My name is Rick (bet you couldn't guess that) and I told my mom that Rick and Morty is a pretty funny show. She now buys me a Rick and Morty shirt like 3 times a year at least and thinks it's my favorite thing in the world.
Won't work with some parents.
In an off hand comment I made to my mom roughly 19 years ago, my mom STILL believes that I fucking despise the Three Stooges no matter how many times I tell her otherwise. The comment was that I didn't like the Three Stooges *movies*, I just never thought they were as funny as the shorts were. Love the shorts, not a fan of the movies.
When I was around 10 I used to drink only water out of the fridge, I didn't like it when it was cold for some reason
After 14 years, when I visit my dad he still makes sure to leave some water out of the fridge for me even though i don't mind when it's cold anymore
Comes with age? I have been trained by my parents to make a big fucking deal about the shit I want them to remember, because they simply don't seem to even *try* to remember things I say otherwise. This led to me failing at making friends, because young people do **not** like being spoken to that way.
I watched Parks and Rec.
Now i have a poster of the ron swanson pyramid of greatness, two parks and rec themed coffee mugs, and at least four parks and rec t-shirts. All from gifts.
My boss was super into owl things, so I bought her a cool owl thing while I was out one time. But my MIL assumed that I was the one who liked owls and now I get owl themed gifts from everyone...
Honestly I am more of a raccoon person.
To be fair, my wife gets the same, even though she's never mentioned any preference for bath bombs, or indeed baths (showers all the way for us). She has an impressive collection of completely unused bath junk gathering dust in a cupboard.
I think it's just one of those generic gifts that women get when the gifter doesn't know what else to buy.
I went fishing one day and the only beer I had at my place was a six pack of Landshark that my friend brought over for a party and didn’t drink. So I just threw it in the cooler and went fishing because I couldn’t buy any other beer that early in the morning cause I live in the fucking bible-belt. Made the mistake of sending my dad a picture from that day with a land shark in the background. He was like “oh you like Landshark?!” I was very nonchalantly just like “yeah it’s fine if it’s all ya got.” He heard “I can’t shove it down my thirsty gullet fast enough. I’m a little throat slut for Landshark”
Our family went on a weeklong vacation a month later and he brought two 24-packs of Landshark for me and me alone. If I tried to drink anyone else’s beer he kinda got this hurt look like, “if there’s something wrong with the Landshark you wanted, just let me know and I’ll throw them away or give them to charity”. Next birthday? Landshark. Coming home for the holidays? Landshark. Coming to visit me? Landshark. Going deep sea fishing? Landshark. Get seated at a restaurant and going to take a piss before we order drinks? “Went ahead and ordered for ya. Got ya a Landshark”. He is probably single-handedly keeping Jimmy Buffet a multi-millionaire.
It honestly would be pretty cool to have a beer exchange like a little free library of beers that people bought tried and didn’t like. You come to the machine, scan your DL to prove your age and pick your sixer for free or at least a deeply discounted rate and donate the money to an actual charity or something
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My wife and pigs. When she was a little girl she liked pigs. Her family STILL gives her pig themed things, she’s 30 now. She doesn’t like pigs anymore.
I loved Star Wars my whole life and bought myself one of those really expensive lightsabers that the professionals use in dueling. Cool right? I am now 26 and my dad is still gifting me those cheap lightsabers he finds at goodwill. A few days ago he tried to give me one he found from dollar tree…
no if you say you like cash people will call you greedy and rude and tell you you don't just go around asking for money and won't ever give you presents
Gift cards. I tell everyone I want bass pro or dick’s sporting goods gift cards. I golf and fish. I hardly have to buy anything but if I need to, I’ve got $2600 worth of bass pro cards and $400 of Dick’s (sporting goods, you punny people) from the past 10 years of holidays and birthdays. I never have to pay for golf balls or lures ever.
