# A response to Scylla that I can't make in MPSIMS **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 20, 2019, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964 "2019-08-20T21:41:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/21 "2019-08-20T23:02:04Z")
Maybe the kid was Antifa, did you smartasses ever think about that? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/22 "2019-08-20T23:03:56Z")
He should have bought him a lunchbox. _But not the lunchbox he wanted._ Then come the fireworks! ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/23 "2019-08-20T23:05:20Z")
> [@tricoteuse](#): > > If your hero Scylla gets to do it, why can’t I? Or are you going to say he didn’t post that because he wanted everyone to know how he chastised the mother and the child for the flaws in their behavior and thought he deserved accolates for what he did, you enterotoxic shitspray of a sycophant? > > EinstiensHund, do I get 10/10 now? The difference here is that when he _didn’t_ get your praise, he responded in a graceful, calm, and witty way. You, on the other hand, came in here and shat your pants. As the forum intends for you to do, of course, but you can’t say you want me to be _impressed_. > [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Summary for those who haven’t read the linked story: > > Five year old is at the end of their rope, on the edge of a meltdown, fixates on something, and can’t regulate emotions. > > Mom is desperately trying to get weekly shopping done, staying in budget, while corralling two children b/c she doesn’t have access to childcare so she can get shopping done. > > Pitiful fucker is proud of himself for making the five-year-old melt down at Walmart. Summary _not_ full of lies: Woman has two kids. One of the kids is screaming about wanting an item, which the mother seems to have foolishly let the kid take off the shelf and carry with him. Or maybe she didn’t notice - the level of attention she seems to be paying is very low. (Wonder what would have happened at the register.) Kid for some reason decides to direct his demands to Our Hero, apparently on the delusion that Our Hero will buy the thing for him. No reaction from mom. Our Hero, though, _does react_, by making a face and saying “No.” Hearing “no”, the kid promptly melts down. The mother reacts to something - she very politely chastises our hero for saying “No”. Our Hero is markedly less polite back to her, then turns away. The kid (having suddenly recovered from his meltdown, because like 90% of all kid meltdowns it was just an act) teleports in front of Our Hero and repeats his demand, apparently bolstered by the fact his mom apparently disproves of other people refusing to give him things. Our Hero repeats his “No.” The kid repeats his (faux) meltdown. Our Hero doesn’t stick around to see if the mom wants to play the repeat game too. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/24 "2019-08-20T23:06:48Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Summary for those who haven’t read the linked story: > > Five year old is at the end of their rope, on the edge of a meltdown, fixates on something, and can’t regulate emotions. > > Mom is desperately trying to get weekly shopping done, staying in budget, while corralling two children b/c she doesn’t have access to childcare so she can get shopping done. > > Pitiful fucker is proud of himself for making the five-year-old melt down at Walmart. And being a huge dick while he did it. The entire post reeked of self-important nastiness. Pitting well deserved. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/25 "2019-08-20T23:08:42Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > The kid (having suddenly recovered from his meltdown, because like 90% of all kid meltdowns it was just an act) Begbert, what’s an area of life where you have expertise? Are you a great car mechanic? Are you knowledgeable about orchid care? Are you the resident nerd about 1950s cinema? Because you are pig-ignorant about children. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/26 "2019-08-20T23:09:08Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > Summary _not_ full of lies: Come on. The whole thing is bullshit, except that he saw a meltdown by a child in a store. The rest is fiction. You know it, I know it… ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/27 "2019-08-20T23:10:45Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Summary for those who haven’t read the linked story: > > Five year old is at the end of their rope, on the edge of a meltdown, fixates on something, and can’t regulate emotions. > > Mom is desperately trying to get weekly shopping done, staying in budget, while corralling two children b/c she doesn’t have access to childcare so she can get shopping done. > > Pitiful fucker is proud of himself for making the five-year-old melt down at Walmart. Yep. Scylla also appears to have a difficult time regulating his emotions. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/28 "2019-08-20T23:12:37Z")
All the class and grace I’ve come to expect from conservatives in 2019. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/29 "2019-08-20T23:14:05Z")
> [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > All the class and grace I’ve come to expect from conservatives in 2019. Fair. #notallconservatives, but a tremendous number have seen every bit of their political philosophy worn away, except for PWNING THE LIBS. That’s all they got left. Scylla’s having trouble doing that, but at least he can PWN THE KINDERGARTENER. Will we take that from him too? ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/30 "2019-08-20T23:15:29Z")
