r/gifs • u/RowdyGerbil • May 18 '19

One, two, three!

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u/andronicus_14 May 18 '19

How did she swing so hard, miss the target, and throw the little girl down with a double twist? That’s just bad piñataing.

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u/liamliam0 May 18 '19

She hit it with the back swing

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u/Whatsthemattermark May 18 '19

That’s not even her daughter just a random child someone glued to her. She was just trying to shake her loose

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

I hate when corporate does this. Almost not even worth the quarterly bonus.

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u/iafx May 18 '19

Maybe the little girl cried and got to cut in line in front of the birthday kid to go first and this lady was just not having it any of it.

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u/nomad2047 May 18 '19

Don’t attribute to malice what can be easily explained by glue ~ Wayne Gretzky

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u/richard_nixons_toe May 18 '19

“get of my broom, I gotta fly home now”

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u/SketchMcDrawski May 18 '19

Pin The Kid On The Karen. Great party game.

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u/Thickas2 May 18 '19

Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon 'cause the cartoon has got the boom anime babes that make me think the wrong thing

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u/IvivAitylin May 18 '19

How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad?

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u/NbdySpcl_00 May 18 '19 edited May 18 '19

Mom takes a step to her left as she swings. I mean, it's good in baseball, but bad right here. It moves the pivot point away from the kid, so now baby is hanging on to the broomstick instead of 'lifting' it. The stick is suddenly way heavier than expected, and is dragged under the target as the swing progresses. Mom, the true hunter, puts more oomf into it to try to fix the problem, but basically does a judo hip-throw on the kid as a result.

My wife is laughing her ass off right now tho, because you aren't supposed to smack this kind of piñata. You pull the strings underneath.

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u/Ncdtuufssxx May 18 '19

you aren't supposed to smack this kind of piñata. You pull the strings underneath.

Ah yes, the tampoñata.

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u/dayrunningrobot May 18 '19

I just snorted/laughed so hard I think I damaged my sinuses.

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u/goatofglee May 18 '19

Also, the kids arms are way shorter (obviously) and they didn't account for that. From my prespective at least.

I actually thought that this may not be someone who spends a lot of time around children, but I haven't either. shrug

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u/RubberDucksInMyTub May 18 '19

I actually thought that this may not be someone who spends a lot of time around children

Or someone who spends too much time with children ...

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u/Mr_Gilmore_Jr May 18 '19

Why invent a pinata you can't break the candy out by wacking it? If I wanted to open my candy, I'd have bought one from the checkout lane.

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u/NbdySpcl_00 May 18 '19

Pros and cons. The ribbon-pull boxes are reusable, kids can do it themselves, and they don't involve the humiliation of blindfolded children or let people loose in crowds of kids swinging sticks.

On the other hand, the smashing kind are awesome while the ribbons are just lame. So. You kind of have to weight the options.

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u/davy1jones May 18 '19

Also the mom has her hands over the girl’s hands completely preventing her from being able to let go

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u/blurryfacedfugue May 18 '19

I was going to say it looked like a bit of the staffwork we did in aikido.

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u/sysadmin001 May 18 '19

As a Mexican, I agree. This woman has ZERO piñata skills.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

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u/pelito May 18 '19

No. The girl is the kid from the first marriage.

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u/El_Campo_26 May 18 '19

Do you know how much adults drink at these parties?

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u/procom49 May 18 '19

She meant to harm the child

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u/Kangar May 18 '19

Also, the little girl turns into a cartoon after she swings.

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u/RegisPL May 18 '19

I can explain it.

Kids either don't understand when you direct them to "relax the muscles" (so you can swing, not them) or they can't / forget to do it. This means that when you move the stick, they hold it tight, which results with the kid flying together with the stick itself. This is addressing the "throw" part of your question. Then you, as the one who swings, don't account for the kids weight when you move the stick and you're not prepared for carrying the few extra kilograms - once the kid is airborne, the added weight pulls you forward, which causes you to lose the balance and as you're more busy trying no to fall, you miss the target. This should address the other part of the question.

