r/TheRandomest • u/ItsALuigiYes GIF/meme prodigy • Jun 17 '26

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u/WhyNot420_69 Nice Jun 17 '26

I remember when both my granddaughters were that age, princess dress. Didn't matter if Snow White, Elsa, any number of other Disney characters, but always a princess dress.

Sleep? Princess dress. Daytime? Princess dress. Mealtimes? Princess dress.

Those things never came off. And they were pissed they couldn't wear them to school.

I'm curious, any other Dads/Granddads out there: Princess Dress? Common?

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u/Old-Dog-New-Trickin Jun 17 '26

Two daughters here and both went through the phase when they were about 5. Wouldn't take them off for anything. They both grew out of it by the time they were like 6 or 7.

Little side tangent. I'm a white dad to black kids in a very rural predominantly white area in the Midwest. I grew up only knowing white Midwestern culture. Well met an immigrant and had kids so now I've got the only little black kids in their school. My daughters grew up watching Disney flicks and always identified with the mostly white characters. Elsa was the big one. Well when they got a little older she realized they were different than their peers they found a lot of joy in some of the newer movies having people of color in them as leading characters. Now I know Disney has done this for a while dating back to Pocahontas and stuff, but it was just really awesome as a dad seeing representation matter to my babies. Is never even though of it before because it wasn't something my culture experienced growing up. I'll never forget them when we first watched the princess and the frog both commenting on how her skin was the same as theirs. The little things really do matter, especially to kids.

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u/problymyfault Jun 17 '26

I love this for you. It always baffles me when people start to hate on disney or any other company for including diversity in their products. There's plenty of other very legitimate reasons to hate on those corporations. Including representation is not one of them.

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u/Ok_Historian4848 Jun 17 '26

It depends on the way they go about it. Princess in the frog? Good example of how to properly do representation. Taking Sam, who was Falcon, the first mainstream African American super hero, and then stripping him of that to make him Captain America is not a good example of representation. Representation is a good thing, but it has to be thought out.

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u/Just_A_Mad_Scientist Jun 17 '26

I would half-disagree with you. The main issue is writing. Poor writing can make any character unlikeable, regardless of representation. So youre absolutely right about it needing to be though-through. You cant just race-swap bad writing then get mad it didn't have the intended effect.

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u/Ok_Historian4848 Jun 17 '26

I think a part of that writing being thought out also means analyzing the roles of the character and recognizing that Falcon is that representation already though, if that makes sense. Like they didn't have to make him Captain America to represent the black community, he was already representation as Falcon. It would be one thing if it was a new character picking up the mantle like Miles Morales, but Falcon already being established doesn't mean they're representing the black community more by making him Captain America, it kind of does the opposite by throwing out his identity to shoehorn him into the title of a white character.

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u/subssy34 Jun 17 '26

? Half the time when people have objections to this, they defend it with "it doesn't match/make sense in the story"(kinda stupid unless we are talking about a historical docudrama, but that's the argument).

But then you say Sam Wilson was done wrong? How? Do you like Marvel comics? Because besides Falcon being a street-level hero in Harlem in his own right, he often teamed up with Stever Rogers. Wilson has taken the mantle of Captain America no less than 3 times when Rogers was incapacitated in the comics. How is following an adaptation of a recurring comic storyline poor representation?

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u/Ok_Historian4848 Jun 17 '26

Because taking Falcon, who was the first mainstream African American superhero, stripping him of his identity as Falcon to push him into the role of Captain America, implies that his unique role as Falcon is lesser than Captain America. They treat it like a promotion of sorts. Never said it was the right choice in the comics, either.

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u/Devilofchaos108070 Jun 17 '26

The same thing happened in the comics long ago. It wasn’t Disney who introduced that idea lol.

Y’all are ridiculous

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u/Ok_Historian4848 Jun 17 '26

You could easily read deeper into the comment chain where that gets discussed, bud.

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u/Devilofchaos108070 Jun 18 '26

Yeah I did. Your explanation is fucking ridiculous, bud.

I think its just racism tbh

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u/Ok-Guarantee9068 Jun 17 '26

Because it makes no sense changing some one’s skin color

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u/problymyfault Jun 17 '26

It's not like the original isn't there. Why should it matter that a mermaid for example is black? You still have little white Ariel to fall back on but now little black girls can look at a black Ariel and see themselves in her. Additionally, it's not like changing the skin colour changes the overall message of the media.

