Jan 13, 2015 1:23 PM

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As a mexican who actually live in Mexico I can say take this shit is 100% accurate La Chancla don't forgive and forget

11 years ago | Likes 56 Dislikes 1

Puerto Rican mothers as well.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I once saw my friends mother throw her sandal down a hallway and It curved around the corner and hit her son square in the face. Talent.

11 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

My mom always threw whatever book she was reading at me. Then grabbed a different book and kept reading.

11 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

The struggle of growing up mexican

11 years ago | Likes 80 Dislikes 1

There are more mexicans and latinos here than I tought (I'm mexican too, hi :D)

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

One of us, one of us

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The struggle of growing up latino

11 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Colombian here. La chancla is widely used here too.

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

The trauma that unites us all

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I'm Chilean. There's a reason why I only walk barefoot in the summer. I am traumatized by THE CHANCLA

11 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

I'm Mexican and I approve of this. I've done this maybe 1 time with my son and now he's afraid of me reaching down to get my shoe lol jk

11 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 2

As a filipino(Former mexican), I found this hilarious.

11 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 3

Did you convert yourself somehow?

11 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Well the process is rather vague but you can ask an american.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My grandma used to say her smacks made my father a doctor.

11 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I remember when my ass broke the wooden spoon. That was when I became a man.

11 years ago | Likes 81 Dislikes 0

Me too! Except I was an 8 year old girl

11 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Well, you can become a man too I guess. Ya' know, if you wanna'.

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I still feel the sting. But after years of this, my buns are made of steel.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

TIL Mexicans throw shoes

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Haha yes! As someone who grew up in Texas I'm amazed I was unaware of this.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Salsa: http://youtu.be/aYviBsqwwzE

11 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

Haha, love the whispering "La Chanclaaa" at the end.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Salsa. Perfect.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

You multilingual son of a bitch. I like it.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

proper sauce plus witty language twist, neat!

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

lol

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

La chancla is bad but you know youre deep in the shit when your dad takes off "El cinto" (the belt)

11 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

when "el cinto" appears you know you are fuck!

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Ma is a master sage in the ancient art of wooden spoon-fu

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I'm 25 and I still fear La Chancla

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Tsinelas for Filipinos.

11 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

Chinelas for some old Puertoricans

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

upvote for awareness

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I just called it "Ahh run away" while my mom screams stuff in Filipino.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

thank god they're made of rubber

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

heyyyy pinoy :D!

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

growing up mexican, a squinty eye/raised eyebrow was all it took to put the fear of God in my heart

11 years ago | Likes 251 Dislikes 1

Hah, I'm also mexican and yep, that look was all it took to make me cut the shit as a kid.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My mother also used the eyebrow. She passed her mighty brow onto me. I can't wait to use it on my kids.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

1/? Yes! Omfg my mom and my gma. When me and my sister would act up they would just turn their head and give that fuckn look and we would

11 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

2/2 cut our shit out real quick. We all have that mean look and everyone thinks we are mad all the time but them two look mean as fuck

11 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

I have heard my "mean looks" referred to as resting bitch face. I was wondering why I have that but i guess maybe its a mexican thing x)

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Resting bitch face lol well I guess I got a mean one because a lot of people say I look mean or too serious and that I need to smile more ha

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I will get two opposite comments, " I've never seen you mad." or "You always look mad."

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I need to learn this skill. Teach me your ways.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That reminds me of that standup by Eddie Murphy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJdVpprCr_o

11 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

YES. This was my first thought when I saw this post

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I had a feeling few people would catch the reference to Eddie...I love Raw and Delirious!

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thank you for giving credit where credit is due!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is for most hispanic mothers. Also they use the big wooden spoon

11 years ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 1

Wooden spoon, belt, extension cord, broomsticks, rulers, you name it

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

pretty much everything within hands reach D:

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As a daughter of Mexican parents, I can confirm.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Native mothers make you go into the woods and cut a switch

11 years ago | Likes 99 Dislikes 0

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11 years ago (deleted Apr 7, 2019 2:17 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Try having a Domme. "Go pick out what I'm going to hit you with."

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

dunno, that sounds pretty...exciting

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So did Korean mothers...

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

My Great Grammy used to do that...you knew you done fucked up if she let it soak in water first!

11 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

My grandma did that! Native Brazilian though. I FEEL SUCH UNEXPECTED BROTHERHOOD

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I'm white from the US, and my father did the same!

