You sweet summer child

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AIBU to feel absolutely fucking murderous when people say this?

Op, you're wrong. Several people are telling you. Give up or keep doubling down 😂😂

I have never heard the phrase.ibthought the thread was going to be about kids born in Summer being too young for reception!

They can tell me the moon is made of cheese. Doesn’t make a blind bit of difference. If it was commonly used before then, there should be plenty of examples? And yet we’re on Victorian poetry with a different meaning.

Isn’t it “oh my sweet summer child”?

The thing is, like any expression of this nature, one that’s condescending in nature, using it doesn’t necessarily mean the person saying it is wiser! They’ve just cottoned on to an expression to use to put others down.

That said, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say it in real life. Perhaps I’ve seen it on here.

Ha, so you have not heard of it so it must be bollocks. Ok.

You know that phenomenon where people are said to not change their opinion even when presented with facts that show they are wrong

yeah

that

You do you hun. Get a life. Move on. Get your ducks in a row. Bless. Are you OK?

#joking.

YANBU, 'oh you sweet summer child' is a bit patronising.... but I don't find it too offensive. It's just saying 'you're quite naive aren't ya?!'

Do people say it to you quite a lot, OP?

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Christ on a bike. Time for bed said Zebedee. That's you OP - not me or anyone else here trying desperately to educate you.

That’s exactly what irritates me so much. They’ve just cottoned on to it. Just like ‘he’s just not that into you’. Which they’ve also got from a TV show.

It really has.

It might be when 'everyone' started using it, but the older poetic uses did mean 'innocent' 'naive' etc. Which morphed into being a put down in GoT.

I have heard it all my long life meaning innocent in the sense of not knowing about bad things, or thinking the best.

It's an evolution.

I’ve only seen it used on here. Patronising and irritating.

If you can find some evidence of it being in common usage prior to Game of Thrones please do share it. It should be easy either way all the internet forums that predates the show, including this one. Yet there’s not a trace of it before 2010.

I haven’t bee presented with a single fact. Happy to be shown sources, of which there must be plenty, showing how wrong I am and that it was being said in 2008.

There wont be online evidence from 1840s etc for a very obvious reason.

Please, any sources at all? You must be able to rustle up thousands of examples of it being used?

There have been 180 years between 1840 and now. Did it stop being used in 1840, all evidence gone, and spring up again in the last 10 years because that’s when Game of Thrones aired?

I think it often … try not to say it 😂

Someone posted at 10:15pm saying they’re 57 and heard it used during their childhood.

Case closed

Fucking hell... you are just reinforcing the very phrase you are annoyed about.

My gran used to call my sibling (born in May) her “sweet summer child” when she was naive/daft about something. I understand it to - originally - mean a person who has never experienced the harsh realities of winter, due to only knowing summer, but has been adapted over time to be basically, ha, just you wait! eg my darling angel puppy I have had for one day is SO well behaved…

This. It’s sort of like bless you kiddo… I hope life never proves that wrong for you.

I actually like the expression - I first heard it from a good friend, makes me smile remembering.