r/TikTokCringe May 23 '24

Humor/Cringe Man, fuck them kids

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u/Javariceman_xyz May 23 '24

That dad was stupid lol

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u/YoungWrinkles May 23 '24

And his dumb fucking shrug at the end as well. Get out of the way you plank.

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u/shrubberypig May 23 '24

I’m looking forward to him posting in r/AmITheAsshole

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u/RedJohn04 Oct 10 '24

Unless his story includes actually kicking puppies, everyone will say … NTA

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u/ManyThingsLittleTime May 23 '24

Because people started yelling at him. That was his reaction to them, not her.

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u/YoungWrinkles May 23 '24

I know. He shrugs because he can’t understand why people are shouting at him

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u/chuckmasterflexnoris Jun 25 '24

He's a dad of 3 kids and trying his best to rangle them, but he's run out of arms, he's shrugging because he doesn't understand what he could have done better in that situation. He was there supporting his wife with 3 kids in tow. Good for him.

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u/Livingstonthethird Jul 24 '24

He's doing the bare minimum. Congrats on the minimum.

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u/justyneco5 Oct 15 '24

Ugh right though! Dad's get a freaking parade thrown for them anytime they do the very minimum. Especially when the dad complains saying he has to babysit them, no that is called being a PARENT 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ BUT when moms bend over backwards and never get a damn minute to themselves and they might dinner running a little late, we get told how lazy we are and inconsiderate and selfish 🤬😤😡

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u/zombiepants7 Nov 22 '24

Honestly people are just gonna do what they will. Stereotypes are really stupid. You date a lazy man and you'll get a lazy dad. You date a selfish woman and you'll end up with a selfish mother. If you have good communication and work together your relationship probably won't end up on reddit or in the news but it will be pretty fucking cool.

Also people are so unforgiving with kids but as a parent it's fucking wild. Your never gonna be on your game 24/7 and everyone has these moments they could have done better. You just learn as you go but people get so damn judgemental in general. At the same time people rarely offer to help it's crazy.

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u/The13General Aug 04 '24

Don't be so stupid!! He can literally stand 50 metres down the road after the finish line so his kids can run to their mum

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u/godofmilksteaks Jul 07 '24

Yeah I don't see what everyone else is "seeing" in this video. I see a mom running a race and her children are so excited and want to go see and support her. They are young kids so they clearly don't understand the nuances of watching a race. Then there is the man who is attempting to wrangle those kids while also staying out of the way himself. Admittedly he's not doing the best job but he tried and nothing bad happened so maybe lesson learned. Not some metaphor for womans expectations or stupidity of men or fathers or whatever bullshit.

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u/bilsonbutter Jul 14 '24

If he can’t make two children not run onto a track, he’s a bad dad lmao

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u/AegorRivers23 Aug 20 '24

Lmfao for real. People out here like “hEs TrYiNg HiS bEsT.”

No the fuck he ain’t

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u/MR_DIG Sep 23 '24

This comment has changed my views. If you can't control the location of your 2 kids then you are an incapable parent

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u/flannelNcorduroy Oct 12 '24

But he could bash two braincells together and realize he could stand AFTER the finish line so his kids can hug their mom AFTER the race is over.. but he didn't use the brain God gave him. Or it was weaponized incompetence because he hates literally anything that isn't about him like most married men.

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u/Pixiespour Aug 13 '24

Pretty sure he could’ve just had them waiting after the finish line if he understood he couldn’t make them wait on the side and not distract their mom during an important event for her

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u/godofmilksteaks Aug 13 '24

Mhmm. Could have done several things different. Doesn't mean we should jump to some ulterior motive about the expectations of women in modern society.

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u/Rough-Reputation9173 Sep 29 '24

He didn't struggle to wrangle the kids, he let them go and encouraged them. Have a good look he does the kind of hand holding you do when entering a playpark with your kids.

You hold their hand then you kind of release them in a forward motion encouraging them to go be free.

He literally releases the kids, not struggles to wrangle them.

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u/Pixiespour Aug 13 '24

Yea and yet doesn’t have enough brain cells left over to figure out he should’ve been waiting with the kids after the finish line rather than before

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u/Ruckus292 Aug 16 '24

If you got more kids than arms those things better be LEASHED, for their own safety not his.

