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I'm visiting extended family for the first time in a long time, and one of my nieces has reached the impressionable age where she keeps mimicking things that she sees me do. what's a really funny but fairly harmless thing I should teach her to do?

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 140 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It'd be hilarious if you taught her how to code Fortran.

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[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Flicking your cheek just right to make the water drop noise

[–] DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is evil

donkey makes popping noise

(not exactly the same noise but can be used to the same effect)

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

OP, do this one

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[–] kromem@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On a vacation when I was a teenager I taught my younger sibling the "SYN/ACK" game.

They still remember the TCP stack handshake protocol including resets and acks years later.

[–] 0_0j@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Lol, kid will sniff packets next

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

What kind of game is this? Never heard of it

[–] Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My niece and nephew loved the β€œthis guy” gag. What’s got two thumbs and thinks you’re the coolest? THIS GUY! and point to yourself with your thumbs.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

Teach her to order something off a foreign-language menu, invite the family out to dinner, and see if she can place her order fluently.

Doing the "Five year old white girl shocks waitress by ordering Orange Chicken in perfect Mandarian" bit IRL would be pretty funny and adorable.

[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've thought my niece that policemen go "oink oink" and that pigs go "You have the right to remain silent!"

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago
  • Beatboxing. "Boots and cats and boots and cats"-style.
  • The pulling your thumb off trick.
  • The Macarena.
  • "The Game". ("You just lost The Game.")
  • Chopsticks on the piano/keyboard/toy xylophone/etc.
  • "The Name Game."
[–] knightly@pawb.social 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Lockpicking

Using Linux

Media piracy

Feeding the homeless

Wheatpasting / graffiti

Political theory

Shoplifting from corporate chains

First Aid

Legal observation

Black bloc tactics

Guerilla gardening

Spotting plainclothes cops / informants

Dialectical Materialism

[–] OsaErisXero@kbin.run 21 points 1 year ago

Idk about some of these given the age bracket, but Spot the Fed is fun for the whole family.

She could configure linux from scratch

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Seconding lockpocking. Easy to learn, tactile feedback (very kid friendly!), can absolutely annoy parents. But be careful to teach children not to do anything that'll seriously get them into trouble

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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A buddy of mine taught his 5 yr old daughter to tell people "One time, at band camp...I stuck a flute in my..." *long pause* "nose".

And he gets joy remembering all of the people go wide-eyed waiting for that next word out of her mouth.

Just hope he’s prepared for when she finds out the quote’s origin

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Teach her how she can insert "apparently" into every statement.

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My 8 year old starts almost every sentence with "By the way."

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[–] sundray@lemmus.org 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Guess what?"

"What?"

"CHICKEN BUTT!"

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I taught my niece to say "I can't work like this!". That was fun!

[–] Subnet64@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Alternatively - hand farts for the times it's too hot to want to stick a hand in your armpit lol

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago

Seconding hand farts. I've never seen anyone wash their hands after doing armpit farts.

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[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I taught my kid to say "mom drinks beer for breakfast" as soon as she could talk. Wasn't that popular with the family xD

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[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If she's the right age, Teach her The Game. It's a brain virus game.

Rule number 1 of The Game, you can not think about The Game. When you think about The Game you lose.

Rule number 2, when you think of The Game you have to say that you've lost The Game. Ideally loudly and publicly.

Rule number 3, after losing the game you get 30 minutes grace period to stop thinking about it before The Game starts again.

Rule number 4, once you have learned about the game you may either play the game or cheat.

Dangit. It's been years. You flipping flipper.

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 29 points 1 year ago

How to tie her shoes the instant/quick way. She'll be the coolest kid to all her peers and even amaze other parents who witness it...

https://youtu.be/Q5qZpQe_4EA?si=6fPhLyHs5BwJoaoA

(I have no affiliation with that channel it was just the first thing that came up when I searched)

[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

End every other sentence with ~ nya ~

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The drums.

Or a less chaotic-evil suggestion, that water-drop sound made by flicking your cheek.

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[–] gac11@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I have had pretty good luck with doing

High five Up high Down low Too slow

My nephew would just let me do it forever, always trying to beat me on the too slow bit.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

I taught my 18 month year old niece the sound a dinosaur makes. ROOOOOOOAAAR

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Give her some unconventional future career ideas. Non-edgy ones, of course. I think it would be pretty funny if after a visit from an uncle your kid was talking about sailing knots or embalming procedures or something.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago
[–] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i decided to let her watch Smackdown with me. we'll see what she picks up as a surprise for mom & dad

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[–] m__a__b@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

Pull my finger.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Juggling ? beginning with two balls is fairly easy and is a slippery gateway to more balls

[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Poker. And proper bluffing.

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[–] Tarball@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Teach her to take a drink and then smack her lips and say, β€œahhh”.

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[–] CentrifugalChicken@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

We got my niece to speak a little Klingon.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago

Gang signs.

[–] falk1856@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That it's pronounced heliclopter and not helicopter.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

Helico-pter

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[–] lemonSqueezy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tell her a fun fact, in your best science teacher tone. It takes one billion microseconds to get to one second. Hopefully she can run with this and ask more questions.

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