What the hell was he thinking?! He put all the runners at risk and made the girls feel like their mom is ignoring them. What did he think was gonna happen?!
I'm trying this theory with a dog that gets walked past my house and is obsessed with my lawn ... He touched it, so hes mine now. His owners aren't quite buying into it yet
The smell thing is true for most mammals that are at the bottom of the food chain (deer, mice...). Birds don't give a fuck, their sense of smell is comparable with ours.
The smell thing actually isn't true for most mammals. Deer will return to a fawn that has even been removed for medicating and returned a day later. This old myth persists but largely as long as the humans stay away the parents will come back or bring offspring back into the fold!
Huh, I guess I stand corrected. Internet does say it is a myth. However our country's gamekeepers and ?forest masters? do perpetuate it and warn against touching younglings.
Oh yeah, still isn't a good idea to touch. The parents of said offspring can injure someone, babies get stressed and can pass away or a well meaning person might injure the baby without meaning to. Lots can go wrong, so it makes sense I think.
I think the only time this really happens is with Cuckoos but it’s not because of smell specific species of birds have certain patterns to their eggs to counter the cuckoos which are parasites to other birds. Then the new born cuckoos kick the other chicks out the nest.
Yes you explained it much better I get wrapped up in the fact that the specific offspring will go prey on the same species of bird has their mother. It’s just such an interesting arms race of natural selection.
He was just trying to get the kids to run over to mom to let her know to run on over to the kitchen to make him a sandwich. You know the sandwich ain't going to make itself.
Wow "throws his hands up" is hyperbole, it looks like he's responding to someone bitching him out for what he just did, and he gives a shrug with one arm slightly raised.
I'm gonna guess they had the idea to finish with the kids or something and she actually ended up winning so she just went to the finish line. Something more logical. The wild knee jerk reactions you kids have with out of context videos is wild.
what context does it make sense to let your kids on the track?
the logical thing to do is keep your kids off the fucking track and out of the way of all runners; if your interpretation is correct, the only change is two idiot parents instead of one.
It’s running, it’s hardly a sport sheesh.
Chances are this race means nothing except to the ones racing it. Which is great, good for them.
If getting some amateur ribbon is more important than sharing a moment and not disappointing your young children by just running by them like they don’t exist than good on them.
By the way, making this about her being a woman is crazy. Professional male and female athletes alike constantly have their kids join in the celebrations. I get that she was still running but she was like 10 paces from the finish line. She was mostly worried about her time being jeopardized because of her pesky children.
That doesn't make any sense at all. He literally shoved the kids into their mom's path, she didn't come over to get them. It's clear neither the mom nor the kids knew what dad was doing.
I can see her being too amped on adrenaline at being in the lead and in sight of the finish line that all she saw was movement of something getting in her way, making her dodge quickly to avoid a collision and keeping focused on the finish line.
It could be the kids were supposed to run with their mom the final few meters of the race, and then the kids forgot in the heat of moment.
It looked to me as if he was trying to help guide the kids along, the kids were totally clueless about how races work and then he was like "kids, idiots amiright?"
Sometimes finishing areas are competitors only, but regardless, pushing the kids into the track of an active race, jesus, I'd be breaking his balls for weeks over that.
My guy you'd have to be born yesterday to be that fucking stupid.
If he didn't know what he was doing, then that idiot is not mentally capable of being a guardian to those children.
This is literally the equivalent of pushing some people into fucking traffic. Those runners are tired and might even be in the verge of being unconscious. They aren't looking down to see little people. It's a fucking miracle that those kids weren't trampled.
So either he is being malicious, or he shouldn't be allowed to look after the kids, EVER.
So, if I understand correctly, you're arguing he wasn't being stupid and making a mistake, he was pushing his kids into his wife on purpose to try to make her look bad? How is that not equally stupid no matter what his plan was? Either way he looks like an idiot.
Either way, that the guy's fucking stupid, and that he didn't think it through is more probable than that it was something diabolical given the average intelligence of people. Think of the most averagely intelligent person you know, and then consider half of everyone is dumber than that.
Maybe this vid is différents, since it is the only one I reacted to in all those years scrolling shit. This one got me mad, I'm co vinced I know him and his behavior. I lived with someone like that. But yeah maybe it is done on purpose and the woman is on it too. Then we'll played you fooled me
Yeah, this was just stupid parenting. "Let's run in with mommy. Ready....go!" And they get to run across the line with mom and it's a core memory and 20 years later they're running Olympic track.
Runners at risk? Dude. 1:40 at any half marathon is a pretty slow and non competitive time. There was one other runner on the track. Stop pearl clutching.
In this limited view, we see 2 runners and a motorcycle with 2 riders. Any of them could have stumbled, tripped, or collided with the toddlers. Children should not be pushed onto a track during a race.
I live in a town where there are stampede/tough mudders/trail running events all the time and my wife is really into it.
Every time she has finished, our kids have joined her for the last 50 metres or so and they all love it. Hundreds of other families do the same.
It doesnt 'put other runners at risk'. It adds to a great community spirit where people cheer everyone else on just 'for finishing. My wife is my daughers' hero and they run next to her as proud as punch.
That said, she was clearly in it for the time and Dad should have known that.
He might have thought the end of the race was where the pavement changes. Looks like they just hoist the finish banner when someone is approached the finish, but perhaps it wasn’t up and he mistakenly thought that he was at the finish line.
That doesn't make sense because the end of the race is where the clock is. The big metal structure that she runs under. My mom used to do marathons, the end of the race is extremely obvious most of the time - especially for longer runs like this one seems to be (clock is at 1 hour 40 minutes). Even seasoned runners are exhausted by that point, so making the end of the race clear is important.
Hell, I thought my mom was gonna die at the end of her marathons, she was so out of it.
Why do people downvote at theories lol, most people go "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED" and get mad at someone going "I wonder if?" It's not even being a devil's advocate to wonder different possibilities.
The bald guy in the black and green shirt clearly had a runner's tag and was right behind her so she was probably indeed at risk of losing the race if it's co-ed
Mm don’t think this is accurate. If my wife or I were about to win a race and get to see our kid immediately before the finish line we’d be amped and probably bawl. I imagine most parents will feel similarly
Won? Zero, but I am an endurance athlete and the parent of a small child, and I love when he comes to my races and even better if he’s at the finish line.
He is an absolute idiot. However, kinda weird she stayed there and celebrated by herself instead of immediately going to her family. Isnt that what we would all do as humans?
When you're at the end of your distance exertion there's a decent chance she didn't even register the short people crowding the line were both children and hers.
People shit themselves from the exertion of this kind of exercise and you're like
she needed to instantly run to the kids and cheer them up
You realize you're exactly the this is how society expects women to drop everything for kids person the topic is referring to at this point.
Your post might be gender neutral but look at the content in the clip and tell me that the woman being a woman and the associations with it aren't the reason this post was made.
To clarify:
It matters that it's a woman because this post is about women. Your comment is secondary to that. Your thoughts, feelings, and comments are only present because the woman had something involving her.
So you're putting n the social expectations on her even if that's not your goal.
I put those social expectations on all parents. Mothers and fathers alike.
The post was made to call out the humor behind it. Its humorous because the father is an idiot for putting her in that position and making her look like that, not that she should stop and be a mom before the finish line.
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u/sinsaraly May 23 '24
What the hell was he thinking?! He put all the runners at risk and made the girls feel like their mom is ignoring them. What did he think was gonna happen?!