# It this weird for a Little Boy to do? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 25, 2005, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558 "2005-08-25T14:03:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/41 "2005-08-26T00:43:51Z")
I’d go with the “It’s normal, but you shouldn’t let them break other people’s toys” camp. My 8 year old, who is normally very kind and gentle to younger kids, who spends HOURS crawling around with his baby cousins, shocked me a few days ago. We went up a very tall tower which was made of steel grids, so that you could see below you as you walked, and out across the city. The walls were also steel grilles but high up at about adult face-level were a number of holes, about 9 inches by 9 inches, presumably so you could take pictures without having steel slats in the way. Kid looks up at one and in a thoughful manner says, “A baby’d go through that.” ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/42 "2005-08-26T00:54:06Z")
> [@Hokkaido Brit](#): > > Kid looks up at one and in a thoughful manner says, > > “A baby’d go through that.” 😃 You did make sure he meant all in one piece, right? ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/43 "2005-08-26T00:59:55Z")
Bleurk! Actually, DH and I were so stunned at what he had just said that we cracked up into long and sustained hysteria. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/44 "2005-08-26T01:15:17Z")
It looks to me like it could be a sign of later troubles: this is probably something you want to head off. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/45 "2005-08-26T01:41:14Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > It looks to me like it could be a sign of later troubles: this is probably something you want to head off. > > Daniel I disagree. I think she should just bury it. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/46 "2005-08-26T03:35:47Z")
You know, before I even knew what it was, I had the answer. Nine times out of ten the answer is no, not really. The kid shouldn’t break other people’s toys, but it’s no more disturbing than busting crayons. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/47 "2005-08-26T04:30:24Z")
Kids watch TV (even some things their parents don’t about), play video games, read comics, interact with all sorts of friends, and often have vivid imaginations. So, sometimes they come up with things that if done or said by an adult would cause the FBI or NSA to keep close tabs on them. Sometimes it’s unintentionally funny or weird. And get this, sometimes _they try to creep or gross you out!_ So, I vote for forget about it. Now we come to my anecdotes of youthful weirdness. We (my brother and I) would build model airplanes and take severe pains to get the camoflage patterns and colours and all the markings as accurate as possible. We would use my Grand father’s old USAAF papers and armed services newsletters and whatnot to get it all straight. Then we would light them on fire and throw them at each other. My cousin Scott and I would make Lego space capsules that we would put frogs and toads in, then have them experience re-entry by throwing them off the house out into the dirt road. Survivability was often quite limited. I liked to cut up dolls and action figures and re-attatch the limbs to other cut up dolls. And not always substituting a leg for a leg. Melting an arm to either side of a face looked pretty cool. As did having 4 or more legs on one doll. As an adult, I gave a freind’s (not yet but soon to be ex gf)… anyways, I gave her 8 yr old daughter a Barny the Dinosaur head. Yeah, just the head. I got a bunch of Barney’s through a major mix up of things, so I cut off some of their heads. Anyways, I gave one of the heads to little Jenny. She loved it! She said she thought it was the best idea of what to do to Barney. “I hate that freakin bastard” were her words. About 13 yrs later, at her wedding, she told me she still has that Barney head. Yeah, kids are weird. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/48 "2005-08-26T07:01:42Z")
> [@Big Willie Shakes](#): > > My kid, who turned 1 last month, has me worried. First, he started carrying this baby doll with him everywhere, kissing it, cradling it, generally treating it like a baby. If that’s not bad enough, the other day when mom brought him home from the sitter, he was wearing his sister’s pink shoes. We bought him his own shoes but he didn’t like them and couldn’t walk in them, the sitter says that he brought his sisters shoes to her and kept yelling for her attention, she didn’t know what he wanted at first but then tried putting them on him, and he wore them the rest of the day. Dude, he’s **one.** He barely grasps the idea of time; he’s sure as heck not gonna grok gender-appropriate behavior. Besides, why get so uptight about it? As long as he doesn’t do anything totally socially unacceptable (“No, Billy, dresses are only for girls to wear”), let him have fun with the doll. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/49 "2005-08-26T08:23:20Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > I think I need to reiterate what’s been said before here - this is emphatically _not_ the best way to get rid of it, and someone needs to explain to the little boy that a fireplace doesn’t burn nearly hot enough to get rid of a body. Crematoria burn a body at between 1400 and 2100 degrees fahrenheit in specially designed chambers that ensure that the body mass is completely incinerated, and the remaining bone bits have to be pulverized. A household fire would never do the trick. Yeah, but surely burning a body at a lower temperature for a _longer length of time_ could acheive the same effect—granted, it’s not as fast or efficient as a high-temperature cremation, but still do-able. (A long weekend alone in the dead of winter with a good supply of firewood might be enough to get the job done.) This is, of course, ignoring the almost inevitable trace evidence that might be left—teeth, bone chips, surgical pins, fatty residue, or whathaveyou. ---
