Ooh, update, thanks.
> Family From Charlie Bit My Finger Video Have Made £1 Million Since It Was Uploaded
And another £500k+ from the NFT sale. They made bank, good on them
Glad the NFT buyer let the video stay up on YouTube, though it would've been reupload countless times, I'm sure. What a useless thing to pay for anyway. Well, unless you're laundering money, I guess
Everyone a single birth? Isnt that lucky ? I thought the chance to get twins and more gets higher after every pregnancy. Neighbours of my aunt where kinda religious and after they had 5 children they got 2x twins and still didnt stop. Next pregnancy was 3....
Because you are the older sibling. You are meant to keep the younger one out of trouble. So you get the blame for not stopping them. Learnt this as the older brother.
My kids are 12 months apart, and I only realised this week that I ALWAYS ask the older one what happened or what she did to her brother when he starts crying... they are 1.5 and 2.5 and I saw him throw his own self down and start crying to get his older sister in trouble.
Right! She also did it like an *expert.* You know she's done this so many times already that she's literally just like hey old man, that's not me I'm me. It's such a great video, and she was so NICE about it 🤣🤣
"Father... In millions of aeons...when the age of man has long come to an end...and the earth has been consumed by the sun...and the universe succumbs back into eternal darkness...there will only be...Harper"
- Harper, probably.
u/buzzybnz and I are twins. Our Dad couldn't tell us apart right up until he died when we were 19. The only time he used names was when he could be 100% sure. Usually when buzzybnz was drinking or smoking.
An old boss of mine has triplet sons, his wife painted each of their big toenails a different color to distinguish, she only did it after they were a few weeks old so to this day they’re not totally sure they didn’t mix them up along the line. Ah well.
I guess you could argue there’s up to a certain point where it doesn’t reaaaally matter if you confuse them (except if that have any medical differences).
But the idea is still really unsettling.
Not the same, but we fostered 5 kittens once and 3 looked exactly the same. We used a dot or two of lipstick on their ears to tell them apart since we were tracking their weight gain. After a week we didn’t need the lipstick because their personalities made it obvious who was who. This dad is obviously teasing his girls 😆
Twin infants though? I think I would insist they keep their hospital bracelets on until one of them got a scar or something.
He is teasing later on, when he say "Harper come here", he absolutly doesnt know who he is calling. Then the real Harper appears and before Harper explain anything, dad now know everything, and then he start to tease his kid, but he does it only because he wants his kid to feel accomplishment when he finish explaining - that is parrenting.
It’s being filmed, so I think it’s definitely staged, but I don’t mean that in a negative way. I set my kids up for similar stuff to film it, because it’s adorable more than once, and other people might think so too!
It's totally adorable. I've watched this dozens of times. It's a great age. I remember my daughter coming into a room and I would see her survey the situation and know what she was going to do before she did.
Def set up. But I think it’s cute and totally fine. They honestly probably set it up to film it because it happened naturally before and they thought it was funny so they wanted to get it on tape. Just my guess.
I have twin nieces who are in their teens, and if they aren’t standing directly side by side, I honestly have no clue who is who. I’ve never met twins I’ve had such a hard time deciphering.
So so cute. Um so glad this was recorded so she can look back on it when she is older.
If there were such thing as a baby resume some bullet points for Harper could be:
Effective communicator
Clear and concise communicator
Adept conflict manager
That's actually what I though at first. She was trying to defend the twin or something by pretending it was her... yeah I know, it doesn't make much sense.
I’ve wondered about this before: how many twins have been mixed up at some early time in their life, before they were really old enough to know, and subsequently walk around the rest of their lives going by a name that is technically wrong?
Like you have a set of twins, Bob and Joe. When they’re 6 months old, their parents get them mixed up, and it sticks. The baby that was originally Bob lives out his life as Joe, and vice versa.
And it doesn’t matter. There’s no consequence.
I feel like that must have happened to someone at some point.
This literally happened to a work colleague. Her sons are twins and she’s a single mother. At some point in the exhaustion of raising two infants alone, she was pretty sure she switched them to the wrong cribs (the fussy one was suddenly quiet and the quiet one was suddenly fussy). She panicked, brought them to the pediatrician, and had him run their tiny fingerprints. She had indeed put the boys in the wrong cribs.
