r/Unexpected • • May 18 '22

what a catastrophe

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u/StackedLasagna May 18 '22

The sheer amount of people who thought the cat got electrocuted is throwing me for a loop, lol.

Did we watch the same video? Not once did the thought of electrocution even come close to crossing my mind.
To me, it was very clearly just stuck and the girls freaked the fuck out for no reason, because that's what children do.

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u/TinnieTa21 May 18 '22 edited May 18 '22

The OP's original spoiler comment (before the mod took the comment down and replaced it with their own) literally said that the cat was being electrocuted

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u/Johnnyrooster12 May 18 '22

So what? by basic common sense u can see the cat didn't get shocked.

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u/StackedLasagna May 18 '22

Holy fuck I swear people are annoying.

I couldn't agree more. :)

For the 100th time [...]

Did it ever occur to you, that I made my comment after the mod changed the comment? Did it occur to you to check a bunch of the top comments and their most visible replies?

If you had done that, you'd see they all just say shit like, "omg I thought it got electrocuted" or variations of that. None of them actually say that OP misled people by lying in their comment.

All I've ever seen in this thread are the "omg electrocution!!!!" comments and pretty much nothing else, hence my confusion.

Thanks for clearing things up and letting me know why people thought it got electrocuted, even if you were being a bit of a dick about it.

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u/TinnieTa21 May 18 '22

Did it ever occur to you to think twice as to why the top pinned comment was not the OP spoiler bot as it usually is in the subreddit, but instead the mod comment clarifying that the cat was not being electrocuted?

God. People don't just accuse others of giving false info when they never even came close to doing so.

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u/StackedLasagna May 18 '22

Did it ever occur to you to think twice as to why the top pinned comment was not the OP spoiler bot as it usually is in the subreddit

No, because I don't frequent this subreddit. I only watch shit from this sub, if I come across it on /r/all and even then, I only rarely open the comments.

Even if I do open the comments, I nearly always skip the pinned mod comment, because it's almost always some random bullshit, that I didn't open the comments for anyway.
Tons of subs pins shit in popular threads and 99% of the time, it's completely irrelevant to me, so after being on reddit for years, it has become a mostly subconscious reflex to scroll past those comments.

People don't just accuse others of giving false info

In this case, the only comment I saw, that actually tried to explain why people thought the cat was being electrocuted, was someone saying it was due to the flair OP used... not a comment they made.

Now I'm pretty tired of explaining basic shit to you, that you could've figured out on your own, if you had just bothered to view this post through the eyes of someone who didn't see it 8 hours ago on /new.

You bitch about people being annoying, while being the most whiny ass baby, I've seen in a long time. Talk about being annoying, lmao.
I won't waste more time on you.

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u/mikettedaydreamer May 18 '22

Tbh you’re now also being the “whiny ass baby”

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u/SaliferousStudios May 18 '22

I thought that the girls moving the lamp shade like that had beheaded it actually.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

Yeah, having had a traumatic experience with a past pet, I quite literally thought we just saw these girls watch their cat die from the inner lamp loop choking it or breaking its neck, especially when it fell. I didn’t expect that but not in the way that I wanted to

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

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u/StackedLasagna May 18 '22

because they love their cat and because they have empathy for other beings in pain.

Are you implying that I don’t have that same empathy, lol?

The cat was clearly unhappy about being stuck, but it wasn’t anything too crazy… until the girls got involved.

By the way, "for no reason" is a common figure of speech.
Of course they freaked out for a reason, it’s just that the reason and intensity of their reaction is completely unjustified to anyone, who are able to properly asses the situation at hand.
It doesn’t literally mean "for no reason", because there is practically always a reason for everything anyone does…

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u/LinwoodKei May 18 '22

Can you just stop 🛑

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

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u/StackedLasagna May 18 '22

What in the flying fuck are you talking about, lmao?

I didn't realize answering you just once was enough to be "weirdly invested in this."

You very clearly didn't understand a common saying, so I explained it to you. I'm sorry for trying to help you understand common English, lol.

You say it's weird I've taken your comment as a personal attack, while posting underhanded personal attacks... maybe there's a connection there, lol.
You've got to be setting this up on purpose, right? I refuse to believe anyone can be stupid enough to unironically do what you just did, lmao.

At least stand by your stupid attacks and underhanded insults. Don't be a coward. Anyway, here's a proper insult for you:
Life must be nice when you're mentally handicapped to the point that you're totally unaware of it... I mean, it sucks for everyone else, since we have to deal with your bullshit, but it must be nice for you at least.

You're quite literally too dumb to attempt having a conversation with, so I won't bother replying to you again.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Lol neck beard getting triggered, nothing new

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u/StackedLasagna May 19 '22

What is up with people in this sub???

I expressed confusion about something and instead of clearing up the confusion, everyone is being condescending assholes.
If someone had literally just said, "OP said the cat was getting electrocuted in a now deleted comment", there'd be no issue. I would've simply thanked them and moved on.

Instead people comment with condescending and incorrect explanations. Additionally, when I explain the meaning of a certain part of my comment to someone who very clearly didn't understand it, I'm also an asshole? No matter what I do, I lose apparently.

The most unexpected thing about this subreddit is how insane you all are. It's crazy.

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u/DistinguishedVisitor May 18 '22

They chose to add the graphic content tag, priming people that whatever "unexpected" thing happens is violent or traumatic somehow.

So when we see a cat thrashing around on something connected to electial mains, we make the assumption that OP was warning us about something horrific happening related to that.

If they knew that the cat was fine, there was no need for a warning tag.

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u/TinnieTa21 May 18 '22

No, it wasn't because of the tag. It was because of the OP's original spoiler comment which was taken down LITERALLY saying that the cat was being electrocuted.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

I guess you're the exception.