|
It feels pretty good to yell
|
# ? Jul 31, 2017 17:46 |
|
|
# ? May 27, 2024 02:59 |
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttRIz-0HWps We all know what children really are.
|
# ? Jul 31, 2017 18:43 |
|
Shai-Hulud posted:Aw man now you tell me. Now I've already hosed up two kids. Third time's the charm i guess. Bright side, they have an increased chance to be a CEO.
|
# ? Jul 31, 2017 18:45 |
|
YeahTubaMike posted:It seems likely that they're also just exercising their vocal cords a lot of the time. Still annoying as gently caress, whether or not it makes logical/evolutionary sense. I won't argue that point. It's incredibly jarring to think the kid's just playing, everything is fine, I'm into this episode of whatever, then an ear-piercing shriek fills the room.
|
# ? Jul 31, 2017 18:50 |
|
YeahTubaMike posted:It seems likely that they're also just exercising their vocal cords a lot of the time. Still annoying as gently caress, whether or not it makes logical/evolutionary sense. Good thing people were patient when you were a wee one.
|
# ? Jul 31, 2017 19:20 |
|
BioEnchanted posted:We all know what children really are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD_-Zl-4w2g
|
# ? Jul 31, 2017 19:25 |
|
Catberry posted:Had my daily reminder today when I saw a kid clutching a pillar inside a supermarket while laying on the ground. Using his legs to "run" while laying on his side he made sideways laps around the pillar while howling his lungs out because his mom wouldn't let him have something he wanted. Sorry but I'm a doctor and your brain is broken if you don't think this is the best.
|
# ? Jul 31, 2017 19:42 |
|
Catberry posted:Had my daily reminder today when I saw a kid clutching a pillar inside a supermarket while laying on the ground. Using his legs to "run" while laying on his side he made sideways laps around the pillar while howling his lungs out because his mom wouldn't let him have something he wanted. Heh, children acting like children, how does the human race work?????
|
# ? Jul 31, 2017 20:53 |
|
Samizdata posted:Good thing people were patient when you were a wee one. Yeah, good thing birth control is a thing too.
|
# ? Jul 31, 2017 22:53 |
|
I can't wait for all of the stdh of the "child free" crowd to pop up in response to the oddballs here. I get not wanting to have children, I'm not sure whether I want to do so myself, but to see the hatred towards the young of our species is so bizarre. "OMG THIS BABY MAKES NOISES!! #CHILDFREE FOREVER"
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 00:13 |
|
Not wanting children is very understandable as you say but as soon as people start grouping up and using special terms to refer to people outside that group then you know they've gone a bit off. "I don't want kids" - tip top and okay "ugh look at those breeders and their crotchspawn" - I laugh and subtly cover my throat with my hand in case you smell the baby talc I accidentally spilled earlier and attack me
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 00:24 |
|
Non Serviam posted:I can't wait for all of the stdh of the "child free" crowd to pop up in response to the oddballs here. I'm with you, the setting rage and hatred toward children is frankly alarming. But here's some relevant STDH. "Grandma TOTALLY supports our decision to be child free. See? Here's this indisputable screen shot of a text message"
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 00:25 |
|
Did someone say childfree? Mad mommy tries to guilt me out of my sweet & sour sauce...not today! (self.childfree) quote:So I'm in McDonald's trying to enjoy my nuggets (save the eat healthy rants, I only had 20min for lunch) when this mother & son enter the restaurant. I was sitting close enough to the counter to be able to tell there was some sort of problem but not able to hear the details. Mommy was yelling and junior was throwing a fit (he was 5 if I had to guess). I don't mean just any fit, I mean a full on breakdown and the mother was doing NOTHING to stop him! In fact, from my vantage point it looked as if she was encouraging his behavior with a few high-fives. Well after several minutes they take their seat and of course select the booth beside mine. This is where I found out what the problem was...the kid wanted sweet & sour sauce and apparently they ran out. "Mommy he's got sweet & sour, I WANT SWEET AND SOUR!!!" He would throw his head as he screamed and then would shake towards the end as if he was shocked by his own anger. I'm doing my very best to not make eye contact but here she goes..."sir, can i trouble you for one of your sauce packets?" I said, "I don't have any to spare." To which she replied, "But you have 3 and have only opened 1." Now at this point I had only gotten thru half my nuggets so I knew I'd need another sauce packet but I didn't feel that I owed her an explanation so I just shrugged. No comment, just a shrug. This infuriated her! "My son will not eat his food without his favorite sauce, you are LIT-TURR-A-LEE taking food out of his mouth!" And once again, she got nothing but a shrug. Then her phone rings. Picks up and proceeds to talk poo poo about McDonald's and me to whomever is on the other end of the conversation. I ended up not using the 3rd packet and as I walk over to dump my tray into the garbage I hear her say "rear end in a top hat." I keep the packet from sliding into the trash, turn around and make direct eye contact with her, pull back the foil and turn it upside down letting it run into the trash. Her mouth hits the floor and I think junior could have spit fire he was so mad. My Weekend: Or Why My Neighbors Now Hate Me (self.childfree) quote:I own a house with a pool.
