Karis Lambert, a young aunt to twin girls, often takes her nieces on fun outings. One day, she took the eight-year-olds for ice cream, unaware that the prices would shock them. Marnie and Mylah quickly began ranting about the high cost.
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Karis recorded their cute reactions and posted the video on TikTok, where it instantly went viral due to its comedic charm. The video now boasts nearly 11 million views and over 1 million likes. Filmed in a lush green park in Burnley, UK, the girls are seen expressing their frustration over the high ice cream prices.
One of the girls, Marnie, particularly seemed outraged and fumed that the price of two ice creams with chewing gum in them was £9, while in the streets, one ice cream costs nearly £1-£2 pounds.
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"Bloody 9 pounds for two of them!" she raved, "He's gonna get nowhere with that," talking about the ice cream seller in the van.
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The twins’ hilarious take on the rising cost of living picked up more than 24,000 comments on the TikTok. Referencing Marnie’s appearance to Watson, @amiee.louise7 commented, “Poor Hermione didn't get a word in!” Whereas, @02dhaliwal proclaimed, “Even kids know the cost of living crisis!”
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@dayinthelifewithlils asserted “I’m with her on this, I wouldn’t stand for £9 either,” and @katie.lou05 added, “She’s standing her ground.” A TikToker @theepurplelover declared, “She’s the realest. I need her running the United Kingdom!”
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The post didn’t only become popular on TikTok, but on other social media platforms as well. For example, The Manc, a local news publisher, asked the aunt if they could repost her video on their social media channel. Upon confirmation, they posted it on their Facebook page and captioned it, “Even the youngest generation are already fed up with the cost of living crisis!”
Anita Horvath commented on the post, “Well she said the truth and it’s impressive that she understands that £9 is far too expensive for 2 bloody ice cream." She added, “Maybe one day she will be an excellent lawyer. She is a little Eliza Doolittle!” Another woman, Alison Lindsay, said, “On the grand scale of children's behavior these days, this is mild. At least she's not naive and understands already what exploitation is. Good for her. Go, girl!” Moreover, a repost of this video by @cyp_toon on X garnered a whopping 1.1 million views and nearly 7 thousand likes.
Apparently, the twin sisters were not overreacting. According to Statista, the ice-cream prices in the United Kingdom have been on a hike since 2016. In 2022, the price of ice cream was approximately £1.58 per liter, which makes £9 for two ice creams quite a rip-off. After the rant, the kids did get ice creams but lesser-priced ones, Karis explained to The Poke.
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Will your current friends still be with you after seven years?
Professor shares how many years a friendship must last before it'll become lifelong
Think of your best friend. How long have you known them? Growing up, children make friends and say they’ll be best friends forever. That’s where “BFF” came from, for crying out loud. But is the concept of the lifelong friend real? If so, how many years of friendship will have to bloom before a friendship goes the distance? Well, a Dutch study may have the answer to that last question.
Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst and his team in the Netherlands did extensive research on friendships and made some interesting findings in his surveys and studies. Mollenhorst found that over half of your friendships will “shed” within seven years. However, the relationships that go past the seven-year mark tend to last. This led to the prevailing theory that most friendships lasting more than seven years would endure throughout a person’s lifetime.
In Mollenhorst’s findings, lifelong friendships seem to come down to one thing: reciprocal effort. The primary reason so many friendships form and fade within seven-year cycles has much to do with a person’s ages and life stages. A lot of people lose touch with elementary and high school friends because so many leave home to attend college. Work friends change when someone gets promoted or finds a better job in a different state. Some friends get married and have children, reducing one-on-one time together, and thus a friendship fades. It’s easy to lose friends, but naturally harder to keep them when you’re no longer in proximity.
Some people on Reddit even wonder if lifelong friendships are actually real or just a romanticized thought nowadays. However, older commenters showed that lifelong friendship is still possible:
“I met my friend on the first day of kindergarten. Maybe not the very first day, but within the first week. We were texting each other stupid memes just yesterday. This year we’ll both celebrate our 58th birthdays.”
“My oldest friend and I met when she was just 5 and I was 9. Next-door neighbors. We're now both over 60 and still talk weekly and visit at least twice a year.”
“I’m 55. I’ve just spent a weekend with friends I met 24 and 32 years ago respectively. I’m also still in touch with my penpal in the States. I was 15 when we started writing to each other.”
“My friends (3 of them) go back to my college days in my 20’s that I still talk to a minimum of once a week. I'm in my early 60s now.”
“We ebb and flow. Sometimes many years will pass as we go through different things and phases. Nobody gets buttsore if we aren’t in touch all the time. In our 50s we don’t try and argue or be petty like we did before. But I love them. I don’t need a weekly lunch to know that. I could make a call right now if I needed something. Same with them.”
Maintaining a friendship for life is never guaranteed, but there are ways, psychotherapists say, that can make a friendship last. It’s not easy, but for a friendship to last, both participants need to make room for patience and place greater weight on their similarities than on the differences that may develop over time. Along with that, it’s helpful to be tolerant of large distances and gaps of time between visits, too. It’s not easy, and it requires both people involved to be equally invested to keep the friendship alive and from becoming stagnant.
As tough as it sounds, it is still possible. You may be a fortunate person who can name several friends you’ve kept for over seven years or over seventy years. But if you’re not, every new friendship you make has the same chance and potential of being lifelong.