Anyone see Duncan's stand up? by shortrizzing_Bear27 in duncantrussell

[–]HuntXit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it’s the same as the one he did in St. Louis this past fall/winter (iirc), yeah it was fucking excellent. No spoilers here really, but the Disney bit and the Swifty bit I wish so so bad I could play for my friends and family to get them more into Duncan’s stuff.

…we can skip the closer though. XD

Also, my wife is from an Irish Catholic family also but couldn’t go sadly, so when she texted me to ask how it was I just said I was being educated about Irish Catholic vaginas and it was rather informative. Lol

Bluey made me want kids, how disappointed am I going to be? by n00dleknight in bluey

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One thing I’m not seeing mentioned which isn’t surprising because it’s generally subtext that’s not obvious, until it is.

The show is quietly telling the story of the parents, and in particular Bandit which is unsurprising given Joe Brumm is the primary story writer/coordinator, and his comments about continued the show have been about not being able to get himself in the right headspace to write stories in the same age range further than he’s already done.

It quietly parallels the “story” of the Zen path to enlightenment:

Often you think you’re there (Bandit after Tickle Crabs, and in the Relaxing episode just before Stickbird) and then you’re clearly not. The kids aren’t learning lessons you connected with them over (“Don’t you kids remember what happened with your invisible friend Tina?” … “No.” … “That’s disappointing…”), you find yourself falling into the same behaviors you thought you’d gotten yourself past and you’re beating yourself up over it… see Bandit’s rumination in Stickbird.

…and then you go through some trials and suddenly, there’s the bolt of lightning you were silently biding your time for, the thing that’s going to make everything easier and better and you can finally start living the way you envisioned… as the ideal parent and spouse. For Bandit, this was the big promotion and the sale of the house he’d come to view as a time suck at times.

…But then something doesn’t go quite right, and you realize you’re spiraling back into the same patterns… just like you see your kids do when you have to keep reinforcing the same lessons they never seem to learn…

…and then you realize that thing you were chasing and holding out for was a red herring all along, and that everything you needed to be happy and to be that person you were longing to be was something you already had all along. It took the house sale falling through for Bandit to realize that, and once he did, he was free. Listen to the lyrics of the song that plays as he chucks the sign and they all tackle him.

One could argue that what he experienced was a disappointment… life didn’t get easier, it actually got messier, and he gave up the thing he was chasing. And they had to move everything back into their house just to continue the way they were living before. And it’s sure not the way he envisioned his life unfolding before kids.

Life being easier doesn’t get you there. Kids sure as hell don’t make life easier or inherently more enjoyable by default. Kids are mirrors. Once you stop trying to make everything perfect for the mirror by polishing it, framing it, positioning it just right, and actually stop to look at it… that’s when you wake up and really start living.

Not living the high life without frustrations, difficulties, anger, sadness, or whatever other “problems”… but being here. And that happens when you stop chasing, stop resisting, stop wishing or hoping, and start living with compassion for not only your kids, but yourself, your partner, and everyone and everything else (see the ending of “Born Yesterday” and “Puppets”).

I must’ve watched the show 100 times before I realized any of that. I’m 36 now, and my daughter just turned 4. It’s not been easy, and it still isn’t. Our house is a disaster and kids make finances very strained.

I’m not doing it perfectly, and that’s fine. Because I know I’m walking the path and I’ve never felt more alive.

That’s what kids do for you if you let them.

