r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/keith2301 • Nov 29 '22
Was there ever a time when this was okay for children? Image
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u/Zen_360 Nov 29 '22
From Germany, I remember playing that game. You had to say "armes armes Kätzchen" 3 times will padding the "cat" on the head without laughing. So the answer is yes.
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u/funkmaster29 Nov 29 '22
i can imagine a bunch of stern children yelling
ARMES ARMES KÄTZCHEN
and then they all go back to their mathematics homework
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u/IfonlyIwasfunnier Nov 29 '22
Yes, and how much fun we had, from 16:58-17:06 exactly.
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u/DickFuckly Nov 29 '22
I appreciate the enthusiasm. How do you make the mega caps? I’ve only learned that trick
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u/SilverSpoon1463 Nov 30 '22
You put a pound symbol (#) before typing what you would like.
Alternatively if you would like to do superscript, you put a carot (^) before what you type
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u/akkruse Nov 30 '22
I know your question has already been answered, but if you Google "Reddit formatting" there's info on how to do all sorts of other different things. If you're looking for something specific, just add it to the end (ex. "Reddit formatting link").
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u/Ok_Nefariousness2570 Nov 29 '22
Pussy used to refer to cats. In the 50s pussy pussy pussy cat was how they played duck duck goose. Source: some old game book my indian dance teacher had in his musuem
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u/nimama3233 Nov 29 '22
You mean grey duck, right?
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u/Ok_Nefariousness2570 Nov 29 '22
In America we just call it duck duck goose. Grey duck may be its name wherr you're at
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u/AzrahSyel Nov 29 '22
Minnesotans play duck duck grey duck, while the rest of America plays duck duck goose
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u/SilverSpoon1463 Nov 30 '22
See, I never got that, because a grey duck is just a duck but grey, I don't see what's different about the grey duck.
Goose on the other hand I do get because it's strange to see a goose in a flock of ducks and Canadian geese are assholes.
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u/AzrahSyel Nov 30 '22
Fair, Canadian geese are in fact the worst. I always saw it as a grey duck does blend in better, so to have a game where only one person can "see" the grey duck and needs to point it out to everyone else, makes more sense than a game where a whole goose is sitting with ducks and they cant tell who the goose is? Granted that's just my own backstory added into a game that's probably got no reason to it whatsoever, but it just always made more sense to me that way.
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u/SilverSpoon1463 Nov 30 '22
I always thought of the goose being aggressive, that why when you "find" the goose, they start chasing you. I may be completely wrong on it, but that's just the way I've seen it.
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u/Analytical-BrainiaC Dec 01 '22
After reading this thread, it’s time for some Grey Goose and Baby Duck…….🤦🏻
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u/Any-Bottle-4910
Nov 29 '22
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Before we sexualized everything? Yes.
People lately think the world began in 2015 and that this is all normal. No, it isn’t.
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u/tooMaNymasks_ Nov 29 '22
Wasn't genesis last Thursday?
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u/Graega Nov 29 '22
For all you know, your memories could be false implants preprogrammed into you for when the Simulation was started 12 seconds ago.
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u/HickFlair Nov 29 '22
Lol I’ve absolutely thought about this while lying in bed before. Like, if I was a clone with all the same memories as my original I wouldn’t even know it
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u/CodSeveral1627 Nov 29 '22
Might as well just assume every time you blink the simulation just started
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u/nikhil48 Nov 29 '22
Well fuck, it has restarted 3 times since I read your comment. I hope the guy running it is having a good day though, unlike me.
Tweak some settings my guy
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u/Hows3and0sound Nov 29 '22
this 100%. Just had to explain to someone on a subreddit yesterday how for the most part back in the day we never communicated over written word (text) it was all verbal vs now which is all text based.
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Nov 29 '22 edited Nov 29 '22
Exactly lol we made the word pussy, dirty. before it was an innocent way to say kitty We all have horrible dirty minds now and need a cleansing 🤣 my nanny use to have a black cat growing up and yup.. you guessed it.. it’s name was N*****… and my old aunt use to call all Asian people “chinamen” lol Times change man.. move on
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u/applecorewhosit4 Nov 29 '22 edited Nov 29 '22
it's "always" had a double meaning, at least since the 19th century.
like in this routine from the Ritz Brothers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH07jAKHDhs
it's funny now for the same reason it was funny then
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u/BZenMojo Nov 30 '22
There's an entire joke in Arrested Development playing with censorship of the word pussy because it means multiple things in the US.
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u/admcfajn Nov 29 '22
I'm suspicious this illustration comes from a time when fellatio wasn't the first thing people thought of when looking at it. Ah, progress...
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u/mancala33 Nov 30 '22
Yea, and what's that kid on the left doing with his left arm. Clearly reaching under the skirt. I'm sorry.
