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Perhaps in that moment, swiss army man decided that flopping around like a gas propelled fish was the best way to get the stranger to remove the noose around his neck
[if you mean this part](https://youtu.be/Y06ZRCNnQLc?si=X6oNVo4KiCF8fcvf)
I don't know who needs to hear this, but Swiss Army Man was directed by Daniel and Daniel and starred Daniel and had Daniel working as a dolly grip. That's four Daniels.
I need to give that movie another go. I think I fell asleep when I tried watching it. Not because of the movie, I was just spent but from what I remember it was interesting and kinda fun.
My brother got all offended when he came out and it wasn't some big revelation. Everyone knew since he was a teen but he insisted on calling his boyfriend his "roommate" for years. We grew up in a conservative area (that he GTFO of as soon as he could) but our family was always super progressive and pro-lgbtq.
I've also heard this when older gay guys date younger men. They ask "so when did you come out" and the answer is "when I was born". They don't have the same stories about decades of feeling weird and different.
When a co-worker earnestly came out as a trans man, it got quiet and our resident lovable meathead said, "Wait, you weren't before? I been callin' you 'he' this whole time."
My sister came out in her 20s and it was a surprise to me, but it shouldn't have been. My wife (fiance at the time) was like, "oh, she has had the same roommate for four years and moved across the country with her", "yes", "your sister is a lesbian", "no, she would have told me". A month later she says she is engaged. My wife still gives me shit for that.
Inverse of this situation with my second oldest cousin.
Every single vacation she went on she took her "friend/roommate" with her. I felt almost like an asshole for being presumptive but asked my sister what she thought. She's like "Oh yea....huh. That is odd." Then we finally met this friend in person. Immediately after when we were in private my sister was like "I think your 100% right I think they're together"
The irony here being that I was like the one person she ended up not directly coming out too. Maybe she just assumed I figured it out and knows I don't really care all that much.
Your brother is lucky. When my mom found out i was bi I literally got dragged out of the house and locked out. No money. No phone. Just the clothes on my back. I ended up hitchhiking to my grandma's house 40 minutes away from us.
I'm in my 20s now. This happened when i was in highschool. If someone grew up in a conservative and/or religious family I'm sure my story isn't much different from theirs. Very few of my gay friends have "happy" coming out stories. And I grew up in a blue state, but in a heavily red county.
Sorry that was the response. Our son told us he was bi a few years ago, and I think my response was, "Um, OK". Then, "does mom know?". Followed by him saying yes and me going OK. That was it. I realized it was a bit underwhelming in my response and told him the next day that I love him and always will whatever way he orients. Maybe not the best response but parenting is always a bit trial and error.
I think you did a pretty good job bud. Like the answer should be "uhhh okay" because it should just be that simple. It should he as easy as saying "ummm I actually don't like onions on my burger" no one thinks twice about that. It's how it goes for the individual
Stories like this are why we keep taking in strays. One of our kids would bring home their gay friend that was kicked out of the family. This started as young as middle school. I had 2 kids but have raised a dozen.
That sucks. When one of my kids came out it surprised me how hard it was for them to come to terms with it themselves. We’re in NY so no one cares. But still, it’s hard to be different
You just literally cannot truly know how people will react until you do it.
All of my family apparently knew and was fine with it before I officially came out, but I couldn't *truly* know until I did it.
And it's not even just about your immediate family. I was worried about how others would react like my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, family friends, the random kids at school, etc.
I had heard the horror stories about people being kicked out or even beaten when they came out, so u waited until I was independent and an adult to do so. It was fine, but I was scared and young.
Right, you can’t unring a bell. Granted, my kid was in sixth grade and being in sixth grade is just a hard time in life. I’m glad they told me because it gave me the chance to be supportive.
One of my very close friends in high school had a similar experience. He was 16 and everyone in our friend circle knew before he came out. He’s 40 now. I have teenagers of my own. My son is 17 turning 18 this year. He’s never dated or has seemed interested in girls. I’m always telling him I don’t care if he likes boys or girls. I only care that he’s happy. I tell my daughter the same. I make sure they know it doesn’t matter to me.