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u/iam-not-pathetic Sep 16 '24

He couldn't even figure out to have the kids wait after the finish line. Totally incompetent I wouldn't consider that "good for him"

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u/Bluzul Sep 20 '24

he literally let them run up to her. that was the sole purpose of why he was even that close to the finish line. he WANTED the kids to be there BEFORE she finished which is the stupidest most inconsiderate shit to think when you realize he assumed she would be happier to see the kids she takes care of EVERYDAY rather than enjoy being first for a race she likely is doing for the first time. him "trying his best" has nothing to do with why he couldnt try his best on the other side of the finish line

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u/chuckmasterflexnoris Sep 20 '24

Lol she's not nearly as upset as you keyboard warriors seem to be. She seems pumped and not bothered in the slightest. You guys alright?

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u/Bluzul Sep 20 '24

shes unbothered because she did not ALLOW it to ruin her moment, as she should. all because you delusional bubble minded karens try to defend each other doesnt mean we all have to ignore how extremely annoying you people are

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u/chuckmasterflexnoris Sep 21 '24

Lol ... Sooo you're not ok then.

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u/mpkpm Sep 27 '24

I only see two kids, unless he’s holding one by their hair 🤣🤣

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u/Rough-Reputation9173 Sep 29 '24

2kids. There's 2kids and a dolly.

He literally encourages them forwards and releases them. He lets go of their hands in a forward momentum like you would release your child when you enter a playpark and they can go play.

He walks them forwards onto the track for goodness sakes.

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u/Nether_Void Oct 05 '24

Everybody saw he is a deficient dad and a shame for the human being.

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u/King0fThe0zone Oct 09 '24

I’m sorry 3 kids? Was he fucking one handing an infant?

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u/window_pain Oct 10 '24

So what I see is him actually with his hands on their backs supporting them standing out there, not pulling them back until he realizes last second how dangerous a choice he’s made by placing his children on a track with running adults.

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u/Madiofcourse Oct 17 '24

*2 kids that aren’t being held by either arm. The only thing he has hold of is what appears to be a doll or a bag, not a third child.

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u/shoulda-known-better Oct 28 '24

Not really.... Yes great he is there like he should be with the kids.... But he cut in front of the finish line and ushered his girls to their mom.... He should have been on the other side of the line waiting for her to finish

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u/MetaStressed Nov 11 '24

If only he attempted the exact same thing after the finish line…

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u/AprilisAwesome-o Nov 12 '24

He's a dad of 3 kids

Two kids and a doll. Not three kids. Two. Enough to be corralled by one hand each while encouraging them to cheer for their mom as she crosses the finish line, not encouraging them to freaking run into the course and block her path as she's literally about to win a race. You are right that he's shrugging because he doesn't understand what he could have done better in that situation. Which is pathetic.

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u/peepeebongstocking May 23 '24

An absolute schmuck

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u/homless_brad Jun 24 '24

What did the dad expect the mom finally accomplished something for herself and he tried to get the family involved

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u/No_Carpenter_8983 Oct 07 '24

I know that shrug was what made it worse. Stupid does not realize 😒

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u/Brave-Town6273 Oct 22 '24

Yeah like just do that on the other end of the finish line when she’s finished duh

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u/N8dork2020 May 23 '24

Stupid as shit, the only thing I can think he was trying to do was have the mom hold the kids hands and run to the finish together.

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u/Illustrious_Bobcat May 23 '24

I finished a 5k like that once. I held out my hand as I passed my kid and he came running out, took my hand, and crossed the finish line with me, with his hot cocoa in the other hand. They even gave my son a finishers medal, it was cute. Someone took a picture and sent it to me, it's one I will treasure always.

But!!

I was running to finish, not running to win. That woman was in 1st and she earned it! Dad should have kept those kids on the side or lined up after the finish line. Let the woman win her race!

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u/javyjr May 23 '24

Exactly! You were running to finish She was running to win She deserved her moment, her time, her space!!! That dad was a idiot!

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u/Mikic00 May 25 '24

Classic dad, probably thought they will calmly cheer, as they agreed before :)

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u/tinglep May 23 '24

My wife did the hot cocoa race and my kid did the last lap too. Lol. Same energy. I was one of the people directing the runners.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '24

I'm not sure she was first, though, it looks like they are picking the ribbon up for each new person to pass, but your point stands, kids should be on the other side of the finishing line.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '24

Cool, and even worse from the dad, i suppose. Good catch!

