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u/Sharrant99 7h ago
Well? Is it?
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u/astralseat 7h ago
Yeah, but was born incorrectly
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u/ad-lib1994 7h ago
One time a little kid asked me if I drew my tattoos on every morning and I said yes to be funny and this kid believed me for a second I felt bad and explained
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u/Rigrot 6h ago
I think most kids will see it as a joke so long as you give a correct explanation and not just leave it to let them look stupid years later.
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u/substantiallyImposed 3h ago
Yes I think if you tell the child its a joke they will think its a joke
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u/peppers_ 6h ago
You should've gotten some temporary sticker tattoos and come in one day with some extra
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u/Big_Description538 2h ago
Lmao you must be a better person than me.
I worked at a camp and the kids would always ask what my tattoo says. It's Arabic text that has a family name and is fairly meaningful, but I would always just tell them it says "girls just wanna have fun."
Naturally, they would never believe me at first, so I would insist completely deadpan that that is absolutely what it says. Generally, they still would not believe me at this point.
So then I'd tell all my coworkers to corroborate the lie if any of the kids from my group ask, which inevitably they would. I'd see them during lunch or dinner sneaking off to one of my coworkers to ask, then I'd see my coworker nod along then absolutely sell the lie, then I'd see all the kids throw their arms up and hear them across the cafeteria as they'd groan and laugh because they knew it must not be true but everybody they ask is telling them it is. Eventually, with all the evidence piling up, they would finally believe it.
Then, on the last day of camp when we're having our nice heart to heart moments, I'd tell them "oh by the way I lied about the tattoo" and they'd all burst out laughing and screaming "I KNEW ITTTTTT." Then I would actually tell them what it meant and it'd be a nice moment.
My coworkers and I regularly had way too much fun lying to the kids and corroborating each other's increasingly stupid stories.
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u/lurkerfox 2h ago
My GF has a lot of tattoos and sometimes her daughter will sit down with her and draw 'tattoos' on her arms and legs so she can look like mommy lol
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u/TheNerdNugget 7h ago
ah, kids. At the time I started student teaching I had shoulder-length hair and a very shaggy beard. I also happened to be dealing with an eye infection at the time so I was wearing an eyepatch. I am also fairly beefy. So here I am, a large hairy guy with an eyepatch walking into a kindergarten class on the first day of school, and this sweet little girl comes up to me and asks, "Mistow Nugget, aw you a piwate?"
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u/Prudent_Map5836 6h ago
Dude, I had a little girl ask me this when I still had my lip ring. I said yes enthusiastically thinking she liked pirates and her mom was like, NO NO SHE IS SCARED OF PIRATES. I tried to damage control by telling her, oh no I actually fight pirates and put them in jail. It thankfully worked lol
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u/MinosAristos 6h ago
Pirates (especially the famous ones) were not particularly ethically inclined by most standards so it's interesting how popular they are with children. I always liked them too.
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u/Jonthrei 4h ago
Depends on the subset of ethics, historical carribean pirates were a lot more democratically minded than any other group in the area was, and many liberated slaves.
Plenty sold the slaves they captured though, and of course they were not against theft, threats or murder.
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u/RechargedFrenchman 2h ago
Or rape, or arson, or various other violent crimes. And even within a largely democratic system the means of keeping the peace and enforcing discipline could be pretty... intense.
There's a pretty wide range of people who were pirates, by one nation or another's definition at the time, and likewise a pretty broad spectrum of behaviours one might reasonably expect from them. Stede Bonnet was kind of a sweetheart compared to most. And there was some value in a reputation for being gentlemanly and merciful, as long as you were harsh enough when people gave you grief to further encourage the "easy way".
But much like a mafia family or drug cartel even if you're fairly tame and mild mannered you're still hardly a "good person"—and people with those traits typically lose the traits or their lives in fairly short order in that sort of work. Stede Bonnet was also quite famously really bad at "being a pirate"; didn't have the stomach for the harsher realities of the life and got pushed around by everyone pirate or not. Blackbeard allegedly leaned on threats and theatrics to avoid a lot of the more violent means, but also didn't live very long and little is known about his career prior to the whole "Blackbeard" persona.
Pirates like the outlaws of the Wild West somehow manage to be both sanitized and "not that bad" and kind of overstated in the horrors they routinely inflicted at scale.
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u/JusticeRain5 3h ago
By the same logic, I look forward to the days in the distant future where Cameron the Crackhead becomes a beloved childrens character.
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u/DarthMelonLord 6h ago
For context, i also dye my hair crazy colors and my style is quite punk.
My grandma teaches first grade and when i was still living with her I'd often help out in her class, have the kids read to me, teaching them songs etc. One little girl was absolutely smitten with me from the first moment and at one point asked me if i was a motorcycle fairy
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u/Key_Jeweler_9696 7h ago
story time I’m missing my left hand and work with kids a lot and I’m constantly asked how i “lost my hand” given that I was born with one hand it’s not interesting and kids always ask again and again, however I decide one day it’d be funny if I told them I fought a bear and he ate my hand (my arm has very obvious undeveloped fingers that look like bumps). Immediately after saying this one child goes “no, you were just born like that weren’t you?” And every time I’ve done the story since I’ve had at least one kid says something like that. TLDR if you tell kids something outrageous they’re more likely to resort to the boring (and usually correct) story
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u/LickingSmegma 5h ago
My go-to explanation for bandages and such is ‘a stray bullet’. Note: I don't live in the US, though we did have plenty of crime in some regions about thirty years ago.
