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?

  • @SanctusEnglish
    140•4 months ago

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

  • @SidewaysHighways
    89•4 months ago

    Flicking your cheek just right to make the water drop noise

  • @kromemEnglish
    69•4 months ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
    65•4 months ago

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

  • @UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
    54•4 months 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.

  • @TootSweetEnglish
    45•4 months 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.”
  • @kitnaht
    43•4 months ago

    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.

    • ddhEnglish
      10•4 months ago

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

  • knightly the Sneptaur
    43•4 months ago

    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
      19•4 months ago

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

    • @Contramuffin
      9•4 months 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

    • IninewCrowEnglish
      8•4 months ago

      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

  • @EtherWhack
    38•4 months ago

    Teach her how she can insert “apparently” into every statement.

  • @[email protected]
    31•4 months ago

    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.