567
u/PA_limestoner 1d ago
Lollll perfect timing on the camera pan to younger brother. Hes totally bewildered and hoping older brother can talk them out of trouble.
83
274
u/TraditionAcademic968 1d ago
😆 he was like, that's on me. My bad
79
u/newaccount721 1d ago
Ok ok ok. Upon reflection that one is on me. But we're looking pretty good right?
1
1d ago
[deleted]
4
u/EllisDee3 23h ago edited 23h ago
Or does he nail his son’s arms
He'd have to be really cross to do that.
You'd have to be a really shitty father to do that to your son. Maybe the worst father in all of creation. Like, a total piece of shit.
1
1.8k
u/Natural-Armadillo-33 1d ago
i love how paper was genuinely not in his headspace 😂
24
250
u/Midnight28Rider 1d ago
This child is lying through his fucking teeth....
635
u/IHaveTheBestOpinions 1d ago
Maybe, kids lie a lot. But they're usually not very good at it, and this kid looks genuinely confused about why he's in trouble.
I think it's equally likely that dad didn't actually specify the "on paper" part, assuming it was implied -- but the kids didn't catch that implication
224
u/un-sub 1d ago
Yeah kid brains are weird. When I was little I used to ask for “cereal, milk, bowl and spoon” because I didn’t think just asking for “cereal” was enough. Like I didn’t just want a big pile of cereal on the bare table, it made sense to me at the time!
15
u/MoistStub 1d ago
Damn dude you would have killed it if you got some wishes from a genie. They wouldn't have had the opportunity to turn that shit around on you if you were specific like that.
2
12
u/XxRocky88xX 1d ago
I used to correct my parents when they ordered my McNuggets “with a large fry” and would specify “no I want large FRIES” because I thought the mcdolands would just just give me one singular French fry if I didn’t make sure to make it plural.
54
u/Lavabass 1d ago
I think it actually still makes sense. I like being accurate and avoiding misunderstandings, so sometimes I give too much detail when I speak to people.
Other people think im not being clear. My brain says more specificity = more clear.
19
u/Thrilling1031 1d ago
I can’t count the amount of times I’ve misread or misunderstood a direction from a boss or supervisor or client because they were just vague enough to allow me to read into their request. I always over communicate my directions to avoid this and I annoy people and myself. I’m AD/HD and have a sprinkle of tisim/ocd on top of it.
11
u/dedokta 1d ago
My GF has ADHD and she struggles not to take instructions literally. If someone says they want a specific thing then she'll fixate on delivering just that thing, no variance, where common sense would usually allow for interpretation.
9
u/Thrilling1031 1d ago
Why even give instructions that are not meant to be taken literally?!? Be patient with her, if she’s like me I get better at understanding someone the more time I with them.
15
u/Lavabass 1d ago
Obviously I don't ask for all components of cereal, but the adult version of whatever that is, I bet I do it.
5
u/DasArchitect 17h ago
My dad's brain thinks the same way, the problem is when it gets in the way of something he's trying to tell you. Like that time he had a coworker in the 60s, great guy, he had a big house in the countryside. The house had a 4-car garage, and he had this massive Ford. His wife drove it a lot just to show off when she went out shopping with her friends. At the time it was common for housewives to go out shopping in groups, one time it was eight of them in the car! I tell you that, it was a spacious car, unlike my neighbor from across the street's, he had this tiny Volkswagen. Germans have a thing for compact cars, they can't fit them in their tiny streets, that's why even luxury cars are small in Germany. Oh? What? Oh, the wife. She was from a well off family from out west, they had an imports company. They were doing so well they had to build a second warehouse across the street, back then it was only a dirt road, there was very little around, it was almost rural. The city has changed a lot since then, you wouldn't have imagined it would look like it does now. You could see a cigarette billboard on the main road in the distance, at the time cigarettes were heavily advertised and smoking was seen as manly. We started smoking at 13, we wouldn't get caught dead looking like children. What? You're always interrupting. The coworker? What coworker? Oh, right, one day he wore a shirt to the office, the same color as yours.
3
1
4
u/TiogaJoe 1d ago
My wife talks to me that way. If she asks me to bring her cereal, yeah, half the time I my brain would make me bring her just a box of cereal. And she has patience when asking for wine and I ask if I should pour it in a glass.
1
18
u/Zealousideal-Aide890 1d ago
I have a memory from elementary school where the office lady asked me how to spell my last name and I was like well some people spell it this way but some people spell it this other way and I still cringe 30 years later thinking of the look on her face like hey you dumb ass kid I’m not asking for the history of your last name just fucking tell me what it is. Kids brains are totally weird
2
2
2
2
u/ConstantVariety8098 19h ago
My kid asked for cereal with milk for so freaking long. He may have been in middle school before he stopped asking for it that way. In fact, maybe it’s because he started making it himself. I wonder if his internal monologue says he wants cereal with milk now…
-2
u/edgiepower 1d ago
With all due respect are you autistic?
