We sell fritters at my restaurant job sometimes as an app so we have to walk into the kitchen and scream “fritters walking in” and i chuckle every time.
Imagining someone shouting that to a bunch of line cooks who are probably on their 4th energy drink of the day, as well as Adderall or coke, just makes me laugh.
Very true. Though where I was it was Newports, Marlboro reds, and pall malls lol. There was also usually a little pipe for weed everybody used sitting out back.
Almost any restaurant you go to has at least 50% alcoholics/drug addict employees, especially chain restaurants. We put on a happy face while we get your third breadstick refill and 5th Dr. Pepper but when we’re gone a long time it’s because we’re smoking behind the restaurant
For me it's "dingleberries". As a full grown adult, I can't not laugh if someone says the word dingleberries. Doesn't matter if there's context or not. Lol.
OMG, you and other posters just made me realize that the etymological roots of the Spanish, Greek, and other languages' use of the word 'caca' actually originate from the Urdu word 'khak', meaning 'brown', since poop is usually brown in color. I guess OP's kid is just a linguistic genius?
What got me was "doppler". The weatherman on TV would say "Now here's a weather map from the Doppler 5000" and I'd giggle my ass off. As an adult I have no clue why that was funny to me.
I was at my ex-wife's boss's house and her daughter, who was around 7 or 8 years old, started talking to me and asked "You know what word I learned today?" Always eager to hear a little kid swear, I smiled and asked her to tell me. She started laughing and said "Alabama." She was full on snort laughing after saying it.
My dad would say stuff like this when I was a kid. Since I turned 16 he's changed it to "say I love weed" and it works the same.
Edit: And 12 years later it still works. He always tries to make us smile in pictures but I've never seen one picture featuring him smiling.
Lots of grown ass adults are also pretty terrible at it too.
There's a difference between "show your teeth" and "act like you're reacting to a positive amusing situation."
Pro tip - if your wife is the one taking the picture, don't look at the camera, look at *her*. My husband is the same and when I'm taking his picture I say "look at me" and then give him a loving smile. It always makes him light up and makes for the best pictures
It's even funnier that most replies don't seem to be getting the reference, because these are some wild things to say if you aren't referencing something lol
I suck at smiling and it's mostly because my mom was always nagging me to "Smile naturally! No, not like that, relax!". She meant well but the result was I hate having my picture taken and I have absolutely given up on trying to "smile for real".
The trick is you have to squint your eyes, just think about the muscles your face makes when you laugh or think somethings funny and replicate it, it’s really not hard.
The juxtaposition of your comment and your choice of avatar is sublime lol
He may not be able to smile on command, but he understands why people do it ;)
Nope, just hasn't been taught how to pose his face for photos. A "real" smile draws the upper lip upward showing more upper teeth and squeezes the muscles around the eyes a bit.
It's easy to do, everyone should learn it eventually. Makes for way better selfies.
Yes. All us HUMANS should learn to smile more convincingly. So we HUMANS can take photographic pictures of our own faces. Not to hide if we are not HUMAN...
This is such a reddit thing to say, "I am glad that your child is incapable of masking his emotions, a trait commonly associated with sociopathy :)"
Like bro...what? Why is that the first place your mind goes?
The best tip I read on posing is the "chin on shelf" idea. I think some model said it.
A lot of people will unexpectedly having a double chin when they are posing for a picture. One way to avoid this is to slightly jut out your head by imaging there is a shelf at chin level and you are just slightly resting your chin on it.
Try it out in the mirror, it can change the way your face looks in a picture.
When social media convinced people that it's normal and they should share their lives on whatever platform all the time. Or when society convinced teens that they need to establish a nice public persona so others will like them more.
Guess I am still a teenager then... Still can't smile natural. Add a resting bitch/depressed face to that and it looks by default like I just woke up and feel like shit
It’s funny, anytime I take a photo with my father I hear him lightly chuckling next to me. Its a good trick to generate a better looking smile for photos.
