I was amazed at the two year old’s dexterity in the few seconds at the end! I mean, don’t most babies that age have trouble holding a sippy cup?
That what what was so funny and bizarre.
It’s pretty amazing how devoted some people are to cigarettes. I have met many American families who bring their kid to the hospital or clinic because the kid has bad asthma but yet the parents still smoke around the kid. Personally I consider that sort of thing at least as bad as this Indonesian mom letting the kid smoke directly.
There are 2 videos on Youtube of him smoking. This is the first one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xykDdOiz3zI&feature=related
When I saw it, I ran to Snopes to make sure this wasn’t some sort of gag (like the video of the babies dancing), but I didn’t see it mentioned.
Somehow, that video doesn’t seem real to me, the toddler is too skilled for his age, as some posters have mentioned…
Huh. That video definitely makes him seem more typically two-year-oldish (I thought the tongue-sticking out part was cute), but I also thought the kiss he blew was surprisingly dextrous for someone his age, though not as much as the smoking.
My toddler just turned two on Friday, and I don’t think that the boy in the video is outrageously dextrous. Most two-year-olds are quite capable of drinking from a non-sippy cup, although the sippy is more convenient for parents. It’s decent fine motor control, but I bet it’s within a standard deviation of the norm. He’s obviously had a lot of practice with the skill.
Of course, I am still horrified by a toddler smoking.
I can’t quite disengage from the horror enough to find this funny. Maybe it’s because I was a heavy smoker for many years, but at no point during the video did I feel any urge to laugh. All I see is this kid dying young.
OH come on, this is the best line
I saw that yesterday, and it still doesn’t seem real to me. I can’t even imagine someone letting a two-year-old smoke, it seems like it has to be made up. In my head it’s like watching that video of the kids doing Scarface - incongruous, hilarious, harmless. So, I laugh, even though it’s horrifying.
In my experience many Asians think that smoking is very macho.
If it was a baby girl smoking, the parents would probably stop it very quickly.
But, because it is a boy, then it is macho, entertaining, and funny.
Same with the baby’s obesity. The baby boy is seen as healthy, wealthy, and macho because it is fat. A baby girl would probably not be fed so much food.
I do not believe that the mother is seeking help for her baby. I believe that she just enjoys the attention.
I do understand human nature. I do ‘get’ sick jokes. This however is an actual video of an actual infant partaking in an activity that is both wrong and dangerous and has furthermore been sanctioned by his parent.
I have like many laughed at inappropriate jokes about famines, paedophilia and all sorts of extreme incongruities. I do get the horror can be funny side of things.
Pointing at a tv screen/computer monitor and laughing at an actual horror is a very different thing in my mind.