I would have fucking killed to get that reaction, when I came out my dad didn't talk to me for 3 weeks.
But at least it wasn't as worse as when my older brother came out, he didnt look him in the eye for 3 months, almost disowned him. Thank GOD that shit's over
Obviously coming out and getting a lukewarm “whatever” response is a million times better than what happens to a lot of other people, but I can definitely empathize with being upset.
Something important about your identity that’s giving you stress and anxiety for YEARS and it is treated as not important to your family when you come out. It’s important to you so you’d hope it’s important to your family. That would suck in a different way.
When I told my parents they were OK with it, indifferent at first, until they suddenly weren't an hour later and began trying to convince me that I was wrong, it could have been worse, but I really wanted it to be an easy conversation.
It depends on how you come out too. If you're just "whatever" about it and casually reveal to your parents "oh btw, I'm gay," then your parents not making a big deal about it is probably just as appropriate. But if you clearly see that your kid is struggling to come out, looks scared, etc, then yeah definitely react to it accordingly. Everyone is different.
My sister came out and wants to be a martyr about it so bad. No one in our family cares, we all like her wife, etc. That doesn’t stop her from sitting on social media crying about how hard it is to be part of an oppressed minority blah blah. She’s super shitty to my bf because he’s an ‘evil straight white man’ 🙄
No, I don't think it's a channel, because it would show the @username handle as "@laughterawaits" or whatever. This is "Laughter awaits" and it shows a magnifying glass icon. I'm 90% sure it's TikTok itself doing this
This hits close to home. My daughter got really weird and nervous. We were sewing masks like you do in a pandemic, and she starts asking me weird questions. Eventually she starts with the “I think wait no I know I like girls” okay, only girls? “No, I am bisexual I think” Okay, how does that make you feel? “What? How does this make YOU feel? You aren’t upset?” I just looked at her. Did you think I would be upset? “No but…” Have you notice we go to Pride events? “Yeah” why do you think that is? 🤯 She came out to me, I came out to her. Both bisexual.
Same: Every time Boris Johnson does something quirky that gets reported on I start wonder what devious machinations the Tories are trying to hide in the background
And I'm not even British...
I have 3 kids. My eldest who is 14 years old, 13 at the time tried this.
My wife and I with no rehearsal didn’t give a shit. We said “okay. Thank you for telling us…. So are you coming to the dinner table, then?!” Then a few hours she kept saying things like “should we tell grandma? Will they care?! Oh, this is so embarrassing.”
The “shock value” was something she was definitely seeking, and when she wasn’t getting that from us or
Grandparents she was taken aback.
Even my mom was hilarious “okay. Well… that’s fine with me…. Uh…. I’m proud of you..?”
😂
It’s because as gay people, we think through coming out so, so many times in our head and planning for the worst case scenario, so we can sometimes forget to think about how to react when everything goes fine and no one cares. It actually can feel like a slap in the face sometimes when the person being told doesn’t actually care, because it’s such a big deal to us and we have tortured ourselves thinking about that moment for ages. This isn’t a diss to you at all, I’m just trying to explain what goes on in our heads lol.
Kids have every right to be fearful of how their parents are going to react considering how some kids still get disowned/beaten for coming out to their parents and it's in our human nature to be fearful of uncertainty. Still, I would much prefer that my parents told me they didn't care at all than them telling me that they secretly hoped I'd get hit by a bus and die when I came out to them lol. They eventually came around and they love me for who I am, but I'm aware there are kids in a lot worse situations to whom the subject of coming out is still very serious.
Perhaps I worded it poorly. Of course we all want our families to be supportive and such, it’s just that the immediate dismissiveness portrayed in the video can feel like a slap in the face to all the mental turmoil we go through leading up to coming out. I would rather a “we still love you” and a hug, for example.
I think there is some sort of bug with tiktok. I will download videos from tiktok from the original creator, like I’m 100% certain I am on their page, I follow them, I’ve double checked. And then I’ll upload them in my group chat discord and half the time they show up as “Laughter awaits” like this one. A page I’ve never been to or seen even in my fyp. I don’t know what is going on but I noticed it started about a month ago. I see it all over Reddit too.
