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[Rabbi_Vole]

When did this become a thing? What's wrong with "Indian-style?" There's nothing impertinent about that sitting position.. Who took offense to this?

You don't see Evangelist campaigning to change the sex term "missionary" to "face-to-face-nono-place."

As a 1/64 representative of the Cherokee Nation, I'm actually offended by the name change.

 

[buy teh haloz]

Isn't it just cross-legged?

 

[injurai]

As a 1/64 representative of the Cherokee Nation, I'm actually offended by the name change.

 

[Jarrod38]

Thought is thread was going to be about apple sauce. Then I read the thread and had no clue Indian style had different names.

 

[Misha]

Isn't it just cross-legged?

yeah this term solves the problem without sounding dumb and its been around awhile

 

[vatstep]

Isn't it just cross-legged?

I sure hope so. Criss-cross applesauce is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

 

[Stet]

i have literally never heard anyone call it "indian style"

 

[WillyFive]

Criss-cross apple-sauce is a much funner way to say it to kindergarden age kids, which is the age they start to use the seating position everyday.

 

[BanditoMac]

i have literally never heard anyone call it "indian style"

Might be a regional thing, like 'soda vs pop'. I've always heard it as indian style until I came to the west coast and heard someone say criss-cross applesauce. Was a little weird.

 

[DJ_Lae]

Isn't it just cross-legged?

That's all I've ever called or heard it described. Criss cross applesauce sounds idiotic and I've never heard anyone call it indian-style.

 

[Delicious Waffles]

Teacher here. Use criss-cross applesauce all the time.

 

[Rabbi_Vole]

Teacher here. Use criss-cross applesauce all the time.

Bring back Indian-style. You'll be a hero.

 

[Kaladin]

 

[dekline]

The fuck? Just sit on the ground.

 

[Mortemis]

Teacher here. Use criss-cross applesauce all the time.

used to hear "criss-cross applesauce, hands in your lap" all the time as a kid

I've heard indian style a couple of times but criss-cross applesauce, or just criss-cross, is the most popular term for it where I am

 

[Rest]

Isn't it just cross-legged?

That's what I always called it. I heard both indian style and criss cross apple sauce as a kid though. Criss cross apple sauce was used as a description of the action though, it meant the act of crossing your legs, not a name for the position you ended up in.

 

[akira28]

As a child, I would hear adults spout nonsense all the time. I didn't understand what the fuck they were saying, and they were even less enthusiastic about translating to someone who didn't grow up on criss-cross applesauce.

 

[deadlast]

Maybe the original name was wiggida wiggida wiggida wack?

 

[sportzhead]

You don't see Evangelist campaigning to change the sex term "missionary" to "face-to-face-nono-place."

This is what I'm calling it from now on. Ha.

 

[Delicious Waffles]

Bring back Indian-style. You'll be a hero.

I heard that when I was younger. However, since becoming a teacher, can't say I've heard it since. Maybe it's a PC thing?

 

[shadowkat]

I thought this was about the song/game:

Criss-cross applesauce
Spiders crawling up your back,
Cool Breeze,
Tight squeeze
Now you've got the shiverees!

And I have never heard it called Indian style. We just called it cross legged.

 

[Suikoguy]

It's amusing since the term "Criss-Cross" is fine on it's own. But than they fuck it up with Applesauce for no apparent reason other than to make it longer and have a basic rhyme.

 

[Chucker]

Growing up on the East Coast it was Indian Style, my daughter came home from pre-school one day and said "Hey dad, check this out! Criss-Cross Apple Sauce" and sat down.

So there we are.

 

[Rabbi_Vole]

Growing up on the East Coast it was Indian Style, my daughter came home from pre-school one day and said "Hey dad, check this out! Criss-Cross Apple Sauce" and sat down.

So there we are.

Did you feel bad yelling at your preschooler? Do you remember the nasty letter you wrote to her teacher?