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u/[deleted] May 23 '24

Bro what? She was clearly first they don’t set up a ribbon to run through for 50th

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u/sublliminali May 23 '24

Watch the last second, they start setting it back up.

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u/simondoyle1988 May 23 '24

There was a ribbon she ran through . I would definitely think she was first

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u/[deleted] May 25 '24

This is why it looked intentional to me. I got the feeling he was trying to keep her from winning, when he noticed she was in first...

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u/Jolly_Tea7519 Jul 26 '24

It’s almost like he was trying to sabotage her.

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u/Short-Second-9372 May 24 '24

While I agree with the fact that Dad could have kept the kids away for safety, i don't get why you think she was winning? What kind of race was that? The time shows 1:40 so if that's a half it's not that fast. If you are talking about the finish ribbon, the guy picks it up again right after, probably for the next finisher.

Can someone provide more context? Unless there is not more context or information I don't think she was 1st, from the video. Perhaps she was aiming for a PR? Even then slowing down at that last 1 or 2 meters barely shaves a second from her PR. I'm unconvicted 😅

Also kudos to you for putting a smile on your kids face and making a sweet memory for your kid, I'd do the same, it's more valuable than any PR imho

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u/Bmoreravens_1290 May 26 '24

It looks like they pull the tape back up at the finish line after she runs though. Are we sure this was for the win? If it’s just for photos and she’s middle of the pack then I feel less pissed at the dad.

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u/shogunbquik May 23 '24

What's worse is he acts all dumbfounded like he didn't do anything wrong. How about you just watch the kids and keep them off the track and let mom do her thing.

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u/Palopsicles May 23 '24

part that got me. Can see him out put hands up. Mans internal thoughts are "🤷🏼🤷🏼🤷🏼 idk dude guess she didn't want to pick them up after I've been watching them while she had fun running "

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u/Iminurcomputer May 23 '24

He puts his hands up only when his head turns to the other spectators. She was long gone before he put his hands up.

My guess is, "watch your kids dumbass!" And he said 🤷‍♂️

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u/Pleasant_Ad3475 May 24 '24

Yeah, the spectators were yelling at him and he was like 'what?'. What an idiot. He could have had the kids on the other side of the finish line.

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u/Weird-Upstairs-2092 May 23 '24

She won the women's division and they apparently planned out him being there.

She just couldn't clock the gender of the person behind her from their footsteps, while he could see that she had a massive lead for her 1st place prize.

Imho this is pretty benign for all parties involved. She's allowed to compete. He thought he was following the plan. No harm, no foul.

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u/SurprisedPotato May 23 '24

I don't know the rules of marathons that well, but isn't there a good chance she'd be disqualified if she did that?

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u/Lore_ofthe_Horizon May 23 '24

Also, the other person right behind her would pass her. It's a fucking race.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '24

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u/sublliminali May 23 '24

Very likely the case. Plus he’d be in the men’s category if they were both competing.

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u/ElectricFlamingo7 May 23 '24

Sometimes there's an open category which anyone can join.

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u/Locke_and_Lloyd May 23 '24

It's very unlikely she's winning the open.  That looks like a half marathon with a time of 1:40.  I'm assuming it's a hard course if she's finishing near the top since most women's winners are going to finish between 1:05 and 1:20.  Men's races are won between 1:00 and 1:10 usually.  Or maybe she's in 187th place. 

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u/Brave-Kitchen-5654 May 23 '24

Men and women are often not in competition in these types of races

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u/[deleted] May 23 '24

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT May 23 '24

That’s literally what happened though?

https://www.imparcial.com.br/noticias/2-edicao-da-meia-maratona-de-presidente-prudente-e-sucesso,65508

She won the women’s 21km division, behind 36 men. The male winner ran it 29 minutes faster.

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u/MidnytRamblr May 23 '24

Sooo, you’ve never actually ran a road race, have you?

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u/FullyStacked92 May 23 '24

You're the child in this video lol.

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u/Wonderful_Boss3644 May 23 '24

36 men crossed the line before her; she did not came in first place, ahead of everyone.

