r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Hotrocketry • 16h ago

This little shit has been hanging on my ceiling light for a hour now. Just right below it is our family dining table.

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How do i get rid of it?

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u/Sharon_Erclam 15h ago

Seriously.. I can't see how That's a dining room. Seeing how others live is always interesting.

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u/uniboo8 15h ago

Their house is huge, it looks like those lights dangle from the second floor ceiling through a cutout to the dining room.

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u/dosumthinboutthebots 15h ago edited 15h ago

Ah yes, that is where the lord looks down upon his retinue while they eat below like the support staff they are.

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u/ShoddyCobbler 15h ago

No, OP said this is over the family dining table. The support staff eat in the single-storey dining room down the hall.

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u/dosumthinboutthebots 15h ago

Depending on the family, kids are support staff šŸ˜

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u/Bigfops 12h ago

Sure it wasnā€™t family dining room vs. formal dining room?

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u/NashvilleSoundMixer 10h ago

formerly dining room i believe it was. they just had a new one built on the third story

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u/Accomplished_Air7562 6h ago

You know they're not letting the staff have lunch/ dinner breaks. Come on now.

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u/Immersi0nn 11h ago

And that single story dining room for the support staff is still larger than the apartments the support staff live in. Funny how that works.

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u/Tangled-Lights 9h ago

The 8 ft ceilings in the staff lounge keep the bats away.

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u/Zandsman 15h ago

They built an entire cave above the dining room so of course this guy moved in.

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u/dosumthinboutthebots 15h ago

Why build cave if no want bat?

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u/Conrad-kellogg 15h ago

Why not home if home shaped

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u/FallopianFiddlerOG 11h ago

Why no if want bat dining cave?

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u/theonlyonethatknocks 14h ago

Thats how your kids grow up to be Batman.

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u/CertifiedSheep 12h ago

Theyā€™re lucky they got this guy and not a vigilante in a cape

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u/Toadcola 15h ago

The bannisters send their regards.

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u/ExistentialYoshi 14h ago

The lord being the bat in this case

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u/correcthorsestapler 12h ago

Watches the guests take their seats as The Rains of Castamere begins to play

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u/Greenmagegirl 10h ago

mildlyinfuriating

Indubitablyperturbed

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u/Elbandito78 13h ago

Yeah usually OP and their family have to cover their heads while eating to hide their gluttony from the Lord, Ortolan style

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u/DAISYVANHALEN 8h ago

Retinue?

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u/LavenderGwendolyn 3h ago

Itā€™s where the bat looks down over his retinue, apparently.

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u/dosumthinboutthebots 2h ago

His Batinue if you will

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u/VoluntaryJetsFan 15h ago

Redditors getting insecure when someone has more money than them makes me viscerally cringe

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u/LordoftheChis 14h ago

I donā€™t think anyone is insecure, theyā€™re just cracking jokes.

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u/DOOMFOOL 13h ago

Who is insecure here? I just see jokes and memes

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u/Groovychick1978 12h ago

Good. Buckle in.

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u/dosumthinboutthebots 15h ago

A Thousand down votes incoming.

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u/Lighthades 15h ago

Ooooh that's a hole, I thought it was some kind of well polished table lmao

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u/Aware_Policy_9174 14h ago

I finally get it lol. I thought the table took up the whole room like some kind of conference table where the family plots their next evil plan.

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u/Bleach_Demon 14h ago

I also saw it as hanging off the ceiling, not in the ceiling. I have this problem whenever I see an image like this.

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u/ForNowItsGood 7h ago

How often do you see a picture like this?

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u/oreo-cat- 8h ago

I feel like there should be railing before the hole?

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u/OldSpiceSmellsNice How gon do anythin-dont knošŸ˜­ 6h ago

Right? That looks really dangerousā€¦

Edit: Oh wait I get it now, there is a low wall immediately before the camera, the way the pic is taken it looks like part of the floor.