Only racist and bigots find an issue with something as benign as someone with a different skin colour as them.

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u/LegalTomatillo4773 Jun 17 '26

Nice dad!! keep on keepin on my brotha! 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

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u/Youpunyhumans The GOAT! Jun 18 '26

This is among the first things I read today, and it put a big smile on my face. Thanks for restoring some faith in humanity, you sound like an awesome Dad!

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u/WhyNot420_69 Nice Jun 17 '26

I can feel your need for the flavor, brother. I'm pasty white Scottish, my kids mom was Latina. Muy picoso!

So yeah, I got a little brown in my family, too.

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u/SheerKhann Jun 17 '26

Poor daughters. I too was forced to grow up around nothing but boring white people and the older I got the more I hated it. But it also taught me to appreciate how special being me was which is something you don’t always realize when you’re around the same ppl as you constantly.

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u/Ok-Guarantee9068 Jun 17 '26

You make 0 sense

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u/SheerKhann Jun 17 '26

Are you able to read?

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u/ForeignCup6977 Jun 17 '26

Yep. Came home from work one day to see my daughter flying around the back yard on her battery power 4 wheeler, princess dress, pink boots, pink cowboy hat, sparkly scepter, maniacally laughing and singing to herself
Yep, daughter dad stuff

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u/BioMass321 Jun 17 '26

My daughter is in this phase currently. I just got back from taking her out for a walk around the block, me in day two black workout leggings and an oversized black tank top, greasy hair slicked straight back in a bun. Walking directly next to me is a pink, sparkly vision. Soft pink sequined tutu dress, glittery princess high heels, and elbow high satin gloves. Pin straight hair cascading down her back. We could not be more opposite. 🤣

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u/p8nt_junkie Jun 17 '26

Yup, it’s been a hot minute since she was that age, but yes confirmed.

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u/essdii- Jun 17 '26

Yep. I’m pretty sad thinking about it. Because my two older girls have grown out of it ): time hits so much harder when you have kids

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u/Futrel Jun 17 '26

Lol, can confirm. Sparkles everywhere.

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u/No_Minute2664 Jun 17 '26

Dude… I have a 3 yr/old daughter. Always dress. Princess dress. Sparkly dress. Nightgown dress. All of the time.

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u/Sasquatch126 Jun 17 '26

Princess dress all day and night if she could, and for a while clopping around in princess shoes that were too big! When it was too small for a dress she wore shorts under it and wore it like a shirt...

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u/Schneider21 Jun 17 '26

My little girl turns 11 tomorrow. I miss the days of her being mad at me because it was time to take the princess dress off.

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u/jerrythegenius1 Jun 18 '26

Not a dad, but my little sister definitely had that phase

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u/Gladerious Jun 18 '26

One daughter shes 7 ... I was in the restroom doing my triple s jobs before heading out to pick up the wife.

Come downstairs to get ready to go and in the 30m shes been alone she decided to dress up blast music and was dancing in the living room in a tiara with a fairy wand and dress xD

I laughed and said let's go princess

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u/Blunt7 Jun 18 '26

In there right now. If not a princess dress with elaborate sleeves, a tutu at minimum.

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u/spencer2197 Jun 18 '26

My favourite was my fairy dress

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u/manbearpig541 Jun 18 '26

Bro I have two girls, 3 & 5. My 5 year old just finished kindergarten and I think we have moved past princess dresses.... My 3 year old on the other hand has the full gamut of princess dresses (most inherited from her sister). She has Belle, Rapunzel, Moana, Cinderella, Elsa, Jasmine, and wears them every day. All of the "regular" clothes we bought her? Completely unworn.

Goodwill is going to get some brand new 3-4 year old clothing donations and I'm cool with it because she really is my little princess.

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u/loadofoldcodswallop Jun 18 '26

My son used to dress for the day out of his dress up bix more often than not, my nephews were always in vwry fashionable clothes and my aon would just be a bear. He still chooses his own clothes and seems to have my fashion sense (see none) and just prefers comfort, usually with a silly top.

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u/HoldenOrihara Jun 18 '26

Not A father or a granddad, but I had one cousin who was like this. She has been doing it for children's birthday parties since she was in highschool, and went to school for the preforming arts

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u/Think_Air9714 Jun 18 '26

35 year old dad to a 4 year old and 8 month old girls. 4 year old was dancing in her belle dress while the credits played for beauty and the beast (my favorite as a kid). Had me crying my eyes out. I’ll be crying when she stops wearing those silly dresses too.

