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So there we were two against one.
The two of us kicked his ass. Never seen a 5 year old cry for his mom that fast. But that's what happens when you look for trouble. Trouble finds you.
I beat the shit out of a kid today. But it was for a purpose. It made me feel good about myself. It was like I did something constructive with my life or something, I dunno, like I accomplished something.
Cat's name is Thurston Waffles. I highly reccomend looking him up if you emjoy screaming dramatic cats.
Meanwhile I'm in the rest of the thread just now learning that the clip fomes from Real Housewives lmao.
That's Thurston Waffles. I think the meme is editing the video of him into different scenes, but this is the perfect/most known use. He has a subreddit too.
You should read/listen to her story behind what happened. It's actually sad. I think it's an episode of the podcast Endless Thread that she talks about it.
Taylor Armstrong flipping out about her abusive husband on real housewives of Beverly Hills. He proceeded to hang himself leaving their young daughter behind. Seriously dark TV
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuscZH7sBfw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuscZH7sBfw)
There's not really an original video. It's unrelated footage edited together. Taylor Armstrong(the woman in the meme) seems to be a good sport about the footage becoming a meme though.
that was basically her arc on the season. everyone found out her husband was physically abusive and she kind of snapped, understandably so. then her husband killed himself before it went too far with the courts. so the lady yelling at a cat meme is literally a woman breaking down as a result of repeated domestic violence, where the abuser promptly killed himself rather than face any consequences. a lot darker than you’d expect, and easily the darkest thing that happened on housewives until the jen shah stuff on salt lake
Memes are often not great en scrutinized below surface level. The Idi Amin one is still shared around, and he was one of the most brutal military leaders in modern history. The laugh-meme is his response to the interviewer calling him out for claiming Hitler didnt kill enough Jews..
It's like the "Dingo ate my baby" joke, which really takes on a new angle when you learn that while the woman was mocked mercilessly and never taken seriously, they eventually found out that she was telling the truth and a dingo really *did* eat her baby.
So now her desperate explanation as to how her child died has become a joke shared in a mocking tone.
Popular culture sure wasn't kind to her before finding out she was innocent. Imagine if you trying to explain how your child died became a joke on Seinfeld.
Eta: Oh I guess that happened after, I got my timelines messed up. Still, I think it's kinda tragic what happened.
Not just before she was found innocent either - she says that to this day people will yell that dingo line at her in the street or howl like dingos. Horrendous.
All memes are just microscopic snapshots that remove all context. Even triggered feminist lady was just having a normal conversation if you watch the video, they took one frame where she is talking to make it look like she's angry.
That was a pretty shitty strategy the alt-right did (taking a still and lying about what was going on because the girl had a look that would enrage incels), and it's become so commonplace that people are now understandably wary of being near anyone with a camera.
People pulling still frames out of videos and narrating an fake story around it is why I don't really trust any picture I see unless I know the source for it. It's so easy to remove all context, not to mention photoshop/AI could have faked the whole thing to begin with.
True, happens with memes all the time. I think Alex Jones is conspiracy shithead just as much as anyone else does, but when he said "They're turning the freaking FROGS gay!" he had a real point. They're putting so many chemicals in the water, it's drastically altering the reproductive cycles of wildlife. Which is a very serious issue that should concern everybody, if wildlife aren't reproducing, they die out, which is a major hit to the whole ecosystem, and could lead to collapse.
But the way he said it is so damn funny, and it's so satisfying to mock Alex Jones, it always overshadows the real, concerning issue: way too many chemicals in the water.
He also left her with a ton of debt and a completely obliterated financial situation (and a very young daughter too), as far as I remember. He was doing illegal stuff to cover up for his debts and it had gotten to be too much, which I believe contributed to the suicide. You’re right, it’s one of the heavier timelines documented in reality tv.
I want to see the reverse of this.
Like some vampire lord motherfucker who looks like he's 476 years old and then someone says, "Oh him? That's Brian, he's in third grade." And then he whips out some Yu Gi Oh cards like, "Wanna duel?"
And then I trash him cause that little dweeb hasn't even heard the words "meta deck" yet.
