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The tool is made to be pleasing but it doesn't have any superfluous qualities. Everything that moves does so for a reason. -I HATE YOU! You understand everything except how the tool addresses the can.

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dad > Dad I have a hypothetical question for you: if I was nine years old and came up to you with a can of beans saying I was hungry but didn't know how to use the can opener, what would you do I would say you have a can't opener

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ה *Theo @jewish_activist 00 Almost every single disabled and neurodivergent person can tell you a story of child abuse they've experienced that is similar to the way bean dad abused his child. Make sure your advocacy against child abuse includes disabled and neurodivergent children. 1:45 AM · Jan 4, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone

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"Life Lessons"

o man quite fathomable actually @JohannesEvans 000 bean dad, like many bad parents, has taught his daughter essential lessons: - your needs are less important than mine - i will not help you when you ask me for help - i ill praise myself for denying you help - my ego is always more important than you - i cannot be trusted 7:09 AM · Jan 3, 2021 · Twitter for Android

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Bean Dad 5

john roderick O @johnroderick · 12h She didn't look up. She knew the action. A little baked bean sauce appeared. She savored each twist until the lid, as I hoped it would, rewarded her by standing perfectly at attention, saluting her effort and ingenuity. She was elated and carried it to the kitchen in both hands. 4 27 3 223 john roderick O @johnroderick · 12h She knew this was a commonplace task and a common tool but also that this was serious business. She knows her dad, and the stock I put in these things. A more mechanically inclined kid might have figured it out in minutes. She factored the scale, but was rightfully proud. 12 230 john roderick O @johnroderick · 12h I'm proud of her too. I know l'm infuriating. I know this is parenting theater in some ways. I suffer from a lack of perseverance myself, and like all parents throughout history l'm trying to correct my own mistakes in the way I educate my child. She sees through this. 27 27 1 380 john roderick O @johnroderick · 12h The Swing-a-Way can opener is a little voodoo doll for us now. It will reappear as an allegory many more times in her life, you can be sure. She knows this too. But this is an allegory of triumph. I wish I had more of those for myself. I wish I had more stories like this. 27 393 john roderick O @johnroderick · 12h The only problem is now she wants to open every f------ can in the house!

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Bean Dad 4

john roderick O @johnroderick · 12h Finally she squeezed down on it and, although it was a misfire, a light went off in her head. Many times throughout the day she'd yelled at me, “My brain is fuzzy! I can't think of anything else to try!!!" and Il'd say, "When your brain doesn't work, trust your hands." 11 27 2 214 john roderick She felt the tool click over the lip of the can. I saw it in her hands. By this point she'd developed a little ritual of addressing the tool to the can: starting with it on @johnroderick · 12h a vertical axis and rotating it to the horizontal while clamping down in a single motion. A choreography. 3 180 john roderick @johnroderick · 12h She looked at me expectantly, excitedly. After six hours of trying you don't want to express too much hope. Was this another blind alley? The can had been through hell, label ripped off, dented, sharpened and burred, a veteran of a thousand psychic wars. She knew, though. 12 27 1 209 john roderick O @johnroderick · 12h She set up again, carefully, and brought the Swing-a-Way to bear on the can of S&W baked beans with the meticulousness of Roger Moore extracting a detonator from an ICBM in The Spy Who Loved Me. A soft pop resounded in the room, so different from all the other sounds we'd made.

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Bean Dad 3

john roderick @johnroderick · 12h I said, "The tool is made to be pleasing but it doesn't have any superfluous qualities. Everything that moves does so for a reason." She said, "I hate you." I'm sure she believes that she does. I said, “You understand everything except how the tool addresses the can." She sighed. 53 27 8 322 john roderick O @johnroderick · 12h At this point she said, "I don't want baked beans" and marched off. Apocalypse Dad went into full 'The Road' Mode! "Sweetheart, neither of us will eat another bite today until we get into this can of beans." She screamed "AUGH!" like Lucy Van Pelt. She read a book for awhile. 15 27 4 300 john roderick O @johnroderick · 12h Soon she was back at the can. The top was all dented now, the lip of the can practically serrated from failed attempts. We studied the tool some more. She really wanted it to be oriented up and down or across the top of the can. The sideways orientation is very counterintuitive. 3 27 2 189 john roderick @johnroderick · 12h She was fixated on orienting the tool in a few configurations and couldn't imagine other possibilities. I compared the can opener to other tools. By now we were working on anger-management and perseverance too. She suggested she open the can with a hammer. There were tears.

