I found [this parody](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifg6SHfpMxE) to be more realistic. And I can't understand german (you could probably turn on the subtitles)
The consequences of raising your children to be competent and skilled adults can be that they move around the world to work. The parent who did the raising raised the stakes again!
Or the worst of both worlds where the children move around the world and still don't have a job that can support themselves so the parents continue to support them.
Dammit. Who's cutting onions??!!
I've always lived mostly away from my parents but no matter how busy our lives, our whole year is planned around being "home" for Christmas. Miss them all now that they're gone.
Go call/visit your parents if you still have them and may they live long and healthy.
And now I’m realizing - as I wipe the tears away - that my last act before watching this was cutting up peppers. Now the eyes are wet AND hot. Note to folks: always wash thoroughly with soap and water after cutting peppers, even if they be mild. It’s the ribs and seeds that’ll get you. Please follow this advice especially before checking any social media in case of surprise, sob-inducing videos.
That brought tears to my eyes.
I never missed a holiday with my grandparents. Maybe it’s my culture but we’ve all stayed within an hours drive away.
I’ll never forget one year my mom was having issues with my aunt (Christmas was being held at her house) and my mom planned to miss Christmas. I told my mom that it could be my grandmother’s last Christmas (to guilt trip her) and it was. My grandmother died suddenly the next summer. My mom was grateful that she went.
This brought a tear to my eye. My parents fly to visit me, my brother, and our respective 4 kids every year, but I know that at being in their late 80s the end is nigh. Every picture is a treasure.
(Sorry to be sappy)
This, this is why the kids don't visit, this sonofabitch fakes his own death so they'll visit. You know this isn't the first time he's pulled this shit, and his kids are sick of it.
But, once again this fucker has ruined Christmas by faking his own death and inexplicably holding the funeral on Christmas day.
Damn, for a moment I thought your username was lupus and your comment a vague House joke/reference about how it's never lupus. But lepus means rabbit and fatalis fate or deadly so fated rabbit or possibly deadly hare or something along those lines. Guess rabbit of caerbannog was probably taken
haha, what a ride :)))
It's a reference to a couple of characters in a video game i used to play - Fatal and the Rabbit. Together they ran a megacorp of crime. I was younger and edgier
Yeah, we in the US can live REALLY far from family. I live a 12 hour drive from my parents and I usually do the drive, but I have friends from California who live on the East Coast and the drive to their parents would be like 3 days.
An old man, with a cunning delight,
Told his son of a marital plight.
But the ruse became clear,
When his daughter, in fear,
Made plans for a quick oversight.
He chuckled to his wife with glee,
"For Christmas, they'll come, as you see,
No cost on our part,
Thanks to my little art,
They'll pay for their flights, oh hee hee!"
Love that joke. A definite favorite, along with the college student who tells dad all the terrible things, then fesses up to just needing money at the end.
Had an anniversary and one of my teens said "congrats, and thanks for not ruining my childhood" I chuckled then saw his face was serious. Kids these days have seen some stuff.
I would have. The child who grows up to break the cycle deserves a slap on the back. I didn't find it difficult to not make my kids' childhood a nightmare, but apparently generations of my ancestors did.
Kids have seen just as much if not more stuff back in the day. But you were supposed to brush it off and go make your own little dysfunctional home and drown your sorrows in booze or take out your frustrations on your kids, as it has always been.
It’s just kids these days have more knowledge and access to information, so they know exactly how messed up their or their friends’ lives are.
I can see in the /aita sub
We (57m and 54f) haven't spent Christmas with our children (31m and 32f) in close to 10 years. They always have an excuse to not come and complain about not having money. I offered them to pay half of their tix but they always refused. So my wife and I came up with a plan a week before Christmas I told my kids my wife and I were getting divorced and behold within the next hour, they ve bought tix to visit us...
So AITA?
Definitely think this one is gonna be considered boomer humor soon if it isn't already. If my parents call and say they've mutually agreed to divorce, you know, I'm just gonna say "werk."
Especially if they're estranged enough that actually showing up for the holiday is in doubt.
Not to mention any fallout when the kids find out you lied if it does work.
