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[–] Sumocat@lemmy.world 157 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I blame the parents. That baby broke a table leg with his head, and his dad is like, “maybe he’s just a late bloomer.” No, dude, that’s an undiagnosed concussion inflicted on a soft skulled baby — that’s brain damage.

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What are you going to do about it? Every baby gets those.

[–] Javi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 days ago

That's actually why the dad believes the baby is a late bloomer; It took him this long to get a concussion? He's practically a toddler now!

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Actually the kid is clearly superhuman and the parents failed to recognize it. No way a human baby could break a solid table leg.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

And this is what you get when you buy the cheapest table!

[–] r3g3n3x@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Plasticity. Otherwise every one in the human race would be soft lobotomized before 3.

[–] stray@pawb.social 78 points 4 days ago

Hope bro had an enjoyable life despite his judgy-ass parents.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 53 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Those parents clearly never "bloomed" either. A baby shouldn't have been able to destroy a table leg unless it was completely rotted out. The bike tire must have been already bent. Falling off of it in the middle a field doesn't twist up the front wheel like that. It looks like the front wheel failed and the kid was ejected forward.

That poor kid grew up in a dangerous household with neglectful parents.

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

How can a completely rotted out baby break a table leg?

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Well most depictions of zombies do show them with superhuman strength.

when the core has nothing inside it, the abs flex inwards instead of doing what they're supposed to. that was a fun thing to learn.

It's like what happens when parents don't teach their kid and expect them to just know everything.

[–] hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 59 points 4 days ago

Capitalist propaganda posting is worse than horny posting.

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 4 days ago

Bloomer humor

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 81 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 41 points 4 days ago

Just wait until the next time the groundskeeper comes by with his lawnmower.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 55 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

???
Judgmental ass comic lol

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 62 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Evidence this man is a failure:

Can break tables with his soft infantile head

Cannot ride bike

Can do weed

Has a job

Rip, bozo. What a fucking idiot

[–] restingOface@quokk.au 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh god I didn't notice. Actually irredeemable

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

It's saved by Castle Rat, obviously.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 62 points 4 days ago

Traumatic Brain Injury IS a thing.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 33 points 4 days ago

A "late bloomer" can live a perfectly happy and fulfilling life if you just support and believe in them the same as you would a bright kid.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 31 points 4 days ago

“Maybe your only purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others”

[–] oldscratchXV@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Gee, thanks. As if I didn't feel bad enough about my life already./s

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The fuck is this supposed to mean?

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think it's just a play on the word "bloom" as the flowers bloom after he's dead as opposed to being someone that "bloomed" in life

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

It has a happy ending

[–] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

pro suicide propaganda

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Plot Twist: The parents were killed in a car accident on the way home from the hospital with their new son. While he survived, miraculously uninjured, and was adopted out, the parents became ghosts, unseen, hovering over him for the rest of his life ... to reunite only at the end.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Would make sense except they have different clothes and get grey hair

Ghost fashions are mysterious to us living people.

[–] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 11 points 4 days ago

I like this is neither edgy nor funny.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] kshade@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There's flowers blooming on the grave in the last panel.

[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Funny how many people overlook that :)

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Thanks! That's quite funny, actually

[–] Beep@lemmus.org 7 points 4 days ago

Neither did they...

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 29 points 4 days ago

He was an early doomer.

Hit by a self-driving car while holding his sign.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 days ago

Hey now, Castle Rat fucking rules

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Pushing up daisies... Eventually.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Late for a society that's properly calibrated to our human nature.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 points 4 days ago

Maybe you project too much on people that are not you?