not one of the subjects taught in a boy's Grammar School. It was not until I joined the Army that by doing a spell as ration store man, sourcing, ordering collecting etc. the food stuffs for the cook house to convert in to meals, that because I had a lot of time on my hands I became interested in cooking and the methods used and the additives such as herbs and spices to bring us the tasty meals that we sat down enjoy.
Cookery programs help bring us up to date with all these things and introduce us to foods and recipes that are a far cry from fish and chips or beans on toast and help us with the method that a recipe book does not due to it's limitations. Thanks to my Army Chefs and these programs I can now make successfully a whole range of foods that I would not have been able to manage but for these.
Now go back to your pie and mash while I enjoy my 5 tapas plata con patatas brava.
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Regards
Flea
I thought as a human race we where suppose to move forward. Not backwards? All these type of programmes convince us that we need help, where not capable of dong things for ourselves anymore and that it normal not to be able to solve simple everyday problems or do things for yourself. These adult colouring books are just another step in a worrying trend in my opinion. The dumbing down of society.
Rant over. Anyone else agree with me?
Can you bake a cake? If so how did you figure out what ingredients to use? Let me guess someone told you or you read it in a book...so you must be dumb then right???
My point is NO ONE just instinctively knows how to make a cake or build a wall etc... they need to learn it from somewhere, just because these days we have TV shows doesn't make it any dumber then using a book or being told from a parent. The principle is the same - you learnt how to do it from an external source.
Now TV shows that don't educate could certainly be used as an argument for dumbing down, but that's not what you suggested. I fail to see how something that encourages you to go out and create something yourself can be classed as dumbing down.
Oh wait ...
Cookery programs help bring us up to date with all these things and introduce us to foods and recipes that are a far cry from fish and chips or beans on toast and help us with the method that a recipe book does not due to it's limitations. Thanks to my Army Chefs and these programs I can now make successfully a whole range of foods that I would not have been able to manage but for these.
Now go back to your pie and mash while I enjoy my 5 tapas plata con patatas brava.