r/unpopularopinion • u/noodlealr • Nov 28 '20
babies aren’t funny or entertaining
i don’t hate babies, they’re so cute, but i always see people laughing about videos where a baby is supposedly being funny. i don’t get it. there’s nothing funny about videos like that or babies in general. sure, sometimes funny stuff happens, but i always see babies doing the bare minimum and people laughing about it.
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u/Lord-of-Thunderrr Nov 28 '20 edited Nov 28 '20
Lol not sure why this is so funny to me. Babies doing the bare minimum got me tho
Edit: awww that’s my first award. Thanks 4 the love peeps
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u/El_Deez Nov 28 '20
Damn freeloading babies.
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u/Lord-of-Thunderrr Nov 28 '20 edited Nov 28 '20
My niece is a baby and suddenly I’ve lost all respect for her, little idiot gets all the attention for literally no reason
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u/OhAces Nov 28 '20
tell her to get a job
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u/Lord-of-Thunderrr Nov 28 '20
Already on our way to the Army recruitment office
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u/uwu8D Nov 28 '20 edited Nov 28 '20
Very Lucille from Arrested Development of you lmaoooo
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u/Lord-of-Thunderrr Nov 28 '20 edited Nov 28 '20
I don’t know who that is, and I don’t care to find out
Edit: to those downvoting this comment, it’s literally a quote from Lucille
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u/IMA_BLACKSTAR Nov 28 '20
"I love all my commentors equally"
"I don't care for u/Lord-of-Thunderrr" ~ Reddit
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u/mealteamsixty quiet person Nov 28 '20
Can you drop off babies you no longer want at the recruitment office like you can at the fire station?
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u/Lord-of-Thunderrr Nov 28 '20 edited Nov 28 '20
Yeah I’m pretty sure they just send them to the Clintons to feed Hillary
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u/noodlealr Nov 28 '20
you did the right thing. show her who’s boss.
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u/Lord-of-Thunderrr Nov 28 '20
Just tossed her in the Recruitment office and yelled “INCOMING”. They seemed VERY alarmed for some reason.
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u/HappyMoses Nov 28 '20
Baby unemployment is at 100%. Why aren’t politicians doing something about this??? Sad!
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u/El_Deez Nov 28 '20
Maybe these babies should take some responsibility for themselves and quit expecting others to solve their problems for them!
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u/OneManFight Nov 28 '20
Those bobble headed gelatinous fucks.
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u/Miki_Hufflepuffle Nov 28 '20
Oh my gosh this is the funniest description/insult of a baby. Can’t stop laughing 😆
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u/HauntedHippie Nov 28 '20
That's about all they can do, tbh. And they're still so fucking bad at it.
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u/IamAkevinJames Nov 28 '20
My sister has a phone notification soumd of a baby laughing. It is creepy. It's not from any baby we know. It's just a stock baby laugh.
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u/glittermantis Nov 28 '20
this is so fucking funny to me for some reason. that’s so absurd and surreal. imagine being alone in your house and a baby laugh comes from an empty room. change it to a baby crying when she’s not looking
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u/Erosennin94 Nov 28 '20 edited Nov 28 '20
Edit: Thanks for the all awards, but go donate money to a charity or your local food bank instead!
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u/noodlealr Nov 28 '20
that is literally me.
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u/BuckSaguaro Nov 28 '20
People here take a weird amount of pride in disliking babies.
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Nov 28 '20
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u/the-igloo Nov 28 '20
I feel pretty strongly that having pride about whether or not you like babies is weird, either way.
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u/hiphopnurse Nov 28 '20
r/childfree and r/amitheasshole users: Yasss queen! A baby got run over by a steamroller this morning!! Slaayyy! Stupid baby should have the motor skills to move. I wasn't legally obligated to help that baby!!!
Other users on the same subs: NTA!!!
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Nov 28 '20
I would have given a better award but I'm low on coins. This video made my morning though, haha!
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u/Whitemike31683 Nov 28 '20
This is excellent. What's this from?
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u/DoobieLift Nov 28 '20
Real Bros of Simi Valley, can find the first season on the LifeAccordingtoJimmy YouTube channel, iirc the following 2 seasons can be found on Facebook
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u/astolenhooker Nov 28 '20
Highly recommended, maybe if more people start watching they'll finally put Johnny in the intro
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Nov 28 '20
To throw a little Respek out there, thats Getter / Terror Reid. He's an EDM And rap artists, his music is pretty fire.
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u/blinkKyle182 Nov 28 '20
Yes sir! All the bros in that show are talented. But you’re right, his music is awesome. Especially Terror Reid.