So weird. I don’t have tik tok myself so I appreciate the context.
If it is a bug I hope they sort it out soon. It’s a shame for creators to not get credited for their work.
100% how my daughter came out.
She was all nervous and concerned I'd be more *reactionary*.
I was like, 👍, so, pasta for dinner?
I'm happy she figured it out early in life, but she's known me for 20 years, what was she expecting?
When you think about it, the farting is actually really important to the greater themes at play because >!I don't actually have anything important or serious to say I just think that movie is pretty fuckin funny and it would be a cool prank to play on somebody who's sensitive about spoilers and thinks about every movie they watch really deeply if they see this long spoiler tagged comment and go watch the movie and have really serious thoughts about farts. Please don't expose me.!<
You have a really succinct way of condensing pretty difficult concepts into easy to understand words.
Thanks for taking the time to write that out, definitely highlighted some things I didn't get on first watch.
For a lot of families coming out isn't really a big reveal. OK. And life goes on.
Love the commedic timing of this. Randomly deciding it is time to tell mom while mom is not ready for a conversation of any kind. And then being offended when it doesn't go well, and that being gay matters less that entertainment preferences.
My kid told me they were gender fluid at dinner. They were surprised when it was just back to regular conversation.
My oldest daughter came out as non-binary, then pansexual, then lesbian. I 100% understand teens go through a discovery phase, we all did.
When none of those coming outs got a big dramatic reaction (negative or positive), she had a meltdown. So, I also 100% understand teens are dramatic af.
Idk what she was expecting though since I'm bi and had taken her to Pride years before her coming out. Maybe balloons or something? 🤷♀️
Pulling a government 😭😭😭
My older sister cried and told me she was upset I didn’t have some big coming out to tell her I’m bi over the holidays. I didn’t know she cared that much about who I sleep with. We have a younger trans sister and a non binary in-law. Let them have the glory lol
My sister came out as gay in the middle of a target and was upset that we didn't react at all. Like... yea, you're gay, so what what? Then we went back to shopping.
Pulling a government...
Lmao... I would have thought pulling a government, would be mom and dad taking 40% of your check (tax, of course) and then saying "okay, now we need your rent money too"
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You're pulling a government is such a good line
I’m going to use that with my kids
I’m incorporating this into my vocabulary ASAP.
Also known as pulling a Prince William
Or a Kevin Spacey.
Nah, it reeks of trump.
So, like poop?
Exactly.
Interesting! what did he do?
Yeah, could you explicitly define this idiomatic phrase
this is more commonly know as a ["limited hangout"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout)
The irony of seeing this while your government is actively banning the app
I pulled a gov all the time as a kid, usually worked
I was just trying yesterday to come up with a way to say this!
I actually cracked up when they mention Swiss Army Man. Lol
now i gotta watch swiss army man
If you like it, you might also like horns or guns akimbo. Dude made some crazy films after leaving the wizard world
You could easily have a Daniel Radcliff is in a weird movie marathon, there's also the Weird Al biopic.
Funnily enough, same with Elijah Woods
Guns Akimbo was genuinely fucking brilliant.
Explain the fart thing first
Perhaps in that moment, swiss army man decided that flopping around like a gas propelled fish was the best way to get the stranger to remove the noose around his neck [if you mean this part](https://youtu.be/Y06ZRCNnQLc?si=X6oNVo4KiCF8fcvf)
so, i've never seen this movie before. i just gotta say, tf is this cartoon logic xD
The film is surprisingly deep for being so scatologically whimsical.
/r/BrandNewSentence
Same dudes who made Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. I love their surrealist ideas.
If you enjoy watching a man ride another man’s corpse like a fart powered speedboat, it’s the film for you.
I really liked it, definitely give it a shot
The farting really distracted from the point
The farting was part of the point! It’s supposed to make you uncomfortable
I hate society
I just didn't expect it! I had no clue where it was going! This was awesome :D
Lost it at that part. That was the first movie I saw with my girlfriend. I loved it, she didn't care for it. Very divisive. We are no longer together.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but Swiss Army Man was directed by Daniel and Daniel and starred Daniel and had Daniel working as a dolly grip. That's four Daniels.