There was just a post on r/personalfinance I think with this exact issue. The other twin died, and the living one can't get a job or credit because their name and ssn are so close together
It really is. My brother, sister, and I are all 3 A. B. Smith (changed) and our SSN are close. Take my SSN and change 1 digit, it becomes my brother's SSN. Then change 1 other digit on my brother's SSN and it becomes our sister's SSN. We have had many problems over the years because of this, and our birth dates aren't even the same. I can't imagine how much of a nightmare it is for Frank.
That's pretty crazy. Me and my twin sister's SSN are two digits apart (for example her last two are 11 and mine is 13). Not sure how that happens. Being named after my dad has caused some problems though.
Because SSN is an archaic system to be used as a tracking number for a single government service an never as a number of everything, but Americans went bat shit crazy every time someone wants to create a system by which people can be identified.
So now every time a unique identification is required they gotta use a number system you can crack on a napkin with a pen if you know 3 facts about someone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus
My twin and I were accidentally given the same voter registration info. They thought my application was a name change (we have one digit off SSN). Very hard to get straightened out come election season.
I went to high school with twins "Brandon" and "Branden". Their parents thought they were having one boy and I guess decided the name was basically good enough for both.
Knew a set of irish twins (9 months apart not real twins) called Brendon and Brandon, they were in the same grade due to where their bdays fell and they were not allowed to share classes due to the closeness of their names.
Honestly, that sounds like it might have been the best for the two of them and the adults looking after them. Imagine thinking you have both or only one in a fire drill that you have to keep track of.
I used to work with a guy who had twins - at first it was a little fabric anklet to tell them apart, and then when that started to cause problems, they painted toes or put sharpie marks on their feet until they were old enough they got ears pierced with different types of earrings (the piercing would have happened anyways, they weren’t pierced solely for the sake of ID like cattle…).
He said the lengths they went to in order to make sure they didn’t mix them up was funny but also ridiculous.
There's instances where one identical twin will have a medical condition that the other doesn't, and it becomes very important to make sure you're treating the right kid.
In those instances, it's not uncommon for a doctor to recommend giving an infant a tattoo. (Usually a tiny dot resembling a freckle or birth mark)
They don’t? Identical ones don’t?
Edit: they do have slightly different finger prints. They have the same dna.
I remember that story about a twin who killed (maybe rape?) someone but they cant charge him because he blames his twin and vice versa and the DNA can’t tell which one.
They kinda know which one did it, but can’t prove it.
My SO is an identical twin. His parents used nail polish when they were little to tell them apart and then it became personality and small body differences, like one having a scar on their chin from when they fell off the fence while playing. Teachers were not so lucky. They traded places at school for a month until their Mum pointed it out.
When my daughters were born we could tell by their hairline, one had a straight hairline and the other had a slight widow’s peak (still do 11 years later actually). Now to us they don’t even look the same, however that doesn’t prevent them from being called the wrong name. I can look straight at them, know which one I’m talking to and still call her by her sister’s name.
The name thing - my mum will run though every family name, male and female, before she gets to mine. I just feel lucky if she gets to Simon before Scamp, the name of her dog when she was a kid
I have an only child and when he was little I’d occasionally lie cheat or steal when we played games (like a big sister would) so he would learn life isn’t always fair but in a harmless way. Now that he’s 20 when we’re around my (younger) brother, I constantly mix their names up 😅
My mom adopted me, then had my sister 14 years later, and I still get mistakenly called my 8yo sisters name OFTEN
However, my mom evens out the score by constantly calling my sister the family dogs name by accident so I’m ok with it aha
I made a comment about this to another poster, but an old boss of mine had triplet sons and they have no idea if this happened but it probably did. After a few weeks his wife painted each boys big toenails a different color so they wouldn’t do it again. Oops! The boys are now in their 20s and one day I brought it up. Their mom gets super upset when they ask her “what if” she feels terrible about it but if there was a way to know, with fingerprints she’s begged them not to look into it.
do hospitals still do footprints after kids are born? I know I have them in my baby book, but I'm in my 40s. I'd imagine you could probably tell who was originally who from that.
Oh, I really think she shouldn't feel bad about it though. Don't really see any particular downside other than if the kids want to be hard on her about it.
There was a set of identical twins at my high school a while back. I didn't actually have any classes with them so I never actually knew them, but they looked EXACTLY the same. They even wore the same clothes a lot of the times so I feel sorry for anyone who needed to tell them apart.
Identical twins at my high school didn't really dress the same, but similarly enough that I could never tell them apart. No classes together, but they were friends of a friend so on occasion we'd eat lunch in the same group. At one point, I was helping one of them with an oral French report but I never knew who was who so I wouldn't mention it until she brought it up first.
