Well, since you’re going to get that reaction anyway, may as well go for the full smack.
:: shudder :: When I was 9, I was visiting a friend’s house. His little brother did the exact same thing… with poo!
On the rug, on the couch, on the frakking handle of the tennis racket (I’ve no idea how that happened, but I suspect he was straddling it and pretending it was a horse). When I found poo on the chair I was climbing into, I ran home.
I’ve seen a mom slip a rubber nipple over the mouth of a coke bottle and shove it into a baby’s mouth.
There’s a restaurant/bar next a couple of blocks from the local community college, and and their are bunches of new mom’s who hit every happy hour carrying a baby on their hip, juggling it with a margarita or cig or both.
I’ve also seen a mom at a restaurant push the food plates to the side and diaper the baby right on the dining table.
And people wonder why us childfree by choice folks don’t want to have much to do with breeders. 
It would be so great if kids had that scruff of the neck area, like ferrets do, where you pick them up by it and they immediately go limp and compliant. And I mean that for my kids as well as others’!
I realized I forgot one fun instance, that just says so much about why there are continuing problems for one of these moms. Mom, to kid: “OK, you’re not allowed [by the rules of the place we meet] to do that, so you can only do it for a few minutes.” :smack:
ShelliBean, I can be pretty lax too. My 11 month old watches Noggin, and the AAP can kiss my ample ass if they have a problem with it. I tend to let things slide when they are unimportant - want to wear your school clothes for tomorrow to bed tonight? You know what, knock yourself out, kid. That’s not a hill I want to die on. And I know that kids are going to be assy (love that descriptor!). The test is what you do about it, and whether it is allowed to continue. My five year old called her father “stupid” last night, and let me tell you, the hammer came down. But she’s at heart so sweet, and is used to being disciplined, so all I had to do was get serious and tell her that was absolutely not allowed, and she was chastened. When we’re in public, I try to teach her to be considerate and polite, while also giving reminders, cues, and physical guidance as necessary that will help her avoid bugging people. It does take some effort, but it’s not THAT hard, especially when you focus on important stuff and don’t fight about every little thing.
mswas, the diaper-non-changer uses cloth diapers, so it is even more difficult than offering a spare diaper. I use cloth too, but I wouldn’t be too motivated to offer someone who is obviously irresponsible a diaper that cost me $15. Not to mention what to do with the shitty diaper, if she didn’t have her own diaper bag. I like to pitch in, but carting around feces from another baby is over my line.
Don’t think I wasn’t tempted!
Boyo Jim, this is hearsay, but only once removed: I’ve heard tell of sweet tea and Mountain Dew being put in bottles. I’m sure the parents then wonder why the kids are hyperactive and don’t sleep well.
Just as long as our crotch fruit pays your social security benefits right? 
Oh I agree. I meant the general you, not, you know, you you.
Yeah, I’m always pretty clear like that.
In theory, OUR own social security pay ins pay for our own social security payouts later, so quit getting uppity.
Nope, in theory and practice it’s a ponzi scheme. You pay the cashing out investors who came before you. So you are paying for your parents.
Well, if they are working by then, and if there is social security by then… If nothing else, there seems to be a few other people around that can do that, it’s not like we are hurting for people here. Tho with the economy the way it is, we may be hurting for taxpayers :eek:
Yes and no.
The system is predicated on population growth to make it more afforadable, which is the part that makes it a ponzi scheme.
Who pays when to whom is a moot point, beside that part about inflation, investment of monies and that sort of thing.
There is no reason SS can’t be a respectable and legitmate retirement program and eventually it WILL have to become one.
Once I’ve been paid out more than I put in, then you can get all fruit of the loiny on me.
Thus the joke at the childfree’s expense.
Well it matters if the program can’t afford to pay out because of Negative Population Growth.
It’s still a ponzi scheme.
The money you are paying in is still being used to pay out NOW, not later.
Could be worse. (See also real-life horror stories posted in response to the comic.)
That would be super. And for the record, I prefer “loin fruit.”
Nope, doesn’t work that way.
There are serious demographic concerns about social security in the US:
In essence, for the current generation (if demographic trends continue) there will not be enough money in the kitty to pay benefits. Pay ins will not be sufficient to fund pay outs.
Ok, but if you vote against a single school ordnance when you’re old and crotchety I’ll hunt you down and kill you.
Really? I thought the “brains” in government were looking to phase it out and the expectation was that folks would create their own retirement funds. No?
Looks more like a joke on the childed, if you are willingly putting your children into a ponzi scheme.
The program can’t afford to pay out now as it is - you think you should have children to shore up this failing goverment program? And at what point do you think that the population should quit growing?
I and my husband have voted against every school bond in the last 15 years, not that it has done any good.
Well it isn’t really the government program that is failing. If people were breeding it wouldn’t be failing. It’s sort of the cycle of life. You take care of children as children and they take care of you as an octagenarian, at least if they want your money.
I’ll make sure to vote against medicare bills. ;p