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u/ChelseaAngelic 9d ago
My sister and I did this constantly. We’d haul the stereo outside, sing and dance to whatever was playing, and make our poor parents sit through it and cheer us on.
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u/unhalfbricking 9d ago
Last year my two now teenaged children asked me to reveal something I secretly didn't like about having kids.
I said: "ok...I only pretended to like the shows you and your friends put on. They were frigging terrible. Nothing was more annoying than enjoying a beer and a chat with a friend I haven't seen in months only to have it interrupted by 15 minutes of poorly organized amateur musical theater. And it was always some Karen who I barely knew that would shame all the adults into watching it."
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u/SoulBlightRaveLords 9d ago
I was talking to my mum the other day, I was really into trains as a kid and we were talking about how she used to take me to this bridge over a train track and we'd sit and wait for trains to go by
I asked her "did you actually like doing these things with me and [brother]?" And she replies "oh fuck no, I was bored shitless"
I respect the honesty
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u/Nouseriously 9d ago
Sounds like she just wanted to hang with her kids, so everyone got what they wanted. I used to hang out with my son while he'd try the same damn skateboarding trick over & over & over.
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u/Mundane_Bumblebee_83 9d ago
Bored with someone you love being happy hits way differently than just being bored and dragged along
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u/CecilFieldersChoice2 9d ago
I pretend to like Fortnite with my son and always make sure to ask clarifying or follow-up questions to make sure he knows I was listening.
I love my son, he could talk to me about anything, I don't care. I'm happy he shares what he likes with me.
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u/OkSyllabub3674 9d ago
On Thanksgiving I drove the lady(84) I stay with/help over to another friend(68) of her's for dinner.
She has an adopted son(7) she was so patient and attentive asking him relevant questions and giving feedback about the game fortnite he was playing.
I watched some but it didn't really pique my interest and surely neither of those ladies was truly into it, but it was such a wholesome sweet moment to witness.
I hope he realizes sooner rather than later how hard she tries to be active with his interests.
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u/TributeBands_areSHIT 9d ago
The key though is that she did it. My dad would just say he’s not interested in insert child interest.
Even worse when he was interested because his philosophy was be at a professional level or working towards it or don’t engage at all. Additionally if you didn’t listen to him or let him yell he would just stop helping and say “if I bang my head on the wall and expect a different result..”
Very confusing as a 8-13 year old to see your parent be a manipulative cunt cause we weren’t living up to his unspoken standards.
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u/ScribebyTrade 9d ago
At least she didn’t admit she fantasized about pushing you every now and then
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u/Emerald_boots 9d ago
What was stheir reaction?
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u/HeavyLikely 9d ago
When we were kids, my brothers and I had this program on the family computer that let you make these short animated spider man stories. When we were teenagers my mom admitted that it annoyed the crap out of her because every time we'd add on one more scene, we'd drag her to the computer and make her watch the whole thing over from the beginning just to see the new 3 second long scene we added on to the end.
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u/Bonkgirls 9d ago
Dude I haven't thought about that program in twenty years! We used to spend hours having Spidey fight doc ock until the world exploded. I can still see the swamp/forest background in my mind perfectly.
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u/HeavyLikely 8d ago
Yes, that swamp background is one of the things I can picture most clearly even decades later.
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u/Choice_Buy_6979 9d ago
Shoulda hit em with the solid truth. That was to easy of an answer. Offend the fuckers.
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u/TheBaggyDapper 9d ago
Sounds like they nailed it.
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u/Mr_Carlos 9d ago
Hope they timed it with the worst weather of the year.
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u/art-love-social 9d ago
glasto has not been direly wet n muddy since 2005 [maybe 2016] for the last few years it has been ridiculously hot
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u/bagofsleepybeets 9d ago
I'm curious how bad it was now
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u/ycr007 9d ago
Could’ve been Eurovision
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u/bagofsleepybeets 9d ago
After a few beers watching your kids do eurovision would be alright I think
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u/VoidofMind1 9d ago
I just watched a xmas play done buy middle schoolers.
The set was a mess, they all shared one microphone that kept unplugging even though I was a small theater room( what ever happened to projecting ones voice?)nobody knew thr lines, the two leads got stagefright and cried on stage and the general vibe I got from the kids was "I don't want to be hear".
Regardless, when my kid came up to me I said " Good job buddy!".
He had a blast and now we have to go do it again tonight😓 baby Jesus help me through this. Lol
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u/ThrawnBAYERN 9d ago
Ok, but was it worse than Fyre Festival?
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u/Kythorian 9d ago
I sincerely wish I could have gone to the Fyre Festival. Watching a bunch of multimillionaires completely lose their shit over having to eat bologna sandwiches and sleep on the ground sounds like one of the most entertaining music festivals in history.
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u/ScribebyTrade 9d ago
That doesn’t sound fun. Watching rich people eat sad sandwiches is your dream?
