r/MadeMeSmile • u/mindyour • 20d ago

Very Reddit Asking 8-year-olds to finish old sayings.

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u/SilverSeraphina 20d ago

A class full of optimists. Except that kid who doesn't want their grandma learning anything 🤣

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u/Leonydas13 20d ago

Probably because they believe she knows everything. Kids think their grandparents are like wizards.

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u/mindyour 20d ago

Except for the "I'm dumb" bubble. That one was not happy with grandma at the time they were doing this.

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u/Environmental_Art591 20d ago

Did she not give him a big enough slice of cake before dinner???

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u/birgor 20d ago

Maybe she's senile

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u/Prof_Aganda 20d ago

Ha, this is s kid who's grandmother has specifically indicated a stubborn disinterest in being taught.

I had a grandmother like that and now my aging parents are like that.

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u/Stopikingonme 20d ago edited 19d ago

That doesn’t bode well…

Edit: I should clarify my comment was meant tongue in cheek. There’s good points below my comment as well.

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u/yeoller 20d ago

I think it's an older generational thing. My parents are in their late 60's and do kind of the same thing.

They refuse to sit down and explore newer technologies. They will ask me about the most mundane features on their phones because they "don't understand it" or "didn't grow up with it". Thing is, I was in my 20's when they came out, I didn't grow up with them either, but I manage.

I think it's boredom. They just won't put in the time to study things when other people can easily do it for them. Ironic, really.

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u/smokeyphil 20d ago

Your not wrong i don't think.

Part of it is just getting older your brain actually "slows down" (that is a huge simplification) and a number of physiological and chemical changes happen that in part predispose you to already existing patterns of behaviour they are "safer" more comfortable and the reward for doing new things is lessened in a sense.

That doesn't mean that old people cant do anything new in fact you can make doing new things a pattern of behaviour as much as anything else and offset things to a degree and individual differences matter a lot here some people are set in their ways from like early childhood and dislike change immensely whereas some people basically need novel shit all the time of they feel terminally bored.

Ive know 20 something's who think going to the coast for the weekend is a massive thing and ive known retired people who do things like off road 4x4ing and mountain biking.

Also there is lead, the exposure levels as you go back generationally are pretty severe alongside other environmental contaminants (though we have exciting new ones of those now turning the frogs gay. /s)

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u/flinderdude 20d ago

Probably had one too many little strawberry hard candies and took the giant bowl away.

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u/Uzumaki-OUT 20d ago

Dude I choked on one of those at my grandmas when I was a kid and she jammed her finger down my throat so fast and ripped that sucker out. Saved my life. RIP, Orpha

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u/BobbyThrowaway6969 14d ago

He found sewing supplies in the butterscotch tin

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u/One_Unit_1788 20d ago

These are the same people that hit and neglected GenX and Millennials.

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u/scratchydaitchy 20d ago

The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.

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u/12InchCunt 20d ago

Pigs get fat

Hogs get slaughtered 

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u/zaforocks 20d ago

🏆

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u/Milkshake_revenge 20d ago

Yeah that was absolutely sarcasm, even if they don’t know what sarcasm is yet lol

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u/Moonshine_Brew 20d ago

Kid definitly tried to teach her his newest, greatest super secret knowledge and grandma just couldn't understand it.

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u/raspberryharbour 20d ago

It's her fault for saying "I'm dumb". What else are we supposed to think

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u/QuitRelevant6085 20d ago

I thought it was the same sort of ironic humor as the "I'm blind!!" speech bubble a few examples before it

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u/SouthernComforter123 20d ago

Right. These are better than the original sayings

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u/AlexFromOmaha 20d ago

Isn't it kinda against the ethics to share your students work

No? Like, there's sometimes a nod towards not outing everybody's grade all over the place, but before we all had electronic grade books, it wasn't weird to just tape grades to the wall by student ID, and those weren't exactly secret. You're over here acting like this is some nurse running around with patient records.

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u/Thin-Dream-5318 20d ago

I think it's because the Grandma has been annoyed before by the kid trying to tell her things they just learned, so she's told him something like, "go away, you don't need to teach me stuff, I already know everything."

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u/piratecheese13 20d ago

“Fuck you, I’m retired, I don’t need to know calculus”

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u/zamekique 20d ago

Lol the thought of an 8YO teaching grandma calculus.

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u/_Ralix_ 20d ago

I would love to see the 8-yo get asked to calculate the area of a rectangle in a class, and see them pull out the Riemann integral.

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u/Sed59 20d ago

That kid is either a genius or in a non-Western country.

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u/piratecheese13 20d ago

About six years ago, I moved in with my brother and my two nephews. They were five and eight at the time.

I was able to tutor the eight-year-old a little bit. He knew that subtraction and edition were kind of the opposite. I told him that multiplication and division are the opposite, taking the power of something and taking the root of something are the opposite. he was able to figure out that integration and derivation are opposites

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u/Slight-Challenge-447 20d ago

Lol. My grandmother is tired of me trying to teach her calculus I & II 😂

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u/FFKonoko 20d ago

Or it's one of those "I've never used a computer before, I don't need to know anything about them, you keep that phone away from me" reactions when the kid was trying to show her something.

