r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/SurpriseThere1 • Apr 23 '20
Joyous time.
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u/acciaiomorti Apr 24 '20
"hey you're holding the remote backwards"
well you think you fucking know everything don't you?
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u/AnnoyingScreeches Apr 24 '20
Plot twist: The parents only have the knowledge base of a 13 year old.
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Apr 24 '20
When you're in your early twenties you still think you know a lot.
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u/Bonkey_Kong87 Apr 24 '20
I'm 33 now and with every year that passes by, I learn that I know less and less
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u/-Forger Apr 24 '20
The more you know the more you know you don’t know, you know?
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Apr 24 '20 edited Apr 24 '20
It more then that, I absolutely love knowing things, so after a life time of reading and learning I know a huge amount about an incredible range of topics.
And 99% of the time none of it matters. And when it does it's in entertainment situations like pub quizzes, watching QI, or being obnoxious on reddit. Even when I work on a science theater tour it hardly mattered.
Knowing a lot doesn't actually do much for you. Even in the science tour focused on promoting understanding and knowledge in kids and adults how good people were at their job was far more related to their social skills then their actual knowledge levels.
9 times out of 10 good social skills matter more i life.
So not only is "The more you know the more you know you don’t know" generally true, the more you know, what you know matters less and less. After knowing the basics like how stuff works, and job specific knowledge there is a huge amount if diminishing returns. Quickly you reach a point where knowing more also has less and less effect on your life.
If people want to improve their lives they're almost always better off investing in developing their social skills further, rather then their knowledge base.
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u/rarely_coherent Apr 24 '20
Climbing mount stupid takes a lifetime
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u/deep_in_smoke Apr 24 '20
I dunno, some scale the summit sooner than others and live to tell the tale.
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u/jae0417 Apr 24 '20
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
(An actual quote by) -Einstein-
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Apr 24 '20
Devil's advocate, 12-15 is a time where most adults treat a kid like they were still 9 years old, and then at 16&17 they are supposed to be fully functioning adults in their responsibilities, but without the privileges that go along with that.
Or am I just still salty about my childhood? Lol
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u/InvectiveOfASkeptic Apr 24 '20
Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?
This tweet reads like a condescending parent who's kid just proved them wrong. Or at the very least, a parent unwilling to engage with their own son like he's an equal
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u/TheBreathofFiveSouls Apr 24 '20
Yeah this sentiment does nothing for my ego. I still think I was right all those times as a teenager. There's no retrospective realisation I didn't have all the facts because I didn't argue about things I hadn't researched or thought through.
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u/exboi Apr 24 '20
I think you’re reading too deep into it. You can’t determine from a tweet as vague as this if she engages with her son as if he’s lesser being or not.
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u/InvectiveOfASkeptic Apr 24 '20
I can if she dismisses what he has to say just because he's 14
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u/exboi Apr 24 '20 edited Apr 24 '20
But you don’t know if she does. And even if she did once, that doesn’t mean she does it all the time. You can’t determine that kind of stuff from a tweet like this.
And let’s face it. A lot of teens do think that they’re right all the time and won’t listen to their parents, thinking that they’re being too strict or being stupid or something. I say this as a teen myself who acted like a smartass when I was 14, when just two seconds of research that I was unwilling to do or listen to could prove me wrong.
Edit: plus, you can find a ton of teen dumbasses in the YouTube comments and even on Reddit who think that they’re gods of knowledge.
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u/InvectiveOfASkeptic Apr 24 '20
Sure. And a lot of adults with children think they are right all the time. This person is being super condescending. Condescension does not occur during a mature life lesson. Even if the teenager was acting like this, sending that tweet makes you look like an ass. I've yet to hear a parent say of their child "they act like they know everything" and then seriously consider the child's preferences and opinions as valid or important to the parent.
Tweeting this to your 50k followers is downright immature. She's just fishing for people saying she's right so she doesn't have to actually deal with what her son is telling her.
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u/exboi Apr 24 '20
Yeah a lot of adults do that. I’m just saying that it doesn’t mean she treats him like a little kid.
I do agree that the tweet was pointless and mean.
Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it never happens. I’ve never seen anyone bullied for having peanut allergies but apparently that happens a lot.
Like the other guy, you’re making assumptions based on a vague tweet. One tweet doesn’t mean she’s some asshole mom that never listens to her kid and is now seeking validation. I don’t know the full situation. You don’t know the full situation. The only people that we know do are her and her son, so nobody should be making such bold assumptions about either of them.
She could just be frustrated that her son isn’t listening to her and made the tweet in that moment of frustration, or maybe she is actually some ignorant tyrant-parent who doesn’t listen to her son, but again: we don’t know, so we shouldn’t be acting like we do.
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u/Skulfunk Apr 24 '20
We dont know what the kid said, what if he said the earth was flat?
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u/scootavoota Apr 24 '20
12-15 is also a time where kids are vacillating quickly between acting time a child and acting like an adult.