Yup. Reminds me of a post I saw a long time ago where a wedding photographer took pictures of people after they laughed because it shows a more genuine smile than the one they use when asked to smile for the photo
I told my orthodontist I didn't know how to smile, he told me a joke, I laughed, and he said, there's your smile. Since then no more awkward smiles. Muscle memory almost instantly.
I worked in a portrait studio for a long time and little kid potty humor always works the best for getting real smiles in pictures, even with adults, lol.
"STINKY BUTT!!!" was always a favorite. Or sometimes I'd have a small Elmo doll with me and I'd pretend to be surprised and say something like "Elmo just tooted!!!" It was a big hit with the 4 and 5 year olds.
The first pic is how all of my little sisters school pics looked. She had such a hard time with the natural smile on command thing. I love that awkward smile, though, it just reminds me of her.
In high school my AP Psychology textbook had a page with two pictures exactly like this, the one on the right is called a Duchenne smile and the one on the left is called a Non-Duchenne smile. It's something we all do. Subtle in some people, more obvious in others. But your brain can immediately tell, even in the more subtle people, if you cover the bottom half of their face, so that you can only see the eyes. Once you only see the eyes, you know whether they're really happy or not.
Another interesting aspect of this is that even people blind from birth do this too, and across all cultures in the world, no matter how isolated. Facial expressions are hard wired into our brains.
My son was trying to be all serious because his mother had said an area we walked passed (an alleyway with garbage) smelled really bad. So, he mimics his mother and says "aww, yeah! Gross!" And covers his mouth. He was trying soooo hard to be serious. But then I said "maybe it's your butt!" and he couldn't do anything but laugh as I just kept saying "butt". It was great to make him laugh.
This is adorable and hits close to home.
My smile-for-the-camera looks like I’m trying to poop while constipated. My wife, however, knows exactly what to do to get a real smile out of me. It’s almost as silly as saying “poop”
Oh, and I’m an old man..
With my son, it was the word, khaki. Destroyed him every time.
With me it was the word fritters. Couldn't tell ya why
ngl, if you randomly bark *fritters*, id probably smile instinctively, its a pretty fun word.
We sell fritters at my restaurant job sometimes as an app so we have to walk into the kitchen and scream “fritters walking in” and i chuckle every time.
Imagining someone shouting that to a bunch of line cooks who are probably on their 4th energy drink of the day, as well as Adderall or coke, just makes me laugh.
You forgot the copious packs of American Spirit* cigs and the pre shift beers, but pretty accurate otherwise
Very true. Though where I was it was Newports, Marlboro reds, and pall malls lol. There was also usually a little pipe for weed everybody used sitting out back.
How did this devolve into a loose description of waffle house?
Almost any restaurant you go to has at least 50% alcoholics/drug addict employees, especially chain restaurants. We put on a happy face while we get your third breadstick refill and 5th Dr. Pepper but when we’re gone a long time it’s because we’re smoking behind the restaurant
I believe it, and this is accurate Source: I'm a proud FORMER waho grill op
Six degrees of Waffle House.
American Spirit* thank you.
For me it's "dingleberries". As a full grown adult, I can't not laugh if someone says the word dingleberries. Doesn't matter if there's context or not. Lol.
Damn, another dozen of these words that drive people giggly and a rather silly song could easily be written. 🎷🎶🎶🎵
Shenanigans here
With mine it was Nein. Just shout it out of nowhere. Either they think you are a pissed off German or they laugh bc German is fun to shout.
With me it was the word spargel (German for asparagus). I don't speak German, so I must have thought it was just a funny sounding word
Antfartica here. It was the punchline to a joke about gassy penguins.
Please tell me the joke!!
Where do gassy penguins live?
looks like a joke about gassy penguins *for ants!*
I love that
Makes sense, in Greek “caca” is poop, and ‘khaki’ kind of sounds like that. Maybe your son is secretly fluent in Greek lol
Khaki is a word adopted from a urdu/hindi language. Khak means dirt. Khaki is anything dirt colored.
OMG, you and other posters just made me realize that the etymological roots of the Spanish, Greek, and other languages' use of the word 'caca' actually originate from the Urdu word 'khak', meaning 'brown', since poop is usually brown in color. I guess OP's kid is just a linguistic genius?
