The worst are the parents that completely ignore all the signs of escalating behaviour and then come down on the kid like a tonne of bricks. Especially when it is a repeated behaviour and the parents have primed themselves to lose it.
The kid must be thinking, well fuck, these guys are just blowing their lids completely randomly.
PS. Parenting is hard work and my wife says I shouldn’t judge other parents but fuck me you gotta wonder sometimes lol
People who stretch meetings out longer than they have to with chit-chat and bullshit that is irrelevant … look, jerk, I don’t fuckin’ care about how overweight your cat, Garfield, is, ok!?
This is so completely over the top nasty. I fail to see the distinction between killing the turtle (presumably “it”) and wishing death on a child (“it,” “piece of shit,” “thing”), aside from that one of you is an adult and should know better and the other isn’t. I would also wonder where the six adults were while the child was rampaging through the apartment, breaking things.
I find that generally, at that age, parental doting and over-permissiveness is responsible for poor behavior/boundaries. So yes, not showing them how to behave, but beating them? Probably a stretch in affluent, sober people who themselves know the rules.
I would like to think not, but regardless, this is not something you should express. It is as distasteful as killing a reptile for fun, and you will eventually be ostracized for statements and attitudes like this.
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Let’s all lighten up a bit here, Anna’s just blowing off some steam with a bit of harmless hyperbole and we really don’t need to call Child Protection Services.
And nor am I calling anyone. Anna has said many times that she has difficulty in social settings. This potential difficulty is easily remedied by thinking “I’d like to kill the little fuck” rather than saying it. A couple of people noted gently that it was unsavory and line-crossing, and she doubled down. I’m simply reiterating that this sort of language is simply not socially appropriate. She can continue on with it or not, I don’t actually care. But I do feel a responsibility to state clearly that it will disadvantage her.
yeah… I get really attached to objects and animals, especially animals
Thank you for that
I would say that what Anna said was in between those too things. She said it on the internet. Many people use the internet to vent their frustrations, and say things they wouldn’t say to people they know in person.
I’d never say what I did in person
I know you are coming from a good place here - as is everyone else who has pointed out killing kids isn’t socially acceptable.
But I also think that it is patronising to assume that she needs to be clearly told that you can’t say that kind of thing in “polite society”.
If I ever post that I’m going to sacrifice a goat to pray for the painful death of the next arsehole who hogs the squat rack to do curls for 45 minutes, I’m kinda hoping that there won’t be a deluge of comments letting me know that, yes, that person may very well be A Bad Human Being, but be sure not to actually sacrifice the goat because that would cause me to be socially ostracized and also that arsehole-curler probably has a family who loves and needs him.
@EmilyQ I hope this isn’t coming across as confrontational - it isn’t meant to be, I guess I’m just saying random venting by posting anonymously on social media shouldn’t be taken any more seriously than graffiti on a toilet door and I don’t imagine for one second Anna was daft enough to actually say that out loud to anyone. And because she’s a regular poster on here and we “know” her, we should respect her enough to trust her judgement on that score.
Some stuff you shouldn’t say - on the internet or not. I feel like we’ve beat the horse dead here, the comment was deleted, and it’s been addressed. Let’s all move on, y’all. No hard feelings from anyone on either side, I assume.
No bad feelings here.
Definitely a touchy subject though all around.
No hard feelings
I ordered a new phone and according to the delivery service it’s getting further away from my country.
I thought I was really smart saving 20 quid over buying it a shop
My new “gym” just posted this event. 
Some days I wish I lived in a larger city so I could find an “underground” bodybuilding gym.
That garage gym calling my name is getting louder and louder…
Why does that piss you off?
I find it quite funny
I prefer a no nonsense kind of gym. I wouldn’t mind if they had something related to fitness but this feels out of place and a bit planet fitness-y.
In college I rarely lifted at the nice new fitness facility. I lifted in the janky, smelly hot room from the building built in 1926 that has all the big power lifters and bodybuilders on campus…best environment to make progress in (plus dumbbells up to 175)
ahh oksy.
Speaking of which, rack pull guy was back again today…
Is it normal to cringe hearing the bar repeatedly slam against the safeties? I feel bad for the bar
With the crappy non-power rated bars Crunch has that bar won’t last long.
Dave Tate said on one of his gym tour videos he keeps the crappy one-off bars and bent bars around specifically for rack pulls for that reason.
I share your anger at people doing rack pulls. That’s why I’m so hesitant to bring my deadlift bar to the gym. Not a lot of opportunities for rack pulls there, good community and all that but still… there is always at least one guy there who will manage to fuck it up.
