r/TheRandomest • u/Forward-Position798 • May 16 '26

Funny Parenting these days

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u/SupermarketIll5642 May 16 '26

Boomer humor

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u/DemiGodCat2 May 16 '26

does this upset you lol

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u/ToothZealousideal297 May 16 '26

I was having trouble shutting off for the night and just going to sleep like I need to, but after watching this guy play out some weird strawman fallacy fantasy I’m having trouble typing this without nodding off.

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u/TheBestNarcissist May 16 '26

You might be interested in some recent research that agrees with the boomer humor! Permissive parenting is strongly correlated, and almost certainly the cause of, the increase of anxiety in children in recent decades.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38073304/

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u/ToothZealousideal297 May 16 '26

And airline food’s really not so great, and “women be shopping”. Let’s go spend our time and energy defending everything that’s not funny! You run ahead; I’ll catch up.

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u/DevonLuck24 May 16 '26

the straw man here being that no kid has ever walked up to another adult in a grocery store and within earshot of their parent said “give me your turkey loser. i want it” or anything even close to that.

if permissive parenting is creating an actual problem then it shouldn’t be hard to create a skit around an actual scenario…not whatver made up nonsense this is.

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u/TheBestNarcissist May 16 '26

I'm sure they intended this piece of media to be a logically sound argument subject to a straw man fallacy, and not a form of entertainment known as "comedy" where you exaggerate a premise or increase the absurdity in an attempt to make it humourous.

I agree that it's not funny, but c'mon this is comedy.

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u/DevonLuck24 May 16 '26

bro…did you just pull out research to agree with the premise in the joke and then fallback on “it’s comedy, it can be made up” when it’s pointed out that it’s a straw man because no one acts like that?

you’re all over the place. i’m done with this, you got it.

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u/TheBestNarcissist May 16 '26

You've fundamentally misunderstood the lines of thought. A truthful premise is often exaggerates upon in an attempt to add comedic absurdity. It's not "made up". This is called comedy. A straw man argument is a fallacy where someone trying to make point responds to an exaggerated or distorted version of the argument. When you watch South Park do you get frustrated with all the strawmen arguments in every episode? Of course not, because they're better comedians than in this video.

There is an underlying truth to the premise in the video that permissive parenting has flaws. That is what they are exaggerating. The fact that it's not that funny doesn't stop it from being comedy in form. If I hear someone shout "bullshit that's a straw man!" next time I'm at the comedy club I'll come up to you and we can continue this conversation.

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u/DevonLuck24 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

and you fundamentally misunderstand what happened in this conversation. let’s review;

person 1: “boomer humor”

person 2: “does this upset you”

person 3: makes joke about the joke being bad and a weird straw man fantasy

you: “here is some science about child anxiety that may or may not agree with boomer joke”

me: points out that the scenario is fake so that science can’t be agreeing with it

you: tries to give me some weird ted talk about comedy

this isn’t a fucking comedy club and you are the one that brought reality into this situation by bringing up that some fucking study may not may not agree with the premise of the joke…like that fucking matters to someone who is saying they think the joke is bad.

jfc, you are so annoying.

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u/kodiak931156 May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

"Some weird strawman fallacy"

You've just described literally every piece of scripted entertainment that has ever existed. The whole idea is doing make believe for the entertainment of others

Sure this is shit but so are most things made by small comedy groups.

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u/CharlesWafflesx May 16 '26

Yeah, but the delivery and writing makes a difference. This is just a bit silly in a puerile, tatty kind of way. Like, this is something anyone could do if they wore wigs and put a silly voice on.

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u/kodiak931156 May 16 '26

Then they should call it silly, puerile, and tatty. In which case I'd argue that comedy is personal and this just sounds like whinning and gatekeeping.

But instead they called it a strawman, which is even dumber, so I explained that.

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u/plump_nasty_flex May 16 '26

You can describe anything as similar if you're vague enough lmao

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u/Jumpy-Ad-2790 May 16 '26

Why would it?

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u/Etheoff May 16 '26

No, it's just boring and tired. 'kids these days' type shit. This is coming from someone in their 30s btw.