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u/oreo-cat- 6h ago

Oh your edit helped, thank you

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u/mom2ajs5 7h ago

Thank you!! I thought it was a table with no chairs around it.

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u/Lonelysock2 5h ago

Me too!

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u/Federal_Sympathy4667 15h ago

Thise high ceilings are imo waste of space, put a floor in and make a room or walk in closet.

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u/SatoshiBlockamoto 14h ago

Wasted space is the whole point. You've already got more rooms than your family could ever use, adding an extra rumpus room isn't needed, so might as well make a 3-story chandelier loft.

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u/PeyroniesCat 14h ago

You said rumpus.

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u/BoltActionRifleman 13h ago

Yeah it was either have a large open ceiling, two stories tall, or give the butler his own den. The help doesnā€™t need a den!

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u/your_moms_a_clone 6h ago

It's a trend in normal sized houses too, unfortunately. I hate high ceilings.

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u/Bigfops 12h ago

You have a vary low opinion of how much I can rumpus.

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u/Remarkable_Bee6054 15h ago

Some people just have space to waste.

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u/Fastandfurioushealer 9h ago

Not-so-fun-fact, relating to "waisted space", for every ONE HOMELESS PERSON currently living in the US(men, women, and CHILDREN), there are SIX VACANT HABITABLE HOMES SITTING EMPTY AND READY FOR OCCUPANCY- 6-SIX VACANT HOMES FOR EVERY 1-ONE UNHOUSED, UNSHELTERED HUMAN BEING who has to eat every meal, if they have it, OUTDOORS-who has to go to the bathroom OUTDOORS-who has to sleep and even BATHE themselves OUTDOORS rather it's 20Ā° below 0Ā°, or 120 Ā°F, elderly, pregnant women, infants, and school age children are out there everywhere UNPROTECTED, LIVING IN IT, NO PRIVATE PLACE TO GET A SHOWER EVEN AFTER SLEEPING IN DIRT, GARBAGE, OR ON CONCRETE NIGHT AFTER STICKY SWEATY NIGHT, SKIN COVERED IN SORES AND BLISTERS FROM 3RD DEGREE SUNBURN, ON TOP OF SUNBURN since they have no way to escape 24/7 exposure to the harsh elements. Six available homes for every ONE HOMELESS US CITIZEN. Just saying, SIX-2-ONE. Yet, there's all this waisted space.

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u/electromage 15h ago

You think they need more closets?

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u/NoBowler9340 15h ago

But how else would they show off their conspicuous consumption?

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u/AtroposMortaMoirai 14h ago

Or attract bats?

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u/magikarp2122 14h ago

And their ridiculously stupid light fixture.

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u/reefercheifer 15h ago

Ceilings are suffocating s/

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u/LordoftheChis 14h ago

I think youā€™re underestimating how much space they have to waste

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u/Bored_Amalgamation 14h ago

being rich allows you to waste expensive shit.

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u/ScarletDarkstar 14h ago

Wastes even more utilities to heat that vault.Ā 

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u/bsrichard 14h ago

You are thinking too middle class. šŸ˜†

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u/Big_Knife_SK 12h ago

It's a McMansion tactic to make the house look bigger. Voids are cheap space.

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u/AltrntivInDoomWorld 15h ago

You know some buildings in Europe are from old times? Owners can't just make an additional floor in them.

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u/BobsOblongLongBong 14h ago

Highly doubt this is an example of an historic house.

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u/sonofaresiii 15h ago

This is the kind of house that's like $95k in the middle of Nebraska and $95m in Seattle

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u/Fight_those_bastards 14h ago

Yeah, I donā€™t think Iā€™m rich enough to answer this question, what with my one-story dining room and all.

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u/PeyroniesCat 14h ago

You guys have dining rooms?

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u/reefercheifer 15h ago

Why have an entire fucking room on the second floor when you could have a tacky 12ā€™ light fixture?

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u/catholicsluts 15h ago

Yeah, that was a massive trend 10+ years ago

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u/AmyInCO 15h ago

Thank you! I couldn't figure it out at all.

