But how to teach anger management without making angry first? Checkmate leftist! With a father like that she will be angy a lot.
This guy is a fuck and this was the worst execution imaginable, but there's actually something valid to teaching your kid, not how to use this can opener device, but how to figure out how something they've never seen before works. It's a valuable thing to teach, and to practice. Of course, you don't do this with hunger as an incentive.
We've been trying to have a struggle session over beans for months and he just . . . tweeted it out.
redditor takes adderal and makes up a story about his daughter.
the tool is meant to be pleasing but it doesnt have any superfluous qualities.
when you are a tool thats trying to be pleasing but you cant stop the thunderous clapping of your superfluous qualities.
take can opener. put can opener on can. tell daughter to hold can opener firmly while turning the bit on the side. done. lesson achieved in under ten seconds, you pseudo intellectual knob
I realized that I'd never taught her to use it. I felt like a dope.
He then goes on to waste six hours of her life.
Apocalypse Dad was overjoyed: a Teaching Moment just dropped in my lap!
proceeds not to teach her anything
Hey now he taught her that he's a narcissist that won't help her when she needs it
cuz the dipshits throw everything out every couple years for a new 'standard' thats just as bad as the old standard.
Is this why the Fallout universe is filled with futuristic technology beyond even what we have today yet most people hunt geckos with shotguns and live burnt out warehouses?
One of the replies to people criticizing this is “if he just does it for her, how will she learn how to use a new tool in the future?” Probably looking up on YT, because she’s definitely not going to ask her dad.
Worse still is that a lot of kids like this grow up to not only hate and resent their parents, but will either mirror their parents' parenting when they have kids - continuing a cycle of abuse - or will overcorrect and become a helicopter parent. There's this weird, perfect balance to maintain between letting someone fail, and teaching them how to succeed.
This was brought up in the replies, but this is basically the “teach a man to fish” allegory minus the teaching part. Just throw someone a fishing rod and say “there’s the water, figure it out.”
Tbh i understand why you'd think that and im probably gonna be paranoid about it now too
this guy also did the theme song for everyone's favorite lib comedy podcast, MBMBAM (although they found out and are quickly getting a new one)
They're pretty funny, though it feels like they're massive libs. They don't talk about politics, but that's the vibe I get.
Justin's wife, Dr. Sydnee McElroy, hosts a different podcast with him on the same network called Sawbones. She's been dipping her toes into politics ever since COVID-19 became A Thing, and did a really great episode a few months ago about how the Black Panthers were fucking rad. I wouldn't say that they're necessarily radicalizing, but they're definitely travelling down the lib-to-leftist pipeline.
From one of the episodes around the election they mentioned voting several times in that special little way only RGB portrait carrying libs do. At least they usually don't mention politics any other time but that episode had big :vote: vibes
Fwiw, I think they’re hilarious. I agree with the other comments that whenever politics do come up they seem super-lib. Maybe not ideologically committed to liberalism but more people who have been born into it and never looked for an alternative. Strikes me as getting most of their political opinions from some combo of MSM and Twitter. Low-information libs-by-default (this is about 100% projection, btw. When I first started listening to MBMBAM about six years ago all those things described me and so now I assume it of them. Maybe they’re actually psychos grounded in political theory who read The Economist and agree with it, I don’t know. I get all my political opinions from
my ongoing study of history, political theory, and current eventsviolent leftist memes nowadays)Anyway, they’re just a goofy comedy podcast. It’s just three brothers goofing around and laughing at each other for an hour. As someone who tends to like dark and cynical entertainment, I will occasionally follow something that is just fundamentally nice and MBMBAM is one of the most genuinely wholesome things I’ve come across.
the funniest parts are turned into animatics on youtube by a variety of different animators, i just watch those instead, here’s a 40 second one
Holy shit, I knew that name was familiar! How do you not vet these people for stuff like this?
man likes band --> man needs song for podcast --> man asks band if he can have song for podcast --> 10 years later, band is now bean dad
My child: “Father, I’m nearly starving to death, just tell me how to open this food can”
Me, an extremely responsible parent: “Aha! A teaching moment;”
If the "teaching moment" was actually, ya know, teaching the kid to open the can, it would still be weird but fine i guess?
But dude really just went "figure this shit out or we're not having dinner" like wtf
It sounds like she didn't even learn how to do it, she just kind of lucked into it.
Having a boomer for a parent is literally like having a child for a parent. I don't know a single boomer that isn't a childish brat that treats their kids like some kind of unwanted pet.
This is why literally every millennial has depression, lmao.
Chapo.chat is your parent now Dirt_Owl, and we are very proud of you. :che-poggers:
If I ever had the audacity to ask what was for dinner my mom would yell at me “I don’t know, what are you making?!?!”
Wish I had had the wit to reply “well I’m like 8 so I guess pop tarts or cold cereal since that’s about the extent of my culinary skill.”
Also when I first got my learners permit my dad was weirdly pissed I don’t know how to get to certain places around town, assuming that I had paid attention when I rode to places with him as kid and didn’t, yah know, look out the window at birds and squirrels.
She didnt even want beans is the fucking cherry on top of this, and he doesnt even like baked beans either, neither of them wanted baked beans but his apocalypse dad ego shit made him force his kid to work on a can for 6 hours so that both of them could eat a meal they dont like.
Lmao Ken Jennings from Jeopardy is getting caught in this for defending the bean dad, apparently bean dad also has some terrible antisemitic/racist/homophobic tweets from 2011-2014 twitter that are being brought up, lots of fun drama about a weird asshole getting yelled at
its like really bad too, i guess he's deactivated but check out this screenshot https://twitter.com/diplogeek/status/1345823705226739712?s=20
okay that shit is actually funny, i didn't hear about that part but that is great blue check solidarity
This is the idealized form of Tough Love.
Doing nothing, kid figures it out, brag about how you're a good patent.
Jennings isn't the first person to get sucker into this mindset.
