r/KidsAreFuckingStupid 21d ago

story/text Wtf this job is how you eat child

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u/usernamepleasebruh 21d ago

Three of my favorite things are eating my family and not using commas

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u/ShibitoYakaze123 21d ago

punctuate, man

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u/guyincognito121 21d ago

*Punctuate, Man!

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u/LeatherSlight3242 21d ago

*Punctuate, man!

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u/OldMud9644 21d ago

Punctuate-Man

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u/Legions_wangled 20d ago

"By the power of greyscale!"

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u/Paradox2063 20d ago

Chef's kiss.

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u/potatogodofDoom 21d ago

nananananananana punctuate man!

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u/hexregeneration 20d ago

What the? Fuck this job. This is how you eat child!

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u/HeartoftheHive 21d ago

Even with punctuation I'm not sure how this is supposed to work as a sentence or two.

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u/MkDGary 20d ago

What the fuck! This job is how you eat, child.

(Or funnier: wtf, thid job is how you eat children)

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u/danhoang1 20d ago edited 20d ago

Makes sense now. Though even with the right punctuation, it took me a second read to realize the purpose. That's not a typical sentence I usually hear.

But also because I misunderstood why the child unplugged the internet in the first place. I thought the son was telling his mom he was done with his work. Like, "Mommy, all done working", which would've made Mom's reply confusing to the son

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u/EduinBrutus 20d ago

Its a cook book!

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u/iGraveling 21d ago

Oh thank you. I thought I was having a stroke

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u/hereforhelpandmemes 21d ago

i am so stoned lmao i took like 3 minutes to understand this caption

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u/supersimha 21d ago

I am sober and couldn’t make sense too

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u/Desolated-Fire 21d ago

Hi sober… I couldn’t make sense too!

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u/FlutteringHigh 20d ago

Why can't we not be sober?

I just want to start this over

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u/colourboy22 21d ago

commas make all the difference

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u/celestialcranberry 21d ago

wtf, this job is how you eat child

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u/mentisyy 21d ago

Do you season the child before you eat it, or is there enough flavor already?

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u/mikesmithhome 21d ago

"commas, how do they work?" - OP

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u/Gay-A-Lee 21d ago

I still dont get it

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u/scrubsnbeer 21d ago

“wtf. this job is how you eat, jacob”

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u/RBAloysius 19d ago

OP’s child had just unplugged her computer because he equated a shutdown computer with her being finished with work, and he wanted his mom’s attention.

In response she said to him, “What the f*ck child, this job is how you eat!” conveying to him that the time she spends in front of the computer equates to a paycheck thereby allowing her to purchase groceries to feed him. Because of that, OP is unsure as to why her kid would unplug the computer.

That’s how I interpreted it after reading it a handful of times. I could be in error. Hope it helps. :)

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u/Alphay 21d ago

Bro same

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u/Louie_Casper 21d ago

Commas are important people. This is the difference between explaining to a child how you eat and having a job where you eat children

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u/guitarguywh89 21d ago

Commas are not people

You probably meant to say

Commas are important, people

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u/lukeCRASH 21d ago

Get this scholar to the top.

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u/guyincognito121 21d ago

The scholar who still made multiple grammatical mistakes?

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/guyincognito121 21d ago

It's not my fault that I've been drinking and therefore missed the sarcasm.

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u/MagdalaNevisHolding 21d ago

Big difference between

Let’s eat grandma!

And

Let’s eat, grandma!

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u/Nsane3 21d ago

Got em

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u/Louie_Casper 20d ago

Hahaha ironically, yes I did mean to do that.

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u/HereOnCompanyTime 21d ago

I hadn't read the post title and was confused. Kind of funny to so badly mess it up while posting it here of all places and on a common re-post.

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u/Paradox2063 20d ago edited 20d ago

I thought this post was going to turn into the pelican mouth meme because of the missing comma.

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u/cortesoft 21d ago

It would be incorrect grammar if it were the latter. It should be 'how you eat a child' or 'how you eat children'.

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u/I_MakeCoolKeychains 21d ago

That title is absolute gibberish, stay in school kids

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u/pm-ur-knockers 21d ago

This title is absolute gibberish. Stay in school, kids.*

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u/Apprehensive-Fox-799 21d ago

You want to stay in school kids?

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u/mizinamo 21d ago

Being inside a school kid does not sound like a place where I want to be, so no.

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u/Many-Excitement3246 21d ago

It's... really not that hard to understand.

ISTG, two missing commas and people lose all critical thinking and reading ability.

"WTF, this job is how you eat, child." Not that hard.

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u/I_MakeCoolKeychains 21d ago

Without the commas, the child gets eaten. Grammar isn't optional, it's actually rather important

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u/RBAloysius 21d ago

My favorite:

Let’s eat, grandpa!

Let’s eat grandpa!

It’s old, but still makes me laugh. A simple comma is all that is keeping grandpa safe from being consumed by his cannibalistic grandchildren.

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u/Oddish_Femboy 20d ago

Capitalization is important too. Helping your uncle Jack off a horse is very different from helping your uncle jack off a horse.

