i think i still remember where i was the first time i saw this posted
Lucky for me I’m one of today’s 10,000 and have not seen this before.
always my favourite reply, and always my favourite comic. be well, my friend.
For me, it was 3rd and Market. It was November 22nd, 1963 at about 1238pm. I was walking past Sal’s Electeonic Emporium when I saw the commotion on the TVs in the display window.
i can only begin to imagine the pandemonium. oh, my god…
We really thought it was about to be World War III.
sad when we found out it was just an old gay ye
Okay, you lost me here. Clearly, I’m not up to date on current events and references.
oh, sorry. so sorry. kanye west made a tweet the other day. that’s all i’ll say. google it, okay?
Were you walking with your dinosaur next to Jesus on the beach when the footprints disappeared?
yes.i don’t know if it matters, but i was also wearing sandals with socks on.
What was Jesus wearing?
Nothing at all.
nothing at all
Stupid sexy Jesus.
Date & location please.
18F/CA ;)
18F? Were you born a granny (or old person)?
sorry, force of habit. i’m actually a middle aged dude from canada. (i hope you have a good sense of humour)
it was actually a few days into my first year of college. i remember waking up, seeing it briefly on the news before making my way to school (remember, this was before cell phones and a lot of web stuff). when i got to school, i remember standing just inside the door by the bar watching it all unfold on one of the big, ugly CRT televisions they had mounted in the lobby area. i called my dad, but i don’t remember the conversation. back then i was still a dumb kid in the dial-up internet days, and i was on a big Nostradamus kick. i remember my ex-girlfriend called me up all freaked out because she remembered me talking to her about some shit i read that sounded a lot like what happened at the time. (i don’t believe that stuff now, but it was all really freaky as a kid at the time)
It’s fine. Taking at face value you’re supposedly 18 I was remembered of my kids talking about the old days - i.e. 10 year olds talking about stuff merely 2 years ago (Ok to them that’s like a is decade to us). So that granny comment was tongue in cheek as well… :-)
Some say the neighor is still pounding on the door. But that kid went in Congress.
yeah, and now he’s albert freaking einstein!
Americans will use anything but the metric system
OP sounds like they might be British. The spelling of “neighbour” and the use of “Mental” kinda give it away.
Or one of many English-speaking countries that use that spelling!
“he just threw zero point one liter, or one deciliter water on my cat”
In this case by cup it probably actually refers to a pint glass of water (two measuring cups), but in any case not an exact measurement, so it doesn’t make sense to give exact measurements. Its describing the vessels of transportation, not the amounts.
I meant the term basin, just pointing out how I didnt intuit what that was.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/basin
A) an open usually circular vessel with sloping or curving sides used typically for holding water for washing
B) chiefly British : a bowl used especially in cooking
C) the quantity contained in a basin spilled a basin of water on the floor
Not only is that not a measurement the US uses, the only geographical location mentioned in the definition is “chiefly British.”
So, uh, “no.”
My neighbors daughter had one of those water guns. I told her if she shoots at me, I’ll get the hose and retaliate. She grinned, shot at me, and ran away laughing.
I talked to her dad, he nodded, and when she came back for more mischief, she got wet.
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Stop letting your children roam, you assholes. Maybe keep your child off your neighbours property? Don’t make your child someone else’s pest and they won’t be treated as such.
Roaming children are a big problem, not to mention the entitlement of parents who think it’s ok to open their doors and let their children fuck off to do whatever on whoever’s property. Imagine if foster parents did that? They rightly have their foster child taken away and charged
Funny thing is that most children in the West nowadays are indoors children that only ever go outside to be driven between places.
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No need to brag!
As someone who has had neighbor’s children randomly walk into my house and demand things like food, water (I won’t say no to children, I’m not heartless), and use of my TV and internet. I’m sorry, but don’t let kids be pest is unironic in some areas. Some people haven’t socialized their kids properly and we were the ones who had to explain to these kids (4 to 6 year olds) that wandering without permission into other people’s houses was not only inappropriate but dangerous to them. We, the strangers, telling these kids that they should be wary of strangers. The parents just didn’t give a fuck and wouldn’t even talk to us, but they were apparently fine with their kids roaming into stranger’s homes. I’m glad we moved away.
wtf. Where was that?