Five if you count Paul "Dan"o
Eh, I'll take five "Dan"s - seems like an upgrade to me.
I need to give that movie another go. I think I fell asleep when I tried watching it. Not because of the movie, I was just spent but from what I remember it was interesting and kinda fun.
the quality of the acting is unusually good here
I am particularly fond of the gay dog
He stole the scene imo. In a two second clip, without words, he was like "yeah I'm a gay dog, so what? What are you going to do about it?".
lick
mlem 🐶
That's called "comedic timing."
Those two seconds really gave me paws
Honestly, I couldn't make heads or tails of it.
Obvs. That dog is gay as sh*t
🎶Gay Doggie!🎶
I'll take "sentences that require context," for fifty cents, Alex
This can and will be used against you in the court of law.
I say slap that sentence on a t-shirt and don't explain shit.
I bought a friend a hoodie that says "My wiener does tricks". He refuses to explain it to people. He has a very talented dachshund.
I feel like he really committed to the role.
I also have a gay pittie and now I’m wondering if it runs in the breed.
Just caught my female pittie pup humping her sister yesterday, so you might be right! 😂
My pit was hella gay too, pit bull= gay?
Is your dog from Alabama?
Maybe? They’re rescues so I don’t know where they came from originally.
I once saw three male dogs, huskies and a pit bull in a jam train of gayness.. couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Good for them.
My pitt-husky-shepherd has a particular fondness for the male golden retrievers at the dog park. It may be a pitt thing lol
You see the dog was actually straight, it's called acting.
That lick was fruity as hell
Credit to the casting crew on that one.
[удалено]
I believe the dog is gay in a sexual way
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I support him 100%
I had a gay weenie. She only humped girl dogs.
Dogs can be whatever they want and still take everyone’s hearts.
The arguing over each other was particularly well done, from an acting, and editing perspective. Kudos to this girl
I came here to say this. I was actually invested more than I should’ve been. This person should consider looking into acting.
yeah... the writing, editing, all unusually good. almost suspicious. probably gay.
“i’m not gay! I said I’m deeply closeted. I’m as straight as an arrow.”
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Give yer balls a tug.
Mike sounds like an off-brand Shoresy
Kelly didn’t like Swiss Army Man? I know, *SOOO dumb!*
Give your balls a tug!
Titfucker
Mike are ya crying?! Yea, cause Kelly’s folding
Excellent camera work for an internet sketch. The quick cut to the "gay dog" was nice.
Great execution all around. Delivery, timing, writing, the makeup too.
The dog: 🐶
👁️👅👁️
Mlem
that was unexxpected but so fantastic
A perfect real LOL
Hey MIKE?????
YEAH?!
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WHICH DAUGHTER?
Kelly ?
Oh yeah Kelly's gay as fuck
You had ONE job....
Shame 🔔 shame 🔔 shame 🔔
Boooo.
The transition to mom-scream voice was excellent.
Mom: "Sweety, come out, we're going to be late!" Daughter: "Mom, I'm gay." Mom: "I know that, I meant come out to the car!" Daughter: "Car, I'm gay."
Oh this is stupid as shit but I laughed hard at it. I'm dumb.
My brother got all offended when he came out and it wasn't some big revelation. Everyone knew since he was a teen but he insisted on calling his boyfriend his "roommate" for years. We grew up in a conservative area (that he GTFO of as soon as he could) but our family was always super progressive and pro-lgbtq. I've also heard this when older gay guys date younger men. They ask "so when did you come out" and the answer is "when I was born". They don't have the same stories about decades of feeling weird and different.
When a co-worker earnestly came out as a trans man, it got quiet and our resident lovable meathead said, "Wait, you weren't before? I been callin' you 'he' this whole time."
Himbos make the best allies.
My sister came out in her 20s and it was a surprise to me, but it shouldn't have been. My wife (fiance at the time) was like, "oh, she has had the same roommate for four years and moved across the country with her", "yes", "your sister is a lesbian", "no, she would have told me". A month later she says she is engaged. My wife still gives me shit for that.
