Man Child

HazDanz · 10-05-2014 11:59PM #1

Has anyone been in contact with one? I feel I have.

I live with a 28 year old man who has the self awareness of a five year old. This is his background....

He has flooded and damaged in the space of 5 months our flat (and downstairs flat) twice by leaving the tap on in the morning before work in the kitchen. I wondered into the kitchen last night to find once again the tap running unattended.

He has this knack for leaving lights on constantly, never throws out his gone off food from the fridge. He has an uncanny ability to smear all surfaces in cooking oil whilst whipping up any dish. He also washes up but has an amazing ability to make things dirtier than when he set out.

This evening I found a burning smell wafting into my room I ventured out to find the hall/kitchen full of smoke and a pot of food burnt to a crisp. I had to clean up after him and he managed to jar the window in the kitchen too so it is stuck open now. I may get my DIY kit out as he simply will not do it himself.

I feel like I have a kid of my own to look after and it's all a little bizarre as what I live with is definitely a fully grown man.

Has anyone else experienced such a person before?

Shakespeare's Sister · 11-05-2014 12:01AM

Loads (male and female) and far older than 28! The generations born from about the mid '70s on have a lot of very infantilised members.

Samsgirl · 11-05-2014 12:01AM

HazDanz wrote: »

Has anyone been in contact with one? I feel I have.

I live with a 28 year old man who has the self awareness of a five year old. This is his background....

He has flooded and damaged in the space of 5 months our flat (and downstairs flat) twice by leaving the tap on in the morning before work in the kitchen. I wondered into the kitchen last night to find once again the tap running unattended.

He has this knack for leaving lights on constantly, never throws out his gone off food from the fridge. He has an uncanny ability to smear all surfaces in cooking oil whilst whipping up any dish. He also washes up but has an amazing ability to make things dirtier than when he set out.

This evening I found a burning smell wafting into my room I ventured out to find the hall/kitchen full of smoke and a pot of food burnt to a crisp. I had to clean up after him and he managed to jar the window in the kitchen too so it is stuck open now. I may get my DIY kit out as he simply will not do it himself.

I feel like I have a kid of my own to look after and it's all a little bizarre as what I live with is definitely a fully grown man.

Has anyone else experienced such a person before?

Im married to one

stefan idiot jones · 11-05-2014 12:03AM

What ever happened to in sickness or in health, for richer or poorer or if an incompetent buffoon?

Lucifer MorningStar · 11-05-2014 12:06AM

Sounds like he must be man bear pigs offspring

Neyite · 11-05-2014 12:06AM

Maybe he actually a clever assassin and is trying to kill you op. Making it look like a tragic household accident, like.

lynski · 11-05-2014 12:08AM

If it is your flat mate: move, boyfriend: move, husband: train or move.

HazDanz · 11-05-2014 12:09AM

Neyite wrote: »

Maybe he actually a clever assassin and is trying to kill you op. Making it look like a tragic household accident, like.

His gone off yoghurts nearly got me last week in fairness.

Tail Docker · 11-05-2014 12:10AM

Have you tried hitting him hard after he cocks-up? In severe cases, pain can be the only stimulus that cuts through all barriers. Tap still running? WHACK! Pot burnt to a crisp? WHACK! Six days or so, should be grand.

HazDanz · 11-05-2014 12:10AM

lynski wrote: »

If it is your flat mate: move, boyfriend: move, husband: train or move.

Aye lease is up next month. Moving out then. Nice lad just shocking to live with.

kylith · 11-05-2014 12:12AM

Have you, at any point, tried telling him to cop the fúck on, grow the fúck up, and sort himself the fúck out?

HazDanz · 11-05-2014 12:13AM

Tail Docker wrote: »

Have you tried hitting him hard after he cocks-up? In severe cases, pain can be the only stimulus that cuts through all barriers. Tap still running? WHACK! Pot burnt to a crisp? WHACK! Six days or so, should be grand.

I might get carried away with that idea.

bee06 · 11-05-2014 12:13AM

To be honest calling him a man child is an insult to children. Children learn from this mistakes which isn't the case with this guy. He's just a plonker who has spent his entire life having people clean up after him and bail him out.

HazDanz · 11-05-2014 12:14AM

kylith wrote: »

Have you, at any point, tried telling him to cop the fúck on, grow the fúck up, and sort himself the fúck out?

Yep. I'm straight with him on this stuff but he just gets stroppy and to be frank childish. Hence a man child.

HazDanz · 11-05-2014 12:15AM

bee06 wrote: »

To be honest calling him a man child is an insult to children. Children learn from this mistakes which isn't the case with this guy. He's just a plonker who has spent his entire life having people clean up after him and bail him out.

Good point!

