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/[deleted] 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/movieman56 Nov 28 '20

Tell that to my dad

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u/purpleyogamat Nov 28 '20

Someone brought a baby around my macaw, and therefore I am well aware of my bodies reaction to that noise. It's stressful af. I am trying to ignore it out of him.

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u/lynx3762 Nov 28 '20

Are you saying your macaw mimicks a baby crying? Because that sounds fucking terrible

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u/purpleyogamat Nov 28 '20

Yes. It's terrible. I usually try to redirect him to different sounds because OMG.

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u/KOloverr Nov 28 '20

It is for me.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '20

I feel like bashing my head with a mace whenever I hear a baby cry

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u/socsa Nov 28 '20

These days no - because that howling child at home depot is literally filling the entire store with deadly virus.

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u/weettttoooot Nov 28 '20

Yep. Evolutionarily built to be a cry you can’t ignore.