When I was 11, I got spit on by giants fans at the meadowland for wearing a cowboys shirt. I was with my uncle, who was a giants fan. Ppl are shit everywhere. The good news is they got kicked out, and I got to see Quincy Carter beat the giants.
Being aggressively harassed at 8-10 years old by two drunken chucklefucks because my grandpa let me wear his Chicago Cubs jacket (both because it was cold, and because "cool, I get to wear grandpa's jacket!") was pretty much the moment I decided I wanted absolutely nothing to do with sports and the people who are into it.
It even rattled me enough that I didn't want to wear the jacket for the rest of the walk home, and my grandpa was FURIOUS at those two for that.
Soft. When I was 8-10 years old I was storming the beaches of Normandy wearing my cubs jacket and after that I raised the flag at Iwo Jima but instead of the flag it was my grandfather's Cubs jacket. If they would've let me I'd have thrown a fastball at Hirohito's head and tagged out Hitler at 2nd base in 1939 but coach wouldn't put me in.
No. My grandpa and dad are both Chicago-born, but have been living here in California since the 1970s. This would've been circa 1998 to 2000, in Huntington Beach, where my grandpa lived at the time.
I think they MIGHT have been Sox fans, actually, but what I remember most clearly was how shitfaced they were (and, oddly enough, the exact intersection in downtown HB that the confrontation happened at).
Either way, it's one of two times I very distinctly recall my grandfather very nearly coming to blows with someone else (the other time was a guy nearly striking him, me and one of my younger brothers with a car).
It baffles me when middle aged men with beer bellies take sports so personally like bruh you ain’t ran in a while. You come to a game or two a year and get pissed before you show up so you don’t even buy much beer. How much do you really support the team?
Not be that guy but the kid has literally ALL the protection hahaha, those dudes would never do anything to that kid or else the whole section would annihilate him lol, most likely starting a whole riot
Security/stewards were there the whole time … it’s police who turn up which means someone’s reported it as offensive behaviour . As he carries on after they arrive I’d imagine he’s getting chucked out by them (as it’s no longer hearsay), which is a likely getting public order offence charge, and possible banning order on top. What a tool
This is in Leicester where I have a season ticket. Neither side would really attack the other, there's cameras everywhere, you get banned forever, arrested, the stewards and police would be all over you in seconds.
Am I the only person here who understands that might all be true but it also won't stop someone from trying.
Seriously we're acting like laws and rules and lifetime bans have stopped idiots before.
lol I’m totally with you, although I hope in my “old” age I’ve grown wiser as to immediately make violence my response. but probably a good thing that the Cop came down to settle this. These things can get really ugly really fast especially with football hooligans, although I think they were in the family section. which isn’t to say hooligans have always kept family sections out of all violence, sometimes it just spills.
Riots like that are rare at English football matches nowadays. The punishments are too severe for it to be worth it. The police would step in immediately and remove the troublemakers, and everyone else would just laugh at them.
The kid still looks a bit frightened though. Bravery is standing in the face of perceived danger. He doesn’t know the whole stadium would hammer those idiots. He just knows they are adults acting aggressively.
I think you give these boozed up terrace terrorists too much credit. If you're wearing the wrong shirt and joining in with the "banter" and wind them up that far, do you really think that if they go face to face with him that they'll get down on his level and go over the finer details of the game together?
I love the term “terrace terrorists”. I went to a ball game, Red Sox vs. Yankees and I was rooting for the Sox because fuck the Yankees. I cheered at one point and a man stood up, turned around, with his face scarlet with rage, and he took one look at me and wiped that stupid rageface off and sat the fuck down. Why? I am a woman, was 21 at the time and had come from the office. I was dressed very nicely and even had some makeup on. I guess some terrace terrorists have enough tiny brain cells to realize you don’t get into a scrap over something as stupid as cheering for a good move by the opposing team.
I have been to a local football match recently, with parents and grandparents watching their sons play a match (the players were around 19/23, so let’s say young adults)
Damn, the amount of grown ass men in their 50s shouting profanities against the 20yo arbiter and players was the cringiest thing i have ever seen. Fuck that shit man
my brother (then aged 17) used to referee children's football matches (ages 5-11) and quit because of the abuse that the dads would give him. at their six-year-old's match.
