Seemingly trivial things that elicit an emotional response of some kind

[briantrumpet]

I'm going out on a limb to say I don't think PP really got the context either.

Mr P has children of a certain age, IIRC.

 

[First Aspect]

Six seven with a silly voice and emphasis on the seven. This is accompanied by open hands going up and down by the side.

You didn't need to know this. Kids think it is funny - just like octogenarians like "left hand down a bit".

I would strongly advise against trying to participate, unless you like being laughed at.

It is much the same as one of us trying to correctly use emojis, or a chimanzee trying to fathom a smartphone.

 

[First Aspect]

Mr P has children of a certain age, IIRC.

He seems able to observe the sounds and gestures, but without understanding their meaning.

Another analogy might be asking your Lapland tour guide how to say "thank you I have had a lovely time" in Saami, who gets you to parrot, "I am a stupid man without any reindeer."

 

[briantrumpet]

It is much the same as one of us trying to correctly use emojis, or a chimanzee trying to fathom a smartphone.

🍆

 

[PurplePenguin]

He seems able to observe the sounds and gestures, but without understanding their meaning.

Another analogy might be asking your Lapland tour guide how to say "thank you I have had a lovely time" in Saami, who gets you to parrot, "I am a stupid man without any reindeer."

It's good to see that there is no subject on which you are not an expert.

 

[briantrumpet]

It's good to see that there is no subject on which you are not an expert.

Spelling 'chimpanzee'?

 

[PurplePenguin]

Spelling 'chimpanzee'?

It has, at least, solved my intrigue. There is clearly a market for the Guardian's endless articles on the subject.

I feel it's my duty, as a parent, to continually tell bad jokes, so "sit down" said in the same tone with the same hand gestures works quite nicely (in my view at least).

 

[briantrumpet]

I don't even know how to say it, whether it's Dolly Parton style (though for a rather shorter shift), or "six hyphen seven" or just "six seven". My ignorance is almost complete.

Deeply spooky.

 

[First Aspect]

It's good to see that there is no subject on which you are not an expert.

You just feel bad because you said 6-7 and made a fiddle sign by mistake. Now your kids don't think you are cool.

 

[First Aspect]

How is "fiddle" less bad than "wānk'?

 

[briantrumpet]

You just feel bad because you said 6-7 and made a fiddle sign by mistake. Now your kids don't think you are cool.

If a child thinks a parent is cool, something's gone very wrong. It's not in the job description.

 

[briantrumpet]

How is "fiddle" less bad than "wānk'?

Fiddlesticks.

Wanksticks.

🤔

 

[briantrumpet]

I think I might start using the latter word when I'm annoyed. It has a certain ring to it.

 

[First Aspect]

If a child thinks a parent is cool, something's gone very wrong. It's not in the job description.

I wouldn't know. I specialise in saying witty things to friends' teenagers that leave them wondering if I have just taken the pißs out of them or not.

 

[PurplePenguin]

I wouldn't know. I specialise in saying witty things to friends' teenagers that leave them wondering if I have just taken the pißs out of them or not.

Unprecedented.