To want to inflict harm on all of the Mr Men

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DS 4 is obsessed with Mr Men books. Absolutely obsessed but it's getting to the point where I want to stab my eyes out just so I don't have to read another bloody one.

Why are they all so bloody smug?
Why is everything 'extraordinarily'?
Why does Mr Happy regularly pop up to be, quite frankly, a bit of a parsimonious prick?
WHY ARE THEY SO LONG?

I can't take it anymore. Please tell me I'm not the only one that wants to drop kick Mr Happy for being so bastarding passive aggressive?

I think I need a gin

Meh. They're just kids' books.

I'll squeeze the lime for your g+t

😂 I remember when ds (now 23!) went through a Mr Men phase and at first I was all nostalgic remembering them fondly from childhood. Then I was like WTF? These are utter shite- drivel and bollocks. The only good part was that even ds found them quite
Dull and they put him to sleep most nights without me needing to reach the end!!!
YANBU

Not Mr Tickle, surely?

I think someone already has on Mr Bump!

The Mr Men books are ace! (Or at least they were when I last read one 15 years ago!) YABU

Mr Tickle should be locked up.

Mr Tickle is an arsehole who needs to learn some personal boundaries

I know I know they're just kids books BUT they are so tedious

At least they're short, very few words per page, unlike that flippin,' Tank Engine.

I quite like Mr Men books, I like the one liners on the last page, but you must have a very advanced 4yo if he gets the joke, mine never did.

@LEELULUMPKIN you can't prove anything, I've got an alibi...

Ahh, those were the days.

I used to get Mr Grumpy's book out when DH came home from work shattered to four bouncing DC if needed. It rarely was, bless him.

Mr Jelly is the worst of the books, as I remember.

They sometimes still make sense even if you just read every other sentence

I hate those overly long and boring books. Hate. HATE.

Only the Little Miss books are worse. The stereotypes make me stabby.

YANBU but I am agreeing with you as I had to read Mr Perfect tonight.

Oh they are so very, very long. I used to try to skip pages but DS, now with a baby DS of his own, knew them off by heart and I couldn’t get away with it.

I will, of course, buy DGS a full box set in a couple of years.

Look on the bright side, they will eventually outgrow them.

Meanwhile here at lumpkin towers DS 15 still torments me with both Mr Men AND Thomas the bleedin Tank.

He has SLD and adores them both still.

They are both my chosen specialised subject should I ever find myself on Mastermind!

Read Little Miss Splendid - she lords it over Mr Happy at the bus stop, then can’t fit in the cab home because of her glorious new hat, so gets soaked on the walk home, while Mr Happy laughs from the bus. A fine moral lesson, you might think, except she doesn’t even notice, and just has a bath in her gold bathtub and cheers right up. Living her best life!

I liked them as a child.

Disliked reading them to kids

Hated the bloody things when one became obsessed with them. Gin definitely required!!

DS had them as his anti anxiety books for years.
I bloody detest them now.
But they were very relaxing for him.

@WiseUpJanetWeiss

Oh they are so very, very long. I used to try to skip pages but DS, now with a baby DS of his own, knew them off by heart and I couldn’t get away with it.

I will, of course, buy DGS a full box set in a couple of years.

No don't buy a whole box!!!

Buy them one at a time so DS IS FORCED to read each one over & over & over.

Those books are the fucking worst.

I binned them one by one when the kids weren't looking.

Piles of nonsensical smug shite.

I feel you. Luckily my dd is too little to read to I can skip lots of text 🤣

Yanbu they hurt my mouth to read! There's no flow to the sentences so I'm looking for a chance to pause and take a breath that isn't there. I loved them as a child so started reading them to DS but I don't even hide the groan I give when he picks one.

Oh God yes! They are awful

@WiseUpJanetWeiss I cannot stress this enough- DO NOT BUY THE BOX. I repeat, that a no go for the full set. Grandparents bought the box for DS and I've been silently cursing them since