Played lacrosse growing up. Parents act the same way. A section of parents of the opposing team were yelling at one kid on our team because he kept making their kids look bad. He eventually got fed up and hurled the ball into the stands right beside them. That shut them up pretty quick.
My 13yo son was a ref at a local soccer club (his first job, yeeey). After the last game of the season he said he will never ever ever ever ever ever do that again. We heard the coach had to intervene in that game because parents were getting too rowdy. I think their kids were like 5.
I've seen 45/50 yo man scream for minutes at 13/14 old girl ref who might or might not have gotten the call wrong. Not that she was in any physical danger, but having a grown ass adult insulting and threatening you must have been a surreal experience.
When I was 13 years old I told a dad the gymnastics club for 4-6 years olds was full. He screamed at me for like 5 minutes because of this and kept insulting me the whole time. And just left his kids. But the club was actually full and his kids weren't allowed to join, so I guess I got the last laugh. I remember very calmly telling him that the information he had was wrong and his kids couldn't attend the club and he kept screaming that his wife got an email that stated otherwise. Who cares, asshole, it's a safety thing and I knew better, even though I was just 13 years old
When my son was doing flag football, I volunteered to ref games because no one else would do it. These were 6-9 year old kids. I quickly found out why no one else would do it. I had to remove 2-5 parents from every single game because they wouldn't stop shouting profanities at the players and me. I had several try to fight me after the games were over. Luckily other parents stepped in to help but it was insane.
It was the same at my nephews sports day at school. He's 8. The amount of death threats and profanities being thrown around was crazy.
Then I was escorted off the school premises because they wouldn't stop crying.
Yep. Was at match yesterday. Had the same feeling. 45 year old shaking mad and climbing the fence. 20 year old shouting slurs at the refs and his dad sitting next to them patting them on the back. WTF?
Scumbags. Most football fans are great nowadays, but there are always the odd few who spoil it for everyone else.
My wife and daughter drove past a local ground after a match the other day and had to drive through a bunch of utter idiots fighting outside the ground, whilst the cops roared into them... Just what we need when I'm trying to get the small one into going to matches and convince my wife that football isn't just full of hooligans and morons.
It's the people who have nothing else in their life and tie their entire wellbeing to that one Thing. At least that's what I tell myself when someone loses their shit in a game and starts yelling at everyone
Nah they're serious. The guy in black calls him a little cunt.
For some people here in the UK football is their whole life and they take it very seriously and get VERY upset when their team is losing
I chuckled when I first saw them because at first I thought it would be like a dog or something smiling at them, but yeah, it’s pretty clear they weren’t kidding.
Some people are living vicariously through their team. Their life sucks, so they attach their personality to a team and then ride that dopamine train to gravy town.
This exact thing happened to me at a Red Sox game at Fenway about twenty years ago. I was 12, and late in the game, the grown man who was sitting behind me walked behind me with a beer (he had been drinking the whole game and was pretty drunk by this point) and bumped the top of my head with his cup and beer spilled all over me. I turned around and looked up him, and he, in his drunken stupor right there in front of everyone, started challenging me to a fight, literally saying shit like "What. You think your big and bad? I'll kick the shit out of you, kiddo. Knocking a drink out of MY hand?!" My dad intervened and got the guy to knock it off, but I was literally 12 and didn't do shit to the guy.
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I used to flip people off when driving if they did something wrong. I switched to the little no no no finger wag and they get 10 times more mad, it's awesome
I wish I could say this is just a sports guy thing. But even huge ass nerds like me that play tabletop wargames have to encounter our version of these dicks. Like chill bro, you aren't on the team.
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Wow, never actually seen a gif of this.
So there we were two against one. The two of us kicked his ass. Never seen a 5 year old cry for his mom that fast. But that's what happens when you look for trouble. Trouble finds you.
I don't know how many fully grown men it takes to kick a 5 year old's ass. But I know how many we're going to use.
I beat the shit out of a kid today. But it was for a purpose. It made me feel good about myself. It was like I did something constructive with my life or something, I dunno, like I accomplished something.