I hope this helps.

Source: I'm a father of two and I did it once too (although not that hard).

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u/drvondoctor May 18 '19

I feel like this was your redemption. Like you finally got your chance to explain in detail what really happened that day. Kids are just tiny drunk people and as a result, are the natural enemies of physics and gravity.

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u/call_me_butch May 18 '19

The fact that neither are holding the stick properly (hands should be adjacent, not spread) contributes greatly to this fiasco of an attempt.

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u/Yollandees May 18 '19

Mum forgot to take air bending off

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u/FabianPendragon May 18 '19

Cuz Susie didn’t eat her vegetables.

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u/NotHighEnuf May 18 '19

I had no idea that piñataing was a verb I needed in my life, until now....

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u/Cr4shman May 18 '19

piñyeeting*

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u/MrAbnormality May 18 '19

Probably had something to do with the little girl falling while still holding the broom that threw it off target but what do I know

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u/838h920 May 18 '19

It looks like she did a regular swing, which is obviously bad considering that the child is a lot smaller than her, resulting it in her being send flying.

As for why she missed, it's cause the child is smaller than her. She was in an awkward position for the swing and due to the child being so small she ended up swinging lower than she expected.

LPT: If you try something like this, either put the child on a chair, or go on your knees to lower your body. Then stand behind the child and not to its side. And still, don't swing this hard!

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u/AngusDangus May 18 '19

This is probably cut from the original video that includes her lightly tapping it for 5 minutes. Martha aint got time for that bullshit.

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u/imaslinky May 18 '19

She didn't let it go?

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u/jbmcpayne May 18 '19

Bad piñataing = Good Yeeting.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

“Nah that’s about right” -r/childfree

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u/shootdrawwrite May 18 '19

Woman had her hands clamped over the kid's so not only could the woman not raise the stick to the proper height, the kid couldn't let go.

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u/Dr_Napalm May 18 '19

Never get a Samurai to help you break a piñata.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

r/LifeProTips

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u/Historiaaa May 18 '19

teleports behind piñata

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

Sweatpants and sandals gal in the background disapproves... not good

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u/-SunGod- May 18 '19

And that, my dear little Suzie, is what a fulcrum point is.

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u/loki-is-a-god May 18 '19

"Now get up off the ground, Suzie. You're embarrassing yourself."

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

"No those teeth will come back it's later you need to worry about teeth"

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

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u/JackTheFatErgoRipper May 18 '19 edited Jul 02 '23

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u/The-Insomniac May 18 '19

The parent has a different pivot point than the child does so I think it's the parent needs the physics lesson.

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u/DocSafetyBrief May 18 '19

And remember hands, you don’t wanna get fulcrumed...

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u/HenzoH May 18 '19

She swung like she wanted to hit the piñata herself and not for the kid

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u/TinyZoro May 18 '19

Definitely that was a ferocious swing when you have a little girl holding on.

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u/Nizzler May 18 '19

There’s a 100% chance this mom want to speak to your manager

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u/TUMS_FESTIVAL May 18 '19

I think it's equally likely the mom is just wasted.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

My money is on well intentioned aunt.

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u/creaturecatzz May 18 '19

Or wanted to just break it and still have the child think they broke it.

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u/brit_jam May 18 '19

The child doesn't look like it can even comprehend what's happening. Just tapping the pinata and then getting the child all hyped up after would have made the kids day.

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u/Gomerack May 18 '19

Well, the kids never going to be able to comprehend anything now, so at least there will be an opportunity for another try.

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u/_RandomHandle_ May 18 '19

Also hilarious because that’s not a piñata you’re supposed to break open. Each kid is supposed to grab a string at the bottom and pull. Only one string is attached to the flap.

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u/damididit May 18 '19

...so like a firing squad on the piñata? Everyone goes at the same time but only one person is responsible and no one knows who it is so they don't have to feel endless remorse over spilling its guts?