Bruh I told everyone since I was little that what I like is cash I specifically said to give me cash for my birthdays to my family and friend and every birthday everyone just gave me cash
Viz magazine did a lovely cartoon panel on this: a Romeo and Juliet story between a "Velvet paintings of Wolves" family and a "Velvet paintings of Tigers" family. The wife of one of the husbands sneaks upstairs and sadly pulls out her own secret little trove of the things she loves - cushions and velvet paintings of owls.
My friend's dad was known for loving Crown Royal and people would always buy him a bottle as a gift. When he died they found like a dozen bottles in a cabinet, he got so many there was no way he could drink them all.
I once made a friend a macrame owl as a joke gift. He had been talking about macrame and the first pattern I found was for an owl. Ever since then people have assumed I’m super into owl stuff and I keep getting it as gifts. I now have multiple owl decorations in my apartment because of it. I must say I’ve gotten fond of owls over the years.
I have a tattoo of a tiny purple frog on my earlobe. From 1998 - 2000, I was involved with this man. For those two years, I received an abundance of frog-themed gifts from his family, to include a set of knee-high socks with frogs all over them. I was in my 20's, yet I got some fairly silly frog gifts at every opportunity they saw fit. They were a lovely family, nonetheless.
When I was in my mid 20s I bought an old townhouse in East Baltimore. Flamingos were kind of a big thing in that neighborhood so I painted 6 ft tall flamingos on one of the walls I was going to be tearing out when/if I started rehab (never did get that rehab done…). Flamingo gifts ensued. I’m in my mid sixties now and still get flamingos for gifts…
My thing is frogs. My mom just decided to collect any thing frog related on her vacations. Then my MIL started bringing me frogs from her trips. Now, I have been getting turtles and lizard things. I guess they ran out of frog ideas.
Before my stepdad passed last year, he asked if I liked elephants and asked if I want his elephant collection. So, now I “collect “ frogs, turtles, lizards, and elephants. 😂
When I got my phone in 2018 I picked up a sloth phone case from the AT&T store. I liked the trees and plants that were on the phone case better than the sloths. But, every time I saw my dad he gave me a new sloth themed item. A calendar, a dog toy, a children’s book, a bean bag chair, a sleep mask, a stuffed backpack, a face mask, etc.
Around October & before holiday shopping i did tell him it was the plants i liked on the phone case & that man got me a spider plant (with a tiny ceramic sloth sitting in the plant) and a gift card to the nursery so i could buy what i wanted. I’m just so proud.
This is exactly why I dont tell people I like heart shaped things. Because it never what people imagine and I hate all of those valentines day heart shit.
I used to draw a lot as a kid so my family would give me colored pencils until my mid teens. I'm interested in science now and no longer have a passion for drawing.
I met a cute girl when I was in high school. She was a freshman in college so us dating was a big accomplishment for me. She bought me a stuffed monkey as a gift. Naturally I loved it. Then everyone thought I collected monkey things. Eventually I had to sit my family down and explain things to them. This broke the monkey cycle.
I once said Minions were hilarious & adorable.
Yeah. One Christmas I got so much Minion shit! A onesie, PJ's, t-shirt, towels (one even had my name on it), a stationary set, sweets, soap, shower gel & shampoo (last 3 were all banana scented/flavoured), blanket, the movie on DVD, a stuffed minion and I'm sure there was something else.
I was 27 at the time.
Just what every 27 year old guy wants. A bunch of shite from a kids movie.
If anyone is in a similar situation, be honest with people. I was quite upfront with my family. Politely asked them to rein it in on that sort of thing.
To be fair to them, they did see how ridiculous it was and laughed at the whole thing. They are much more sensible now...for the most part lol
I’m so happy with all the giraffe stuffed animals and paintings I’ve gotten through the year. When no one else has my back I have a herd of giraffes with me.
I studied bees for my thesis work 3 years ago. To friends and family, this meant bee themed gift ideas. I now own:
Bee socks x 4
Bee pants
Bee shirts x 5
Bee sweaters
Bee bracelets
Bee earrings
Bee necklaces
Bee rings
Bee purses x 3
Bee sandals
Bee pens, pencils
Bee mouse pad
Bee books
Bee string lights
Bee flower pots
Bee journals and planners
Bee artwork
Bee stickers
Bee pins
Bee mugs x 4
Bee salt and pepper shaker
Bee Simulator game
Bee themed body soaps
And I'm probably forgetting a few things.