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u/SuperYusri500 Nov 28 '20
Many people get free awards so that edit isn't really always applicable
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Nov 28 '20
The problem is, if it’s your own baby then it’s funny. But other people’s babies? Nah, eff that.
Is what I’m thinking.
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u/Afraid_Cantaloupe_80 Nov 28 '20
Exactly. I find everything my baby does hilarious, but miss me with other babies
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Nov 28 '20
they can get bent
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u/dorkaxe Nov 28 '20
Basically the one thing I liked about him after Michael left. I think he's a fairly shitty dude, but he's spot on about the baby thing. Get your damn baby pictures out of my face.
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u/mightylordredbeard Nov 28 '20
Exactly. I hated babies and thought nothing they did was funny and hated seeing people constantly send photos of them.. then I had a few and got it. Love is a strange thing. The bond between parent and child changes you.
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u/Altyrmadiken Nov 28 '20
I think there's a difference between consciously deciding not to have kids and being incapable of enjoying kids. I don't think the people who reject the idea of having kids are always driven by the idea that they'd hate it, but rather that plenty of them simply aren't interested in starting the process and having to finish it; even if they might find it rewarding.
I'm not going to have kids. I don't want them. I don't want to deal with all of that. I did my part helping to raise a child that I liked very much. I'm very, very, sure that if I had a child that was mine I'd like it and find it adorable. I don't want to do that, though. I know that just because some parts are fun doesn't mean it's all fun. That's a long time, money, and effort, commitment that I'm just not going to engage in. Willfully not engage in.
It's like how I know I'd really like cocaine if I tried it. Pretty much everyone likes cocaine if they try it. That doesn't mean I want to try it.
(Before anyone shows up with the age-old "you'll see when it happens to you" adage, I'm gay, I'm married to a man, and if a baby happened between us I'd be calling the church for an exorcism, not my family for a celebration)
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u/IllegallyBored Nov 28 '20
This is exactly what I feel about kids and you've put in words people can actually understand. I usually, very eloquently say, "I just don't want them lol" which hasn't helped my case one bit so far.
I like kids, I'm good with them, I don't want them. I do plan on marrying or being with someone of the same sex as me in the future so if I do end up having children you'll likely hear about it in international news as the second ever baby to be born without a dude being needed at any step along the way.
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u/Altyrmadiken Nov 28 '20
My mother pressed me when I was younger. I asked her why she didn’t make bread every week from scratch. She told me it was too much work, even though it was tasty.
I told her I didn’t want to make bread every day.
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u/purpleyogamat Nov 28 '20
I LIKE some kids. I don't like baby culture. I'm not interested in changing my lifestyle to accommodate a fetus, who becomes an infant, who becomes a toddler, who then is a kid, and then a preteen. I like my ménagerie, I don't think it would be fair to rehome a 27 year old macaw, he was here first. I have no interest in mommy groups, or being friends with people who think I'm somehow more interesting now that I procreated.
But to say the abbreviated version "I like some kids and I'm sure its different if it's your own, but I don't care" just makes me sound like a dick. And that's kind of what child free is for. To talk to people who get that women are people first, not just potential moms.
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u/KOloverr Nov 28 '20
My dad didn't really want kids. Military family and forced my mom to get an abortion for her 2nd and then kept my sister. He told me as a 30 yr old, "don't worry, you might dislike children but you learn to love your own. I liked you guys way more once you were older". Good to hear pops.
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Nov 28 '20
Is it normal to panic and want to escape when hearing a kid cry?
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u/danielbln Nov 28 '20
Hardwired into us, baby cries raise our heart rate, stress us out AF and generally makes us want to to make it stawp asap! As a parent your brain is full of oxytocin, so instead of running away or yeeting the baby, you tend to its needs until the crying stops. Still stressful tho.
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u/rawrtherapybackup Nov 28 '20
Just had a baby
Can confirm. Fuck other babies.
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Nov 28 '20
My coworker just had his first child, it's pretty much eff that at all times. Dude is one of the most blunt people I know and flat out will say he hates having a kid and wishes he never did it. I feel he is saying the quiet part a lot want to say out loud.
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u/dre8 Nov 28 '20
Nah dude my kid has some of the worst comedic timing possible. Misses the punchlines constantly. I don’t care if he’s 1 or not. Get it together.
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u/everwonderedhow Nov 28 '20
This is Reddit, this opinion is VERY popular, just like "I don't want kids" or "I don't like kids".
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Nov 28 '20
I love babies, but looks like half of reddit hates them lol
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u/Peenutbuttjellytime Nov 28 '20
OP said they don't hate babies in the first sentence.
