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[–] 82 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I have a shared apartment and I must scream.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Are you my ex husband or my ex roommate? Or are you my sister? Apparently everyone in my life gets to scream but me 🥹. I only get loud when playing in Halo multiplayer. God I miss kickboxing

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  • [–] 45 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Throwing a tantrum at 60: you vote for a fascist and crash the economy.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    While making sure housing is unaffordable for everyone else cause you need your house to go up in value.

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago

    65: Kids are out of the house, you have some money to fix a broken door, but you're just too damn tired to go breaking things or screaming about it. Also, the reason for the tantrum happened 30 years ago. So you tell your family a pointless, rambling, mind-numbingly boring story about it at Thanksgiving, instead.

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    feeling good about my parenting skills, my kid's tantrums are getting shorter and shorter. she screams, cries, kicks her legs, all on the floor. She only gets anything once she starts to be calm.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    She gets things after a tantrum once she is calm again or not at all then?

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Let's say she wants to play with crayons when it's time to eat. If she starts throwing a tantrum, I lie her down on the ground and don't pay attention to her, except to say "we will hug and go get your fruit when you are calm". When the tantrum is finished, I ask her "are you calm?" and if she says yes, we hug, I clean her up, and give her the fruit.

    Until she calms down, I don't pay attention to her, except to re-iterate that she will have more stiumulus once she is calm.

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  • [–] 44 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    This is privileged tantrum-having.

    My tantrums were never property destructive. I grew up poor and I would have been murdered for that. I rage plenty, but never outwardly toward objects.

    My tantrums, instead, were and have continued to be personally destructive. I make people hate me, I ruin all the things that matter.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    Yeah, if I'd have destroyed something in a tantrum, I just wouldn't have had that thing anymore. It didn't even matter if we could afford a replacement or not - I wouldn't get anything my parents couldn't trust me with.

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  • [–] 42 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    What the fuck is your door made of? If an angry kick breaks it, I promise it ain't $300

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  • [–] 48 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    It ain't, but the handyman you pay to install it is.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    You're not breaking a solid core door with a kick unless it's well-placed and you're trying to break it. Most of those still aren't $300 in your link.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Ah link did not work correctly for some reason? Was filtered to non-solid, interior doors with fittings and etc. but it seems to have not done so. Pricing was showing 300+ for over half of them, but that was with installation. Point being it ain’t THAT far off.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago

    Hi, my names Kyle, I'm 6 white Monster drinks deep, and I'm ready for a crashout if I lose this next CoD match and derank.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago

    I mean, this is why social media is full of videos of dudes sitting in their trucks complaining about how everyone's crazy now.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago

    Throwing a tantrum as a parent: Just tell your kid you're strict, then scream at them for every little thing.

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  • [+] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Lol, people can't afford to have kids by 30. What universe is this post from?

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago

    Lol, people can’t afford to have kids by 30.

    I can guarantee you

    1. People have kids whether they can afford them or not
    2. Different levels of social integration lead to different support structures for child-rearing which leads to different life stages when people can/do have kids at different financial points.
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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Had mine at 28, now 30. The kid has been the most affordable thing about my life the last 2 years. It wasn't the kid that demanded to switch strollers on a weekly basis and it wasn't the kid who threatened suicide and all kinds of other things when I didn't buy shit.

    I'm making do on 50 hours of work a month, give or take, until I can get my kid to reliably stay at kindergarten for multiple hours per day. My ex is not paying any child support AND is still getting the small monthly national child support payments that every kid gets until the age of 18 or 19 or something. It does help that I have a family home that was empty already so I only need to pay to heat this big old house (not cheap) and I have some support from my mom who occasionally helps out with clothes and other expenses.

    When I also had to pay the entire upkeep of my ex and her other child (who, to be fair, also didn't cost that much to feed and clothe, despite my ex only buying Nike, Guess and other overpriced brands for her), I was working 200+ hours a month AND getting essentially an entire national median salary in parental pay (first 1.5 years after child is born) and still had to keep borrowing more and more money from friends. Would've been enough money to COMFORTABLY raise 5-6 children with anyone other than my ex, pretty much. This while my ex didn't work since BEFORE the pregnancy started. In fact, the pregnancy was her plan to keep me around.