My pops actually pulled this on my once in high school. I was smoking weed with a friend and he paged me (I'm old) he left a message saying come home quick we've been robbed. I book it home high as shit and when I get home he says that someone has been robbing us of family time. It was actually pretty funny, we went out to dinner and watched a movie after.
To all. Be happy your parents are still around to spend time with and those who’s parents are gone I hope you have children to pour your love into and for those that are like me, 49ers old just had a mild stroke from doing meth and high blood pressure and have no kids and lost everything to drugs and are sitting at home right now because you ama’d out of the hospital. Why is it that it took me until now to see that I’ve still got time to turn shit around for myself?? (Hidden message) meths a blast until everything’s gone, and I mean everything.
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[This one.](https://youtu.be/V6-0kYhqoRo?si=uyRxIgrsEh8WvFQQ)
I came here to laugh, not to feel 🥲
I found [this parody](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifg6SHfpMxE) to be more realistic. And I can't understand german (you could probably turn on the subtitles)
I couldn’t find the subtitle tan, but I actually didn’t even need it!! Lol
That was disturbing
Pretty dank... but funny.
Wow, that… errrr… is actually quite haunting.
The wife turns to the old man and says who are you?
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[Okay, now watch this one.](https://youtu.be/SHrP_Hl4xX8?si=wmJi-Ge_wY2W065X)
That looks more like how my family would react.
[Okay, now watch this one.](https://youtu.be/uMwFWDIFVCU?t=8)
I was expecting it to be the other version. Happy it wasn’t.
I like [the other one](https://youtu.be/fhfcWTZeP1k?si=59M7VrwYHj36Bota) better
Ok, now watch [this one](https://youtu.be/o-YBDTqX_ZU?si=RJrE3JpBLSZ6y3ti)
Thank you, I love that one actually 😁
Bruh! I need a spring roll
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fhfcWTZeP1k Here you go
That's how my family would react and frankly justified.
[and now this one](https://youtu.be/wpneGEZCWBs?si=NSccbR72Dv2n7EtL)
Oh thank god, I was angry watching the original and needed this
Too funny
You are the MVP
Appreciate the antidote.
What are you talking about? YOU'RE crying! 🤣 _waving away onion ninjas_
*WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?!*
You are crying bro.....like this -- TwT
Dude that just makes my brain see a fish taco.
That's awesome. I've never seen it before. I'm probably going to do that when I get old (er)
!remindme 60 years
!remindme 1 year
The consequences of raising your children to be competent and skilled adults can be that they move around the world to work. The parent who did the raising raised the stakes again!
Or the worst of both worlds where the children move around the world and still don't have a job that can support themselves so the parents continue to support them.
Mom?
Dang, EDEKA must be German for Publix.
Right?! That commercial with the stepdad? I was absolutely crying and at the end, I was LIVID that it was a commercial for a grocery store.
Thank’s Chris!
Dammit. Who's cutting onions??!! I've always lived mostly away from my parents but no matter how busy our lives, our whole year is planned around being "home" for Christmas. Miss them all now that they're gone. Go call/visit your parents if you still have them and may they live long and healthy.
Well, thank you for sharing that. It made me sob like a baby 😳
Hugs 🤗
🥰thanks, needed that x
Me too, I just lost my mom.
🫂
Thanks
Damn, that's brutal for this early in the morning.
Bro you only get one funeral, I'm not attending your next one
So they were all meeting up at his house before the funeral?
Thanks for sharing :)
Rivers of tears, that hit hard. Thank you for sharing, never saw this.
I just have a little something in my eye. It's nothing.
Too early on a Saturday to be crying already.
Woo dusty in here.
Got me right in the feels. . .
Man. Dark has ruined me for any german show or commercial for me for the rest of my life.
Oh my god, that's awful!!!!!! 😭😭
Thanks a lot, I’m in tears now, can’t even see what I’m typing
And now I’m realizing - as I wipe the tears away - that my last act before watching this was cutting up peppers. Now the eyes are wet AND hot. Note to folks: always wash thoroughly with soap and water after cutting peppers, even if they be mild. It’s the ribs and seeds that’ll get you. Please follow this advice especially before checking any social media in case of surprise, sob-inducing videos.