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Bean Dad 2

john roderick @johnroderick · 12h So I said, "How do you think this works?" She studied it and applied it to the top of the can, sideways. She struggled for a while and with a big, dramatic sigh said, "Will you please just open the can?" Apocalypse Dad was overjoyed: a Teaching Moment just dropped in my lap! 10 27 3 269 john roderick I said, "The little device is designed to do one thing: open cans. Study the parts, study the can, figure out what the can-opener inventor was thinking when they tried to solve this problem." (The can opener is also a bottle opener, but I explained that part wasn't relevant.) @johnroderick · 12h 10 27 2 226 john roderick @johnroderick • 12h I went back to my jigsaw puzzle. She was next to me grunting and groaning trying to get the thing. I should say that spatial orientation, process visualization and order of operation are not things she... intuits. I knew this would be a challenge. But it was a rainy weekend. 20 27 2 227 john roderick Eventually she collapsed in a frustrated heap. I said, “Explain the parts." She @johnroderick · 12h said, "This little wheel is meant to cut, these gears turn the wheel when you spin the handle. This other wheel looks like a gear but isn't." She couldn't figure out the clamping step, a key element!

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Bean Dad 1

john roderick Follow @johnroderick So, yesterday my daughter (9) was hungry and I was doing a jigsaw puzzle so I said over my shoulder “make some baked beans." She said, "How?" like all kids do when they want YOU to do it, so I said, “Open a can and put it in pot." She brought me the can and said "Open it how?" 3:12 PM - 2 Jan 2021 166 Retweets 1,121 Likes 753 EI 166 1.1K john roderick @johnroderick · 12h "With a can opener!" I said, incredulous. She brought me the can opener and we both stared at it. I realized l'd never taught her to use it. Most cans now have pull-tops. I felt like a dope. What kind of apocalypse father doesn't teach his kid how to use a manual can opener?!?

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Bean Dad Twitter Cycle

DO WE WANT OLD BEAN DAD HERE WITH HIS JIGSAW PUZZLE HANDS ON THE CAN OPENER? ANYONE WHo HASN'T BEEN ON TWITTER IN THELAST 24 HOURS BEAN DAD? CAN OPENER? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

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Bean Cat

Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv · 9h This morning my cat came to me demanding food and I looked him right in the eye and said "Pal, get an opener and practice. This is a teaching moment. I'm going to start my jigsaw puzzle now." 5 hours and 50 seconds to go... 7 27 44 436 Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv · 8h 000 Its been several minutes and the cat seems to not understand how the can opener works. I have asked him to think what the little wheel is for and how it's meant to be used. He just said "meow", which roughly translates to "what the actual f--- is a wheel?" 9. 27 7 231 Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv · 8h 000 I said, "The tool is made to be pleasing but it doesn't have any superfluous qualities. Everything that moves does so for a reason." Cat said, "Meow." I'm sure he believes that . I said, "You understand everything except how the tool addresses the can." He said "you are the tool" 27 16 302

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Bean Discourse

VyceVictus @VyceVictus · 4h Sadly, Beans discourse will never reach these heights again 000 alaskancarl @alaskancarl1 I pilled baked beans all over myself watching Cars 2 in theaters & a black teenager shouted "this n---- eating beans" & everyone laughed. 8 L7 19 180

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AITA Beans

Melanie Stefan 000 @MelanielStefan AITA for emptying a can of baked beans over my dad's jigsaw puzzle? 5:01 AM · Jan 3, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone 56 Retweets 493 Likes

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Bean Dog

Tejal Rao She brought me the can and said "Open it how?" @tejalrao · 3h 000 "With a can opener!" I said, incredulous. 11 27 19 414

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