mini-bash is the most hilarious kid ever

gstatty

Somehow i knew it was going to be that.

calnick0

@RPGr: In the Middle East and Greece, the 'thumbs-up' symbol is very offensive. Does that make them prudes?

Each country/culture has it's own set of naughty hand signals. Doesn't make them prudes or anything.

eskilla

Going by his grin, he knows that its MORE then the "glue finger" lol awesomeness

H2oGatesy

Did he giggle when he was doing this? I'll bet he did. I can hear him all the way over here.

CUTE!!!

Evil Tortie's Mom

ahahaha XD

hrabbit

I totally didn't see that one coming.

Mmm... thanks?.

Kirth Gersen

here in canada we call that the get you shit from the teachers finger, and also the finger i flash my enemies everytime i drive by.

ohayou_kun

Three cheers for the glue finger!
HIP,HIP, HOORAY!!!!!
HIP,HIP, HOORAY!!!!!
HIP,HIP, HOORAY!!!!!

N3v3r.kNows.b3st.

@Brian Ashcraft: Hey Bash, looking at miniBash's face, it's telling me that he actually knows what the "gluefinger" really means. Just look at that embarrassed "I-did-something-naughty" smile he's got on...

Oh, and just to inform everybody who might get the wrong interpretation from this amusing little story:
Not everyone in Japan thinks that the middle finger means "the glue finger". In fact, I don't think many preschools / early grade schools use that analogy.
If you ask most people who have had experience in Western culture, they will tell you that it means something bad in Western society. But the same people will laugh in your face if you flip the finger at them if you're in Japan (it doesn't have the same connotations as it would over here).

onomeister

HA! Cute kid, Bash.

JohnnytheFuture

Haha I had a feeling that's what it was going to be. That's grand.

Wolfers

That is all kinds of awesome.

PurpleMonkey

@McPoogle: Understandable. One other case is the male affections as well. There are alot of "skin-ship" between males that are just accepted but would commence a series of beatdown in the U.S.

Imagine a crossroad when weighing in the stats of the god-forsaken Patriots while putting your hand on top of another male's knees.

Its the oxymoron of a culture-clash.

Fyren

Reminds me of the time some Japanese foreign exchange students were presenting a project to the class and used their middle fingers to point out details. Of course it was only funny since they were absolutely clueless as to what it meant in America.

Type-R

@RPGr: But Japan is a country that has a reputation for some things that we consider prudish: namely the stereotypical reactions you can recieve to showing affection to a mate in public.

I won't say any more because I have never been to Japan and I can only really get this impression through word-of-mouth or pop-culture references, so I'm not sure of it's validity. But anyway, I'm sure there are all sorts of things about Japan (and lots of countries) we'd consider prudish; the things involved just differ from place to place.

Also, your argument being that since this gesture represents something sexual it shows how America is prudish; couldn't it also argue the openness of sexuality in the society as it's used in another form of emotional expression? Just a thought.

sociologylol

McPoogle

Well, you lose more heat through your head than any other part of your body, but you have more condensed access to the bloodflow in the neck (which is what carries all that heat up to your head in the first place), and your armpits and crotch are the warmest parts of your body (hence why, in first-aid training, they tell you to put your hands in your armpits if your fingers are in danger of getting frostbite). So yeah, it sorta makes sense. But putting them on the forehead _will_ help somewhat.

Purple Dave

I thought this was going to be some kind of parody of a Bond film. While funny, I was disapointed.

DevCo

its funny now, but were gunna have a generation of japanese kids who watch some horrible american movie, and when the mullet-totting muscle clad hero flips off the villain theyre gunna be like "huh whys Max McAsskicker showing his glue finger to the evil German Nazi billionaire villain, what are they gluing!?" Its tragic really.

pandafresh

HALARIOUS.

artofwar420

I'm surprised you didn't know about the neck/armpits. The idea is to get the blood cooled down, and the neck, armpits, inside of the elbow, and back of the knee are the places where the veins and capillaries are closest to the surface.

Whenever I'd get too hot from playing baseball the first thing I'd do is pour some water down my neck and on my inner elbow. That cools you down (and wakes you up) right quick.

baberg

flip him the glue finger! Its still offensive in the southern hemisphere, except its not called the bird.

juliopalio

Lemmie see, I was told flipping someone off started in Great Britain, captured archers would have one of their two fingers, index or middle, cut off so they couldn't shoot anymore. They would wave those two fingers to those opposing armies, taunting them that they still had a whole hand. Of course people migrated to America, and let's face it, Americans can be lazy, so they reduced it to one finger.

The more you know...

MangaDragon56

So you've finally decided to reveal the very face of Win itself.

Cute kid, as suspected. It looks like you might have a future international action star.......or the next Hyde.

I suspect he's gonna be a handsone dude. Like a half-Japanese Russel Wong. I'm sure he'll get lots of use out of the glue finger....

If only for flipping off his dad for putting him on the interwebz.

