That technology is progress.
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If you tickle a baby’s feet before they are one year old they will stutter. Told to me by my son’s girlfriend when I was holding my grandson for the first time. It wasn’t a fun fact, it was a rule that I was to obey. So for the record, he should be stuttering by now because I couldn’t resist, and they couldn’t watch me all the time. :)
This sounds like one of the many hispanic old wives tales I have heard through my wife’s family. Tickling was one of them,
Babies aren’t supposed to see their reflection because it will make them vain
Put a red bracelet on the baby to repel evil spirits
Don’t let strangers touch the baby because it will transfer jealousy to the baby
There’s so many more, and WAY more not baby based myths that I have learned that could fill this thread.
My wife has a few of these. Absolutely absurd beliefs that have no leg to stand on
Makes me want to ask what other kooky wrongness they hold in their head, either in childrearing beliefs or general day to day knowledge.
I really don’t want to push things too far with them, but so far I haven’t really been able to hold my grandkids except for very brief periods and even then there are rules. No kissing them on the hands or face, the aforementioned no tickling their feet. They don’t really seem to be up to letting me watch the grandkids at any point, even though I raised my son and his siblings just fine.
The discipline seems to be completely missing, and I had a talk with my son and he attributed it to wanting to stop generational trauma. What the fuck does that even mean? I took it as though he is trying to say he had a bad childhood. But I had a great childhood, and I would say he did too as far as things like not having any abuse in the house, etc. So how far back does one need to go to round up some trauma. Maybe they are talking about his gf’s family? I guess I will have to sit down with him again and see what exactly he means by that.
It doesn’t surprise me that you’re getting limited access to your grandkids if you are not respecting their boundaries, that is, their rules. That they are kooky is beside the point.
I only tickled one grandkids feet for about a second and no one was looking. Other than that I have been very respectful of their batshit decisions (my personal opinion). But thanks for chiming in.
OK, sorry, I misread “I couldn’t resist, and they couldn’t watch me all the time” as meaning you were tickling their feet in front of them and they couldn’t bear to watch.
Damn english. Yeah I can see how that was a way to read it. I meant that they stepped out of the room one time, and I tickled the little guys feet. Who wouldn’t want to tickle a baby’s cute little feet. They never saw me, and I never told them I did it. Now if I was an asshole, I would be telling them what I did, now that he is older and doesn’t stutter, trying to use it to prove them wrong. But I would never bring it up, and only brought it up here because I can remain mostly anonymous so they will never find out.
Oh yes, I hear how much respect you have for them in your posts.
The thread is about the most nonsense thing you have ever been told. I am glad you are so aware of the rest of our relationship. They are entitled to make rules for their kids, but doesn’t mean I don’t respect them in other ways, and doesn’t mean I have to think they aren’t nonsense. Anything else you want to enlighten me about mr freud?
I am glad you are so aware of the rest of our relationship
I only know what you’ve told us: You specifically ignored the rules they asked you to follow when watching their children, they don’t let watch their children (these two points might be related), and you claim to be “respectful of their batshit decisions”.
If some randos on the internet can hear your disdain this loudly…
Spare the rod spoil the child
A lot of things from a particular family member
This month: His buddy who’s a “mechanic” touched our car and did a bunch of “extra work” on it for a “great price”. Got it back and it sounded like they emptied the transmission fluid in the CVT. I got “it must be the drive shaft” and “don’t go down rabbit holes on the internet”
It was missing transmission fluid
All that icky transmission fluid was limiting the performance of the transmission (I’m sure). /s
I don’t know about “ever”, but someone recently told me bald eagles are the fastest flyers on Earth; even faster than any military jet.
Their baldness makes them extra aerodynamic.
Maybe we should try balding our military jets. Good call.
That’s why the military had never allowed long hair or beards.
😅
were you the one who told them that lol
No but Ive seen them in the wild. Sure they are big ass majestic predators. But they ain’t that graceful or fast.
An old professor once taught the class that the prostate was a myth.
Old anarchist still on duty
Was it a woman? Maybe it was a joke like how people say the clitoris is a myth.
No it was a guy and it was a genuine believe that you could get in trouble for refuting.
Wow
Foreigners are to blame for everything and kicking them out of your country is key to solving everything.
That there was some guy who heard a voice and then financed and built a 150 meter boat by himself, got a breeding pair of every single land species on Earth onto said boat, and kept them from starving, killing each other, or otherwise becoming unable to reproduce until after the entire surface area of the planet was no longer covered in water.
You could argue it was an allegory, but then what the fuck would that even be an allegory for. The work of a zoologist?
And then there was this dude that was swallowed by a whale and he just chilled in the stomach and lit a little bit of a fire and roasted some marshmallows and then he was puked up or something later.
There’s even a museum dedicated to this, including a “replica” of the boat!
My stepdad once made coleslaw that smelled like burnt rubber. Me and my siblings told him that we would not eat the coleslaw, it would taste like burnt rubber. And he tried to convince us that since we had never eaten burnt rubber before in the past, that we couldn’t possibly know what burnt rubber tastes like, and therefore we should eat the coleslaw.