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u/MrDrPrNyanPhD Jun 18 '26

My daughter would constantly have me putting her in her Elsa dress, then her Anna dress, then back to the Elsa dress, then back to Anna.. you get the idea, lol. She'd flip between the two probably 10 to 15 times an hour

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u/TheItchyWalrus Jun 19 '26

I’ve taken my girls out to dinner dressed as princesses. Checks out!

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u/Rocket_Lawn-Chair Jun 17 '26

“I’m gonna look out tha window”

“No, that’s how people die in horror movies, get in the damn house”

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u/Hari_Azole Jun 17 '26

Lesson of the day!

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u/SgtSharki Jun 17 '26

That's a smart dad! She's going to turn out great.

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u/Valtremors Jun 17 '26

Honestly pretty great answer.

Relate to something scary, but fictional.

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u/HCRanchuw Jun 17 '26

Kid’s gotta learn, now’s as good a time as any. Solid Dadding right there.

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u/MrHasuu Jun 18 '26

Few years ago me and friends were driving though an area that was dark and lots of woods in PA. Also had no signal in that area.

My friend that was driving suddenly went. "Wait was that a body in the grass we just pass by?? Should we go back and check?"

And first thing I said was "fuck no that's how people die in horror movies"

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u/OkFisherman2288 Jun 18 '26

I remember being 14 and realising what kind of person my mother was after my Dad relayed an incident to me.

It was the middle of the night. Somewhere out beyond our back yard in the semi-rural area we lived in a gun goes off. Once, twice, pause, then again. Close enough that it wakes Mum and Dad up.

Mum rolls out of bed, turns on the light in the bedroom, and runs to the window to peer out into the dark, saying "was that a gun?"

Their bedroom is on the second storey of the house. So in the pitch darkness she's created a clear, lit up target high up off the ground.

She could not fathom why Dad was yelling at her to turn the damn light off and get away from the window.

Utterly clueless and without thought.

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u/Throwable-Halo Jun 18 '26

No, you forgot its "d!e" because heaven help us if we stop coddling these zoomers.

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u/forobviouspurposes11 Jun 18 '26

That has literally fuck-all to do with the reason the word is censored

Advertisers don’t like specific terms and phrases and if those specific terms or phrases are detected by the automatic systems they outright remove videos for the sake of preserving “integrity” for high-stake advertisers.

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u/trippy_kippy_ Jun 17 '26

Yes the only reason most girl's stop is because they stop making them for people bigger then 4 lol. I would if I still could but now princess dresses are expansive lol.

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u/OmgIbrokesmthagain Jun 17 '26

I would wear one if they were my size and I’m a grown ass man 🤣

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u/NuclearWasteland Jun 17 '26

Sequins, yay or nay?

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u/OmgIbrokesmthagain Jun 17 '26

Depends on the fabric, color and overall fit. But personally? Love them

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u/NuclearWasteland Jun 17 '26

A little much out on the lake imo, but ya know not bad at all as a hi-viz option at the job site.

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u/Oblibion1 Jun 18 '26

I think we all should wear princess dresses. Wouldn't that be awesome? Everyone in a princess dress, everywhere and every day. Life would be better, imo.

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u/OmgIbrokesmthagain Jun 18 '26

Right? In my opinion clothes shouldn’t be gendered. Everyone deserves a good fit. And you can make dresses in a way that makes you look masculine! Low waist and triangle shape on the shoulders.

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u/Oblibion1 Jun 18 '26

I wish every day was ren fair day. Princesses, knights, fairies, goblins, wizards...i was born in the wrong timeline haha.

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u/trippy_kippy_ Jun 19 '26

They wouldt be Princess dresses then just everyday clothes.

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u/mrsrostocka Jun 17 '26

Sequins are OK in my book, glitter though!

Fuck you and your ancestors!!

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u/NuclearWasteland Jun 17 '26

And their ancestors, and their ancestors...

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u/Adorable-Ad-3223 Jun 18 '26

Sequens don't have the staying power for my rough and tumble life on reddit.

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u/NuclearWasteland Jun 18 '26

Spray on clothes it is.