I am sad we missed the version where he flashed his piece, and the mom couldn’t contain her animal lust for the super macho man who finally told her kids the “no” they so desperately needed. We were a gratuitous mention of race away from a penthouse for pubs letter. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/31 "2019-08-20T23:15:56Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Begbert, what’s an area of life where you have expertise? Are you a great car mechanic? Are you knowledgeable about orchid care? Are you the resident nerd about 1950s cinema? > > Because you are pig-ignorant about children. I think that the most accurate way I can respond to this would be to say that my expertise is “having acted as a surrogate father to a child between their ages of one and five, and also having twenty nieces and nephews.” Kids aren’t nearly as dumb as you apparently think they are. Yes, they can be hurt, afraid, sad, scared, etc. But _meltdowns_ are virtually all them attempting to manipulate a parent/guardian. Given the right stimulus you can turn them off like a light switch, if you can do it before they cycle around to self-perpetuating mindless screaming (which of course would preclude lunchbox demands). > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Come on. The whole thing is bullshit, except that he saw a meltdown by a child in a store. The rest is fiction. You know it, I know it… Everything on the internet is always true. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/32 "2019-08-20T23:18:47Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > Everything on the internet is always true. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/33 "2019-08-20T23:19:45Z")
It doesn’t really matter if this little morality play happened. It tells us the same thing about Scylla’s character either way. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/34 "2019-08-20T23:20:45Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > I think that the most accurate way I can respond to this would be to say that my expertise is “having acted as a surrogate father to a child between their ages of one and five, and also having twenty nieces and nephews.” > > Kids aren’t nearly as dumb as you apparently think they are. Oh, gosh. I need to apologize, because I didn’t express myself well at all. No, I really don’t think kids are dumb. I think YOU are. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/35 "2019-08-20T23:22:14Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Oh, gosh. I need to apologize, because I didn’t express myself well at all. > > No, I really don’t think kids are dumb. I think YOU are. That’s alright, I don’t think _you’re_ stupid. (Pats head.) Honestly I have no real mental image of you at all. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/36 "2019-08-20T23:26:33Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Come on. The whole thing is bullshit, except that he saw a meltdown by a child in a store. The rest is fiction. … Most likely, yes. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/37 "2019-08-20T23:30:34Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > Summary _not_ full of lies: > > Woman has two kids. One of the kids is screaming about wanting an item, which the mother seems to have foolishly let the kid take off the shelf and carry with him. Or maybe she didn’t notice - the level of attention she seems to be paying is very low. (Wonder what would have happened at the register.)… I’m going to go out on a limb and guess you’ve never had children, or the memory of shopping with them when they were toddlers is a distant memory viewable only through rose-colored glasses. Because you are absolutely ignorant of what it’s like and the level of control you have over them. (On preview, I see you think being an uncle somehow taught you everything. Uhh, right.) He purposely antagonized a 4-year old. Not some adult who should know better, _a 4-year old_. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/38 "2019-08-20T23:33:37Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > I am sad we missed the version where he flashed his piece, and the mom couldn’t contain her animal lust for the super macho man who finally told her kids the “no” they so desperately needed. > > We were a gratuitous mention of race away from a penthouse for pubs letter. Or where everyone in the store started applauding, and the manager paid for his entire purchase, and gave him a lifetime discount. How many of these types of stories has he told? You know, maybe they’d actually be entertaining if people would just ADMIT they’re fake. This happens all the fucking time. There are posters here who come up with these outrageous tales, and Dopers eat them right up. I just wish they’d say, “this is a tale of fiction”, blah blah blah. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/39 "2019-08-20T23:36:48Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > Honestly I have no real mental image of you at all. That checks out. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/40 "2019-08-20T23:44:41Z")
Funny how criticizing him in that thread could be considered threadshitting and subject to sanction; but a man shitting (metaphorically) on a mother having a bad day at a Walmart is socially acceptable. It is quite obvious his antisocial behavior was done because it was focused at a women. What a big man. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964.md?page=3)