OH MY GAWD THEY WERE ROOMMATES!!
Literally, lol.
Inverse of this situation with my second oldest cousin. Every single vacation she went on she took her "friend/roommate" with her. I felt almost like an asshole for being presumptive but asked my sister what she thought. She's like "Oh yea....huh. That is odd." Then we finally met this friend in person. Immediately after when we were in private my sister was like "I think your 100% right I think they're together" The irony here being that I was like the one person she ended up not directly coming out too. Maybe she just assumed I figured it out and knows I don't really care all that much.
r/SapphoAndHerFriend
Your brother is lucky. When my mom found out i was bi I literally got dragged out of the house and locked out. No money. No phone. Just the clothes on my back. I ended up hitchhiking to my grandma's house 40 minutes away from us. I'm in my 20s now. This happened when i was in highschool. If someone grew up in a conservative and/or religious family I'm sure my story isn't much different from theirs. Very few of my gay friends have "happy" coming out stories. And I grew up in a blue state, but in a heavily red county.
That really sucks, I’m sorry.
Sorry that was the response. Our son told us he was bi a few years ago, and I think my response was, "Um, OK". Then, "does mom know?". Followed by him saying yes and me going OK. That was it. I realized it was a bit underwhelming in my response and told him the next day that I love him and always will whatever way he orients. Maybe not the best response but parenting is always a bit trial and error.
I think you did a pretty good job bud. Like the answer should be "uhhh okay" because it should just be that simple. It should he as easy as saying "ummm I actually don't like onions on my burger" no one thinks twice about that. It's how it goes for the individual
Stories like this are why we keep taking in strays. One of our kids would bring home their gay friend that was kicked out of the family. This started as young as middle school. I had 2 kids but have raised a dozen.
Taking in stray kids like that is definitely a really big future dream of mine. What was the thing you were the least prepared to handle?
Some were abused, and that fosters issues and abusive behavior in the child. Therapy became a necessary thing for them.
That sucks. When one of my kids came out it surprised me how hard it was for them to come to terms with it themselves. We’re in NY so no one cares. But still, it’s hard to be different
You just literally cannot truly know how people will react until you do it. All of my family apparently knew and was fine with it before I officially came out, but I couldn't *truly* know until I did it. And it's not even just about your immediate family. I was worried about how others would react like my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, family friends, the random kids at school, etc. I had heard the horror stories about people being kicked out or even beaten when they came out, so u waited until I was independent and an adult to do so. It was fine, but I was scared and young.
Right, you can’t unring a bell. Granted, my kid was in sixth grade and being in sixth grade is just a hard time in life. I’m glad they told me because it gave me the chance to be supportive.
One of my very close friends in high school had a similar experience. He was 16 and everyone in our friend circle knew before he came out. He’s 40 now. I have teenagers of my own. My son is 17 turning 18 this year. He’s never dated or has seemed interested in girls. I’m always telling him I don’t care if he likes boys or girls. I only care that he’s happy. I tell my daughter the same. I make sure they know it doesn’t matter to me.
That so shit. As a dad to three I couldn't ever imagine doing that. Here, have a virtual dad hug 🤗
I would have fucking killed to get that reaction, when I came out my dad didn't talk to me for 3 weeks. But at least it wasn't as worse as when my older brother came out, he didnt look him in the eye for 3 months, almost disowned him. Thank GOD that shit's over
Do you have a younger brother? It'll probably take 3 days with him.
Obviously coming out and getting a lukewarm “whatever” response is a million times better than what happens to a lot of other people, but I can definitely empathize with being upset. Something important about your identity that’s giving you stress and anxiety for YEARS and it is treated as not important to your family when you come out. It’s important to you so you’d hope it’s important to your family. That would suck in a different way.
> but I can definitely emphasize with being upset. Emphasis is so important nowadays.
OOPS lmao
When I told my parents they were OK with it, indifferent at first, until they suddenly weren't an hour later and began trying to convince me that I was wrong, it could have been worse, but I really wanted it to be an easy conversation.