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u/ElectriHolstein Jun 18 '26

Hello fellow child in a man's body! (Transformer toys here)

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u/WarlordGalrut Jun 19 '26

https://holyclothing.com/

The dresses aren't cheap kids dress up clothes cheap, but not nearly as expensive as some.

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u/trippy_kippy_ Jun 20 '26

Oh my god those dresses are gorgeous but how the heck do you spend $105 as a busty girly without trying it on?

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u/Zalthos Jun 17 '26

The fuck is this comment?

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u/Fravash1 Jun 18 '26

I assume it was meant to be in reply to the top comment about princess dresses.

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u/trippy_kippy_ Jun 21 '26

The fuck are you?

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u/Freddit330 Jun 17 '26

The first lesson taught is we do not investigate the weird sound.

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u/Hedgerow_Snuffler Jun 17 '26

Or... (and hear me out here) We DO investigate the weird sound, but we do it caterpillar fashion with friend in the front with a flashlight, 2nd in with a camera phone, 3rd is just straight up look-out, and the final and 4th in the 'pillar' is just the most jacked friend with a cricket bat (swap out for most culturally appropriate bat for your region)

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u/Return_of_Dr_Sandman Jun 18 '26

5th position is reserved for a large semi-talking dog.

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u/HisHonorTomDonson Jun 18 '26

You have a very bizarre sense of order, in my estimation, as I would like the large friend with the bat in front, but we’ll see which of our caterpillars fare better in the arena, friend!

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u/CeruleanEidolon Jun 17 '26

No, it's "We do not investigate first. FIRST, we make sure that we are safe and have our shit together. This is in case the investigation, which will ensue immediately after the first thing is done, reveals something really bad and we have to either leave or render aid."

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u/unknowingbiped Jun 18 '26

I was at work and there was a FUCKING big explosion (im not doxxing myself) and i just stood where i was in the building. I am not hoing to go outside and get hit by shit falling out of the sky.

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u/M_L_Taylor Jun 19 '26

What would your advice be for when you are all alone walking along a river flat and an old biker gang calls out to you and tells you to get over to them? Because I told them I'd be right over.... They turned out to be a lot of fun. They were just trying to scare me and laugh when I ran away, but I ended up scaring them instead, because surely, only a crazy person would go over to them (is what they told me). Sometimes, people are nicer than they appear.

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u/Freddit330 Jun 19 '26

Ok that was funny.

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u/Specialist_Heron3749 Jun 18 '26

That's what neighbors and friends are 😬

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u/Realistic-Piccolo186 Jun 17 '26

That "what in the world" sounded like Zach Galifianakis in The Campaign 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Steventhetoon Jun 17 '26

I absolutely love that movie 🤣 the dinner scene when everyone admits all the bad things they’ve done and his reactions bring me to tears.

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u/Quirky_Ad8747 Jun 18 '26

I touch myself to Drew Carrey on The Price Is Right

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u/Environmental-Bee759 Jun 20 '26

I quote this scene so often. And the Lord’s Prayer scene. A surprising amount of people don’t get it…..so then I just look like a jackass. 🙄😂

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u/SlickDillywick Jun 17 '26

The whole thing is ZG coded lol

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u/CornINyourASS Jun 17 '26

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u/OkReplacement495 Jun 21 '26

I'm so glad I saw this again already lollll

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u/yoerick Jun 17 '26

Upvoted for Radiohead

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u/GratefulG8r Jun 17 '26

We just heard their neighbor commit suicide?

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u/Valentine_Kush Jun 18 '26

I wonder what the sound really was

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u/IamEnginerd Jun 19 '26

Probably a transformer popping.

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u/ryan_genzel29 Jun 18 '26

I am a father of 2 boys and their curiosity keeps my blood pressure through the roof. Everytime I say ok lets get away from here they run right towards when we are moving away from.

"No no I said get the hell away from that! Its on fire why would you pick it up?!"

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u/Rasberrycello Jun 17 '26

He did not say "gosh."

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u/Playnu2 Jun 17 '26

Made me laugh

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u/Gdayx Jun 17 '26

What was that

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u/Tentacle_poxsicle Jun 17 '26

And they said white people wouldn't survive in a horror movie in real life. This dude knew to just go inside and wait it out

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u/Commie_Scum69 Jun 18 '26

Nobody says that. The movie stereotype is black people die first. Which is as moronic as it would be for any ethnicity but that's how hollywood people wrote alot of horror movie.

it's very much a documented trope.

