Some toys should be required

[LakeArenal]

[spanone]

1. You've got to admire their optimism....

[hlthe2b]

2. Power of Positive Thinking?

[Dr Hobbitstein]

3. I'm convinced that almost none of the people I work with (including my boss) had these toys growing

up.
Watching the way they try to put things away astonishes me.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. It looks to me more like the person holding the mattress is holding it for a sec and trying to keep

it off the ground as they determine how best to get it on the top of the car, but I know it can be tempting to use out-of-context photos of real people to feel superior about something.

[mrsadm]

5. The black strap coming out of the trunk

may be to tie the back end of the mattress, supporting your roof idea.

[LakeArenal]

6. It's a small joke.

Geez. Do you feel superior for putting me down. Hope so. Have a nice day.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. It's a joke predicated on the thesis that the people in the photo are so ignorant they can't tell

that the mattress is too big to fit in the car, and that this is due to a lack of education or resources in the form of toys that the viewer presumably had access to. That's a shitty joke, IMO.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. Sometimes jokes just don't land.

[LakeArenal]

11. For you. Some went with the flow

Also I didn’t take the pic and I didn’t create the meme. So beyond that, I have moved on. If you want to wallow in a dumb joke go ahead.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. Oh, I didn't think you took the picture -- it's probably friends of the people moving who did.

Nor did I think you created the meme. But by sharing it, it can look like you're saying, "Look at these dumbasses struggling, ha ha," that's all. Life goes on!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. Is it possible a person could take something light

Hearted and funny and read too much into it?

[Maru Kitteh]

7. Agree with you. Also, the young woman flipping off the camera

may provide us a bit of insight as well.

[struggle4progress]

18. :)

[missingthebigdog]

12. This isn't funny, and isn't appropriate.

Please consider the optics here. Look at the picture. Who is it making fun of? Women? People of color?

I know it’s just a joke. I know you didn’t create it. Can you agree that it is, at the least, insensitive?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. Sometimes, people just have to lighten up. Didn't

Even notice what the people looked like. But I do know we have a monster in the WH.

[missingthebigdog]

21. I concur about the monster in the WH

The fact that he is there makes it all the more important that we be vigilant about things like this.

Elsewhere in this thread is another version of this meme, and it is, indeed, funny. This one is just mean.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. Carry on!

[Ms. Toad]

17. It's a meme that is going around - the first one I saw was a white male.

I don't know if I would have reacted differently had I seen the one posted here first - but I see it more as reinforcing the value of simple time-tested mechanical toys that teach spacial perception. A lot of the kids toys currently are time wasters/electronic babysitters.

If I had to classify its target, it would be young people - along the lines of, "when was a kid . . "."

[missingthebigdog]

20. Can you see how this is different, though?

The one you posted is MUCH less mean spirited. We have all seen someone try to cram a carry-on into an overhead bin- most of us have done it ourselves. Your meme does not misrepresent the situation, as the one in the OP does.

I am not trying to start a fight. I appreciate humor wherever I can find it these days. The OP’s version of the meme doesn’t strike me as funny, and although I am sure that the insensitivity was unintentional, it is insensitive nonetheless.

[Ms. Toad]

24. All I'm saying is that there is a meme going around.

When that happens there are often multiple clones - some better, some less well, executed.

I saw the other one first, immediately recognized this one as part of that meme family, and didn't give it another thought. I might have reacted as you did, had I seen the one in this thread first.

[lunatica]

16. No, no! You gotta put it in the trunk!

Jesus!

[Heartstrings]

19. It's all about the bungee's....

[Takket]

22. life is funny, it is fine to laugh at things.

thanks for posting.......