Your Parents and Cubing

~Phoenix Death~ said:
Sorry for bumping. But I sort of have an interesting story to tell.
Idk if this is because I'm Asian.
It seems that my mom HATES it when I disassemble my puzzles. She thinks I'm breaking them deliberately. Yeah, I bought a V Cube 6 just to break it...
I try to tell her there's a difference between disassembling/assembling and breaking.
Even my Arcalan 2x2 is a huge deal. Cause it has internal pieces.
Now my 3x3 is no problem.
Pretty much V Cubes are a no-no dis assembly in front of my mom.
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Sorry for double posting, but this is not because you are Asian but because women don't understand the need to disassemble things to see how they work.
 
CuBeOrDiE said:
~Phoenix Death~ said:
Sorry for bumping. But I sort of have an interesting story to tell.
Idk if this is because I'm Asian.
It seems that my mom HATES it when I disassemble my puzzles. She thinks I'm breaking them deliberately. Yeah, I bought a V Cube 6 just to break it...
I try to tell her there's a difference between disassembling/assembling and breaking.
Even my Arcalan 2x2 is a huge deal. Cause it has internal pieces.
Now my 3x3 is no problem.
Pretty much V Cubes are a no-no dis assembly in front of my mom.
Click to expand...

Sorry for double posting, but this is not because you are Asian but because women don't understand the need to disassemble things to see how they work.
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That's pretty sexist. There are plenty of female cubers here that understand the need to disassemble things better than we (me and you) do.
And she, my mom, used to be an engineer, so she disassembles more than I have.
 
My parents are 100% unsupportave. They keep telling me I'm wasting my life, why don't I pick up a book instead of wasting time on worthess s***. (Her exact words)

Great support. not.

BTW: I live in the US.
BTW Again: I am a female who sees the need to disassemble puzzles.
BTW for the 3rd Time: Im asain, but my parents aren't.
 
My parent think its better than sitting at the computer all summer, and they support it and dont mind buying cubes every once in a while
 
I'm not so sure. My mom seems to be fairly neutral. My dad...he finds it annoying at times, and thinks I do it too much (I bring a cube with me fairly often, but I don't let it get in the way of other things). However, he likes that it's a fairly intelligent hobby. He knows I have a very mathematically oriented mind (as does he; it's probably where I got it from). I liked his reaction to seeing world records, though. I was explaining what Nationals was and he ended up on the WCA website. I think he found the "youngest solvers" section amazing. 4 year olds? I have to say, that even amazes me.

My sister...she insults me for it (lightly) but doesn't really object to it very loudly. She just says "OMGLOL WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BRING YOUR STUPID CUBE WITH YOU" and leaves it at that.
 
My parents both think it's kind of cool, and when I bring it out in public and solve they like to brag about how I can do it. It's annoying for me though, because my parents have each popped my v-cube 6 and 7 and megaminx when I told them to be careful...
 
04mucklowd said:
For Example, Here in the UK I have heard many stories about how parents are unsupportive of cubing
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Hmm, well I live in the UK and my parents are fine with it. My dad used to have a cube back in the 80s, but he's forgotten how to solve it. He says he used to do it in under a minute with his own technique, but I am sceptical about this...
Once I tried to teach beginners method to my mum but she couldn't get past first layer corners :/
My sister often gets annoyed with me and says that when she is trying to sleep at night, all she can hear is the clicking of Rubik's cubes through my wall :p
 
Rinfiyks said:
04mucklowd said:
For Example, Here in the UK I have heard many stories about how parents are unsupportive of cubing
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Hmm, well I live in the UK and my parents are fine with it. My dad used to have a cube back in the 80s, but he's forgotten how to solve it. He says he used to do it in under a minute with his own technique, but I am sceptical about this...
Once I tried to teach beginners method to my mum but she couldn't get past first layer corners :/
My sister often gets annoyed with me and says that when she is trying to sleep at night, all she can hear is the clicking of Rubik's cubes through my wall :p
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Use an F II or Ghosthand. Nuff said
 
Rinfiyks said:
04mucklowd said:
For Example, Here in the UK I have heard many stories about how parents are unsupportive of cubing
Click to expand...

Hmm, well I live in the UK and my parents are fine with it. My dad used to have a cube back in the 80s, but he's forgotten how to solve it. He says he used to do it in under a minute with his own technique, but I am sceptical about this...
Once I tried to teach beginners method to my mum but she couldn't get past first layer corners :/
My sister often gets annoyed with me and says that when she is trying to sleep at night, all she can hear is the clicking of Rubik's cubes through my wall :p
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I guess it is not for evenyone in the UK
My brother gets annoyed too when I am cubing
 
My mom doesn't care. And my step-dad just kind of makes fun of me about it>.> But he says, "In all seriousness, keep cubing, nerds are the ones who run the country"
 
~Phoenix Death~ said:
Sorry for bumping. But I sort of have an interesting story to tell.
Idk if this is because I'm Asian.
It seems that my mom HATES it when I disassemble my puzzles. She thinks I'm breaking them deliberately. Yeah, I bought a V Cube 6 just to break it...
I try to tell her there's a difference between disassembling/assembling and breaking.
Even my Arcalan 2x2 is a huge deal. Cause it has internal pieces.
Now my 3x3 is no problem.
Pretty much V Cubes are a no-no dis assembly in front of my mom.
Click to expand...

That reminds me of a Dave Barry column where he wrote a quiz to tell if you're a guy. The very first question was:

1) Alien beings from a highly advanced society visit the Earth, and you are the first human they encounter. As a token of intergalactic friendship, they present you with a small but incredibly sophisticated device that is capable of curing all disease, providing an infinite supply of clean energy, wiping out hunger and poverty, and permanently eliminating oppression and violence all over the entire Earth. You decide to:
a. Present it to the president of the United States
b. Present it to the secretary general of the United Nations
c. Take it apart and see how it works

(I saw your post about it being sexist to say it's a guy thing, but if stereotypes were true they wouldn't be funny)
 
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brunson said:
~Phoenix Death~ said:
Sorry for bumping. But I sort of have an interesting story to tell.
Idk if this is because I'm Asian.
It seems that my mom HATES it when I disassemble my puzzles. She thinks I'm breaking them deliberately. Yeah, I bought a V Cube 6 just to break it...
I try to tell her there's a difference between disassembling/assembling and breaking.
Even my Arcalan 2x2 is a huge deal. Cause it has internal pieces.
Now my 3x3 is no problem.
Pretty much V Cubes are a no-no dis assembly in front of my mom.
Click to expand...

That reminds me of a Dave Barry column where he wrote a quiz to tell if you're a guy. The very first question was:

1) Alien beings from a highly advanced society visit the Earth, and you are the first human they encounter. As a token of intergalactic friendship, they present you with a small but incredibly sophisticated device that is capable of curing all disease, providing an infinite supply of clean energy, wiping out hunger and poverty, and permanently eliminating oppression and violence all over the entire Earth. You decide to:
a. Present it to the president of the United States
b. Present it to the secretary general of the United Nations
c. Take it apart and see how it works

(I saw your post about it being sexist to say it's a guy thing, but if stereotypes were true they wouldn't be funny)
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Did...you just...randomly add "and see how it works" for no reason :confused: Or did you recite that from memory ;)
 
Its not a big deal really, just another hobby. Sort of impressive. But every time I drop my cube they tend to get piiiisssseeeedd D:
 
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