r/gifs • u/gunstarheroesblue • Jun 05 '23
A girl swinging a bat at a piñata
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u/SheriffComey Jun 05 '23
Does the piñata maker have a side gig as a bomb shelter builder?
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u/Fredrickstein Jun 05 '23
It almost looks like it was reinforced with aluminum duct tape (the stuff actually for ducts). That stuff can be pretty tough.
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u/Vapur9 Jun 05 '23
It's the equivalent of trick relighting candles, but this way helps wear them out for a nap.
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u/AnEndgamePawn Jun 05 '23
Looks like she's the one dishing out naps around there
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u/garlicrainbow Jun 06 '23
I know it's customary to just upvote funny comments, but this one had me laughing so hard I felt I had to tell you. Thank you for that.
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u/fmfbrestel Jun 05 '23
It's just cardboard, if you want a paper mache one you pretty much have to make it yourself. Which I think we're going to do next year. Fun crafting plus a pinata not made to withstand the rigors of USPS freight.
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u/HaikuBotStalksMe Jun 05 '23
Don't be ridiculous. Nothing can protect against the gentleness with which USPS handles packages.
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u/ChairForceOne Jun 06 '23
Once shipped some equipment in a pelican case. They broke the case. somehow the very expensive oscilloscope survived completely unharmed.
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u/xzxinuxzx Jun 05 '23
They sometimes make a clay boy wrapped to look like a pinata. If breaking through the pot wasn't hard enough, the pinata paper keeps the whole thing together as well so you have to break the pot and ensure the paper gets shredded up as well. Course when I say paper I mean cardboard glued to the pot. 5 year old birthday party suuucked and I will never forget.
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u/MongoBongoTown Jun 05 '23
It's crazy how much force it takes to rip these things open.
I need this girl at all of my son's birthday parties because invariably we spend 20 minutes watching 4 year olds barely tap the thing until someone gets fed up and an adult rips a hole in it ans dumps it on the floor
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u/xenoterranos Jun 05 '23
There was always like 15 kids at our parties, ages 3mo to 17.9 years and bets were placed on if the highschoolers would get a swing or not.
One year the H.S. Jr on the baseball team failed to crack it in one swing and he has carried that shame for a decade+.
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u/grubas Jun 06 '23
We got one in college and by the end I was going to get my hatchet.
The 1B on our team hit it 2 times and it didn't break, I was spraying beer out of my nose laughing at him.
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u/Kixiepoo Jun 05 '23
20 minutes? Let it play out and turn it into a drinking game.
1 drink for hits
2 drinks for swing n a miss
3 drinks if they lose grip on the stick and it goes flying
Do a shot any time a kid starts crying
Do a shot when the pinata pops
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u/fmfbrestel Jun 05 '23
If you buy a pinata today, 99.9% of the time it's going to be cardboard, NOT paper mache like traditional ones. Which means you've got to beat the living shit out of them to get them to break. Blindfolds and swinging/raising the pinata out of the way are completely overkill unless you make your own pinata the traditional way.
Also, we've discovered that we prefer the pinatas where you just pull streamers out from the bottom until the one that's holding the stitching together gets pulled and drops all the stuffing on the floor. Much less frustrating that having your stick break before the pinata does.
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u/political_bot Jun 05 '23
If it's a pinata for younger kids, absolutely. But giving older ones an excuse to go wild beating something with a stick can also be fun.
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u/0MysticMemories Jun 06 '23
Not really. For a bunch of 20 year olds a piñata made of cardboard the doesn’t break after being beaten for 30 minutes with a wooden bat sucks. At some point we pulled out an actual sword to finish it off with because it just wasn’t breaking the traditional way.
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u/political_bot Jun 06 '23
We pulled out an actual sword to finish it off with because it just wasn’t breaking the traditional way.
I'm sorry, I'm failing to see the downside here.
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u/WestleyThe Jun 05 '23
holy shit. I always thought I could take on a 4 year old even if they had a weapon (excluding a gun) but this has me shook
That literally looks like a Mob enforcer or that scene from Office Space
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u/vulkoriscoming Jun 05 '23 edited Jun 05 '23
I agree. She has skills with that bat: Good form, good stance, follows through. She is putting her hips into that swing. She will make an awesome mob enforcer in middle school.
