No... It is: If you unbutton your belly button, your legs will fall off.
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If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off
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#32> This, along with the “lying still game” and many other “games” ensured hours of peace and quiet for adults trying to It’s funny how fathering is about using a thousand tricks to make kids go through life even when they don’t want. And another part is politeness rules teach kids to be convenient for the parents, for example “don’t play with food, there’s kids in Africa” was never about African kids and more about cl…
> I don’t know how to complain properly Oh I don't know, I think you're doing a fine job of it. All of those things you complain about not being able to do, you know that you can't do them. If you know you can't do them, and want to do them, then you can learn how. Alternatively, you can lay your issues at your parents feet and mope about how hard your life is as a millionaire.
If you know you can't do them, and want to do them, then you can learn how.
Some people learn how and just do it.
Other people learn how and just do it.
You can’t see a difference until you get in these “other” shoes and realize how much unreasonable, irrational, disorienting discomfort they give. But minds aren’t shoes so you can’t just try on that.
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#33This was just lovely :-)
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#34The belly button joke is very old and widespread, I believe my father was warned by his father.
The brother of an old friend got curious, went downstairs really early in the morning, found his dad's tools, and tried to unscrew his bottom. He poked around in his belly-button with a screw-driver until it started bleeding. This guy became one of the best car-mechanics later on in life.
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#35This got me in the feels regarding my father, who’s bbeen my rock through and through.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don’t know how to complain properly Oh I don't know, I think you're doing a fine job of it. All of those things you complain about not being able to do, you know that you can't do them. If you know you can't do them, and want to do them, then you can learn how. Alternatively, you can lay your issues at your parents feet and mope about how hard your life is as a millionaire.
If you know you can't do them, and want to do them, then you can learn how. Some people learn how and just do it. Other people learn how and just do it. You can’t see a difference until you get in these “other” shoes and realize how much unreasonable, irrational, disorienting discomfort they give. But minds aren’t shoes so you can’t just try on that.
Assuming they are otherwise physically and mentally capable, they can do it if they want to do it.
The hardest thing about life is not knowing.
Once you know that you don't know something, then you can try to know it.
I am talking as someone who spent a significant amount of my life thinking that I had to live and was consigned to living in one particular way, because I didn't know any other choice was open to me.
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#37> the ancient Lancastrian martial art of Ecky Thump
I thought Ecky Thoomp was from Yorkshire (via the Goodies).
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#38This reminds me of Patrick Rothfuss' The Wise Man's Fear... seems that his dad told him a similar story :-)
> “Once upon a time,” I began. “There was a little boy born in a little town. He was perfect, or so his mother thought. But one thing was different about him. He had a gold screw in his belly button. Just the head of it peeping out.
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#39The belly button joke is very old and widespread, I believe my father was warned by his father.
I can't recall the exact lines but Thomas Pynchon's V. has an interesting variation of this story.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
My parents told me that you get a hole in your belly if you eat gum. As a child I panicked once because I accidentally swallowed some gum, it's a mean thing to lie about :(
My parents told me something very similar about gum, and a whole lot of other weird things over the years. Is this a universal experience? I wonder if it's a helpful evolutionary trait, sort of like training your "mental immune system" the same way that your mother chewing your food and feeding it to you, germs and all, strengthens your actual immune system.
> Is this a universal experience?
What, being spun some BS by your parents?
My mother told me that picking my nose would result in my nose becoming like a cow's nose. She was right; my face is now indistinguishable from a cow's.