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Native to where? You're on an international website.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My uncle tried to pick a small one, one time. Didn't end well for him lol

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

So do Vikings, apparently

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dominican mother too.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So did Adrian Peterson...

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My mom never had to throw anything, she'd just use a certain tone of voice and it would strike fear into the hearts of her children

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

"FUCK, she even said my middle name." I'm 36 and that still makes me break out in a cold sweat.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The moment your parent uses your full name you know you fucked up hard. Especially if they use the name given to you in their native tongue.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That was my mother. "RUN. SHE'S GIVING US THE EYEBALL."

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

As a portuguese, It's the same with us, plus the wooden spoon to beat the sh*t out your childrens >_>

11 years ago | Likes 243 Dislikes 2

RICE. PADDLE. HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A JAPANESE WOMAN WITH A RICE PADDLE.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yep, my mom would use whatever was within reach most of the time. TV remote was a very common weapon of discipline.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I never got threatened with a slipper, but countless times with the wooden spoon.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

And the rolling pin

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Have a Native American Grandmother. Super sonic flyswatter was some of my earliest fuck ups. Wooden spoon if we broke something.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Slotted spatula. Metal. Hurt like a mofo and left marks.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My daughter got a wooden spoon used for the first time at 10y/o. The shock was great. I've never used a belt or a switch on her.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

My grandmother used to beat my ass with a wooden spoon when I was disrespectfull :D

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Up till then she'd only gotten plastic mixing spoons. Grandma doesn't have plastic mixing spoons. Don't lie to me at Grandma's.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That is illegal to do in the USA and Canada, just saying.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 5

Actually, unless you leave welts or bruises it isn't. I've worked with Social Services.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Probably American social services where they don't care about their children. Just look at the american public schools.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Brazilian, much the same except with the added fun of springy, springy switches...

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I feared the dreaded chancla more than el cucuy shit I still do

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I feel you for sure!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Is that like the Coco man?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah som e call him the cucuy

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Jewish mothers use passive aggressive comments five years later. You think you got away with and then BAM.

11 years ago | Likes 599 Dislikes 2

As a non Jewish girl dating a Jewish boy, Jewish mom guilt is like nothing I've ever been exposed to before.

11 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

5k worth of therapy

11 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 0

That she pays for and guilts me for it

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

My persian Jewish mother made me cry over SAT scores within a month

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Dutch mums too. Mine remembers everything anyone has ever done to her.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Like a really slow, guilt-ridden boomerang.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Aaaaand the wooden spoon

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Oh, so NOW you want to take out the trash!"

11 years ago | Likes 60 Dislikes 0

"Ma, that's my wife!"

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"Ma, that was when I was 15!"

11 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Oh lord, the first time I told my mother I didn't want to go to Yom Kippur services... There was no wave of guilt. There was a tsunami.

11 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Jewish grandmas are even worse. And aunts. All the crazies.

11 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Yea but the food is worth it.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You said it, girl.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

How many Jewish mothers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

11 years ago | Likes 79 Dislikes 0

No, no, don't worry about it. I'll just sit here in the dark.

11 years ago | Likes 129 Dislikes 0

No, its fine, not like you haven't stabbed my heart with a knife before.

11 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

Don't worry, I'll just get ya retired father with his bad back and swollen knees to do it. Never mind that he hurt his back fixing your car.

11 years ago | Likes 47 Dislikes 0

*cah

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Oy vay. So true

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Five years is only the beginning. You think you've heard the end of it after five years? Try fifty.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

"Say you're sorry." | "I'm sorry, mom." | "No! 'Sorry' doesn't count."

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I used to be a bad kid, then i took a chancla to the knee

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I wish I could favorite this!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

There's a mod for that.

11 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 0

oh god please no

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There will be soon, 100% guaranteed

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

*pans down to knee to see sandal embedded in knee*

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fucking perfect! I lol'd

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Or, when you get hit in the face, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE CHANCLA!!!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

HA!!!!

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Everybody move the fuck out the way! Top comment coming through!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

*to the ass

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is beautiful

11 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

In a Chinese househould.. I got spanked with a chopstick. I've never felt so much pain in my life

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

When you hold it in one hand and pull back the other so it flicks against the skin really hard? That shit HURTS.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

White people be like, 'If I spank my kids, the neighbors will call CPS...'

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Fucking white people ruining it for other white people.

11 years ago | Likes 120 Dislikes 2

Fuckin a man

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

My mom is blonde hair blue eyed and was the only one who spanked me..I learned my lessons well!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Welcome to Imgur, where it's ok to beat your Kids.