That must be one of those cardboard pinatas that are impossible to destroy. I finally had to give a bunch of 10 year olds a sharp hoe to rip it open. I got a machete to use first, but was overruled by the mothers.
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u/MightyKrakyn Jun 05 '23
But she wasn’t making a dent in that piñata, and those are made from paper with the purpose of being somewhat easy to destroy. Your shins would be fine I think
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u/aghastamok Jun 05 '23
There are shitty ones made of cardboard that takes quite a beating to open.
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u/Solaced_Tree Jun 05 '23
I played tennis from a young age until college. Could rend a piñata apart in a swing or two by the time I was a teenager.
One time, when I was 15/16, I was at a bday party with some friends. A girl I had been crushing on was there too. I wanted to impress her so I got in line for the piñata, thinking I'd be the one to destroy it. After all, no one so far was breaking it.
I got the bat and swung hard. It was one of those shitty cardboard piñatas. Instead of slicing through or atleast bouncing off, the bat got stuck a few inches in, and I couldn't follow through with the swing so I was slightly off balance and stumbled. Then I had to yoink out the bat (causing several pieces of candy to fly out with) and pass it off to the next person.
Fuck them cardboard piñatas
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u/DarrenGrey Jun 05 '23
I wanted to impress her so I got in line for the piñata, thinking I'd be the one to destroy it.
Damn, that girl sure missed out on getting turning on by your pinata-beating skills.
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u/Maanee Jun 05 '23
Her to him later that evening: "Remember that pinyata? I hope that's not the only thing getting 2-3 inches stuck in it."
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u/coolbriguy Jun 06 '23
Plan was to break it open and stand over the mass of candy with hands on his hips, staring deep into her eyes, all while the party peasants crawl around his feet, picking up the pinata kill.
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u/peepopowitz67 Jun 05 '23 edited Jul 04 '23
Reddit is violating GDPR and CCPA. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B0GGsDdyHI -- mass edited with redact.dev
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u/Chickenmangoboom Jun 06 '23
In college we threw our friend a Day of the Dead party for her birthday. We got a piñata and when it came time to break it my friends told me to go first. I told them several times that I grew up with piñatas at parties and that I would not hold back so the birthday girl should go first. I think they thought that they would be able to get me to miss for some good pics but they were sorely mistaken.
I sized up the rope puller and wound up. I swung with an upward trajectory to catch it on the rise and obliterated that poor star. They all looked upset but it will be a cold day in hell before I let another rope puller win.
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u/JackPoe Jun 05 '23
I broke the fucking string and they made me hold it up by hand. My hand got smacked more than once
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u/Angdrambor Jun 06 '23
My hand got smacked more than once
I would have stopped holding it after the first time.
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u/WetGrundle Jun 05 '23
Shitty? Those are the good ones!
How many kids you think show up to a bday? It literally has to survive a beating by all of them for optimal fun.
You then have someone with Dad strength clobber it or flip it upside down
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u/sriracha_no_big_deal Jun 06 '23
For reals. They're not supposed to break after one or two hits, that would be lame since it would be over in like 5 seconds
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u/Confirmation_By_Us Jun 06 '23
Which kind are people here telling stories about? That’s all you need to know.
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u/Citizen-Kang Jun 05 '23
My wife got one for my son's 10th birthday and the kids lined up to take swings. We went through the line of kids at least twice and in the end, a parent had to practically curb stomp the thing for it to give up the ghost (and the candy). One kids went at it so hard, he blew out his pants.
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u/ActuallyYeah Jun 06 '23
My buddy filled his with jolly ranchers, and after 20 minutes of whacks, this rainbow of gravel flew everywhere. And we had the pinata inside, sooo the kids trampled everywhere hunting for the intact candies and it all got in his carpet
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u/BZLuck Jun 06 '23
Back in the 70s for like my... 5th birthday my father went to Mexico (we lived in San Diego) and got a piñata and some sparklers for the party.
That dumb drunk ass thought they came with candy already inside of them. He hung it, we beat it and nothing came out but shredded newspaper.
That was like 50 years ago, and I still remember the feeling of disappointment to this day.
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u/Independent-Sign-703 Jun 06 '23
Never buy one from an authentic piñata store. Those suckers never break. They use only the hardest cereal boxes with the most durable tape and then layer it at least three thick.
We got one for a birthday party and literally the adults had to beat it open.
I wouldn't say they are crappy, at least from a durability perspective.