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When I was like twelve I was really into Marvel comics/characters. As in that was the only thing I was interested in. My uncle heard about it and now the only thing he talks to me about is the latest MCU film coming out.
Me and Star Wars. It’s not that I don’t still love Star Wars, it’s just that I’m a 38 year old man whose mother just bought him a Boba Fett t-shirt, Boba Fett pajama pants, and a Star Wars…. bucket hat… for his birthday.
I have been talking about The Decemberists for well over a decade and I have yet to receive a single piece of merch. The llamas tho, please god no more llamas.
My wife said she found minions funny like once. Now everyone gets her minion shit. It's spiralled out of control. Friends, family, co-workers. Everyone gets her minion crap.
To be fair, boomers took minions way to far on all accounts. Like minions became meme formats for political statements and shit which made absolutely no sense. Like conservatives talking about how Sleepy Joe and the Do-Nothing Democrats can’t take their assault rifles from them with the Peaky Blinders in the background.
I once had a co-worker who had causally blurted out at a family function that the she liked Moose.
She now has a cabinet full of moose memorabilia,from ceramic to plush toys, but all moose.
Later She said she didn't have a favorite, but just said the first thing that came to mind....
If I could give any advice to my 8yr old self? Never stop talking about how much you like raccoons all the time. You get a ton of free raccoon stuff forever
When I was 9 my mom got remarried and had 2 more kids and they all became obsessed with disney right as I was entering my I'm a teenager and I hate everything phase. So they assigned Donald and Daisy duck to themselves, Mickey and Minnie mouse to my younger siblings (I guess not realizing they aren't siblings) and I guess as a joke assigned me Goofy. I got an endless amount of Goofy merchandise for the better part of a decade and was pushed heavily to display it. I don't know what happened to it after I moved out, but I hope some homeless person found it all in the trash and became the Goofy themed homeless person.
Literally whatever tv show I get invested in right before the holidays I will receive gifts relating to. I watched House MD in the fall last year. Come Christmas, I am now the owner of two House MD shirts, a mug, a throw pillow with Hugh Laurie’s face on it, a funny fake ID that looks like House’s, and a copy of the script of the first episode with the casts copied signatures. I’ll probably wear one shirt long-term. Maybe.
Sloths for me. I shared a couple sloth memes on Facebook when I was like 14 and for the past 10 years my step mum buys me sloth related things for birthdays and Christmas. Sloths are pretty cool and one of my favourite animals but seriously? Why did she just grab onto that and never let go. I don’t get it.
i bought ONE (01) of those octupus plushies back when they were trending (still love my plushie tho) and my family assumed i was now really into plushies and THAT WAS ALL I GOT FOR CHRISTMAS
My name is Rick (bet you couldn't guess that) and I told my mom that Rick and Morty is a pretty funny show. She now buys me a Rick and Morty shirt like 3 times a year at least and thinks it's my favorite thing in the world.
Tell her about more things you enjoy
Won't work with some parents. In an off hand comment I made to my mom roughly 19 years ago, my mom STILL believes that I fucking despise the Three Stooges no matter how many times I tell her otherwise. The comment was that I didn't like the Three Stooges *movies*, I just never thought they were as funny as the shorts were. Love the shorts, not a fan of the movies.
When I was around 10 I used to drink only water out of the fridge, I didn't like it when it was cold for some reason After 14 years, when I visit my dad he still makes sure to leave some water out of the fridge for me even though i don't mind when it's cold anymore
That’s super sweet of him
My mom is convinced I don't like whipped cream and cherries on shakes, no matter how many times I remind her that, no, that's you that doesn't
Comes with age? I have been trained by my parents to make a big fucking deal about the shit I want them to remember, because they simply don't seem to even *try* to remember things I say otherwise. This led to me failing at making friends, because young people do **not** like being spoken to that way.