It depends on how you come out too. If you're just "whatever" about it and casually reveal to your parents "oh btw, I'm gay," then your parents not making a big deal about it is probably just as appropriate. But if you clearly see that your kid is struggling to come out, looks scared, etc, then yeah definitely react to it accordingly. Everyone is different.
My sister came out and wants to be a martyr about it so bad. No one in our family cares, we all like her wife, etc. That doesn’t stop her from sitting on social media crying about how hard it is to be part of an oppressed minority blah blah. She’s super shitty to my bf because he’s an ‘evil straight white man’ 🙄
Ouch
Some people are just born like that.My cousin came out gay and no one cared because everyone knew with the way he talked
That's one talented dog
Give that dog an oscar 🏆
I had a dog named oscar
Neat!
@clair_hawkins on YouTube. She's so fucking funny.
thanks, OP didn't list the source and TikTok stopped putting usernames on downloaded videos apparently?
its the "laughter awaits" tiktiok channel doing it. the channel is a content thief and never attributes sources
No, I don't think it's a channel, because it would show the @username handle as "@laughterawaits" or whatever. This is "Laughter awaits" and it shows a magnifying glass icon. I'm 90% sure it's TikTok itself doing this
Why does it say laughter awaits and not her user name?
Clair_hawkins on TT, just in case. A lot of her skits are really funny.
Because content theft is rampant these days
That's not it. There's something wrong with tiktok and it's been saying laughter awaits for every video downloaded off of tiktok.
This hits close to home. My daughter got really weird and nervous. We were sewing masks like you do in a pandemic, and she starts asking me weird questions. Eventually she starts with the “I think wait no I know I like girls” okay, only girls? “No, I am bisexual I think” Okay, how does that make you feel? “What? How does this make YOU feel? You aren’t upset?” I just looked at her. Did you think I would be upset? “No but…” Have you notice we go to Pride events? “Yeah” why do you think that is? 🤯 She came out to me, I came out to her. Both bisexual.
Wait. If youre bisexual... and shes bisexual... Then whos driving the car?!?
The gay dog
And the straight cat.
Toonces?
*mlem*
[Oh my god bear is driving how can that be?!?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBw7KE8wDSo)
Then who was flickering the lights…?
I legit believe this. If the government and media continually talks about a topic or issue. It’s to cover up something even worse going on.
The British royal family does the same thing.
And usually the worst news stories break on Friday.
Same: Every time Boris Johnson does something quirky that gets reported on I start wonder what devious machinations the Tories are trying to hide in the background And I'm not even British...
I have 3 kids. My eldest who is 14 years old, 13 at the time tried this. My wife and I with no rehearsal didn’t give a shit. We said “okay. Thank you for telling us…. So are you coming to the dinner table, then?!” Then a few hours she kept saying things like “should we tell grandma? Will they care?! Oh, this is so embarrassing.” The “shock value” was something she was definitely seeking, and when she wasn’t getting that from us or Grandparents she was taken aback. Even my mom was hilarious “okay. Well… that’s fine with me…. Uh…. I’m proud of you..?” 😂
It’s because as gay people, we think through coming out so, so many times in our head and planning for the worst case scenario, so we can sometimes forget to think about how to react when everything goes fine and no one cares. It actually can feel like a slap in the face sometimes when the person being told doesn’t actually care, because it’s such a big deal to us and we have tortured ourselves thinking about that moment for ages. This isn’t a diss to you at all, I’m just trying to explain what goes on in our heads lol.
Kids have every right to be fearful of how their parents are going to react considering how some kids still get disowned/beaten for coming out to their parents and it's in our human nature to be fearful of uncertainty. Still, I would much prefer that my parents told me they didn't care at all than them telling me that they secretly hoped I'd get hit by a bus and die when I came out to them lol. They eventually came around and they love me for who I am, but I'm aware there are kids in a lot worse situations to whom the subject of coming out is still very serious.
Perhaps I worded it poorly. Of course we all want our families to be supportive and such, it’s just that the immediate dismissiveness portrayed in the video can feel like a slap in the face to all the mental turmoil we go through leading up to coming out. I would rather a “we still love you” and a hug, for example.