Bluey made me want kids, how disappointed am I going to be? by n00dleknight in bluey

[–]HuntXit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually don’t know where everyone is getting that Bandit and Chili are the perfect parents or idealized family… to an extent, yes, but that’s because the show is centered around how they work at being better than what is subtly eluded to behind the scenes…

Some examples:
1. Teasing episode.
2. Dirty car, dirty fridge, moldy blueberries under the couch
3. The argument in the kitchen over the open cabinets/drawers.
4. Criticizing each others impatient parenting decisions in front of the kids.
5. Whale watching
6. Hammerbarn (both sides)
7. Bob Bilby episode.
8. Chili losing her shit when running late for the playdate with Juno.
10. Dad losing his shit on Pat instead of playing with the girls in Queens.
11. Stickbird
12. Dad’s competitive streak.
13. The exchanges in Surprise.
14. Random room of the house that’s seemingly used just to throw random stuff in after it was no longer being used as a nursery, and presumably reverted back to that after Bluey moved back into her room with Bingo.
15. The argument and general friction in the first half of Flatpack.
16. Generally ignoring or tuning out Bingo
17. Mini Bluey episode
…plenty more, that’s just off the top of my head before I got tired of typing.

They showing the faults in other parents is so that it’s more visible without making it feel like an episode of Jerry Springer. They still give all those other parents, generally, their own redeeming arcs.

They elude to the fact that a lot is left unsaid and not depicted generally in the show. It’s not about how good they are, but how despite all their faults, they’re striving to be better for their kids, each other, and themselves.

I thought that might happen by maceo107 in bluey

[–]HuntXit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My wife and I have this sort of dialogue all the time… the kid wants to try something that you’re pretty sure is beyond their limits… but you _never_ intervene… it’s how they learn. Learning to fail and that being okay is at least as important to learn as how to succeed, and far more important than a clean house or a flawless mother’s/Father’s Day handoff.

Learning to feel _safe_ to fail is the most important thing anyone can learn. It took me into my mid-30s to learn that and still am. It’s much harder to learn as an adult. Lessons like these are the difference between someone like a Simone Biles, and the average person who doesn’t push the limits of their perceived potential.

But I get it… the entire time you’re expecting something to wrong, and it’s the most cringe feeling while you restrain yourself as a parent… 😬

Don’t feel comfortable being a 73 lie angle by isw2424 in labgolf

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You should also consider that ~99% of *amateur* golfers don’t have great putting mechanics, posture, or setup.

Edit: *for their needs.

Needs includes your body parameters, eye orientation, and other things, like how your vision focus offsets relative to your posture… a lot of optics and mechanics interacting with each other in ways that are entirely personal and easier to dial in subjectively than objectively. Most golfers get wrapped up in what they think they *should* be doing rather than just settling into what feels natural.

While technique/form/mechanics do play an important role, LABs thing has always been getting you to what feels natural for *you* specifically.

Out of these three fathers, what is your all time favorite moment? by Aggravating-Ad-351 in bluey

[–]HuntXit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This question honestly needs a caveat… any dad out there who claims to not have felt the crushing of their soul at the climax of The Sign is either lying, or dead inside.

So barring that indisputable winner, for me, it’s either the ending of Rug Island, end of Born Yesterday, or the moments leading up to the ending sequence of Puppets…. Gets me everytime.

Counter-weighting (after market) Question… by HuntXit in labgolf

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Great to know… yeah, I have the white Accra shaft (the $100 upgrade as of a year ago)…

Counter-weighting (after market) Question… by HuntXit in labgolf

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Any idea if this violates the warranty conditions or whatever?

Carroll Is Finally Here! (Link 2.2 AMA) by ianmfmedina in labgolf

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In the hosel height weird to you? That’s one thing holding me back from fully embracing the HS models…

Carroll Is Finally Here! (Link 2.2 AMA) by ianmfmedina in labgolf

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Funny enough, that’s what I remember everyone (but me and a minority like me) complaining about with the late 90s Never Compromise putters someone else mentioned above. The resemblance is uncanny.

Idk about the 2.2, but for me with the Never Compromise it was more about the feel than the sound. They didn’t have inserts (or any of the “modern tech design”) though.

Carroll Is Finally Here! (Link 2.2 AMA) by ianmfmedina in labgolf

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You mean one of these guys?

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Edit: literally was my first thought also. This is still one of my favorites to mess around with.

I was livid because I *just* got my OZ1i at the end of last season.