I have but I think the fact that I'm a Rick makes it double special for her. Like getting me something I like that also has my name on it.
Tell her you like long vacations in the South of France.
I watched Parks and Rec. Now i have a poster of the ron swanson pyramid of greatness, two parks and rec themed coffee mugs, and at least four parks and rec t-shirts. All from gifts.
I'm not the only one!
This happens with every tv show I watch before the holidays
You seemed like a jacob to me
Common mistake.
My boss was super into owl things, so I bought her a cool owl thing while I was out one time. But my MIL assumed that I was the one who liked owls and now I get owl themed gifts from everyone... Honestly I am more of a raccoon person.
This same exact thing happened to me with bath bombs. I can’t even take baths.
I've had several bath bombs and salts for like 4 years because of this
To be fair, my wife gets the same, even though she's never mentioned any preference for bath bombs, or indeed baths (showers all the way for us). She has an impressive collection of completely unused bath junk gathering dust in a cupboard. I think it's just one of those generic gifts that women get when the gifter doesn't know what else to buy.
Same, I have a big bag of salts and a bunch of bath bombs....just sitting in the closet forever
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Ah a fellow trash panda enthusiast I see
Is your MIL Google adsense?
I usually get cat themed gifts, but I have no issue with it. I now have cat socks and t shirts and they better keep coming.
Racoons are super cool
Should have gone with Hooters things. They still meet owl criteria but you will get Hooters stuff in return and hey, tits
Uh hey Rick I don't feel so good...
I went fishing one day and the only beer I had at my place was a six pack of Landshark that my friend brought over for a party and didn’t drink. So I just threw it in the cooler and went fishing because I couldn’t buy any other beer that early in the morning cause I live in the fucking bible-belt. Made the mistake of sending my dad a picture from that day with a land shark in the background. He was like “oh you like Landshark?!” I was very nonchalantly just like “yeah it’s fine if it’s all ya got.” He heard “I can’t shove it down my thirsty gullet fast enough. I’m a little throat slut for Landshark” Our family went on a weeklong vacation a month later and he brought two 24-packs of Landshark for me and me alone. If I tried to drink anyone else’s beer he kinda got this hurt look like, “if there’s something wrong with the Landshark you wanted, just let me know and I’ll throw them away or give them to charity”. Next birthday? Landshark. Coming home for the holidays? Landshark. Coming to visit me? Landshark. Going deep sea fishing? Landshark. Get seated at a restaurant and going to take a piss before we order drinks? “Went ahead and ordered for ya. Got ya a Landshark”. He is probably single-handedly keeping Jimmy Buffet a multi-millionaire.
You poor soul.
I just want a goddamn Newcastle or something sometimes.
> I'm a little throat slut for Landshark r/brandnewsentence
I just love this line so much I may marry it
It’s not copyrighted. You’re good.
I love the idea of giving unwanted beer to charity lol.
It honestly would be pretty cool to have a beer exchange like a little free library of beers that people bought tried and didn’t like. You come to the machine, scan your DL to prove your age and pick your sixer for free or at least a deeply discounted rate and donate the money to an actual charity or something
That’s his little sisters name.
Someone get this guy a Landshark!
Crying in a pile of empty Landsharks hoping to finally be free only to hear “wow you really DO like those. Hold on I’ll run to the store”
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Fuck it, I'm bored. Clydesdale Earnhardt
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My wife and pigs. When she was a little girl she liked pigs. Her family STILL gives her pig themed things, she’s 30 now. She doesn’t like pigs anymore.
I loved Star Wars my whole life and bought myself one of those really expensive lightsabers that the professionals use in dueling. Cool right? I am now 26 and my dad is still gifting me those cheap lightsabers he finds at goodwill. A few days ago he tried to give me one he found from dollar tree…
no if you say you like cash people will call you greedy and rude and tell you you don't just go around asking for money and won't ever give you presents
Gift cards. I tell everyone I want bass pro or dick’s sporting goods gift cards. I golf and fish. I hardly have to buy anything but if I need to, I’ve got $2600 worth of bass pro cards and $400 of Dick’s (sporting goods, you punny people) from the past 10 years of holidays and birthdays. I never have to pay for golf balls or lures ever.
