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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 hours ago

"If your mother doesn't teach you manners, the world will." My friend from Kenya told me it's an old proverb where he's from.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If my kid did that, I'd let you splash them again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Truly cannot conceive of any other appropriate response. My kid's an asshole sometimes, better he get gentle lessons now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

ESH. Kid shouldn't have done it, but also the lady shouldn't let the cat outside

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I’ll take things that never happened for 200$

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Dollars two hundred.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

Yes, no 10 year-old ever threw water at a cat.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

If my neighbor did ANYTHING to my pets, they'd be lucky to only get sprayed with water.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah but with a ten year old, talk to their parents first. You want to drench a child without their consent? Okay but they had better be in an environment that can explain to them that this is a tit for tat type thing. A ten year old doesn't understand a lot of things and it's not up to the child to perform what we expect them to. Do they need to be corrected, yes. Does doing it so callously benefit anyone? Only a bully. There's a huge difference between constructive discipline and just straight up punishment. It takes an adult to know the difference.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 17 hours ago

My neighbors daughter had one of those water guns. I told her if she shoots at me, I'll get the hose and retaliate. She grinned, shot at me, and ran away laughing.

I talked to her dad, he nodded, and when she came back for more mischief, she got wet.

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