    So I'd argue that a lot of people could afford to have kids by 30 as long as they do it with the right partner. A lot of my friends make more money than I ever did, while my own income was a "holy shit" moment for some of my other friends and family when I came clean about everything going on in my life, particularly what my ex did to my finances. Of course my country is more affordable too, I don't live in the US. Kindergarten is less than 100 EUR a month, kid now eats mostly the same stuff I do (no more special baby foods to spend on, besides formula which is pretty affordable, I use locally made stuff) and grows fairly slowly so I don't have to buy new clothes every single month. Diapers are still an expense and will be for a few more months at least, but that's also 50-60 EUR a month, not more.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Ah yes, perfect post for the "funny" community.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Living a life of quiet desperation.

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    My favorite pic of Ben Afleck. You can feel the air in this picture.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I wonder if he hates that this is the picture of him people feel most expression from, instead of one of the films he busted his ass to make

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That feeling when 30 is the expected time to have kids already and you are reminded you are not allowed to ever responsibly raise children of your own in this one life you get on this dying planet.

    I hate this world

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    at 30 the kids just broke the door and phone

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Axe + wood reserves

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    This hurt my soul, I dated a NARC that used to love throwing my personal phone, not their own. Luckily that was during the years when phones only costing 100-200 dollars. Now these fuckers cost 1000-1500 dollars.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    I'm 16. My tantrums consist of crying in my room.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Yeah but at 50 you can go back to screaming and taking a shit on your neighbors driveway.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Usually by the age of 27 you're not throwing random tantrums, lol. Keep your emotional breakdowns for the time they actually fit, like a death in the family or whatever. Then, it's fine if you have a moment of sad madness, who wouldn't understand?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I only ever had a destructive tantrum one time, when I was a teenager. I punched a hole in a door while my parents were taking our dog to be put down.

    They had to do it. He had late stage cancer and could barely walk, but I wasn't ready to let go of my best friend.

    Regreted it the second my hand went through

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Lol lmao, you think I have kids?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    I do not think I ever threw a tantrum that that destroyed property (I probably tried as a toddler, but I did not have the strength).

    This is why therapy is penny foolish and pound wise. Your parents should have been paying for a therapist to teach you not to throw tantrums, not simply paying to fix the house every time you smashed it up.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (6 children)

    Sure, yeah, if said parents weren't among the oppressed working-class, seeking validation in every waking moment and expecting rug-pull ambushes & "accredited" charlatans around every corner.

    I mean, sheeyit. Your username alone references a fully-ratfucked concept in a candied-up exceptionalism shell that, essentially, gave the US "education" system free license to segregate & target the variably disabled youth of that era.

    The salient matter is not "if only (your) parents did (this), instead". It's the same crab bucket, different crabs. Lather, rinse, repeat.

    At least I wasn't born in their era. The "exceptional" kids got a free visit to 'Nam. 😶

    (see Project 100,000)

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (4 children)

    First of all, I am not sure what you are talking about in regards to my user name.

    Second of all, parents living paycheck to paycheck are not buying their kids a new phone and a new door every time their child has a hard day at school and decides to blow off steam by smashing up the house.

    Working class kids should learn not to throw destructive tantrums as toddlers, when they rip the head off a toy and their parent glues it back together, crooked, instead of buying them a new one.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    TAG means "Talented And Gifted" it's a program at school for kids who test especially well

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    And "test especially well" is code for "on the spectrum" before that was a thing. We were counted as abnormal at best, and subhuman in general, but told to our gullible little faces that we were "special", "gifted", "talented", young geniuses-to-be "with so much potential" ...Let's not propagate the bullshit, hmm?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Tantrum at 58: I need a nap.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That’s when you just drink

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Why is this post so loud?!?!?! My baby is sleeping!!

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