#848

Oh god, I feel your pain

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#849

M is obsessed with Thriller. She can do almost all the dance (really well). I’ve tried to say that maybe we shouldn’t listen to it because [vague references to him “not being very nice”] but she says she loves him more than anyone in the world.

:woman_shrugging:t2: going to very uncomfortably let it slide for now

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#850

“A thread to find out about what the kids of DiSers are into at the minute”

Honestly it’s impossible to say…

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#851

We watched Soul with R and now she’s fascinated by jazz.

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#852

What are these things? I keep seeing street vendors selling them here

#853

She calls them poppets or maybe poppers. There’s a particular brand called Simple Dimple.

Basically just a silicone rubber set of indentations that you pop inside out (silent) then press light on the other side to make an audible ‘pop’ as they flip back.

They’re a form of fidget toy.

#854

5 year old is mad into Rugrats at the minute. There are a couple of episodes that somehow I was able to quote along with that surprised me as much as it did her. I must have watched a LOT of Rugrats when I was a kid

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#855

We’ve been watching it lately too, mainly for my own enjoyment. Didn’t remember how trippy some of it was. And I forgot that I had a crush on Tommy’s dad, and apparently still do.

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#856

He’s so relatable.

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#857

Just realised my brain parsed Rugrats as Muppet Babies for some reason.

#858

Also recently got a couple of these popper jobbers. Two square ones, one just like that rainbow one, and one that’s glittery pink. They’re a reasonably good fun distraction for a few minutes.

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#859

Another pop-it/fidgetcube obsessed kid over here. I’m kind of fascinated that we have a generation that is so sensory seeking. There’s a PhD in that somewhere.

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#860

tik tak is actually the best thing on tv isn’t it. surrealist, wholesome, brilliantly creative, i fucking love it. it’s like watching the inside of my own head

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#861

I do like it a lot. Definitely a favourite. Enjoyably different to do much of the generic stuff that gets churned out. But. I kinda feel like it’s in a bit of an uncanny valley. It’s obviously a newly made programme that unashamedly takes cues from much older kids TV (after looking out up a while back, it turns out it’s actually a remake/reboot of a Belgian programme from the 80s). And that creates a tension of sorts. This is pretty much all on me, though, and the kiddoes really dig it.

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#862

hate those popit things. Always have a pile of them on my desk by breaktime, irritating noise, plastic that will never decompose, too big to be used as a fidget, constant one up man ship with them in terms of colours and sizing.

sorry, grumpy :smiley:

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#863

Beat me to it.

They’re too loud which is my main beef

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#864

I resisted posting about my plastic anxiety so I’m glad you said it

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#865

I swap them for bits of blutac for the kids that need a fiddle toy

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#866

I quite like the cube things.
Lots of mine are into those squishy ball things that are like the biggest germ magnets imaginable.

#867

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I’ve definitely shared this before but we dressed The Child as MJ for Halloween one year.

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