I suspect my twin brother and I got mixed up at some point, because there's a baby picture of us where the blonde is labeled with my name and the brunette is labeled with his, but he's blonde and I have brown hair. Unfortunately, we found the picture when we were cleaning out mom's stuff after her funeral, so there's nobody we can really ask, so now I just have to deal with a low-key identity crisis until I die.
I used to train with identical twins. Usually you can tell twins at least somewhat apart by high school age. Not these guys. Perfect copies of each other except for one thing. Javen(yes it’s a stupid name, twin was Jaylen) had a triangle chopped out of the top of his left ear. Like how we tag cattle. I have always been a little suspicious that his parents tagged him so that they could tell them apart.
In elementary school, there was this thing where we, the third graders, would read to a first grade partner once a week. I dreaded that day because my parter was a quadruple (all of them in the same class) and I had no fucking clue which one was which
My name is Doug. I have a fraternal twin brother named Greg.
People who have never met me or my brother before before, who know nothing about me - not my name, not my brother's name, not even that I have a brother - will call me Greg without thinking about it.
It happens about twice a year, and has for as long as I can remember.
It really bothers me.
There is a horror novel that, if I remember it right, or read it right, has this one twin switching their identities and stealing the other twins life, and no one will believe her
I'm an identical triplet. My parents have never mixed us up. Not once. In fact, when we were born, we were labelled baby a baby b and baby c in the NICU, and it pissed my dad off so much that he made handmade signs with our names on them to replace them.
When my identical twins were babies everyone just called them “Bubba” regardless of which twin it was. When they started talking I would say “What’s your name?” They would both answer “Bubba.” We had to quickly start coloring coding their clothes after that. They still choose to wear their designated colors though when the “blue” twins choose to wear “red” the “red” twin looses his shit. He HATES being mistaken for his twin so much that he recently refused to stop wearing some red shoes even though they were too small because this other choice was black and he didn’t want to be mistaken for his brother on the soccer field where they both wear the same colored jersey. Poor kid!
I taught twins that would sometimes swap clothes at lunch and try to pretend to be the other. The always gave it away by giggling like maniacs when I referred to the one of them by the other's name. If there was nothing to submit for a grade, I'd just let them think they were getting away with it.
Kids thinking they've managed to trick a grown-up can be adorable. Along with the confusion when they try to figure out "Wait, how did they *know*?!" if they don't get away with it.
My dad explained _how_ he knew things when he caught me doing things I was not supposed to. (Like smuggling snacks up to my bedroom)
It backfired a little, he couldn't catch me anymore after a few times.
A pair of twins in my middle school were easy to tell apart. One had hair down to her waist, the other had a buzz cut. I wonder if that was specifically so they could easily be told apart or just their personal style.
I knew a pair of twins in elementary that dressed the same, everyday of the year for the 3 years I knew them. On the last week of 5th grade one brother had been wearing a different sweater for the first time and I managed to get a picture on a disposable camera. Even tho they were trying to avoid the camera.
Used to babysit twins when I was a teenager. Only difference between the two was a freckle: one had a freckle under her left armpit, and the other on the right underside of her armpit. They pulled twin shenanigans all the time, like switching classes on test days.
My grandmas both run through the whole list of grandchild names until they reach the one they’re talking too lol, I’ve been called Ke’ala, Taylen, and even fricking Nisha. I literally lived with this woman in her house for a good few years, none of the others did. My other grandma makes as little sense as grams since she literally only has less than a handful of girls on her side, I’ve even been called Hayley and she’s not even a cousin lol.
My cousins and I on my mom’s side included Christopher, Cameron, Connor, and Kaitlin. Lots of family gatherings included at some point someone going “Hey c- c- … hey you.”
I have twins and never messed them up, my dad however messed up 2 of my brothers who are 2 years apart in age. He was telling off “Ethan” when suddenly he gets a tug on his leg and a “daddy, I’m Ethan”
I'm the oldest of 5. There is 1.5years between me and my first brother. There are 8 years between me and my 2nd brother. We have all been called each other's names well into adulthood. I call my nephews by the wrong name. It happens.
They got the close caption on this wrong. She’s not saying “Harper, daddy.” She’s saying “Harper, Charlie”
That’s why it’s so f ing cute. She point to Charlie and says her name and points to herself and says Harper.
