My kid amazes me sometimes

Feb 28, 2016 12:00 PM

GrumpyScotsman

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I was wonder why she was so quiet in her room, upon investigation I found she decided to make the earth using Play-Doh and a marble.

Twist: OP is 82 and kid is 61

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You killed that Bulbasaur!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's cooler than anything I could make with playdoh today and I'm almost 30

10 years ago | Likes 145 Dislikes 3

though, everyone knows the world is flat not a ball

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Don't give up, just keep trying, you'll get there.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's the secret, ops kid is 30

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

you want a geologist? because thats how you get geologists.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

1/10 crust and mantle thicknesses are totally not representative.

10 years ago | Likes 123 Dislikes 5

This deserves more upvotes!

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Continent layouts look wrong too. Honestly, was she even trying?

10 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

and I'm pretty sure the land isn't floating on water, or that at the center of the earth there is a marble... kids can be so dumb

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

When kids are quiet, you worry...

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

When I was a kid my parents found me tying my Barbies up & watching documentaries on serial killers cause i wanted to know how they did it

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The fact that the kid is quiet needs investigation is a funny aspect of parenthood. ;)

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You will NEVER know fear like a parent knows when they realise the child is Up To Something.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

(Knock on 6-year-old daughter's bedroom door) Honey? What are you doing in there? (Daughter) Nothing bad. Don't come in.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

heart rate +100bpm

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Drawing pictures to give us as a surprise. Heart rate--back to normal.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Her intelligence is Terrifying

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Terrafrying

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

perfect

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I used to trick my parents into thinking I was making an earth using Play-Doh and a marble but really I was gambling online.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Plot twist: dad is disappointed because he believes in a flat earth.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Yeah well my kid eats buggers!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hahahaha! But I think ya mean boogers. :)

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's wrong the Earth is flat

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be rude, but why is it so special? She saw it somewhere and try to make it herself... Isn't that what kids do?

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 4

I agree with you

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

I've met some really stupid kids that don't do anything so I mean id say OP should be fairly proud.

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 4

She was way off http://imgur.com/iExk4Oq

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

That's an everlasting gobstopper!

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My kid made an 8 foot dragon 1 time while I was watching football. She used all of the tape and cardboard in the house. She was about 6.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

THAT is worth posting! Im kinda meh about the earth marble, but 8ft dragon sounds worth it regardless of who made it!

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

She's 22 now and I have no pics. At the time I didn't think to take them and it was long before smartphones.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That coulda made the most epic picture retake too! The original then her now making a new one omg <3

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

She still does stuff all the time. We've become pretty blase about it. She's a great kid!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I thought it was lychee with some playdoh all over it @_@

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Your kid is going places. Prepare to pay for MIT.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The MIT OpenCourseware lets you test-drive their school for free, which is convenient for AP classes these days.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Plot twist, kid is 37

10 years ago | Likes 1030 Dislikes 6

EXACTLY what I was thinking as well +1

10 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

I'm 37. I'm not old.

10 years ago | Likes 67 Dislikes 10

37 points for the 37 year old.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I had to downvote you to set it to 37, I'm sry

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's Baby Buster !

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hey, LSD is one hell of a drug

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Are we in Sweden?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

has a PhD

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And named OP.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Really thought it was a jawbreaker for a second...

10 years ago | Likes 2023 Dislikes 4

Same here.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well, technically...

10 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 1

Fun fact: in France, we call them mammuth balls.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Indeed!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There are two kinds of people...

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You got jawbreakers Ed-boy?

10 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Anything is a jaw breaker if you try hard enough

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It was a jaw dropper instead

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Somethin somethin if you're brave enough.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It is if you're brave enough..

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The oddest looking avocado.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought this was a bath bomb for some reason

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought it was a horrible mouldy peach...

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought it was a really crazy GMO peach and science had gone too far.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Witch also would have been impessive

10 years ago | Likes 161 Dislikes 0

Which witch is which?

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

their*

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

WE FOUND A WITCH! MAY WE BURN HER?!

10 years ago | Likes 80 Dislikes 0

SHE TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

A newt?!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I got better...

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Only if she weighs the same as a duck!

10 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

We shall use my finest scale

10 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

That's a fair cop.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Witches are very impressive

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Which*

10 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 2

I've always messed that one up

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Which witch is which?

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I thought it was an everlasting gobstopper

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought it was a shiny Cloyster.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought it was a pearl

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Try biting on it and see how your jaw feels.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Just fine.. it's soft clay

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Except for the marble in the middle

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

i once took a bite out of what i thought was a little cheeseburger. it was play-doh.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

how old is your kid?

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Young. Sorry i dont mind saying stuff about myself, not her though. lets just say its not double digits.