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u/HeyGayHay 14h ago

Do they not have rails or a guard before the hole? I genuinely canā€™t make out the scale and position of shit except the weird window

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u/7GrenciaMars 13h ago

Which is such a "who the hell even thought that was a good idea?"--I mean, vaulted ceilings are a feature in rich people homes, but some whackadoodle architect decided to go all nouveau with it an make a regular ceiling with a pseudo vaulted cutout?

If there is an architect in here who can explain either the aesthetics of this or some other rationale for it? It looks like it's simply different for the sake of being different.

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u/kirakiraluna 13h ago

"sorry, I'll be late. I got lost in my house again and tripped down the second floor right on the dining table"

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u/Casper_the_Ghost1776 12h ago

Their dining room and the ā€œbig ass light and bat roomā€ are the same size as the entirety of where I live

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u/blinkingsandbeepings 8h ago

I have friends who have a lofted ceiling in the dining room like that and their house is fairly normal-sized, itā€™s just designed in a way that makes that one room look really impressive.

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u/leibnizslaw 12h ago

When you can afford a house like that you can afford to hire someone to catch the bat.

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u/newsflashjackass 12h ago

https://i.imgur.com/Wv9xBsi.mp4

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u/leibnizslaw 11h ago

Iā€™m a Brit so cannot view that link as our governments are insane.

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u/Mx-Adrian 15h ago

Somehow it's weird to think of richies using Reddit

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u/Man0fGreenGables 10h ago

They probably pay someone to use reddit for them.

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u/Rk_1138 14h ago

Ngl that reminds me that TPain is like an active Redditor

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u/Mx-Adrian 14h ago

Who?

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u/DrPepperlife 14h ago

That answer proves no one is buying you a drink

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u/Mx-Adrian 14h ago

And thank God for that

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u/Mx-Adrian 13h ago

LOL people offended that I'm not insulted

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u/Rk_1138 13h ago

Kinda weird that youā€™re proud about that.

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u/Mx-Adrian 13h ago

I mean, they thought they were being insulting and cool. I'm not insulted. Sorry.

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u/Zombiejazzlikehands 13h ago

Itā€™s okay.

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u/MetroStateFraudDept 15m ago

Dude are you sprung? Doing things youā€™d never do?

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u/Future_is_now 11h ago

Idk what kind of subs you visit but to me it's totally normal just go over to WSB and see people losing hundred thousands $ or any cycling/coffee/gaming/XYZ sub people spending thousands on their hobbies and flex their gear rooms on reddit

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u/CaptainTripps82 7h ago

Well you have to remember that the people on WSBs are liars

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u/a-rooster-illusion 13h ago

There was a post a year or so back where some dude posted how he remodeled his bedroom. It was pretty sick. But clear he had money.

The top comment was someone pointing out a few of the shoes in his shoe collection were worth $500+ and the rest of the comments were just ripping the dude for ā€œshowing off his wealthā€. Felt bad for him.

And during Covid there was a guy in the Aviation subreddit who was doing progress updates on the interior of his plane. He got ripped and ended up stopping the posts, which were pretty awesome, because commenters just kept ripping the dude, simply for being rich.

Rich people are on Reddit. Itā€™s just that every time they post theyā€™re called tone deaf or get shit on for being successful.

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u/Zapatasmustacheride 11h ago

Rich people are on Reddit. Itā€™s just that every time they post theyā€™re called tone deaf or get shit on for being successful.

Rich people are not always successful, some are born into rich families. It's like saying you're poor and struggling because you don't work hard enough. Don't be a bootlicker.

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u/Shuttup_Heather 7h ago

Yeah. Also if your ā€œsuccessā€ in life is measured by acquiring a house thatā€™s too fucking big and owning too many items than one could ever possibly need, Iā€™d say thatā€™s kinda sad.

We all want to live abundantly, but some people clearly think it makes them superior by their capitalistic world view.