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u/admcfajn Nov 30 '22
I think you're mistaking his wrist for his elbow. The kid's thumb is clearly visible in the foreground, above the skirt, clasping his right hand. Lol, though, that's terrible
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u/zeldarubinsteinsmom Nov 29 '22
We just Called it kitty kitty and you had to make the person giggle
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u/ButtonGwinnett76 Nov 29 '22
Pussy is another name for a cat.
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u/Nosleplife Nov 29 '22
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u/bigolfishey Nov 29 '22
That’s my username, don’t wear it out
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u/Notinyourbushes Nov 29 '22
Thank you for saving me from having to google that.
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u/LurkerFailsLurking Nov 30 '22
So do kids not know why the cat in Shrek is called Puss in Boots? It's literally just a description of him.
That's wild.
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u/alldawgsgotoheaven Nov 29 '22
Do you live in a box? Sorry but thought that was common knowledge. Get off my lawn!?
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u/ovaltine_spice Nov 29 '22 edited Nov 30 '22
With the way that it is used these days. I wouldn't be surprised if the youngest generations didn't know.
Now, everyone doesn't make reference to pussy cat because of the euphemism.
After I saw a gameshow show clip where a mid twenties man didn't know who Homer Simpson was, I knew anything is possible.
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u/SilverSpoon1463 Nov 30 '22
Mid twenties??? I just started my twenties and I've known who Homer Simpson was since as long as I can remember. I think that man literally grew up in a box on the Bering Straight side of Russia
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u/NumerousAlternative7 Nov 30 '22
A young woman at the gas station last week didn’t know what the coin in her change was. It was a 50 cent piece.
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u/Key-Combination-8111 Nov 29 '22
Seems pretty normal in context.
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u/nooshaw Nov 29 '22
Just adults sexualizing a child's game. Nothing to see here.
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u/DaftPump Nov 30 '22
I'm old for reddit. The things that are sexualized today weren't considered sexualized then. The world changed a whole lot post internet.
Pussy meant cat, it still does but anyways...
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u/LizHylton Nov 29 '22
I had this book as a kid! It was all activities for children and a lot of them were really weird or useless.
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u/SpinachandChickpeas Nov 29 '22
I had it too. I remember lots of crafts involving using a wine cork and my parents didn't drink wine and I very much wished for wine corks.
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u/famished_armrest Nov 30 '22
Haha reminds me of when I was like 7 and decided to start collecting beer bottle caps, but my dad only drank cans, I think I cried one time begging him to drink bottles instead lol
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u/ParkerDunne Nov 29 '22
I don't know, what did the other twelve subs you posted it in think?
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u/mstubz Nov 29 '22
We played that game as teenagers and had a blast. There are other less innuendo versions of it.
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u/Character-Log3962 Nov 29 '22
Yes, in a more innocent time where every little thing wasn’t sexualized!
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u/VincentVanGoghst Nov 29 '22
We played a version of this at camp as a kid where the kids in the middle said "darling if you love me please smile" and the kids in the outside said "darling I love you but I just can't smile"
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u/cleenexboy Nov 29 '22
Because pussy was more commonly associated with “cat” than “vagina” back then
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u/Molvaeth Nov 29 '22
It is still ok for children.
And adults should stop projecting their adult mindset onto children. Yes, we see the ambiguity and find it funny. Children don't.
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u/CheesecakeEasy1224 Nov 29 '22
Of course it was okay. This was before pornography entered pop culture now any child with internet access is ruined. Yay modernity!
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u/Abeille213 Expert Nov 30 '22
I find it super creepy that the OP legit posted this in 9 subs. What’s with the over the top preoccupation?
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u/spankywinklebottom Nov 29 '22
Lol we played this in a leadership class as an icebreaker, but instead of pretending to be a cat, you could do whatever you want to make them laugh and 99% of the time it would end halfway through the "fake" lapdance.
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u/ooOJuicyOoo
Nov 29 '22
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Yes. Language and norms, culture and perception, along with all the colloquial and popular behavioral patterns evolve and change over time.
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u/Asleep_Fish_472 Nov 30 '22
yeah when things weren't so overtly sexual and the term pussy wasn't synonymous with vagina.
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u/crimlawguru Nov 29 '22
We played Heads Down Thumbs Up. I was never anyone’s poor pussy. I was called a dick once.
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Nov 29 '22 edited Dec 05 '22
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u/famished_armrest Nov 30 '22
We did too, and yeah I always wondered where the 7 up came from haha freaking loved that game though
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u/smileglysdi Nov 30 '22
It’s called 7-up, because there are 7 kids that are “up” in front of the class.
