'the Tired Parents' thing - is it me?

[JackandDiane]

or is it just rather odd and not at all funny

Yes, the videos do look great. Maybe with some tweaking?

When our kids were little, my DP and I used to get quite competitive over which of us was more tired and why, citing examples of broken sleep, how much we had done in the day, how early we got up and so on. (I'm probably missing the point of this thread)

i didnt like it... i thought it was stupid and patronising.

but then i have a child with ASD, so i'm somewhat precious about parents who moan they're tired when i've been surviving on 3hrs sleep a night for the last 9 years...

I just want to smack them both in the face

Yes, competitive tiredness does crop up occasionally with me and DH. But it's more just a fleeting 'god i'm knackered'. 'Yes, so am i AND i stubbed my toe' ... sort of stuff.

However, both of those video characters are just as annoying and petty as the other and they don't resonate with me at all. For that reason i find watching them boring and even uncomfortable. Like watching a couple who are coming close to divorce bickering.

I found the resolutions one really horrible. Who are we meant to identify with? The passive aggressive one or the one who lets the shopping rot?

I thought one of them was Simon Pegg.
But it's not.
I don't find them funny at all. And I am right in the middle of non-sleeping baby. They just seem very stilted and complaining.

Well l certainly didn't know tired until I had kids! I averaged about 2 hours a night for the 1st week, I was literally pulling my hair out and hysterical. After that it upped to maybe 4 hours a night, split into several sections, and that went on for a few months. He was a screamer who was tongue tied so couldn't breastfeed but it wasn't noticed by midwives until he was 5 days old, despite me being in hospital, so he was starving and lost 12oz in that time. I am probably guilty of saying that very same thing to people on occasion, but when sleep is all you can think of you get a bit obsessed.
I don't think its patronising, more jealousy of other people who still have their lives when your life is full of nappies and screaming and the inability to have a shower on your own.

I've just semi-watched a couple of them. You're right not funny at all. Just several episodes of two men, that look like dolls, moaning for 2 minutes!

Lol. Many people are missing what this is about!

It's about the little animations on here, called Tired Parents.

I'm totally with you.

Actually, I seem to be the only one to remember the thread a wife of one of the men in the video (the redhaired one) posted last year - she was fed up with him spending hours on stupid videos and posted one of them on here. It was shot down in flames for being shit, and unbelievably sexist. I think it was a cover of Beyonce's 'If I Was a Boy' but with shitty misogynistic lyrics sung by a bearded doll. It's definitely the same bloke.

People seem to be lapping it up though

This is the thread. Though it seems he's deleted the video.

Don't find them funny in the slightest. I am in the middle of the tired years and I found them patronising.

Very tedious. They've clearly watched a bit of Boosh and This is Jinsey and lean heavily on those. Nothing that hasn't been blogged about thousands of times before, nothing new to add to the conversation. And horrendously passive-aggressive

I am glad someone else feels the same. I like the idea of the puppets and how it looks but in relation to the content I just want to say LTB. And I never say that in RL.

That's interesting, Mavis. I wonder if mnhq had clocked that and asked him if he was the op before commissioning this series? I'd have all sorts of ethical concerns about forking out cash to a dude who had stated his wife was talking crap as usual, and dissed mn in the process, without even considering whether the project was crap or not. (It is. A bit. A couple of quotes were mildly amusing. But generally it's a bit lame.)

Yes, I did wonder if they'd made the connection.

And if it was commissioned especially for mumsnet or what, who approached who?

Weird.

I wouldn't have looked at them unless I wanted to find out what this thread was about. Didn't like them at all. Not funny and just a bit shit really.

I remember the bearded doll thread Mavis. It was excruciatingly awful. Well spotted if it's the same bloke!

Here's his old youtube channel, it's definitely him!

It's you. Of course it's you. Nothing is ever funny or not funny. Something is always funny or not funny to you.

(Are there really people who get to adulthood without realising this?)

#handbag

A little bit depressing and creepy.

Totally agree, they're so boring- I haven't made it to the end of a single one

JackandDiane, you are the voice of reason so definitely NBU. It's a bit crap IMO. I thought it would be bad form to say it on the other thread promoting it so am pleased I'm not alone!