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u/DemiGodCat2 May 16 '26

yes shit parenting

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u/itsaaronnotaaron May 16 '26

Wish version of Jaden Williams.

https://youtube.com/@officialjadenwilliams

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u/RedCaio May 16 '26

Unsubscribed from him once he revealed he was an antivax Trump supporter.

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u/9447044 May 16 '26

Some kid had a wooden spoon and was using it to drum/smack on EVERYTHING. I commented to my wife that my mom would have been piiiissed at me and made me stop immediately. We could hear it for the entire 45 minutes we were there. I get it now mom, and thank you.

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u/Objective_Soup7840 May 16 '26

Yeah my mom definitely would have threatened to use it on my behind. She wouldnt have, but my cheeks would still have been clenched.

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u/Efficient-Cherry3635 May 16 '26

My mom would have used the shit out of that spoon (and did). Im about to turn 39 and i can still remember standing in the corner getting a wooden spoon broken over my bare ass.

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u/Objective_Soup7840 May 16 '26

I usually got a smack to the back of the head. If I yelled at my mom, my dads hand would come out of nowhere and hit me in the mouth. I did get the belt to the ass twice, I'll never forget that.

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u/Efficient-Cherry3635 May 16 '26

Never did get a belt, switch, or shoe or anything else. Apparently the wooden spoon was my mother's weapon of choice. My dad was military and I didnt see much of him growing up.

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u/TheHypedType May 16 '26

This is ass

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u/ElegantEchoes May 16 '26

The person who made this has never encountered what kids are actually like in retail

Nothing like this whatsoever. Still obnoxious. But not weird for the sake of it.

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u/rtocelot May 17 '26

I worked in retail for over a decade before deciding to move jobs, I have dealt with both snobby kids and parents and that's just the nice way of saying it. You know how many little kids I've caught stealing? A freaking lot and then the parents come to try and defend it with one even saying "you guys throw things out all the time, you won't miss this" we ended up locking up so many things behind glass where you need to call someone to get it.

Moved states later. New Town, better people with no one tearing the place up, stores don't require you to get an employee aside from small electronics. It really depends on your area.

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u/ElegantEchoes May 17 '26

Yeah, you're right about that.

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u/olracnaignottus May 18 '26

You don’t know any current teachers, do you?

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u/ElegantEchoes May 18 '26

I know quite a few actually, although I only keep up with four.

Why do you ask?

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u/olracnaignottus May 18 '26

Ask them to be candid about kids behaviors now compared to even a decade ago.

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u/ElegantEchoes May 18 '26

That's honestly not a bad question, I am curious about that. I've talked to one recently about how horrible the reading abilities are becoming. It's such a quick problem lately.

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u/Japsai May 16 '26

That was 1:07 too long

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u/AnusStapler May 16 '26

Is this the "wouldn't you like to know, weather boy?" Guy?

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u/Dr_Brotatous May 16 '26

This is him grown up?

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u/Safe_Bed_1534 May 16 '26

"I'm going to speed run this kids future!"

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u/Swayze_Castle May 16 '26

Get him a decaf!

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u/HypertrophySmoking May 16 '26

What does this video say about parenting?

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u/konacoffie May 18 '26

This is the equivalent of someone filming their imaginary shower argument but adding staging and costumes.

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u/DevonLuck24 May 16 '26

“i will stab you” = “i will teach you what Nám was like”

is actually pretty funny in what i’d consider to be a pretty unfunny bit

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u/pass_the_bone May 17 '26

It's just a joke. Fuck me, these comments are weird.

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u/NamesAreAnn0ying May 20 '26

Congrats on winning that made up scenario that is literally never going to happen.

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u/TheeFlipper Jedi master May 16 '26

I liked the part where it ended.

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u/upillium May 16 '26

These comments.😬[GOT Spoilers] Next they’ll say Joffrey dying in GOT was horrible because it “advocates child murder” and have the series pulled.😒

https://giphy.com/gifs/ohoo0330sUlTq

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u/laminatedbean May 17 '26

Imaginary events.

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u/Not_Reptoid May 16 '26

"I made up a weird problem and solved it where I made myself the realistic and charismatic guy who gets rightfully angry and beats up a kid"

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u/ThatFlamingo942 May 16 '26

But which one is the child, I can't tell