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The Baby Seal Clubbing Story and Laughing in Class
from Kurt Metzger · #135
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Kurt tells a long story about his eighth-grade German teacher lecturing about baby seal clubbing, and how he and his friend Kevin nearly died laughing while classmate Carlos got publicly shamed for laughing too.
- 16:44Tim's ex-girlfriend yelled at him about baby seals being clubbed, and he found it absurdly funny.
- 17:00They lived a thousand miles from any seals or penguins, so the passionate lecture felt performative to a kid.
- 17:26Tim knew if he looked at his friend Kevin across the room, he would lose it and get in serious trouble.
- 17:40Kevin's face turned bright red with suppressed laughter, one nostril fluttering, trying to hide it from the teacher.
- 18:01Another kid named Carlos in the class saw them laughing and started cracking up too from the infectious nature of it.
- 18:26The teacher finally noticed but only saw Carlos laughing, not Tim and Kevin who were closer and worse off.
- 18:41She called other teachers from the hallway to shame Carlos for thinking baby seal clubbing was funny.
- 18:55Comedy isn't necessarily a mature response, though mature comedy tends to be darker from seeing more shit in life.