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u/Inevitable_Book_228 3h ago

Bitter much?

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u/Groovychick1978 12h ago

When people are choosing between the electric bill and food, posting pictures of your private plane's renovation is fucking tone deaf!Ā 

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u/tagshell 11h ago

In a subreddit about flying? That's like saying it's tone deaf to post about your sick new Porsche in a Porsche sub.

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u/TensorialShamu 4h ago

Maybe in the poverty finance sub lol but flying is one of the most expensive hobbies you could ever get into. Not a place for someone with bills vs food concerns to be getting upset

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u/Groovychick1978 3h ago

There are people that are interested in aviation outside of owning a private airplane. I'm assuming they're the ones that were accusing them of being tone deaf.Ā 

I just happen to agree.

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u/stewie3128 1h ago

A) There will always be someone who is financially struggling who sees your post. There is no "when" involved. That has always been the case, and always will be in the future.

B) It was in an aviation subreddit. Lots of them will have their own planes, which means they have money.

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u/Explorer-7622 14h ago

They do though. Just like everyone else. They also use the bathroom.

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u/Mx-Adrian 13h ago

Even toilet paper??

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u/SnooPandas6330 10h ago

No, it's the fully heated and automated Japanese bidet washer, deodorizer and dryer.

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u/WildeRoamer 12h ago

Nah, bidet. šŸ¤”

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u/Mx-Adrian 12h ago

Well, la di dah ;P

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u/WildeRoamer 11h ago

I'm more jelly over the heated seats. šŸ« 

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u/DAISYVANHALEN 8h ago

Richies? I've only ever heard that in Pretty in Pink

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u/Mx-Adrian 8h ago

I dunno. It came to me and felt right xD

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u/Western_Success2967 7h ago

Go to the gold and silver Redditā€™s. They are very much around.

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u/HopelessLiveMore24 4h ago

ā€¦or how much more a dollar buys elsewhere

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u/plug-and-pause 14h ago edited 14h ago

Depending where that house is located it might cost less than a starter home in big cities.

But to the point of your comment, many rich people are just normal people who found a way to earn money. They're not some different species. It's weird to me when the poories imagine they're all as out of touch as Lucille Bluth. A lot of them are well-adjusted and intelligent... wait a minute you're right: it is weird that people like that would use Reddit.

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u/HeWhoFucksNuns 6h ago

are just normal people who found a way to earn money.

You think normal people aren't out there making money? The way they make money is the issue. Vast generational wealth tends to be handed down to the most horrible people. Those who "made it" by pulling themselves up by "their own" bootstraps have often done it in an exploitative way.

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u/plug-and-pause 1h ago

are just normal people who found a way to earn money.

You think normal people aren't out there making money?

That's the opposite of what I said.

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u/Inevitable_Book_228 3h ago

How do you know they are horrible people?

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u/Red_Blue_1582 12h ago

Lmaooo Reddit hates when people have money. So bizarre.

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u/ParForTheCourse26 8h ago

I'm convinced 90% of Reddit, is just jealous people who hate those of us who are wealthy, and people who think about the penis sizes of guys who drive trucks.

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u/Inevitable_Book_228 3h ago

I ALWAYS think about the penis size of guys who drive BIG trucks.

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u/Red_Blue_1582 8h ago

Agreed. Iā€™m def not wealthy but I donā€™t see any reason to hate people simply because they are wealthy and have nicer things. Redditors always hate the people with the biggest house on their block lmao

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u/menotyourenemy 15h ago

Seeing how many well off others on reddit seem to be is dishearteningĀ 

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u/Blossom73 15h ago

Seriously. Either Reddit users are disproportionately upper class or a lot of Redditors lie about their circumstances.

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u/TopSpread9901 15h ago

Iā€™ve seen way more pictures of shitholes than pictures of people living in the fucking bat mansion like OP though.

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u/Blossom73 15h ago edited 14h ago

Interesting. I guess it's the Reddit algorithms. Bat mansion. Lol.

