# Infertility treatment for the terminally stupid? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 12, 2005, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956 "2005-06-12T07:27:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956/41 "2005-06-13T12:21:13Z")
I just hope jesus is on the nappy changing roster. If they did it for him the least he can do is take on a shit-bomb. All being fair in god and love and all that. If jesus doesn’t show up…well they were Aussies. Maybe it was some kind of test run. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956/42 "2005-06-13T23:15:14Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Obligatory “it’s a vagina, not a clown car, lady!” Hey, what a dozen consenting adults do in their own bedroom is their own business. :straightens rainbow wig, adjusts the pom poms on latex suit: ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956/43 "2005-06-14T01:40:15Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Hey, what a dozen consenting adults do in their own bedroom is their own business. :straightens rainbow wig, adjusts the pom poms on latex suit: [Tom Servo] Oh no, they’re doing it Clown Style!!! [/Tom Servo] ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956/44 "2005-06-14T03:43:09Z")
People who do this are selfish assholes. They want to increase the size of their herd by a factor of 10 at every generation, and they spawn young enough for that to mean a population increase of 10,000 or even 100,000 fold times every century. If we all did it, Australia would have a population of 200 billion within 100 years or so. If that occurred, my grandchildren would be living in resourceless famine and squalor. My grandchildren will not live in those conditions, because myself and other non-assholes are more responsible than these stupid fucks. If we read of rabbits or locusts breeding in plague proportions till they eat out their ecology to the point where there is not a blade of grass to be seen we shake our heads at the obvious dysfunction. When a couple of dimwitted humans do it, some of us seem to think them praiseworthy. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956/45 "2005-06-14T04:06:19Z")
Honestly, **Princhester** , I don’t think that a single couple churning out 9 (or however many kids) is going to have that big an impact on the environment…especially when so many are now limiting their family size to just one or even no kids. It’s not really an economic or ecologic disaster is it? :rolleyes: My concern was more for the kids themselves, in _this_ family, in _this_ lifetime. How many of the kids are going to be _disabled_ because of their conception/birthing circumstances? I do think that such parents and their actions are reprehensible, and I am even more shitty that there was a doctor who would allow and ENABLE them to continue with treatment when all the odds were stacked against the children. I agree that they are selfish arseholes, but for slightly different reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956/46 "2005-06-14T04:26:48Z")
And no one car causes global warming and no single dole bludger costs us much and just me taking these flowers from this garden will not make any difference and and and… ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956/47 "2005-06-14T04:35:27Z")
It was YOU who dobbed me in for nicking the jonquils from No. 27 wasn’t it?? Bastard. 😃 I see your point in **The Big Scheme of Things** , but I don’t see it as being entirely pertinent to the problems this couple and their litter are going to encounter in the future. Possibly something for GD…how many couples REALLY control their family size for ecological/global population reasons? ---
**Author:** ![Atheist\_Princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Atheist\_Princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atheist_Princess)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956/48 "2005-06-14T05:10:37Z")
This family live about 15 minutes drive from me. I have actually seen this family walking around the local shopping centre. Not only did they all look like they desperately needed a bath, their clothes were all to small and looked like shit, the toddler had a constant runny nose and was screaming for a good 10 minutes before I vacated that area of the mall, but on top of that the parents looked as dim as doorknobs and obviously have minimal intelligence. Think you cant tell intelligence from appearance? Think again. No shoes, singlets, short shorts, smoking inside the shopping centre. Well done losers. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956/49 "2005-06-14T05:31:04Z")
> [@Atheist Princess](#): > > This family live about 15 minutes drive from me. I have actually seen this family walking around the local shopping centre. Not only did they all look like they desperately needed a bath, their clothes were all to small and looked like shit, the toddler had a constant runny nose and was screaming for a good 10 minutes before I vacated that area of the mall, but on top of that the parents looked as dim as doorknobs and obviously have minimal intelligence. Think you cant tell intelligence from appearance? Think again. No shoes, singlets, short shorts, smoking inside the shopping centre. Well done losers. Ahem, but Dead Set Losers are not an uncommon occurence in any town or city or Australia…how did you know that the family we are speaking of are the family you spied walking around your local shopping centre? Geez, I could have been accused of being a Dead Set Loser when my kids were toddlers…most of the time they had snotty noses (especially one kid who had a remarkable talent to wipe his boogers all over the side of his face with one fell swoop) and I would often turn up to the shops in daggy tracksuit pants and tshirt because they were the only things that didn’t reek of sour breast milk at the time. I probably looked as dim as a doorknob as well…mind you, I never wore NO shoes, even if the ones I _did_ wear were not an actual pair. 😃 Think you can tell intelligence from appearance? Think again 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956/50 "2005-06-14T05:52:39Z")
Yeah, similarly. My much doted upon toddler has a continual runny nose and has been known to scream his head off. In fact, he’s done that on several occasions. No, honestly, he has 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956/51 "2005-06-14T06:35:04Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Yeah, similarly. My much doted upon toddler has a continual runny nose and has been known to scream his head off. In fact, he’s done that on several occasions. No, honestly, he has 😉 That can’t possibly be true. The _real_ Princhester would never admit to something so banal as his beloved toddler suffering from **snotty kid** syndrome. Therefore, you must be a sock. Bwahahahaaaaa. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956/52 "2005-06-14T07:55:00Z")
[Like father like son, poor kid.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6253800&postcount=5) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956/53 "2005-06-14T23:59:20Z")
Believe me, it’s not _Schadenfreude_ so much as sheer relief when I say, as an American, I’m so relieved that at least _these_ yahoos aren’t, and are far, far, far away from me… – from New Jersey, the USA’s most-densely-populated state. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956/54 "2005-06-15T02:27:11Z")
What’s next in Aussieville? Truck pulls and tornados? Ey yi yi 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Atheist\_Princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Atheist\_Princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atheist_Princess)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956/55 "2005-06-15T06:09:43Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Ahem, but Dead Set Losers are not an uncommon occurence in any town or city or Australia…how did you know that the family we are speaking of are the family you spied walking around your local shopping centre? > > Geez, I could have been accused of being a Dead Set Loser when my kids were toddlers…most of the time they had snotty noses (especially one kid who had a remarkable talent to wipe his boogers all over the side of his face with one fell swoop) and I would often turn up to the shops in daggy tracksuit pants and tshirt because they were the only things that didn’t reek of sour breast milk at the time. I probably looked as dim as a doorknob as well…mind you, I never wore NO shoes, even if the ones I _did_ wear were not an actual pair. 😃 > > Think you can tell intelligence from appearance? Think again 😃 I saw the family on the news. And in local news papers. I recognised them. Maybe I was a litle presumptuous. So shoot me 😛 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956/56 "2005-06-15T14:20:55Z")
> [@Atheist Princess](#): > > I saw the family on the news. And in local news papers. I recognised them. Maybe I was a litle presumptuous. So shoot me 😛 _Victorians_ don’t shoot people. We just point atcha and laugh behind our hands. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infertility-treatment-for-the-terminally-stupid/307956.md?page=2)