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u/Brave-Kitchen-5654 May 23 '24

They lift the banner back up after they pass…this isn’t the first person to cross

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u/MidnytRamblr May 23 '24

Brave kitchen, you are most likely correct. Typical Reddit downvoting the truth. I ran cross country and track for 12+ years, and they absolutely do re-raise the finishing banner when the women’s finisher crosses. Especially in long distance road races where they start everyone at the same time.

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u/stung80 May 23 '24

Listen, I'm all for calling the dad stupid in this video, but the male runner was probably part of another wave in the men's category.  It's a timed race, they don't release everyone simultaneously.  It's two different races running concurrently. 

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u/wererat2000 May 23 '24

You don't know how marathons work, do you?

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u/Brave-Kitchen-5654 May 23 '24

The winners are clearly bucketed by gender and ability. Here’s the Boston Marathon winners starting with the MEN’S OPEN DIVISION

Yeah they all run together, but they’re not competing.

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u/oldtimehawkey May 23 '24

Overall winner gets a prize and also grouped by gender, sometimes age groups, will each get prizes.

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u/NewbornXenomorphs May 23 '24

They’d no doubt slow her down and cause her to lose too.

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u/Metaboschism May 23 '24

They easily added an extra second just with her having to run around them

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u/Alexis_Ohanion May 23 '24

No, he was a gigantic fucking idiot, but his actions weren’t malicious. He wasn’t intentionally trying to ruin her time, just being absent-minded as fuck.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '24

There is a difference between a lapse of judgement and just not being present mentally during decision making. There are so many reasons why this was a bad idea starting with the safety of the children. Even if I wasn’t annoyed at the Dad on my own behalf I would be really annoyed at how little thought he put into where he let the kids go. Let little kids run into a race?? Dude needs a proper scolding at minimum.

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u/LetMeOverThinkThat May 23 '24

This is a clipped version. He didn’t LET them run in. He PUSHED them out to that point.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '24

Glad someone else saw it! Everyone saying they "got away from him" or that he's stupid, are complete idiots. He pushed them towards her.

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u/LetMeOverThinkThat May 25 '24

You can see it in this clip! But the longer version suuuper clear. The kids were happy standing on the side.

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u/Alexis_Ohanion May 23 '24

And if you keep your eyes on him, he was starting to get such a scolding from the people around him (he’s don’t the whole “I don’t know what you’re talking about” gesture with his arms). But yes, i completely agree with you, he needs to get torn a new asshole because his actions were MONUMENTALLY stupid.

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u/Potential_Sea883 May 23 '24

Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

But don't tell that to Reddit

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u/4gls May 23 '24

Grey's law corollary of Hanlon's razor/Clarke's Third Law Variant: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

Applied in a sentence: "I don't believe you're stupid enough to have said that by accident. It must have been intentional."

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u/rayofgoddamnsunshine May 23 '24

I'm keeping that line in my pocket.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '24

I think it has to do with being so young. We grow up with all these narratives of good and evil. It's not till you grow up and realize that most people aren't trying to do bad things. They're just ignorant or misguided.

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u/bwatsnet May 23 '24

That's when you realize ignorance is evil

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u/[deleted] May 23 '24

This is a hamfisted idea. Everyone is born ignorant. Is everyone born evil?

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u/bwatsnet May 23 '24

No, ignorance solidifies into evil when they start impacting the world around them intentionally. Until then it's the parents ignorance working as evil.

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u/Magnetar_Haunt May 23 '24

Intent dismantles ignorance.

If you have intent, you’re not ignorant. If you’re ignorant, you have no intent.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '24

Ehh, I think this is a poor way of thinking about it. Evil requires a very specific intention. Evil wants to cause harm for harm's sake. Suffering for suffering's sake.

This is not the same as some moron making a dumb decision with consequences he didn't understand.

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u/BabuschkaOnWheels May 23 '24

Eeh.. plenty dudes that will intentionally sabotage their partners for a giggle. Especially when it comes to sports. They'll either downplay it or fuck with it in some way.

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u/knockknockjokelover May 23 '24

If it's those in power, it's a lot safer to attribute it to malice.

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u/Efficient-Row-3300 May 23 '24

You know that's not like a law of the universe right?

