like i said–get a life. i’m guessing from the response of other posters you put up some morbid link of a kid getting really hurt or killed. whatever you did, i’m not going to entertain your sick need to try to make me look bad. in fact, you make yourself look strange by posting some weird link like that. honestly, what’s wrong with you?
and i’m guessing you don’t find American’s Funniest Videos funny?
i do, it’s one of my favorite shows. on the show people fall, bounce off of trampolines, and all kinds of things.
the kid falling in roller skates would have been a great clip for the show. he didn’t really hurt himself, he is a wild kid, and will probably roll down the sidewalk today in the rollerskate shoes–despite the snow and ice on the ground. he will fall down, get back up and repeat over and over. it’s what he does. the kid just falls down constantly, and it is really funny (mostly because he does it again and again as if it’s a part of his genetic make-up)
for instance, the other day he was slamming a basketball against the wall, over and over. i was looking out the window and caught him at a moment when the ball came back and nailed him hard on the head. it freaked me out, but then he picked the ball up and continued to do it again. i figured he was ok since he continued to play.
he doesn’t stop, this kid. he plays how harder than any kid around here, it’s awesome. (and yes, funny at times)
Ignore him/her kitty. I usually love a good cat fight but this one isn’t worth it; you’re definately in the right. Some people are WAY too uptight. I think 10% of the world’s problems would go away if people would just loosen up.
There’s a “thing” some people have…a sort of “sixth sense.” We’re probably born with it.
I believe in some sense this is true, example.
Yesterday we are at a resturaunt that had swivel chairs with my 2 1/2 yr old. He’s screwing with the chair and wacks himself in the head pretty hard, enough to leave a red spot. Upon deciding he was perfectly ok he does it again, this time on purpose and not quite so hard. He then grabs his head and start’s go “ooooooohhhh my head, my head”, then laughing and “That’s silly”.
Later that night my wife had “The nanny” on TV, in which a child was crying and the mother was trying to “Force feed him” some soap. My son stood there with a very concerned look on his face and and asked “what doing?!”, “He ok?”. This is not an unusual thing for him and even at two fairly clearly knows when someone is really hurt and “what is funny”.
Oddly enough later that night my wife and I had a similar discussion how people, males in particular, find humor in other peoples pain. In almost every instance in my life that I’ve laughed at someone after they’ve hurt themselves I’ve known they are or would be fine prior to laughing. I can’t really remember a time when I laughed at someone who was seriously hurt…well until I knew they were going to be ok.
It’s odd really as I’ve even laughed at myself and have in some cases been laughing while in some level of serious pain. Why do you think teh three stooges and other “slapstick” comedy is so funny to some. Certainly getting nailed in the head with a cast iron pan hurts, but damn watching it in TV is hilarious some times.
Sorry Kitty, as a father of 2 young daughters, I cannot find anything amusing about terrified/injured children. NOTHING. Not at any level. And no, I don’t watch AFV because I can’t believe some stupid parents would rather video their own child getting dropped/kicked/fall off a swing/crash a sled etc. than put the camera down and save them…
Not funny to me now, never will be. (Maybe some of us were born without the “3 Stooge” gene or something…)
ITA! But I don’t restrict my mortification to kids. I HATE AFV. Why in the world would I want to watch somebody humiliated/injured? The program is incredibly coarse. I don’t do coarse.
I don’t need the lecture on humor; I think the 3 Stooges gene is more apt. I don’t do 3 Stooges either. To each his/her own.
Susan and I thought they were hysterical…guess with 2 kids that means we are 2 mean-spirited SOBs, according to some to of the humor-impaired killjoys that have responded to this…
And I feel for yours, since you seem to lack any sense of humor whatsoever. I bet you’re a real blast to be around, a regular laugh riot. And for the record, don’t worry too much about my boys…seeing as how they instantly rush over to me as soon as I come home from work, I don’t think I’m damaging them too much…
Susan and I thought they were hysterical…guess with 2 kids that means we are 2 mean-spirited SOBs, according to some to of the humor-impaired killjoys that have responded to this…
Spot
no, they are hilarious. i sent that link to everyone i knew (for the most part), and they all thought it was hilarious. some people just don’t like to laugh, and some think of life way too seriously. the same people that cannot laugh at this, probably are incapable of laughing at themselves too.
i was scared shitless of Santa too, and i still don’t like him. so, from my own viewpoint, i find it especially funny because i screamed and cried too. and i have laughed about that every christmas for years–my mom and i get a big bang out of remembering it.
if we can’t laugh at our childhood, or funny/oddball things that happen when our kids our growing up then that is a sad state of affairs.
And I feel for yours, since you seem to lack any sense of humor whatsoever. I bet you’re a real blast to be around, a regular laugh riot. And for the record, don’t worry too much about my boys…seeing as how they instantly rush over to me as soon as I come home from work, I don’t think I’m damaging them too much…
Just stop it, Spot and Kitty. Really. My one kid is great to be around. And she has a well developed sense of humor. I’d characterize it as more of a dry wit. Sophisticated, really, for an 18 YO. She, like me, doesn’t do physical humor very well.
You enjoy physical humor. Quit being so defensive. Physical humor has a great following and I’m not calling you out. I’m expressing my opinion on the matter. We don’t find anything funny about people getting hurt or humiliated. You do. I do. It means we have different sensibilities.
Sorry, I get defensive when some dude who has never met says that he “feels for my kids”, as if I am sort of terrible parent. Reread your post and tell me you wouldn’t have gotten defensive had I posted that about you.
I’m not terribly invested in this thread. Having reread the last bits, I’d just venture to say that I disagreed with you. You then felt comfortable to insult me and my child. I responded and you then asked me to read the thread.
I’ll just end this on my part with saying that AFV, and laughing at local kids getting hurt strikes me as incredibly coarse. I don’t do coarse. But I promise that I’ll never laugh at your kids. Never. I’m sure they are beyond measure and incredibly lovely, as kids are wont to do.