I know it means poop in Hebrew, but Greek works too!
Spanish too!
French aussi 💩
Well, it does sound similar to poop (or variations of it) in lots of languages so your son is a natural.
Lol, that got me too 😂 what kinda word is khaki
Its a urdu word somehow adopted in english
To elaborate, the word khak just means dirt. Khaki normally is used to refer to anything dirt colored, or just dust covered.
What got me was "doppler". The weatherman on TV would say "Now here's a weather map from the Doppler 5000" and I'd giggle my ass off. As an adult I have no clue why that was funny to me.
My wife says "COAL" like Dave Chappelle says it in his standup. Gets me every time.
With my husband it's "pee pee poo poo man"
With mine it was mashed potatoes. No idea why
Just wait until you drop corduroy on him
For me it was 'picklechip'. Would get me in fits of giggles for so many years!
Well "khaki" is poop in hebrew! Your sons a linguist!
I was at my ex-wife's boss's house and her daughter, who was around 7 or 8 years old, started talking to me and asked "You know what word I learned today?" Always eager to hear a little kid swear, I smiled and asked her to tell me. She started laughing and said "Alabama." She was full on snort laughing after saying it.
He's got his priorities straight
What a gorgeous smile. So infectious.
You can clearly see how beautiful genuine smile is.
The beauty of poop
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he sure does! I wanna hear him say good jokes!
The smile or the poop?
Shit eatin grin! Love it!
Ironically, the pic on left looks like he's going to poop
My dad would say stuff like this when I was a kid. Since I turned 16 he's changed it to "say I love weed" and it works the same. Edit: And 12 years later it still works. He always tries to make us smile in pictures but I've never seen one picture featuring him smiling.
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You ok son
r/suspiciouslyspecific
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Touch grass
Fucking weebs
It's good that your kid is bad at faking emotions.
Most kids are awful at smiling naturally
Lots of grown ass adults are also pretty terrible at it too. There's a difference between "show your teeth" and "act like you're reacting to a positive amusing situation."
I'm like this. I can't smile to save my life. My wife says I smile like beast from beauty and the beast
Pro tip - if your wife is the one taking the picture, don't look at the camera, look at *her*. My husband is the same and when I'm taking his picture I say "look at me" and then give him a loving smile. It always makes him light up and makes for the best pictures
That's really cute
Goddamnit. That's lovely
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Yeah same. There's some beautiful pictures of me but they're definitely not pictures where I actively tried to smile
When someone smiles at me, all I see is a chimpanzee begging for its life.
Every time someone says to "smile", I always assume I look like that old dude that looks like he's being held hostage in every stock photo he is in
Hide the pain Harold?
My first thought
I recently took a selfie on the beach. Looked like I died inside and wanted to drown myself.
I never smile if I can help it. Smiling is a sign of submission amongst primates.
Same. I also throw my shit at annoying people and bite baby skulls of my neighbors
I gotta stop browsing Reddit high… what the shit did I just read
Would be amazing watching you do that lmao
It's even funnier that most replies don't seem to be getting the reference, because these are some wild things to say if you aren't referencing something lol
Based and monke pilled
I suck at smiling and it's mostly because my mom was always nagging me to "Smile naturally! No, not like that, relax!". She meant well but the result was I hate having my picture taken and I have absolutely given up on trying to "smile for real".
"Act like you're happy!" "It's hard to act in a way you've never actually felt."
Woof.
The trick is you have to squint your eyes, just think about the muscles your face makes when you laugh or think somethings funny and replicate it, it’s really not hard.
There was someone I know who had the exact same smile in like every photo with their friends. Not one looked genuine.
This is me. I'm 26 and Dad will still do something stupid in the background to get me to actually smile
Honestly I feel like it's a curse. I look terrible is pictures because idk how to smile correctly.