As if the kid threw the water for that reason. Maybe the neighbor shouldn’t have let the kid roam? Would fit your logic.
People who “love” animals but hate children and people tend to be not ok in the head
Cats are not the same as humans
Exactly. Cats should be kept inside at all times. The amount of native wildlife they kill each year is sickening. Some speecies are near wiped out because idiots let their cats roam around killing countless things every day. Cats in australia, for example, kill 10+ billion native animals every year. We have things endangered because of it. We have to have islands and such with no cats just to bring levels up for species.
All cats belong inside, or in a cat run, that cannot in any way cause harm to any other animal that doesn’t stray in to its run. My cat is inside only, never outside without a lead and lives a perfectly fine life. No feline aids, no ticks, no fights, no stray bastards born. Does not contribute at all to the needless slaughter of native animals.
Let your cats go outside: Bad.
Attacking cats that are outside: Even worse.
Inside: pet
Outside: pest
Let your cats go outside: Bad.
Let you cats go outside with a leash and harness while you take them for a walk: good.
Attacking cats that are outside: Even worse.
Tossing water at a car is hardly “attacking” it, homie
Time to splash the father
My head hurts from reading that. Comma and periods, people. Comma and periods.
I was gifted Robert Merle’s The Day of the Dolphin once. They told me it was a great book. I’m still sure it is, but I couldn’t get past the 2nd page. The lack of punctuation made it awfully cumbersome to read.
This is what big comma and periods want you to believe. Don’t be a fool!
too many commas and periods to provide a believable refuttal
Too few periods indicate a pregnancy.
Damn, I wish. I wanna form a family so bad
Ur mom is pregagagant.
Does she have starch masks?
No butt her babby got pregant.
…,clea.rly ,.com.,.,mas .,….a n .,.d ,p,e,r,i,o,d,s……,.,.,areimportant
Puntuation is such a waste of space and ink.
haha cool original Hawaiian news paper was like this post missionary and pre overthrow
please dont say we need to use correct grammer its unnecessary periods or commas in all of history have never really added anything to a sentence or body of text writing is about the soul not trying to control peoples formatting formatting its self is often overrated and not at all necessary inorder to discern what the meaning is of the writers passage
I think there are a few people who haven’t spotted that this is sarcasm. At least, I think it’s sarcasm.
That’s the disturbing part, people are so dumb that it’s often impossible to know if it’s sarcasm or stupidity. We’ve gotten to a point where it’s often “this is too dumb/weird/illogical to be sarcasm”.
it may be a fact of matter of opinion of weather or not a thing statment or writing is sarcasm actually matters beyond subjectively evaluation by the person who is interacted with the intended message philosophers amongus often state that the true meaning of communication is muddled to the point that an objective meaning is unrealizable and that the true nature of the message is as it appears to the bee holder
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This comment just hurts.
What were you saying about “periods or commas in all of history”?
Or something about “the soul not trying to control people”?
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Oh I got the joke. I was just responding in kind
We need to use correct grammar.
holy shit this flew right over peoples heads
Boooo
Let’s eat, Grandpa.
Let’s eat Grandpa.
Commas save lives, friend.
Let’s eat out, grandma.
Well executed
Speciesism
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I could take shit from people to some extent but if it is my pets, I am putting a smile on that face
I personally can take all kinds of shit because I know my limits. As my pets sworn caretaker I have to do everything in my power to protect them from physical and mental stress, so i won’t let them take any abuse from anyone. Frankly my pets rank higher than a lot of humans in my life and are treated accordingly, I think a lot of people feel that way tbh.
Yeah but with a ten year old, talk to their parents first. You want to drench a child without their consent? Okay but they had better be in an environment that can explain to them that this is a tit for tat type thing. A ten year old doesn’t understand a lot of things and it’s not up to the child to perform what we expect them to. Do they need to be corrected, yes. Does doing it so callously benefit anyone? Only a bully. There’s a huge difference between constructive discipline and just straight up punishment. It takes an adult to know the difference.
At age ten I was coding in Assembly on my C64 and build radio controlled model airplanes without assistance from an adult… so I guess in this case the ten year old should have a pretty clear understanding of his action and the consequences. And to be honest: What did happen? He got wet. Booo-hoo what a tragedy! Would he have gotten a good spanking (would perhaps have happened when I was this age in the 80s), then perhaps I could slightly understand the outrage from his dad.