Billkwando

Cute story... but more importantly, Bashcraft, your son is adorable and I will be stealing him for personal omigodthecute at the next available opportunity.
...squee. Oh yes, I'm /clucky/ today.

Achenar

Great hairstyle. I had a bucket over my head and was buzzed when I was a young kid in the hillside of nam dae moon.

I just had to have a smirk. Very cute Mini-bashcraft.

Fyren

@RPGr: but how exactly did we get on north america? thats what im trying to figure out

bigman88zz

haha hilarious!!

Kimiko

@Kavatar: Read my above post. You'd have to have some knowledge of censorship, cultural perspectives and what is exactly the worst "swear" each country has.

Most are about violence. Very few cultures have the most offensive swear as an allusion to something sexual.

In Japan, the middle finger really doesn't mean anything and in many countries it certainly doesn't (although some learn it from US media).

RPGr

LOL....now ain't that somethin' MINI-BASH you're the man

functioningbadly

@bigman88zz: Prudes are meant for people who are stuck up about sexuality. It's funny how NA makes the biggest "swear" word about sexuality. Starting to get it?

RPGr

When he gets older, Mini-Bash has gotta start writing for Kotaku. It'd be the first dynastic blog.

kylenalepa

Hahaha! Go Mini-Bash Go !!!

dead_red_eyes

I always put the icepacks on my jugular when I was ill. Figured directly cooling the blood heading for the brain was a good idea.
Adorable little kid.

Mattz

I never had a glue finger in school. Hell, I never used a finger for anything. I just ate everything. Glue, playdoh, a one time trip with a lego piece. Actually, assigning fingers is a good thing. Prevents kids from eating everything like me. It's not a good habit to have in preschool.

BTW, the face completes that picture. It's just so smug.

Phazonmasher

@Retropants regrets nothing: Ok, this was hilarious.

Mav

i've never seen anyone flip someone off while looking so happy and cute as him!

zeropoint.0

Great story and pic!!!

thinred

I never really did understand why the Japanese use the ice-packs on their heads for fevers. When ever I'm feverish, I'm forced to cover myself from head to toe, no need for anything special, except the usual hot water or medicine. Then again they stick pieces of paper in their nose in hopes of curbing nosebleeds...

Angryrider

just don't show that "glue" finger to non-Japanese...

hate to see the result...

other than that, it's too damm funny...

icepick314

LoL. That is one great picture. Lil' Bash FTW!

MasterSauce

@meltyman: Just an FYI- Nibbles is known as "Steve" 'round these parts.

On topic- The legend that is Mini-Bash just keeps getting bigger and better. So awesome. As always, thanks for sharing, Bash!

HootieMac, The Somewhat Less Angry Twins Fan

Yeah it's the glue finger, cos when you make the gesture you say well, you know where you can stick this?

Cruithne

I find the glue finger to also double as the 'traffic finger' when cruising LA freeways/parking lots.

theflux

@RPGr: i don't see where you're going with this...

bigman88zz

why does gawker insist on feeding nibbles... I cant see the start of any articles, just the tail end of the articles, and everything else on the page is raised so there's a big gap between the comment box and the links on the bottom of the page

meltyman

@Kavatar: because we are. witness the shitstorm that occured after the Super Bowl a couple years back.

v00deux

where's the picture

meltyman

been misusing that finger all my life for scissors

oh and the fever thing. You put it on the neck b/c blood goes through the neck more then the forhead which is why you check pules there instead of someone's head ^^. Arm pits for well the arms blood has to go through them

Bleentastic sees bandwagon and jumps

hahahaha man that totally made my morning

NightMystic

What were the other two fingers?

Ilia Chentsov

@RPGr: That article shows that many other countries have equivalent gestures that North Americans would find non-offensive, some even with positive meanings. So why do you proclaim this as "proof" that North Americans are prudes?

Kavatar

Oh, what I would give to see an entire class of cute-as-a-button kids flippin' the bird...

You know what you've just done, Brian? Many of us will have a huge grin plastered on our face the next time someone gives us the finger. So thank you for preventing a few bar fights.

If I had pictures like that from my childhood, I wouldn't hate every single photo of me so much. I'm sure Mini-Bash will treasure that pic years from now.

me, my yoke + i

[en.wikipedia.org]

Damn it, my previous paste wasn't done properly

RPGr

@DrunkenNinja12: See my previous post (wiki article), the middle finger is not universal.

RPGr

@sloner: @Camann:
Actually, I frequently use that finger for my glueing purposes. Keeps my index finger clean for other works. Now that I think about it, one of my art teachers in University show us to do it that way too. Of course he didn't call it something juvenile like the "glue finger" but the f**king awesome finger.

EphNE

@3inst3in:
[en.wikipedia.org])

The middle finger is only what it is mostly in North America. Any other usages in other parts of the world is due to North American media influences like movies.

Also, note: in general North Americans are prudes. No more is this seen than in our media. Sexual references (which is what the middle finger is) in comparison to the rest of the world, including UK, EU,Japan, China, etc. is seen as taboo.

