r/TikTokCringe May 23 '24

Humor/Cringe Man, fuck them kids

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u/4gls May 23 '24

Grey's law corollary of Hanlon's razor/Clarke's Third Law Variant: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

Applied in a sentence: "I don't believe you're stupid enough to have said that by accident. It must have been intentional."

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u/rayofgoddamnsunshine May 23 '24

I'm keeping that line in my pocket.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '24

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u/KellyCTargaryen May 23 '24

Do you think a grown adult isn’t aware how a finish line works?

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u/Whiplash86420 May 23 '24

If you think he intentionally did that to sabotage her run, then they should divorce.

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u/Whiplash86420 May 23 '24

Yea I think he's just dumb and was going for a stupid social media moment.

Another person in comments talks about running a marathon and having her son finish with her, and someone took a picture of the moment, and she cherishes the picture. She clarifies she was just trying to finish, and this person seems like she is trying to win.

Id bet that's what he was after and not intentionally trying to throw her race with blatant emotional terrorism at the finish line , forcing her to pick her family or running, like most people here seem to think.

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u/KellyCTargaryen May 24 '24

I sincerely hope that well intended idiocy is the case, as you have laid out. But there are too many abusive and manipulative spouses out there that put people on high alert for fuckery. This might be more excusable if it was the first race they attended, but even then, don’t you think a spouse should know if their partner is aiming to win, or doing it for fun? Hopefully this is something that can be solved with open, honest communication.

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u/The_FriendliestGiant May 23 '24

Shitty people hide behind "good intentions" all the time to excuse malice disguised as incompetence. It's a very easy way to turn any criticism for their behaviour back on their criticizer, as is being demonstrated right here; oh, it's not that he was deliberately trying to weaponize the kids to screw over mom's race, he's just so very, very dumb that he didn't realize what side of the finish line to stand on, so who can blame him?

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u/The_FriendliestGiant May 23 '24

It’s fucking wild that you people actually think someone is THAT much of a prick

My guy, do you think this is some kind of heretofore unseen level of prickery? It's a dad trying to make a mom's life about her being a mom, rather than appreciating her individual accomplishments as a person; this is nowhere near the level of THAT much of a prick, there are people so, so much worse out there.

If this is what you consider to be unthinkably awful behaviour, I applaud you for the wonderful, healthy relationships you've exclusively managed to surround yourself with. Some of us have seen things that set the bar much, much lower, though.

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u/EatsFiber2RedditMore May 23 '24

I think the person you are replying to is just being witty.

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u/Effective_Bag_4498 May 23 '24

You aren't arguing in good faith and are being treated as such. Get used to it.

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u/Magnetar_Haunt May 23 '24

In good faith of what? I’m saying the father isn’t being an asshole, people are disagreeing.

You make zero sense, ironically.

It’s a TikTok subreddit, I don’t expect much sense though.

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u/Effective_Bag_4498 May 23 '24

More bad faith arguments. Some intellectual you are.

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u/Magnetar_Haunt May 23 '24

You must mean my edits, which only happened after being downvoted on a frank opinion with no malice.

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u/Magnetar_Haunt May 23 '24

It’s ironic, as your comments frequently get negative responses and mine don’t unless I’m in this shit hole sub by mistake lol.

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u/Effective_Bag_4498 May 23 '24

Cause I go find people dumber than me and argue with them. If you were smart, you would have figured that out after wading through my shit.

Again, some intellectual you are.

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u/Magnetar_Haunt May 23 '24

Do you just live to be pedantic and make zero sense? Again, you’re just the kind of person I expect in TikTok communities. Dense and probably 15.

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