Infantilisation

[MoonDust]

I'm beginning to think maybe I should just pretend I've never read or watched Harry Potter because the amount of times grown adults ask me "so you know that thing in Harry Potter where..." And I say "yes" the conversation steers towards them assuming I'm a Harry Potter fan now. I answer yes because true, I've read and watched Harry Potter, but back when I was a child then teenager. It was a thing for my generation, so yes, I've heard of whatever Potter thing you're referencing.

But no, they assume because I remember my childhood I must still be trapped in it now, in my late 20s.

But never tell an adult Potter fan it's for kids. If looks could kill....

[Bobtoo]

When did all this start, and who started it? I'm going to nominate Numatic, for introducing the Henry vacuum cleaner in 1981.

[Icehaven]

When did all this start, and who started it? I'm going to nominate Numatic, for introducing the Henry vacuum cleaner in 1981.

I'd go much further back and blame Disney, they've been anthropomorphising inanimate objects, over-cutefying animals and somehow appealing far too much to kidults with arrested development for nearly a century now.

[monkfromhavana]

I'm beginning to think maybe I should just pretend I've never read or watched Harry Potter because the amount of times grown adults ask me "so you know that thing in Harry Potter where..." And I say "yes" the conversation steers towards them assuming I'm a Harry Potter fan now. I answer yes because true, I've read and watched Harry Potter, but back when I was a child then teenager. It was a thing for my generation, so yes, I've heard of whatever Potter thing you're referencing.

But no, they assume because I remember my childhood I must still be trapped in it now, in my late 20s.

But never tell an adult Potter fan it's for kids. If looks could kill....

My girlfriend is a Potter fan (i know, i know) and we went to the rammed Harry Potter shop at King's Cross station. I told her I'd just stand in one place whilst she looked for a mug, only for a middle-aged woman to wheel around at me and say very earnestly "No, no, you MUST look at everything".

[Sebastian Cobb]

When did all this start, and who started it? I'm going to nominate Numatic, for introducing the Henry vacuum cleaner in 1981.

Mate, don't be dissing Henry.

They actually make them without the faces as well, for people who are dead inside.

[yesitsme]

When did all this start, and who started it? I'm going to nominate Numatic, for introducing the Henry vacuum cleaner in 1981.

I will say the amount of adverts for hoovers has reached peak hoover advert point.  Seems like everyone is getting in on the suckie uppie act.  Is there some sort of tax break for vacuum tycoons?

I like Henry, he's the eff-you to all the R+D Dyson does.

Dyson spends billions on cordless, cyclonic, dust control, digital cleaning devices.
Henry spend 4p on a couple of googly eye stickers.

I must admit if I have to hoover up some glass I feel sorry for Henry, all those shards hitting him in the back of the throat poor chap.

Henrietta (Is that how you spell it?  I can honestly say I don't think I've ever seen that name written down before) is rubbish though.  We had one once, never again.

Does that make me a mysuctionist?

[buttgammon]

When did all this start, and who started it? I'm going to nominate Numatic, for introducing the Henry vacuum cleaner in 1981.

They had one of these in my primary school and even at the age of 7 or 8, I assumed it was a special model designed to be child-friendly. I bet it wasn't packaged in a box that proclaimed it "the bestest most awesomest cleany-weany-machiney in the whole wide world the end" though.

[Icehaven]

My girlfriend is a Potter fan (i know, i know) and we went to the rammed Harry Potter shop at King's Cross station. I told her I'd just stand in one place whilst she looked for a mug, only for a middle-aged woman to wheel around at me and say very earnestly "No, no, you MUST look at everything".

Please tell me you quipped appropriately.

[Blumf]

Now we're on to Henry vacuum cleaners, check out this Hetty range review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd28AILNe_s

[Dex Sawash]

Now we're on to Henry vacuum cleaners, check out this Hetty range review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd28AILNe_s

Day's karma to anyone who makes it the full fifteen minutes, I only got to a minute fifteen.

[Flouncer]

Day's karma to anyone who makes it the full fifteen minutes, I only got to a minute fifteen.