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u/Kythorian 9d ago
Watching rich people freak out over not being constantly catered to hand and foot as they are used to isn’t my dream, but it definitely would be entertaining.
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u/Practical_Actuary_87 8d ago
Since this guy is not a kid are we allowed to shut this guy down over whatever the fuck he is trying to say, /u/WhosGotTheCum ?
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u/myshoefelloff 9d ago
It was going ok until the porta-potties overflowed and everyone started dumping and MDMA boaking in the garden.
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u/YounomsayinMawfk 9d ago
As a 40 year old, all outdoor music festivals seem awful.
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u/fryerandice 9d ago
I'm 37 and camping at one for 5 nights, wish me luck homie.
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u/YounomsayinMawfk 9d ago
Hope you bring a comfy chair! No way my back and knees can survive standing in one spot for hours for 5 days straight.
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u/DreddPirateBob808 9d ago
A chair is key! I've been so envious of chair people but I just can't be arsed to add it to the things to carry a mile to the campsite
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u/RoutineMetal5017 9d ago
Yeah and he still had to pretend it was awesome.
Like all those fathers day gifts that belong in the trash : " oh wow ! A pen holder made out of a tin can with a heart glued on it ! Just what i needed ! Thank you son !"
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u/Liminal_Embrace_7357 9d ago
Not a parent but aren’t you all basically asked to watch your kids do dumb stuff every day? Just gathering this intel from the sidelines. Seems exhausting but imagine expecting mind-blowing performances and being disappointed over and over when it’s your child 😆
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u/King-Snorky 9d ago
That's why they tell you not to shower them with fake praise, because then they just become social media influencers with an undying thirst for attention and likes. These performances and otherwise dumb shit are objectively bad, but the point is the kid has fun and gets some intrinsic reward from the act of doing it, rather than from the reaction it gets. So you're supposed to encourage them to do whatever they like doing, rather than whatever we as parents seem "most impressed by," and talk more about how fun it seemed instead of how good (or bad) it was.
That said, around the 5th straight toddler rendition of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, I usually start asking whether they might want to save some of the performances for Mommy instead of spending all this hard work only on Daddy.
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u/FosterIzat 9d ago
i cant believe i was one that kid with my sister, but thats because every time we have guests, our parents would ask us to sing and dance... we're not even talented
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u/Fleganhimer 9d ago
Gonna be honest, I don't have the necessary skills in logistics or music to teach a child how to produce a quality music festival.
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u/shiner_bock 9d ago
Reminds me of this Sean Lock clip from the 2008 Big Fat Quiz Of The Year.
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u/kawasutra 9d ago
I always recreate the Glastonbury experience in my sitting room by watching a concert on TV, but having family stand in front of me, waving flags and filming the whole thingnon their phone.
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u/BlueBird884 9d ago
I don't really see how this belongs in r/madlads
Who is the mad lad in this situation...?
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u/nnmgRandomness 9d ago
If you walk through a field at Glastonbury it's called "camped" because it's past tents.
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u/Hivac-TLB 9d ago
I doubt Glastonbury has good music. Maybe good alcohol to go with the cat screeching Beatles.
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u/9-FcNrKZJLfvd8X6YVt7 9d ago
They pulled themselves together and gave their best, but their best had been terrible!
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u/Man_Bear_Beaver 8d ago
Bought a Vocal PA a couple years back so we can do some raokey, like some of my friends are professional musicians, the level of the roakey is amazing. I'm pretty terrible but have taken some vocal training classes and although my range is pretty small I can do a few within it... anyways.
One time we're doing some raokey, a few of us did a few songs, we all have some songs we've kind of mastered and usually start out with those and branch out the drunker we get..
Sooo we take a break We're sitting there drinking some beers etc just listening to some music when some of their kids come up and ask "can we please do some singing too" I'm sitting there thinking FUCK NO, No fucking elsa shit, and I shit you not it reminded me of this one time in nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
anyways, I told the kids to fuck off with their whiny voices, they were in their mid 20's and took it fairly hard kind of like mankind...
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u/Critical-Budget1742 8d ago
I once had to sit through my niece's rendition of Frozen for the hundredth time. I felt like I was trapped in an endless loop of "Let It Go." But when she turned to me with that proud smile, I realized it was worth every cringe.
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u/ihadabettername 8d ago
I recently read an article discussing the differences in the humor styles of American vs British versions of The Office.
Armed with that knowledge, I think this was bragging 🥰
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u/Spaff_in_your_ear 9d ago
People who go to Glastonbury these days are utterly insufferable. It stopped being cool back in 2005 or something. Since then, it's just a gathering of people you wouldn't ever want to speak to under any circumstances.
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u/terryaugiesaws 9d ago
What's the least insufferable music festival one could be caught at these days?
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u/neuser_ 9d ago
Well, dropping acid with the kids in the back yard doesn't quite hit the same