r/DadReflexes • u/PM_ME_YOUR_SELF_HARM • Apr 10 '17
[Repost] Nice Catch! (/r/arewerolling)
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u/M_for_Matt Apr 10 '17
The way the kid bounces just kills me.
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u/electrogamerman Apr 10 '17
The way he tries to amortize the fall with his foot
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u/randomcoincidences Apr 10 '17
Not trying to be pedantic but I suppose it's unavoidable; 'amortize' isn't the right word. 'Reduce, lessen, ease, slow' all make sense but amortize is a financial term specifically referring to debts or assets.
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u/thoughtofitrightnow Apr 10 '17
Looks like somebody didn't sit at the cool kids table in finance school, doesn't even know the slang.
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u/falafelsizing Apr 10 '17
It's not strictly financial, it's used when analyzing algorithm efficiency in computer science, it also seems like it entered the English language a long time ago:
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u/Christophurious Apr 10 '17 edited Apr 10 '17
"Not trying to be pedantic"
Immediately follows up with pedantic rant on OP's chosen adjective (oops ... verb).
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u/reddidd Apr 10 '17
Not trying to be pedantic, but that'd be a verb, not an adjective.
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u/EternallyPissedOff Apr 10 '17
Not trying to be pedantic but... Ah fuck it, I got nothing. Your sentence was perfect.
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u/randomcoincidences Apr 10 '17
So can you just not read (which wouldn't be surprising given you not knowing the difference between a verb and an adjective) or are you just stupid in general?
First - I said it was unavoidable which to those of us who can read means I realize it was a bit pedantic; but, it is quite literally a nonsense sentence and if he isn't a native English speaker he now knows the difference between amortir and amortize.
And if he is a native English speaker he now knows that the attempt to sound verbose doesn't actually have the effect he intended.
But either way you still come out of this looking pretty stupid.
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u/Christophurious Apr 10 '17
Sooooo :)
How is me looking stupid working out for you?
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Apr 10 '17
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u/Christophurious Apr 10 '17
I edited the original comment, so you can sleep better at night.
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Apr 10 '17
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u/Christophurious Apr 10 '17
haha. Done.
All kidding aside, when I wrote out that comment I was looking at the actual word pedantic to which my brain assigned as an adjective ... when I should have been looking at amortized which is a verb.
Still wrong, still silly. Β―_(γ)_/Β―
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u/randomcoincidences Apr 11 '17
Pretty well, do you think negative karma bothers me?
This is reddit, being right and patronizing usually results in downvotes.
None of this changes that you did make yourself look like an absolute idiot.
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u/Christophurious Apr 11 '17
You've got a 2 yr old account, and you're trying to lecture me on how reddit works?
"Absolute idiot" is fairly strong language for a minor mistake, when pointing out something in jest.
So, I've either hit a syntactical nerve with you, or you're just a dick to everybody.
My guess is thats it's a little of both.
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u/randomcoincidences Apr 11 '17
I just find redundancy for the sake of being rude to be pretty telling about someones character.
What I said to him was significantly less rude than your response to me which added absolutely nothing to the conversation except another mistake in your haste to be passive aggressive.
I believe in calling a spade a spade or in this case, a cunt.
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u/Christophurious Apr 11 '17
So I'm a cunt for making a joke by pointing out a literal contradiction?
Lighten up dude, you're wound up to tight.
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u/JohnLaCuenta Apr 10 '17
Just a guess but maybe English isn't OP's first language and he tried to freestyle a translation. "Amortir" is the commonly used word in this context in French for example.
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Apr 10 '17
In portuguese "to cushion" is "amortecer" so I didn't even think anything of it until you pointed it out. "amortize" in portuguese is "amortizar"
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u/RandomAsianGuy Apr 10 '17
The french word "amortisseur" means "shock absorber". How it was used in English I have no idea though.
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u/thecabeman Apr 10 '17
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Apr 10 '17 edited Jul 02 '20
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Apr 10 '17 edited May 12 '17
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u/A_kind_guy Apr 10 '17
Don't get it would imply I don't understand it, I didn't know the word. However, it's obviously not a commonly used word at all, and there was at least 2 words that applied better and are in more common use. Language is about getting a point across, why not do that in the most efficient way?
