Weird ass phenomenon: cooties.

[Tim Cornelis]

wtf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooties

I still don't get it. Can anyone from those countries explain, why?

[Slavic]

It is one of the few diseases were its vaccination is not only available world-wide, but also has no cost.

[Redistribute the Rep]

wtf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooties

I still don't get it. Can anyone from those countries explain, why?

When kids are young they act like the opposite sex has 'cooties' and kids think that's why they shouldn't be too close with the opposite sex. Sometimes it's encouraged by adults

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

wtf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooties

I still don't get it. Can anyone from those countries explain, why?

Basically, if you're a male child, you have cooties, which depending upon the strength of your coolness cells, it can lay completely dormant or in some cases escalate into severe, chronic nerdom. Early detection is key and it also highly contagious and found to be deadly in girls. Young girls would be advised to stay away from them with the affliction unless they are cool and chew candy cigarettes and have a leather jacket. This is most common, visible signs of strong coolness cells within little boys.

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTZyvYHMjF5lyj1SQ4ibGWSKKALSayLZ 8V6JufXVIfosdGAp3ZTVg

[slum]

huh, i had no idea this wasn't a universal thing, figured it was a standard group behavior among children for projecting 'uncleanliness' onto perceived others.

it's not always attributed just to kids of another sex, any child who is singled out as undesirable/ the scapegoat can be considered to have "cooties".

[M-L-C-F]

As they said on Cow and Chicken back in the day:


Mom: Oh Chicken! You don't get cooties from being kissed; listen to Father!

Chicken: You don't?

Dad: No son, you get them from... Toilet seats.

[BIXX]

Basically, if you're a male child, you have cooties, which depending upon the strength of your coolness cells, it can lay completely dormant or in some cases escalate into severe, chronic nerdom. Early detection is key and it also highly contagious and found to be deadly in girls. Young girls would be advised to stay away from them with the affliction unless they are cool and chew candy cigarettes and have a leather jacket. This is most common, visible signs of strong coolness cells within little boys.

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTZyvYHMjF5lyj1SQ4ibGWSKKALSayLZ 8V6JufXVIfosdGAp3ZTVg

Blasphemy, every young boy knows only girls have cooties.

[motion denied]

the day i stopped having these was the best day of my childhood

feels good to be accepted <3

[Tim Cornelis]

huh, i had no idea this wasn't a universal thing, figured it was a standard group behavior among children for projecting 'uncleanliness' onto perceived others.

it's not always attributed just to kids of another sex, any child who is singled out as undesirable/ the scapegoat can be considered to have "cooties".

Yeah that's what's so weird. It's so utterly alien to me, I understand what it is, but not why. Why cooties, and not just name-calling for instance (like "you're gross" "I don't like you").


the day i stopped having these was the best day of my childhood

feels good to be accepted <3

I have no idea if this is serious. I very much doubt it, but maybe... Like, do kids really take "cooties" this seriously that you (though maybe not other kids) can identify when you stopped having cooties?

[motion denied]

I have no idea if this is serious. I very much doubt it, but maybe... Like, do kids really take "cooties" this seriously that you (though maybe not other kids) can identify when you stopped having cooties?

Little girl actually said it. "X doesn't have cooties anymore, he's cool", and all of a sudden I was cool and cooties-free. How did her/they come to this conclusion? I have no idea.

That was not the best time of my childhood, however.

[Sasha]

Little girl actually said it. "X doesn't have cooties anymore, he's cool", and all of a sudden I was cool and cooties-free. How did her/they come to this conclusion? I have no idea.

That was not the best time of my childhood, however.


all girls, up until puberty, posses a special cootie sensing organ, this is common knowledge and a biological fact.

[BIXX]

I still call bullshit. I distinctly remember the great Cootie War of Third Grade revolving around the fact that some girls had massive counts of cooties, and that we had to avoid them at all costs.

[consuming negativity]

I still call bullshit. I distinctly remember the great Cootie War of Third Grade revolving around the fact that some girls had massive counts of cooties, and that we had to avoid them at all costs.

Those were difficult times. I prefer not to talk about it...

[Zukunftsmusik]

It's called girl flees here. Girls have them naturally, boys are smitten if touching or being too close to girls for too long.

[Sasha]

Meisjes- and jongens-smeer (girl and boy- grease) it was called when I was a kid, it wasn't as much a conttaigus disease but you could certainly smear it on other boys or girls so lots of screaming and running was in order...

[Tim Cornelis]

Hmm odd. I've never heard of that.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Those were difficult times. I prefer not to talk about it...

Those were dark days, indeed. I still dream of the screams, of the giggles....oh Jesus, the GIGGLES!!!!!:ohmy::ohmy::ohmy::ohmy:

[BIXX]

Don't remind me, friend... It hurts too much.

[bropasaran]

Hm, a fictional disease. Here, the kids "play scabies", one starts as "the scabies" and then chases the other kids to touch them, when he does, he yells "scabies!" and then that touched kid is the "the scabies" and has to chase the others. All kids play it, no gender distinction is involved.

[Lily Briscoe]

I only like the ones with the cooties. :sleep:

[Slavic]

Meisjes- and jongens-smeer (girl and boy- grease) it was called when I was a kid, it wasn't as much a conttaigus disease but you could certainly smear it on other boys or girls so lots of screaming and running was in order...

Eww, fictitious childhood diseases suck where ever your from.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

Eww, fictitious childhood diseases suck where ever your from.

Silence, my child, I must coat thee in my girl grease for winter.

[motion denied]

It was known as germes (literally germs) here.

Boy/girl grease sounds ok in English.

Dutch is horrible.