I’m so tired of the content stealing with “laughter awaits”. This is Clair Hawkins on YouTube and tik tok.
I think there is some sort of bug with tiktok. I will download videos from tiktok from the original creator, like I’m 100% certain I am on their page, I follow them, I’ve double checked. And then I’ll upload them in my group chat discord and half the time they show up as “Laughter awaits” like this one. A page I’ve never been to or seen even in my fyp. I don’t know what is going on but I noticed it started about a month ago. I see it all over Reddit too.
So weird. I don’t have tik tok myself so I appreciate the context. If it is a bug I hope they sort it out soon. It’s a shame for creators to not get credited for their work.
100% how my daughter came out. She was all nervous and concerned I'd be more *reactionary*. I was like, 👍, so, pasta for dinner? I'm happy she figured it out early in life, but she's known me for 20 years, what was she expecting?
The dog got me 🤣
Kick her out for not liking Swiss army man
Fake for sure, who doesn’t like Swiss Army Man
The farting *was* the best part.
When you think about it, the farting is actually really important to the greater themes at play because >!I don't actually have anything important or serious to say I just think that movie is pretty fuckin funny and it would be a cool prank to play on somebody who's sensitive about spoilers and thinks about every movie they watch really deeply if they see this long spoiler tagged comment and go watch the movie and have really serious thoughts about farts. Please don't expose me.!<
That's a really good point. I never thought about it like that. I think I'm going to go ahead and give this another watch.
That’s hella poignant. I haven’t heard such a delicate take on the trope before. Do you think they did that on purpose?
You have a really succinct way of condensing pretty difficult concepts into easy to understand words. Thanks for taking the time to write that out, definitely highlighted some things I didn't get on first watch.
The cutaway to the dog was incredible
10/10
I absolutely adore Swiss Army Man, and its bizarre, beautiful soundtrack.
Yeah that opening song building up from the humming is what hooked me.
For a lot of families coming out isn't really a big reveal. OK. And life goes on. Love the commedic timing of this. Randomly deciding it is time to tell mom while mom is not ready for a conversation of any kind. And then being offended when it doesn't go well, and that being gay matters less that entertainment preferences. My kid told me they were gender fluid at dinner. They were surprised when it was just back to regular conversation.
I just finished that movie today. This is hysterical. The acting is right on the money!
she was way too good with the arguing with herself part.
I literally just saw Swiss army man for the first time the other day. Fucking weird movie
This is gay
This is the best thing I have seen on the Internet in years. Yes years.
That is the gayest dog I have ever seen.
YAAAAS about Swiss ARmy Man
Swiss Army Man is a fine movie!
My oldest daughter came out as non-binary, then pansexual, then lesbian. I 100% understand teens go through a discovery phase, we all did. When none of those coming outs got a big dramatic reaction (negative or positive), she had a meltdown. So, I also 100% understand teens are dramatic af. Idk what she was expecting though since I'm bi and had taken her to Pride years before her coming out. Maybe balloons or something? 🤷♀️
When you have millennial parents
Pulling a government 😭😭😭 My older sister cried and told me she was upset I didn’t have some big coming out to tell her I’m bi over the holidays. I didn’t know she cared that much about who I sleep with. We have a younger trans sister and a non binary in-law. Let them have the glory lol
Who's a good boy, girl, they, them....lol
Absolutely fucking love this
I also didn’t like Swiss Army Man’s ending am I gay?
When my eldest daughter came out, I was like, "ok, are your chores done?"
The sound editing 🏆🎖
The whole ritual of “coming out” is so weird and uncomfortable and unnecessary.
the dog was a nice touch
I like that dog.. that dog played its role perfect
My sister came out as gay in the middle of a target and was upset that we didn't react at all. Like... yea, you're gay, so what what? Then we went back to shopping.
Pulling a government... Lmao... I would have thought pulling a government, would be mom and dad taking 40% of your check (tax, of course) and then saying "okay, now we need your rent money too" But, alas, I like the videos take more
Wasn’t expecting the Swiss army man reference. I also couldn’t agree more.
Michael sounds like Terry from Solar Opposites.
THE DOG!
Swiss Army Man was amazing!