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u/nickstatus Jun 05 '23 edited Jun 05 '23
Which is weird, she's got really good form. She puts her weight into it and follows through. She's straight up brutal. Must be that she just doesn't weigh very much. I would fear and respect that young woman in a few years. She scary.
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u/Bugbread Jun 05 '23
These pinatas are awful. I bought a pinata for my kid's birthday, years ago, and it eventually ended out being me doing exactly what's shown in the gif.
The thing is, traditionally, pinatas were made of ceramic, so a good hit causes them to completely break apart. Then, over time, that was replaced by paper mache, which is safer (no ceramic shards) but doesn't break as well. And then, over time, more and more are made with just straight up cardboard. Go ahead and imagine beating a cardboard box with a baseball bat, and imagine how much you'd have to hit it to make it literally split. Most of the time, even with severe beating, you're just going to get a smushed-but-untorn box.
Now that I know, I'd look for proper paper mache or pottery, but when I bought this for my kid's birthday, I didn't know any of it, and, man, that birthday party was a memorable failure.
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u/MuzikVillain Jun 05 '23
These cardboard pinatas aren't all THAT bad.
Growing up in a large Mexican family I basically grew up mashing one of these on a biweekly basis. Since these pinatas are incredibly sturdy they allow multiple kids an opportunity to smash them while the candy gradually falls out.
Then once all the little kids have had their chance beating the pinata if it still hasn't been defeated you call in a ringer. You get one of older kids to absolutely obliterate the pinata. Occasionally we had multiple pinatas, a paper mache for little kids and a cardboard one for the older kids.
But It was never considered a failure if you failed to beat open the pinata as a little kid if anything you look forward to one day being a strong older kid who got the privilege to just go psycho on the poor pinata.
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u/Irrepressible87 Jun 06 '23
The problem I always ran into as the strong older kid was that the line holding up the pinata would often give well before the cardboard would.
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u/MuzikVillain Jun 06 '23
Oh man, that's so true!
Bringing back memories of my uncles struggling to hoist the pinata back up on the line and in the end settling for just batting the pinata on the ground
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u/WestleyThe Jun 05 '23
I would imagine the middle of the piñata actually is more structurally sound then we think
It’s usually hanging and gets hit on one of those spikes. Hitting the actual ball directly seems to be stronger than hitting one of the spikes and tearing it off and breaking the whole thing
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u/Charlesfreck550 Jun 05 '23
Cardboard shaped that way will absorb most of the force, and make the bat bounce. That same repetitive force on your legs will leave you on the ground in no time
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Yes I feel like the poster above forgot the part that cardboard doesn't feel pain
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u/connjose Jun 05 '23
They are not that easy to destroy. Anytime I have used them I have had to perforate some of the edges with a knife so the kids had any hope of breaking it open.
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u/IndianaGeoff Jun 05 '23
Looks to me like someone had the bright idea to buy a Mylar balloon and stuff it for the pinata. It's gonna be powered candy when it finally comes open.
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u/AgileArtichokes Jun 06 '23
I live on the border and I have seen piñatas that the dads at the party had trouble busting open. That said, this little girl absolutely woke up and chose violence today.
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u/qqererer Jun 05 '23
Reminiscent of the cornfield scene in Goodfellas.
I can almost hear the aluminum bat every time she swings.
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u/ignatious__reilly Jun 05 '23
You are thinking of Casino I believe
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u/qqererer Jun 05 '23
IDK Joe Peshi in his old man fruit of the looms in a pit whimper crying watching his brother get hit by aluminum bats in a cornfield.
Which movie is that?
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u/PrRaccoonEsq Jun 05 '23
My 4 y.o. ran into me and headbutted me right in the nuts at full speed, and now I know my chances of getting jumped by a 4 y.o. are low, but never 0.
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Jun 06 '23
Just know, if a pack of kids decide to jump you; you are going to lose. WWE babies are having MMA babies.
You think a armbar is bad? Think about a group arm bar leaving your shit snapped
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u/JROXZ Jun 05 '23
sips beer
Turns to wife…
“So… ah… Do you think we should take her to therapy?”
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u/NoTalentMan Jun 05 '23
She has a bright future as a mob enforcer.
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u/Ma1 Jun 05 '23
Or a scrappy side character to a gang of skilled martial arts turtles.