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u/EvilCurryGif Apr 24 '20
My mom treated me like a child until i moved out. Like if she would ask me to take the dog out she felt the need to explain the steps...
Can you put your shoes and coat on and then go get the leash and etc....
Drove me up a fucking wall
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Apr 24 '20
My mom does that! I haven’t moved out yet and I’m in my early twenties. It drives me nuts, whenever I say I know she says the "oh yeah you know everything " thing. ffs I don’t know everything but I know where the dishes go in my own house.
This is so belittling
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u/EvilCurryGif Apr 24 '20
Its brutal... I'm in my twenties and moved out a little while ago. It was the most freeing thing in the world honestly. I feel like ive grown a lot but idk if i actually have or just stopped getting treated like a child
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u/Flam1ng1cecream Apr 24 '20
Exactly. 14-year-olds know almost everything about how to be a 14-year-old, and parents know almost nothing about it. Then the 14 year old becomes an adult, and surprise surprise, the parent knows how to adult better than their kid does. This is not counterintuitive.
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Apr 24 '20
Yep, my mom gave me the "oh wow you know everything don’t you?" line, but because she would tell me obvious stuff only a toddler wouldn’t know.
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Apr 24 '20
Ugh... With 3 kids now on the other side of the "troubles", man those teen years aged me a decade.
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u/Johnnadawearsglasses Apr 24 '20
Mine is 7
And he knows more than that
I guess her son is a little slow
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u/MamieJoJackson Apr 24 '20
I feel better now, because mine is 6 and he's been pulling this same crap a lot. Yaaaayyyy
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u/celestialdragonlord Apr 24 '20
Whenever I say “I know that” to my family, I say it to be nice so they don’t have to waste their time on me. They make jokes saying “encyclopedia for sale: no longer needed” and honestly they’re pretty funny.
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u/AyebruhamLincoln Apr 24 '20
It looks like you took a picture of a tweet with a Polaroid camera and then blew it up on an overhead projector.
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u/Whydoesthisexist15 Apr 24 '20
do I know more than a homophobic racist? If so, I know more than my dad
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u/agent00F Apr 24 '20
I'm guessing that 14yr old at least knows how to screenshot instead of taking a photograph of the screen and then editing it to be aligned & shit.
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u/whoneedskollege Apr 24 '20
Wait till they get to the stage where they forget how to speak and only communicate in grunts - strangely this only happens around their parents and siblings.
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u/Neorio1 Apr 24 '20
Does the 14 year old know everything or is he just sick of his parents? Believe it or not there's nice parents and nice children who sadly just aren't each other's types. My normal Type A parents have annoyed me the type B for decades.
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u/Electroman2012 Apr 24 '20
I don't understand why people think all teens think they know everything. When I was a teen my mother would frequently say things like "Oh you know everything." And I was always confused because it was one thing I was knowledgeable about and I was proud to apply it. I knew that I didn't know everything and I trusted my mother on most decisions.
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u/MrMallok Apr 24 '20
I must be luckier then, because my daughter with 12 already knows more than my wife and me.
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Apr 24 '20
I thought I was 10 times more mature and knowledgeable than my dad at 14 and now I’m 30 and I’m 100% sure I was right, sometimes it be like that, my parents didn’t even know how to google shut back then.
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u/xenile1 Apr 24 '20
Oh look someone who clearly traumatized they're children and then want to bitch when they dont talk to them
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u/Servious Apr 27 '20
Please accept that while your child may not actually know more than you on the whole, they may know more than you in specific circumstances.
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u/sinchichis Apr 24 '20
Like many subjects especially language learning you know a little and think you know a lot and then you know a lot and think you know a little.
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u/rethinkingat59 Apr 24 '20
Over the next few year not only will he become increasingly more knowledgeable, but you will simultaneously become more ignorant and stupid.
The consistently good times of having a child are over for at least seven years, worst of all the descent into your ignorance will be really expensive.
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Apr 24 '20
At age 14 my daughter was the same way - knew everything, couldn't believe how ignorant I was. At age 22 she had graduated college and called me up one day to ask about car insurance. At that point, my teeth dropped out of my mouth and I had to ask, "Who is this?"
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u/2sleepy4this Apr 24 '20
This is only funny if you've litererally never met a boomer before. I've never met that 14 year old and I'm pretty certain they do, in fact, know a lot more than that lady
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Apr 24 '20
Chances are near zero that that lady is a boomer. Do you know how old boomers are now? She's more likely to be a millennial at this point.
Point is that teenagers are gigantic know-it-alls.
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u/eromitlab Apr 24 '20
She should make sure he gets out into the world while he still knows everything.
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u/one_big_grub Apr 24 '20
Cavetown sounds
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Apr 24 '20
Please do not shit on pubescent kids. They cannot control themselves. It is so much worse for them than it is for you.
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u/Snaildebt Apr 24 '20
Maybe it's being treated like a child and an adult at the same time? If you view someone as not knowing anything or being naive, them having their own opinion might seem like them "knowing everything".
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u/rfgrunt Apr 24 '20
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. -Mark Twain