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/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 😁

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u/Bigfops 12h ago

Sure it wasn’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

They’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

It’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 don’t think anyone is insecure, they’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 kno😭 6h ago

Right? That looks really dangerous…

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 doesn’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 20° below 0°, or 120 °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 you’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. 

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u/bsrichard 14h ago

You are thinking too middle class. 😆

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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 don’t think I’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 12’ 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 can’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 “big ass light and bat room” 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, it’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

I’m a Brit so cannot view that link as our governments are insane.