This has probably been posted before, but Virge's siggy made me revisit it -- ENJOY!

[Hardheaded1]

What a classic. The lady who posted the comment about the brother being sick is soft-headed. What a hoot!

I suspect he will be a phenom at raves and such when he gets to college. He has all the moves. LOL!

[Hardheaded1]

And yes, they are fake.

Here is the expose:




I think people enjoy them because they highly resemble real tantrums.

[Hardheaded1]

More derivative. The kid deserves credit for the entertainment anyway.

[Bowyn Aerrow]

Hmm.... My autistic nephew would have episodes just like this over 'little stuff'....

I fail to see this sort of thing as 'funny' - fake or not.

[dynamodean]

What a classic. The lady who posted the comment about the brother being sick is soft-headed. What a hoot!

I suspect he will be a phenom at raves and such when he gets to college. He has all the moves. LOL!

I have a cousin who's sort of like that. I always joke with him that Wow is his boyfriend.

[MikeW]

Well, I know it is going to come as a revelatory shock to some of you that grandpa MikeW was, at least on occasion, a histrionic teenager who could throw himself into a tantrum worthy of a straight jacket. I wasn't the only one in my family, either. I had nephews who were only a few years younger than myself (more like younger brothers to me than nephews) and one in particular was even more of a drama lama than I was. It is interesting to learn this kid is a fellow Hoosier. I've always suspected it was something in the ground-water. (just about everyone in the Midwest is fucked up, one way and another, take my word for it.)

Thanks [MENTION=21866]Hardheaded1[/MENTION] for the second video. I'd always wondered if this was acting -- but I figured it was because, from my own experience, going into a 'fit' (what we called it) like this was ALWAYS in part "acting". It was always interesting to me that, even when I was, like, 'out of control', with outrage (or whatever) there was *still some part of me* that was sort of *watching* the whole thing -- experiencing all this intense energy that NEEDED to be let out but, at the same time, *knowing* that in a way it was all just an 'act'. It was cathartic AND intended to be manipulative -- after all, it had, on occasion, worked when I was a two year old, right? LOL!!!

Damn... I realize now how much I miss being able to just LET IT ALL OUT and go full-on berserkergang!

[Virge]

Dang @Hardhead1 you really did a bang up job on the GIF I used. Now I need to go try to delete the thread I started explaining it. You did a better job.

[Virge]

[SIZE="7"][COLOR="Red"]hahahahahahahh!
The Tosh .0 bit was funny as hell.
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i guess I missed that show, dang it. All I did was pick the GIF because it was so funny. I had no idea it was going to turn into all this. Now I wanna go find all the other vids he's made.

[Hardheaded1]

I think outrageous behavior is legitimate [MENTION=12444]Bowyn Aerrow[/MENTION], even it may represent mentally ill individuals as well as just plain spoilt children and grownups. I liken it to the depiction of Mr. Creosote exploding in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. All fat men were not lampooned, but the excessive glutton was. It seemed a legitimate satire of both gourmands and aristocrats and the insanity of what the morbidly obese must consume to reach that size.

I am thankful [MENTION=21174]dynamodean[/MENTION] that I have never seen WoW even played, much less the excesses that some players take it to. Maybe there is still hope for your cousin.

As I read your post, [MENTION=20947]MikeW[/MENTION], I remembered Grandmother's anecdote about how her father handled discipline in 1912 when she was but two years old. At dinner, they had plenty to eat, but didn't have much lettuce, and little Shirley (my late grandmother) loved lettuce. Everyone had but one leaf of it apiece, and that was enough to set her off. She hurled herself to the floor, kicked, screamed, rolled underneath the dinner table and squalled. Her dad wasn't one for spankings, but he was one for obedient and well-behaved children. When no one reacted to the tantrum, she got back up in her chair, but to her amazement, her lettuce was gone. Her father reached over and quietly ate it while she flailed away on the floor. She swears she never threw a fit again.

And [MENTION=21084]Virge[/MENTION], I had not seen your thread, or I would have posted in it before leaving for work this morning. I really enjoyed watching several of the vids these kids produced. They do defy credibility, but only just so. I'm sure there are many parents who indeed recognize the behaviors and haven't anything as clinical as a disorder to attribute theirs to. As I watch your GIF, I love the spontaneous desperation of the young actor trying to remember what he has seen others do in similar acting out. As everyone has noted, the remote control as dildo was pure gold. In the words of Daffy Duck, "agony! A-gon-y!" LOL!

[Virge]

[MENTION=21866]Hardheaded1[/MENTION] Don't you worry about stealing my puny thunder on this! I did a mass mailing of the GIF I used. As people respond back with the expected "WTF IZZAT ABOUT??? I send them the vids you found which all of them are laughing about now. One guy has tracked down the brothers other vids on youtube but I haven't even had time to hit the links and go see them yet.

Tosh.0 slammed it by having Michael Winslow play a cop when he was interrogating the guy. Back when I was a kid I think I watched every movie and TV show Winslow was in... 100 times.

My purpose in putting up that GIF was to start switching out funny one every few days. This one is going to be a hard act to follow. I had no idea what I was going to open up when I posted it.

And to make it even funnier... their parents are both in this and help them. That's a great family. hahahhahaha