Legs.Eleven · 11-05-2014 12:17AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ9VBMBS3qE

Cantona's Collars · 11-05-2014 12:20AM

bee06 wrote: »

To be honest calling him a man child is an insult to children. Children learn from this mistakes which isn't the case with this guy. He's just a plonker who has spent his entire life having people clean up after him and bail him out.

Sounds like one of my workmates,he's made up of a mixture of stupidity,laziness and a complete lack of common sense and manners.

Shakespeare's Sister · 11-05-2014 12:28AM

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

What ever happened to in sickness or in health, for richer or poorer or if an incompetent buffoon?

It's "In richness and in poorness."

HalloweenJack · 11-05-2014 12:33AM

Magaggie wrote: »

It's "In richness and in poorness."

Poorness is underlined.

wretcheddomain · 11-05-2014 12:37AM

Magaggie wrote: »

Loads (male and female) and far older than 28! The generations born from about the mid '70s on have a lot of very infantilised members.

This is very true - the generation born from mid-70's to mid-80's unfortunately have a sizeable group of what are known as "partial adults".

They refuse to take responsibility for their life and forever don't mind being under the wing of someone else.

An absolutely sickening slice of society that I hold beneath contempt.

Legs.Eleven · 11-05-2014 12:49AM

wretcheddomain wrote: »

This is very true - the generation born from mid-70's to mid-80's unfortunately have a sizeable group of what are known as "partial adults".

They refuse to take responsibility for their life and forever don't mind being under the wing of someone else.

An absolutely sickening slice of society that I hold beneath contempt.

Jaysus.

Did you ever think you'd reach the day when you'd talk like this?

"In my day people wore cornflakes boxes (Dunnes own brand) as clothes and carried a brick as a handbag they were so poor bla blah blah..."

Wacker The Attacker · 11-05-2014 01:02AM

Can you hear him ****?

If so, I'd be worried

_Redzer_ · 11-05-2014 01:26AM

Tail Docker wrote: »

Have you tried hitting him hard after he cocks-up? In severe cases, pain can be the only stimulus that cuts through all barriers. Tap still running? WHACK! Pot burnt to a crisp? WHACK! Six days or so, should be grand.

I like this guy

Chucken · 11-05-2014 02:36AM

wretcheddomain wrote: »

This is very true - the generation born from mid-70's to mid-80's unfortunately have a sizeable group of what are known as "partial adults".

They refuse to take responsibility for their life and forever don't mind being under the wing of someone else.

An absolutely sickening slice of society that I hold beneath contempt.

I have one, born 1969, I think he got under the radar

WilyCoyote · 11-05-2014 03:53AM

Chucken wrote: »

I have one, born 1969, I think he got under the radar

I'll tell him what you said. Unless you keep sending me the Lyons Tea

may contain tealeaves

DEFTLEFTHAND · 11-05-2014 05:07AM

The 'old country psyche' as they say in the States. The Irish lads had their mothers do all their household chores and then when they got married their wife took over, but she'd never be as good at it as the mammy, hence the disgruntled ape and the tutting mother in law.

Arthur Beesley · 11-05-2014 07:51AM

We haven't heard the flat mates side of the story. For all we know the OP could be a clean freak obsessive compulsive.

How do we even know that it wasn't the OP that left the top running?

singledad80 · 11-05-2014 09:12AM

The problem now a days we have a generation of adults that grow up in the Celtic tiger year's, where mothers and fathers where out drinking living in the good times and forget to look after their kids teaching them how to cook clean and look after them self's it was easy to buy curry's easy to send them out for the day by giving them money and when your busy working and living you don't really pay attention to what kids where doing, now not saying all parents did it but most did. In my job I work a lot with young people coming into the job and they cant even tie laces and wearing tracksuits to interviews.

fleet_admiral · 11-05-2014 09:14AM

Tail Docker wrote: »

Have you tried hitting him hard after he cocks-up? In severe cases, pain can be the only stimulus that cuts through all barriers. Tap still running? WHACK! Pot burnt to a crisp? WHACK! Six days or so, should be grand.

would you recommend the same if the lazy person was a woman?

mfceiling · 11-05-2014 09:14AM

Magaggie wrote: »

Loads (male and female) and far older than 28! The generations born from about the mid '70s on have a lot of very infantilised members.

You'll find that it's actually the mid 80's...

tritium · 11-05-2014 09:38AM

wretcheddomain wrote: »

This is very true - the generation born from mid-70's to mid-80's unfortunately have a sizeable group of what are known as "partial adults".

They refuse to take responsibility for their life and forever don't mind being under the wing of someone else.

An absolutely sickening slice of society that I hold beneath contempt.

And yet strangely its the generation prior to them that have managed to fcuk up the country at least twice and now expect that generation to pay for the mistake....;)

You want a man child couple looking for others to blame for their mistakes- I offer you Sean dunne and Gayle kililea as prime examples

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