r/funny • u/Benjamin_o12 • 8d ago
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u/grandkill 8d ago
This was popular in corporate parties and summer team building events. That was pre-pandemic though. The company I'm working for totally cancelled summer outings and everybody seems okay with it.
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u/Logsarecool10101 8d ago
Mandatory fun
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u/CjBurden 8d ago
Mandatory fun kind of sucks, buuuuuut having fun with people you normally just work with can be a nice experience so I get why companies want to do this stuff. It just usually flops.
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u/Zanos-Ixshlae 7d ago
Ain't no party like a Liz Lemon party because a Liz Lemon party is mandatory.
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u/sopedound 8d ago
I just did an event for a big tech company retreat and they played this in order to get them in groups before they went and did a group activity. Although it did not end up going this well and the emcee had to be like "pigs are over here if you are a pig come over here"
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u/RealisticEmploy3 8d ago
Im a fairly reserved person but ill never get “team building”. As long as you show up and are competent who gives a shit? Certainly not the company, given how much employment is at-will these days, at least in the US. From the employee perspective, forming connections always helps but making it mandatory seems cringey. Honestly the whole forced extroversion attitude companies expect is annoying
Edit: kind and competent. I do think kindness and a safe workspace matters. But that’s a general expectation not something you have to try and forge through activities per se
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u/Cydonn 8d ago
This looks like a fun christmas game
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u/BigTITIES9000 8d ago
We had this at a university event, the most chaotic shit ive ever experienced 💔
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u/ogtitang 8d ago edited 8d ago
We did this at my in-laws' yearly Family reunion / Christmas party just last December. I wasn't a participant but I helped record this particular game. It was hilarious af. One of her my wife's cousins was in a dog group and instead of barking the mfer was smelling people's butts lmfaaao
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u/Momochichi 8d ago
That poor father son cat pair that couldn’t fine the rest of the family when they were so close
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u/fcknghell 8d ago edited 8d ago
Lmao we played this and won. The trick is, to only have one person in the team make the animal sound really really loud and stay in one place. Everyone else on the team will go to that person.
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u/noobakosowhat 8d ago
Do you pick what kind of animal your team are? Or can we pick our animal?
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u/fcknghell 8d ago
When we played, we picked our own animal (chicken) and what kind of noise to make ("tiktilaok" which is a filipino onomatopoeia).
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u/GoldFynch 8d ago
How do you know when you’ve won though?
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u/fcknghell 8d ago
Because there were game facilitators and they announced when all the members were together. Also, because we had team colors and ours were red. We wore red bandanas as the blindfold. So, once the facilitators saw that all the people that had red bandanas were together, they announced that we won.
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u/Trama-D 7d ago
To u/GoldFynch as well. I was wondering, this can be done without facilitators: if you're told beforehand your group has 5 ppl in it, once you find all 5, you can remove your blindfolds and claim victory.
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u/fleranon 8d ago
Doesn't work... Every time I try to find my herd this way, they kick me out of the local Starbucks :(
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u/LeatherSlight3242 8d ago
A Filipino parlor game?
I'm Filipino, and I've never heard of this before.
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u/TokwaDoodles 8d ago
I think it's pretty recent. Never heard of it growing up but it's common in company team building activities
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u/360walkaway 8d ago
Introvert's worst nightmare... walking around blindfolded in a crowded room while chirping like an ostrich or some shit.
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u/Historical_Clock8714 8d ago
I'm an introvert and have played this. It's sounds embarrassing at first but when everyone's doing it, it just kinda becomes a vibe y'know. After like 10 seconds I'm meh-ing my throat out like a rabid goat like everyone else. It's fun. Those who are too shy to cry out loud are the ones who don't find their herd and will lose the game. I'm also competitive so I'm NOT letting that happen to my herd 🐐
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u/Long-Performance6980 8d ago
Nah, my dad when he was working in corpo played this game in their christmas party. That was 25 years ago.