Me and my girlfriend watched it all the way through and we came to the conclusion that he's a fucking freak with bizarre sexual proclivities that almost certainly involve him sticking his cock into the orifices of anthropomorphic cleaning appliances.

[Huxleys Babkins]

Now we're on to Henry vacuum cleaners, check out this Hetty range review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd28AILNe_s

I've always liked Henry. You can remove the face on the newer models but I'd never dare to. Imagine having a job as soul destroying as office cleaning, no fucker about to talk to, taking home minimum wage or worse. To open that cupboard and see his big red face beaming out at you like the son you never had would fill my heart with joy.

[momatt]

Me and my girlfriend watched it all the way through and we came to the conclusion that he's a fucking freak with bizarre sexual proclivities that almost certainly involve him sticking his cock into the orifices of anthropomorphic cleaning appliances.

What else are you supposed to do with them?

[steve98]

That was fucking torturous.

[bgmnts]

"Hetty suck fest"

Say no more.

[Fambo Number Mive]

He does say "I made this video specially for the younger vacuum fans"

[BlodwynPig]

"Hetty suck fest"

Say no more.

5 middle-aged men in a bungalow filmed being sucked off by various sized Hetty's simultaneously?

[Uncle TechTip]

I've always liked Henry. You can remove the face on the newer models but I'd never dare to. Imagine having a job as soul destroying as office cleaning, no fucker about to talk to, taking home minimum wage or worse. To open that cupboard and see his big red face beaming out at you like the son you never had would fill my heart with joy.

Presumably you're doing a bit as you could argue that some people get the same joy out of an amusingly written list of ingredients and thus what is the point of this thread.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Tell you what I don't like, right, instruction pamphlets where you need to wait for some electronic gubbins to do stuff and sort itself out and the pamphlet comes accross all colloquial, 'sit tight! have a brew!'.

Fuck you virgin media, I'll have a 'brew' on my own terms, thank you very much.

[MoonDust]

Now we're on to Henry vacuum cleaners, check out this Hetty range review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd28AILNe_s

Woah woah woah. Hold the fucking door. Is the black top half of Henry/Hetty Hoover supposed to be a bowlers hat? When he takes the plush Hetty out and I saw it my mind did this: "the plush Hetty looks like it's wearing a bowlers hat.... wait.... woooaaah" and then I didn't know whether to post here or go into he obvious things you've only just realise thread.

I need a minute.

[Depressed Beyond Tables]

5 middle-aged men in a bungalow filmed being sucked off by various sized Hetty's simultaneously?

[BlodwynPig]

One of the fellows calls over to Depressed Beyond Tables (shellshocked in the corner) "pull up a stool, sonny, their's a mini-Hetty we've fixed up 'specially for you".

[buzby]

Me and my girlfriend watched it all the way through and we came to the conclusion that he's a fucking freak with bizarre sexual proclivities that almost certainly involve him sticking his cock into the orifices of anthropomorphic cleaning appliances.

iI'm led to believe that there is a British amateur porn actress (K**** H***) who is 'very attached' (in both senses of the word) to her Henry.

[kittens]

"a bowlers hat"?

[Blumf]

a British amateur porn actress (K**** H***)

Katie Hopkins?

[RedRevolver]

I can't believe the WPP monster is over a year old.

Happy belated birthday, Workie, you fucking cunt.

[Sebastian Cobb]

It's like they asked the work experience kid to photoshop a load of dreamworks characters together.

[the]

I think it's quite an agreeable character design, even though it is clearly the mid-point between Totoro and a Furby.

iI'm led to believe that there is a British amateur porn actress (K**** H***) who is 'very attached' (in both senses of the word) to her Henry.

I wonder if she's ever had recourse to use the phrase "he had a bellend like Henry's bowler".

[Huxleys Babkins]

Presumably you're doing a bit as you could argue that some people get the same joy out of an amusingly written list of ingredients and thus what is the point of this thread.

Does this list of ingredients have a face?

[Norton Canes]

OK, I know it's walking alpacas... but really?