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Ten-year-olds understand quite a lot of things. They don’t always think before they act, but they would absolutely understand this object lesson.
It’s water. It’s not harmful. Getting splashed with water is most ten-year-olds’ idea of a good time in most scenarios.
Is this the most constructive way to go about teaching a kid how to behave properly? No.
Is this going to scar the average kid for life? Also no.
talk to their parents first
This is key. It’s one thing to stop a child from harassing your pet. If you “teach them a lesson” after the fact without the parents’ permission, there are now two wrongs that need to be dealt with.
You can tell the people in here thinking it’s ok to retaliate like that are people that live alone with cats or in their parents basement with cats. I have cats and children. Y’all this isn’t the way to go about this.
pours a basin of water over you
It’s water, get over yourself
At 10 they should know better. Now, I don’t know the dynamic of this “neighborship”, and pettiness is not the way to go about anything. At the same time though, it’s only water.
If my kid did that, I’d let you splash them again.
Truly cannot conceive of any other appropriate response. My kid’s an asshole sometimes, better he get gentle lessons now.
Seriously my first thought if I saw this all occurring and my kid came complaining to me about it is I’d just say “well this is how the cat feels”
That the risk you take with an outdoor cat. It’s not even like water is harmful to it.
I used to have an outdoor cat and if that happened I would have shrugged it off and expected him not to go there again.
That the risk you take
Well someone might just hit your car, that’s the risk you take by driving, nobody got hurt, they shouldn’t be held accountable. I would have shrugged it off and started taking the bus.
This is fun, we can remove all accountability from everything that’s not harming someone directly!
Well, you don’t have to let your cat go outside. In fact is kind of reckless to do so.
Well, you don’t have to drive it’s kind of reckless to do that too.
“Nobody got hurt, just LET ASSHOLE BE ASSHOLES! MUH FREEDUMS!”
Nah, I’m a firm believer in ‘Fuck around and Find out’
It’s the risk you take letting your kid go outside. It’s not even like water is harmful to it.
I used to have a kid that went outside and if thst happened I would have shrugged it off and expected him to not go there anymore.
That’s the risk you take with an outdoor brat. It’s not even like water is harmful to it.
I used to have an outdoor brat and if that happened I would have shrugged it off and expected him not to go there again.
Oh my god i wrote mine after you wrote yours.
Yours is way better. Kudos.
Both takes are 100% correct
I mean… yeah
What’re you in The Bloods, you can’t say cat? C’mon 5, what’s brackin’?
What are you saying?
Never talked to any gang members huh?
Well, the joke is that Bloods can’t say things beginning with the letter C, like “Cat,” and the above comment repeatedly used “brat” to replace “cat” as would be done by a Blood. For instance, they don’t say “cracking,” they’ll replace the C, making it “bracking.” Crips will do the reverse, saying C where there once was a B. Yes it’s ridiculous, but that’s what they do, and the joke requires knowledge of this to understand. They also have numbers ascribed to their gangs, 5 is bloods, 6 is crips, so “what’s brackin’ 5” would be something said by some Damu out there to another (a Damu being a member of the bloods, damu means blood in Swahili iirc, and tbf he’d actually say “what’s poppin 5” instead but brackin’ was necessary for the joke.)
Yes it is silly. Now enjoy my favorite old Blood music video from the 47 Miller Gang, If U Blood Throw It Up
It’s cruelty. Can we chuck water over you?
I think calling a splash of water from some dumb child “cruelty” delegitimizes actual cruelty. It’s shit behavior for sure, but don’t compare it to someone who tortures animals for fun.
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Only if I am walking on your fence
But why is it a problem if it’s not doing you any harm?
I am not saying it’s something you should do if someone walks on peoples fences.
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“Next time it won’t be water”.
Bullets?
A bucket of bullets does not sound that threatening. A bucket of battery acid, tepid water, or mud, a bit more. Although I would not recommend escalating stuff in general, people fucking around pets needs that sometimes.
Cat piss
Let’s start with feces, John Wayne.
Throwing water at each other, the way people used to throw eggs…
Don’t worry. Water prices will start going up too.
As a parent, if my kid did that, I’d likely side with the neighbour. I would put it (very loosely) in the category of “natural consequence” punishments.