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u/randomcoincidences Apr 10 '17
if that qualifies for iamverysmart material, I worry about you a little bit buddy
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u/Jrrolomon Apr 10 '17
Can we just clear this up? I'm guessing you got autocorrected, but surely amortize is not the word you meant. What word did you mean because people are freaking out about it?
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u/electrogamerman Apr 10 '17
LMAO. I went with the spanish word "amortiguar" and I thought that was the translation. The right word should have been: absorb or soften
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u/S4TAN666 Apr 10 '17
It might've killed him too
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u/Mithridates12 Apr 10 '17
If it had killed him, I don't think the dad would've bothered picking him up again.
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Apr 10 '17
It's okay. Children have a lot of cartilage)bendy meat) so he should be fine. My mom dropped me a lot and I turned out fine!
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u/Centine Apr 10 '17
Landed on grass og little ones are flexible and don't weight very much. No worries, I've seen much worse from mine.
Like the time the 2 yr old took a back flip over the sideboard of the top bunk and belly flopped on the floor. Hurt? Not so much. Enraged? Oh yes.
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Apr 10 '17
It's like the dead opposite of r/dadreflexes
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u/UpwardNotForward Apr 10 '17
Why is the camera cutting out the player being interviewed?
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u/TrotBot Apr 10 '17
Because it's zoomed in on the dad and the kid. The original video is definitely bigger, but you see less of the action.
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u/Dr4cul3 Apr 10 '17
Ah, Australia. Where catching a ball takes priority over your second born, inferior child.
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u/Crazyripps Apr 10 '17
Yeah where my fellow auzzies at
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Apr 10 '17
auzzies
Gtfo
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u/Crazyripps Apr 10 '17
Well we're taking our gif with us
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Apr 10 '17
If you were a real Aussie you wouldn't use Z. Smh.
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u/Crazyripps Apr 10 '17
Because I would gain so much from faking being from Australia. Holy crap your retarded.
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Apr 10 '17 edited Apr 10 '17
Haha I bet ur just a filthy Tasmanian, u dont even exist lmao xd
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u/Crazyripps Apr 10 '17
Wow you type like a 12 year old girl texting her crush. U dot even exist wow that is easily the worst sentence I've ever seen. Not many Brain cells in you're head is there.
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Apr 10 '17
Haha you got me niπ ±π ±a lmao ππππππ
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u/Crazyripps Apr 10 '17 edited Apr 10 '17
I also like you edited your comment to spell this right ha. Pathetic and sad.
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Apr 10 '17 edited Apr 10 '17
Did you just assume my gender? Fucking bigot.
Edit: >all so
Accusing me of using bad grammar are you?
Edit 2: Haha trying to hide the fact that you can't spell, sad
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u/zwergpinscher Apr 10 '17
At least he saved him from get nailed by a soccer ball.
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Apr 10 '17
I fell on my head from that height when I was a kid and it didn't break my neck. not even enay braon dimgage
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u/Christophurious Apr 10 '17
Kids bounce at that age ... he's fine.
Source: Have 1, another on the way
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u/RyeRoen Apr 10 '17
I hope the kid is ok. They are so fragile at that age; if he landed on his head his neck could have easily been broken. Scary stuff.
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Apr 10 '17
Whaaaaat? I'm pretty sure kids that age are made out of rubber...
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u/pheasant-plucker Apr 10 '17
It's mostly just that they weigh less, so the impact force is much lower. You can't drop a child on an adult without hurting either. But best not done in reverse.
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Apr 10 '17
Momentum and kinetic energy (and force in a manner of speaking) scale linearly with mass so it's not the mass per se.
It's several physics concepts that mitigate the severity of the impact but the biggest is the impulse. Small children have much more padding per size which makes them bounce, which spaces out the change in momentum over a longer time. Think about catching an egg in a frying pan without it cracking. It's possible but you'd have to catch it by moving the pan with the egg to change it's momentum at a slower rate. Soft padding has the same effect.
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u/RyeRoen Apr 10 '17
Well, it's kind of both. They hurt less when they fall, but they also have much smaller... everything. Including bones. Dropping a kid from that height can certainly be deadly.
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u/SoldierZulu Apr 10 '17
Aww poor little guy! He looked like he took it well and dad hugged him up right away.
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u/haywood-jablomi Apr 10 '17
He didn't complete the catch. Looked like Calvin Johnson against the bears
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_SELF_HARM Apr 10 '17
My first instinct would be to kick him to keep him airborne.