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That's why you have an emergency backup child for redundancy in case of failure of the main child.
by delichon 6mo ago
That's why you have an emergency backup child for redundancy in case of failure of the main child.
- NordStreamYacht 6mo agoAh, the Spare. You must be British royalty.
- ButlerianJihad 6mo agoI had to go look it up, because in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Voldemort orders Cedric's murder with: "Kill the Spare!" It turns out that Cedric, being superfluous to the "Resurrection Ritual" and Voldemort's plan of revenge, is actually a spare. In fact it was unexpected that two boys get through the whole thing with the Portkey and all. Harry was the only one who was supposed to end up there with the Death Eaters in the first place, so Cedric's appearance was quite unfortunate for everyone involved. But Cedric's "spareness" certainly didn't have to do with expendability as far as his Dad was concerned, which you can clearly understand once his Dad gets going in the mourning for his death.
- mynegation 6mo agoThe only people who find this joke funny don’t have any children.
- jbm 6mo ago[flagged]
- throwaway132448 6mo agoCongrats you just invented someone for you to be mad at. Maybe lay off the rage bait for a little bit?
- ofjcihen 6mo ago>reddit Please go back.
- procaryote 6mo agoYou can have humour and children at the same time...
- delichon 6mo agoMy dad told it to me. I was the second backup.
- ahazred8ta 6mo agoThere's a star trek fan who has a primary dog and an emergency backup dog. There's also the british 'heir and a spare'.
- coldtea 6mo agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72rU64yq-zU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72rU64yq-zU
- tmseidman 6mo agoThird string
- coldtea 6mo agoOr people who have a sense of black humor. Never heard dads make dark puns and jokes of similar nature?
- D13Fd 6mo agoSix kids here, I use the “we needed some backups” joke all the time.
- projektfu 6mo agoSounds like a game of Paranoia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)
- marton78 6mo agoAs a father, this is false.
- bdangubic 6mo ago10000% false (another father) :)))
- renewiltord 6mo agoI think I’m between the comments here. I think it’s funny to say we have a spare but I also think it’s not as funny to say “oh you have a spare”. It’s like a fat guy can joke about his fatness but you can’t.
- cap11235 6mo agoRemember, they're cattle, not pets.
- scelerat 6mo agoRiight! I was wondering why some people had more than one. Like, I wonder that every single ever-loving day
- lotsofpulp 6mo agoI don’t know if you’re being serious, but I wanted at least two so they had another kid to play with at home, and hopefully be on good terms with a family member they can relate to into their old age.