OK kam I’ll probably end up with egg on my face anyway.
Thanks for being sensible and for being on my side.
So, calling people’s reasons for not wanting children “shallow” isn’t insulting? Okay, whatever.
You keep spouting this kind of stuff off, then wailing “But I said I was sorry! Why are you picking on me? Besides, what’s wrong with what I did?” Can you see why that makes it seem like your apologies are, well, insincere?
You two are going to have to agree to disagree. “You two” being Lob and CCL.
Lobsang, please don’t continue to entertain her. It’s getting no where and no matter what you say, no matter how apologetic…she doesn’t care and won’t see beyond her own perception(s).
Just like some people are stuck on stupid, others are stuck on belligerence.
I do believe that t-keela said it best.
I’d also like to politely suggest that if Lob truly wants this thread to drop from the first page that he stop bumping it. Just a thought.
Whatever my previous encounters with Lobsang have shown me, accusations of his ‘bumping’ this thread are uncalled for and shitty. This thread has failed to fall from the page because of OTHERS contributions, not (from what I can tell) because of Lobbers bumping it.
While most of you Dopers are in a similar time-zone, some of us live in quite different ones. Thus, our responses might be ‘hours’ or days away from the OP, but for US they are appropriate.
Just a thought. 
Oh, I know all about posting at strange hours. I work nights, so my posts are almost never during the peak traffic hours here.
However, I’ve noticed at least one post where Lob just pops in to gripe about the thread still being on the front page. You have to admit, that doesn’t exactly help the thread slip quietly into oblivion, but rather puts it at the very top of the first page.
If Lob finds my suggestion offensive I apologize, but it seems kind of counterproductive to post about how the thread lingers on, since that just puts it right back at the top. From here on I’ll keep my suggestions to myself.
I have to laugh at this- back when my husband and I WERE trying to get pregnant (then stopped trying), I was upset when people would ask us about having kids (it was not going to happen). Allan intercepted one guy who caught me completely off guard with an “in your face” style confrontation about when I was going to “give my husband” a child. He told him how much we love our Rottie and how smart he is, how snuggly he is, how he helps guard the house and goes everywhere with us- he ended it by confronting the guy on how he could possibly NOT want a Rottie, since they were so great. He got the point loud and clear and I had a great laugh over it.
Audrey Hepburn had a son with Miguel Ferrer and a son with Dr. Dotti.
Jeeeezuz CCL and Lob, pull those sticks out of your asses before you get slivers.
Go, Mr. Zette! We have a lot of friends and coworkers who’ve either just had babies or are about to pop, and we just adopted a new dog a couple months ago. I’m always sorely tempted to say, “Sure, I’ll listen to a 3 hour update on how long the kid sleeps at a stretch and which percentiles she was at her last checkup, along with a blow-by-blow recap of the pregnancy and birth. Right after you watch this video and look through these six rolls of pictures of Claudia and hear all about her surgery and heartworm treatment and how much weight she’s gained in various time periods since we got her. Oooh, and look how well her hair’s growing back in.”
I always manage to restrain myself, but it’s a close one, sometimes.
Ah, thanks!