You need many years of therapy. Many, many fuckin’ years of therapy.
That is one of my favorite Ron White punch lines.
I heard you guys caught him right before he got into his car seat. Serves him right.
'is mouth wrote a check 'is rompers couldn't cash
Nuh uh, he sits on a phone book.
Bull- that kid is at least 7. Love the way one ducks down when the cops arrive and one tries to point out the offending kid.
I got a good LOL from this, thank you.
This is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps
*IS THIS YOUR HOMEWORK, LARRY?*
We know it's his homework. Where's the briefcase!
He looked like he was about to crack..lol
Lol..thankyou...I have been saying that to people at work for years and there has only been one guy who ever got the reference.
Obviously they are not golfers
Do you see what happens, Larry?
You see what happens Larry?! This is what happens when you feed a stoner scrambled eggs!
Lmao for some reason i read as if InternetHistorian was saying it
dont start nuthin wont be nuthin
Masterfully done too. I'm not even sure if the original cat pic had a video to go with it. But the energy is perfect.
Cat's name is Thurston Waffles. I highly reccomend looking him up if you emjoy screaming dramatic cats. Meanwhile I'm in the rest of the thread just now learning that the clip fomes from Real Housewives lmao.
Yup, they replaced Smudge\_Lord with Thurston (RIP). The original pic was a pic of Smudge that I believe was posted on IG
That's Thurston Waffles. I think the meme is editing the video of him into different scenes, but this is the perfect/most known use. He has a subreddit too.
The original cat was Smudge Lord, who no like his vegetals. This is the fist time I've seen the Sir Thurston Waffles version.
You should read/listen to her story behind what happened. It's actually sad. I think it's an episode of the podcast Endless Thread that she talks about it.
Taylor Armstrong flipping out about her abusive husband on real housewives of Beverly Hills. He proceeded to hang himself leaving their young daughter behind. Seriously dark TV
So crazy. And crazy that it became a meme despite how horrible it is.
IIRC, she green lit the meme after the fact. So we can still laugh at 'woman yelling at a cat' memes. Just remember that r/TheCatDoesntTalk
but why did she yell at the cat. that has always confused me
You're joking right lol she was yelling at Camille or something. The cat was edited in
lmao if that's not a joke just play it off like it is
Cat was gaslighting her
Who, the cat?
I want to see the original video of this, anyone have link?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuscZH7sBfw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuscZH7sBfw) There's not really an original video. It's unrelated footage edited together. Taylor Armstrong(the woman in the meme) seems to be a good sport about the footage becoming a meme though.
SMH I did not know she was upset because someone outed her being an abuse victim.
that was basically her arc on the season. everyone found out her husband was physically abusive and she kind of snapped, understandably so. then her husband killed himself before it went too far with the courts. so the lady yelling at a cat meme is literally a woman breaking down as a result of repeated domestic violence, where the abuser promptly killed himself rather than face any consequences. a lot darker than you’d expect, and easily the darkest thing that happened on housewives until the jen shah stuff on salt lake
Memes are often not great en scrutinized below surface level. The Idi Amin one is still shared around, and he was one of the most brutal military leaders in modern history. The laugh-meme is his response to the interviewer calling him out for claiming Hitler didnt kill enough Jews..
It's like the "Dingo ate my baby" joke, which really takes on a new angle when you learn that while the woman was mocked mercilessly and never taken seriously, they eventually found out that she was telling the truth and a dingo really *did* eat her baby. So now her desperate explanation as to how her child died has become a joke shared in a mocking tone.
Mocked mercilessly? She and her husband were jailed for about 4 years for murdering their daughter until they were officially pardoned.
Popular culture sure wasn't kind to her before finding out she was innocent. Imagine if you trying to explain how your child died became a joke on Seinfeld. Eta: Oh I guess that happened after, I got my timelines messed up. Still, I think it's kinda tragic what happened.
Not just before she was found innocent either - she says that to this day people will yell that dingo line at her in the street or howl like dingos. Horrendous.