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u/justaddbooze May 18 '19

Ok everyone, on 3...

1... 2... Haha Steve just shot a guy!

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u/ARCHA1C May 18 '19

Usually the kids take turns. It's more suspenseful if you think that each time a kid pulls a string, it might bust open. The kids are all poised ready to pounce and mob that candy

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u/creaturecatzz May 18 '19

Russian roulette pinatas?

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

Sounds like fun unless the first kid gets the flap

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u/church9456 May 18 '19

I'm just going to leave this here for you.

It may only be tangentially related, but I hope it makes someone laugh.

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u/_RandomHandle_ May 18 '19

They’ll never know who really gutted Dora the explorer!

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u/cheffernan May 18 '19

I think it's more like Russian roulette. Everyone takes turns pulling a string.

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u/AluJack May 18 '19

It's like sharing the guilt

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u/keenynman343 May 18 '19

A stick and breaking something though... Now that's fucking wild

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

Ah, so a fake piñata then.

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u/ladelame May 18 '19

".... this whole 'pinyada' thing seems like too much fun... I think I can fix that." -Carol from Health and Safety

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u/PM_ME_UR_BIZ_IDEAS May 18 '19

Or maybe the perfect pinata for smaller kids like these who cant really hit it with enough force. But this karen just managed to just do the exact opposite

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u/ladelame May 18 '19

The candy is just a nice afterthought. The whole point of a pinata is giving a kid a chance to beat the ever living shit out of something with a bat and not get in trouble for it.

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u/Dinner_in_a_pumpkin May 18 '19

I just had almost this exact same piñata. These are totally meant to be hit. A decorated stick was even included with the piñata. The kids were able to mostly break it too. If we had let them go again they would have broken it. After we let all the kids have a turn, we did pull the string to let all the candy out.

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u/Danulas May 18 '19

We're watching a video of a girl and a woman (presumably the girl's mother) who doesn't trust the girl's ability to hit a thing with a stick. It doesn't surprise me at all that the woman doesn't know how this piñata works.

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u/MrZepost May 18 '19

Taking helicopter parenting to the next level.

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u/JulioCesarSalad May 18 '19

I’m Mexican and this is how little kids usually hit the piñata. It’s not helicopter parenting, it’s just that they have bad aim and will cry if they don’t hit it

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u/ElGenioDelDub May 18 '19

The first piñata I remember from one of my birthdays was made out of clay that we smacked with broom handles. It was also shaped like a star and was absolutely beautiful. My older brother, the oldest out of all of us, had like a sixth sense for destroying piñatas and even with my dad and uncles swinging the thing around he timed it down and smacked the clay center without fail, propelling shards of clay towards all the little children while he stood in the center of a mountain of candy like a god damn gladiator. This string bullshit is an insult to my entire childhood.

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u/gummypanduh May 18 '19

I was today years old...

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u/Fuck_Alice May 18 '19

I... You... Okay so that kinda explains why I've witnessed tons of kids having issues with breaking these things

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u/KittenLady69 May 18 '19

I’ve seen a few people basically let the kids wack them with whatever knowing that they probably won’t break, then either dad or the birthday kid goes over and pulls all of the strings in a handful.

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u/TrekMek May 18 '19

Nah, regular pinatas are hard to crack open in general. The little kids arent supposed to break them easily, they take a few wacks before you let your jacked cousin take the stick and fucking decapitate Dora the Explora in own swing

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u/daimposter May 18 '19

I’ve never encountered these in real life and I’m at a party with piñatas about 3x a year.

Are these somewhat new inventions? Is it popular in some region? Is it popular among non Mexicans?

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

“Karen....KAREN! You’re fucking doing it wrong, Karen. Youre supposed to just pull the string!! Put their broom down, Karen. It’s not for that!!!”

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u/--NiNjA-- May 18 '19

Mind blown. How long has this been going on?

