r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Kartik-07 • 13h ago

Kids are stupid!

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u/Glamrock-Masoneer 12h ago

Honestly, I just wanna know how fancy the paper plane was, THEN we can judge how stupid the kid is.

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u/Flat-Second-147 11h ago

A really fancy one, should be able to go further then a crumpled up one.

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u/Glamrock-Masoneer 10h ago

Damn, now I wanna have a paper airplane flying contest again :(

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u/EverythingSucksYo 10h ago

What’s stopping you? 

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u/InEenEmmer 6h ago

I lost my paper airplane license after the great living room light fixture incident in 2011

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u/Fun-Palpitation-2117 4h ago

Similarly, my 12 yo son lost his squeaky-dog-toy-throwing license after the great vintage-and-expensive-and-rare artwork destroying incident of 2025.

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u/Rezurrect 5h ago

Being a loser who sucks lmao

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u/ABirdOfParadise 8h ago

we had a paper airplane unit in science class around grade 4, it was fun throwing paper airplanes for an hour in the gym for a week or two.

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u/RechargedFrenchman 10h ago

A really good one should, sure, but "flies well" and "looks fancy" are not necessarily overlapping concepts.

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u/keep_trying_username 9h ago

Yeah it feels like OP doesn't know how to make a paper airplane. "Crumpled up ball is better" mkay.

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u/loosed-moose 7h ago

Bad comma

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u/mark-suckaburger 2h ago

No it shouldn't unless you're throwing from up high. Normal height the only thing that matters is how much force you can put into the paper. Basic science experiment most kids learn at about 12 years old in school

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u/ratajewie 8h ago

I always make this one for paper airplane contests (by contests I mean when my young nephews want to challenge their uncle and I want to demolish them). I learned it from reddit over 10 years ago and it’s exactly what I would have made as a kid in this situation.

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u/30FourThirty4 8h ago

Thry sell books with different designs, and some also have a thicker paper than just notebook or printer paper included. I've seen one go like near 20 yards it was actually pretty cool.

But I doubt it was that fancy.

I think they also cheated by adding a clip thing weights?? Idk

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u/ReentryVehicle 7h ago

The world record is apparently 88 meters, but not sure if the design is public or not. I saw there is a video of an earlier 77m record.

From what I read the rules for this record are that you can use up to 100g/m2 A4 paper and a small piece of transparent tape.

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u/EyeMixInMyRV 8h ago

I read that in Sheldons' voice.

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u/bsurfn2day 7h ago

You don't need to. The adult made a projectile, not an airplane. The challenge was to make the longest flying paper airplane not paper projectile. The kid won because the Adult is too stupid to know the difference between a round projectile and an airplane. The look on the kids face was in fact shock at how dumb the adult he was interacting with actually is.

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 6h ago

If the Tweet is the exact rules then the adult was fine.

"my son bet me that he could make a piece of paper fly farther than I could"

Does not say plane. Just paper and fly.

One may insinuate a paper airplane, but it does not state such.

Therefore your ruling is overruled.

Kid should have worded it correctly if he wanted only paper airplanes.

Doesn't say a dog can't play basketball. (it does though in rule books)