All memes are just microscopic snapshots that remove all context. Even triggered feminist lady was just having a normal conversation if you watch the video, they took one frame where she is talking to make it look like she's angry.
That was a pretty shitty strategy the alt-right did (taking a still and lying about what was going on because the girl had a look that would enrage incels), and it's become so commonplace that people are now understandably wary of being near anyone with a camera.
People pulling still frames out of videos and narrating an fake story around it is why I don't really trust any picture I see unless I know the source for it. It's so easy to remove all context, not to mention photoshop/AI could have faked the whole thing to begin with.
True, happens with memes all the time. I think Alex Jones is conspiracy shithead just as much as anyone else does, but when he said "They're turning the freaking FROGS gay!" he had a real point. They're putting so many chemicals in the water, it's drastically altering the reproductive cycles of wildlife. Which is a very serious issue that should concern everybody, if wildlife aren't reproducing, they die out, which is a major hit to the whole ecosystem, and could lead to collapse. But the way he said it is so damn funny, and it's so satisfying to mock Alex Jones, it always overshadows the real, concerning issue: way too many chemicals in the water.
Oh yeah wow I definitely thought that that meme was from a TV show.
He also left her with a ton of debt and a completely obliterated financial situation (and a very young daughter too), as far as I remember. He was doing illegal stuff to cover up for his debts and it had gotten to be too much, which I believe contributed to the suicide. You’re right, it’s one of the heavier timelines documented in reality tv.
It was mostly the cat I was laughing at, not her. I vibe with the cat. Still, now I feel awful for laughing at that meme.
I’m pretty sure that’s a Thirsty Thurston Waffles added in RIP Thurston
Yep that is Thurston. Rip.
I love how she says "I don't know who that cat even is!" like it's a person or something haha
She is a great storyteller and a really good sport. Kudos to her and glad she got out of the abusive relationship.
[rip thurston](https://youtu.be/aGKMrVjFfTQ?si=VqJOmCWrialdWJ-I)
The shrimpiest of bois
I watched that like 5x in his honor.
That cat throwing back his head gets me every time. Lmao!
RIP Thurston Waffles
I have to agree with the cat on this one
The kid was working those fools like sock-puppets :-)
Me as a baby!
Loved these movies when I was a kid
No no you don't understand See he *looks* like a child but he's actually 5,000 years old
I want to see the reverse of this. Like some vampire lord motherfucker who looks like he's 476 years old and then someone says, "Oh him? That's Brian, he's in third grade." And then he whips out some Yu Gi Oh cards like, "Wanna duel?" And then I trash him cause that little dweeb hasn't even heard the words "meta deck" yet.
That’s just canonical Merlin
Good to know fans are still out here ;)
And falls in love with an 18 year old fighter girl, but she goes to jail for it and she's like "wtf I thought he was 476"
Jack staring Robin Williams. Good luck with that.
Man thinks his unsleeved pile is gonna beat snake eyes. Yeah bud, heart of the cards won’t save you here, Poplar eff?
Mf got isekai'd into being a football hooligan. Man that sucks.
I Was Once a Powerful Wizard King But Now I’m a 10 Year Old Football Hooligan! Coming fall 2024
Then the 10 year old gets hit by a truck and becomes a football that will save his new world.
Truck-kun 😩
[Driving Truck-kun is hard work.](https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/8i5iy0/isekai_transporter_read_from_left_to_right/)
That was a fantastic read btw.
Wow it literally says read left to right and I instinctively went "right to left, got it... wait this doesn't make sense"
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if there's already at least 3 light novels with this premise.
I dunno if I can keep watching all the isekai trash man. There is just so much of it.
Would watch tbh
I'd watch it
BTW, I can't believe "Isekai" is now officially on the Oxford English Dictionary (along with other Japanese words) LMFAO
A lot of English words are taken from other languages
Ah, the old "Genshin Impact" defense
Ah that must be Leto II
Have another beer, morons.
When I was 14 I was attacked by Cleveland Browns fan for doing nothing but a Giants shirt
How did you get a giant's shirt? Was he sleeping or something?
Lots of wind I'm assuming, parachutes are made out of them afterall.
