r/funny • u/Ok_Concentrate_9713 • 3h ago
"Scream, nobody can hear you!"
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u/rydan 3h ago
Probably spends time online and knows this trick.
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u/drlongtrl 2h ago
The notion that you somehow need to "know the trick" in order to understand the mechanics of yelling inside a shower cabin makes me feel really old right now.
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u/Artifficial 1h ago
More so just that a kid might not understand it, cos you know... He's a kid.
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u/PaleontologistOk7359 1h ago
Most kids his age wouldn't have issues understanding that if you can hear what's going on outside, the outside can hear what's going on inside.
Kid's are (generally) much smarter than this thread gives them credit for.
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u/AnaisNinja76 37m ago
Reddit does this all the time. They give 6 year olds the mental capacity of 2 year olds, 12 yos/6, and 18/12. It's impossible, especially given the age breakdown of the site, that so few would remember childhood at all.
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u/redlaWw 22m ago
This has also been a problem in developmental science in the past. Scientists would assume that when posed with a problem, kids would just try their best to complete it, but instead the kids were smarter than they gave them credit for and tried to read between the lines of the experimenters' odd behaviour, which affected the results of the experiments.
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u/Wilsonian81 12m ago
The kid's clearly too old to fall for it. He's old enough to think critically.
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u/WTFnoAvailableNames 2h ago
Flipping the bird is usually inappropriate, especially as a child. This time it's 100% appropriate and golden comedic timing.
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u/Plane-Tune-820 2h ago
Same rule I had with my kids when they were young. You can't swear, unless you can manage to make me laugh when you do. If it's funny, I can't be mad about it.
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u/MediocreAndLukewarm 1h ago
We told our kids that swearing is fine in the appropriate context. Interjecting into every conversation? Certainly not.
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u/nuevacuentanueva 14m ago
To be fair, for (at least some) non native English speakers, the middle finger doesn't have the same strong connotation as it does for native English speakers. We (again, some, not all) don't have the same strong attachment to its meaning, so we are way more lax in its use.
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u/Appropriate-Sound169 4m ago
It's not that rude in the UK but kids think it is due to the American influence. Putting 2 fingers up is more rude
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u/Dzuzepipi 57m ago
Dont swear nor do this gesture mister cause it's bad, is treating him like a 3 years old, which is insulting.
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u/whooptheretis 34m ago
I wouldn’t expect this behaviour from a kid.
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u/Gulophile 30m ago
The kids you know sound really boring
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u/hellcat_uk 2h ago
You've got to be talking as they go in and stop making sound but keep moving you mouth as soon as the door shuts.
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u/Niznack 2h ago
Man I would have lost a finger that day
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u/_wavescollide_ 1h ago
Hey, that's the IKEA dog. My daughter has one too and it's her favourite plush.
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u/snakesinabin 1h ago
Thought this was gonna something for r/kidsarefuckingsrupid but nope, not this kid 😆.
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u/Hmmm-strange 8m ago
Maybe I am a prude, but how is it alright to laugh & encourage this behaviour in a kid?
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u/mkey_cdx 2h ago
The kid gives the finger and everyone laughs. What is wrong with people?
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u/BatsHaveFingers 1h ago
C'mon, that finger was fair play. If she told the kid to clean his room and he did that, that would be inappropriate. But she was fucking with him. Turnabout is fair play. You fuck with a kid, they get one "fuck off."
