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Double Grounded (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Dazharion@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

With a scale you could narrow it down pretty quickly

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'd be honestly amazed at labels coming off so cleanly.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

That was my initial reaction. “Great peeling, junior.”

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 6 points 6 days ago

Post-apocalyptic lootboxes.

[–] tangonov@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

This is what "too old to ground" looks like.

[–] ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 153 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Well little Timmy, since you were SO thoughtful taking the labels out of the cans, you are going to play canned flood roulette for the next week. This means, for an entire week you pick one can at random for your dinner, and you are not allowed to have another food outside of what the can offers. In the meanwhile, the rest of us will eat your favorite things in front of you, while you are in your sad corner eating your can of food. Me and your mother are going to place bets to see how long your spirit lasts. Let the games begin

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

My friend's parents tried this sort of punishment mindset with him when it was a kid. He ended up grounded with increasingly draconian punishments for roughly five years because of the shockingly impressive stubbornness of all people involved until they "gave up on him" after 7th grade (yes, this literally started when he was a 2nd grader). He ended up moving out on his own at 16 and dropping out of school and didn't really have a relationship with them for a good decade and a half.

I don't really have any words of wisdom from this other than never underestimate a person's ability to defy logic. It just ended up ruining the whole family's experience for a long, long time.

Edit: I did just remember something "funny" about the whole thing. My friend didn't really know how to, or enjoy, doing a lot of things that pretty much all kids did because of his seemingly eternal grounding. And he was quite literally the palest person I have ever known because he only went outside to get on the bus for school. His parents turned him into some sort of cave person lol

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 93 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Lol.

Guess what "kid" is having for dinner for the next month?

[–] Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 60 points 1 week ago

"How should I know? You ripped all them labels off, you tell me?"

[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What's for dinner?

Can.

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[–] YaksDC@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 week ago (45 children)

Yet another in a long series of examples of why I never wanted kids.

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