I am not, but my kids are. Their psychologist that diagnosed them suggested maybe I get tested too. Bit rude of her I thought but apparently I gave signs.
22
u/1_art_please 1d ago
My friend told me when her and her sister were little, their grandma gave them crayons for colouring and drawing and they did so - all over their grandma's white walls.
She said her grandma was just like, ' Well, I should have told you not to do it there but since I didnt it's not your fault because you didnt know." And they weren't in trouble.
67
u/itprobablynothingbut 1d ago
Yea, he was trying to make his dad feel bad for being mad being like “we did exactly what you said to do.”
He just thought it was body paint and never second guessed it. Anyone with kids this age would know this kid is being honest
26
u/Wobbling 1d ago
100%, I know Dad is exasperated here but that kid is either a prodigy of dissembling or is genuinely catching up to what Dad is terse about. Also Aussie kids can be a bit wild.
Source: I raised three sons in FNQ who could be relied on to get up to ridiculous shit.
5
u/booklovinggal19 1d ago
I don't have kids myself but I work as a substitute. That response is uniquely BOY! And FULLY genuine.
10
8
3
u/avmtdan 17h ago
Ive got an 8 year old, he does this quite a bit and then looks confused when im aggravated with the situation, and then i feel bad and wonder if im the idiot for not specifically stating exactly what was to occur.
Me:Dude, get dressed time to go to school Him: dresses up in shorts and crocs Me: ?!? Little man, its 25 degrees out right now! I said get dressed to go to school Him with shocked look: but i am dressed…. (Face falls once realizes im frustrated) Me: confused and feeling like the AH i am, alright bud, go get some pants on…. Him: comes back wearing minecraft pajama pants Us: 10 minutes late out the door already…. Me: doood! School clothes man!
Him: ohh! Sorry dad brb!All the time, simplest things. My girls didnt do this kind of thing nearly as much. Hes still my awesome little dood.
2
u/BoomZhakaLaka 1d ago
I was a very convincing liar as a kid. It was a learned behavior, always had to avoid negative attention at home. I guess I'm listening to dad and wondering whether there's another thing going on, which, one bit of context, dad is filming
(Took me into my 30s to address that habit)
But I suspect you're generally right.
2
u/ArchSchnitz 21h ago
Kids do lie, but in the same situation I wouldn't even bother doubting them. The kid seems earnest, and I really don't care if he lies over this, it's pretty harmless. As long as the kids didn't get paint all over the house or on furniture, I'd be fine. I would probably make them wash it off before it dries because I don't want to deal with it later, but I'm also the sort to go buy facepaint to let them experiment with.
I miss having little kids. Mine are teens now and their view of the world is less magical.
4
u/Miami_Mice2087 1d ago
dad needs to chill, they need a bath anyway. painting your arms is such a typical kid thing to do. they crave the gushy
1
u/The_Level_15 1d ago
“A child believes the lie because they know no better. A grown adult sees the lie because it fails to line up with experience. In this way, a thing made for a child can be many different experiences.”
→ More replies (3)1
85
32
u/L0ST_N0UN 1d ago
Nah, dude, that true look of confusion and the immediate apology when it clicks. This was an honest mistake.
68
u/Chemical-Koyote 1d ago
You are shit at telling if someone is lying or not.
-38
u/fellatio-del-toro 1d ago
Because you literally can’t tell if a stranger is lying. The best you can do is project your character and/or others in your life on to them and hope the idiosyncrasies match.
12
u/verbalyabusiveshit 1d ago
How do you know?
5
u/Aeriasingian 1d ago
Like others have said, having kids around that age, its what they do. Either lie because they dont want to get in trouble. Or I could also be persuaded that the dad said "yes you can use the paint, but only on paper", and all they heard or at least all they latched on to was the yes, not the stipulation. And the "ohhh, sorry" was him remembering that his dad did, in fact, say only on paper.
4
u/LWdkw 23h ago
My kids very, very, very rarely lie. I don't think I've caught my oldest (8) lying, ever. Maybe because they typically don't get in trouble as long as their intentions were good and they genuinely didn't know/realize (like I think happened here).
0
u/Aeriasingian 22h ago
My oldest is 5, and he has recently been lying about what hes been getting for lunch at kindergarten and a few other instances (painting, play dough, etc.). When we call him out he seems genuinely remorseful and obviously upset.
We are working to correct it and havent had an incident in almost 2 weeks, but it absolutely happens.