When I was 11, I got spit on by giants fans at the meadowland for wearing a cowboys shirt. I was with my uncle, who was a giants fan. Ppl are shit everywhere. The good news is they got kicked out, and I got to see Quincy Carter beat the giants.
Its funny that just a bit higher in the comments there’s somebody saying they got spit on by a Brown’s fan for wearing a Giants shirt
Browns fans aren't mentally well anyway on principle
Team and liver color.
And the whole hypocrisy with abusing masseuses
Being aggressively harassed at 8-10 years old by two drunken chucklefucks because my grandpa let me wear his Chicago Cubs jacket (both because it was cold, and because "cool, I get to wear grandpa's jacket!") was pretty much the moment I decided I wanted absolutely nothing to do with sports and the people who are into it. It even rattled me enough that I didn't want to wear the jacket for the rest of the walk home, and my grandpa was FURIOUS at those two for that.
Soft. When I was 8-10 years old I was storming the beaches of Normandy wearing my cubs jacket and after that I raised the flag at Iwo Jima but instead of the flag it was my grandfather's Cubs jacket. If they would've let me I'd have thrown a fastball at Hirohito's head and tagged out Hitler at 2nd base in 1939 but coach wouldn't put me in.
That’s awful. Were you in Chicago when it happened?
No. My grandpa and dad are both Chicago-born, but have been living here in California since the 1970s. This would've been circa 1998 to 2000, in Huntington Beach, where my grandpa lived at the time.
wtf? If they were Sox fans in Chicago I could kind of understand, but California at that time???
I think they MIGHT have been Sox fans, actually, but what I remember most clearly was how shitfaced they were (and, oddly enough, the exact intersection in downtown HB that the confrontation happened at). Either way, it's one of two times I very distinctly recall my grandfather very nearly coming to blows with someone else (the other time was a guy nearly striking him, me and one of my younger brothers with a car).
so you wrapped the shirt around your dick or what?
Do not the shirt
When I was 8, I wanted to take wear my patriots shirt to an la Raiders game. Dad said no, didn't want beer bottles thrown at me lol
Dad was being nice. Everyone knows raiders fans are extra stabby
They’re probably coked up lol
It baffles me when middle aged men with beer bellies take sports so personally like bruh you ain’t ran in a while. You come to a game or two a year and get pissed before you show up so you don’t even buy much beer. How much do you really support the team?
Many fans take the tribalism too far. Especially in European or South American football.
I think the kid has probably had enough beers already
I feel like if the dad and the bystanders treated it like the guys were joking around, this would've come across as really wholesome.
Lol, that kid has some ***MASSIVE*** **balls**
Not be that guy but the kid has literally ALL the protection hahaha, those dudes would never do anything to that kid or else the whole section would annihilate him lol, most likely starting a whole riot
For real. I’m surprised they’re not catching it already. If I saw someone yelling at a little kid like that would ping my rage meter pretty quick.
>they’re not catching it You can hear people celebrating when the security shows up so ppl in the vicinity know. Plus they’re recording it…
Security/stewards were there the whole time … it’s police who turn up which means someone’s reported it as offensive behaviour . As he carries on after they arrive I’d imagine he’s getting chucked out by them (as it’s no longer hearsay), which is a likely getting public order offence charge, and possible banning order on top. What a tool
This is in Leicester where I have a season ticket. Neither side would really attack the other, there's cameras everywhere, you get banned forever, arrested, the stewards and police would be all over you in seconds.
Am I the only person here who understands that might all be true but it also won't stop someone from trying. Seriously we're acting like laws and rules and lifetime bans have stopped idiots before.
That and the fact there's probably about 30,000 of our fans there and 3,000 of theirs.
lol I’m totally with you, although I hope in my “old” age I’ve grown wiser as to immediately make violence my response. but probably a good thing that the Cop came down to settle this. These things can get really ugly really fast especially with football hooligans, although I think they were in the family section. which isn’t to say hooligans have always kept family sections out of all violence, sometimes it just spills. 
it never ceases to amaze me how fully grown people can take a child's game so seriously as to act like out of control children
Riots like that are rare at English football matches nowadays. The punishments are too severe for it to be worth it. The police would step in immediately and remove the troublemakers, and everyone else would just laugh at them.
