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Never before has a dog made me feel so lacking as a father /s
by neal_jones 2y ago
Never before has a dog made me feel so lacking as a father /s
- markus_zhang 2y agoIt's just doggies singing songs, mate.
- patch_cable 2y agoIt’s not. And the fact that you think they sing songs makes me think you’ve never watched it.
- salicideblock 2y agoThe post you replied to is a reference to Bandit saying "it's just monkeys singing songs, mate", when he goes to the movies with Bluey.
- patch_cable 2y agoAh I missed that. Fair enough then.
- eru 2y agoThe misunderstanding here shows that we need to be careful with in-jokes and references in an asynchronous medium. Even among people who have consumed the media in question. It's even worse with the general public (or even just general HN public).
- bolognafairy 2y agoNo. We don’t need to make conversations so boring as to allow you and your robotic ink to completely unambiguously understand them. For every one person that didn’t get this obvious Bluey reference deep in a Bluey thread, I’m sure that 100 more DID get it.
- eru 2y agoSure, you can optimise for your cool in-jokes, and exclude people. What's robotic ink?
- defrost 2y agoProbably robotic ilk using the more common modern usage of ilk - https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/ilk https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/ilk .. along with an unintended cool in-joke about how dogs can't type.
- eru 2y agoYeah, at first I thought it was 'ilk', but then I suspected that there was yet another exclusionary in-joke hidden somewhere.
- IanCal 2y agoI'm pretty certain that's a quote from Bandit.
- patch_cable 2y agoAh fair enough.
- patch_cable 2y agoSorry, I didn’t get the reference. I’m a moron. My bad.
- markus_zhang 2y agoDon't worry, just for fun.
- autoexec 2y agoI've seen parents complain that it sets an unrealistic expectation for parents. That nobody could spend all their time entertaining their kids whims and games the way Bandit does and how you don't often see the parents really putting their foot down or even having to work. I think some of the push back is guilt/regret that it can't always be like that. It's better to see it as something to aspire to when possible than an expectation that things will be like that all the time. The show is also careful to show the parents struggling at times too and tries to encourage parents.
- bombcar 2y agoIt’s not unrealistic! I also can entertain my kids for 8 minutes a day!