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When visiting another country, or even a museum, most people know to be respectful. But that's most people. There are some idiots out there who try to mess with wild animals, steal stuff, and be generally stupid. Some are even worse, like this obnoxious group of British Tourists who actually received national attention for how bad they were.

If you've spent any time in the world of retail, you're familiar with the type of customer who, no matter how wrong they are from the start, will never take no for an answer. They will be rude and insufferable to employees for nothing more than the satisfaction of "winning" a social interaction. Well their kids don't like them either.

This dad is the living definition of amazing. Easily coolest dad in the world, and absolutely the real MVP. Too much adorable in one post to even handle it! 

They're like drunk midgets. And our hearts go out to any parents that are muddling through the grind of raising kids. 

If you're on the fence about having kids then these tweets might sway you in one very definite direction. Let's just say the struggle is painfully real in these tweets, and that parenting sounds like an absolute whirlwind of hysteria. 

Everyone is lying to their kids about something. The difference is in the size of the lie. Some parents hid enormous, life-changing secrets from their kids. Other parents are stealthy about the amount of ice cream in the house that their kids don't know about. On the lighter side of parental lies, here are 29 of the funniest lies parents told their kids.

Some dads just know how to have fun! This dad and his son look like they're having the time of their lives!

Back when a kid could just walk around the woods alone all day. Back when you could give a baby a beer and a bottle rocket. Back when a child's car seat was pretty much just a mobile iron murder cage. Has parenting gotten safer and more responsible or just less fun? Little of column A, little of column B.

It happens to every parent. You think you've made a good one, or at least you didn't damage it too much early on. Then one day it comes up to you insisting that Alaska is an island. At that point, all you can do is cut your losses and hope you made a spare. For more, here's some times parents realized their kids are dumb as rocks.

You have no idea what kind of crazy past life your mom might've lived down. Behind that secretive smile could be a life lived beyond your wildest dreams. Mom might know more about your own madness than you ever dared consider. 

We're not exactly experts in child rearing, but this story about a mom who refuses to use negative language around her kid kinda set off some alarms. Like, isn't replacing one word with another one kind of defeat the purpose of not having the first word? There is octopus way this strategy worked out. Check out some awesome twitter jokes about parenting here.

We're always looking for ways to burn bridges, but this way seems a bit nuclear. That's a pretty sure-fire way to never have to worry about being invited back. Can we give him a break because he was like seven? Yeah, probably. 

When you grow up and realize that your parents are people too, it tends to put an extra strain on your relationship. Now, all of a sudden they need things from you, and you realize they're just as ignorant about certain things as you, possibly even dumber. Here are some people that got some occasionally honest, sometimes spicy texts from their moms. If you want to see it from the other side, here are some funny tweets about parenting.

It would be great to have one of these little illogical temper tantrums when the world just gets to be a big old overwhelming mess. These are all kinds of adorable.