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 00:29 |
|
Mad mommy was always my least favorite Batman villain
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 00:55 |
|
Haifisch posted:Did someone say childfree? The great irony of childfree assholes is that they themselves are goddamn infants.
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 00:59 |
|
No one in this thread has sounded the least bit like an irate r/childfree poster, to be honest. I work with and would like to have kids but I can totally get why some people don't like them. That being said PLEEEEASE YES post some crazy childfree stdh, and balance it out with some quiverfull bullshit too
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 01:45 |
|
I don't know why but a dog named Steinbeck is the thing that set me off about that one
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 01:51 |
|
If it was true, I would sympathize with the lady in the pool story. But how does an unscalable brick wall just appear around a yard big enough to contain a pool, including the front yard which is apparently big enough that she can have an unscalable electronic gate for her driveway?
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 02:24 |
|
YeahTubaMike posted:Yeah, good thing birth control is a thing too. Wishing your parents had used it?
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 02:31 |
|
walrusman posted:If it was true, I would sympathize with the lady in the pool story. But how does an unscalable brick wall just appear around a yard big enough to contain a pool, including the front yard which is apparently big enough that she can have an unscalable electronic gate for her driveway? She also mentioned how her neighbors ignored her except to ask her to babysit. Lady has clearly never talked to a human mother, because NO ONE would let a goonie cat-lady stranger watch their kid alone.
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 02:32 |
|
walrusman posted:If it was true, I would sympathize with the lady in the pool story. But how does an unscalable brick wall just appear around a yard big enough to contain a pool, including the front yard which is apparently big enough that she can have an unscalable electronic gate for her driveway? Yeah, the scene changed from "typical suburban neighborhood" to "North Shore Villa" really quickly.
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 02:39 |
|
sweeperbravo posted:I realized a while back that when a 3yo sobs because they dropped their ice cream, that's genuinely the worst thing they can remember ever happening to them. The concept of disappointment is too nuanced so they skip straight to tragedy. Basically. When a small child experiences pain, joy, awe, sadness, or whatever, they don't have much to compare it with. It takes time for them to build up a repertoire of memories as well as get used to the fact that they can feel EMOTIONS. They eventually learn that the world is horrible and painful and no longer burst into tears when they stub their toe or get a blue balloon instead of a pink one. You can't cry about balloons when you are full of existential dread.
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 03:18 |
|
CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Basically. When a small child experiences pain, joy, awe, sadness, or whatever, they don't have much to compare it with. It takes time for them to build up a repertoire of memories as well as get used to the fact that they can feel EMOTIONS. They eventually learn that the world is horrible and painful and no longer burst into tears when they stub their toe or get a blue balloon instead of a pink one. You can't cry about balloons when you are full of existential dread. I'll prove you wrong
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 03:27 |
|
Keith Atherton posted:I don't know why but a dog named Steinbeck is the thing that set me off about that one It did to me too, let me articulate my armchair analysis Basically, it's an almost perfect symbol everything that's infuriating about the crazies who dominate the internet childfree movement: arrested development, hating children but idolizing pets, being so self-centered that the things you have control of always come back to you , and signaling to others how special you think you are. *For example, I used to have a batshit crazy childish friend who was obsessed with drawing attention to how she "expressed herself", especially with the color purple. She would keep directing conversations to the purple she was wearing at least once a day, and tried to pressure female friends who were thinner than her into buying purple shirts she wished she could wear. When she adopted a dog, the dog became another way for her to forcefully express herself to other people, and I swear to God, she bought it purple collars and toys and one day she told me, dead serious [Super Speshul Original Dog Name]'s favorite color is purple, just like me!" like she really believed the dog had picked that out as it's favorite color because of exposure.
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 05:13 |
|
Never forget.quote:
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 05:18 |
|
"I, a supposed grown adult, deserve a free copy of a book for children more than a small child does. Someone shall pay dearly for this outrage."