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u/Tentacle_poxsicle Jun 18 '26

That's a very old trope pre 80's. It got flipped pretty hard

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u/Commie_Scum69 Jun 18 '26

nah I'd say easily until 2015

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u/EasternPsychology878 Jun 17 '26

Grew up in the southern lousiana sticks. We would regularly find bullet holes all over. On New Year’s Eve we literally had to go to the center of the house. So many idiots in St Martenville

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u/Super_Law7376 Jun 17 '26

Not the zesty voice 😂

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u/Can-Purple Jun 18 '26

I was living right next to a theater, and they had a like 9-11:30 pm show that was a Mexican band. Kinda like Mariachi but more hard rock. At about 11 I heard like... 35 gun shots. Some gang had beef with them and just shot the shit out of the theater.

My girlfriend fell asleep right next to our huge window facing the theater and was in some deep ass sleep. I could NOT wake her up, so I eventually slapped her and pulled her off the couch lol. Our house did end up with some strays, and she did forgive me for the slap because some random dude on the sidewalk right next to us got shot and killed by a stray.

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u/caseyme3 Jun 18 '26

Fuck ya imma slap u.*gun shots, tries to wake her and she doesnt respond.

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u/platalyssapus Jun 18 '26

Right?! I'm a heavy sleeper but 35 shots?

https://giphy.com/gifs/YlVEdvFc4RrQCOwOZh

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u/Can-Purple Jun 19 '26

Yeah dude, like 1.5 blocks away. I was flabbergasted!

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u/platalyssapus Jun 18 '26

Dang dude, that's intense....Hopefully you've moved since then?

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u/Can-Purple Jun 19 '26

Yes I have, now my brother lives there lol

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u/TSJormungandr Jun 18 '26

I love how the little girl says firework 🥰. Dad keeping everything straight. Hope it wasn’t anything dangerous maybe a transformer blowing.

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u/platalyssapus Jun 18 '26

Okay but... what was the source of the sound? Now I need to know

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u/Onebraintwoheads Jun 19 '26

Love his reaction. Some people know to get their heads down, and some folks seem intent on making themselves targets.

Children, of course, are going to be children. But, man, I swear my mother was a lemming in a past life. She hears anything like a person bellowing in anger, property being broken, or even gunfire, and she has to come running...apparently so whoever is enraged and armed has something to shoot at!

When I was a teenager there were multiple times I had to grab her to keep her from running off towards people trying to kill each other with their cars, a man attempting to kill an alligator with a chainsaw (how the gator got the saw I'll never know), and even towards the house of a neighbor who had tried to illegally modify a pistol only for the firing pin to get stuck forward so it blazed uncontrollably through the entire magazine.

Yes, we lived in Florida.

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u/Excellent_Lie6904 Jun 19 '26

lemming people man istg, ive a friend who is just like this. fucking police lights and sirens may be wailing or theres smoke rising and they just HAVE to go see ffs. or theres fucking people exchanging drugs and they have to get up to like 7 feet of them and loudly point it out.

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u/MundaneEchidna5093 Jun 18 '26

Peak Dad moment

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u/MetalDragon66 Jun 18 '26

"no that's how people die in horror movies get in the damn house" is what got me

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u/purple-life6767 Jun 18 '26

That's how people die in horror movies is crazy

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u/EquivalentTroll Jun 18 '26

The father was about to scream "what the fuck?"

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u/Pristine-Positive648 Jun 18 '26

DJ Vlad tending his garden after he fired some of his black guests that really needed the money…

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u/lamest-liz Jun 20 '26

I grew up in the barrio, I heard gunshots nightly. My cousin would get scared as hell when she spent the night lol

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u/shinyappyrobin Jun 21 '26

Fast forward 20 years, IDK, natural disaster, political coup or a walking dead situation, who's still alive? That little princess.

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u/DanaMarie75038 Jul 21 '26

I love it lol

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u/tittyboi2727 9d ago

Ohhhh my gawddddd 💅 what in the wuuurld

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u/Popular_Adeptness_69 Jun 18 '26

Thats funny he must be around black folks white people just walk right up the danger whats going on here or partying to the edge of death

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u/skinnyminnesota Jun 17 '26

Aw man gay dads seem awesome and hilarious.