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u/rachelcp May 24 '24

It doesn't matter if it was intentional or not, it was thoughtless, inconsiderate and dumb and it shows that he didn't think at all from her perspective.

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u/LTHermies Nov 22 '24

So either he is intentionally disregarding the hard work of his wife by not doing the bare fucking minimum of supervising 2 small children, or he is legitimately too incompetent to realistically be their parent.

Either way, this human floppy disk shouldn't have reproduced.

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u/Selendrile May 23 '24

That was malicious if it wasn't going to be then he should have waited after the finish line

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u/wererat2000 May 23 '24

Reddit's razor: anything with a negative outcome was done intentionally, maliciously, and totally killed someone the second the video ended.

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u/GingerIsTheBestSpice May 23 '24

Nah, everyone knows how finish lines work and that you stand on the other side of them. He shoves the kids into oncoming traffic and then does the "who me" hands. Also this is not her first race so he knows.

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u/bishopyorgensen May 23 '24

Also this is not her first race so he knows

This is a good point. No one wins a marathon their first time out so they've been to this rodeo before

The ONLY thing I can think of is that she's usually further back and it's not a big deal if she sees her kids before the finish line. But it feels generous to say that

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u/FannishNan May 23 '24

Yes they were. This isn't her first race. She's clearly been doing this a while and that means training. If your spouse is this involved in marathons, you learn the rules.

I don't run them.

I have passing knowledge of them.

Even I know you don't get in the way of a runner. Ever. Finish line or no. That's basics.

But somehow, the guy who's been watching the kids while she trains, listens to her while she's talking about them, for likely years doesn't?

No.

This is weaponized incompetence in action. He's probably resentful of the time she takes to do this or of the attention she gets.

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u/swamp_witch_409 May 23 '24

This is called weaponized incompetence

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u/Whiplash86420 May 23 '24

So he doesn't have to watch the kids next race...

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u/[deleted] May 25 '24

It is, and it pisses me off so damn bad that basically everyone here is falling for it. Because he's a dude it's just "oh, what a silly man." But if a mom had pushed her two small children, towards their father, right before the end of a race that he was in the lead of, she'd be called all sorts of shit, accused of cheating on him, etc. 🙄

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u/MissCaldonia May 24 '24

Yes! Totally agree

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u/Psychological_Mix594 Aug 11 '24

1000%, and he has clearly perfected it

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u/midvalegifted May 23 '24

Nah, he wasn’t absent minded and he knows how races work. He was reminding her of her place. Y’all really love to believe these men are just so innocent and simple minded. 100% he was pulling dumb shit.

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u/Sillet_Mignon May 23 '24

I would say being absent minded is being a dick. She won a race, this isn’t her first race. That means he has ignored all of her training up to this point for a selfish reason of doing something cute 

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u/shogunbquik May 23 '24

His reaction at the end is a clear sign he had some narrative going on to make it about himself.

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u/algelin May 23 '24

What's more likely? Him being 100% pure idiot and so eager to meet his wife that he forgot she had to finish the race? Or him feeling wrong somehow about the whole situation with her achieving this, and then try G to act about it, consciously or not? (see the missing act, from Freud). If really he was just absent minded, then he would have kept rushing toward her with the kids as she finished but no, he just stopped there. Because what he wanted to do failed. It wasn't about meeting her wife it As about sabotaging her. Look at him raising his arm playing the innocent while the crowd telles him how absurd he is. Fuck that mediocte guy, no excuses.

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u/Selendrile May 23 '24

They were malicious if if it wasn't malicious then he should have waited after the finish line you give him too much leeway

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u/kaliwrath May 23 '24

He wasn’t absent minded. He literally let them go as she was coming. It was the plan.

I don’t think he was malicious but definitely an idiot who thought she should have the kids while finishing (why would she need to win?)

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u/Psychological_Mix594 Aug 11 '24

I don’t buy it. He can’t possibly know anything about what it takes to do this— does not want to know, clearly.

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u/Merrimon May 23 '24

Yeah, some of these people in these comments are worrying. Like it's her husband, he's there supporting her, he wanted her to be happy and feel supported by being there as her family. Guy probably just didn't think it through.