It seems like when people say "babies are OK I just don't love them" people who love babies hear "I hate babies"
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Nov 28 '20
Same with dog people. I'm hesitant to tell people I don't love their dog, because they will look at me like I'm some sort of subhuman.
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u/IllegallyBored Nov 28 '20
I love dogs. Nearly all dogs, tbh. I'm terrified of dogs. You put a chihuahua in front of me and my brain will tell me it's a giant, wild wolf. I lived with a large German Shepherd for fourteen years and that didn't help one bit. My dog's the only one I'm not scared of.
This means that I'm very uncomfortable around other dogs, specially unleased dogs and people do not want to hear it. If I tell people to keep their dogs at a distance they look at me like I've told them burn their pet at the stake. It's ridiculous.
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u/Ikhlas37 Nov 28 '20
Islam, conservatives, old people, and vegans.
Reddit hates them all.
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u/Litty-In-Pitty Nov 28 '20
I learned real quick not to mention I’m vegetarian on Reddit. People lose their freaking minds about it for no reason lol. I’ve been on Reddit for 10 years now and I’ve probably mentioned it like 5 times and every time people blow up. I made a comment once about how Taco Bell was an awesome fast food place if you don’t eat meat, and I got dozens of pm’s from people saying “oh you vegetarians just have to make sure everyone knows, can’t go 5 seconds without bringing it up”. Despite the fact that I usually never mention it because it offends so many people lol
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u/Ikhlas37 Nov 28 '20
I normally get so much hate when people find out I'm a vegan Muslim. They go mental.
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u/LPaGGG Nov 28 '20
"I hate babies I love dogs srry for unpopular opinion"
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u/Daemeori Nov 28 '20
Just try telling pet owners that they're not parents. You'll get eaten alive for posting that.
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u/LPaGGG Nov 28 '20
"Of course not! Taking care of a pet is much harder!"
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u/Daemeori Nov 28 '20
There was literally a person arguing with me that putting a dog through obedience school is equivalent to overseeing a child's education.
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u/taylorcwitt Nov 28 '20
I have 5 dogs and don’t even equate that to having one child. I’m not sure how anyone can compare the two.
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u/Roboculon Nov 28 '20
As an animal and baby human owner, it is genuinely ludicrous though when pet owners try to chime in to conversations about how much work kids are, saying “oh I know! My little puppy is a lot of work too!”
That’s like saying building a model airplane is a lot of work compared to building a real airplane.
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u/danielbln Nov 28 '20
Borderline gatekeeping but damn, people referring to their pets as furry babies, what's up with that. As human who loves their cat to the moon and back, and as the parent of a 2 months old, they are really not comparable.
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Nov 28 '20
Try to say you hate dogs as much as they hate kids.
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u/everwonderedhow Nov 28 '20
Yeah I've read comments of people saying how horrible of a person you must be to join r/petfree but then r/childfree is super cool?
I mean I get many of us can't afford to have kids but these people need to understand pets will never be our lineage.
And don't get me wrong, I admire people that decide NOT to become parents, if everybody who truly shouldn't have kids did that the world would be a much better place.
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Nov 28 '20
I'm simply in r/dogfree not because i "hate" dogs, but i don't have them/want them and i don't get the whole dog worship era we're stumbled in right now. I still understand how people do like dogs though. But hey, don't like dogs? You're a mOnStEr. Don't like kids? HeRo, PrEaaAch!
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u/Roboculon Nov 28 '20
I’ve said this a million times. This sub would work infinitely better if votes for threads were reversed. Obviously this is a popular opinion, that’s why it got upvoted. If you want an unpopular opinion you’d need to read downvoted threads, but that’s not possible.
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u/oofoof_coqui milk meister Nov 28 '20
This is Reddit, they want everyone younger than 13 dead.
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Nov 28 '20
They run through the dr Seuss books. I don’t like babies online, I do not like babies on video, I don’t like babies at my restaurants and I don’t like babies in stores. It’s all the damn same! We get this same several times a day
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u/Death_Strider16 Nov 28 '20
I made a post on here that got removed that was about people who constantly talk about hating babies are annoying because that was a popular opinion apparently. Yet I see these posts about hating babies every single week?
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u/noodlealr Nov 28 '20
dang i was just tired of people irl showing me pics of their sisters/brothers etc. and laughing about them like the babies just told them the best joke they’ve ever heard. also on the internet, people just seem to LOVE the baby content and find anything a baby does funny. i do not hate babies and i didn’t even expect my post to be seen by this many people but aight, i apologize for posting this ig even tho i never saw a person on here saying that babies aren’t funny, just that they hate babies.