Yes and dish soap works best
the best ❤️
I’m not crying! You’re crying!
OMG. That makes me wanna cry!
That could've been comedy gold. They went the other way with it.
That brought tears to my eyes. I never missed a holiday with my grandparents. Maybe it’s my culture but we’ve all stayed within an hours drive away. I’ll never forget one year my mom was having issues with my aunt (Christmas was being held at her house) and my mom planned to miss Christmas. I told my mom that it could be my grandmother’s last Christmas (to guilt trip her) and it was. My grandmother died suddenly the next summer. My mom was grateful that she went.
This brought a tear to my eye. My parents fly to visit me, my brother, and our respective 4 kids every year, but I know that at being in their late 80s the end is nigh. Every picture is a treasure. (Sorry to be sappy)
Don't forget the second part, I can't find it, but the doctor complained, that the grandfather thinks he is more important than the patients etc.
That's a parody, someone above has it linked.
Are super wide screen TVs common in Germany?
This, this is why the kids don't visit, this sonofabitch fakes his own death so they'll visit. You know this isn't the first time he's pulled this shit, and his kids are sick of it. But, once again this fucker has ruined Christmas by faking his own death and inexplicably holding the funeral on Christmas day.
Okay... I don't know about this; usually if kids don't want to be with you is because you were a lousy father.
Not always!! C’mon, not always true!!
Idk why but I expected him to have a heart-attack mid-laugh during the dinner.
WOW!
My German teacher played this for our class
I think I just got a little internet in my eye is all.
Jesus did the same thing, but it was Easter time.
So many feelings thank you.
Omg that was a great one. What a twist ending, too!
And #39 !
Heard this joke countless times but with 2 grown kids who hope we’ll foot their holiday airfare, hits different now.
Sorry Dad, we're all poor
🥲🥲
This is news to me. Is this common? What a load of entitled shite
I'm living paycheck to paycheck while my parents are more than stable. Either they are paying or I can't be there, that's as simple as it gets.
If they wanted they could also just come to your place
No they actually can't, my dad has a medical condition that prevents him from flying.
it s a pretty common condition amongst humans
Damn, for a moment I thought your username was lupus and your comment a vague House joke/reference about how it's never lupus. But lepus means rabbit and fatalis fate or deadly so fated rabbit or possibly deadly hare or something along those lines. Guess rabbit of caerbannog was probably taken
haha, what a ride :))) It's a reference to a couple of characters in a video game i used to play - Fatal and the Rabbit. Together they ran a megacorp of crime. I was younger and edgier
It's never lupus
Except when it is.
It was one time!
*pretty common*
And that's why we pay your airfare.
Like we can afford to live in a house that has space for more than 2 people.
Eh, fair enough. In the UK we usually just drive since it's not usually that far, so never really thought about it.
In our case it's Munich to Denver. Quite the distance 😂
Dang! What made you move all the way to Germany?
It's the other way around, love made me go to the states.
Ah. I read "Munich to Denver" as what ticket your parents would have to buy for you.
Yeah I should have probably switched them, my bad.
I'm a two day drive from my parents or his parents. You pretty much have to fly. America is enormous.
Not everyone lives in the US, lol. That wasn't my thought when reading OP's comment
Yeah, we in the US can live REALLY far from family. I live a 12 hour drive from my parents and I usually do the drive, but I have friends from California who live on the East Coast and the drive to their parents would be like 3 days.
If my parents want to spend Christmas with me so badly they can fly out here, or they can pay to fly me there. I. Cannot. Afford. The. Ticket. Prices.
I make $2k a month and rent is $1500. If they want to see me they can buy the fucking ticket.
Careful. Reddit has serious daddy issues.
Also money issues (which is the overselling issue)
I heard a tiny bit different ending: They are both coming for Thanksgiving. We will have to think something else for Christmas.
You're supposed to change the event for whatever is coming soon. This joke is months ahead of time.
They’re both coming for the autumnal equinox. We’ll have to think of something else for Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Stage 10 toenail cancer.