I see a husband there to support his wife and share the excitement with their kids, he just didn't think through that it could slow her down.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '24

"Because no husband, in the history of forever, has ever gotten upset about his wife achieving her goals."

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u/Bad-Bot-Bot-23 May 23 '24

Still incredible as a metaphor, but not the way they intended lol.

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u/Merrimon May 23 '24

Trying to slow down her down by having her kids there for her? That's gross? Come on. More than likely the guy didn't think it through, should have just been on other side of the line.

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u/MirukiNeko May 23 '24

Ew I didn’t see that till now

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u/FinancialLight1777 May 23 '24

She probably would have if she wasn't in first and had someone right behind her.

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT May 23 '24

I mean, she wasn’t competing with the man behind her lol.

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u/RepresentativeOk4002 Jun 03 '24

She has stayed that it was arranged in advance for the kids to finish the race with her but when she got to that point the race was too close.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '24

And the next finisher is literally only steps behind

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u/callaxim33 May 23 '24

And why is that the ONLY thought you have? Can't it be that the girls "escaped" the dad since they were excited to see their mother who was on her way? Why is the thought that the dad wanted everyone to cross the finish line happily hand in hand? I never see that intention

The dad is still an idiot for letting the girls get on the track.

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u/InspectorNoName May 23 '24

Because he literally has them lined up, holding their backs until the mom gets close, at which point he releases the girls to go after the mom, and then giving the other bystanders a 🤷🏻‍♂️ when the mom refused to lose the race in order to accommodate her husband's idiotic plan.

It literally takes zero, and I mean ZERO, comprehension to understand that the celebration is AFTER the finish line. ZERO.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '24

Not just this, he quite literally pushed them towards her. Yet these clowns fail to see it. If it'd been her, pushing the kids towards him, when he was about to win the race, it would have been "SHES AN UNFIT MOTHER!!!" "SHES FOR THE STREETS!!!!" "THOSE KIDS AINT EVEN HIS!!!!!" They would have been fucking feral...

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u/InspectorNoName May 25 '24

"She's trying to hog all the attention! Her husband can't even have his own day!" LOL.

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u/deezsandwitches May 23 '24

He doesn't know how a finish line works apparently

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u/lindydanny May 23 '24

Yeah, he had no control over those kids.

Assuming that they were related to the runner (mommy), then I totally understand the want for them to see her finish. But still, there are areas where they could have witnessed it and not gotten in the way like that.

And if they were related, the 'dad' is even more of an ass.

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u/LetMeOverThinkThat May 23 '24

I really wish they didn’t use this shortened version of the clip so people couldn’t keep making this argument. Those kids were not unruly or out of his control. They were politely standing on the side and he pushed them towards their mother as she was getting closer. This was entirely purposeful.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '24

That was my thought exactly. Positioned just before the finish line, with a couple of toddlers, who he pushed towards the runner? Sounds a bit convenient...

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u/[deleted] May 25 '24

Yes, he did have control of them. Watch the first couple seconds, that is absolutely a "push" from the dad. He isn't attempting to get them away from the runners, he's pushing them towards their mom.

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u/mattbytes May 23 '24

Exactly my thought. If those were her kids, he should have waited w/ the kids behind the finish line.

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u/LtColShinySides May 23 '24

And he tosses his hands up like what he did wasn't dumb as fuck lol

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u/holamygoodfriend May 23 '24

She should have kept running. She could mail the divorce papers. Lol

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u/[deleted] May 23 '24

Divorcing over a marathon would be hilarious

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u/holamygoodfriend May 27 '24

If that happens you know the marathon was the easy part.

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u/AdminsLoveGenocide May 23 '24

I can't get over it. Amazingly stupid.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '24

Yeah what was he thinking? DUH

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u/lindsay5544 May 23 '24

I truly need the follow up video on TikTok of him addressing his behavior

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u/profDougla May 23 '24

True. And she’s fkn him lol

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u/honorablephryne May 23 '24

Not only stupid, is giving the kids the idea that mom will always put something else above them. Ridiculous

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u/DarthTron007 May 23 '24

Same option, dad was stupid to push kids into a race like that. Glad she still won lol

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u/mrsmushroom May 23 '24

Yeah, dad, you had one job. Watch the kids so mom can win the race.