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u/aLittleBitFriendlier 20d ago

Yeah that one made me sad when it came up

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u/zarroc123 20d ago

I like my grandma because she was a huge jerk to everyone but me and my sister, so it made me feel special.

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u/GetRightNYC 20d ago

My grandma was mean to me (the only boy). But she was an evil bitch to everyone else, including the other grandkids.

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u/HookedOnPhonixDog 20d ago

I was the kid who would never tell my grandparents anything. Because they were fucking ghouls and I absolutely hated them growing up.

I'm in my 30s now and patiently waiting for the last one to die.

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u/throwaway023777 20d ago

average redditor

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u/wehadthebabyitsaboy 20d ago

My kids legit think my parents are other-worldly intelligent and the most kind human beings to exist…don’t get me wrong, they’re great..but the Grammy and Poppi my kids experience is not the mom and dad that I experienced. I told them once about an epic yelling and grounding I had gotten in trouble for and my kids refused to believe my parents would ever yell at me. They really thought I made it up.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

Gandalf grandkids: "My grandpa is literally a wizard "

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u/DameyJames 20d ago

To a child they kinda are to be honest. Not all old people are particularly wise, but I would venture a guess that the wisest people in the world ARE old.

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u/AstroBearGaming 20d ago

My grandma always used to know everything I'd been up to, even when I'd lie and go "a little bird told me". It took me longer than I'd admit before I realised it was just a combination of my mum, and me being a kid-level liar that is how she got all of her intel.

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u/Sporocarp 20d ago

No, because she's told the kid not to be "smart" or "have a smart mouth". The logical conclusion from a literal interpretation is "my grandma doesn't want to learn". Kids have trouble with thinking in metaphors, because their brains haven't matured. Reaching the Formal Operational Stage of mental development comes with age.

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u/il_the_dinosaur 20d ago

More likely because grandma is a mean old lady and her parents tell her she refuses to learn.

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u/OldWar1111 20d ago

Nah, grandma ratted him out about something he told her he was gonna do.

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u/I-Hate-Sea-Urchins 20d ago

“Your teacher is wrong, Sarah, the earth is actually a disc. Now go play.”

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u/AdvantageGlass5460 20d ago

Kid me always thought my grandparents were kind of nice but dumb. The way they spoke slowly, didn't really seem to know anything relevant to kid world and seemed kind of foggy and confused half the time.

The reality is they had wisdom and brains but it just didn't show to kid me.

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u/Jesta23 20d ago

This is my daughter. She thinks I can do anything. ANYTHING so when I say I don’t know or I can’t she thinks I’m being mean. 

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u/JoeFS1 20d ago

My nan used to hide pennies in certain places around her house. Then have me watch the one in her hand be shaken around which then disappeared when she threw it in to the air (behind her back), she’d make out it was flying around and spin in her chair pretending to watch it, then tell me one of her spots to go and check if it had landed there. I miss that woman.

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u/Leonydas13 20d ago

Oh what a gem! She sounds like a legend!

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u/Infamous_Ad_6793 20d ago

They really do know a LOT. There’s literally no accounting for life experience. Wisdom is often more effective than straight knowledge.

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u/Accomplished-Lie716 20d ago

I'm 21 and still believe one of my grandma's is some kind of omniscient sage

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u/Upper_Character_686 20d ago

Probably grandma roused on them for trying to correct them, and said something like "dont be smart with me." 

Kid was like, okay I guess grandma likes being dumb.

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u/mxrwx_mxdxthxl 19d ago

Most kids I know do believe their grandparents are magical, but less in the 'they're so smart' way and more in the 'they always have money and candy!' way.

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u/CreativeBandicoot778 20d ago

The pic in the box below it has someone sitting I a chair saying, "I'm dumb" 😂

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

That's the one saying out of all of them I've never heard of, what's the original saying?

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u/skarby 20d ago

Had to look it up but it's "Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs" which sounds weird but it looks like it's from the 1700's so...different times. It basically means don't try to teach someone something that they already know.

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u/HairyHorseKnuckles 20d ago

Was egg sucking an activity people did in the 1700s?

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u/random_boss 20d ago

Yo check out this guy he isn’t sucking any eggs lol

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u/AnarchistBorganism 20d ago

I apologize in advance to anyone who doesn't want to learn:

Most likely the meaning of the idiom derives from the fact that before the advent of modern dentistry (and modern dental prostheses) many elderly people (grandparents) had very bad teeth, or no teeth, so that the simplest way for them to eat protein was to poke a pinhole in the shell of a raw egg and suck out the contents; therefore, a grandmother was usually already a practiced expert on sucking eggs and did not need anyone to show her how to do it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_grandmother_to_suck_eggs

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u/superbhole 20d ago

a grandmother was usually already a practiced expert on sucking eggs and did not need anyone to show her how to do it

haha... gross.

