Ahem.
Does this sound like it is directed “at her childless friends” to you? Are you truly unable to see ‘humerous exaggeration for comedic effect’ when it is slapping you in the face?
You guys are seriously humor-impared if you are actually taking offence at this. :smack: Not that it is indended to be rib-slapping funny - more a weary “heh”.
Why are you subjecting me to your crotch spawn?! Are you waiting to be knighted? Gah parents are so self absorbed!
Actually, I laughed out loud at “You’re going to be really strict with your kids. That’s cool. I severely hope you get a bad sleeper.”
It certainly does. I have friends that I’d take a bullet for and I have no doubt would take a bullet for me. But we all have had times in our lives where we disappeared for a few years. It’s okay. It happens, and the test of a great friendship, to me, is to pick up just where you left off as if no time had passed at all. We all need “our time,” and being a great friend allows for this sort of time in both directions (that is, they give me my space when I need it, and I give them their space when they need it.) Friendship isn’t being joined at the hip and sharing every last experience as it is happening with each other. At least, that’s how it is to me.
I don’t even have kids and I was laughing.
My favorite was the kid throwing the cheese on the floor, and then trying to ride her brother. That was exactly like my cousin’s middle daughter at that age.
I think you got it in one. Hot Internet Mothers. HIM.
As in, “Man, I’d love to put my weiner in him.”
I think you’re addressing someone who agrees with you. It was a joke. Or I’m stupid.
Or… it was a joke AND I’m stupid. Either way. 
I don’t read the description unless I care about the video. The voiceover was talking to her childless friends. I did assume based on the OP that it was titled something like “Apology to my childless friends” and I see that it was a much more generic title.
Getting all pissed at the video in this thread is the child-free equivalent of China falling for The Onion.
I can sorta understand people not knowing the context, but seriously - did it not occur to you watching that video that it was intended to be funny? 
It was sorta obvious that it wasn’t a real “apology”, just as, one would imagine, it ought to be obvious that no-one would seriously find North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un the “sexiest man alive for 2012.”
Oh come on. He screams sex!
(And then he screams a demand that you be executed. But still.)
[Nice Guy] So it IS true - women love bad boys. :mad: [/Nice Guy]
Don’t discount the possibility that I’m stupid. If I was whooshed, my apologies! I blame my children.
I’m sorry, I thought this was the Pit. I save all my spare rage for over-the-top ranting in here.
Out of curiosity, I did some research on this “One Trick Pony,” “griping over parents and children” reputation. In Cat Whisperer’s last 300 posts prior to this thread, she made specific reference to either parents or children 11 times. That’s 3.7% of her posts. Among them were defenses of vaccinating kids and lamenting an increase in cavities in Calgary’s children since they took the fluoride out of the water. When I take the posts that don’t attack parents and/or kids out, I’m down to seven total (2.3%). Now I’m not a mathematician by any stretch, but if 2-4% of a person’s total output on a message board makes them a One Trick Pony, then so am I because I keep bringing up sports all over the place!
Now, if I go into the history of any one parent who doesn’t like what Cat has to say, what are the odds that their posts about their kids will be more than 3% of their total output? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
I never called her a one truck pony, dumbass. Thanks for letting me watch how you chased down that imaginary boogeyman, though. It was entertaining as fuck.
That isn’t an accurate way to determine post/subject frequency anyway. The question isn’t how many posts has someone mentioned parents or kids overall out of all their posts. It is what percentage of the time are they likely to chime in when a thread concerns having kids, deciding not to have kids, etc. and with all due respect (and no problem with this personally) she is very likely to chime in to such threads based on a few quick google searches. Everyone is entitled to have subjects they are interested in so even if this were the case all the time it isn’t really something anyone should be annoyed about.
What is stupid about this thread in particular though is that the woman in the video isn’t a ‘horrible person’ for making a cutesy youtube video that dramatizes the challenges of child rearing. It isn’t really an attempt at a sincere apology or explanation to anyone about anything. It isn’t intended to be taken 100% literally. It is very likely that the video author does in fact have some time, occasionally, to devote to friends and pastimes other than child rearing.
It is a movie! A dramatization. You know? Kind of like the way Jack Nicholson didn’t really murder his entire family with an axe at the urging of a ghost in a snowbound, haunted hotel. A pit thread ripping him for being a horrible person for using ghosts and voices in his head as excuses to murder his family with an axe would make about as much sense as this thread does.
Thanks for not reading my entire post, Cock Lamp. The quote immediately following yours used the term “One Trick Pony.” You merely pointed out “how much time the OP dedicates to griping about parents and children.” If you’d like to pretend this isn’t the same thing as being a One Trick Pony, I guess that’s your prerogative.
But…I don’t even have a truck! 
But do you have a pony, huh, huh?
When was it decided that the proper phrase is “crotch spawn” and not “crotch fruit”?
And how the hell can you live in Canada and not have a truck? Isn’t it mostly snowy wilderness up there? 
That’s the dumbest thing that’s been said so far. It isn’t the same thing, at all.