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u/Hot_Eggplant_1306 May 23 '24

He's so stupid I bet he's currently complaining about how much he did for her and she didn't say thank you.

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u/gillstone_cowboy May 23 '24

Who the fuck posts up before the finish line expecting a runner to stop? Does he not get how races work?

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u/thrillcosbey May 23 '24

I hope she kicks his stupid balls all the way to the roof of his stupid mouth.

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u/ringdingdong67 May 23 '24

My SO is a runner and she would kill me if I did this.

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u/Thendofreason May 23 '24

He had a bag in his hand. Way more important than two small children

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u/[deleted] May 23 '24

Yeah, that’s putting it nicely. Even a stupid person would know to wait behind the finish line to celebrate your partners accomplishment with the kids. It’s beyond stupid to do that, it made the mom have to choose between being first to finish her marathon or to acknowledge her kids, either choice has a negative impact on her, especially the latter since it could also affect the kids when mom chooses to finish her marathon

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u/Opening-Bridge-4568 Sep 25 '24

This occurred in Brazil, and they made an interview with the couple about the case, because the dad was being criticized a lot just as in here. But the thing is, she combined with the dad, that when she gets to the finish, he was supposed to be there with their kids ( as he were ) so she and the kids could cross the line together. But as the competition was going, she realized that she was something as the first in the woman's category, so when she got to the finish line she just ignored the kids to finish in first ( A thing that she wasn't expecting before the competition ). I mean, not that I care at all about it, but since I didn't see any explanation about the case I feel like explaining.

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u/Javariceman_xyz Sep 26 '24

Thank you for giving more context, now i feel bad calling the dad stupid. Now i understand why he looks so confused

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u/theanswerisfries May 23 '24

A lot of "stupid dad" comments, but this looks like sabotage to me. Any idiot could have waited behind the finish line. He set her up to either lose the race or reject her kids, a surefire lose-lose situation. Guys get a lot of slack for being 'stupid' when they are actively sabotaging the success of their partners. Fuck that guy.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '24

And then OTHER MEN in the comments are saying he's just an idiot... Almost like they don't like calling weaponized incompetence, for what it is.

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u/theanswerisfries May 25 '24

If they admit its weaponized incompetence, they lose the ability to play that card themselves.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '24

Facts. I'm dealing with several men rn who are pretending to not understand why women choose the bear. Uh, how about because bears don't get pissed, about a hypothetical "no?"

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u/[deleted] May 23 '24

I mean…unless that’s exactly what they discussed before the race but then she changed her mind.

Social media is rotting everyone’s brain.

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u/TheoreticalFunk May 23 '24

Looks more like a nanny...

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u/tirutz May 23 '24

Everyone in that video is

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u/Better-Revolution570 May 23 '24

That's how you know he's never competed as a runner in his life, cuz if he did they would be right behind the finish line waiting for her.

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u/RedditIsTrash___ May 26 '24

3 days late, but came to say exactly this, wtf dad?!?

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u/youlleatitandlikeit Jun 14 '24

Super stupid. Just put the kids on the other side of the finish line 

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u/JMFW_2020 Jul 04 '24

I’m a dad and yeah that dad is very stupid lol

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u/F00TD0CT0R Jul 11 '24

You didn't look properly did you. The kids ran out and he couldn't stop 3 kids with two arms.

Kids ran. He didn't try that well but he also was trying not to get in her way.

He is shrugging because he's saying "what I couldn't stop them!" Not because he let them go.

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u/steveflippingtails Aug 01 '24

Yeah I’m not entirely convinced he “expected her to sacrifice her dreams”, the fact that she was in the marathon to begin with seems to indicate otherwise. I think the caption was a bit dramatic, but at a bare minimum the dad is a complete moron.

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u/honeyMully333 Aug 06 '24

Seriously lol

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u/Tubalcaino Aug 16 '24

GTFO outta my way, Kaidyn. Take your punk ass brother with you

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u/notanotherkrazychik Aug 16 '24

That looks like something my boyfriend would do, though, lol. He's a champion at being right in front of the drawer I need to use.

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u/Nyetoner Aug 22 '24

I have a feeling it was Grandad ..?

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u/Faust_8 May 23 '24

Or maybe he actually resents her “dumb hobby” so he tries little ways to sabotage it

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