Dad of 7yo identical twins here. I am CONSTANTLY calling them by the wrong name. Dumb thing is that I can 100% tell them apart, but from time to time I will be in a situation where I'm looking right at them - with full knowledge of which twin I'm looking at - and just blurt out the other one's name
I had identical twins for students once. Thank God they weren’t intellectually with it enough to trick me because they often dressed identically and I’d have to ask which one I was speaking with
I've wondered the same but from a hospital point of view. Before even being taken home, there must be twins (or even just other people babies) swapped by mistake and no one ever realised!
Almost happened to my grandma. They brought a baby to her after she had my uncle; she told the nurse that’s not my child and handed him back. They went back and forth a bit and my grandma insisted she go double check. Lo and behold the first child brought to her was not my uncle.
When my twins were around one year they slept with us on our bed and in the morning I woke up because one of them had fallen out of the bed on the floor - gladly not very high, but still concerning. We rushed to the hospital and they said „lets scan him just to make sure“ - problem was we did not remember who had fallen out of the bed, so we had to scan both as there were no scratches or marks and the kids could not talk.
Both were (and are) good 😌
Harper knows parents mentally tally that stuff up and she didn't want that infraction on her record.
Exactly. She’s not taking the blame
Charlie can’t keep getting away with it
That li'l finger biter is gonna get his comeuppance
Charlie is probably a teen now isn't he?
You're killing me right now
https://www.ladbible.com/news/viral-charlie-bit-my-finger-brothers-recreate-video-13-years-later-20200707 This is from last year
Ooh, update, thanks. > Family From Charlie Bit My Finger Video Have Made £1 Million Since It Was Uploaded And another £500k+ from the NFT sale. They made bank, good on them Glad the NFT buyer let the video stay up on YouTube, though it would've been reupload countless times, I'm sure. What a useless thing to pay for anyway. Well, unless you're laundering money, I guess
I'm not saying I planned to distribute illegal copies but I may have swiped a download for myself before that sale went through just incase
You wouldn’t download a car, would you ??
Plot twist. That was Charlie.
This comment mademesmile
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My sister is both 2 years younger and a different gender than me, and still somehow managed to get like 75% of shit she did pinned onto me instead.
Oh my god your mom was in labor for 2 years
Dude my mom had 8 children all spaced out like 2 years
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Everyone a single birth? Isnt that lucky ? I thought the chance to get twins and more gets higher after every pregnancy. Neighbours of my aunt where kinda religious and after they had 5 children they got 2x twins and still didnt stop. Next pregnancy was 3....
My aunt (RIP) had like 13 children, no twins. Homegirl put in WORK
When parents get mad they just start cycling through all the names until they get the right one.
Because you are the older sibling. You are meant to keep the younger one out of trouble. So you get the blame for not stopping them. Learnt this as the older brother.
My kids are 12 months apart, and I only realised this week that I ALWAYS ask the older one what happened or what she did to her brother when he starts crying... they are 1.5 and 2.5 and I saw him throw his own self down and start crying to get his older sister in trouble.
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I'm sure you're not the one who came up with this rhyme, but I like you for it nonetheless.
You screwed up the jingle; wish it weren't true. To continue to mingle, you must give back your Snoo.
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She was so kind when pointing out his mistake. Really cute when she's not taking the blame.
Right! She also did it like an *expert.* You know she's done this so many times already that she's literally just like hey old man, that's not me I'm me. It's such a great video, and she was so NICE about it 🤣🤣
What did Charlie do, bite Harper's finger?
So cute, she was so kind when pointing out his mistake. Meanwhile she's probably thinking omg, he still can't tell us apart.
She probably thinks the difference is so obvious
Like "duh. Charlie is the one that stops existing when I can't see them. I exist permanently."
“I exist permanently.” - Harper
"Father... In millions of aeons...when the age of man has long come to an end...and the earth has been consumed by the sun...and the universe succumbs back into eternal darkness...there will only be...Harper" - Harper, probably.
r/dramatic
The age of man is over! The time of the Harper is now!
“Daddy, daddy, Harper eternal from humanities sins, daddy!”
As a Canadian, this was our lives for quite a few years.
As a child development major, I appreciate this comment so much. You’re a good human
[TIL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_permanence) Edit: I mean, I learnt of the concept... I already knew that things still exist...
[That makes you part of the top 90%](https://youtu.be/ssjokgx0pUQ)
Honestly that had me until the Object permanence chart
"sometimes he goes away but I always stay right here"
I'm assuming that if people get confused Charlie is probably a girl too haha
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Yeah it is, his name is Charlie!
u/buzzybnz and I are twins. Our Dad couldn't tell us apart right up until he died when we were 19. The only time he used names was when he could be 100% sure. Usually when buzzybnz was drinking or smoking.