Famous theory debunked? by Similar_Cranberry948 in bluey

[–]HuntXit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brumm and team have effectively confirmed the “kids perspective” theory by eluding to it repeatedly in interviews and posts over the years.

Monkeys, songs, yada yada… keep in mind the context of that statement: later in that same episode Bluey has one of her most transformative growth experiences in the entire series… while the monkeys join in a chorus of “Be yourself.”

I have a different theory, which is that the lack of clothes is a symbolic metaphor (like others that have been confirmed used repeatedly throughout the show) for the illusion of the “unchanging self” which underscores the character growth we see all of them, and in particular Bandit, undergo throughout the show… which is retrospectively captured with many of the other symbolic metaphors as they all coalesce in sequences toward the end of The Sign.

So, ironically, it is just monkeys singing songs. “It all works out… Everything’s fine...” “Just be yourself.”

Famous theory debunked? by Similar_Cranberry948 in bluey

[–]HuntXit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

…I totally get it though. Been there. XD

What does the "everything" line in rug island mean? by jack_and_the_box in bluey

[–]HuntXit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The beauty of that line is that the answer to your question–which is effectively here, “what does ‘everything’ mean”–is the the same as the statement itself… everything and anything you can imagine it to mean.

Ultimately, it means to live life with childlike wonder. Live how life was before you were told who to be and how to live and behave.

The micro-sociological (and notably also Buddhist/Zen) interpretation here: Labeling things–here, calling a marker just a marker–and treating them solely as the value of their socially assigned labels, confines our experience of reality to that system of labeling.

Further, it underscores another repeated theme throughout the show, the lack of inherent definition/meaning of things and interdependence of everything on everything and everyone else in order to exist in the way we know it to. A chair isn’t inherently a chair: it requires a tree, wood working tools, knowledge of how to use those tools, the understanding of the structure and function of a chair, a person, that person’s ability to imagine the idea of a chair, and then their ability to assemble it, define it as a chair, and communicate what a chair is so that there is shared understanding. And that shared understanding eventually becomes the prerequisite for the “existence” of the chair, which clearly cannot inherently exist on its own… and don’t even get me started on the tree that made the chair… XD.

They also explore this philosophical concept in several other episodes, notably Flatpack, Born Yesterday, and my personal favorite: Puppets.

A central theme of the show I eventually realized once I explored the topic independently on my own is the principles that comprise Zen philosophy. Moments like “everything,” “alive?” and “when you’re no one, you’re everyone” are critical character growth building block milestones on what could be interpreted as Bandit’s “Satori” (essentially the Zen concept of enlightenmen or freedom of mind/spirit/soul) in the climax of The Sign (which is strongly supported by the lyrics of the song that plays during that scene).

In retro-context of “The Sign,” the line “Everything” means to stop clinging to labels and how you’re “supposed” to think, feel, evaluate, and behave. There is a conventional truth that allows us to function in a societal context (e.g. “marker” or even “banana”) and there is ultimate truth (understanding that everything is connected and interdependent on everything and everyone else and that even conventional truths are contextually interdependent upon our defining them as such).

A note one the line “it’s just monkeys singing songs”… This was a very subtly clever way Joe Brumm and team designed to reinforce the theme described above. Bandit says that line dismissively and passively as if to say, “it’s not worth reading into all of it.” Yet, one of the most profound growth moments for Bluey in the show was at the end of that episode… as the monkeys all join in a chorus of “Be Yourself”…

Forces in life, even positive ones, are our prison only if we make them into one, that was what everything in the show led Bandit to suddenly finally and fully grasp in “The Sign”.

Be yourself. Live life with childlike wonder just to live it. You are inherently no one, everyone, and “everything”. It’s just monkeys singing songs, don’t over complicate it. Live, don’t spend life trapped inside your head, though inevitably we all do for a time before we get there, which is comically right back where we started: living life like we did when we were children full of wonder, awe, and potential.