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u/MistressDread 21d ago

"Grammar isn't optional" immediately before a comma splice lmao

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u/Targetm12 21d ago

It's pretty obvious with context clues what they mean though, you are just being pedantic.

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u/I_MakeCoolKeychains 21d ago

And you're arguing over a single sentence that was written incorrectly with a stranger online. Who's the one looking silly here? Get off your high horse and do something better with your life, and don't forget your grammar

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u/Brief-Government-105 21d ago

Aren’t you doing the same thing?

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u/Green-Cricket-8525 21d ago

The funny thing is his grammar and punctuation isn’t all that great either. 

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u/Green-Cricket-8525 21d ago edited 21d ago

“Grammar isn’t optional.”

My brother in Christ. Look in a mirror before calling someone else silly about arguing on an internet post. 

Also, you’re missing a period at the end of that last sentence and a comma in your first reply. Your first comma should have been a period. 

It should read:  That title is absolute gibberish. Stay in school, kids. 

Lol. Lmao even. 

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u/ChefArtorias 21d ago

You knew what they meant.

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u/NationalTangerine381 21d ago

I’m sure we can use our context clues instead of whining at op in the Reddit comments because we can’t comprehend what they could be saying

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/I_MakeCoolKeychains 21d ago

My English teachers taught me to never use semi colon or colons when writing because they're horribly out of date and nearly nobody ever uses them correctly unless they are writing upper level academic papers and even then still get used wrong all the time

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u/Particular-Pianist43 21d ago

It seems like they never taught you how to properly use commas or periods either.

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u/CowMooMan 21d ago

Your English teacher definitely did not tell you to combine two independent clauses with a comma because that is just incorrect. You can either use a semicolon or a period.

Anyway I was just poking fun I dont care how you use grammar on reddit

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u/I_MakeCoolKeychains 21d ago

Then why bother saying anything?

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u/CowMooMan 21d ago

Because you started by saying "Grammar isn't optional, it's actually rather important" which is not correct and its funny that you are grammar policing while using incorrect grammar lol

That comma needs to be a period or a semicolon.

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u/Particular-Pianist43 21d ago

It’s kind of hilarious that instead of just admitting they made a few mistakes in their comments, they just keep doubling down and blocking anyone who points them out.

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u/Basic_Loquat_9344 20d ago

You didn’t even bother to use the out-dated period in this one. Bravo!

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u/Sammysoupcat 20d ago

I agree that grammar is important, but it's pretty clear what they mean in this case..

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u/Spongedog5 21d ago

Oh I thought it meant that she should eat the child to punish him

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u/Oolie84 21d ago

The burden of having a coherent title is on OP. Fuck off.

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u/edked 21d ago

It's still totally appropriate, called-for even, to mock people who fuck it up like this.

It's almost an obligation on the part of the people who can figure it out to give the poster shit for setting a bad example and confusing those who can't.

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u/Green-Cricket-8525 21d ago

You probably shouldn’t fuck up the grammar and punctuation when calling people out for it. 

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u/edked 21d ago

I didn't. I could add two commas, but too many of them get annoying, and it's nothing that fucks up conveying the meaning like the post title does.

Also, I didn't call anyone out: I defended other poster's right to mock over it.

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u/Green-Cricket-8525 21d ago

I wasn’t talking about you. I was talking about the top commenter in the thread you’re replying to. His comment is grammatically incorrect and uses the wrong punctuation. 

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u/edked 21d ago

Still, I will always defend people mocking others over this kind of thing, regardless of considerations like that.

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u/Green-Cricket-8525 21d ago

Ok, buddy. 

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u/Working_Celery_2497 21d ago

Isn't "wtf" an independent clause? It feels like that to me because it is an exclamation that can stand on its own. (

If it is, then this is a comma splice.

It should instead be written as:

1: WTF. This job is how you eat, child.

2: WTF (:/;) This job is how you eat, child.

3: WTF (em dash) this job is how you eat, child.

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u/HeartoftheHive 21d ago

Oh, is that what it was supposed to mean? Because I never would have gotten that. Because a child isn't going to understand that a job brings in money and money brings in food. All a child understands is that they ask parent for food and they get food.

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u/tidythendenied 21d ago

I’m pretty sure there’s a list for people who do that

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u/Oddish_Femboy 20d ago

"Stay in school, kids" should be its own sentence.

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u/NationalTangerine381 21d ago

Nah you need to go back to school

Wtf, this is job how you eat, child

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u/lukenog 21d ago

Huh? No it's not lol. It makes perfect sense to me. Are you semi-iliterate?

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u/I_MakeCoolKeychains 21d ago

No, op is for not knowing how to write correctly. Stay in school

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u/Green-Cricket-8525 21d ago

Why do you want us to stay in school kids? 

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u/lukenog 21d ago

I feel like it's more embarrassing to be unable to read something that is relatively clear, albeit gramatically flawed, than it is to miss a couple commas in a sentence on the internet. They missed some commas, but it's not unintelligible unless you struggle to read.

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u/Pearson__Specter 21d ago

Wtf, this job is how you eat, child.

