#grown-up — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #grown-up, aggregated by home.social.
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I think grown-ups just act like they know what they’re doing.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1991-02-18)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/81972…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #adult #comprehension #facade #grownup #pretending #pretense #understanding
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El lado del mal - Grown-up Mode de ChatGPT: Podrá ser utilizado para Gore y Erotismo https://www.elladodelmal.com/2025/10/grown-up-mode-de-chatgpt-podra-ser.html #chatgpt #GPT #IA #AI #GrownUp #InteligenciaArtificial #ArtificialIntelligence #Gore #Erotica
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A quotation from Terrance Dicks
SARAH JANE: Doctor, you’re being childish!
THE DOCTOR: Well, of course I am! There’s no point in being grown-up if you can’t be childish sometimes.Terrance Dicks (1935-2019) English screenwriter, author [pseud. Robin Bland]
Doctor Who (1963), 12×01 “Robot,” Part 4 (1975-01-18)More info about this quote: wist.info/dicks-terrance/4643/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrancedicks #doctorwho #fourthdoctor #adult #childishness #growingup #grownup #immaturity #maturity
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: How come grown-ups don’t go out to play?
CALVIN’S DAD: Grown-ups can only justify playing outside by calling it exercise, doing it when they’d rather not, and keeping records to quantify their performance.
CALVIN: That sounds like a job.
CALVIN’S DAD: … Except you don’t get paid.
CALVIN: So play is worse than work?
CALVIN’S DAD: Being a grown-up is tough.Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1995-05-09)More info about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/79243…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #adult #exercise #fun #grownup #hardwork #maturity #play #work #recreation #labor
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Your #kids are all #grownup. But what does being an '#emptynester' mean in 2025?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/07/08/empty-nest-parenting-stories-tips/82689499007/
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How can I get out of all these boring household tasks?
Dear Jane, my parents keep giving me loads of chores to do and saying something about “responsibility” and “being a grown-up”. I mean, what are they on about? I only just turned 30. How can I get out of all these boring household tasks?
Unhappy from Hampton
Oh my poor beleaguered buttered scone of injustice!
How dare your parents suggest you take on responsibilities simply because you’ve reached the tender and innocent age of thirty?! Why, you’re practically still in the larval stage of adulthood, just barely crawling out of your sock drawer of self-discovery!
Let me tell you, chores are a vicious rumour spread by people who don’t own enough decorative hats. I once avoided all housework for seventeen consecutive years by pretending I was allergic to dust, soap, and effort. It worked marvellously, until I was eventually mistaken for a long-lost Victorian ghost and exorcised from my own kitchen.
Now, here’s my expert advice for dodging every chore ever:
- Invent a fake PhD in “Domestic Aversion Syndrome.” Tell them you’re part of a long-term study that forbids vacuuming due to potential sock displacement trauma.
- Hide in the laundry basket. They’ll never think to look for you there—especially if you blend in by wearing nothing but unpaired socks and a tea towel turban.
- Fake extreme hat-related injuries. “Oh no! My feathered fez slipped and I twisted my dishwashing instincts!”
- Train a squirrel to do your chores. Failing that, just blame everything on the squirrel. “Why didn’t you do the dishes?” “Because Reginald chewed through the sponge, obviously.”
- Write them a strongly worded note in icing. I’ve found that cakes with messages like “Responsibility Is a Conspiracy” or “Let Me Nap, I’m Thirty” are both delicious and persuasive.
And finally, for full escape velocity, I recommend my bestselling guidebook “Grown-Ups Are a Myth: Escaping Adulthood With Grace and Cupcakes.” It pairs beautifully with “Avoidance Through Sock Puppetry” and the ever-popular “Ten Reasons I Can’t Hoover (Allergies, Ghosts, and General Vibes).”
So pop on your most distracting hat, declare yourself emotionally fragile, and lock yourself in the loo with a nice hot pot of prune juice until the laundry folds itself or they give up entirely.