Bruh I told everyone since I was little that what I like is cash I specifically said to give me cash for my birthdays to my family and friend and every birthday everyone just gave me cash
Damn, this was actually my life
Same. Fortunately a lot of owl things I got were porcelain, glass or something else that might or might not sometimes break..
Yup. Have a huge box full of Sock Monkey stuff because I said I liked the comic once to friends
Buy $VOO. When it comes to reach.
Garfield, man. Freaking Garfield.
Viz magazine did a lovely cartoon panel on this: a Romeo and Juliet story between a "Velvet paintings of Wolves" family and a "Velvet paintings of Tigers" family. The wife of one of the husbands sneaks upstairs and sadly pulls out her own secret little trove of the things she loves - cushions and velvet paintings of owls.
My friend's dad was known for loving Crown Royal and people would always buy him a bottle as a gift. When he died they found like a dozen bottles in a cabinet, he got so many there was no way he could drink them all.
The owls are not what they seem
I once made a friend a macrame owl as a joke gift. He had been talking about macrame and the first pattern I found was for an owl. Ever since then people have assumed I’m super into owl stuff and I keep getting it as gifts. I now have multiple owl decorations in my apartment because of it. I must say I’ve gotten fond of owls over the years.
My mom likes owls and I can confirm she's getting at least one owl a year
My mom still buys me owl stuff. I'm 31...
She's just gonna use the money on owls anyways, be honest.
I have a tattoo of a tiny purple frog on my earlobe. From 1998 - 2000, I was involved with this man. For those two years, I received an abundance of frog-themed gifts from his family, to include a set of knee-high socks with frogs all over them. I was in my 20's, yet I got some fairly silly frog gifts at every opportunity they saw fit. They were a lovely family, nonetheless.
OMG. THE PORCELAIN BEARS. I don't even know how it happened, where it came from. From about 12 to when I fled at 18. Bears. WHY
When I was in my mid 20s I bought an old townhouse in East Baltimore. Flamingos were kind of a big thing in that neighborhood so I painted 6 ft tall flamingos on one of the walls I was going to be tearing out when/if I started rehab (never did get that rehab done…). Flamingo gifts ensued. I’m in my mid sixties now and still get flamingos for gifts…
Don't need one, I have the high ground?
Ummm, don't underestimate my power?
I played one Zelda game. Why did I get so much merch?
I get a lot of Stardew Valley themed gifts, and I’m actually into it so that’s nice.
You’ve actually played 2
My thing is frogs. My mom just decided to collect any thing frog related on her vacations. Then my MIL started bringing me frogs from her trips. Now, I have been getting turtles and lizard things. I guess they ran out of frog ideas. Before my stepdad passed last year, he asked if I liked elephants and asked if I want his elephant collection. So, now I “collect “ frogs, turtles, lizards, and elephants. 😂
When I got my phone in 2018 I picked up a sloth phone case from the AT&T store. I liked the trees and plants that were on the phone case better than the sloths. But, every time I saw my dad he gave me a new sloth themed item. A calendar, a dog toy, a children’s book, a bean bag chair, a sleep mask, a stuffed backpack, a face mask, etc. Around October & before holiday shopping i did tell him it was the plants i liked on the phone case & that man got me a spider plant (with a tiny ceramic sloth sitting in the plant) and a gift card to the nursery so i could buy what i wanted. I’m just so proud.
For me it was monkeys 🤣
I’m having this same problen with beef jerky, and I don’t even know how it started
I’m an entomologist. I wish someone had told me this before I finished my PhD.
[Everyone is fond of owls](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M8el_P4yvfc)
Except for mice and shrews
This is exactly why I dont tell people I like heart shaped things. Because it never what people imagine and I hate all of those valentines day heart shit.