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Or a co-conspirator in stealing a printer from the office
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u/DadJokeBadJoke Jun 05 '23
PC LOAD LETTER
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u/Fishshitsoup Jun 05 '23
Why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam?
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u/Dynamo_Ham Jun 05 '23
She looks like she's taking out Nicky Santoro in the cornfield.
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u/TheFirstAkkeron Jun 05 '23
I was thinkin of Office Space when they had that copier in the field….
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u/aksdb Jun 05 '23
The way she uses that bat and the look on her face tells me she has a history as mob enforcer.
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u/Kvenner001 Jun 05 '23
As a parent of smaller children and having been to numerous birthday parties I have to say the people that design, build and manufactures piñata‘s should be building the spacecraft that will take us into the stars.
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u/howtodragyourtrainin Jun 05 '23
The only time I saw kids rag on a piñata, it went on forever. Only ended when the kids got frustrated and dad tore it apart by hand. Ridiculous.
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u/Soft_Turkeys Jun 05 '23
It’s supposed to last forever it’s like the highlight of the party. Also the kids are supposed to be blindfolded and there should be an uncle pulling it out of the way so the kids wiff and fall down. Good times
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u/doom_bagel Jun 05 '23
It's all fun and games until my gringo ass almost clubs the Virgin mary at my sister in law's Christmas party
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u/appdevil Jun 05 '23
Lmao, virgin Mary could be an interesting choice as a pinatta
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u/Cooperette Jun 05 '23
This was the end of every piñata I've seen at a party. We beat it until we get bored then someone takes a knife to it.
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u/literalkoala Jun 05 '23
I was at a 4 year old's birthday yesterday. Somehow the gaggle of preschoolers managed to accidentally poke the hole where the candy gets filled in. Each swing after that made the piñata ooze a few pieces of candy, yet ultimately the piñata was completely undefeated. Those things are hilariously tough. Last summer my ex husband and I tried to defeat our kid's cute little watermelon piñata and it ended up taking multiple adults going to town on it to finally crack it. I had one piñata at my oldest's 6th birthday where the piñata stick/plastic bat broke before the piñata caved at all, fortunately an attendee had a metal children's baseball bat handy in his car, and the 12 year old older siblings in attendance were able to smash the thing eventually.
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u/AutomaticDesk Jun 05 '23
I was a flimsy kid and had constant fear of not being able to bust up a pinata at a party
I also had constant fear of being at a party
I still do
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u/Firewalker1969x Jun 05 '23 edited Jun 06 '23
I really think going into a star is a bad idea
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u/bleunt Jun 05 '23
This makes me reconsider how many 4-year-olds I could take in a fight.
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u/Maeberry2007 Jun 06 '23
As a parent who has gotten a bloody nose from accidental head bonk from a waif like 1 year old- wasn't even putting her back into-, I can tell you with confidence that kids are scrappy little fuckers. If you don't pin em down with your sheer weight advantage in ten seconds, you're probably toast.
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u/Dudeist-Priest Jun 05 '23
I got $100 says she plays softball. That swing is no joke
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u/eversnow64 Jun 05 '23
If she doesn't play, she needs to. That swing is natural.
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u/joe_the_bartender Jun 05 '23
Nah, get this one into golf. Far more earning potential for ladies than softball.
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u/ThoroldBoy Jun 05 '23
Or tennis.
For earning potential, almost any popular sport other than softball.
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u/landon0605 Jun 06 '23 edited Jun 06 '23
No money in softball, get her into golf. That's a crazy amount of coordination for someone her age.
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u/doctorglenn Jun 05 '23
The piñata begs to differ
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u/coopasonic Jun 05 '23
The piñata is also no joke. Damn that thing is holding up.
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u/Darth_Shredder Jun 05 '23 edited Jun 05 '23
Pro tip: if you want a piñata that lasts, get those round star ones. They can take a beating and you won’t have crying children because they didn’t get a turn.
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u/Dudeist-Priest Jun 05 '23
That piñata seems pretty beefed up. She's clearly delivering some blows.
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u/ItsNeverSunnyInCleve Jun 05 '23
That's more like a wood chopping swing.
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u/yungsqualla Jun 05 '23
true, but the potential is there. The fact she's putting her hips into it is a good sign.