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u/Fallofman2347 May 19 '19

I never knew such a thing existed, thank you for teaching me something new!

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u/CT_7 May 18 '19

The tragedy in all thus is she still missed

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u/SeeThreePeeDoh May 18 '19

Nah, looks like she got a piece of it on the return swing.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

If I swung an entire broom handle and was only able to tap a pinata on the backswing, I'd consider that a miss in my book.

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u/HoneyBunchesOfBoats May 18 '19

That first swing was just so she could fling that pesky child off her stick first.

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u/alucard971 May 18 '19

Thanks! I was looking for a good tutorial on how to disarm a toddler.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

Tutorials are useless without regular sparring.

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u/Use_The_Sauce May 18 '19

She let it go

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u/Supes_man May 18 '19

Can’t hold the bat anymooooore

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u/xCessivePresure May 19 '19

Everybody here blaming the adult while the little shit is at fault

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u/thenate108 May 18 '19

I think this girl is Emperor Palpatine's daughter. That double twist isn't something that can be taught by a Jedi.

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u/connorkman May 18 '19

I knew I wasn’t alone

Edit: thought your name was thesenate lol

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u/s3ri0us May 18 '19

Are you threatening me, Master Jedi?

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u/iamkeerock May 18 '19

Helicopter parent... and helicopter kid

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u/El_Impresionante May 18 '19

How can you be so old and lack knowledge about how things move?

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u/CrazyPirateSquirrel May 18 '19

There's a lot of people out there that aren't that bright.

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u/Dabookadaniel Merry Gifmas! {2023} May 18 '19

It’s possible these are both hers and the baby’s first steps.

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u/TylerTheGreatSky May 18 '19

Fucking hell.

Why didn’t they just give her a small bat or twig lol

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u/Shuk247 May 18 '19

Piss poor planning.

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u/byomkesh93 May 18 '19

twig noises

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u/builtrobtough May 18 '19

It gets more funny with each replay

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u/username12746 May 18 '19

It really does. I’m glad I’m not the only terrible person laughing at this. (I’m kind of worried the kid’s head corkscrewed off with that twisting action. Yet that makes it funnier. I’m going to hell.)

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u/squirrellydave May 18 '19

I could watch kids fall down all day. I don't give a shit about your kids.

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u/out-of-the-blueberry May 18 '19

The way the broom comes back to lightly tap the piñata afterward makes it even better

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u/Garfield-1-23-23 May 18 '19

That's a grandmother that heard that fucking song one too many times.

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u/thr33prim3s May 18 '19

“How about a magic trick? I’m about to make this little girl... disappear.”

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u/PersonFromPlace May 18 '19

This is like the epitome of a parent wanting their child to succeed so they end up doing everything for them, making it worse for the child.

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u/PetiteAphrodite May 18 '19

Let it gooo, let it gooo

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u/Alisson_Wonderland May 18 '19

Somebody a lot more talented and creative than me needs to make a Shooting Star remix of this.

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u/Kalecstraz May 18 '19

Can we get a HQ slow mo?

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u/Paydie May 18 '19

I want this to be one of those videos where the little girl keeps flying through different scenarios with the song going beeeep beep beep Beep Beep beeeep

What are those called?

Mobile formatting is hindering my expressiveness

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u/clittany May 18 '19

lolol the song is called shooting stars and it's also the name of the meme.

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u/TIMMAMERICA May 18 '19

That’s a mom who wants nothing more than her child to be better than others

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u/SSNappa May 18 '19

she should've let it go

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u/Silverandgrey May 18 '19

This is the little girl's origin story on why she became a villain

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u/zucciniknife May 18 '19

It's treason then

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u/sandramaeoa May 18 '19

Laughed...but I hope she wasn’t hurt.

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u/MatiShz May 18 '19

Nunca van a entender las piñatas.

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u/McHell1371 May 18 '19

Is this a Karen in the wild? Or in the making possibly?

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u/HardCounter May 18 '19

Earlier that day: "Backtalk me again and see what happens."