On the flip side extreme violence has much more acceptance in North American media and society has far less impact than mild sex scenes do.

I could make a movie with no violence and a mild soft sex scene or some nudity and it would garner an R rating. Likewise I could show the murdering of hundreds of people and as long as I don't show blood, it'd be rated PG-13 (Lord of the Rings for instance).

RPGr

Not the best thing to be seeing in the middle of class with other people looking at your monitor, but at least it was this and not a "Hot Tears of Shame/Maximum Risky" post.

Pezdispenser

@sloner: It has nothing to do with glue inherently. The teacher had them associate each arts and crafts item with a finger. Probably so the teacher could put up a finger to show the class which they should use at a given time.

lol++;

Camann

Is the middle finger a universal sign for F you? Or is it simply a finger out there in the wonderful world of Japan?

I have a son myself, and my wife has yelled at me many times when she sees him smile like that. That smile says "My dad is letting me do something I'm not supposed to do" so I'm assuming the middle finger has the same effect there as here in the states.

DrunkenNinja12

Mini-Bash, is right! Kotaku is number one!

doubtful

If the teacher was in on this joke and expected this to be hilarious, then that teacher wins everything.

Robotube

Hate to be the party pooper, but I fail to see what one's middle finger has to do with glue. While I find it amusing, I also find it confusing.

sloner

@RPGr: erm, what? because we have an offensive hand gesture? i guess that makes italians, germans, the chinese, koreans...,hell basically every country, prudes also

3inst3in

Cute! Love the mini-bash.

ToolTip

I can't wait for Mini Bash to start watching imported American movies and pose the question:

"Dad? Why are they showing off their glue fingers at each other?"

Komrade_Kayce

Glue finger? I call that the bum finger..:S

hotfiredude123

glue finger?

oldirtdog

Heh, that's so cute. Mini Bash rules.

Magic Emperor Anima

*LMAO!!!* He's naughty.

Random J

Haha, exactly as I thought.

Proof that people in North America are prudes!

RPGr

Hahaha, this is awesome.

Clushje

I lol'd, thanks ashcraft.
I'll go to bed with a smile on my face tonight.

Waka in Japan

Yeah? Well FUCK YOU TOO, mini-Bash!

Alternate ending: "Horn broken, watch for glue finger."

rannic

Gluefingerrrr~~

He's the kid, the kid with the Claggy touch
A sticky touch
Such a rude finger
Beckons you to enter his world of crafts
But miss, I'm not even in this class

Retropants regrets nothing

Ah, so that's what they call it in Japan. "Glue Finger". That and the Icy Pad bit just show how much Japan really is ahead of us all. Thanks for the info, Bashcraft! :)

Shiryu

@ggodo: Yeah, it was like the influx of "this is not news" people. You think after being up and running for years now, people would come to realise that Kotaku's a blog. :D

satek

despite having spent a fair amount of time teaching youngsters, i can't say i really understand the thinking behind teaching your class a scissors finger, a crayon finger, or a glue finger, but i know funny when i see it, and the glue finger should be entered into the grand lexicon of all kotakuites. though we mourn the death of hot tears of shame, we celebrate the birth of the glue finger. such is the cycle of ... euphemistic language ... or something like that.

thaKingRocka

Yeah, to cool a temp you need to get it on a well-travelled vein. I've seen people put ice packs on their wrists, I don't know if I could stand the armpit.

As for the glue finger, that is hilarious and a keeper story for many years to come.

Islandkiwi

Hilarious. Couldn't ask for a better start in the morning.

MykalBloom

@satek: People were complaining about the night/day notes? Huh, it's not like they get in the way of anything, and the night notes often have interesting little glimpses of a japan that I never see.

ggodo

wow, I just loled. thank you, bash and mini bash

3inst3in

hahahahhahaha made my morning

Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.

Did you laugh out loud? I can imagine it would be pretty priceless seing all these cute little kids showing their "glue fingers." I would have smurked at least. Ha ha great picture.

Also the day and night notes really make kotaku a community and more interesting place to be, discussions and topics can vary and new things are learnt. So I'm glad people seem to have calmed down with the b*tching about them... that or they were deservedly ban-hammered. :0

satek

Nice, that comes standard on american children with no schooling required.

Mr Fortitude

Priceless

Agies

He looks like he grasps the connotation.

InsidiousTuna

this is pretty standard in japan, no? glue fingers and the like!

nice pic bash.

tkshredder

I usually call this the issue finger, but "Glu Finger" is much better!

GOD

ROFLCOPTER!

Dauragon C. Mikado

Best picture I've ever seen!

baked ham

I knew it!

Danarcho

Now every time someone flips me off, I'm going to have to respond with "Why in the world are you showing me your glue finger?"

Elderwulf

LMAO, Pure PWNAGE! (shit I owe someone a nickle now)

-EDGE-

So that is what that finger does...and here I thought it was a rude gesture. The things children teach you, eh?

Dreadfish

Mini B = Best Evar~

Witzbold