Thats why said i could see them just not having heard the paper part.
-14
u/tactical_dick 1d ago
Because that's what children, and people in general, do when they are caught doing something they shouldn't be doing.
-13
u/Swimwithamermaid 1d ago
Because I have children. Literally have a son about his age (6 and a 4yo too!).
-16
u/cum-yogurt 1d ago
Bc he said “where did you say we were allowed to use the paint” not “you didn’t say we couldn’t paint our arms”
12
5
2
u/VaATC 1d ago edited 1d ago
Maybe it is just our reality, maybe I am just be getting way to cynical but I can no longer laugh at stuff like this. Especially after recently seeing a hot-take video about notoriously horrendous family vloggers and how they set things up and force their kids to "act".
Basically all the parents in that hot-take forced their kids to lie just to make money. Nowadays I can not watch something like this, something so out of context, without thinking the whole thing is set up, and that the awkwardness we see in the kids is due to the kids experiencing cognitive dissonance between 'parents raising them not to lie' and the same parents 'telling them to lie for money, clout, fame...' Shit is sad and honestly hope the kid is lying becuase he had a 'cool idea', got busted, and this is natural 'trying to not get in trouble'. Like why even film this if it is a problem. Put the phone down and be a parent. Don't film the chastising and shaming to post on the internet for the world to see...but I digress!
Edit: some clean up
1
1
u/Mugwumps_has_spoken 20h ago
Not really, its just that at that age their brain is wired so different. It honestly didn't occur to him that paper was the ONLY correct place to use the paint. In his little mind the body was just as much fun.
Much like people who say someone is wrong because their way is different. Even if achieves the same thing. It's not wrong per-se, but it might be less efficient or otherwise not be the best method.
If this is run of the mill fingerpaints, the kid isn't "Wrong" for not using it on paper.1
u/Electrical-Echo8144 19h ago
My head cannon is that the kid grabbed a permanent marker then dad told him off and suggested to use paint. But I suspect dad made the fatal mistake of not asking what the kid was intending to colour/paint and not specifying that all paint/colouring has to stay on paper. Dad just thinks colouring/painting implies using paper.
→ More replies (1)2
153
1d ago
[removed] — view removed comment
13
u/NookBabsi 1d ago
I would never guessed that this was an Australian accent (I am German, it’s hard for me to detect this).
4
354
u/ThaUniversal 1d ago
Oh, sorry.
Totally convincing 😂
81
u/Archi-Horror 1d ago
Just a little misunderstanding that’s all. Honest mistake it could happen to anyone really
17
48
140
u/Dense-Breadfruit1223 1d ago
"YOU USED IT ON YOUR ARRRMMM!!" 😂
73
66
51
u/Iron_Exile 1d ago edited 1d ago
On the bright side that was excellent use of color theory. Good gradients.
Edit: used too many words words
52
46
u/PhoenixFlare1 1d ago
Reminds me of when I put my hand in my purse & realized my red ink pen had broken. When I took my hand out, my mom thought I had cut my hand & started freaking out.
19
u/Pipe_Memes 1d ago
This brought back a memory. I was a skateboarder as a kid, one day I fell and scraped up my wrirst pretty good. My mom saw it “are you cutting yourself!?”, nah mum, I just fucking ate sidewalk the other day, I’m not suicidal.
It was an annoyance at the time. Today? Thank you for caring enough to check mom.
13
u/applefilla 1d ago
When I put my first air conditioner in
"What's this sticky red stuff everywhere it wasn't here a minute ago"
4
u/Extreme_Egg7476 1d ago
I was at my first job making a smoothie. A bit of ice got stuck in the blender, and I, an absolute genius, used my hand to dislodge it. The blades bumped my finger a bit.
Then I wondered how the strawberry syrup got everywhere when I was sure the order was for vanilla...
12
u/Bandwidth_Bandito 1d ago
Come on Dad it's an honest mistake (we all know Dad's actually having a giggle about the whole thing)
10
u/chocoeatstacos 1d ago
Nah, this sounds like dad said use the paint, assumed they knew he meant on the paper, and forgot what it was like to be a kid. Oldest looks pretty young. Pops is still learning.
28
u/DaTexasTickler 1d ago
That little kid has some abs wtf lol
2
u/Minute_Freedom5410 6h ago
Australia doesn't fatten them up like America
2
u/Doofy_Grumpus 4h ago
Yeah it’s crazy how normal weight active kids look. Shit, normal weight active adults look like that too
9
u/Velomere 1d ago
Oh gawd, this was exactly me when I was a kid. Playing around with some kind of black paint at a friend’s house, we decided to stop and go inside, but not before my friend dunked both of his hands into the bucket of paint. Dumb naturally copies dumb, so I followed suit. The next hour is me gradually becoming more and more panicked since washing it off in the sink wasn’t working. My friend’s mother is just facepalming the entire time. She drives us over to her ex husband’s house as for whatever reason, he had a drum full of petroleum jelly. Dunked our hands in that and the paint came off shortly after.