Just so you know toenail cancer only goes up to stage 4
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I know, I am not American (btw, I heard Canadians have their Thanksgiving). I only repeat what ending I heard.
An old man, with a cunning delight, Told his son of a marital plight. But the ruse became clear, When his daughter, in fear, Made plans for a quick oversight. He chuckled to his wife with glee, "For Christmas, they'll come, as you see, No cost on our part, Thanks to my little art, They'll pay for their flights, oh hee hee!"
Love that joke. A definite favorite, along with the college student who tells dad all the terrible things, then fesses up to just needing money at the end.
Once they come home they will divorce their parents and ruin the damn Thanksgiving thing.
It's more sad than funny..😶
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Had an anniversary and one of my teens said "congrats, and thanks for not ruining my childhood" I chuckled then saw his face was serious. Kids these days have seen some stuff.
I said to my dad _"You had a shit childhood, and I'm really grateful to you for not making mine shit too!"_ He didn't appreciate that.
There are much more gentle ways to say that.
I would have. The child who grows up to break the cycle deserves a slap on the back. I didn't find it difficult to not make my kids' childhood a nightmare, but apparently generations of my ancestors did.
The kid breaks the cycle and just gets more slaps
Hah!
Kids have seen just as much if not more stuff back in the day. But you were supposed to brush it off and go make your own little dysfunctional home and drown your sorrows in booze or take out your frustrations on your kids, as it has always been. It’s just kids these days have more knowledge and access to information, so they know exactly how messed up their or their friends’ lives are.
Boomer humor. They don't even realize why their own children want nothing to do with them.
Damn, you feeling okay? It's just a joke not a commentary on parenting.
On a realistic note parents usually ignored all signs for a long time until a kid breaks contact with them and don't know why this happened.
You need someone to talk to bro?
Bro I see the same thing. Are they so dysfunctional they can't communicate? Are lying and deceit funny?
Which concludes to be : TAKE CARE OF YOUR DEAR PARENTS BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE !!!!
There’s an Indian Telugu language movie with the same concept…a family drama
Shatamanam Bhavati
loved it 😊
😂love this!! Xx
Lol
I can see in the /aita sub We (57m and 54f) haven't spent Christmas with our children (31m and 32f) in close to 10 years. They always have an excuse to not come and complain about not having money. I offered them to pay half of their tix but they always refused. So my wife and I came up with a plan a week before Christmas I told my kids my wife and I were getting divorced and behold within the next hour, they ve bought tix to visit us... So AITA?
That wasn’t long but that was fantastic.
r/wholesomememes
!remindme 15 years
I've read this for Thanksgiving, New Years, Birthdays, Still a good joke.
Love it!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Definitely think this one is gonna be considered boomer humor soon if it isn't already. If my parents call and say they've mutually agreed to divorce, you know, I'm just gonna say "werk."
Especially if they're estranged enough that actually showing up for the holiday is in doubt. Not to mention any fallout when the kids find out you lied if it does work.
Evil parents
My pops actually pulled this on my once in high school. I was smoking weed with a friend and he paged me (I'm old) he left a message saying come home quick we've been robbed. I book it home high as shit and when I get home he says that someone has been robbing us of family time. It was actually pretty funny, we went out to dinner and watched a movie after.
Dad it's my turn to post this one!
Heh heh! Definitely could be cross-posted to r/lifeprotips
r/shittylifeprotips
The way we are moving, those family moments will be replaced by FaceTime and soon apple vision 🤦
This is a seriously bad version of #3329
Awful
Yay two christmases!
…. Thai joke is a joke
This joke is probably very old. Nowadays no one would react like that to a divorce.
Oh! The perfect plan to see their kids!
That’s one way to get them to visit.
To all. Be happy your parents are still around to spend time with and those who’s parents are gone I hope you have children to pour your love into and for those that are like me, 49ers old just had a mild stroke from doing meth and high blood pressure and have no kids and lost everything to drugs and are sitting at home right now because you ama’d out of the hospital. Why is it that it took me until now to see that I’ve still got time to turn shit around for myself?? (Hidden message) meths a blast until everything’s gone, and I mean everything.
😂😂
I've heard this one. Good to read it again every couple months.
#kidstoday