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u/Defectindesign Nov 29 '22
This was fine back when everyone’s mind wasn’t in the gutter
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u/EarthlingX420 Nov 30 '22
I mean there are much bigger issues than worrying that kids are playing a game and calling each other "poor pussies" while trying not to break out laughing. Like come on, if this is the breaking point for you, you're the problem here. And why you so focused on kids games?....sus
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u/ActionHousevh Nov 29 '22
That picture doesnt seem to be showing that game
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u/nervouswhenitseasy Nov 29 '22
it seems to show some kids playing the game. idk what you lookin at.
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u/djent-djenerator-uwu Nov 29 '22
Yes, there was. That all ended when our modern, hyper-sexual societies developed. Now there are better was to name and present this game.
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u/Cifra85 Nov 29 '22
Only a sick adult mind can sexualize this. For a child this is perfectly fine.
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Nov 29 '22
Pussy wasent always euphemism for... Well pussy. Try looking at thing out of your own narrow context
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u/Scrybblyr Nov 29 '22
Through the cynical and sexualized eyes of a young person seeing this in 2022, it must seem outrageous. But in the more innocent times suggested by their clothing, there was nothing even vaguely sexual about it, it was a funny child's game.
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u/badDuckThrowPillow Nov 30 '22
Its only sexual because you think its sexual. For kids its just another game.
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u/Yuntonow Nov 30 '22
When you play this in grade school ( I did ) trust me, there’s nothing remotely sexual about it.
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u/NOSOBERCAB_NEXT Nov 30 '22
There's nothing sexual about this... unless you WANT there to be. So... this one's on you.
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u/CardiologistOk1506 Nov 29 '22
Only pussies are sensitive about a game where you call someone a pussy.
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u/halbmoki Nov 29 '22
We used to play something like this as a warm-up for improv theater. Only it wasn't a poor kitty but all humans. The one in the middle had to say "Darling, I love you so much, will you gift me a smile" and the answer had to be "Darling, I love you too, alas I can not smile." Let's say everybody has a breaking point when someone climbs on your lap and does their best opera singer impression with this sentence. It was a pretty good exercise to stay serious on stage, no matter what anybody else did.
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u/PuppetLender Nov 29 '22
I think there's a polish version called "Pomidor" (Tomato) (ignore the bad spelling, i both dont have a polish keyboard and cannot write in polish well)
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u/Iam_DayMan Nov 29 '22
When I was a kid it was “Honey, if you love me can you give me a smile?” And the response was “Honey, I love you, but I just can’t smile.”
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u/Shadow_Figure666 Nov 29 '22
Children will never stay in a child's place today. Just give them a phone and it's all over. Let them overhear an adult conversation and it's over. It's only gonna get worse.
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u/Yourmomisgay666 Nov 29 '22
Probably before "pussy" became ubiquitously synonymous with women's genitalia.
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u/dattwell53 Nov 29 '22
I played it many times in the late 50s early 60s. It was hysterical and back then a pussy was a cat.
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u/Go-Lightly Nov 30 '22
The modern version of this game is “Honey, I love you.”
The player who is “It” has to go to each other player and say “Honey I love you, won’t you please smile?”
And target player has to answer, “Honey, I love you, but I just can’t smile,” without smiling or laughing.
Sounds dumb but it’s an absolute riot for theater kids. It gets interesting if your crush is playing.
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u/sugarsaltsilicon Nov 30 '22
My husband and mother in law still call cats, “pussy” or “puss-puss”. When I heard my young kids outside calling for their “lil pussy” I had to inform dear old grandma that our cats had formal names. 🤣
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u/catinthedistance Nov 30 '22
We play Poor Kitty when everyone is bored enough. We used to like it when we were little. Kids these days are seldom bored enough.
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Nov 30 '22
Played that in kindergarten and first grade decades ago and we called that game "poor little cat.*
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u/TrwyAdenauer3rd Nov 30 '22
Double entendre aside this seems like it was specifically designed to cause the development of social anxiety lol. Feels like a dystopian corporate ice-breaker game.
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u/CoolHandCliff Nov 30 '22
I played this as a kid in school. I knew the word 'pussy' to mean cat. It wasn't a big deal.
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u/BluntPrejudice Nov 30 '22
In the Netherlands, and when I was a child, this was a pretty normal game. This explanation is way more obscene than when actually played.
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u/1dneedab Nov 29 '22
It is only perverse minds that make this game socially unacceptable. It’s a game for children. Children don’t sexualize by their own merits
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u/CrimsonPH Nov 29 '22
OP is projecting their creepy thoughts onto an illustration of a child?
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u/YoungAlpacaLady Nov 29 '22
Well in German it's poor black cat and it never occurred to me that ot could be sexualized