11 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 28

Welcome to imgur: where people take things out of context and always use the most extreme version of a thing

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 3

Spanking and beating is the same Thing.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 10

lol no.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

Why not?

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 6

My grandma used to karate chop my mom. She didn't give a shit.

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11 years ago (deleted Jan 23, 2018 1:10 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

In the south you don't even need to be in a white trash neighborhood for everyone around to be like that.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This is absolutely accurate I've had cps called on me for raising my voice at my kids... They wanted to verify my kid's self esteem was ok

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

In uncivilised countries like 'Murica, of course..

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Pfft my mom used wooden spoons, shoes, hair brushes...

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Accurate.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So much this!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 5

In the South of USA, you get hit with belts and branches.

11 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 0

Had to cut your own switch, and if you picked a bad one, they'd use it till it broke, and make you get another one.

11 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Holy shit, my grandma did the same damn thing.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I had to go out and cut my own switch down here in Georgia. Mom said it hadda be as thick as her finger. She also broke a wooden spoon on me

11 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

If you brought in the wrong one, you had to go right back outside and pick another and would get it worse.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My mom made me pick out mine a few times. I learned pretty quick the thinner ones hurt more and will whip around.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

And if I was lucky I could tell how deep of shit I was in by how much of my name was used.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I would deliberately pick ones with thorns. I wanted him to know he was a ruthless bastard.

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

so are you a masochist now?

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Nope. But when he had a thorny switch, he had to think a lot harder before hitting me with it. It worked out better.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

"somebody gonna' get hurt real bad......somebody"

11 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 1

That was my first thought.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That's why children nowadays are growing up to be entitled little shits.

11 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 10

Ha! My parents used a leather belt on me.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

When my mother started getting dirty looks for smacking our butt in public, she started getting sneaky and pinching instead.

11 years ago | Likes 134 Dislikes 1

My nana used to grab my mom and her sister by the little bit of hair at the back of their neck so no one could tell.

11 years ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 0

My grandmother whacked my uncle on the head with a wooden spoon, once. Only ever once.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

my Mom just straight smacks the shit out you... but she is Prussian... aka scary, and prone to highly efficient violence

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

My father used pinching while driving, so he didn't have to pull over. Then at 15 I discovered tight jeans! Mwuahahaha!

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I think we might be siblings...

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I have stalked your profile. My sister lives in Austin o_o but I don't think you're her.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I just hold up a finger to show them how many spanks await them at home.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That would definitely work as well! We normally got the vague "Just wait until I get you home"

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Middle class white people.* Can confirm, lower class whites still bust asses.

11 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Spanking is legal as long as it is with an open hand and no tools involved. It is the only form of physical punishment that is legal.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Depends on the state some states anything goes so long as there are no red marks or bruises

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I am from Canada and that is the law in all of Canada. Studies have shown that anything more than that is detrimental to your kids.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I am in the US I am not saying I agree with anything goes just stating how it goes

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lol, not quite, I recall my mother breaking wooden spoons on my ass, and we are as white as they come:P

11 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Mediterranean mothers use wooden spoons....

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Eritrean mothers hit twice.Once with the shoe and then the other shoe.They are hella accurate too... Hey that rhymes

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

TIL my mother is half mexican half mediterranean. Born in the north of France.

11 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Australian parents tell you to stand outside in bare feet for 5 minutes.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

YES! My Algerian mother was an expert in spoon whacking. She struck faster than a Cobra.

11 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

As an italian, can confirm

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

AHHHHHHH! *Experiences a childhood flashback and crawls into the fetal position*

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Chinese mothers use bamboo sticks that hurt like hell.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My Scottish mother would use a wooden spoon, then she broke it. She'd then whip out the electrical cord and whip the back of my legs.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I fucking learned quick.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My mom used to throw treats at us! Little chocolate bars and gumballs. We're Canadian.

11 years ago | Likes 68 Dislikes 1

Goddamnit

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Canadian aye? May I join?? :3

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

You can try, but I'm not in charge of immigration. :)

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My Sicilian mother got tirer of breaking wooden spoons... switched to a ladle

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My right elbow stills holds a record for broken-wooden-spoons-while-defending-head-from-Italian-mother.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Indian mothers use their hands

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

My mom kept it on top of the fridge and all she had to do was reach for it.....scared shitless

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My polish grandmother used clothes hangers. Plastic normally, wire if you were reeeeally bad.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

They use 'sapu lidi' in SEA. ?1

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

WASP mothers use neglect.