10 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 6

You have a 100 years old kid?!

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

fair enough- get the privacy thing- very artistic and creative, as well as a smart science kid too- good parenting -

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

I'm glad you answered though. I was trying to figure out how impressed to be. If this was a 16 year old meh. 6 year old well holy crap!!

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Give her a big puzzle todo! She might a super genius. If so, can you change her name to "Wil.e coyote, super genius"

10 years ago | Likes 85 Dislikes 8

Or she could be autistic... like really good at painting and drawing.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 6

and sell her to a circus.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Actually i was mostly amazed because i normally describe her as "My favourite Idiot"

10 years ago | Likes 56 Dislikes 4

Shhhhh don't upset the chosen one. Quickly, go forth and train her to embrace her superpowers!

10 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

How old is she, if you don't mind me asking?

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

have you not told her the earth is flat? poor deluded child believes what she reads in books.

10 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 2

when i was her age, i was sticking marbles up my nose, to see what would happen.

10 years ago | Likes 1127 Dislikes 12

I buried marbles. Now my marbles are in someone else's yard.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Found the scientist!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If Anamesolongnoonecouldhavepossiblychosenit is right, then you were 37 when you did that.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Record the results, and you performed science.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well. At least she knows that the earth is not flat.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was the kid who'd watch because I knew it would be bad, but I wanted to see how bad.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What age is she?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Science

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Did you die?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Rocks.. in my ears.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I made Lego/Meccano guns and a Titanic that would intake water then eventually split.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I ate paper towels as swallowed coins and marbles when I was her age

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well I was sticking them up my ass.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

for all you know she could be 35. when i was her age i was storming the beaches at normandy

10 years ago | Likes 46 Dislikes 0

I'm storming the beaches at Ft. Lauderdale as we speak. Haven't actually found the "fort" part yet, but I'll storm that too!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

For all you know, dboyd might be sticking marbles up their nose at 35.. Just saying :)

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

i would hope so, can you imagine people suddenly saying, well that's the last marble i will stick up my nose, i am just too old now....

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

most people who stormed the beaches at normandy were 18. what are you doing right now?

10 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 1

"Must be 18 or older to storm beaches". No fun!!!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm reading right now that the average age was 26 for an american soldier in ww2, but that doesn't mean you're wrong.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

could be that most of them were 18, a few were a bit older, and a small handful were quite old, such as the brass

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

i am storming the beaches of user sub, come at me bro

10 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1

you are the hero we need

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

i know, i wear a cape and everything!

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

i think i am glad she has chosen this option instead.

10 years ago | Likes 393 Dislikes 1

I'd be more concerned that the commenter knows wha age your kid is

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Few Imgurians seem to realize the new mobile app allows you to watch their fellow commenters 24/7.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Do we have a little explorer on our hands? :)

10 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

Obviously not, the marbles are in the play dough and not up the nose. I used to go spelunking when I was young.

10 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1

Sounds like you lost your virginity early on

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Uhh, yeah. Psssh, yeah virginity, heh, who has time for that? Y_Y

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

And eating the play-doh don't forget that!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

what do u stick up there now

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Kids these days and their creativity, back in my day we had to sit around and feel sorry for ourselves for wasting our parents money.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

She already saw what happened with a marble, now she is seeing what happens when you shove the whole world up your nose. She was interrupted

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Mine was red hots.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It was Lite Brite pieces for me. Pointy side facing down.....that was a fun trip to the ER.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've seen the results of this in the first Total Recall.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Carpet thread up mine

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Now what did we learn?" .. *plugged nostrils voice* "Don't stick marbles up your nose."

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I swallowed a marble once

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Same! And then it came out all dark!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I didn't find mine.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

But her age is not told in the post?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well... What did happen?

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

i was left a few marbles short of a game.

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Huh... I always got headaches. Found crayons to be a bit more enjoyable.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Don't put marbles in your nose, put them in there, do not put them in there.

10 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

Heeee Is Franz Kafka!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

YAY! (And for anyone wondering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpz67hBIJwg)

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yay, Home Movies! This needs more points.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

How the fuck did you fit marbles up your nostrils

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Marbles come in different sizes guys.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

i am a negro you racist pig. triggered now

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Saw that one coming, lol..........

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm white, not jewish and could easily fit a marble up my nose

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Italian?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How do you know how old she is?

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

i have a white van

10 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

...DAMN DANIEL!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Where are you? I need some candy

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

IS IT SPOOKY POWERS OR A WHITE VAN!?!?! WHICH IS IT DBOYD?!?!?!

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

you can have both

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He... He just told you

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There's another reply to someone else where he said spooky powers. It was a joke.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1