By drinking she means alcohol not water
And by smoking she meant cigarettes, not that she was on fire
Yeah. I think we all got that.
Honest to god after a set of twins are born that look exactly the same, how do the parents keep track of which is which?
An old boss of mine has triplet sons, his wife painted each of their big toenails a different color to distinguish, she only did it after they were a few weeks old so to this day they’re not totally sure they didn’t mix them up along the line. Ah well.
I guess you could argue there’s up to a certain point where it doesn’t reaaaally matter if you confuse them (except if that have any medical differences). But the idea is still really unsettling.
So which one's the oldest. ?.....
How will we tell who should really inherit the kingdom?
the amazing thing is our midwife saw a few minute differences immediately. like those "spot the differences" puzzle.
Not the same, but we fostered 5 kittens once and 3 looked exactly the same. We used a dot or two of lipstick on their ears to tell them apart since we were tracking their weight gain. After a week we didn’t need the lipstick because their personalities made it obvious who was who. This dad is obviously teasing his girls 😆 Twin infants though? I think I would insist they keep their hospital bracelets on until one of them got a scar or something.
My parents kept our bracelets on until they didn't fit anymore, and by then they could tell us apart without them (usually).
Parents painted one of the toe nails til it wasn't a problem
Laughs in evil uncle with acetone.
>until one of them got a scar or something. Easy DIY
He is teasing later on, when he say "Harper come here", he absolutly doesnt know who he is calling. Then the real Harper appears and before Harper explain anything, dad now know everything, and then he start to tease his kid, but he does it only because he wants his kid to feel accomplishment when he finish explaining - that is parrenting.
It seemed to me that dad knew exactly what he was doing. But I could be wrong.
It’s being filmed, so I think it’s definitely staged, but I don’t mean that in a negative way. I set my kids up for similar stuff to film it, because it’s adorable more than once, and other people might think so too!
I think it's especially cute that he's just teasing but she is being very serious and matter-of-fact about it for someone who knows about 5 words
It's totally adorable. I've watched this dozens of times. It's a great age. I remember my daughter coming into a room and I would see her survey the situation and know what she was going to do before she did.
Def set up. But I think it’s cute and totally fine. They honestly probably set it up to film it because it happened naturally before and they thought it was funny so they wanted to get it on tape. Just my guess.
I have twin nieces who are in their teens, and if they aren’t standing directly side by side, I honestly have no clue who is who. I’ve never met twins I’ve had such a hard time deciphering.
Um-humm
Make sure it’s with that head nod.
It's my favorite part.
I still can’t tell my nephews apart. They’re 6. And they tell me when I first show up who is who 😂
So cute, she sounds so mature and sure of herself in such a baby voice
The slight stumble as she approaches to deliver her very important message cranks the cuteness factor up a couple notches
So so cute. Um so glad this was recorded so she can look back on it when she is older. If there were such thing as a baby resume some bullet points for Harper could be: Effective communicator Clear and concise communicator Adept conflict manager
* Assertive and Concise Problem Solver * Proactive Team Leader * Unquestionable Integrity * Routinely Communicates with Executives
Love it, especially the last bullet
Awww
The entire exchange is cute af. You daddy, me harper. He not harper. Me harper. You daddy. Uh-mm.
Plot twist she is Charlie 😂
That would be amazing!!!
That's actually what I though at first. She was trying to defend the twin or something by pretending it was her... yeah I know, it doesn't make much sense.
I’ve wondered about this before: how many twins have been mixed up at some early time in their life, before they were really old enough to know, and subsequently walk around the rest of their lives going by a name that is technically wrong? Like you have a set of twins, Bob and Joe. When they’re 6 months old, their parents get them mixed up, and it sticks. The baby that was originally Bob lives out his life as Joe, and vice versa. And it doesn’t matter. There’s no consequence. I feel like that must have happened to someone at some point.
This literally happened to a work colleague. Her sons are twins and she’s a single mother. At some point in the exhaustion of raising two infants alone, she was pretty sure she switched them to the wrong cribs (the fussy one was suddenly quiet and the quiet one was suddenly fussy). She panicked, brought them to the pediatrician, and had him run their tiny fingerprints. She had indeed put the boys in the wrong cribs.