It turned into an hours-long argument about how you don’t have to actually eat burnt rubber in order to know what burnt rubber smells like, and that there’s no good reason for coleslaw to smell like burnt rubber.
In the end, me and my siblings won, and we did not eat the coleslaw, but I don’t understand how you can cook coleslaw… no, wait, you don’t even cook coleslaw!
I don’t know how you can prepare coleslaw so poorly as to have it smell like burnt rubber, and I don’t know how you can be so married to your burnt rubber coleslaw that you would attempt to force children to eat it, regardless of the fact that it smells like burnt fucking rubber.
Perception researcher here. So you probably are aware that if you have a stuffy nose, your food taste different.
Well. Technically what you experience when eating is a combination of smell and taste sensations.
Molecules from food in your mouth travel up your throat into nasal cavities. And of course. Can come in through the nose.
This combination perception is called “flavor”. That’s the technical term. Although this word often means “taste” in layman.
Anyway. My point is. That smell heavily influences flavor.
Which is what a lot of people think of as “taste” but taste is exclusively tongue receptors.
So your argument is sound. The experience of the smell is a strong indicator of the flavor.
Also a good evolutionary tool for helping you avoid food poisoning!
I’ve never considered cooking coleslaw . . . the things I’ve been missing in my life.
Cooked cabbage can smell quite strange. And bad. Only way I think cabbage is good cooked is briefly stir fried with bacon. That’s it.
Anything else or longer and it starts to smell super bad.
Boiled in a big pot with potatoes, carrots, and a large slab of corned beef and spices for several hours.
Yeah my grandma used to make boiled chicken and cabbage. I just really hated the smell. Idk if I could like a strew. But maybe.
I once ate some canned olives that smelled like something gasoline-adjacent. Those were the most outstandingly tasty olives I’ve ever had, by far.
Idk if it’s nonsense but when Ozzy died a coworkers told me that Ozzy was an American war hero who fought in the first gulf war and help liberate the people of Iraq, and then showed me a very bad AI photo of Ozzy sitting in a tank and flying a fighter jet.
I’m pretty sure you didn’t mean it this way, but was he sitting in a tank that was itself flying in the jet? Because that would be even more awesome.
No it was 2 separate photos of Ozzy in a tank and in a jet, I’ve tried to find it but it was on facebook and I don’t have facebook anymore and I don’t wanna give zuck my info just to look up AI photos.
there probably was a guy named Ozzy somewhere whom that was true for
“Lions are the boys and tigers are the girls.”
“People used to live to be 900 years old.”
“People used to live to be 900 years old.”
They also used to be able to fly, according to my dad, who was not happy with me when I laughed it off because I thought he was joking.
I think I laughed too, but it was the Sunday school teacher that shared that with me. I think that may have been the moment where little me learned that not all adults can be relied on for facts.
I believed the first one when I was, idk, 6 years old. No idea if I assumed it myself or was told it from someone.
“Lions are the boys and tigers are the girls.”
The female lions do kind of have a more tiger look. What with no mane.
“Lions are the boys and tigers are the girls.”
Sorry about that.
The internet didn’t exist yet and I hadn’t seen a tiger in a while.
The “no mane” part started to confuse me as different species.
Being forced to vote for someone that doesn’t represent you is democracy.
Im not sure why the blue conservatives are so worried about a one party government. Just work within the republican primary system and earn your incremental change!
What’s wrong, you dont trust how republicans run their primaries?
Electoral Reform Videos
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems
Video on why there is no perfect voting system.
“Think about it. They drained a lot of oil in the Middle East, so there must be cool underground lakes of oil you can paddle around in down there.” -Gas station geologist
I understand that oil isn’t just sitting around in big empty voids in the rock, and that those voids are full of gravel and such, and that we’re also injecting water and such into the wells to maintain pressure, etc.
But I’d be willing to bet (a small amount, maybe like $50 tops) that out of the thousands of oil wells we’ve drilled over the years, that through some quirk of geology, some void has opened up somewhere down there with just enough liquid oil and open space that you could probably get a kayak on it and paddle around in a small circle.
I’m thinking probably more like the size of a smallish above ground swimming pool, not a decent sized lake that would actually be worth paddling around on.
Of course there’s also the issue of the pressure at that depth, and the fact that any atmosphere down there is probably gonna be natural gas and not breathable air, so you’d probably have to do it in a hard diving suit
I’m with you in thinking that this is not impossible. I think geology is something that can do funny things in some places.
By the way, in some places oil seems to be pretty close to the surface. If you visit the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles sometime, there’s essentially an open lake of oil (tar) that you can visit, and as you walk the grounds around it you’ll see some spots where the tar is seeping out from the ground and you have to watch out not to step on it.
In the olden days oil reserves were discovered because oil was straight up seeping out of the ground.
I’ve heard that too! I also remember cartoons where a character would hit the ground with a pick axe and oil would come gushing out.
‘There Will Be Blood’ depicts those early days quite graphically.
True! I didn’t even think about that. Great movie.
All I can think of is the dude inside the oil tanker in water world
What a horrible existence
Anarchy capitalism is the solution to every nations problems.
If only landlords were required to protect their claims themselves.