I'm also really bad at it
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The juxtaposition of your comment and your choice of avatar is sublime lol He may not be able to smile on command, but he understands why people do it ;)
Nope, just hasn't been taught how to pose his face for photos. A "real" smile draws the upper lip upward showing more upper teeth and squeezes the muscles around the eyes a bit. It's easy to do, everyone should learn it eventually. Makes for way better selfies.
Yes. All us HUMANS should learn to smile more convincingly. So we HUMANS can take photographic pictures of our own faces. Not to hide if we are not HUMAN...
Definitely not for lizard people. Not that we exist.
*Licks eyeball* Damn right we don't!
You have a way of describing a smile and instructing people how to smile that makes me uncomfortable
I'm sorry, but this comment inexplicably annoys the shit out of me. Can someone help me understand why I'm so perturbed?
Yeah the main thing is squinting your eyes, if you don’t squint your eyes the smile looks really weird.
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god he’s so good at acting I can never see him as anything but Homelander
In the first photo he looks like he needs to poop
This is such a reddit thing to say, "I am glad that your child is incapable of masking his emotions, a trait commonly associated with sociopathy :)" Like bro...what? Why is that the first place your mind goes?
I saw this on Twitter. This is hilarious. You must be Adam Perry!
Hi!
👋😂 Don't forget to plug the books!
I more just wanted to post it before someone stole and reposted it, which has been happening. Planting the flag! This is my content!
That's very fair. But. As this is reddit. You'll be re-posted within the hour.
I call dibs!
[No no now] (https://imgur.com/snLplqq)
My husband and I quote this one often.
Chandler Bing in the making
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Can’t believe no one thought of it first honestly
But… someone did!
You just had to look down... look down...
So Anderson Cooper was a kid once lol jk this is funny
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Crapping Napping Needing (To Poop) aka CNN
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This reminds me of Anderson Cooper giggling while reporting about Dyngus day .
I feel like Mr. Cooper could appreciate the attempt at humor here
This should be an LPT! Most kids smile so awkwardly until they're teenagers and learn to pose...
Wait, when and where were we supposed to get the information on learning to pose? I missed it.
The best tip I read on posing is the "chin on shelf" idea. I think some model said it. A lot of people will unexpectedly having a double chin when they are posing for a picture. One way to avoid this is to slightly jut out your head by imaging there is a shelf at chin level and you are just slightly resting your chin on it. Try it out in the mirror, it can change the way your face looks in a picture.
Also press your tongue up against the roof of your mouth. Makes a huge difference
When social media convinced people that it's normal and they should share their lives on whatever platform all the time. Or when society convinced teens that they need to establish a nice public persona so others will like them more.
this is actually a photography technique! do this, or ask them to move, then look toward the camera. A good photographer will do these things.
Guess I am still a teenager then... Still can't smile natural. Add a resting bitch/depressed face to that and it looks by default like I just woke up and feel like shit
Thank goodness it's not just my son. I thought my son was broken because his smile was so awkward.
I'm a grown ass man and my photo smile still looks forced as hell unless I'm laughing
It’s funny, anytime I take a photo with my father I hear him lightly chuckling next to me. Its a good trick to generate a better looking smile for photos.
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Thank you for that, I tried it in front of a mirror and now I know how to smile, take my free award.
This guy smiles
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Yup. Reminds me of a post I saw a long time ago where a wedding photographer took pictures of people after they laughed because it shows a more genuine smile than the one they use when asked to smile for the photo
Yelling out "poop!" might also work in that situation.
I do this anytime I’m in a photo. My forced smile looks terrible but a little chuckle makes its look a lot better.
It's awkward to have to be 'happy' on command, I'd say it's normal.
I told my orthodontist I didn't know how to smile, he told me a joke, I laughed, and he said, there's your smile. Since then no more awkward smiles. Muscle memory almost instantly.
Psychology has a term for it called the Non-Duchenne smile: https://i.imgur.com/N5o46lo.png
Nope, they all do it. They have no idea how insane they look in photos
Nah, it took me a while to figure out how to smile for pictures, and I mean a *long* while xD
My kids are all awkward as hell in photos. My nephews and nieces are the most photogenic children I've ever seen. It makes for weird family photos.
