How is this funny?

An infant using profanity. How is this funny? What's worse, the ignorant parent published this video, which is what someone who would expose a child to profanity would do. Stupidity and atrocious parenting, compounded.

'Let's screw up our kid and then laugh about it." Yeah, that's so funny. And now, all they have to do is to get the kid to forget the word. Simple...right?

Sick and very unfunny.

Will Ferrell would like it, though.



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Agreed, unfunny. People throw the F word around as frequently as the word "the."

Profanity has its place. Profanity- used correctly and at the right time and in the right place- is emphasis and punctuation for which there is no substitute. However, this should be the realm of adults alone.

The kid will hear such language as they mature. In order to avoid exposing youngsters to profanity altogether, you'd have to isolate a child from society so thoroughly that you would turn them into a clumsy outcast. So, exposure to profanity will come in time, but damn, don't expose a child of that age to it. I don't even know where to begin with how screwed-up that is, but, again, the fact that the parent actually published the video is the worst of it.

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Profanity has its place.

As a sailor fluent in the language, I most heartily agree.

Salt used appropriately brings out the flavor and, in some instances, even sweetens the food. Too much salt and all you taste is the salt with none of the flavor.

I wasn't thinking about it from a decay of society / social media point of view (but I see that), just the humor of a child hearing everything a parent says and copying it; the good, the bad, and the ugly - and having children of my own, I've seen it happen amongst mine and pretty much every other kid I've come into contact with - not always profanity, mind you - but the child imitating its parents.

Anyways, apparently a swing and a miss.

Nope not funny. Says a lot about their parenting skills and the lack thereof.

Perhaps the most precious attribute a child has is his/her innocence. Anybody who would purposefully destroy that is committing child abuse, IMO.

They lose it soon enough. There is no need to hurry the process.

That 'parent' needs a sack of doorknobs.

I dislike profanity profoundly, whatever the age of the utterer. It’s specially aggravating coming from children, though.

I use occasional profanity, but that video was disturbing, punctuated by the toddler's facial expression while uttering the phrase.

And the youtube comments are also disturbing.

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Originally posted by Steyn:
I dislike profanity profoundly, whatever the age of the utterer.

That's a real fuckin' shame.

The kid didn't just learn the word, she's got the right attitude for it.

A friend of mine once owned a parrot. It often said "fuck you".
Adorable pet.
The only way the bird learned it was to be exposed to the phrase often. Same thing with this kid.

I just had a view into where the world is going.
Toronto a few days ago.

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These parents probably let their kid watch Deadwood. They will be as socialized as Calamity Jane.

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Originally posted by Ripley:
The kid didn't just learn the word, she's got the right attitude for it.

I have a poor ear for accents but this sounds kinda Irish to me. You know, the folks that think c@^ is a term of endearment. All I know is Chucky better watch his six.

I/m not sure the mother or child is speaking English...

I agree with Para and many others in this thread. That is bad, and certainly not funny.

I heard a parent saying "[incomprehensible] ... what you heard," and gasping in anticipation when the child led with "Chucky" instead of "fuckin'" because she knew what was going to follow since her toddler had dropped it on her seconds prior.

So basically, the same situation I went through a few months ago when my son, slightly older, told me "Dad, Taymani called me motherfucker" with a look of consternation on his face, as if he didn't know quite why, but that it was a very bad thing indeed. It never would have occurred to me to take a video of that and post it on anything to "go viral." I don't need the attention, and there's a potential for people to get the wrong idea about what they're watching.

It is bad, and not funny. That kid has been around someone using some rather inappropriate language for a child that age and the offender needs "the office" at the very least. I didn't get the impression that mom was amused by the language, but rather astonished and somewhat millenial in her need to share it with everybody.