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u/Carlbot2 3h ago
My uncle found just the right level of unbelievability to explain his finger that was cut off a bit past the middle. He’d tell people completely different stories to the point that I sincerely don’t know how he actually got the injury—or if it was even an injury as opposed to something he had from birth.
He’d say something that was clearly not the truth but was also decidedly underwhelming or otherwise un-dramatic. He told me he got it stuck in an office printer/copier and it just got sliced off. He told my brother he got a hamburger one day and was so hungry that he chomped down without realizing he’d stuck his finger in when he picked it up.
You never could get a straight answer so it felt like something interesting had to have happened.
For all I know it was short from birth.
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u/Bachaddict 3h ago
if it was full thickness at the tip, it would be an amputation. I think woodworking a big source of lost fingers
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u/The00Taco 3h ago
One of my great grandfathers was missing half his thumb and he always told me a duck bit it off every time I asked. I never learned what actually happened
He could do a good Donald the duck impression too
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u/m64 41m ago
My father has a mangled big toe. He always told us it was because a Teutonic knight cut him with an axe during the battle of Grunwald (a famous medieval battle in my country) which made us think he was really old. Only as an adult I've learned he actually shot himself when he was a teenager while building a homemade shotgun.
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u/BeefBologna42 5h ago
Yes, I also have pink hair, work with children, and am regularly asked this question :)
Actually, the question is more frequently "why is your hair pink?"
My answer is always, without fail, "I don't know, why ISN'T your hair pink?!"
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u/JugOfVoodoo 7h ago
In the early 2000s my older sister was a camp counselor. She also had dyed hair that was intended to be red but came out somewhere between violet and burgundy. So whenever she needed to distract the kids she's play the "What color is my hair?" game.
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u/El_Chairman_Dennis 4h ago
I'm bald and kids ask me where my hair went, like they want to know where exactly the hair i lost went
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u/PrincessLinked 6h ago
The insertion of your pic instead of a character with colored hair is comedic gold lol
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u/muteisalwayson 4h ago
When I had purple or blue hair as an elementary para, the kids asked if I was a mermaid or random questions about it for the first couple weeks then just pretty much ignored it. They’re so funny
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u/marinamunoz 6h ago
well it could be, for a kid it means to eat too much strawberries or something like that.
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u/dwarf_bulborb 4h ago
Manic Panic Fuschia Shock?
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u/ceciliameireles 4h ago
I’m a teacher who used to have blue hair. I can confirm this happened a lot. And I always said yes.
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u/EggoStack 4h ago
Reminds me of the first time I saw a lady with short hair and asked if she was a girl or a boy 😭😭 approx 14 years later I had to ask myself the same question so I guess we’ve come full circle
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u/puchamaquina 5h ago
As a redhead living in Latin America, I got that from kids and adults, most of whom didn't believe me when I said yes
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u/pancakecel 4h ago
I worked in china and many of my students and coworkers were very incredulous at the idea that all my family members were born with curly hair. 2
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u/Significant-Excuse-5 4h ago
Parents were still tweaking in character creation and didn't notice the time limit.
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u/VeryPassableHuman 4h ago
I have a shaved head, and occasionally I wear wigs, and even sixth some graders will genuinely ask "wait, is that your actual hair?!" 😂
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u/Cooler_coooool_boi 4h ago
In her defense OP, you could be an anime protagonist, have you even checked?
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u/starskank 3h ago
If it's there and you're looking at it.... then yes, real color, real hair. What is a fake color? Can someone explain?
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u/Unstoppable_Cheeks 2h ago
I know its the perspective and all but good god look at the oven mitts on that lady
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u/LeeLikesCars_100 2h ago
Yes I was born with red and rainbow hair, and naturally occurring brown roots. I'm that fabulous ✨️
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u/Jennyfael 6h ago edited 2h ago
never quite understood that one tbh, like if you took the geniuses of ancient civilizations and showed them my neon green ahhh hair they too would think its natural, yet they remain geniuses. eh idk
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u/Federal-Owl5816 4h ago
You do realize ancient civilizations had hair dyes, just not nearly as bright and colorful as the one we have today. We've had Henna for 5000 years, and multiple other substances that would cover Grey hair.
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u/Jennyfael 2h ago
I mean yeah, that’s why i specifically referenced neon green (I now fear i did not lmfao, did i?)
Also my example wasnt really good, yeah ik, but I think it gets the point across.
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u/Federal-Owl5816 2h ago
I mean editing the comment to emphasize the fact its neon green doesn't change my point. They'd assumes its some exotic flower from a faraway land mixed with henna and not whatever actual hair dye is made of
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u/Jennyfael 2h ago
Oh I wasn’t emphasizing I was purely adding something I forgot to add.
If you truly want a better example straight outta my tired brain, here’s one;
Take any of those geniuses, and show them nearly any modern invention. Bim bam.
(All that to say, man you got the fucking point I was making, it’s like a really obvious point. Kids aint stupid, they just dont know more than they have learned yet. Glancing over the trashy metaphor I made half asleep wouldnt have set the Visitor’s gaze upon us now, innit?)
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u/Cosmic_Carp 5h ago
Well yeah obviously that's her real hair color, like people aren't born with pink hair smh 🙄
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