If my dislike of children means that you don’t like me, or that you have some kind of hostility towards me, there is nothing I can do about it.
I’m sorry that’s the case.
If it means you think there’s something wrong with me, that’s a belief you’re entitled to. I don’t think it’s something I need to defend, because I don’t think it’s a defect to not like children.
I think it’s a defect to require your friends to ensure that you’ll never have to meet their kids. That’s seriously screwed up.
I guess you don’t “know how to interpret a joke as a joke”, huh?
Fenris: I can tell a joke is a joke, but damned if I don’t always get the meaning of it.
autz: Well, OK. You think what you think.
Indeed.
catsix, I didn’t say anything about its flashing or being in your forehead, but it’s nice that you haven’t met anyone like that. I’m proud for you.
Having read it, I do not understand manhattan’s post at all. It looks like a mistake that he should retract. She posted opinion about an offending matter, not the offending matter itself.
His warning appeared rather kneejerk, inappropriate and mis-aimed to me.
Sorry; in my haste, I neglected to quote autz’s comment to which I responded.
Let’s try that again.
Indeed.
Well, Zoe, last time I checked, I was human, and not a pinball machine.
If that changes in the future, I will be sure to notify you first.
So if a friend of catsix wants to meet up her for lunch, but the friend has her kid in tow running errands…it’s ixnay on lunch? 
Depends on the situation. If it’s a well-behaved kid of friend and we’re not having lunch somewhere like Chuck-E-Cheese, then there’s no real reason to cancel it.
If it’s ‘Hey we’ve changed the plans to taking Kid and a couple friends over to Chuck-E-Cheese for lunch’, then I’ll take a rain check on that.
My friends who have kids don’t invite me to kid oriented functions, and will usually not invite me over if things are hectic and crazy with their kids. It usually happens that I end up meeting the kids of really close friends, but those who are just acquaintances that I see at the pool hall or something don’t make a point of introducing me to their kids. Those whose kids I have met don’t tend to have the kids around every time we hang out.
I was recently at a barbecue that one of my really good friends had, and there were some kids there. The kids were really well behaved, I politely declined to hold the 3 week old baby, and everything was fine. When one of the kids got really fussy, I just went outside for a while and had a smoke. No big deal really, but it’s very hard to convey how it is with my friends and I just not doing kid oriented stuff.
That’s because the landing strip for her clue has burned out lights, forcing the clue to circle overhead interminably.
Watch out everyone! She’s backing up so fast someone might get run over!
So, which is it, Catsix?
Out of my really close friends, there are two who actually have kids. One of them the kid was in the house but I didn’t actually see the kid while I was there, and the other one was the BBQ one a couple of weeks ago.
Of other people I know who have kids, there are some coworkers and friends-of-friends, who don’t invite me to kid oriented events, but in some cases I’ve seen their kids or possibly said ‘Hello.’ to them.
I have some other friends I’ve known for a long time who have kids that I’ve never met, one of them has been a friend for years. He tends to invite me over when the kids aren’t there for the weekend, or that’s when we hang out and do whatever (like go to the pool hall and drink lots of beer.)
The statement that they make sure I never meet their kids is inaccurate. Unfortunately I couldn’t come up with a better way of explaining that my friends who have kids don’t expect me to hang out with or entertain their kids. They don’t ask me to hold their babies, or watch the kid while they go somewhere, or come to the birthday party or hang out at the playground or anything.
There’s no ‘Hey, come meet my kids’ or ‘I’m taking the kids to Ohiopyle if you want to come with us.’ type of situations. I don’t really know how to put it in terms that are understandable, so I made a pretty blanket statement that came as close as I could describe to how it is.
The kid I met at the barbecue belongs to someone I’ve known for years, and when my friend invited me over thought that the kid would be visiting with grandma at the time. It’s not much clearer to say ‘My friends with kids don’t intentionally arrange situations where I’ll be hanging out with their kids’ is it?
We have a newsupdate:
It seems the clue flying around catsix’s head crashed into the windmill of her mind. There were no survivors.
I’m sorry, Mockingbird, that I have not been successful in the attempt to be perfect.
I will have to work harder so as not to disappoint you with the fact that I am human and make mistakes sometimes in the future.
I suppose asking you to please be patient with my attempts to be absolutely flawless in my ability to articulate every thought I have, and to never, even accidentally, cause anyone to become angry or disagree with me is out of the question.
I do, however, stand by my belief that despite my obvious imperfections as a human being and not a diety, this Pit thread and the reactions that generated it were out of proportion to any flawed part of my personality that other posters object to. There exists nothing I can do to change any of this, short of becoming a different person, and even then it would just be a different group of people disliking me.
I hope this thread accomplishes its goal, and that those who would like to get some jabs in on me find it enjoyable. I quite understand how natural it is to want to rant at someone you dislike.
I cannot stop this thread, and I have no desire to make it any worse. I feel at this point that any further attempt to clarify anything that can be pulled from my time posting on this board will not help matters, and I’m hoping to go back to regularly scheduled posting without any ill feelings.
I also hope my strep throat clears up soon.
Autz, I don’t get your anger here. If Catsix likes the arrangement with her friends, and Catsix’s friends are happy enough with the arrangements that they are still friends and enjoy spending time with her on the condition that it’s sans kids, why does it bother you so much ? Surely if her friends had problems with it, they wouldn’t be friends any longer ?
I guess I just don’t understand why it’s a big deal to you.
As for the OP, I just read the original thread, and I don’t get this Pit thread. I can’t see anything catsix said in that thread as bad. I mean if you guys wanna pit Catsix for stuff she’s said all over the board, I’m sure you’ll find enough material, but for what she said in the thread that the OP is about ? Pretty lame thread IMO.
How ironic.
You can sit there and attack everyone and everyone to any degree imaginable, but when someone else does it to you, they’ve shown their own ‘true colors’.
True colors indeed. It’s pretty obvious you’re willing to paint others by a brush that doesn’t include you.
Take a look in the mirror, fuck-face.
Oh, and the med comment? I honestly, swear to god, had no idea you were dealing with a problem.
I’ll say it again, up and down, that I had no clue. I just went off your bullshit points, and your bullshit points of view as a guide to your being completely off the wall, and completely off-balance.
Cool that you didn’t go off, and cost a bunch of bills, as I’m unable to recoup your undoubted major expense.
That’s your immediate response? The first one out of the door?
Amazing.
She has an opinion you don’t like, and your impressed with yourself that she hasn’t been banned already.
Give it a week, or actually, give it an second, with the rules you guys have imposed, and she could be gone now.
Maybe you were impressed with that, that you’ve actually let her stay on as long as she had.
Pathetic.
By the way, I’m still siting her wondering why her opinion not only needed a mod intervention, but needed a whole fucking thread besides.
Care to answer that? Or are you the type that anything that offends you, should also offend everyone else.
Just curious, mother hen.
Maybe, but since my real name is also Chris… Oh forget it, you aren’t worth it.