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u/johnsolomon 2h ago edited 2h ago
Sticking your middle finger up at your parents isn't cute
The apocalypse would have begun if I'd disrespected my parents like that. It would have had to be a seriously funny joke for me to avoid getting Thanos snapped
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u/Icchi-bum 1h ago
since youre an aspjring author, i recommend you read The Body Never Lies by Alice Miller :)
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u/johnsolomon 29m ago
I was exaggerating for humour and I think my tone came off wrong -- my parents weren't abusive. We were just raised with really strong ideas around respect, dignity and how you speak to other people. For example, I'd get told off even for calling one of my siblings an idiot or speaking to them disrespectfully
Things like sticking your middle finger up at your parents would be considered extremely rude in my family. Seeing how casually some people speak to or behave towards their parents definitely throws me off. I don't think you need to worship the ground your parents walk on, and questioning authority is healthy, but I've noticed how in recent years, expectations of how you behave towards/around your parents or authority figures seems to have loosened here, and I think that's creating more problems than people think
When you grow up with very little concept of deference or obligation or respect for authority, that attitude doesn't stay at home. I think you can see it in the way people behave toward teachers and public spaces. People wish everyone around them had the cultural consideration of a place like Japan, but they reject the sort of upbringing that engrains that sort of respect. The kid sticking up his middle finger as a reaction to a prank is in my view a symptom of that
Obviously respect has to go both ways (parents and authority figures shouldn't be beyond criticism just because of their position) but if I had to put my finger on it, I guess my point is... I don't think behaviour like that is benign just because it's done as a joke. The middle finger is a deliberately rude gesture and that's what gives the joke its meaning in the first place. So I find it uncomfortable when adults normalise it or treat it as something completely harmless, because it starts to blur the idea that there are some ways of speaking to or treating other people that still have strong disrespectful undertones, even if the context is playful. It's the same reason I've always disliked it when parents encourage their kids to use the c word as a joke, or to call them things like "idiot" or "dumbass" without reacting to it and shutting it down
Hopefully that gives a bit more nuance to what I posted.
I appreciate the book recommendation though, I'll check it out!
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u/Icchi-bum 13m ago
if that was my intention i would've recommend The body keeps the score by bessel van der kolk, but the body never lies touches more on dynamics between parents and their children not necessarily abuse, both are great books tho, enjoy :)
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u/Fibonacci357 58m ago
Then you didn't respect your parents, you feared them. That kind of parenting doesn't work.
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u/johnsolomon 14m ago edited 8m ago
I didn't fear them, it was a bungled joke. My point is that some words and gestures are inherently disrespectful, so it makes me uncomfortable when adults laugh them off or even encourage them in a way that normalises kids using them in situations where they're rude or disproportionate.
I feel like treating a kid flipping off his parents as funny rather than rude removes some of the kid's sense of where the boundary is meant to be. We'll see the same attitude somewhere else (towards a teacher, a stranger or in public) and wonder where it came from. People complain about kids having no respect for authority, but... here you have it. It's enforcing boundaries in moments like this that shape a kid's sense of what respectful behaviour actually looks like. I know it sounds a bit old-fashioned, and maybe overly strict when we're just isolating one gesture, but these moments add up.
But at the end of the day, it's not my kid. I was just voicing an immediate gut reaction. The middle finger killed some of the humour for me.
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u/Freddious 2h ago
This is where what's wrong with today is geenration
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u/Inshabel 2h ago
He should have just screamed at the top of his lungs and fallen for the prank? If I tried to prank my kid and he was wise to it, he'd get a pass on flipping me off for sure.
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u/David_Good_Enough 2h ago
I would not mind a cheeky answer or him mocking me or calling my bullshit, but flipping me at this age would call for a clear tell-off
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u/Inshabel 2h ago
Then I shouldn't have tried to embarras him in public.
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u/David_Good_Enough 2h ago
I do also agree with that. I could have added to my first comment that I personnaly wouldn't do that to my kids. But, in any given situation, I would not agree with the flipping off at that age.
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u/JigglyExperience 59m ago
Wow, a clear tell-off. Some kids never recover from one of those.
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u/David_Good_Enough 44m ago
I'm not a native English speaker, so maybe "tell-off" was not translating my tought so well. But clearly this would end with me firmly telling my kid that this is absolutely not something you do, especially at this age.
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u/David_Good_Enough 44m ago
I'm not a native English speaker, so maybe "tell-off" was not translating my tought so well. But clearly this would end with me firmly telling my kid that this is absolutely not something you do, especially at this age.
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u/icarusrising9 2h ago
Were you trying to maximize the number of typos you could fit into one comment?
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