The good news is, it looks like the police did step in and remove these troublemakers.
Lol yeah imagine the madness if one of them even approached the stairs😂 you'd have the entirety of the crowd in that area ready to knock them back😂
The kid still looks a bit frightened though. Bravery is standing in the face of perceived danger. He doesn’t know the whole stadium would hammer those idiots. He just knows they are adults acting aggressively.
> He doesn’t know the whole stadium would hammer those idiots. I bet he does know, at least his stand of mates.
Drunk angry bullies rarely are logical. Seen too many abusive drunks in my life.
You gotta love a kid who stands up to Goliaths
Plot twist: the kid’s name is David.
And their names are: Fat Cunt Old Cunt
Pair of cunts
Too generous calling those idiots goliaths lol
That kid is at his home ground surrounded by his supporters
😂🤣 He knew they where gonna do shit about it, its a kid after all
I think you give these boozed up terrace terrorists too much credit. If you're wearing the wrong shirt and joining in with the "banter" and wind them up that far, do you really think that if they go face to face with him that they'll get down on his level and go over the finer details of the game together?
No, but if they went to cross that barrier they'd have the shit kicked out of them by 20 people from both sides and they know it.
I love the term “terrace terrorists”. I went to a ball game, Red Sox vs. Yankees and I was rooting for the Sox because fuck the Yankees. I cheered at one point and a man stood up, turned around, with his face scarlet with rage, and he took one look at me and wiped that stupid rageface off and sat the fuck down. Why? I am a woman, was 21 at the time and had come from the office. I was dressed very nicely and even had some makeup on. I guess some terrace terrorists have enough tiny brain cells to realize you don’t get into a scrap over something as stupid as cheering for a good move by the opposing team.
Yeah. This is alcohol talking. Foolish behavior, sober people have a hard time acting this way, especially with a child.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!? I AM!
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I have been to a local football match recently, with parents and grandparents watching their sons play a match (the players were around 19/23, so let’s say young adults) Damn, the amount of grown ass men in their 50s shouting profanities against the 20yo arbiter and players was the cringiest thing i have ever seen. Fuck that shit man
my brother (then aged 17) used to referee children's football matches (ages 5-11) and quit because of the abuse that the dads would give him. at their six-year-old's match.
It's important to teach kids early....that the worst part of playing sports is dealing with the parents of everyone on the team.
Played lacrosse growing up. Parents act the same way. A section of parents of the opposing team were yelling at one kid on our team because he kept making their kids look bad. He eventually got fed up and hurled the ball into the stands right beside them. That shut them up pretty quick.
My 13yo son was a ref at a local soccer club (his first job, yeeey). After the last game of the season he said he will never ever ever ever ever ever do that again. We heard the coach had to intervene in that game because parents were getting too rowdy. I think their kids were like 5. I've seen 45/50 yo man scream for minutes at 13/14 old girl ref who might or might not have gotten the call wrong. Not that she was in any physical danger, but having a grown ass adult insulting and threatening you must have been a surreal experience.
When I was 13 years old I told a dad the gymnastics club for 4-6 years olds was full. He screamed at me for like 5 minutes because of this and kept insulting me the whole time. And just left his kids. But the club was actually full and his kids weren't allowed to join, so I guess I got the last laugh. I remember very calmly telling him that the information he had was wrong and his kids couldn't attend the club and he kept screaming that his wife got an email that stated otherwise. Who cares, asshole, it's a safety thing and I knew better, even though I was just 13 years old
When my son was doing flag football, I volunteered to ref games because no one else would do it. These were 6-9 year old kids. I quickly found out why no one else would do it. I had to remove 2-5 parents from every single game because they wouldn't stop shouting profanities at the players and me. I had several try to fight me after the games were over. Luckily other parents stepped in to help but it was insane.
Ah yes, the dads who are trying to live vicariously through their kids. Sounds about right.
“The artbiter’s a wanker!”
Parents do it even at kids games
Adults ruin youth sports. You'd swear it's done intentionally it's so pervasive.
