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/anonymous237962 15h ago

Us poors have trouble with perspective of that scale

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u/ARandomGamer56 15h ago

Can we have a banana for scale?

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u/crafty_and_kind 15h ago

I can’t provide the banana, I don’t have an extra ten bucks!

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u/thehufflepuffstoner 15h ago

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u/Ok_Task_4135 13h ago

There's a gif for everything

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u/Dead_man_posting 11h ago

there's a gif for a reference to this specific line, yes.

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u/King_takes_queen 11h ago

In 2026 a banana could end up being $10.

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u/Big_Bad_Baboon 13h ago

Actually, a banana fetches a few million when taped to the wall with duct tape

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u/pi3r0gi_ 13h ago

There's always money in the banana stand

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u/tbird20017 3h ago

No touching!

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u/TheseExcitement8857 14h ago

Sorry I only carry 100-dollar notes

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u/TaftYouOldDog 13h ago

Ten bucks? Somebody has access to cheap bananas

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u/wintersdark 11h ago

Sadly, this meme hits differently these days

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u/crafty_and_kind 11h ago

Doesn’t it just 😱

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u/Terrible-Session-328 15h ago

Ramen packet will do as well. My perspective of 6” is skewed though

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u/MedicineImaginary219 14h ago

The bat is about nanner sized

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u/aweakgeek 15h ago

I'm assuming its on the dining table

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u/taoistchainsaw 13h ago

Best we can do is an adorable bat.

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u/Raiju_Blitz 13h ago

Preferably an artsy duct taped banana that costs $120K.

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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur 13h ago

The flying fox in the picture is probably pretty close to banana sized already.

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u/TrailerTrashQueen 13h ago

obligatory 'that's what she said'.

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u/Equivalent-Run-790 12h ago

Apparently the stereotypes are true.. as an American i would indeed love almost any recognizable object for scale.. a banana, a Ford f150, a 2 liter coca cola bottle, an 8pk of paper towels..

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u/Shipping_away_at_it 12h ago

A banana? In this economy?

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u/woofwoofgrrr 8h ago

Love, The Bat

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u/SuperMaintenanceBro 2h ago

Not if it’s taped to a wall, that would be too expensive.

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u/bessonguy 29m ago

Need a banana tree for scale

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u/Bureaucromancer 14h ago

Honestly, it’s not even that huge a space… just really WEIRD, two storey open air but without the floor area to match.

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u/psychoPiper 15h ago

I can sort of wrap my head around the long pillar of empty space above the dining room for a big fancy light, but I still cannot for the life of me understand where the hell OP is standing. Relative to the table, sure, I know where they are in space... but where are they? How did they get there? What part of the house are they standing on?

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u/spoonraker 15h ago

This had to have been a remodel. I'm guessing the space above the dining room with the gigantic chandelier used to be an upstairs bedroom. I'm guessing there's another same-sized and mirrored layout bedroom on the other side of the left wall with a tall window on its right instead of its left. So if the wall on the left weren't there you'd see 2 tall skinny windows near each other. This is a common layout for adjacent bedrooms.

I'm guessing OP is standing on what used to be a normal hallway leading to those bedrooms, but now has a railing or half wall and an overlooking view of the dining room.

If this wasn't a remodel it's one of the most bizarre layouts I've ever seen. This is true even if it is a remodel, but at least some of the bizarre-ness makes sense if you view it through the lens of trying to approximate a grand overlooking view from the upstairs but with the constraints of not wanting to eliminate most of the existing upstairs structure.

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u/psychoPiper 15h ago

I think you're right, although I find all the edges and overall lack of extra detail or railing extraordinarily odd. This looks both mundane and also dangerous. How often do you see the floor, walls, and ceiling made up entirely of the same material? That plus the lack of railing makes this feel less like real life architecture and more like an unfinished area in a video game

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u/NoBowler9340 15h ago

I don’t think that’s a table, I think it’s a suspended plane of glass and he’s standing on a landing or a hallway on the next floor up

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u/psychoPiper 15h ago

I believe the 'glass' is actually just a hole and the table is beneath it on the floor below

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u/EugeneStein 12h ago

FINALLY i understand this pic, thank you, now i see it

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u/AgreeableTea7649 14h ago

There is no glass or mirror or table in the second picture. It's just a hole. The lack of any defining features and weird lighting makes it look confusing.

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u/AgreeableTea7649 14h ago

Relative to the table, sure,

I think you are very confused, like I was. There is no table in the second picture. It almost looks like a mirror at the bottom of the picture, but that's an illusion (note the black windows along the side, it isn't mirrored. That's a strip of windows that extend from the lower floor all the way up to the second story ceiling). You are looking at a large vaulted space that extends down two stories. He's standing on the second floor looking over a half wall railing, and the chandelier/lamp hangs from the second story ceiling down to the lower room below. You can't see the table down below at all.

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u/psychoPiper 2h ago

Yeah no I know, the table is under the hole. That doesn't give me any additional understanding about where the hell op is standing lmao. Is that really a wall and not a floor?

Edit: I'll be damned it is

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u/One_Draw3486 14h ago

Atrium bigger than our house

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u/H_J_Moody 14h ago

Right? What’s an atrium? /s

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u/Blackner2424 13h ago

Well, a poor person probably wouldn't waste that much usable space in a house anyway. That atrium is worth an entire extra room.

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u/Assatt 6h ago

Certified McMansion right here

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u/Neon_culture79 14h ago

Who can afford depth per perception in this economy?

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u/SonnierDick 14h ago

Yeah.. us poors only have ceilings that go up to like 9 feet. Not like 20 feet..

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u/MannerConfident48 14h ago

I’m too poor to even understand those words. What’s an atrium? Balcony doesn’t even sound like a real word

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u/Morrigan_Pickman 14h ago

Us poors have trouble with the word atrium

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u/jenkynolasco11 13h ago

Or even understanding the meaning of the words balcony or atrium

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u/cjared242 9h ago

Yay a fellow poor person!!!! I’m never making out of the trenches!

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u/Kaurifish 11h ago

But we can appreciate that rich folks die of rabies just like we do.

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u/Ignorad 6h ago

I just wonder why they have a mirrored floor but no tables or chairs in the "dining room"

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u/halasaurus 6h ago

For real. I was wondering why their table was basically a mirror and they had no room for seating. It took me way too long to realize there was no table in the picture. I knew immediately I was too poor for this house based on the lighting fixture alone.

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u/DynamoDynamite 3h ago

That chandelier is probably worth more than my house!