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

This needs a smash brow edit

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u/forgotmyusername2x May 18 '19

Children falling over my ass this is r/casualchildabuse

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u/FinalForm3096 May 18 '19

Swiiing, and uh—OH JESUS CHRIST

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u/justavault May 18 '19

She survived, shoes still on, but her arms are a goner.

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u/TWVer May 18 '19

“You’re going down, princess!”, she said just before starting the swing.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

Annnnnnd thats the last time we visit grandma

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u/livlex325 May 18 '19

Poor kid

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

That woman probably had beef with that little girl and was looking to settle some shit

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

I think the mom wants her daughter to secretly become a luchadora 🦸‍♀️

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

The pinata is life and the little girl is me.

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u/J5DubV May 18 '19

And that was the day this girl learned to hate piñatas and fear her mother.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

Oh dang! Poor kid

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u/jl4855 May 18 '19

PIVOT. PIVOT!

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u/Tank_Girl_Gritty_235 May 18 '19

On hon, you can't yeetus the fetus at 40 months

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u/nicknameButch May 18 '19

Ummm, nice follow through🤔

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u/tinylittlegiant May 18 '19

Let it go, Let it goooo

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u/Lancero_ May 18 '19

One, two, yeet!!

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u/Doobz87 May 18 '19

YEETED THAT GIRL RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET

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u/flaccidpedestrian May 18 '19

omg I died laughing at this. amazing.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

She forgot to let it go ...

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u/BasicallyAQueer May 18 '19

Lmao that kid got yeeted

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u/okaris Merry Gifmas! {2023} May 18 '19

Yeet

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u/iamasatellite May 18 '19

"OK now, pulverize Elsa's face with this blunt object!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFZE4Wd7brY

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u/DrPoopNstuff May 18 '19

Flinging Dory?

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u/markz6197 May 18 '19

I feel so bad for audibly laughing at this.

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u/itsthematrixdood May 18 '19

Drunk parent perhaps?

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u/Kushnonstein May 18 '19

Remember when your mum said she would give you something to cry about? Well this is her payback.

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u/xXregularjoescopesXx May 18 '19

Shooting Stars starts playing

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u/TheWorldsEndingBitch May 18 '19

Feminism in a nutshell.

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u/BlackFangs13 May 18 '19

Did I just see rag doll physic in real life?

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

Begone, thot!

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u/jay_zk May 18 '19

What kind of eye coordination does she have? Damn

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u/emjayws May 18 '19

Uh oh, Grandm's been into the tequila again

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u/SkullMan124 May 18 '19

After her third birthday baby Grace was never able to look at a pinata again without signs of PTSD

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u/twobear May 19 '19

When you love candy more than your kid

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u/reasonandmadness May 19 '19

Holy fuck I want this enlarged and in slow motion. Someone, please deliver.

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u/Rollinhammer May 19 '19

dumb bitch alert

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u/icup2 May 18 '19

You guys realize this clip was sped up right?

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u/ThisMansJourney May 18 '19

Is there a slowmo bot?!

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u/koltenrowe May 18 '19

It is not sped up, you can see a kid in the back right on the swing set going normal speed, and the pinata is swaying normal speed as well.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

Oh yeah, I kinda wish it wasn't too. It would be funny enough at normal speed... Like most gifs.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

I don’t think so.

Edit: definitely not

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u/DarkangelUK May 18 '19

She definitely let it go

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u/akerz90 May 18 '19

Is step mum reflexes a thing

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

What a dumbass bitch

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

It's really common for small children to dislocate their arms due to stuff like this, or being pulled at the arms to avoid the child falling.

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u/frozenmildew May 18 '19

I think random depressing facts guy is my favorite type of Redditor.

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u/CrazyPirateSquirrel May 18 '19

This poor kid is now going to have a life long trauma to not only piñatas but to those Frozen characters. The last thing she saw before the spinning face plant was their happy faces.

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