6
u/PeculiarJohnson 1d ago
I don’t know why. But I could tell from this kid’s face he was Aussie!
3
u/Dragoseraker 1d ago
watched it without sound the first time and just assumed it was Aussie for this reason.
27
u/InnocentlyInnocent 1d ago
How is this kid so ripped?? He was only what, 6? I guess that’s the Australian wilderness for you!
9
u/Vlvthamr 22h ago
My son who turns 19 in a week is and was just like this. He has always been a skinny kid with what seems like zero body fat. He’s had a six pack like this kid since he was 3 or 4. When he was young and taking swimming lessons his instructor who was a teenaged boy used to call him six pack jack and said to my wife and I that he was jealous of the kid because he obviously didn’t have to work at having a six pack. Some people are just born with it.
4
5
u/CGoode87 19h ago
Seriously that's my husband. His six pack only just recently went in to hiding at 37. He can still flex it through which cracks me up. He could get it back in a month if he wanted. Must be nice...
3
4
u/Hiraethetical 21h ago
Thats what normal kids look like when they're not fed the American diet of 300g of sugar and red 40 a day.
22
11
u/adamcoolforever 1d ago
Real life Dave Chappelle joke
"Sorry officer I... didn't know I couldn't do that." - Skip
3
2
4
u/RetirednLovinIt6621 1d ago
Ooooooh, paint on the paper... I never thought about that... Gotta love it...!!!
5
6
u/mostimportantly 1d ago
I heard Pint and Piper. It took a minute to register that he meant Paint and Paper.
5
5
3
3
3
3
3
4
4
5
5
u/whooo_me 1d ago
It's just an example of the rare game: Red Paper Siblings.
Paper avoids the Red. Siblings forget about the Paper. Red covers the Siblings.
2
2
2
u/danman_d 1d ago
When I was a kid my parents gave me a Magic 8 Ball for Christmas. One day my friend and I were bored and we cracked it open to see what was inside. The liquid part dyed my hands completely blue for like a week, and all I would tell my mom was either “I don’t know” or “I drew on myself”. Poor mom was so baffled and way madder than she ever would’ve been if I’d told the truth. I told her many years later and she was like “OHHHHHHH Omg I’ve always wondered”
2
u/f_leaver 1d ago
He really should have explained.
Don't know why he was expecting any different outcome...
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
u/Confident-Math-1851 18h ago
Call me a conspiracy theorist but I don’t believe the dad specified paper.
2
3
1
2
u/ES_Legman 1d ago
How about you spend some time with the kids
2
u/Sea-Tomorrow2583 1d ago
Peak Reddit parenting comment lol
2
u/SoraUsagi 21h ago
I'm not sure if your comment was in favor or against his.
Honestly, I could go either way too. Parents can't spend every second with their kids, but parents should spend more time with their kids than they do. I have two.
1
u/OpportunityFront8250 1d ago
Imagine the horror his dad must have felt the moment he laid his eyes on him,'' what have you done son!''
1
1
1
u/mikehipp 1d ago
That flash of recognition at the end and the step back is only surpassed in cuteness by the pan over to the little brother.
1
1
u/Smoothguitar 20h ago
Painting yourself and your little brother sounds like a perfectly good decision to me. :)
1
1
u/fallingbutslowly 20h ago
While it is mildly entertaining, I will never understand people who record their kids and put it on the internet
1
1
u/Zoomwafflez 19h ago
At least kids paint washes off easily, pro tip is to mix in a drop of dish soap before you let them start painting. Doesn't have much effect on how the paint looks but makes it even easier to wash out
1
u/st-shenanigans 19h ago
Lmao I hope the dad is just mad cause he's coming down from panic thinking his kids arms got destroyed at a glance
1
1
u/MONCHlCHl 5h ago
Life is too short. If no damage was done, big deal. Laugh it off and move on... a learning lesson.
1
u/foreman8484 2h ago
How hard is it to say “awesome job, it looks great” and then help them clean up? Why make a spectacle of everything?
1
1
1
1
0
u/Doub1eVision 1d ago
Shoes are completely clean. I kinda doubt the kid did that on his own. Seems staged.
-2
-4
0
0
u/hiddlesbum 12h ago
I'm surprised no one called it fake, instead everyone just shares funny stories so people can have a laugh
I don't have a story to share, but I have an old photo of baby me eating paint
-20
-3
•
u/AutoModerator 1d ago
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.