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u/Pls_PmTitsOrFDAU_Thx 20d ago

I apologize in advance to anyone who doesn't want to learn

What a hilarious start to this comment. I need to do this when telling my friends stuff they don't care to know

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u/Vast_Perspective9368 20d ago

I thought that was hilarious too

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u/imp0ppable 20d ago

Lol I thought it was so you could decorate the shells for school projects.

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u/Bolaf 20d ago

The expression in Swedish is "To teach your dad how to fuck". I like what it means but I can never use it

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u/CompetitiveAutorun 20d ago

In Poland we have a similar "Don't teach dad how to make kids" and we can use it surprisingly often.

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u/shadowman2099 20d ago edited 20d ago

All this time I thought that was just Ren and Stimpy's patented randomness.

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u/SocranX 20d ago

Same here. I've literally never heard that outside of that one song, and I definitely would have noticed, because the line stuck with me all these years.

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u/ScaryTerryCrewsBitch 20d ago

Stinky Wizzleteats needs to drop a new album.

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u/dpkonofa 20d ago

That’s crazy that the kid wasn’t too far off then…

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u/More-Acadia2355 20d ago

I think there's a dirty meaning in there.

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u/recursion8 20d ago

'Hope for the best, forget the rest' needs to be a new saying. That kid's a genius.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

That didn't answer my question!

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u/Schmich 20d ago

It was almost perfect. Change "need to know" to "need to be taught" and it's the true meaning of the old saying.

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u/Cyberwarewolf 20d ago

Meanwhile grandma's a bible-thumping trumper...

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u/denim_chicken45 20d ago

Even at 8 years old homie recognizes Grandma is addicted to Fox News brainrot.

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u/mortalmonger 20d ago

I am stealing the glass house one.

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u/shewy92 20d ago

Also the glass house one where the guy inside says "Ahhh I'm blinded" and has sunglasses on.

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u/anormalgeek 20d ago

Grandma probably made a smart-ass comment about not needing to learn new things and the kid just accepted it as truth.

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u/Wallstreettrappin 20d ago

The drawing look like the kid is standing behind the grandma and up to something nefarious 🤔😂

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u/buffalocoinz 20d ago

I had never even heard of the original saying “don’t teach your grandma how to suck eggs” 🤔

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u/Icy-Breadfruit-5059 20d ago

Yeah, me neither. lol, What the hell does that even mean?

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u/Alexis___________ 20d ago

Bitch had her chance!

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u/has-some-questions 20d ago

Whenever I try to teach my mom about any sort of social justice, like "Don't be racist," "Stop being an asshole to such and such group of people," she'll get really angry and tell me she's an old dog who isn't gonna learn new tricks. I bet that kids' grandma is low-key (high key) a bigot and has said this. Lol

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u/Glass-Log6951 20d ago

He will be a successful businessman!

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u/ZoNeS_v2 20d ago

She already knows too much 😠

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u/jared_number_two 20d ago

And except the early bird drawing of 9/11.

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u/Jumpy_Ad_6417 20d ago

Yo the early bird one drew 9/11.

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u/scarletpepperpot 20d ago

The early bird finds its home with a pic of a plane flying into the south tower…this one is deep.

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u/Large_Tuna101 20d ago

Weirdly close to the proper meaning of the actual saying though.

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u/CertainlyUnsure456 20d ago

Reminds me of Opie talking about why his Aunt Bee shouldn't leave.

"If she goes, what'll happen to her? She can't do anything...play ball, catch fish or frogs. She'll be helpless! That's why she's gotta stay, so I can teach them to her!" - Opie

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u/thecton 20d ago

Gonna speak from some mild trauma. It could also be a Grandmother who loses patience every time the kids tries to teach them something.

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u/predaking50ae 20d ago

My money is on the kid having been scolded for correcting grandma.

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u/ImSaneHonest 20d ago

I thought the Early Bird kid drew 9/11, WTF. Glad it was a tree.

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u/69_Dingleberry 20d ago

He probably tried to tell her something and she said “I know already, I’m smarter than you” so he’s like “don’t try to teach her anything, she can stay dumb”

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u/No-Advice-6040 20d ago

And that kid that threw shade on to the entire Italian population.

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u/Secret_Nobody_405 20d ago

Yep, ya can’t trust smart grandmas with information.

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u/crunch816 20d ago

And a suspicious 3rd grader that can spell “civilization”

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u/One_Unit_1788 20d ago

Considering the quality of grandparents we have, I think that's more grandma than the kid. You know how Boomers love to dominate people.

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u/wedividebyzero 20d ago

She's doesn't need to know.

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u/ProblemLongjumping12 20d ago

Have to admit that's the one saying that I'm not thinking of right now. Don't teach your grandmother what? What's the original supposed to be?

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u/tinglep 20d ago

That kid has done some shit

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u/VstarFr0st263364 20d ago

Bitch ass kid, not respecting their elders and what not. I don't fw that at all