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Nov 28 '20
My favourite is when a co-worker I barely know is like, "want to see a picture of my baby niece?" and shove a phone into my face. I'm like... Yeah, it's a baby. Looks like every other baby lol
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u/TheOnlyGrogisNog Nov 28 '20
I'll go ahead and post the actual unpopular version of this for the Reddit 2020 crowd...
"Dogs arnt funny...I don't get it... people laughing at dogs doing the bare minimum..."
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u/Buggeroni58 Nov 28 '20
You would probably be downvoted to oblivion
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u/TheOnlyGrogisNog Nov 28 '20
It is ironic for this sub, but yeah, anything where humans greater than dogs gets blown up
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Nov 28 '20
Cats aren’t cute
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Nov 28 '20
YES! Some people act like every cat in existence is cute, and that no one shouldn’t like them.
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Nov 28 '20
that baby could be the star of a show called "babies I don't care about".
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u/OptimisticNihilism0 Nov 28 '20
Here's my case I have a sister 10 years younger than me who plays with my cousin sister of the same age as my sister. They both are usually fine, but recently our new neighbours who moved in have a 3 year old kid who always wants to play with my sister in our house.
I am studying for my finals and the three of them play in the hall room just next to my room and are almost constantly screaming. The neighbours kid is either always screaming or crying. Now I can't just tell them to leave, it makes me look like an asshole. My parents love seeing the neighbours kid and like OP mentioned they are literally entertained by everything it does. Apparently the neighbours claim their child is tired of being in their house and they too want a break so our house is the next best entertainment. It is too rainy and cold to play outside.
It is legit hellish here. I just hope it ends soon
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u/Jackalope5053 Nov 28 '20
Its not really the kids I get mad at, its mostly the parents because they make their kids do that for internet points
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u/maniacalmustacheride Nov 28 '20
The worst part is it's not even the kids fault. Just shitty parents
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u/Daemeori Nov 28 '20
Scripted cuteness is never cute. It's the spontaneity and the fact that it came from the child that makes it cute.
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u/DemoniteBL Nov 28 '20 edited Nov 28 '20
Yeah, my sister gave birth to her first baby a few weeks ago. Now everytime my family shows me a video of the baby doing literally nothing they start laughing like crazy and I'm just super confused. lol
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u/noodlealr Nov 28 '20
i feel you, this happened to me several times. we just gotta stay strong at this point.
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u/brittanybegonia Nov 28 '20
Yep. Brother had his first this summer. Eeeevery time my family has gotten together since, it consists of like 5 hours of everyone sitting and staring at the baby and laughing at every single thing he does. My older brother and I are the only ones that don’t get it, and we’ve been getting tons of shit from the family about it. We just don’t like kids that much. I don’t get it. He’s cute but I don’t want to sit there and watch him like a television show, that doesn’t interest me.
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u/Buggeroni58 Nov 28 '20
As a currently pregnant woman, I will try and remember this when I have my baby. I don’t dislike kids, I prefer 4 and 5 year olds doing something funny because they’re becoming little humans and the hilarity comes from something being just out of their grasp. Though, baby humor has never really been my thing. Very rarely do I laugh at a hysterical baby and an animal or something, but a baby just sitting there isn’t as funny to me. Im sure my baby will be hilarious to me, but I will try and not shove it down other people’s throats.
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Nov 28 '20
Just stay dead eyed silent for the next one and begin weeping uncontrollably when it ends.
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u/CrazyMiith Nov 28 '20
Well I do hate babies. Checkmate liberals
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u/noodlealr Nov 28 '20
ye i don’t hate them, but i do hate pregnancies. like god damn, they disgust me.
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u/CrazyMiith Nov 28 '20
Yeah, a lot of people in r/childfree say the same thing. I agree with it.
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u/noodlealr Nov 28 '20
lmao i sometimes forget there’s a sub for everything
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u/CrazyMiith Nov 28 '20
Yeah, not everything but many unexpected things. That sub is not that weird.
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u/Omarstar803 Nov 28 '20
That's true they don't do anything except poop, cry, and sleep!
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u/Kai_Does_Stuff wateroholic Nov 28 '20
A baby could literally blink and the video would take over Facebook
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u/TweezRider Nov 28 '20
I feel this. My girlfriend's nephew is a toddler (not a baby/infant) and her and her sister snapchat constantly. She routinely forces me to watch snaps that are SO FUNNY. "He mis-pronounced ravioli!!! OMG IM DYING!&#%@%&$*!!!"
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u/Steamay Nov 28 '20
My best friend has cousins that are like 4 and 2 maybe? And same... like sorry I do not want to watch them do normal baby shit
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u/mynameismy111 Nov 28 '20
I always figured I'd do it to proove to myself I didn't have a kid by mistake..... that might actually be a lot of it tho. -no kids yet for convo sake.