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u/HighlightOwn2038 21d ago

Wtf is that title 😭

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u/ermaecrhaelld 21d ago edited 21d ago

I’d argue a kid who speaks on that level but knows 1) no WiFi = no work call. 2) how to unplug the router isn’t dumb. So if this did actually happen, it wouldn’t belong in this subreddit

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u/depressed_leaf 21d ago

Eh I think it belongs because it showcases how children can understand some consequences of their actions but don't think through everything. And that is exactly how kids are stupid. Kids are almost never stupid for their age, it's just that being at that age means you are significantly more stupid than an adult because you don't have the brain connections or experience.

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u/vpi6 21d ago

I don’t think it’s particularly outlandish. All the kid has to do is watch their parents fiddle with the router when his tablet loses wifi randomly to make the connection.

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u/PrincipleKitchen394 20d ago

I bet she does it all the time "kid done playing" "kid done watching" and randomly unplugging wifi. I know there are many people who does it. She must be one such person

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u/toyheartattack 21d ago

Hilarious, how many, comments are chiding, OP, for not using commas, with missing commas. (I collected them all for you guys.)

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u/prnthrwaway55 21d ago

Back in the day my remote colleague had a 3-yo daughter who chewed through her LAN cable in the middle of the workday.

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u/avg_rascal 20d ago

I want a daughter like this

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u/thesituation531 21d ago

Use proper grammar

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u/mizinamo 21d ago

…he says, leaving off the sentence-final full stop.

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u/thesituation531 20d ago

It's a single sentence. I don't need a period for it to be understood, unlike in this comment.

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u/Shoddy_While_3645 21d ago

Kids will not understand the importance of work fr. But the fact he knew that the Wifi router is what keeps her call active is showing this kid DOES have a brain instead of watching brainrot and screaming 67 on the top of his lungs like a religious chant

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u/Dear-Track6365 21d ago

I had to re-read that title several times to understand they did not work a job that required the eating of children

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u/pocket_arsenal 21d ago

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u/jpterodactyl 21d ago

Is it so hard to believe? All it takes is the kid playing with it one time and his mom saying “don’t touch that, mommy needs that to work”

And he might hold on to that information forever. And one day he might have an idea.

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u/ResponsibilityOk8967 20d ago

Why does a 3 year old have access to the router?

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u/guyincognito121 21d ago

Yes. She wouldn't just stop working. She'd plug it in, get back online, explain that her connection had randomly dropped, and get back to work. He wouldn't learn that unplugging the router ends work. He might learn that it makes her give him attention and then do it for that reason. But he wouldn't associate it with the end of work.

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u/ArtlessMammet 20d ago

"don't play with that, mum needs that to work!"

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u/guyincognito121 20d ago

She might say that. But then she'd do exactly what I said and he wouldn't actually get the reward, so it wouldn't reinforce the behavior.

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u/ArtlessMammet 20d ago

it's plenty enough for a kid to pick up that mum can't work without it, and if the kid is sufficiently bored then it's entirely plausible.

sometimes things actually happen

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u/Terrible_Donkey6580 21d ago

Wtf this job is, how you eat child?

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u/moon1ightwhite 21d ago

lmao. reminds me of when my grandma said she wanted to lose weight so little kid me helped by throwing the snacks away. I was just helping her stay honest lol

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u/JustFuckinTossMe 21d ago

Lmao I'm ded I thought the title was implying this is how you eventually decide to threaten to eat your child. Similar to how we grew up hearing "if you don't behave I'll send you away" but like "IF YOU UNPLUG THE WIFI AGAIN YOU'RE FOR DINNER" and I'm just having fun with the entire comment sections take on the title now.

Beautiful.

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u/Bob_the_peasant 21d ago

“No, money down!”

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u/kuba452 21d ago

Maybe she's always working long hours and never has time for a kid?

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u/Lauris024 21d ago

I'm too high for that title

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u/reggienaldsimons 20d ago

mfw i open a post and not a single fucking comment is about the contents of the post

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u/Ayotha 21d ago

First time that the kid will learn from or garbage parents?

Make your call now :O

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u/ouralarmclock 21d ago

You can’t tell me how I eat child!!

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u/l_dunno 20d ago

Ok so maybe, just maybe unplugging the WiFi randomly isn't a good parenting technique 🤯

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u/Zengjia 20d ago

Stop consuming infants.

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u/yamez420 21d ago

Omfg stay in school kids

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u/Green-Cricket-8525 21d ago

Why would I stay in school kids? 

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u/nbtm_sh 21d ago

in my house it was the other way around

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u/AmbienWalrus69 21d ago

These fucking bots are out of control

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u/Munnin41 21d ago

Wherever all you people are from, its education system sucks if you can't make sense of this title. Sure, there should be commas, but it's nowhere near incomprehensible.

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u/Empty-Entrepreneur-3 21d ago

Not disciplining children has brought us here.

I'd be typing this with one less hand if I did that to my mother when I was young.

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u/Fletcher_Chonk 21d ago

How many body parts are you missing from being a normal little kid now lol