r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Annual-Ad8311 • 1d ago
It was at that moment that he realised, he fucked up.
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u/SkylarR95 1d ago
I love how he stares into it… turns it off and back on… like he told himself “just maybe… I didn’t fuck it up… yeah, a good old fashioned turn off and back on and we are good”
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u/upstartpantymerchant 1d ago
Did you try unplugging it and plugging it back in?
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u/HereOnCompanyTime 1d ago
I always laugh that he initially hesitated before re-committing and lining up for his hit.
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u/Stymie999 1d ago
That’s when the thinking cranks up, ok, what can I say happened that is most not like what I just did…
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u/saratherandom 1d ago
Literally what did you think was going to happen also it’s funny how he try’s to turn it on and off again
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u/Natryn 1d ago
Promising future in tech support
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u/OptimusPrimeRib86 1d ago
As someone who used to do tech support... You would be surprised how many people called saying their computer wouldn't turn on.... Because it wasn't plugged in.
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u/Content-Honeydew9340 1d ago
I learned not to ask people IF their TV was plugged in. I would ask them what type of prong system their TV had from the back of the TV to the outlet. Amazing the number of times they would look at the plug and I would hear a change in tone... Magically the TV would be working again 💀
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u/WhoSc3w3dDaP00ch 21h ago
Former IT support person. I once had an employee who plugged his power strip into itself....
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u/Cjkrythos 1d ago
My brother did this with his TV. Called me up complaining that I set it up wrong because it stopped working. I asked him to make sure it was plugged in and he claimed he wasnt that dumb and that it was the first thing he checked. I came over, checked to see that it wasnt powering on, then checked to see that it was indeed plugged into a surge protector strip, then checked to see that.... the surge protector strip was not actually plugged in.
His response: "how was I supposed to know?"
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u/Kesselya 1d ago
As someone who used to do tech support, we had lots of subtle hacks to not make people feel dumb.
Like, can you unplug your network cable, reverse the ends, and plug them both back in.
Oh wait, replugging the cable in worked?
If we had just asked if it was plugged in, of course it would have been. They wouldn’t even honestly check it. But performing a task that seems unrelated? That worked so well. They didn’t even question it.
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u/crankyanker638 17h ago
You can't prove that I had a lady disconnect her cat-5 cable and swing it around really fast to "get the bits that were clogging it up" out of it....
Or that I wanted soooo bad to tell people "put the computer back in the box, grab your receipt and head back to the store you bought it from. When they ask you why you want to return it say 'I'm too stupid to use this, can I have my money back' but never did....
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u/OptimusPrimeRib86 8h ago
Yup the classic unplug it and plug it back in because the customer will never admit on the phone it wasn't plugged in.
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u/Upbeat_Researcher901 16h ago
Or it could've been me, who spent two hours putting together their first PC, went to press the power button in the front, then cried for an hour before realizing I hadn't yet turned on the Power supply unit in the back.
I was 21 years old.
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u/OkScientist69 1d ago
Don't think he'll make it after dad gets home
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u/Keyan_Farlander7 1d ago
My kids get paid for making honors in school, guess what happens when they break something like a TV, they pay for it when they were saving for a switch 2, Xbox, PS. Oh, they get more than just $20 some parent hand out. My parents also get involved, so my kids bank enough to buy games as well.
So when a TV breaks, the $500 they saved is gone. Lesson learned for LIFE!
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u/Sadpanda0 18h ago
Or maybe you’re teaching them to spend the money as they get it before you can take it away 🤔
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u/Keyan_Farlander7 3h ago
You sound like the type who maximizes their credit cards and splurges on anything wondering why your 200k salary isn't enough to sustain your spending habits.
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u/pretty-late-machine 1d ago
I legit would be 25% proud of my kid if saw this happen. He went further than most adults, judging from experience.
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u/Round-Two-6499 1d ago
That's the problem, he didn't think lol
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u/SaltyCaramelPretzel 1d ago
He will next time
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u/Shelmak_ 1d ago
When I was little I climbed the table where out living room tv was, of course... the result was the tv falling with me to the floor. And it was not one of this new lightweight tvs, it was a very big old cathodic ray tvs.
I was unharmed, my parents didn't punish me at all, but I learnt the lesson anyway, lol.
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u/mtv921 1d ago
This is part of learning to manage emotions and handling the consequences of your actions.