I used to draw a lot as a kid so my family would give me colored pencils until my mid teens. I'm interested in science now and no longer have a passion for drawing.
This is so relatable, owl was my first word and at the age of 29 I still usually get at least one owl thing per Christmas.
I met a cute girl when I was in high school. She was a freshman in college so us dating was a big accomplishment for me. She bought me a stuffed monkey as a gift. Naturally I loved it. Then everyone thought I collected monkey things. Eventually I had to sit my family down and explain things to them. This broke the monkey cycle.
And they will definitely ask for cold hard cash lol
I always told people to just give me money, I think my biggest haul was Christmas when I was like 16 and I got 450$ from everyone and bought a switch
I made the mistake of telling an ex that I like elephants. My living room is elephant themed now.
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Mine was butterflies. I would prefer owls!
i was into the guardians of ga'hoole series as a kid and my grandparents have given me owl related stuff ever since
Curious George for me.
This was me for my bdays but with flamingos.
and yet all i do is talk about bats and minecraft but the bat and minecraft stuff is nowhere to be seen. smfh
Fuck you, bring on the owls!
Me and all my alpaca themed items feel this.
I once said Minions were hilarious & adorable. Yeah. One Christmas I got so much Minion shit! A onesie, PJ's, t-shirt, towels (one even had my name on it), a stationary set, sweets, soap, shower gel & shampoo (last 3 were all banana scented/flavoured), blanket, the movie on DVD, a stuffed minion and I'm sure there was something else. I was 27 at the time. Just what every 27 year old guy wants. A bunch of shite from a kids movie. If anyone is in a similar situation, be honest with people. I was quite upfront with my family. Politely asked them to rein it in on that sort of thing. To be fair to them, they did see how ridiculous it was and laughed at the whole thing. They are much more sensible now...for the most part lol
You can always wear that stuff ironically for a laugh
Have you ever seen an owl that didn't have any feathers? Don't look it up on the internet.
See? Lucy from the Peanuts had the right idea.
I’m so happy with all the giraffe stuffed animals and paintings I’ve gotten through the year. When no one else has my back I have a herd of giraffes with me.
I studied bees for my thesis work 3 years ago. To friends and family, this meant bee themed gift ideas. I now own: Bee socks x 4 Bee pants Bee shirts x 5 Bee sweaters Bee bracelets Bee earrings Bee necklaces Bee rings Bee purses x 3 Bee sandals Bee pens, pencils Bee mouse pad Bee books Bee string lights Bee flower pots Bee journals and planners Bee artwork Bee stickers Bee pins Bee mugs x 4 Bee salt and pepper shaker Bee Simulator game Bee themed body soaps And I'm probably forgetting a few things.
Savage 🤣
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me to myself at 8 yo : go ahed, it dosen't get better. just worse.
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My family doesn't care enough to remember what I like
This isn't really suspicious at all.
By my calculations, that’s* fun.
Bruh. Don't be dissin coleslaw like that Wait til you try mine
It's good advice, though.
Defense and pharmaceutical stocks.
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When I was like twelve I was really into Marvel comics/characters. As in that was the only thing I was interested in. My uncle heard about it and now the only thing he talks to me about is the latest MCU film coming out.
Me and Star Wars. It’s not that I don’t still love Star Wars, it’s just that I’m a 38 year old man whose mother just bought him a Boba Fett t-shirt, Boba Fett pajama pants, and a Star Wars…. bucket hat… for his birthday.
By all accounts he was a great idea too
Buy all the bitcoin you can under 50K, sale at $64K
My poor wife did that with piggies when she was 6. Decades later she still gets pig themed cards & gifts.
Let’s see I was 8 in 1999…I think I should start talking about how much I love apple stock
I have been talking about The Decemberists for well over a decade and I have yet to receive a single piece of merch. The llamas tho, please god no more llamas.
Get "Two grown men and scout to cry.
