I am beginning to wonder about him/her (which is it?). Long ago I told him/her that I wasn’t going to bother with his/her (oh the hell with it) his posts and yet he is still trying to get me to respond. I am not so bored at any time that I am even going to take the time to read what someone like that posts.
Oh, I missed that last part - lack of a paycheck doesn’t mean one doesn’t work.
I’m happily without children, and not a child-hater by any means. I love my niece and nephew, and my friends’ kids. I just don’t have any particular desire to have any of my own.
I know that kids are going to cry and have tantrums in public. It happens. And in places like the grocery store or Target, I’m not going to get pissed about it. But when I’m in a restaurant that isn’t McDonald’s or Chuck E Cheese, I don’t want kids hanging on my chair, wandering over to stare at me while I eat, or running around and screaming. Not because I hate kids, but because I’m spending money to go out for an enjoyable meal and I don’t want to have it interrupted.
As others have said here, it’s the responsibility of the parents to keep that from happening. If that means telling the kids 38 times to sit down, that’s what they need to do. If that means hauling the kid outside till they settle, down, then do it. I don’t care what it takes, just make them behave.
Having kids doesn’t relieve you of the obligation to be considerate to others. And it’s your responsibility to teach kids that same obligation.
Same deal at a movie (or play, concert, whatever). And yeah, it may mean that you don’t get to go out to do those things as much as before because it’s easier to stay home with the kids than find a sitter or make them behave. But that’s the choice you made when you had kids. You have to make sacrifices to be a parent, and this could be one of them.
That applies to everyone. I do not ask for cites for stuff which seems evident to me, or on stuff on which I agree (unless I would like to read more on a certain topic). I only ask for cites on stuff I do not agree.
I guess that’s because you hang around with “people” like your husband, who must be similar nutcases. You both joined to pay 50000$ for your dog’s surgery then decided to apply for welfare, just before griping on your taxes spent on playgrounds.
How do you propose we disallow people you deem unworthy from having children? And who’s in favor of children being born to crack-heads? And who’s getting paid to have children? What, in other words, are you talking about?
I’d say we create a police state with a central office deciding who gets to raise children, yellow application forms, and corrupt officials.
I don’t give a fuck whether you respond or not. Your posts reflect a bitter lunatic who projects a childish outlook on life onto the people who, ironically, have nothing to do with your unhappiness (since you choose to avoid them whenever possible). You want to deny others the same welfare benefits you’re trying to get, but do not qualify for. You blame them for opposition to GAY MARRIAGE, you ignorant, slacker? When you yourself admit you haven’t voted in many years? How do all your gay friends feel about all the support you’re throwing their way? There’s something dreadfully wrong with your mental function.You really ought to spend less time playing on the computer and more time with a therapist. Or finding a job.
Don’t bother to respond. It will be more incoherent bullshit from a social mistfit with an entitlement grudge.
There are some headcases in this thread who would ask for a cite that the sky is blue.
The same taxes that pay for dog parks, mind you.
I was a bit player in this thread in its early pages but have since given-up in deference to the trolling and the bullshit spewed by the resident trolls and bullshit artists.
But may I say, it’s GREAT to see a Pit Thread of ye’ Olde Days…full of venom and vitriol, name-calling and trashing. I’m wiping a tear from me’ eye with gratitude for the players in this thread bringing back the good times, oh how we miss them.
Thankyews to EVERYONE who has participated in this thread. It’s been great…
Hey, I’ve just been lurking all this time to see if it’s going to overtake the “a” thread (how long did that one last anyway?)
Nobody can ever say they don’t make trolls like they used to anyway…
Go to hell!
I mean, come on, how often to you get to poke a bear with a stick and not have to feel bad about it? This is hilarious.
Yeah, this one’s funny considering most gay marriage proponents are excited about this generation growing up to be able to vote because they think they will be fully acclimated to the idea of normal homosexuality. 
Yes, because they are morons taught to recoil in Pavlovian horror at someone suggesting that their behavior is selfish.
When a parent has a kid they aren’t unselfish, having a kid does teach you a modicum of selflessness, of course like any class there are those who flunk it.
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I dunno.
Some parents are being selfless, some selfish, some in between. Most in between.
…are the luckiest people, in the worrrlllllld.
I disagree. It’s more like:
Children, who hate children, are the luckiest children, in the worrrrlllld
Well for full disclosure, I think that selflessness AT ALL is an ideological abstraction, a superstitious mythology that holds us back. On the other hand I don’t like to claim absolutes, so I am willing to believe it exists somewhat, but more often it happens in grand gestures on the spur of the moment. My elementary school was named after a guy from town who threw himself on top of a hand grenade to save his platoon. That was an act of selflessness. So I guess to put it more succinctly I do not believe in selfless people. Occasional acts of selflessness, yes, but I truly believe that the vast majority of human action is selfish.
I think this is mostly true. But I don’t believe any of the people harping on how selfish parents are are living lives of altruistic devotion. In fact, I believe it’s quite the opposite.
I think that’s pretty obvious.
Count me in as another who dislikes (not hates), children.
Can’t believe I was one a couple of years ago.