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[–] [email protected] 22 points 22 hours ago

Me when I was little: “mom, why are those guys holding hands?”

Mom: “well you know how you like girls? Some boys like boys. Some girls like girls.”

Me: “oh, cool. Mom, why are the street signs here blue but green in the other town?”

I bring up this exchange whenever people say stuff like “but what will the kids think? It will break their brains!”

Now, my mom teaching that to me DID cause some damage, because she forgot to add: “but you go to catholic school, so don’t repeat that or else you’ll get in trouble AND the other kids will bully you and the teachers won’t stop them”. Thankssss mom.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love the phrase "the turd doesn't fall far from the asshole".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

That's just false though...I had one of my kids squirt poop (imagine the most disgusting water gun ever made) at me literally several feet when they were a baby. Absolutely horrifying experience and subsequent cleanup.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I bet they giggled as you were bukkake'd with shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I truly hope this is true: Brand new sentence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

... someone just awakened a fetish and I hope I never cross paths with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Well, that's a new spin on today's lucky 10000

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

An example of great parenting. Kid asks question, answer question honestly and briefly. No need for a lecture.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

I used to be like a diet version of Mike. Sometimes the turd becomes a progressive transfem communist.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Note, there are two devils in the last pic, a big one and a small one. I know that feeling too well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

Overton window for devils.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

I don't think this comic holds true. Mike is 6. Who knows where he heard these things. Could have been tv. Could have been at school. Could have been other kids his age.

The point is, his name is Mike. Which if you've ever met a Mike, you know that all Mikes are assholes by default.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I don't understand the last panel, are they supposed to be representing commenters?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

is the metaphor of the little devil on your shoulder falling out of fashion? not aimed at you personally, your comment just made me wonder if it's starting to become less known in general.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I thought that was a possibility but they both look like devils?

Also I don't think the metaphor is falling out of fashion, less common than it used to be, but I think everyone still knows it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

They are both devils - his wife (the author) has a shoulder angel and shoulder devil, along with an occasional shoulder princess, shoulder cave woman, and a few others that have appeared once or twice. Obby here gets a relatively subtle devil and an overt satyr-shaped devil.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

ohh I see. Thank you