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?
I taught my niece to say “I can’t work like this!”. That was fun!
Using capitals
It’d be hilarious if you taught her how to code Fortran.
He said harmless
Hey this might make her millions in the future
I don’t think his niece is named Fortran, tho
You sick bastard! Have her do a print loop in BASIC.
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.
The drums.
Or a less chaotic-evil suggestion, that water-drop sound made by flicking your cheek.
I think the water drop sound with your mouth is more chaotic evil than drums.
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.
What kind of game is this? Never heard of it
Lol, kid will sniff packets next
Flicking your cheek just right to make the water drop noise
OP, do this one
This is evil
(not exactly the same noise but can be used to the same effect)
Or making the mouth pop effect with your thumb
💯
Teach her about Poseidon’s Kiss.
Teach her how she can insert “apparently” into every statement.
And “allegedly”
My 8 year old starts almost every sentence with “By the way.”
In 80 years your kid could be president
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.
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
We got my niece to speak a little Klingon.
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
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
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
You have a weird sense of humor.
I’m a weird sort of person. 😺
Then once they got it just right, let them sing it all week.
Once the week goes by … teach them 99 bottles of pop on the wall
That is utterly evil
You are evil
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.
It’s been a while. But now I lost the game again…
You beat me to it.
Start em young.
Also I lost the game.
Dangit. It’s been years. You flipping flipper.