It fits the crime, it discourages the crime, it forces empathy with the cat, and it does no real harm.
I think it depends a bit on where the cat is. If my cat is in somebody’s yard and the owner does not like it, it’s perfectly fine to spray my cat with water. In fact I do the same to my neighbours cat to prevent cat fights. If my cat is on neutral territory, I would be more pissed.
Agreed, there are 1001 context points that could change things around, one way, or the other.
This is my favorite answer. I’d argue that he got less than the natural consequences of his actions. In nature, when one assaults another, even with something as harmless as water, it’s usually reasonable to interpret it as a threat, the response to which is usually violence. That kid is lucky he didn’t get a face full of claws. I’ve gotten a lot worse from gently touching cats that, as it turned out, didn’t want to be touched. Boundaries are important.
Natural consequences doesn’t mean “law of the jungle” here. It just means linking cause and effect in a proportionate manner.
I tend to use a lot of “natural consequence parenting”. Basically, the response should flow from the cause. If you throw water over your friend, you can’t then complain if they throw water over you. You learn that, while it’s fun when expected, it can be deeply unpleasant when unexpected.
It’s a lot more effective than random generic punishments. The trick is shielding them from excessive results, while allowing proportional ones to play out. E.g. swinging on a chair will get a warning, but often not stopped. When they fall, there’s an “I told you so” before/with the cuddle. If there is a risk of a more serious injury however, e.g. the corner of a table where their head may hit, then I step in and stop things.
As a native social media pedant, I’d just like to take a moment to split hairs and point out that’s the literal definition of that phrase.
With all that said, I’m glad you’ve taken that approach. They’re very lucky to have you. I wish I could’ve had more adults like that in my life as a child. Here’s to you and your contribution to supporting the next generation. May they pass on those values, too.
That’s why I clarified. There’s 2 ways to read the phrase, one a lot harsher than the other.
It seems to be working well. It also results in me being surprised a lot of the time. I’m ready to deal with a scuffed knee, or a bruised ego. Instead they either get back up and try again, or just pull it off. At that point I need to mentally correct for their new capabilities.
The key thing is, I’m not looking after a small pet, I’m training a future adult. They need to both instinctively understand how the world works, while packing as much awesomeness and magic into the formative years as possible. Letting them learn and practice is a big part of that.
I don’t have kids but this is pretty much how my dad raised me. It made me really respect when he gave me a hard no for something, it meant “no really the risk majorly outweighs the reward” and even if I didn’t understand it at the time I trusted it. I got a lot of I told you so after varying seriousness of injuries lol. Eventually I learned that the soft warning meant I was going to have a lot of fun but I needed to be ready for if it went sideways. Now I’ve got a pretty healthy sense of my own limits and when to start gauging risk/reward
That’s basically the goal I’m aiming for. It’s also worth remembering to always give an (age appropriate) explanation with the “no”. If you’re using a hard no, then there is something they don’t yet understand. Explaining it lets them integrate that knowledge into their future risk management.
The only downside is their confidence is high enough to terrify me! The job of containing and shaping that confidence, without damaging it gives me plenty of grey hairs.
It’s not really about the proportion. The rest you have right. Things (good or bad) may happen as a result of your behavior (good or bad). Those things are natural consequences. We talk about it a lot in the context of punishing behavior, but natural consequences can also reinforce behavior. Of course, if we design those consequences, they’re no longer natural.
I like that approach. But when the parent only has their kid’s half of the story, it’s understandable why they would be pissed. I think most of us would be. Why did they do that to my kid? I’d want answers amd I wouldn’t be happy about it.
I suspect most kids who would throw water at a cat like that would not be very good liars about it. Also, adults tend not to dump water on kids for no reason. I would definitely take the time to pick apart what happened, before going full papa bear mode.
I might be pissed, but my instinct would be to find out who I should be pissed at first, before going on the war path.
Many people are not like that.
Unfortunately so. I know I’m slightly weirdly wired.
I agree with you personal. I meant more that people are irrational and if dad comes out back and the kid is soaked and crying, the kids most likely going to say idk she did this to me for no reason
I’ll take things that never happened for 200$
Dollars two hundred.
I like to imagine she had the basin of water handy in that moment.
Yes, no 10 year-old ever threw water at a cat.