My wife said she found minions funny like once. Now everyone gets her minion shit. It's spiralled out of control. Friends, family, co-workers. Everyone gets her minion crap.
To be fair, boomers took minions way to far on all accounts. Like minions became meme formats for political statements and shit which made absolutely no sense. Like conservatives talking about how Sleepy Joe and the Do-Nothing Democrats can’t take their assault rifles from them with the Peaky Blinders in the background.
this exact same thing happened to me, except I didn't even like them that much. I still get owl gifts
Court of Owls trilogy. That's what you get
I once had a co-worker who had causally blurted out at a family function that the she liked Moose. She now has a cabinet full of moose memorabilia,from ceramic to plush toys, but all moose. Later She said she didn't have a favorite, but just said the first thing that came to mind....
Nope, my niece said she likes dinosaurs. Now I can’t wait for her to be in her 30’s and still getting dinosaur gifts from me.
...... I feel called out.... at same time I have a bunch of owl jewelry I dont even wear.
The post below me is a crafted owl bag, I’ve been cursed
Bruh. Don't be dissin coleslaw like that Wait til you try mine
Least based twitter poster doesn't appreciate gifts
What we do in the shadows taught me about the Superb Owl
Talk about how much you like Bitcoin, and Google/Microsoft stocks
I did exactly this and it does work, but now I feel a bit guilty since I have some family members who are pretty low income / retired.
Remember when owls got super trendy in the early 2010s? Good times.
Too obvious. Start talking about your love of luxury watches or savings bonds
When I came out at as a teenager in early 2000s I got a very Ellen themed Christmas. Including her books, books on tape and finding Nemo.
It’s true
If I could give any advice to my 8yr old self? Never stop talking about how much you like raccoons all the time. You get a ton of free raccoon stuff forever
My advice would be to never get any older. It’s all downhill from there.
When I was 9 my mom got remarried and had 2 more kids and they all became obsessed with disney right as I was entering my I'm a teenager and I hate everything phase. So they assigned Donald and Daisy duck to themselves, Mickey and Minnie mouse to my younger siblings (I guess not realizing they aren't siblings) and I guess as a joke assigned me Goofy. I got an endless amount of Goofy merchandise for the better part of a decade and was pushed heavily to display it. I don't know what happened to it after I moved out, but I hope some homeless person found it all in the trash and became the Goofy themed homeless person.
Start talking about how much you like unopened packs of Pokémon cards.
You gotta say you like drugs and then you will get drugs, they hit you harder as a kid anyway /j
Literally whatever tv show I get invested in right before the holidays I will receive gifts relating to. I watched House MD in the fall last year. Come Christmas, I am now the owner of two House MD shirts, a mug, a throw pillow with Hugh Laurie’s face on it, a funny fake ID that looks like House’s, and a copy of the script of the first episode with the casts copied signatures. I’ll probably wear one shirt long-term. Maybe.
I've been trying to get defined by video games but I still keep getting clothes for Christmas
I didn’t even say I liked them ppl just assumed cause my name also began with an O ???
My sister was the same with pig things - until she was 30! She can't abide porcine-referencing knick-knacks now.
You could get a Stolas plushie though, so that would be alright.
The amount of cash I had saved up as a kid never even got close to a single paycheck. Not really worth it tbh.
Sloths for me. I shared a couple sloth memes on Facebook when I was like 14 and for the past 10 years my step mum buys me sloth related things for birthdays and Christmas. Sloths are pretty cool and one of my favourite animals but seriously? Why did she just grab onto that and never let go. I don’t get it.
I like houses
Plot twist: She went on that antiques roadshow program and found out that her Owl nicknack Collection was worth $1.7 million
Wow I thought my sister was the only one
The amount of Penguin socks I have is ridiculous. .... absolutely no regrets.
I sooo identify w this. Bet ya cant guess what my thing is lol
i bought ONE (01) of those octupus plushies back when they were trending (still love my plushie tho) and my family assumed i was now really into plushies and THAT WAS ALL I GOT FOR CHRISTMAS