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"Fighting is bad." THWACK

BeerFilter — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:35:57 -0800

Child Beater. Part II. YouTubes, from onehitmaster.com. (No children were harmed during the making of these movies.)

I saw this linked in a comment by user Drastic and laughed so hard I thought this surely should be FP'd.

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:50:06 -0800

Those kids are going to dominate whatever school they go to. Then they will either end up in jail or become towtruck drivers. Video was brain-damagingly dumb, but that's YouTube (sorry for the snark)

By: DU

DU — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:54:22 -0800

Awwwww But why does Rocky have hair during the fight when he doesn't in the intro? Answer: Hitting children will put hair on your ~~chest~~ head.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:03:07 -0800

BeerFilter indeed!

By: phrontist

phrontist — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:13:03 -0800

Man, that was really well done.

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:23:08 -0800

My daughter's favorite game used to be "beat up." Alas, as she grows into teenager-hood, her enthusiasm for it is waning, but, indeed, I used to throw her around like the Child Beater does his kids. Thanks for the post, BeerFilter.

By: LarryC

LarryC — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:26:28 -0800

OK that was the greatest thing ever.

By: Happy Dave

Happy Dave — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:35:19 -0800

Well cut, funny as hell. Good stuff.

By: empath

empath — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:42:34 -0800

Babies eating lemons.

By: Wonderwoman

Wonderwoman — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:51:45 -0800

Funniest goddam thing I've ever goddam seen in my goddam life.

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:58:56 -0800

The first one's amazing, the follow-up's got some good stuff in it. I can't help but wonder what puberty's going to do to change the power dynamic.

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:06:06 -0800

That was great. I loved roughhousing as a kid and it amazes me how few parents will do that anymore. It's one of the reasons I am highly in demand (by kids) as a babysitter.

By: pmbuko

pmbuko — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:09:44 -0800

Kids are meant to be tossed around (safely).

By: DU

DU — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:13:54 -0800

If you aren't throwing your kids around, squeezing them until they can't breathe and letting them jump on your body, you aren't raising them right.

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:16:21 -0800

Awesome. Awesomer. Child Beater.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:22:22 -0800

Babies eating lemons. It's interesting how similar that is to First Goatse shots. (sfw, no actual goatse pictures)

By: desjardins

desjardins — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:53:44 -0800

I'm surprised how much trouble I had watching that, given how obviously fake it is, and given that I have no history of physical abuse. I couldn't take more than a minute of watching kids getting "kicked." It just turned my stomach.

By: humannaire

humannaire — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:35:21 -0800

That was the greatest thing ever. I lucked out and had lots of good fun adult types like this growing up. If we COULDN'T roughhouse like this we were like little monsters. Dads who can come from work and make roughhouse time for the kids - US against the big Dad monster was the BEST - are dads who will be remembered well. Thanks, BeerFilter!

By: thehmsbeagle

thehmsbeagle — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:37:03 -0800

That was great. I love the littlest dude who, at the end, pants like an excited puppy at the prospect of candy.

By: Drastic

Drastic — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:45:38 -0800

That was great. I loved roughhousing as a kid and it amazes me how few parents will do that anymore. It's one of the reasons I am highly in demand (by kids) as a babysitter. For a bit after I first came across these, I was considering an actual post about it. I was going to overdo it, dig up articles on different views on roughhousing play, etc. Then I got really lazy and never did, and as this thread shows, the solution to that is more beer. :) But there's quite a bit of anti-roughhousing viewpoint out there. Most of it I ran across struck me as extremely silly, and a patchwork of dubious assumptions and breathtaking leaps of logic. One could probably make a case it's a weird side-symptom of the same kind of social weirdness behind the recent thread about "stranger danger"--an allegedly well-intentioned projection of adult anxieties onto kids who are, when well cared for, undeserving of it. Depends on the kid, of course. One of my nephews generally doesn't like roughhousing, so we don't; his brother is a whole different story and enjoys being flung about, and I recently kept my niece entertained for easily fifteen minutes by repeatedly "throwing" her up over the back of a couch onto the cushions, whereupon she'd screech with laughter, bound back to the floor, and race back around it for it to happen again.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:57:12 -0800

Revver has higher res versions, & the original files for download: one, two.

By: mistersquid

mistersquid — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:21:22 -0800

The last lemon-eating baby was teh a\^/3s0mE!1! Hooray for delayed reaction and synchronized scoring.

By: spec80

spec80 — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:45:01 -0800

I'm glad they made a part 2, the first one cracked me up so hard.

By: quite unimportant

quite unimportant — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:57:17 -0800

Sweet Jesus, this is great. My friend has two little boys and I can never resist the opportunity to toss them around when I visit. I miss being that indestructible.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:47:17 -0800

I recently kept my niece entertained for easily fifteen minutes by repeatedly "throwing" her up over the back of a couch Yeah, I threw up my kids too, but that's 'cause Zeus and Rhea poisoned me. In retrospect, I guess I shoulda seen that coming.

By: mek

mek — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:36:57 -0800

What a fantastic home video. I hope the kids get to see this 20 years from now.

By: hojoki

hojoki — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:42:49 -0800

Those videos cracked me up! My Dad used to roughhouse with me when I was that age and it made me confident about my body and strength. My mother used to freak out and say you should only roughhouse with boys but Dad didn't listen, thank goodness.

By: Drastic

Drastic — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:52:01 -0800

Yeah, I threw up my kids too, but that's 'cause Zeus and Rhea poisoned me. In retrospect, I guess I shoulda seen that coming. The worst ones are the few that pop right out of your forehead. Other than that, kids are great.

By: chudmonkey

chudmonkey — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:19:04 -0800

I would much rather watch a sitcom about Child Beater than the Geico caveman. It would probably get really tired after the first five or six seasons, though.

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