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645 sats \ 21 comments \ @cryotosensei 27 Jul mostly_harmless

My five-year-old boy has the dubious honour of being fed at meal times. However, something unusual happened.

He: I finished eating by myself! I: 你很独立。 (Thought fleetingly of the word “independent” but decided to use Chinese with him instead.) He: 什么意思？ (What does it mean?) I: 能自己来。 (Can do it by yourself)

Without any hesitation, he stretched out his hand and shouted “自己来啦”, adeptly using the Singaporean particle, lar, that reaches into the deep recesses of Singaporean souls and generally exhibiting an adorable demeanour. His swift comeback took me by such surprise that I burst out laughing from my belly.

He is a true blue Singaporean!

Children and their unexpected antics have the impact of making jaded adults revert to their less hardened selves and emit hearty laughter.

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227 sats \ 11 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Jul

My daughter's become obsessed with trying to make people laugh. She's quite a bit funnier when she's not trying, though.

1204 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 28 Jul

ime being funny requires an awkward period of obvious intent to learn how to hide intent and the impact of intent - and to deepen intuition about humor.

When I was grocery bagger, in addition to bagging, I had to talk people into letting me take their groceries to their car. It was boring and my mind needs a task, so I'd play a game where I tried to make each of them laugh. In the end what I learned is that humor largely comes from consistently exploring something deeply. Everything beyond what's assumed is surprising (often benignly threatening) and incongruent merely at a factual level which is 9/10s of humor. The other 10th is emphasis/delivery if I'm not missing other things.

265 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 28 Jul

@k00b learning to humor

131 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 28 Jul

Trust you to turn it into an explicit Science

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 28 Jul

Damn I thought I’m the only one who tried to analyse humor

255 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 28 Jul

You‘re funnier when you don‘t try to be funny

That’s what people told me in school. I might never mentally recovered from this.

It’s hard to not try to be funny when you like to make people laugh.

Maybe it’s an expectation thing: I shouldn’t hope that they laugh but just say stuff because I think it’s funny 🤔

166 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 28 Jul

FWIW, I think you're funny when you're trying to be funny.

52 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 28 Jul

That’s funny

25 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 28 Jul

Dammit! I wasn't trying to be.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 28 Jul

lol, I think you try hard at everything you do

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 28 Jul

Do you ever humour her by fake laughing?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 28 Jul

No. She gets enough genuine laughs that I don't feel the need.

91 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 27 Jul

My daughter makes me laugh every single day. She is a real character, which can also make her a bit of a handful, but she is always make my wife and I laugh.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 28 Jul

I hope she doesn’t lose the spunk n mad-cap research skills

70 sats \ 2 replies \ @didiplaywell 27 Jul

When he was less than 5, I took delight in subjecting my lil brother to a ~~torture~~ game consisting on grabbing him by the arm or the leg, and asking him if he wanted me to let him go, but with the following rule: "yes" meant "no", and "no" meant "no", and he could only answer by saying either "yes" or "no". He would then desperately come up with as many combinations as he could, in vane of course, for there's no way out, right? ...one day, the little daemon came up with a hack that followed the rules, and I had to let him go while my brain crashed in a logic loop. I could not register what his answer was.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 28 Jul

So smart of him to figure out the loophole. Goes to show how we can never underestimate anyone