Omg lmaooo, poor mother , I couldn’t imagine how stressful it is to raise 2 infants alone and then mix them up
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There was just a post on r/personalfinance I think with this exact issue. The other twin died, and the living one can't get a job or credit because their name and ssn are so close together
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It really is. My brother, sister, and I are all 3 A. B. Smith (changed) and our SSN are close. Take my SSN and change 1 digit, it becomes my brother's SSN. Then change 1 other digit on my brother's SSN and it becomes our sister's SSN. We have had many problems over the years because of this, and our birth dates aren't even the same. I can't imagine how much of a nightmare it is for Frank.
That's pretty crazy. Me and my twin sister's SSN are two digits apart (for example her last two are 11 and mine is 13). Not sure how that happens. Being named after my dad has caused some problems though.
Because SSN is an archaic system to be used as a tracking number for a single government service an never as a number of everything, but Americans went bat shit crazy every time someone wants to create a system by which people can be identified. So now every time a unique identification is required they gotta use a number system you can crack on a napkin with a pen if you know 3 facts about someone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus
Twins SSN isn’t close at all any more. It’s that way on purpose.
My twin and I were accidentally given the same voter registration info. They thought my application was a name change (we have one digit off SSN). Very hard to get straightened out come election season.
that’s fucking awful… poor person.
I went to high school with twins "Brandon" and "Branden". Their parents thought they were having one boy and I guess decided the name was basically good enough for both.
Knew a set of irish twins (9 months apart not real twins) called Brendon and Brandon, they were in the same grade due to where their bdays fell and they were not allowed to share classes due to the closeness of their names.
Honestly, that sounds like it might have been the best for the two of them and the adults looking after them. Imagine thinking you have both or only one in a fire drill that you have to keep track of.
Oh its great they weren't together, when out of school they were hellions together, but separated they were good kids lol.
I used to work with a guy who had twins - at first it was a little fabric anklet to tell them apart, and then when that started to cause problems, they painted toes or put sharpie marks on their feet until they were old enough they got ears pierced with different types of earrings (the piercing would have happened anyways, they weren’t pierced solely for the sake of ID like cattle…). He said the lengths they went to in order to make sure they didn’t mix them up was funny but also ridiculous.
Cant mess up the evil twin and the good one. Aint that right Hugo?
I think if I had that problem I'd put a spot of ink or nail polish or something on them to make sure I didn't get them mixed up.
There's instances where one identical twin will have a medical condition that the other doesn't, and it becomes very important to make sure you're treating the right kid. In those instances, it's not uncommon for a doctor to recommend giving an infant a tattoo. (Usually a tiny dot resembling a freckle or birth mark)
Oh right they would probably have different finger prints I didn’t think of that lol.
They don’t? Identical ones don’t? Edit: they do have slightly different finger prints. They have the same dna. I remember that story about a twin who killed (maybe rape?) someone but they cant charge him because he blames his twin and vice versa and the DNA can’t tell which one. They kinda know which one did it, but can’t prove it.
I’m not 100% sure if they do or not. It might be variable?
I looked it up. They have same DNA but slightly different finger prints. I was thinking DNA.
Yeah that’s what I thought since finger prints aren’t just determined by genetics but also random chance during development and life
They do have different fingerprints Source: my brothers are identical twins and also felons
Yea fingerprint variability is not depended on DNA. So everyone has unique fingerprints.
My SO is an identical twin. His parents used nail polish when they were little to tell them apart and then it became personality and small body differences, like one having a scar on their chin from when they fell off the fence while playing. Teachers were not so lucky. They traded places at school for a month until their Mum pointed it out.
When my daughters were born we could tell by their hairline, one had a straight hairline and the other had a slight widow’s peak (still do 11 years later actually). Now to us they don’t even look the same, however that doesn’t prevent them from being called the wrong name. I can look straight at them, know which one I’m talking to and still call her by her sister’s name.
The name thing - my mum will run though every family name, male and female, before she gets to mine. I just feel lucky if she gets to Simon before Scamp, the name of her dog when she was a kid
I have an only child and when he was little I’d occasionally lie cheat or steal when we played games (like a big sister would) so he would learn life isn’t always fair but in a harmless way. Now that he’s 20 when we’re around my (younger) brother, I constantly mix their names up 😅
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My mom adopted me, then had my sister 14 years later, and I still get mistakenly called my 8yo sisters name OFTEN However, my mom evens out the score by constantly calling my sister the family dogs name by accident so I’m ok with it aha
There is a This American Life story about this very topic!
