This one is silly.
The other night my 7 year old son and I were hanging out at the kitchen table after eating dinner just talking, scrolling through tiktoks of silly animals, and somehow the subject of world records came up. He wanted to see some world records being broken, so I searched for them and started scrolling through the results. Most videos were swimmers or Usain Bolt, but every now and then something weird would pop up (there is, apparently, a world record for setting upright and knocking over books).
The silliest, and our collective favorite, was a guy breaking the record for the number of bras unclipped in 60 seconds. The setup: two rows of people, mostly women, lined up facing away from the middle. The women were wearing shirts with the backs cut out so the clip on their bras were accessible. This was all very official, with a crowd and everything. When the timer started, the guy went rapidly down one side, unclipping bras at impressive speed, then back up the other side, with a team behind him re-clipping the bras so he could just go up and down as often as possible within the time limit. …MOST of the bra-wearers were women. Every now and then one of the bra-wearers was just a guy, shirtless, wearing a bra. My son is seven, so when he saw 4 men in a row wearing bras, he laughed hysterically. I have the maturity of a 12 year old so of course I was also laughing. I couldn’t stop imagining the whole process of volunteering to help with a world record, being asked to take your shirt off and put on a bra, then stand there in front of a crowd waiting. It was very funny. Everyone seemed like they were having a good time. We laughed then moved on.
The FU comes from my failure to tell my wife about the video, because that night at bed time our son very enthusiastically told her about “the video dad showed me of a guy taking off bras!” The little booger could not have possibly worded it more suspiciously. She came and asked me about the “bra videos” that I showed our son. I had to quickly explain the context of the video to her, trying not to burst out laughing again. Luckily for me, she realized long ago that I’m just an idiot and not a sleezeball.
TL;DR, showed my kid a video of bra-removal world record, kid told his mom about ‘the bra video’, wife almost looked like she was about to choke me
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I absolutely thought the FU was going to be that your son started asking women “let’s see how fast I can undo your bra”
The reality is much tamer thankfully
You showed this to a 7 year old? It’s so misogynistic and objectifying of women. Gross. I hope your wife stays pissed for while, and I hope you talk to your son about how stuff done for TV and for world records is not what people normally do.
Found the video for anyone interested! It’s even better than OP described. The men standing in bras clapping at the end while they show off the clicky counter thing sent me
https://youtu.be/z3pHb4_DCSg?si=gshV0pkuLj1kv1sl
thought this was gonna be about world music vinyl records…
It’s a good thing your kid isn’t in 5th or 6th grade.
Someone has to break it to you, so it might as well be me. Those guys weren’t wearing Bras, they were wearing Bros.
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I thought he would now be insufferable with trying to break random records of his own.
Here was me thinking your now grown up child has an expensive vinyl collecting habit…
I showed one of my sons (about 4 at the time) the video of Taylor Swift performing Trouble at a Victoria’s Secret show. A few days later, he said to my wife, “Mummy, your bras are boring!”
I need him at my next orgy.
When my daughter was small I was taking about pogo sticks, so I thought I would find a clip of a woman pogoing because it was mostly men on YouTube. So I found this clip:
https://youtu.be/Mi4s6pBppUE?feature=shared&t=64s (NSFW)
Get that boy a book of Guinness world records! He’ll love reading more than ever.
the real record is how fast your son made it sound illegal 💀 glad your wife knows you’re just a certified goofball
From the title I thought you had accidentally gotten your son into Nigerian funk or Zamrock lol
Was that record set by Sam Malone?
I wouldn’t be surprised if in the future your kid becomes a bog standard regulation listener of the Regulation Podcast. It’s an absurd and silly podcast and the hosts are obsessed with numbers, counting things, and world records.
“…she realized long ago that I’m just an idiot…”
Honestly, that’s the way most marriages stay intact. 😂