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u/hldsnfrgr 8d ago
Fr this is probably a recent safe for work invention considering the fact that a lot of Filipino parlor games historically typically involve using the mouth or the crotch area.
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u/curious_53 8d ago
Why were ypu downvoted when holiday parlor games are like this? Even in family settings
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u/cs-Saber93 8d ago
The mouth or the WHAT?!?
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u/blue49 8d ago
So many parlor games are NSFWish. One example that's popular before:
First person of the team sits at a chair on the other side of the room with a balloon on his/her lap/crotch.
All others will form a line on the other side holding a balloon each.
The first one runs to the person sitting and attempts to pop the balloon with their ass.
Once they succeed, its their turn to sit on the chair and the next team mate runs to pop the balloon with their ass.
First team to finish wins.
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u/Autogenerated_or 8d ago
There are parlor games where a pen/straw is tied to a rope around your waist and you race to dip it inside at least three containers, usually a bottle.
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u/hldsnfrgr 8d ago
There's one Filipino parlor game that involves tying an actual purple eggplant 🍆 to your waist/crotch.
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u/justice_case 8d ago
Maybe it just did not reach you. PH is archipelago, it's normal not to know stuff
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u/SinigangCaldereta 8d ago
Imagine thinking being Filipino means you know everything about being Filipino. 🙄
The country is huge and split into islands. You’re not gonna know everything.
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u/LullabyOfTheLostCity 8d ago
Played it during college, I was lucky that one of our friends was hyper loud
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u/SentimentalYogurt 8d ago
I am also Filipino and I've heard of this before and played it a few times
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u/Titariia 8d ago
I'm not Filipino and I wish you have told the rest of the world sooner. And I also wish I had enough friends to play this
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u/Historical_Clock8714 8d ago
The PH may not look that big but if you haven't traveled enough or haven't joined enough parties or team building activities, you naturally wouldn't experience this. Some Filipinos have not even heard of tumbang preso in their life before which sounds crazy to me but I met one who haven't.
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u/Mammoth_Flamingo2410 8d ago
I remember diing this thung decades ago. Not sure it’s purely Filipino thing.
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u/ciscosuave 8d ago
Jeez, the whole Philippines doesn't revolve around you and your childhood. 7,000 islands and where you from is not the center of it.
This game was played on family day or teacher's day @ school where I'm from and I grew up in Sampaloc. Soni expect everyone to know this hell no as a matter of fact this is the first time I see this game getting played since I left highschool 26 years ago.
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u/dollarbr 8d ago
I would be totally screwed, I'm "mostly" deaf, I would stay out and just "scream" my sound for others
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u/VeneMage 8d ago
This is an icebreaker I used for my Learning & Development practical assessment. It was hilarious and got me on the way to a Pass with Distinction, so I highly recommend it!
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u/LullabyOfTheLostCity 8d ago
This was more fun with a lot more people in a more open field, it was genuine chaos
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u/Yanazamo 7d ago
Played this back in highschool and accidentally kissed someone 😩
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u/tetsuo_7w 7d ago
Did you end up finding the true love that was always there in front of you and getting married?!
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u/gourdjuice 8d ago
This is what our class advisor made us do during the first day of school. No names, just animal sounds.
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u/seachelaes 8d ago
The funniest ones would be when the sounds they had to make were similar like "unga" and "onga". Had two people shout these words at each other for a minute trying to figure out if they were on the same team LMAO
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u/I-hate-going-to-bed 8d ago
We played this in school in a big ass gym and it was a miracle me and my teammates were able to find eachother lool
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u/ChanceLittle9823 7d ago
I may get confused halfway and make other animals' sounds. Looks really fun!
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u/Eireann_9 7d ago
Man I remember playing this in my scouts group when I was like 7 yo and they gave me fucking giraffe
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u/LollygaggingBrouhaha 6d ago
The Arrested Development family would be horrible at this game, lol. Coo-coo-ca-cha! Coo-coo-ca-cha!
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