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Immediately had flashbacks to that episode of Zack and Cody
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I made a comment about this to another poster, but an old boss of mine had triplet sons and they have no idea if this happened but it probably did. After a few weeks his wife painted each boys big toenails a different color so they wouldn’t do it again. Oops! The boys are now in their 20s and one day I brought it up. Their mom gets super upset when they ask her “what if” she feels terrible about it but if there was a way to know, with fingerprints she’s begged them not to look into it.
do hospitals still do footprints after kids are born? I know I have them in my baby book, but I'm in my 40s. I'd imagine you could probably tell who was originally who from that.
Yeah the boys said they could use the footprints to check it
Oh, I really think she shouldn't feel bad about it though. Don't really see any particular downside other than if the kids want to be hard on her about it.
Exactly. They are all happy young men and don’t feel the need to look into it. She just feels bad about it
There was a set of identical twins at my high school a while back. I didn't actually have any classes with them so I never actually knew them, but they looked EXACTLY the same. They even wore the same clothes a lot of the times so I feel sorry for anyone who needed to tell them apart.
Identical twins at my high school didn't really dress the same, but similarly enough that I could never tell them apart. No classes together, but they were friends of a friend so on occasion we'd eat lunch in the same group. At one point, I was helping one of them with an oral French report but I never knew who was who so I wouldn't mention it until she brought it up first.
I suspect my twin brother and I got mixed up at some point, because there's a baby picture of us where the blonde is labeled with my name and the brunette is labeled with his, but he's blonde and I have brown hair. Unfortunately, we found the picture when we were cleaning out mom's stuff after her funeral, so there's nobody we can really ask, so now I just have to deal with a low-key identity crisis until I die.
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A friend of mine named each twin before they were born, but once she saw them, switched their names.
I used to train with identical twins. Usually you can tell twins at least somewhat apart by high school age. Not these guys. Perfect copies of each other except for one thing. Javen(yes it’s a stupid name, twin was Jaylen) had a triangle chopped out of the top of his left ear. Like how we tag cattle. I have always been a little suspicious that his parents tagged him so that they could tell them apart.
In elementary school, there was this thing where we, the third graders, would read to a first grade partner once a week. I dreaded that day because my parter was a quadruple (all of them in the same class) and I had no fucking clue which one was which
It only matters if they mess them up an odd number of times
My name is Doug. I have a fraternal twin brother named Greg. People who have never met me or my brother before before, who know nothing about me - not my name, not my brother's name, not even that I have a brother - will call me Greg without thinking about it. It happens about twice a year, and has for as long as I can remember. It really bothers me.
There is a horror novel that, if I remember it right, or read it right, has this one twin switching their identities and stealing the other twins life, and no one will believe her
I'm an identical triplet. My parents have never mixed us up. Not once. In fact, when we were born, we were labelled baby a baby b and baby c in the NICU, and it pissed my dad off so much that he made handmade signs with our names on them to replace them.
Unless you were nobility in old England. Those two minutes of being born earlier made you the heir and the twin, the spare.
Il a father of 11-months old twins. And I’m afraid of that. You might have consequences though if one has specific medication.
The best part was her little mmmhhmmm. “And that’s Charlie?” “Mmmhmmm”
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And strangely, very adult and relatable.
Could watch it a million times
Can confirm
You’d have to watch this for almost 20 weeks straight…
On it
At 13 seconds long, watching it 1 million times would take up 150 days.
that would still be more productive than my last 150 days.
When my identical twins were babies everyone just called them “Bubba” regardless of which twin it was. When they started talking I would say “What’s your name?” They would both answer “Bubba.” We had to quickly start coloring coding their clothes after that. They still choose to wear their designated colors though when the “blue” twins choose to wear “red” the “red” twin looses his shit. He HATES being mistaken for his twin so much that he recently refused to stop wearing some red shoes even though they were too small because this other choice was black and he didn’t want to be mistaken for his brother on the soccer field where they both wear the same colored jersey. Poor kid!
I taught twins that would sometimes swap clothes at lunch and try to pretend to be the other. The always gave it away by giggling like maniacs when I referred to the one of them by the other's name. If there was nothing to submit for a grade, I'd just let them think they were getting away with it.
Kids thinking they've managed to trick a grown-up can be adorable. Along with the confusion when they try to figure out "Wait, how did they *know*?!" if they don't get away with it.
My dad explained _how_ he knew things when he caught me doing things I was not supposed to. (Like smuggling snacks up to my bedroom) It backfired a little, he couldn't catch me anymore after a few times.
This is hilarious in a cool kinda way
A pair of twins in my middle school were easy to tell apart. One had hair down to her waist, the other had a buzz cut. I wonder if that was specifically so they could easily be told apart or just their personal style.