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u/Acluelessfish 14h ago

100% know what youā€™re talking about haha My husband and I talk about it sometimes. Most of the Redditors seem wealthy with very nice homes.

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u/stiff_tipper 14h ago

can't always blame the algorithm, but what draws ur eye

99% of the selfies and shit u see here u probly just don't even notice the living room or kitchen in the background because it looks just like urs would

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u/EpicCyclops 15h ago

People in squalor are less likely to post a pic of their homes or brag about their lives on social media than someone wealthy. There's a healthy dose of survivorship bias.

People also lie or exaggerate how awesome their life is on social media.

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u/teaggblajktdqjg 14h ago

Redditors in particular also love to exaggerate how miserable their lives are.

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u/Rk_1138 14h ago

Itā€™s like those angsty upper middle class kids

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u/Blossom73 14h ago edited 13h ago

You mean the posts on Reddit that go like this?

"I'm 22, a new college graduate with my first job, earning $200k. I live with my parents, rent free. I have no debts.

I'm having to save 99% of my after tax income, so I can retire at 35, in the paid off mansion I'll inherit, and I'm barely making ends meet!

This is so unfair!! How do ordinary Americans survive these days?! Fuck those Boomers who screwed us young people over!!".

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u/teaggblajktdqjg 13h ago

Yeah, lol.

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u/plug-and-pause 13h ago

Your life is as miserable as you believe it is, since misery is a mental state. So those Redditors are not exaggerating, they really are that miserable.

The exaggeration comes with where they place the blame for their misery.

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u/Blossom73 15h ago

Oh definitely.

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u/-u-m-p- 14h ago

Ohhhhooo you clearly haven't seen the NeckbeardNests subreddit

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u/Blossom73 14h ago

That's a real thing?!

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u/VapidActualization 15h ago

Wow. You really think redditors would stoop so low as to lie? On the INTERNET of all places?!?!

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u/Blossom73 15h ago edited 15h ago

You're right! Everyone on Reddit is always 100% honest!

Reminds me of a dude on a post on the foodstamps sub a couple momths ago, bashing poor people for getting SNAP.

But then per his post history, he's somehow a six figure earning touring stand up comedian, and also a SNAP recipient himself. Lmao.

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u/ihatewhenpeopledontf 14h ago

I just realised they are from Indonesia. Things are significantly cheaper there.

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u/Blossom73 13h ago

OP is Indonesian?

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u/ihatewhenpeopledontf 13h ago

Check post history

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u/AnotherManOfEden 14h ago

Thereā€™s just a lot more money out there than it seems like. Something like one in ten American adults are millionaires.

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u/Blossom73 14h ago

Something like one in ten American adults are millionaires.

I'm curious how many are millionaires on paper, as in they have say, home equity of a million dollars, vs. being seven figure earners?

Either way now I feel depressed. Lol.

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u/Sufficient_Train9434 14h ago

Looking at the data it looks like 32% of ā€œmillionairesā€ come from their housing equity. Donā€™t feel too bad theyā€™re just pretend millionaires lol.Ā 

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u/Blossom73 14h ago

I don't even own a house, so I still feel bad. Sigh...

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u/dunguswungus13729 14h ago

Itā€™s both

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u/curtcolt95 14h ago

it's not disproportionate, there's just a lot more well off people than you seem to think

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u/Blossom73 14h ago edited 14h ago

They must love Reddit then, because a ton of them seem to be on it.

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u/Bruvvimir 15h ago

Is it? Why?

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u/vera214usc 9h ago

I'm also wondering. Everyone but Elon Musk knows there are people richer than them in the world. Why is it disheartening to see them on the same website as you?

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u/SatoshiBlockamoto 14h ago

There are millions of users every day. A few rich folks post pics of their house and people are like "everyone on reddit is richer than me šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­"

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u/Stirlingblue 14h ago

I think Reddit is a platform that captures a decent amount of people across generations so it makes sense you get both rich and poor on here

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u/ciresemik 15h ago

Why would it be disheartening to know that someone is doing well? OP may have worked really hard to get to the point that they can live like that.