Irresponsibly yours,
Lady Jane Sillybottom
Author, Hat Philosopher, Sock Whisperer, and Domestic Avoidance Specialist#chores #grownUp #housework #larvalStageOfAdulthood #ResponsibilityIsAConspiracy #skiving
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After watching the #AARP's 2025 #MoviesForGrownUps Award show, I was also pleased to learned that I had watched almost every movie nominated for an a #GrownUp award (directly or indirectly), excluding TV shows which I do not watch as broadly :
These movies included:
Babygirl
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator 2
The Last Showgirl
Nickel Boys
The Order
Queer
September 5
The Substance
Super/man: The Christopher Reeve Story
WickedThe only exceptions were:
Emilia Perez (which I'm going to watch tomorrow)
Hard Truths (which I plan to stream)
Sing Sing (which I'm streaming now)
Thelma (that I just streamed)I've watched many other movies than these in the past year but I view the fact that I've watch so many of them mentioned on AARP's MFGU award show as a measure the quality of the movies that I choose to watch. 😎
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@volkskrant Deed ik ook weleens, weglopen als het lastig werd.
Maar toen werd ik volwassen, en leerde dat mijn acties consequenties hebben.
Sindsdien denk ik meestal goed na, voordat ik belangrijke beslissingen neem. -
#GrownUp hack: every time you buy a new hardware thing, search for a pdf version of the manual. Store it on your disk with a filename that you can easily search for.
Next time you have a problem with that thing, you won’t need to search for that small paper printout in font size 4 😅.
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The #AngryOrangeWotsit is going to have to be a #GrownUp about #IT and #GoToPrison for a #VeryVeryLongTime...
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#ThomasNewman: Shawshank Prison - Stoic Theme
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The band’s facebook messenger chat page is exploding right now. We’re trying to get all four of us into a room together and it’s proving to be more difficult than ever before. Our traditional 6pm on Sunday rehearsal time is not doable. We’re waffling back and forth between earlier on Sundays and after work on Thursdays. Thursdays appear to be in the lead at the moment.
Scheduling things is difficult. Was it this hard to do when we were kids? Is this an adult thing? Is it a middle aged adult thing? It’s tough to say. Sometimes acting like a grown up sucks, but what can you do? The alternative (not being a grown up) is probably worse.
Okay. We’re booked for Thursday. I put it on my Google Calendar. It is officially set in stone now. Or something like that.
https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/08/02/scheduling-things-is-difficult/
#adult #adulthood #adulting #BandPractice #beingAGrownUp #calendar #CoverBand #grownUp #lizardfish #makingPlans #Music #plans #schedule #time
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It has been a busy six months.
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"...Texas, a part of the United States that #Alberta hardly resembles at all. In reality, what Texas resembles is #Canada. It has more than 30 million people, plenty of #tidewater, a #grownup #economy that involves more than #resource #extraction, and a rough split between #progressive-minded and #conservative folk (Republican for the time being but with demographics inexorably marching toward a Democratic Party majority)."
#abpoli
https://albertapolitics.ca/2024/04/planned-provincial-police-to-be-called-alberta-rangers-brace-yourselves-for-more-conservative-cowboy-cosplay -
When my mom asked me what I wanted for my 44th birthday, I said face cream with sunblock. #Grownup
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#Yes... #IKnowRight...
I've #GrownUp to: #BecomeCervantesDeLeón...
#IT wasn't #Deliberate; #IT #JustHappened...
I #DefinitelyNeed a #ParticularlyFancyHat...
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The thing that always gets me about #Trump is that, despite being a #narcissist and arguably a #sociopath, he is exceedingly concerned about not just his #reputation, but his #popularity.
He thinks his strongest #attacks are when he points to one of his imagined #foes and shows how he is doing better in some random #poll than his would-be dragon slayer.
I have #never seen someone so absolutely #obsessed with being #popular.
And I did 4 years of high school.