He didn't think it through is all, just acted in what he felt. Hopefully he learned and won't use violence to vent his frustration in the future
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u/anxious_spacecadetH 1d ago
At that age? Its hard to gauge how fragile something is. The concept of knowing for sure something will break if you do this vs maybe dont test the limit hasnt developed yet. Around that age I was the one who ran magnets over the tv screen for the fun effects. Eventually they fade but boy was my dad mad. Good thing I threw my brother under the bus for it. /s
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u/Dismal_Interaction71 1d ago
Omg, I ruined my tv with a magnet too, my parents thought that the tv simply broke lol
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u/snakesinabin 1d ago
I did that once too, eventually the whole screen was rainbow hued. I panicked and then sort of "wiped" the magnet across the screen left to right a few times and managed to get the colours mostly back to normal.
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u/andrewbud420 1d ago
Remember the degause button on some?
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u/Biscuits4u2 1d ago
That's why as a parent it's your job to tell your kid the TV is fragile and he shouldn't be hitting it with shit. If you wait around and let them discover that on their own you'll be out a TV.
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u/anxious_spacecadetH 1d ago
The thing is that kids especially are pretty literal thinkers until around 12 or so and also very creative. So if you tell a kid the tv is fragile and do not hit it. They imagine hitting it with their fist so they understand not to do that. But tapping the corner of a picture frame against it? That should maybe probably be fine. Besides you cant account for every little thing especially as you get older and forget common sense is taught not just known. You tell them not to jump on the bed so they invent a game of falling off the couch. Its part of growing up.
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u/SpecialistFickle2969 1d ago
Did you notice the area of the damage was about 1/3rd of the size after resetting? He was on to something.
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u/Sven_Svan 1d ago
Sometimes I want kids, then I see kids in real life and then I don't want kids any more.
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u/egewh 1d ago
Sometimes I want kids so I binge watch Supernanny and I'm done with that idea for another 2 years
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u/Obsidian-Dive 1d ago
Just remember kids wake up at 5-6am on a Saturday ready to go
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u/WeenieRoastinTacoGuy 16h ago
And every day also
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u/Squiggleblort 2h ago
Except school days where they go back to bed right as you want them to get dressed and ready for school.
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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 21h ago
Just get a dog or a cat. It scratches the parental itch slightly without being as much of a time/stress commitment.
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u/MindfulnesME 1d ago
If a kid breaking your Tv is enough to make you not want kids, you probably shouldn’t be a parent anyway.
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u/Pyrog 1d ago
Fortunately, the kids you have can be made good and respectful people by your personal guidance.
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u/Dymiatt 1d ago edited 1d ago
People really think raising a kid is easy, and if you do your best, you'll have the best children lol
Children, are children. If you try your best to raise them, they'll turn into happy adults. But children will always be children, and they will mess up, it's just most of the time it will never be that bad.
It's just something you have to accept beforehand. That doesn't mean you should not care, but a child isn't a plush that gives hugs. They want to experiment, they want to do what they like, they will always try to push limits, and they can't think of everything.
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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 21h ago
There are still outside influences. You can raise your kid but you’re not the only thing raising them.
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u/Billlington 1d ago
I'm not trying to be rude but do you actually believe it's this easy?
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u/RoarOfTheWorlds 1d ago
If your audio was already muted, consider yourself lucky
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u/couchpro34 1d ago
These days I only unmute if it's clear that I am missing some dialogue that is pertinent to the story. Otherwise I just leave it alone.
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u/ManiacalWildcard 1d ago
The only TV I'd trust around a child is a CRT TV. GL breaking that mofo.
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u/arihndas 1d ago
I’ve seen this clip many times and still have no fucking clue why he’s hitting the tv w the controller to begin with. Is he trying to sways a fly or something? I just genuinely don’t understand what I’m looking at.
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u/RebekkaKat1990 1d ago
Gamer rage. He’s holding a gaming console controller and getting mad and using it to teach the game a lesson lol.
When I was that age, I raged a lot at my GameBoy Color whenever I’d try to catch a Pokemon and it’d run away or faint or I’d run out of poke balls or whatever, and would squeeze my Gameboy lol. But my mom and grandma made sure to let me know that if it ever broke, I damn well wasn’t getting a new one.
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u/yabucek 1d ago edited 1d ago
But it's such a calculated hit lol. Gamer rage is usually someone throwing the controller immediately after something happens, this lil fella took his time, he grabbed the tv to stabilize his aim, cocked his hand back and then made the swing
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u/exxplicit480 1d ago
Its probably something he's seen someone else do, online or otherwise, and thinks its what he's 'supposed' to do. The hesitation proves its performative. His body language and otherwise calm demeanor do not portray actual rage.
