# 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:** 4
**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 21, 2019, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/61 "2019-08-21T00:36:52Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Good to know there are still some folks with a sense of humor on the dope. That’s not funny. ---
**Author:** ![tricoteuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tricoteuse/32/4334_2.png) [@tricoteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tricoteuse)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/62 "2019-08-21T00:37:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Good to know there are still some folks with a sense of humor on the dope. Here’s a mirror so you can practice your own Scrooge vs. the Christmas carolers expression. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/63 "2019-08-21T00:39:08Z")
I encounter harried parents with kids who’re just not having it pretty often, and being the cranky curmudgeon I am I usually…make faces at the kid and distract them a little bit to give them a chance to focus on something else like the crazy old lady who’s being weird so their parents have a fighting chance of getting out of the store with their sanity intact and with everything on their shopping list accounted for. Because it takes a village, kids can be a handful sometimes even if they’re the chillest and coolest and smartest kids in the world and also because I’m not a hateful asshole who thinks the young of my own species are some sort of malign enemy. That’s just me, but as I said, I’m old and weird. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/64 "2019-08-21T00:39:12Z")
> [@tricoteuse](#): > > Here’s a mirror so you can practice your own Scrooge vs. the Christmas carolers expression. I’ve never been in the “we need a like button” contingent, but this is pretty persuasive. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/65 "2019-08-21T00:40:45Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I laughed. I thought it was funny, whether it was true or not. > [@kayT](#): > > Good to know there are still some folks with a sense of humor on the dope. Fuck 'em if they can’t take a joke. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/66 "2019-08-21T00:41:16Z")
> [@tricoteuse](#): > > Here’s a mirror so you can practice your own Scrooge vs. the Christmas carolers expression. Now that’s not funny. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/67 "2019-08-21T00:50:55Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > Did you read his OP? I did! The whole thing, all by myself! > [@](#): > > A grown man going out of his way to intimidate a small child deserves a tongue lashing. And a small child harassing random strangers for money needs to be taught appropriate boundaries. Usually that’s the parent’s job, but in this case I guess she was too “tired.” > [@](#): > > It doesn’t matter if he was justified in saying no. The “no” is not the problem here; it’s all this other shit. Well, I’m glad you concede that he wasn’t obligated to buy the little shit a lunch box. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/68 "2019-08-21T00:52:06Z")
Even without considering that this was directed at a 4-year-old - and regardless of whether it is truth or fantasy - anyone who would write this: > [@Buy Me Lunchbox!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buy-me-lunchbox/838949/1): > > …It’s important here to discuss this curled lip and sneer in detail. It is literally a gift from God and a terrible terrible burden thrust upon me. I have a face capable of an expression that instantaneously engenders hatred. Remember that kid in the Maga hat? My sneer is at least ten times more punchable. It contains privilege, indifference, smug contempt, disdain. It’s undeserving insouciance makes Chevy Chase’s mugging look earnest and sincere. I can instantly start a fight just by flashing it at the wrong person. My wife has threatened to fucking kill me if I ever look at her like that. I would get sent to my room or punished as a child just for giving my parents this look. It is the nuclear bomb of facial expressions, and I usually keep it well away from sight. …is a World Class Douchebag. mmm ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/69 "2019-08-21T00:54:02Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > 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. Eh, the brat’s obviously a lost cause. Definite future libtard, with his “gimme gimme gimme,” expecting everything to be handed to him rather than take the initiative to beat up a smaller kid and take his lunchbox. ---
**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 21, 2019, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/70 "2019-08-21T00:57:04Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > And a small child harassing random strangers for money needs to be taught appropriate boundaries. Usually that’s the parent’s job, but in this case I guess she was too “tired.” A parent is out shopping with two young children, while one is on the edge of a meltdown, and you put ironic quotes around “tired”? Miller, Ima go out on a limb and guess childcare ain’t your area of expertise, either. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/71 "2019-08-21T01:02:01Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > A parent is out shopping with two young children, while one is on the edge of a meltdown, and you put ironic quotes around “tired”? Yes, but only to indicate that I don’t think that’s a sufficient excuse to let your kid be a pest to other people. > [@](#): > > Miller, Ima go out on a limb and guess childcare ain’t your area of expertise, either. Very much not so, and I’ve made some effort to make sure it won’t ever be one. That’s why I’m glad we’ve got people like **Scylla** out there, willing to step up and make sure this country’s hoards of feral, unparented children learn appropriate behavior from _someone_. ---
**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 21, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/72 "2019-08-21T01:03:40Z")
Christ almighty, dude. Didn’t realize asshole by proxy was a real syndrome. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/73 "2019-08-21T01:07:33Z")
Holy smokes, **Scylla** _is still around?_ Thank god I never run into him. He’s been a douchebag since forever. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/74 "2019-08-21T01:07:44Z")
If being mean to the kid is the objective, you missed the best way. Walk to the lunchbox display, and get a lunchbox exactly like the one the kid wants. Stick around until you can go through the checkout line right in front of the kid. Buy the lunchbox. Leave the store. Requires absolutely no words spoken. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/75 "2019-08-21T01:09:22Z")
The kid sounds plenty old enough to be directed by his mother not to harass strangers in public. Some parents seem to be so used to tantrums at home that they either don’t realize or don’t care what effect they have on other people. Mom could’ve apologized to **Scylla** for her child bugging him _and_ requested he not loudly admonish him. Based on the story it doesn’t seem like the little screamer was psychically scarred for life, but then again maybe he’ll be working out this trauma with his analyst later on. ☹ Sadly, I’ve never had a face that could shock a child into sudden calm. Babies in supermarkets do seem to stare at me in slack-jawed awe. Could be the beard. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/76 "2019-08-21T01:12:33Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > And a small child harassing random strangers for money needs to be taught appropriate boundaries. **Scylla** did not teach him anything about boundaries. Which is exactly why he went right back to his previous behavior. But who am I to get in the way of some frothy outrage against a mother none of us known anything about, based purely on a snap judgement from a dude bragging about how scary his own sneer is? Carry on. > [@](#): > > Well, I’m glad you concede that he wasn’t obligated to buy the little shit a lunch box. Because that was in doubt? What a cunty thing to say. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/77 "2019-08-21T01:13:13Z")
**Triskadecamus:** Nah. The best way would be to slap it silly until it collapses into an unconscious heap. Then you place one of your hob-nailed boots on its back and let loose with a mighty roar of conquest. I raised a “difficult” child, and it was harder’n shit, but we never attempted to crush her spirit or physically abuse her. She graduated Yale Magna cum Laude and is currently working on her doctorate in Modern European History at U. Of Chicago, doing her research in Vienna, Trieste, and Ljubljana. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/78 "2019-08-21T01:17:03Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Christ almighty, dude. Didn’t realize asshole by proxy was a real syndrome. Seriously. I know I’m hella sensitive because I’m like 6 feet in the trenches right now, but gotdamn some of these posts. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/79 "2019-08-21T01:21:07Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Christ almighty, dude. Didn’t realize asshole by proxy was a real syndrome. Proxy?! Hey, I don’t need to hang around **Scylla** to pick this stuff up. I’m a natural asshole on the subject. C’mon, man. **Scylla** told a misbehaving kid “no” and gave him a stern look, and you’re acting like he horsewhipped him. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964/80 "2019-08-21T01:21:24Z")
The kid might have been mentally impaired. Or maybe he was really three and was big for his age. I don’t know if the story was pit-worthy, but someone looking for attaboys for messing with a little kid is practically begging for negative feedback. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-to-scylla-that-i-cant-make-in-mpsims/838964.md?page=5)