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sapphi_snake on 13 December 2010
Kyren said:
sapphi_snake said:
Kyren said:

Tell her, that finger is the devil's favorite snack and if she keeps doing it. She might attract the devil and when she's asleep the devil will come and take it away from her... Of course this might have some side effects like nightmares or trauma or fear of sleeping. :)

I'm not religious, so I don't want to continue with the religious sillyness my mom's all about.


You can always replace devil with any other monster :P like pikachu or kirby or chuckie!

She must love Pikachu! and Kirby! And I can't mention chuckie because he scares me too... Plus the problem with this angle is that she gets nightmaires if she's scared, and then she's afraid to sleep at night.



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Kyren on 13 December 2010

hmm then just tell her that it means something she doesn't want to do... we'll since you know her more .. what does she hate doing? something like the finger means you want to clean poop all day! or eat veggies tonight! but there might be a problem if she actually wants to do any of those :O



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Kantor on 13 December 2010
sapphi_snake said:
Kantor said:

Tell her about how the Boogieman will get her if she raises that finger, because it's a secret evil symbol.

You know, kind of like Candlejack. That way, she'll defini

No. She's already terrified at the boogieman. Plus, in Romanian the term for "boogieman" is "omul negru" which literally means "black man". Whenever she sees a black person on the street she gets scared. I don't want her acting anymore racist.

Tell her she has nothing to fear from black people, who are pleasant, hard-working, upstanding members of society...until you raise that finger.



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sapphi_snake on 13 December 2010
axumblade said:

How about Cthulhu?

Shouldn't give her nightmares....o.o;;;

O_o

That thing could give me nightmaires.



"I don't understand how someone could like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, but not like Twilight!!!"

"Last book I read was Brokeback Mountain, I just don't have the patience for them unless it's softcore porn."

                                                                               (The Voice of a Generation and Seece)

"If you cant stand the sound of your own voice than dont become a singer !!!!!"

                                                                               (pizzahut451)

sapphi_snake on 13 December 2010
Kantor said:

Tell her she has nothing to fear from black people, who are pleasant, hard-working, upstanding members of society...until you raise that finger.

LOL. That goes for gypses too. And asians. And white people.



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"Last book I read was Brokeback Mountain, I just don't have the patience for them unless it's softcore porn."

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"If you cant stand the sound of your own voice than dont become a singer !!!!!"

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darthdevidem01 on 13 December 2010

Trick her into doing it in front of your parents.

Then they will take care of that problem.



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Kantor on 13 December 2010
axumblade said:
sapphi_snake said:
axumblade said:

How about Cthulhu? 

Shouldn't give her nightmares....o.o;;;

O_o

That thing could give me nightmaires.

He's really a nice guy once you get to know him. :/ 

Fine....tell her that if she flips people off she'll turn into Cthulhu....

Cthulhu is horrible.

What that poor girl needs is Zork.



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Wagram on 13 December 2010

Give her the finger back!



superchunk on 13 December 2010

Better option would have been to just demonstrate the proper way to say "one" with a finger. Not mention anything about the socially unacceptable use of the middle finger.

Kids always have the same issue with pointing. I've just clarified "how" to point, not the "why" of not using the middle finger.



RCTjunkie on 13 December 2010
sapphi_snake said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:

The way to stop kids from using foul language or gestures is to tell them that they're out of fashion.  Tell her that "the finger" was only used by stupid people in the 1700s, and that if anybody uses it in public today they usually go straight to jail for being so boring and lame.

What if she sees Miley Cyrus giving someone the finger tomorrow? She'll never stop then!!!


You should be more concerned of your child smoking bong today if I follow your logic. :P

In all seriousness, tell her the meaning without using foul language (Don't go out and say it means f**k you) and explain why it isn't a good idea to do so.



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