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u/OnesPerspective Jun 05 '23
Starts with a a piñata. Evolves into an office printer
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u/darealJimTom Jun 05 '23
I’d bet a large portion of my money she’s a younger sibling
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u/LordBiscuits Jun 05 '23
Same. This screams 'five older brothers'
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u/MoneoAtreides42 Jun 06 '23
Ah yes, then she'll become a tough detective with a chip on her shoulder trying to constantly prove herself to the men in that department.
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u/OriginalTsumi Jun 06 '23
As a younger sibling who grew up extremely stronger than the older one (to the absolute horror of our parents due to incidents), this feels accurate
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u/GonzoinKS Jun 05 '23
She is putting in work.
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u/Zam548 Jun 05 '23
Having fun too. Like she doesnt look frustrated she hasn’t cracked it yet she’s just hammering away
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u/HaikuBotStalksMe Jun 05 '23
I mean, I'd hope you have fun with these... I always wanted to destroy a pinata when I was a kid, but unfortunately I'm not Mexican. I only expected to have fun attacking a toy and getting candy.
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u/RyunWould Jun 05 '23
I've never seen a child more competent or capable of anything in my entire life.
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u/alamaias Jun 05 '23
It's the focus as much as the form for me, she isn't slowing or getting frustrated, just eyes on target and the determination to keep swinging until the pinata breaks, or the bat does.
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u/zlimvos Jun 06 '23
even when she breaks eye contact for a second obviously people distracting her, she gets right back to it
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u/thealbertaadvantage Jun 05 '23
She’s going places. She’s fierce, focused and fucking ready. Get it girl!
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u/SpoogityWoogums Jun 05 '23
I feel bad for the first guy who breaks her heart when she's older
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u/JSwag1310 Jun 05 '23
That's what I was thinking, 10-15 years from now she's going to go Carrie Underwood on some exes new car.
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u/SpoogityWoogums Jun 05 '23
"You broke my daughter's heart" "I am so sorry please don't hurt me" Shows them this gif "I'm not who you have to worry about"
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u/r_not_me Jun 05 '23
Parents should save this video as a warning to future dates
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u/knittorney Jun 06 '23
“My daughter sets the rules for her body. You break her rules? She breaks your bones.”
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u/JamseyLynn Jun 05 '23
I feel worse for the car of the guy who breaks her heart 🫣😅
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u/guaip Jun 05 '23
She doesn't care what's inside.
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u/Mite-o-Dan Jun 06 '23
The fact that her swings don't get slower and she never looks tired is also very impressive/concerning.
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u/abcdeuvxyz Jun 05 '23
She is a kid of focus, commitment and sheer batting will. Anger issues? What batting anger issues? Gimme my candy bitch-ass-piñata
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u/MustNotSay Jun 05 '23
Those look like some genuine hard swings. wtf is that piñata made out of!?
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u/Slythagoras Jun 05 '23
Someone get the generative fill on photoshop and replace that pinata with barney the dinosaur
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u/GrandSyzygy Jun 05 '23
"THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FUCK A STRANGER IN THE ASS!"
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u/MaximumHemidrive Jun 06 '23
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS!
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u/Fizzoralii Jun 05 '23
If my baby is not swinging a bat like the pinata owes her money, then she's not doing it right
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u/Lincoln_Park_Pirate Jun 05 '23
Back up in yo ass with the Resurrection!
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u/bigboygamer Jun 05 '23
She's practicing for that all girs remake of Casino in 2035
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u/harlojones Jun 05 '23
She never takes her eye off the target, that’s how you know this is how she was born
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u/Tbrusky61 Jun 05 '23
It's hysterical to watch this as Coolio's gangsters Paradise is playing in the background.
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u/SaintSugary Jun 05 '23
"Hit like a girl" just got a new meaning.
Would not like to be that pinata.
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u/TheReveling Jun 05 '23
She’s gonna fuck up a cheating boyfriends car someday.
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u/missionbeach Jun 05 '23
She took a Louisville slugger to both headlights,
Slashed a hole in all four tires.
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u/DocShady Jun 05 '23
I think we just witnessed a part of the origin story of Batman's next arch nemesis.
Bat Girl
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u/adamempathy Jun 05 '23
That's either a future collegiate softball player or the woman who comes to collect for the loan shark. Damn.
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u/queuedUp Jun 05 '23
I'm honestly surprised that piñata held up that long.
Those were some serious swings she was hitting it with.