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 05:34 |
|
I like to imagine the girl who got to open the box does remember the event fondly over 12 years later. It would be so deliciously ironic.
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 05:37 |
|
EmmyOk posted:Not wanting children is very understandable as you say but as soon as people start grouping up and using special terms to refer to people outside that group then you know they've gone a bit off. I feel like if someone frequently mentions the fact they don't want to have kids in a context where it wasn't provoked by someone else (for example someone else asking them about it), there's either 1. probably some insecurity behind it or 2. they're a young person trying to be edgy or something. Like, not wanting to have kids is totally fine (I probably don't myself), but people normally don't go out of their way to mention that sort of thing unless they feel like they have something to prove. I would even go as far as to say that the people who are particularly obnoxious about it (with the aforementioned "crotchspawn/breeders" stuff and the childfree folks) often secretly want to have a family and just tell themselves how terrible it is as a way to cope with not having their desires fulfilled. Sorta like someone who doesn't get something they want and then says "WELL I DIDN'T REALLY WANT IT ANYWAYS."
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 06:08 |
|
In general, if someone makes not doing a thing a central part of who they are, they're invariably irritating as poo poo about it. See also: Straight-edgers, incels, etc.
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 06:16 |
|
Catalina posted:It did to me too, let me articulate my armchair analysis Yeah this is basically why that pissed me off because if she actually did name a dog Steinbeck is because she was hoping it would be like: "His name is Steinbeck? Like the author?" "Yes of course" Or "Steinbeck? What's that from?" "You've never heard of the greatest American novelist of the 20th century?"
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 06:21 |
|
Keith Atherton posted:"Steinbeck? What's that from?" Top five, maybe, but then I remembered we were still talking about the lady who loved Grapes of Wrath enough to name her dog after him. Whoops.
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 06:38 |
|
Keith Atherton posted:Yeah this is basically why that pissed me off because if she actually did name a dog Steinbeck is because she was hoping it would be like: Oh, Steinback was the name of the Red Pony I used to have, too.
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 06:45 |
|
walrusman posted:Top five, maybe, but then I remembered we were still talking about the lady who loved Grapes of Wrath enough to name her dog after him. Whoops. Grapes of Wrath is a pretty weird name for a dog imo.
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 08:52 |
|
Probably one of those pedigree names that breeders give dogs.
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 09:06 |
|
Ytlaya posted:I would even go as far as to say that the people who are particularly obnoxious about it (with the aforementioned "crotchspawn/breeders" stuff and the childfree folks) often secretly want to have a family and just tell themselves how terrible it is as a way to cope with not having their desires fulfilled. Sorta like someone who doesn't get something they want and then says "WELL I DIDN'T REALLY WANT IT ANYWAYS." Or it's because if you ever mention that you don't have or want kids, you get stared at like you just grew another head and then swarmed with "who'll take care of you when you're old" "you'll change your mind" "you were a kid too!" "no see, constant screaming is actually cool and good" "i can't eat ice cream without hiding in a locked off room, but you're weird!" etc. etc. and it really gets loving old.
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 09:23 |
|
Byzantine posted:Or it's because if you ever mention that you don't have or want kids, you get stared at like you just grew another head and then swarmed with "who'll take care of you when you're old" "you'll change your mind" "you were a kid too!" "no see, constant screaming is actually cool and good" "i can't eat ice cream without hiding in a locked off room, but you're weird!" etc. etc. and it really gets loving old. So what's your #CrotchSpawn tumblr.
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 10:11 |
|
Byzantine posted:Or it's because if you ever mention that you don't have or want kids, you get stared at like you just grew another head and then swarmed with "who'll take care of you when you're old" "you'll change your mind" "you were a kid too!" "no see, constant screaming is actually cool and good" "i can't eat ice cream without hiding in a locked off room, but you're weird!" etc. etc. and it really gets loving old. A lady in my office goes out of her way to mention how she hates children and never wants to have them. The only pushback I've heard is from the secretary who said" if you'd them, you'd like them ☺️" Nobody is bothered because you don't want to have kids. In fact, I'm glad you made that decision
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 10:34 |
|
Some top quality STDH featuring what are imo EPIC OWNS
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 11:27 |
|
Fathis Munk posted:Grapes of Wrath is a pretty weird name for a dog imo. Actually that's one of the best dog names I've ever heard
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 11:57 |
|
|
# ? May 27, 2024 02:59 |
|
|
# ? Aug 1, 2017 14:59 |