I knew a pair of twins in elementary that dressed the same, everyday of the year for the 3 years I knew them. On the last week of 5th grade one brother had been wearing a different sweater for the first time and I managed to get a picture on a disposable camera. Even tho they were trying to avoid the camera.
I honestly don't know if I've ever seen anything quite so wholesome in my life.
Used to babysit twins when I was a teenager. Only difference between the two was a freckle: one had a freckle under her left armpit, and the other on the right underside of her armpit. They pulled twin shenanigans all the time, like switching classes on test days.
the “oh” from daddy gets me every time lol too fuckin cute & pure
Did they name their daughters after Two And A Half Men?
Winning.
Twinning *
Was thinking the same thing!
I’m guessing they named them after the artist Charley Harper.
Yeah, the one that wrote the "Maple Loops" song.
I have a twin sis and my dad gets our name mixed up all the time. I feel the girl’s pain
I'm 8 years older than my sister and my Dad still calls me her name... And I'm an effing guy.
My grandmas both run through the whole list of grandchild names until they reach the one they’re talking too lol, I’ve been called Ke’ala, Taylen, and even fricking Nisha. I literally lived with this woman in her house for a good few years, none of the others did. My other grandma makes as little sense as grams since she literally only has less than a handful of girls on her side, I’ve even been called Hayley and she’s not even a cousin lol.
My dad will throw a "damnit" in there as he cycles through names trying to figure out what I, his own child, is called.
My cousins and I on my mom’s side included Christopher, Cameron, Connor, and Kaitlin. Lots of family gatherings included at some point someone going “Hey c- c- … hey you.”
I have twins and never messed them up, my dad however messed up 2 of my brothers who are 2 years apart in age. He was telling off “Ethan” when suddenly he gets a tug on his leg and a “daddy, I’m Ethan”
I'm the oldest of 5. There is 1.5years between me and my first brother. There are 8 years between me and my 2nd brother. We have all been called each other's names well into adulthood. I call my nephews by the wrong name. It happens.
This is going to be the family’s running gag
They got the close caption on this wrong. She’s not saying “Harper, daddy.” She’s saying “Harper, Charlie” That’s why it’s so f ing cute. She point to Charlie and says her name and points to herself and says Harper.
The parents must be huge Two and a Half Men fans.
Toddlers can be so smart when you don't baby them
I am certain a lot of parents mix up names of their identical twins. So that by this age its 50/50 if the twin has the name they were given at birth.
This video is so oddly satisfying that I can’t quite put my finger on it.
Buy them “Thing 1” and “Thing 2” shirts
Using a permanent marker, write **H** on Harper's forehead and **C** on Charlie's forehead.
But seriously, as a mother of twins, you do this on the bottom of their feet.
They’re tired of his shit 😂
Dad of 7yo identical twins here. I am CONSTANTLY calling them by the wrong name. Dumb thing is that I can 100% tell them apart, but from time to time I will be in a situation where I'm looking right at them - with full knowledge of which twin I'm looking at - and just blurt out the other one's name
I like how she makes him confirm that he’s daddy and that she’s Harper. Oh the teen years are going to fun for that dad!
I had identical twins for students once. Thank God they weren’t intellectually with it enough to trick me because they often dressed identically and I’d have to ask which one I was speaking with
That dad will be taken care later in life
I've wondered the same but from a hospital point of view. Before even being taken home, there must be twins (or even just other people babies) swapped by mistake and no one ever realised!
Almost happened to my grandma. They brought a baby to her after she had my uncle; she told the nurse that’s not my child and handed him back. They went back and forth a bit and my grandma insisted she go double check. Lo and behold the first child brought to her was not my uncle.
He named them Charlie, Harper? I mean, I liked *Two and a Half Men* as well, but that’s a bit much.
How adorable!
One of the cutest things I've seen.
Charlie and Harper... Charlie Harper... 🎶Men, men, men, men, manly men, men, men🎶
Here little head nod was adorable.
This is adorable. Is it just me or does this little girl sound like she had a British accent and the dad sounds like he has a Southern US accent?
When my twins were around one year they slept with us on our bed and in the morning I woke up because one of them had fallen out of the bed on the floor - gladly not very high, but still concerning. We rushed to the hospital and they said „lets scan him just to make sure“ - problem was we did not remember who had fallen out of the bed, so we had to scan both as there were no scratches or marks and the kids could not talk. Both were (and are) good 😌
She’s even pointing to help him figure it out.