The happy side-to-side sway of the first one as she strides into the room and the look of glee on the second one as she glides around the doorway are just priceless. Those are some happy kids.
I like how the map wafts off the wall from the whoosh of air as the door shuts. And takes a little while to settle down.
"The media could not be played"
That's all I'm seeing.
My god that woman (mother? childminder?) can move fast. She shoots into that room like she's on ice skates.
Exactly. The media can't play but small children can't not play.
6: I identified strongly with her.
I also liked the combat crouch in an attempt to stay off camera.
It builds so beautifully. In comes the marching kid, and while you're laughing at that, in rolls the baby, and then here comes the road runner, smoke flying from her heels, then the crawling reach, and when it's all over, the distant (not distant enough!) crying of the children.
Audio version of this happened to me this week. On a group call with an organisation, arranging that I chair a group at the nacitaV in June. Lots of people on the call.
Son arrives home from nursery and marches up to join in.
And you know that she was pulling up her pants as she was racing from the bathroom to catch those kids.
It's been said before but is worth repeating. Shitting: wrong for America, wrong for the world.
I also like the BBC guy's voice warming as the first kid comes into shot, while the interviewee still isn't aware.
Also, I agree with Chopper. The kids look happy. The dad is trying hard to suppress his smile. I vote that he is probably a good dad.
It's funny how it wrecks the whole artful illusion he's trying to craft that this is an office in a university or thinktank rather than a room in his house. In particular, the piece of furniture between the camera and the door is carefully arranged with a cover and a few books to make it look like an intellectual's worktable, but then the kid leans against it - it's a bed!
(Not that any of this is bad behavior. I can imagine myself trying to craft the same illusion.)
A frame for this I'm seeing on Twitter: if this had been a woman being interviewed, would everyone be sneering at her unprofessionalism?
Of course they would. And she'd be a monster for pushing her kid away.
I thought how he pushed his kid away looked nasty or at least that he's someone who handles getting caught off guard poorly, and from that read into it that the woman was potentially going to be in big trouble afterwards (and if she's a caregiver, fired). But I watched it without sound--maybe his tone makes it more endearing? What people above say is a suppress smile I saw as gritted teeth. Regardless, the kids are so cute and have so much panache.
If it were a woman, the big reaction would be an indulgent heart-warming smile, and a sentiment of, "those moms, not quite able to hold it all together when they try to add in that high-powered job!" Superficially kind, but taking it as evidence of the harried mom driven to incompetence.
19: huh, I'm in camp "suppressed-smile".
I guess it's less racist, but the new camp names sound more stupid than the fake-Native ones.
s/suppress/suppressed, d'oh.
On another watch through, I see it more your way. And obviously I'd prefer to be wrong on this.
I should call out myself on that it's racist of me to have jumped to the woman being a nanny/caregiver (or as ajay said, childminder). I probably would not have done that (or put a lower probability on it) if she'd been of different phenotype. Guh.
omg, we're such ridiculous liberals. I assumed she was the mom, and then chided myself for being a bad feminist.
Resolved: end the self-criticism session early so we can fawn over how spunky that toddler is. She will launch a thousand memes.
My instinct was she's the mom. It's hard to tell, but the kids look half Asian to me, plus the way she's dragging them out of the room reads mom to me. She's also dressed like a umc woman. I'd expect a nanny to dress a bit differently.
23, 24: We're all doomed and can never win, even against each other.
Both reads of his facial expressions are correct. There's a part of him that recognizes the humor in the situation and responds with a smile, and there's another part of him--the part that's putting all their limbs in the freezer right now.
This follow-up is also funny.
I assumed she was the mom, because of course a specialist in South Korean politics would be married to an Asian woman.
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That too. I assumed she was Korean.
29/30: Is this one of the Kahneman trick questions?
Yes, comments on his Twitter feed say she's the mother (the little girl was apparently crying "Why, Mom?" in Korean). It was suppertime in Korea when the interview was broadcast, so of course the kids would have been expecting Dad to be available to play.
I assume that all specialists in South Korean politics have spouses from China. Because I hate making adjustments to assumptions about base rates.
I assume that all specialists in South Korean politics have spouses from China. Because I hate making adjustments to assumptions about base rates.
What kid would not be gleeful beyond words to breach the door keeping them from the parent's videoconference? None that I have met. Also, as has been noted, the room contains both a screen and a bed. Is that the biggest bed in the house? You can't keep small children from the biggest bed in the house.
Shorter: if your message is "Mom/Dad is videoconferencing in the bedroom," the received message is "Mom/Dad is in the trampoline room watching an interactive movie."
I was on video calls today and yesterday with the kids home sick; you gotta lock that door.
We do Webex. All you need to do if be sure not to share the monitor you have unfogged on.
28. The guy in the twitter thread with the handle Red Leader, is that Kim Jong-Eun?
FWIW, I assumed babysitter, but I also failed to register her ethnicity.
Today I saw a link to someone trying to make the argument that the parents are both monsters, but whatever; killjoys gotta kill joy.
The WSJ scooped the followup interview. It turns out the dad probably isn't a monster. Obviously nothing in this should impugn the mother.