February 19, 2022

3 things on TikTok.

1. A woman's impressions of celebrites are done in a single word (or "word").

2. Testing whether a teenaged boy, disguised as a baby, will be served a free meal at IHOP, where kids eat free. 

3. A real baby, prompted to say a word that begins with "r," comes up with "rindow," and makes a compelling argument that his answer will do.

16 comments:

Ann Althouse said...

And yes, I know about uncut jams.

Freder Frederson said...

Shoney's had a policy where they did not ask for proof of age. I had a coworker (in his early 30`s at the time) who would ask for the senior discount. He got a lot of nasty stares, but they always gave it to him.

Ann Althouse said...

I hope those boys went back in and paid the $8+ they ripped off. I'm assuming they did. How can you put up the video otherwise?

In a time when cashiers don't intervene when shoplifting occurs openly, who would expect waiters to question people claiming to be children?

Temujin said...

I love when you post TikTok video links. I would not know how to forage through all of their stuff to find some good ones, nor would I probably give it the time to do so. So I appreciate you doing it because they are always either hilarious, or brilliant. Or both!

These were all great. The woman doing the celebrities is so talented. There is so much talent out there.
The guys at IHOP were pretty funny. "Chicken tennies?" To a baby. Hilarious.
The little guy sounded like my grandson, negotiating for his preferred method of doing something. Asking us to go along with it. Well, we could just do this thing, couldn't we?"

farmgirl said...

I kinda felt the deception of the two boys was uncalled for- I should just relax and know it was in good fun. I just don’t like fakery. Did they actually get away w/it? Are people so incurious to not notice what all’s in the rubber baby buggy bumper? Other than that- Temujin says it all:0)

farmgirl said...

Freder- did he do that often?

Ann Althouse said...

"I love when you post TikTok video links. I would not know how to forage through all of their stuff to find some good ones, nor would I probably give it the time to do so. So I appreciate you doing it because they are always either hilarious, or brilliant. Or both!"

Thanks for the encouragement. I could easily serve up 3 things this good every day.

I love to sit back and scroll through the videos, not sitting through anything that doesn't catch my attention. Just download the app and start scrolling. You don't even have to create an account. It will try to give you stuff you'll like and be surprisingly successful as you just watch what you enjoy and swipe up whatever you don't. If you do create an account, as I have, you can decide to follow people who especially appeal to you and then their things will come up fairly often in the mix that you're fed.

It's very pleasant. Much nicer than the old channel-surfing with TV, and much simpler than looking for something good on TV.

Ann Althouse said...

You learn something about yourself as you see whether you stop and watch blackheads getting extracted or a lady putting on facial-contouring makeup or people tearing up linoleum in an old house or someone having a gentle conversation with a person with Alzheimer's disease.

farmgirl said...

And they’re quick- like flipping through the pages of a pleasant magazine and noting all the things that would be enjoyable to have. I’m lucky, I can be sated just w/a glance, w/out the pull of a purchase.

Kylos said...

My three year old daughter would skip 13 when counting to 20. It sounds almost exactly like 14 when you pronounce ‘th’ as an f. Why would you repeat the same number? She stopped skipping it when we told her she could say ‘freeteen’ instead.

Saint Croix said...

how about we just say that

ha ha ha ha

CNN just offered him a contract

Freeman Hunt said...

Ha! Love the kid.

John henry said...

I've never figured out tiktok. I can make it show videos, just not videos I like. I probably could figure it out but then it would probably become another enjoyable time sink. I already gave too many.

I really like and appreciate the ones you share. Thank you.

I'm with the kid. R is for rindow. He is getting it right. The problem as I see it is that he doesn't understand the pronunciation of window as a word. He definitely understands the R sound.

Definitely cute. And special thanks.

There was a clip of a 3-4y/o kid pronouncing different multisyllable words. Doing reasonably well until his mother ask him to say "Saskatchewan" he say some other word, mother asks again, same thing.

Finaly the kid says "I can say Saskatchewan, I just don't want to."

Can't find the clip just now.

John LGBTQBNY Henry

Andrew said...

You are my only source of TikTok videos, other than my kids. Please keep doing this. You seem to find the cream of the crop. I often send my kids your selections, in return for whatever they send me.

Curious George said...

Finaly the kid says "I can say Saskatchewan, I just don't want to."

Can't find the clip just now.

John LGBTQBNY Henry

First google hit
for "I can say Saskatchewan, I just don't want to."

John henry said...

Thanks George. I searched the phrase using duck duck go. I avoid Google as much as possible.

First hit was the same baby with her father and something about cheerleaders along the same lines. Cute but I didn't realize it was the same baby. I gave up too easily.

That is the clip I remembered. Thanks for the link.

John LGBTQBNY Henry