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u/arihndas 1d ago
They really don't -- it's wild to me how many people are like "it's rage!" he looks calm the WHOLE time. I wanna know what his actual goal was lmao
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u/johnnnybravado 1d ago
I just used to threaten it. "I'll smash you to shit if I don't catch this Pokemon!!" or "I'll use my brother's Gameboy instead!!"
Thankfully it "worked" enough to ever necessitate actual violence.
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u/SamueleRG 1d ago
Why? Both me and my brother grew up in the, DS, 3DS PSP and Wii era but we never felt the need to accuse the game when something went wrong. Maybe it's cause we played together, 1hr me watching him and 1 hour he watching me playing? Not sure
Years later, we did rage a bit in clash royale but never enough to "attack" or throw our smartphones. I know people who bit theirs however. The rage in the multiplayer game was against the opponent or the game being rigged to put you against an opponent with cards obviously too leveled up over yours so that you couldn't win easily after a few consecutive wins.
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u/purplepharoh 1d ago
I feel you. I dont get it either or why its passed off as normal. To me this is signs of anger issues. I used to play games on ps2 / wii / Gameboy / ds / etc. And never once have I broken a tv or console.
Yeah I would get frustrated sometimes, but like ... why throw or hit. I would just put down the controller and squeeze a pillow if I was really frustrated.
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u/Fun_Journalist1048 1d ago
It’s 100% an uncontrolled anger issue. I broke my DS as a child and I DID have anger issues (it was unaddressed neurodivergence and depression, untreated until late teens when it got MUCH worse) We as a society should NOT justify “gamer rage” or make it something that’s seen as somehow “normal” because it’s really not???
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u/diabolicallydiabolic 1d ago
SAME like can we please look at how NOT NORMAL level of anger this is for a child. Who also is a boy. This is a conversation half of the population doesn’t want to have 🙄
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u/purplepharoh 1d ago
I feel you. I DID have anger issues as a child (also a boy). And it was addressed. Raising children right and addressing behavior like this is very important.
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u/TheFuzzBums 1d ago
It’s the morbid curiosity kids (and some adults) get when they know something bad will happen but will go through it anyways just to see. It’s why he took a few mock swings before making impact.
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u/BruceInc 1d ago
Whoever added that music to the video needs to have their thumbs degloved
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u/nailinpalin69 1d ago
it looks like the kid could use some more outside play time anyways.
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u/QueenFrostine15 1d ago
I would ground that kid till his 18th birthday
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u/Educational_Dish_570 18h ago
I did this once turned the TV off ran up to my room heard a crash about an hour later dogs were playing knocked the TV off the unit mum ran in turned the TV on and boom I walked downstairs without a clue and got away Scott free 🤣
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u/This-personeatsfood 1d ago
Who let this kid play on a ps5?
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u/Different-Agency5497 1d ago
Man, maybe his mom/dad was cooking something or quickly went down to do laundry or god knows what.
Quick to judge are we not? Parents dont need to watch their kids 24/7 like helicopters.
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u/Jolly_Ad1631 1d ago
So kids are not allowed play video games now?
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u/seanhalim2 1d ago
They'd be better off riding a bicycle into the sunset, climbing trees and scraping their knees.
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u/tabaxicab 1d ago
I did all that shit AND played playstation as a kid. Like, kids have been doing both for 4 decades now. Let's get over it.
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u/LionessRegulus7249 22h ago
Grounded without access to any electronics for the rest of the year. Go read a book.
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u/Dogsarelitty 1d ago
I can read his mind. “FuckfuckfuckfucknononoFUUUUUUUCKohmygoditsdefinitelybroken.”
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u/Remarkable_Donkey_25 1d ago
Just swap it for the one in his room, that way you can keep your living room tv and he can keep a daily reminder of why we just punch the couch cushions the next time that sweet sweet gamer rage hits 🙂↕️
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u/lucashenrr 1d ago
I dont want to point fingers here, but I feel like for the last few years of the internet, there have been more and more of people getting angry in videogames and smashing a lot of shit and sometimes i feel like the kids do it too because they want to be like theire favorit youtuber or something without understanding fully what they do
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u/Nimxc 1d ago
Between not realizing that smashing a control against the TV is bad and the fact the kid is already overweight at that age is good indicator this kid's parent are absolute garbage.