 

[dekline]

pop a squat you sick fucks

 

[Rabbi_Vole]

pop a squat you sick fucks

No one said anything about defecation

 

[SwiftDeath]

Kimmy Schmidt is indeed hilarious

I read the thread too fast and thought kris kross had something new, then remembered they're old and one of them died recently

 

[dekline]

No one said anything about defecation

Neither did I

 

[Rabbi_Vole]

Neither did I

Where I come from, "popping a squat" is the polite way of saying "taking a shit."

 

[Timedog]

I always thought it was Indian like from India, because Dhalsim in street fighter.

PSA: Photoshop contains functions like skew and distort for things like this.

 

[dekline]

Where I come from, "popping a squat" is the polite way of saying "taking a shit."

I guess we aren't from the same area.

Or maybe everyone on my end is just shitting everywhere.

 

[Travo]

Cross-cross applesauce and bunnies in the hole.

 

[Rabbi_Vole]

I guess we aren't from the same area.

Or maybe everyone on my end is just shitting everywhere.

I come from an area of the country with extremely poor aim when it comes to urination. Because of this, our toilet seats are filthy, piss stained things not suitable for sitting. We're squattin folk and have been for generations

 

[MrToughPants]

I thought this was about the song/game:

Criss-cross applesauce
Spiders crawling up your back,
Cool Breeze,
Tight squeeze
Now you've got the shiverees!

And I have never heard it called Indian style. We just called it cross legged.

This^

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

Spoons in bowls.

 

[ENM89]

I thought this was about the song/game:

Criss-cross applesauce
Spiders crawling up your back,
Cool Breeze,
Tight squeeze
Now you've got the shiverees!

And I have never heard it called Indian style. We just called it cross legged.

When I was in school and played that game, we said:
Dot, dot, line, line,
Spiders crawling up your spine,
Tight squeeze, cool breeze
Now you have the shiverees!

Slightly different. More rhymey.

On topic though, sitting cross legged was the thing to do. None of this criss crosss applesauce business.

 

[Speevy]

"SIT YOUR ASS DOWN!" works well too.

 

[Kaladin]

PSA: Photoshop contains functions like skew and distort for things like this.

I'm too broke for Photopshop.

 

[Amon37]

Grew up on Indian style, my daughter(1st grade) is taught criss cross applesauce.

 

[Speevy]

Just a side note for those who are wondering: Criss-cross applesauce is wonderful because it reinforces rhyming, it's short and easy to remember, and it gets kids' attention.

Kids have an attention span roughly equivalent to their age in minutes when they are sitting on the carpet, so getting them to pay attention all at once is essential.

When kids are sprawled out, they are often kicking each other and very likely not looking at the smart board or you.

 

[RaySpencer]

Isn't it just cross-legged?

That's the only thing I've ever heard in Canada.

Everything else is crazy.

 

[arts&crafts]

Being raised in Toronto it was just called sitting cross legged...none of these fancy names and songs

 

[Eggbok]

Kimmy Schmidt is indeed hilarious

I read the thread too fast and thought kris kross had something new, then remembered they're old and one of them died recently

fucking love this show lool!
I grew up on indian style though.

 

[zeemumu]

It's always been criss-cross applesauce. Since the dawn of time.

 

[Enron]

In the 80s we called it Indian-style. Thanks Obama

 

[Volimar]

I'm so going to start calling it face-to-face-nono-place now.

 

[BananasWithGuns]

Even if you don't want to call it Indian style, surely there has to be a name better than criss-cross applesauce.

 

[HylianTom]

Their applesauce is okay, but it's jiggery-pokery to suggest it's in the same league as the Mott's Antonin Scalia Special Edition applesauce..

 

[rbanke]

I grew up saying Indian style, but cross-legged was sorta interchangeable. My 5 year old's VPK class called it Criss Cross Applesauce. Just feels like one of those 'falling all over myself to not offend people who aren't even offended' type of things. Eh, at least 'cross legged' doesn't sound dumb.

 

[Gaz_RB]

Y'all pick some weird shit to get mad about lol