11 years ago | Likes 191 Dislikes 0

this one is the best one. and the truest

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But... that does absolutely nothing?

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

ITS SUPER EFFECTIVE!

11 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

And Ritalin.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

*sensible chuckle

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Am WASP child. Can confirm.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

My wasp mom threw a fucking chair, a monopoly game, hit with an inch thick pig shaped cutting board, plastic ruler,and a ping pong paddle.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

sounds neglectful to me

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

OXI TO KOUTALI

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My friends grandmother used a hairbrush

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

North American mothers use Fly Swatters. Heaven help you if they get the electric version.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Mine was an opportunist. Spoon, Swatter, hands, pick-your-own-switch, belts, cast iron skillets, you name it she swung it.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Cast iron skillets? Oh my god.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My mom always just threatened with the wooden spoon! Once she broke it off the table and we thought she hit my bro. Terrified for life.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So do Irish mams

11 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

Son of an Irish/German lady. She used that thing sparingly though; it was the sign that we'd -really- fucked up.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not legally in many years, more than a few children have been taken into care because of physical disciplining.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's more the threat of it

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So do German moms

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Irish moms do too

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

TIL my mother is Mediterranean.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fear the koutala. Those things turn corners.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've seen it!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My Czech mom used a wooden spoon too.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My mom's Mexican but she used fists. No fair.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It might be a by product of being americanized, but my polish family preferred the hair shake and pull, or the pants grab.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

yeah wooden spoons hurt I know trust me I know.. :((((((

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

So do welsh mothers and grandmothers. If there was no spoon to hand a swift slap across the face was supplied

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My mom is German...she just slapped me really hard if I misbehaved.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

TIL Mediterranean mothers are Ginosaji

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Oy, wooden spoons..

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Mexican motheres do too but mine stopped because she broke too many.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I'm Arab and my mom used to only use her sandle, I remember once running away and I jumped behind a wall and felt the shoe smash into it

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I felt it too.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

And threaten to burn our mouths with hot peppers!

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Wouldn't have worked in our family. Dad would have been the worst, he used to munch those as snacks.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Italians use wooden spoons and a clog....

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

As a man whose family comes straight out of Italy, where the fuck were you raised that zoccoli were the weapon of choice?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

i got a dose of the clog, but i really had it coming. Must be a northern italian thing.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Swedish mothers use actual parenting instead of beating their own children.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

Greek mothers wooden spoons. Greek dad's the slipper. It was a mixed bag.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

didn't you love it as a kid when your dad asked for his slippers? you knew it was coming! And mum broke plenty of spoons on us haha

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

fear the koutala!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Mother hit me so hard it broke the spoon in half >.<

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Same for my brother, from overuse. :X

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So do German mothers...

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

confirmed in czech republic... also out teachers used bunch of keys

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Deadly weapon disguises as a fluffy happy toy. Anyone? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Dammvippa.jpg

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Unless you were having that shoved up your ass, I don't see how this could've been used to cause pain. I used to have one, same colour, too.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This... This was a terrible comment when viewed out-of-context from my history.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

*any goddamn thing in the kitchen

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My mom used her eyes and her voice she uses when she is the boss at work. Damn, people are afraid of her!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ancient Egyptians were good with slingshots, guess that's the strongest gene over here

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ah, the dreaded wooden spoon. Might not be all German mothers, but my German mom used them

11 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 0

Italian and I always got the wooden spoon.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

SAME. My mom's from Germany and she broke a wooden spoon on my ass

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

German Mom. Wooden spoon confirmed.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My Dutch mom broke a wooden spoon over my ass, once. Did not help her mood.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

That happened to me too! She then bought a bigger, tougher wooden kochlöffel :\

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

German/Italian here. I got the wooden spoon as well...from both sides of the fam!

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Ditto. Can't tell you how many spoons have broken over my ass, because I can't remember.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

We got the wooden spoon... eventually you build up pain tolerance and the spoon must be swung harder... then the spoon broke.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Then dad would say "stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about." and whack us upside the head for noncompliance.

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After which we were told "Now stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about."

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

my Irish mother used a hairbrush when shit got real.

11 years ago | Likes 63 Dislikes 0

Woah ! My mom is Irish and she did this. Now I understand

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Another Paddy here. Some of my earliest memories are getting a beat down with a hairbrush. Good times

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I had an Irish father and an Italian mother. I got the hairbrush AND the wooden spoon! (And the face slapping, the worst.)