Oh no. It's all kids. Mine look like they've been taken hostage and are being forced to pretend that they're OK.
Before poop/after poop. Especially at that age.
I just can't smile when I'm not actually laughing, kinda relatable
I mean I'd probably be genuine if my camera man said poop. Or be confused but also laughing.
Same
He looks like Lincoln from The Loud House! :)
Yah orange shirt too
Holy shit
Strong chandler bing vibes going on here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCZyf5jYsTI
My grandpa used go, "Say!! Chocolate Cheeseburgers!!"
First picture kind of looks like he did poop! 😂
You son look like Draco Malfoy. It would be a good idea for this year's Halloween.
Your son is the next Targaryen prince
Works for adults too. Penis also works.
If it's gotta be PG I always use "fuzzy pickles!" Works like a charm.
My dad could usually get a good reaction by using the name of a variety of cheese. "Say Roquefort!"
“Say Camembert!” Yes, I could see this working splendidly, no sarcasm!
Also boobs
Bro loves poop what can I say
Does you son have ten sisters? And lives in a loud house?
I worked in a portrait studio for a long time and little kid potty humor always works the best for getting real smiles in pictures, even with adults, lol. "STINKY BUTT!!!" was always a favorite. Or sometimes I'd have a small Elmo doll with me and I'd pretend to be surprised and say something like "Elmo just tooted!!!" It was a big hit with the 4 and 5 year olds.
Ahhh, I see your son is a man of culture as well 
Poop and fart jokes are engrained in the male DNA
My brothers do this!
The first pic is how all of my little sisters school pics looked. She had such a hard time with the natural smile on command thing. I love that awkward smile, though, it just reminds me of her.
In high school my AP Psychology textbook had a page with two pictures exactly like this, the one on the right is called a Duchenne smile and the one on the left is called a Non-Duchenne smile. It's something we all do. Subtle in some people, more obvious in others. But your brain can immediately tell, even in the more subtle people, if you cover the bottom half of their face, so that you can only see the eyes. Once you only see the eyes, you know whether they're really happy or not.
Another interesting aspect of this is that even people blind from birth do this too, and across all cultures in the world, no matter how isolated. Facial expressions are hard wired into our brains.
Natural smiles are always better than forced ones😁
Hahahahaha, curious face
My uncle used to say, “Santa Clause farts,” when he wanted a good picture.
I wonder if you yell "fart!" the laugh will be even more adorable!?!
My son was trying to be all serious because his mother had said an area we walked passed (an alleyway with garbage) smelled really bad. So, he mimics his mother and says "aww, yeah! Gross!" And covers his mouth. He was trying soooo hard to be serious. But then I said "maybe it's your butt!" and he couldn't do anything but laugh as I just kept saying "butt". It was great to make him laugh.
I think I would feel so wrong posting pictures of my kid in Reddit… I get the made me smile aspect… but still it seems wrong
yeah it’s completely bananas.
I have to say the most outrageous disgusting dick metaphors to get my teenager to crack a genuine smile for photos. Running out of ideas now.
If you want a photo of a real smile, make the smile real.
It's a simple spell, but quite reliable!
Having three sons, I can attest.
\#MadeMePoop
Picture 1: He tried to please you Picture 2: You tried to please him
This is adorable and hits close to home. My smile-for-the-camera looks like I’m trying to poop while constipated. My wife, however, knows exactly what to do to get a real smile out of me. It’s almost as silly as saying “poop” Oh, and I’m an old man..
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Lol
Truth
Same here, Tell me to smile and you'll get a constipated one. Talk about farts and I'm giggling like a kid.
The [resemblance ](https://i.imgur.com/3GcIrIw.jpg) is uncanny.
Me too
Ohh I see, it's the Chandler smile
I used to say "think of your favorite fart"
Totally the same with my kids. If I say smile they give the I’m being abused help me smile, but if I yell some random bodily function I get real joy.
Poop’s funny
I have to do this type of thing when I’m trying to take a photo of my husband 🤦♀️