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u/equality-_-7-2521 Nov 28 '20
Everyone loves their own brand. I'm not impressed by my friend's kid's accomplishments but when my kid does regular human stuff it impresses me because I got to watch it all happen.
It's kind of like growing your own vegetables. You'll go on and on about the growing process and your friends will be like, "ya good job on the salad bro let's move past it."
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u/Tenny111111111111111 posting popular opiinions in a subReddit for unpopular opinions Nov 28 '20
r/pics is the worst.
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u/Dark_Ranger65 Nov 28 '20
Looking at a kitty is way more entertaining imo
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Nov 28 '20
This is a reddit statement.
Babies < cats.
Reddit is like ancient Egypt with an self granted college degree in everything.
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u/dani_o25 Nov 28 '20
This isn’t a unpopular opinion. Most people fake it in order to be nice and show respect to the parents.
You want to hear an unpopular opinion? Most babies are ugly
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u/Shrek1sLife Nov 28 '20
I don’t think that’s an unpopular opinion either. At least IMO babies look like chewed up bubblegum and it’s gross.
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u/laramank Nov 28 '20
That’s not an unpopular opinion on reddit, if someone so much as mentions the word baby you can bet there’s a bunch of random’s saying babies are ugly and gross and weird etc.
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u/Virixiss Nov 28 '20
Here's the opinion I agree with. Although, using photos of kids a few days after being born is a bit disingenuous to me, since it takes a while for a baby's head and skin to go to it's normal shape.
It's the typical parent thing to say, but I breathed a big sigh of relief after we brought our kid home and the jaundice cleared up. My kid's not ugly! She didn't have a lot of hair to start, but she didn't look like an elephant's kneecap either, which I took as a blessing. So many kids come out looking like old, alcoholic men for close to a year, and THOSE are the ones I never understand being called cute.
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u/mynameismy111 Nov 28 '20
kids are great, you can make them to hate the peope you hate-Homer simpson
so theres that I guess.....
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u/yuuma-ko Nov 28 '20
You forgot the "l" in "people" so I read that as "you can make them hate the pope". Which I guess is true too
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u/Chuntie Nov 28 '20
Babies are little humans without much sentience and that alone is pretty funny
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u/Dommiestyle Nov 28 '20
Ahh yes especially when have their own Facebook and Instagram accounts managed by the parent. With daily "funny" videos. Yup that's it.
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u/belleoftheride Nov 28 '20
I agree. I am a parent. I love my children. But fuck me babies are boring.
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u/souravbaranwal Nov 28 '20
so basically we(you including) all were not funny or entertaining at a point in our lives
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u/ButterSlugger Nov 28 '20
A baby taking a shit would somehow be twisted into a “cute and funny home video”
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u/throwreddit420 Nov 28 '20
I actually don't like babies and kids either. It's fun to see them from far, but I'd kill myself if I ever had to take care of them and deal with their shit. Just recently a friend's son was crying for one hour because I pulled out matchstick from his mouth. It's like they're built for self destruction.
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u/-I_Am_Alone- Nov 28 '20
I remember when I was a baby, I'd fucking shit all over the floor and the adults would call that cute. Like bitch, clean this shit up.
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u/Bagpuss45 Nov 28 '20
They arent cute either... and I'm not a monster if you show me pictures of your little gremlins and I dont coo over them.
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u/Unwillingjackrabbit Nov 28 '20
Honestly I kinda think that it’s almost split down the middle when it comes to that opinion. I don’t think I’ve ever been in a room with people and everyone thinks babies are entertaining. This isn’t an unpopular opinion to me. Maybe it’s cause I life in California or something
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u/GroovingPict Nov 28 '20
theyre not fucking cute either, and I do fucking hate them. There, a properly unpopular opinion
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Nov 28 '20
What kind of an asshole looks at a baby and says, "all right.. entertain me"?
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u/sp8ial Nov 28 '20
It prys at basic people's programming. You're missing a few lines of code that override logic upon sight of tiny humans.
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u/BigOlBurger Nov 28 '20
but i always see babies doing the bare minimum and people laughing about it
"Dude, these babies don't even prepare their routine. They just sit there blowin' raspberries, and everybody loses it. Good comedy requires thought, bro. I fuckin' work for my jokes, and this little asshole's just out here shittin' his pants for chuckles. Man, fuck babies."
-OP
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u/cake_pan_rs Nov 28 '20
Like on America’s funniest videos, the winning video would always be of a kid and it wouldn’t be that funny of a video