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I got a hairbrush from Irish mom and the belt from (italian/native american) dad

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Italian father. Allays available to give me a smack upside the head to let me know "I don goofed".

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

my spanish mother used it too, she actually broke one in my head

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And it gets so much worse when that happens.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

another Irish checking in, mine used a fly swatter for up close lessons and a broom for distance learning

11 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

"Distance learning"

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Brazilian mothers have the spoon and the chinelo (aka chancla in Spanish)

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So do Puerto Rican mothers…

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He knows.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Northern European mothers use a rolling pin

11 years ago | Likes 140 Dislikes 1

Indian mothers use their hands

11 years ago | Likes 60 Dislikes 0

Do they use it to flatten some buns?

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

ouch

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Actually physically disciplining your children is illegal here in Sweden. An Italian politician actually got arrested for doing it here.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Half-filipino half-caucasian here. I either got the wooden spoon (courtesy of mum) or the belt (courtesy of dad).

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As a filipina, I soon agree. We didn't have wooden spoons though so I got the hand from my mum.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

YES!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My American mother used them too. Trouble is she used the flimsy ones that broke all the time. Correction would end in laughter...oops.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That ain't no lie, they throw those with precision accuracy.

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Those things become fucking boomerangs in their hands.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

My abuela threw a boulder at my uncle once. Hit him square in the dome. Probably what's wrong with him today.

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

No...No...

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Middle Eastern moms (and grandmoms) are also deadly accurate. Once she hit me from a mile away, I swear it, I solid mile away.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My mamá prefeers going melee with la chancla

11 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

Hands on mama

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Mother could throw one around a corner and still hit it's target

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Am I the only one who got a chancla/cinto combo??

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Presente!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

When you're a first time mexican mom, the elders take you away for 9 months of extensive Chancla training.

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Co worker says she has terrible aim unless she is throwing her chancla, then she can peg anything from anywhere

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A Mexican mother wouldn't have missed

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My mom was like Angelina Jolie in Wanted. She could curve the shoes around corners. We were never safe.

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My mom had specialty, boomerang chanclas.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Mine too. Those fuckers were double the pain

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

duuuude! this was my childhood!! best parenting tool!! La Chancleta!!

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"Honestly, who throws a shoe?"

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*Puts on fake British accent* - "That really hurt."

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Gah, thank you! I had that line stuck in my head the other day but couldn't remember where it came from!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

One guy threw a shoe at President Bush during a news conference, and he dodged it.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

yeah a gif of that came up as well when i searched google images for "honestly who throws a shoe"

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And they don't even have to throw it. Just look at her "That's was I though" look

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Accurate inaccurate English

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Me best friend says her mom used to throw stilettos at her. Lol

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I told my PR mom to shut up once. She grabbed the paper and flogged me like a rooster til I was wiping newspaper ink off my face. Culture!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's pretty damn accurate precision.

11 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

My old physics teacher is on a manhunt right now for OP

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My aunt threw hers across the living room and down the hall. It hit me in the forehead and my cousin in the fore head and the dog fetched it

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Mine never threw it. Just kept hitting.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My mom was a chancla sniper for the Mexican military.

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What was her code name? Maria?

11 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Wow, how did you know?

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Same one they always use. They'll never stop saying Maria.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I thought physics taught me that precision and accuracy are different

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Makes archers look like pieces of shit!

11 years ago | Likes 163 Dislikes 0

to be fair, Archer *is* a piece of shit.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Makes Ah-nold look like Danny DeVito..

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"If you throw enough of them, maybe you'll actually hit me!" Agatha Archer

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"I mean honestly...who throws a bloody shoe?"

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

*Large Asian man grunts*

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Makes snipers look like amateurs.

11 years ago | Likes 59 Dislikes 0

Makes marksmen look like beginners

11 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 1

Makes sharpshooters look like children

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Makes people good at aiming look bad at aiming.

11 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

Who throws a shoe? Honestly!!

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I feel like this is an Austin powers reference and it's going over people's head

11 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

That guy! -Bush

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Mexicans, Spanish, Portuguese... it's a culture thing :)

11 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 2

I feel ya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an0bVaTjF_Y

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Ow, that really hurt!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

the actor that threw the shoe is in jail for gangrape

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

TIL

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Didn't he kill someone in jail, too?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Jesus! That's definitely my unexpected fun fact for the day.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And murder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Son

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