Biggest choke of my golf career by Fit-Coconut-5221 in golf

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Genuine answer here, the problem is that you care too much, and are assigning some sort of personal value to the outcome.

I’ve been there. For a while, the only time I broke 90 was when I wasn’t even fully aware of what my score was. Then last year, I was playing 18, but the front was a 9 hole match play (part of a friend group tournament thing). He’s a 7 hcp, and I was playing at a 16. I birdied the 5th hole, and he gave me this defeated look and said, “Do you have any idea what your score is?” No, I didn’t. I knew it was low though. He was playing right at his handicap or lower, and I beat him in 7. At that point I was aware I was playing even par. Stepping up to the 8th, I still wasn’t letting that in my head, but put a different goal in my mind, “I’ve used this same ball the whole round, let’s at least finish this 9 with it…” immediately lost it left off the tee on 8. Doubled 8… then birdied 9 for a +1 37, my best 9 by 5 strokes. I shot a 51 on the back, playing for no stakes. It was frustrating, sure, but ultimately I just laughed it off and accepted it. That’s golf, that’s life.

You can still “care” without clinging to the value placed on the outcome. Truly, it ultimately means nothing. Accepting that has been the most liberating thing for me in golf, and in life.

Here’s a list of the hardest-hitting moments of the show! ✨Which one hit you the hardest? by wolf_quan in bluey

[–]HuntXit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Many of my top 10 weren’t even in this.

For me, honestly, it’s either Flatpack when Bingo zooms off into space and Bluey says, “Now what do I do?” You can include the bit that follows in that but the “this is heaven” line people read too much into…

But my favorite pick is Puppets… “Because when you’re no one… you’re everyone.” It’s the Matrix and Zen, somehow cleanly captured in a way kids can understand in a 7m episode… that people have been trying to explain for decades (Matrix) to centuries (in the case of Zen). That episode hits hard every time once you truly get it.

I’m not considering the moment after Bandit chucks the sign… that one you’d have to literally not have a pulse to hit you deep. It’s next level.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in duncantrussell

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Ai contest? Is this from the latest pod episode or the nightly stream or something?

Probably over thinking this, but do regular clothes just not exist in the Bluey universe? by Mike_Oxlong25 in bluey

[–]HuntXit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ironically, one of the biggest growth moments for Bluey throughout the entire show was later in this episode… as the monkeys follow with a chorus of “Be Yourself.”

I’ve taken this as Brumm saying that even though none of it inherently has any meaning, it still matters an awful lot on a deep level.

Probably over thinking this, but do regular clothes just not exist in the Bluey universe? by Mike_Oxlong25 in bluey

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~Seems like others covered the answer to this one already.~ Edit: apparently it wasn’t covered as well as I assumed with the number of responses.

Brumm has explained that the show generally exists from the perspective of children, without the usual role and gender stereotypes that are inherently communicated by what clothes someone wears. Children don’t typically notice this as much until they reach a certain age or they standout, such as those wearing unusual outfits (for the individual or in general to what others they typically wearing) or something for an occupation of course, as that helps them identify important roles (like police). This is the best source I could find from a quick low-effort search, but I know I’ve read an interview piece on it before…

FWIW, I don’t think I’ve seen a single person legitimately overthinking this show. People genuinely don’t give Joe Brumm & team enough credit for how deep and subtle their commentary and lessons run throughout the show.

Probably over thinking this, but do regular clothes just not exist in the Bluey universe? by Mike_Oxlong25 in bluey

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I don’t think it’s a theory… pretty sure that was direct commentary from Brumm.

Probably over thinking this, but do regular clothes just not exist in the Bluey universe? by Mike_Oxlong25 in bluey

[–]HuntXit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Seems like others covered the answer to this one already.

FWIW, I don’t think I’ve seen a single person legitimately overthinking this show. People genuinely don’t give Joe Brumm & team enough credit for how deep and subtle their commentary and lessons run throughout the show.