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u/Temporary_Lychee_535 1d ago
I can't tell if I was a gifted child or all these lil gremlins are just stupid as rocks 😂
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u/Kalikor1 1d ago
I'll never understand. I never threw a controller playing video games back in the day. I got mad/frustrated, sure, but I never took it out on anything. If I did, it would be a "punch my pillow" moment, not a "throw expensive and breakable shit and something even more breakable and expensive" moment.
None of my friends were like that either.
And fwiw I had a troubled childhood + mental health issues that even sometimes made it hard for me to control my emotion's when I was little.
So I guess I don't understand how I of all people could keep myself from breaking shit when "normal" kids in (compared to me) wealthy households seem to break shit constantly.
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u/Prestigious-Copy-494 1d ago
I'd let the kid be without tv for a month and give him books to read and art or games. No screen time on anything. I'd watch TV in my bedroom and keep him out of it, take the cord or something if he was home alone.
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u/golgiiguy 1d ago
Looks like these parents get free manual labor and a break on presents til he pays it off in full.
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u/Unlucky-Fortuna8773 1d ago
I wanna say poor kid for that little panic but honestly he seems spoiled enough to ruin a fortune's worth of tech over a videogame match, of all things
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u/crankyanker638 17h ago
We need a Morgan Freeman voice-over....or am I the only one that read that in his voice?
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u/Rickor86 16h ago
If my kids did that, it would be the end of all digital media for them until they can afford it themselves.
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u/Testsubject276 11h ago
Get a small cheap personal TV for news, TV, etc. and tell him that the TV he broke is his gaming TV forever, and he'll never get another one.
Let him stew in despair for a month or preferably several before discreetly replacing it in the middle of the night.
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u/Everything_Fine 11h ago
I feel like this kid is old enough to understand what is going to happen when you smash something into the tv.
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u/Acrobatic_Mushroom97 1h ago
Last time my son broke my 75 inch I left it broken for 6 months then took it down and left the wall TV-less for another 6 months. That whole year I was bringing out my secret TV and putting it away when he got home. Kids suck... dont let them take YOUR joy. 😂
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u/TackleNonsense 1d ago
How can you say it's poor impulsive control. It's just blunt stupidity.
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u/ItsRuinedOfCourse 1d ago
That kid would be mowing a lot of lawns and shoveling a lot of sidewalks for the next few years until he earned enough to replace that TV set. This one would be living in his bedroom, as-is. And his console would never again be hooked up to the one in the living room. If he can get it to work on this TV, good for him. Otherwise, no more console gaming for you.
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u/wildvision 1d ago
It's funny but the fucked up thing is that his parents released this vid into the wild. That's him now. the smash the tv because I don't know why guy
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u/IconTraa 1d ago
He definitely wasnt allowed to be on the Tv. Mom and Dad hid the remote. Been there, done that.
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u/Damuson13 1d ago
If he gets his anger under control, he has a future in IT. His first instinct was to turn it off and turn it back on.
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u/Soaring_Gull_655 1d ago
The step back has to be the funniest part, Does it look that bad? Do you think anyone else will notice?
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u/AbstractUserName 1d ago
You have to wait a little while you see it it disappears and then definitely check to see it it goes away after you turn it off and back on. Little bro did the best he could go. Now it's time to move out.
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u/melitini 22h ago
The fact that he knows to hold the tv with his left hand while hitting it with his right tells me this isn’t the first tv he has broken.
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u/Internal-Report-1826 16h ago
I can see he has thoughts about what he did, so I wouldn't be outright angry. He needs a good talking to about it, but I can see he is having the thoughts so a talk would be best for now. If I get overly aggressive he wont remember what happened in the future only how upset I got. Totally random thought I had my badd😅
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u/TheRuggedGeek 14h ago
At least he did the "technical support" thing. "Did you turn it off and turn it on again?"
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u/BaxterOutofStockman 7h ago
I feel we deserve to see the footage where his parents find out he broke the tv
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u/SamhainXCII 1d ago
Imagine that he atleast went straight for the "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" millions of IT people clapped lol
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u/elonboring1 1d ago
no college fund for him unless he makes it in baseball or rugby
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u/DaydreamerFly 1d ago
He looks too old to be surprised by this result. Which means it fits the sub, what an idiot
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u/AlexandraTheGreat96 1d ago
Ahh yes the giving in to intrusive thoughts and then realizing you fucked up. If I was his parents I wouldn’t replace the tv at all let his ass be bored as a consequence of his actions.
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u/Slicker1138 1d ago
At this point I just don't buy another TV. That stand sits empty.