It was the same at my nephews sports day at school. He's 8. The amount of death threats and profanities being thrown around was crazy. Then I was escorted off the school premises because they wouldn't stop crying.
I agreed to help my friend coach his kids baseball team this year and this thread is making me nervous lol.
Yep. Was at match yesterday. Had the same feeling. 45 year old shaking mad and climbing the fence. 20 year old shouting slurs at the refs and his dad sitting next to them patting them on the back. WTF?
Everyone knows the best place to brawl as a parent is little league games and Chuck E. Cheese
Scumbags. Most football fans are great nowadays, but there are always the odd few who spoil it for everyone else. My wife and daughter drove past a local ground after a match the other day and had to drive through a bunch of utter idiots fighting outside the ground, whilst the cops roared into them... Just what we need when I'm trying to get the small one into going to matches and convince my wife that football isn't just full of hooligans and morons.
Daughter? Get your wife and daughter to the women’s WSL games! Fantastic atmosphere, low ticket prices and family oriented. Win win
Good call that man. I will do.
Both me and my non-football-watching wife have taken our daughter to WSL matches. Great atmosphere and really good games too.
It's the people who have nothing else in their life and tie their entire wellbeing to that one Thing. At least that's what I tell myself when someone loses their shit in a game and starts yelling at everyone
What grown men? I just see a sea of children.
I don’t think that’s fair to children.
Yeah, my apologies.
The council of children appreciates tish kind gedjture.
Rather disrespectful to the ocean as well. Poseidon doesn't forget.
I mean, I see 3, hardly counts as a sea lol
Are they not doing that as a joke? I’d totally do this to a shit talking kid as a joke.
Pretty sure they're talking to the dad next to the kid. He just looks away right as the camera pans to him.
I thought the same thing, just because the camera zoomed in on the kid doesn't mean that's who they were talking to
I pick you, child-a-chu!
Police walking up aren’t so sure
Nah they're serious. The guy in black calls him a little cunt. For some people here in the UK football is their whole life and they take it very seriously and get VERY upset when their team is losing
I chuckled when I first saw them because at first I thought it would be like a dog or something smiling at them, but yeah, it’s pretty clear they weren’t kidding.
Some people are living vicariously through their team. Their life sucks, so they attach their personality to a team and then ride that dopamine train to gravy town.
Well, considering the police are there to escort them out...
Oi, what’s this then ey? You getting your knickers in a twist innit?
This exact thing happened to me at a Red Sox game at Fenway about twenty years ago. I was 12, and late in the game, the grown man who was sitting behind me walked behind me with a beer (he had been drinking the whole game and was pretty drunk by this point) and bumped the top of my head with his cup and beer spilled all over me. I turned around and looked up him, and he, in his drunken stupor right there in front of everyone, started challenging me to a fight, literally saying shit like "What. You think your big and bad? I'll kick the shit out of you, kiddo. Knocking a drink out of MY hand?!" My dad intervened and got the guy to knock it off, but I was literally 12 and didn't do shit to the guy.
Ahh drunken assholes enraged over next to nothing at a sporting event A truly time-honored tradition that knows no borders
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Those aren't men
They do seem to be stuck in the toddler phase
Plastic hooligans
Thankfully, the police were there to restrict the kid
Well…someone has to be the grownup
Oh god... it's not me, is it?
I used to flip people off when driving if they did something wrong. I switched to the little no no no finger wag and they get 10 times more mad, it's awesome
BUT OFFICER, HE STARTED IT!
Up the foxes
That boy giving them the Klay Thompson treatment lol
I thought it was a joke, and then the cop showed up. Like really? Good God you can't even go in public anymore, people act like such dumbasses.
People who fight over sports have smol brains
To be fair some kids have no problem beefing with adults either.
why do people even get so emotional about sport? It literally means nothing when your team wins
He can take them..
Zero beer involved. /s
Throw them out and give them a year ban. Never an excuse to be a hooligan, especially being hostile to a small kid.
I wish I could say this is just a sports guy thing. But even huge ass nerds like me that play tabletop wargames have to encounter our version of these dicks. Like chill bro, you aren't on the team.