**Author:** ![Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fromage_A_Trois)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/50 "2005-08-26T13:51:19Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > Lots of G.I. Joe abuse…reminds me of me. My brother used to be quite the homophobe, so just to get a rise out of him I would undress his 18" G.I. Joes and place them in various homoerotic poses on his bed for him to find when he came home from school. It was fun. 😃 It got a rise out of him? Sounds like we might’ve found the root of his homophobia. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/51 "2005-08-26T14:23:34Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I disagree. I think she should just bury it. Yes, burying is a much better solution than the fireplace… wait… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/52 "2005-08-26T14:25:29Z")
> [@Fromage A Trois](#): > > It got a rise out of him? Sounds like we might’ve found the root of his homophobia. Nah, he eventually grew up. He got _much_ angrier the time I was mad at him and dumped the salt shaker out all over his bed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/53 "2005-08-26T14:26:03Z")
Would the plastic dissolve in muriatic acid? What? I’m just asking! I mean, the hair might… ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/54 "2005-08-26T17:10:24Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > Dude, he’s **one.** He barely grasps the idea of time; he’s sure as heck not gonna grok gender-appropriate behavior. Guess who just got whooshed? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/55 "2005-08-26T19:13:04Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Yeah, but surely burning a body at a lower temperature for a _longer length of time_ could acheive the same effect—granted, it’s not as fast or efficient as a high-temperature cremation, but still do-able. (A long weekend alone in the dead of winter with a good supply of firewood might be enough to get the job done.) > > This is, of course, ignoring the almost inevitable trace evidence that might be left—teeth, bone chips, surgical pins, fatty residue, or whathaveyou. Yeah, but you wouldn’t manage in a fireplace. A funeral pire essentially works that way - big ol’ hill of wood, body on top, and it burns everything away. A fireplace would still be cooler yet, and I doubt you’d get good air circulation (thus making the fire burn even worse) with a big ol’ body occupying the interior. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/56 "2005-08-26T19:42:29Z")
> [@ratatoskK](#): > > Guess who just got whooshed? 🙂 Hey, I could use the breeze. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/57 "2005-08-27T00:53:58Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > Yeah, but you wouldn’t manage in a fireplace. A funeral pire essentially works that way - big ol’ hill of wood, body on top, and it burns everything away. A fireplace would still be cooler yet, and I doubt you’d get good air circulation (thus making the fire burn even worse) with a big ol’ body occupying the interior. _Du-uh!_ That’s why you have to _chop the body up,_ first, and burn it piece by piece. :rolleyes: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/58 "2005-08-27T02:21:57Z")
> [@Big Willie Shakes](#): > > My kid, who turned 1 last month, has me worried. First, he started carrying this baby doll with him everywhere, kissing it, cradling it, generally treating it like a baby. If that’s not bad enough, the other day when mom brought him home from the sitter, he was wearing his sister’s pink shoes. We bought him his own shoes but he didn’t like them and couldn’t walk in them, the sitter says that he brought his sisters shoes to her and kept yelling for her attention, she didn’t know what he wanted at first but then tried putting them on him, and he wore them the rest of the day. > > He’s already playing with dolls and cross-dressing and he’s only 1! Don’t worry about it. If he starts dressing like [Dora The Explorer](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=279591), however, worry. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558/59 "2005-08-27T06:05:23Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > That _is_ weird. Stuffing the body in a fireplace is _not_ ‘the best way to get rid of him’. In fact, it’s one of the poorer ways. Agreed, but maybe **dragongirl’s** daughter didn’t have the Barbie Limepit Playset. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-this-weird-for-a-little-boy-to-do/318558.md?page=2)