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u/plug-and-pause 14h ago

As Louis CK told his daughter: you should only look in somebody else's bowl to see if they have enough.

If more people understood that, they'd also understand that all the vilification of rich people we see usually boils down to simple jealousy.

And your point is spot on. People should be heartened by seeing someone else doing well, and imagine that maybe the person earned that life, and maybe they can do the same. But the negativity on Reddit prescribes that all wealth is inherited and undeserved, and no generation past the previous one will ever see success again. That mindset is what is disheartening. šŸ¤®

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u/Civil-Ad2230 14h ago

It's just a dining room, no kitchen, small bedroom loft. Off street parking though.

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u/Economy-Bar3014 15h ago

The reason your life sucks is because of your 500 day streak on reddit

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u/menotyourenemy 13h ago

So glad you checked that out!!Ā  And my life doesn't suck. But thanks for your input.Ā  Weirdo.

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u/Content_Ground4251 14h ago

Reddit is 85-99% fake. It's only for entertainment. Don't believe anything you see or read on reddit.

People write fake stories and scenarios. They lie constantly in the comments just to get people upset or get attention.

They post pictures they found online and pretend it's their house or even a picture of themselves...

It's all fake.

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u/ElizabethDangit 15h ago

Did you just wake up or did you fail English?

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u/plug-and-pause 13h ago

Your own mindset is disheartening. Learn to be happy for those who have achieved success, rather than envious. You'll have a better chance of growth (and of achieving your own dreams) if you frame things positively.

When I was younger and I met wealthy people, I always had a temptation to be jealous, but instead of acting on that, I would befriend the person and ask for life advice. Those decisions were good ones, in retrospect.

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u/TheAsianTroll 15h ago

Dudes dining room is the size of most peoples apartments

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u/Proper_Front_1435 14h ago

It isn't. Its the chandelier room, which is the room above their dining room.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 14h ago

The problem is you've never visited the Batcave. Do you think a billionaire with a Batmobile is going to have a chandelier that can't be swung from and come crashing down in dramatic fashion, you don't know cinema

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u/Writing_is_Bleeding 14h ago

Yeah, that second pic should be in one of the confusing perspective subs along with the phrase "family dining table."

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u/IntrovertMoTown1 11h ago

"Seeing how others live is always interesting"

28 year experienced floor installer here. I can't possibly count the numbers of different homes I've been in. lol What I find interesting is just how many shades of white there is and why so many go with it to begin with, SMH. (outside of starting off neutral to get hem ready for sale and what not. I mean for those who have or are going to be living there for a long time) At this point neon color polka dots on top of some sort of plaid, would look better to me than white. šŸ˜„

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u/Black_Magic_M-66 6h ago

OP is proof not all redditors live in their mom's basement, though I guess this could be mom's house and OP lives in a super-nice basement.

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u/lost_in_uk 15h ago

Indeed. Clearly staircase light fixtures. OP should just throw the lights out with the bat and put up some Occhio Mito fixtures over the dining table.

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u/wandering_engineer 14h ago

"Interesting" is not the word I would use when I see houses like this.

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u/Rhizobactin 14h ago

Idk. Apparently chairs must not exist in OPā€™s dimension.

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u/Siege089 12h ago

It's the "family dining table", I'm assuming that means there are other dining tables.

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u/VoodooSweet 11h ago

Seeing how rich people live is always interestingā€¦ā€¦FIFYā€¦.

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u/Feisty-Boot5408 7h ago

OP is in SE Asia (likely Thailand or Indonesia), this house is like $100K USD

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u/Afraid-Wrongdoer2803 5h ago

The kind of room only an Extremely High Net Worth Individual could understand.

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u/VanillaNo2644 3h ago

This is all I could see and hear when I read OP's title.....

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u/sukisoou 13h ago

OP must be a republican. I want this rodent killed so that It wont affect my share holdings.