The little Viking has been playing with some new friends and has introduced them to his concept of the Bam-Bam.
It’s his own made-up word for when anyone or anything acts dumb, is generally irritating him, in the way, and so on. He says it quite good naturedly, usually smiling and/or running away.
While I understand and sympathise with his need for expressing his general contempt at human stupidity, I had not fully appreciated his genius until today, when, using magna-tiles, he built a 2D representation of the Bam-Bam.
He showed it to me proudly when he had finished:
“Look daddy! The Bam-Bam!”
I tried to reproduce it here using a basic finger-painting app. I got his approval that it’s a fair representation before posting it.
The details are important. Note the lack of arms to do anything useful with, the chicken-like appearance of the body, for a running around while doing nothing useful, the Robin Hood like hat for a pretence at some sort of suave, upper-class yet understated co-ordination with the pointy green shoes. A perfect capture of the average hipster know-it-all who in reality is an ignorant ass.
Feast your eyes on the glory that is… The Bam-Bam!
PS: my wife points out he’s saying Bum-Bum in English, but his pronunciation is Bam-Bam in Italian. I’m just making his word for ass-heads more socially acceptable.
The Bam-Bam
The little Viking has been playing with some new friends and has introduced them to his concept of the Bam-Bam.
It’s his own made-up word for when anyone or anything acts dumb, is generally irritating him, in the way, and so on. He says it quite good naturedly, usually smiling and/or running away.
While I understand and sympathise with his need for expressing his general contempt at human stupidity, I had not fully appreciated his genius until today, when, using magna-tiles, he built a 2D representation of the Bam-Bam.
He showed it to me proudly when he had finished:
“Look daddy! The Bam-Bam!”
I tried to reproduce it here using a basic finger-painting app. I got his approval that it’s a fair representation before posting it.
The details are important. Note the lack of arms to do anything useful with, the chicken-like appearance of the body, for a running around while doing nothing useful, the Robin Hood like hat for a pretence at some sort of suave, upper-class yet understated co-ordination with the pointy green shoes. A perfect capture of the average hipster know-it-all who in reality is an ignorant ass.
Feast your eyes on the glory that is… The Bam-Bam!
PS: my wife points out he’s saying Bum-Bum in English, but his pronunciation is Bam-Bam in Italian. I’m just making his word for ass-heads more socially acceptable.
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