%#@! My Kid Says

[WildKnight]

(Title blatantly ripped off)

Today has been red letter for my 7 year old son and kidisms.

This morning while getting him ready for school, I was threatening to tickle him and told him I knew where he kept his tummy, to which he responded "yeah well I know where you keep your nuts"

After school, he and his brother were playing with my D&D minis, and the older kid was getting upset with the 7 year old's constant revisions of the "rules" of their battle. He wanted his wizards to erect a protective force field around his army, so my 7 year old (thinking quickly and displaying his thorough understanding of history) said "this is middleevil times, force fields aren't invented yet. Are you a ninja?" I can only guess that had the older one had a ninja in his army, the force field would have been both acceptable and historically accurate.

[Ushima911]

I laugh at your child's shenanegans

[takewithfood]

Kids are awesome. I miss the days when my brain could come up with this stuff without effort. And yet, I know I'm better off now because I appreciate the awesome more looking back.

~TWF

[WildKnight]

Yeah, but how awesome would it be to have all that advanced knowledge of middleevil times?

[Deleted]

Who knows, you can know how to do something, but still not be able to do it. Look at Leonardo Di Vinci. From what I read some of his inventions were years ahead of their time, and weren’t all built. He’s the best example I can think of there.

I agree Kids are awesome. My 3 year old niece knows how to work the camera on my cell phone. She’s pretty smart with technology.

They can also say nearly anything and get away with it.

I remember when my oldest niece was younger. They were all going to town to get new swimming attire, and she said “We’re going to the store to get mama a new bathing suit. She’s really growed this year.”

Lol, she’s like put on 30 lbs. Nobody else could have gotten away with saying that except for a kid.

[Dullahan]

Pretty much none of Leonardo's inventions were built. Thing about Leondardo was, he never stayed with one project for long, and he hated war. Before he was hired to make art, he was hired to make weapons, but he never had the patience to follow through with it.


Kids are great. I love being around my niece(she's about 10). My youngest nephew's still at that age where I need a translator for half of what he says.

[Deleted]

In theory it’s statistically possible that workable ideas for force field technology in that age. There’s a statistics theory that if you took all of the monkeys in the universe and gave them type writers and taught them to type at least one of them would be writing Shakespeare’s Hamlet word for word.

Grant it a huge portion of people were illiterate in that time, but theoretically and statistically speaking it’s at least possible. If you applied those theories and statistics to the world today there’s no telling what kind of ideas are actually out there that having been discovered by the mass public.

[Jet]

Ushima, you'll either be the best father ever... or the worst monster in history of mankind, for torturing a kid with my most prized hobbies.

[WildKnight]

I hate to break it to you, but if you try to make your children like anime, they're going to hate it. And you.

It's the nature of things that children reject what their parents enjoy. It's uncool to like the same stuff as your parents. And why anyone would want their child to be an otaku, I can't understand. Otaku are more annoying than mosquitoes.

[Princess Mara]

I hate to break it to you, but if you try to make your children like anime, they're going to hate it. And you. It's the nature of things that children reject what their parents enjoy. It's uncool to like the same stuff as your parents.

That's true! XD But... maybe reverse psychology can do the trick? Best way to make them love something IMO is to like it yourself, but forbid them to try it.

And why anyone would want their child to be an otaku, I can't understand. Otaku are more annoying than mosquitoes.

Mostly because when you swat otaku with a fly swatter, they don't die...? ;D

[Princess Mara]

Not everyone loves anime, and not everyone loves western comic books either. ^_^ I can understand why in both cases... but as for myself, I like both.

[Ushima911]

Well not most people have souls!!! Most people are evil creatures that feed off of other peoples sadness and tears!!!

...again...no offense WK...

;D

[WildKnight]

So... its only the people with souls that enjoy a form of "entertainment" that involves frequent oversexualization of young girls??? GOT IT.

I don't just dislike anime. I'm disgusted by it.

[Ushima911]

Bwahahahahahah!!!

Ah wk..you really make meh laugh...

..but you know..not ALL anime does the oversexualization stuff...I mean look at dragonball Z, them girls aren't being shown off, in fact, they're not even good lookin. Sure...master roshi's a perv, what what old man living on an island with a giant turtle and nobody else, wouldn't be?

and there are others...

But I can see why you'd hate it.

[takewithfood]

[Insert weekly conversation about how anime is a medium, or at least a very broadly-defined style within the medium of animation, here. I'm too lazy to rehash this tired argument.]

~TWF