Why does this keep happening to children???

There will always be people who are, in clinical terms, just fucking nuts. The beauty of the internet is that now you get to hear about each and every one of them.

Ahhh, the wonders of technology.

Shit lissener no wonder you have issues with parenting. I think I’ll go hug my boys.

If Lissener did have any issues, I’d say they were honestly earned. It’s a “whole nother thing”, between having experience with someone who went throught it (second hand) and going through it yourself (first hand). We had yourstepdad’s kind in our family, he married one of my cousins. When her father and uncles found out, they went nuts. They had a “talk” with him and he “agreed” to go quietly. It’s too bad someone like them was’t there for you.

If you’re referring to me, I went through it from one of my brothers. Not the same thing, I know, which is why I brought up my SO instead.

How could someone DO that? Didn’t she feel the need to look after her child? Wasn’t she worried?And if not, WHY?

No you don’t.

Yes he does. He’s nothing but a snotty-faced heap of parrot droppings.

Your perfectly honest observation is only those things to you obviously.

Come again?

Learn to parse, you malodorous pervert. Try this version:

Your “perfectly honest” “observation” is only “perfectly honest” and an “observation” to you, obviously.

I parse just fine, thank you. Not being honest? I can understand lissener thinking that, I can sort of understand you thinking that, but Mockingbird and 48,519 others?

And what was it if not an observation, the Bolivian Navy on maneuvers in the South Pacifc?

I read what you just posted, several times, but I have to admit that I really can’t work out what you’re trying to say.

Don’t worry about it then. I’m hoping it was all one big whoosh.

I think that some people are so self-destructive that they can’t see outside of themselves. They aren’t capable of taking care of their children because they aren’t capable of taking care of themselves (in fact, sometimes a person’s inability to care for him/herself leads to the parenthood). It’s horrible, and terribly heartbreaking, but unless we start regulating procreation (or it gets a lot more difficult), situations like these will always happen. :frowning:

Fifty yards? So much for the idea of ever having a beer with you… :wink:

Just fucking great. I know where this women lives (the building at least) and I fucking go to both those clubs. Now, every time I go salsa dancing I’m going to be thinking "a slime of a person went here and let her kid die.
I feel for the father in all this. He didn’t know what was happening. I think I’d be haunted for life knowing that while he spent those 33 hours doing whatever, his child was dying.

Wait, WTF?? You go on to say later that you “don’t know [Lissener] from Adam” but you feel the need to hijack this thread to start handing out unsolicited personal advice? On how Lissener tries to “lower [him]self to [him] stepdad’s expectations”?

Those expectations? You mean Lissener is acting “worthless and stupid”? Jesus fuck! What would ever make a person decide they had the right to start offering psychological advice to a perfect stranger, and right after that stranger had divulged an incredibly painful story? Offering advice to strangers about their psychological problems is already the height of rudeness; you compound it by implying that Lissener is acting “worthless and stupid”.

:: shakes his head in utter shock ::

Now hold on a second. I meant that lissener sometimes overreacts and overanalyzes posts; I know I’m not the only one that feels this way. Maybe it’s the impersonal nature of the Internet but when he acts like that it’s as if he is purposely trying to drive people away.

I thought it was obvious that I was specifically referring to the "no one like me or would ever like me " part.*

Advice? What advice? Did I suggest he do something?

Maybe what I said could be construed as advice. It wasn’t intentional; I’m no good at being indirect.

Nah, she’s just a selfish bitch.

I think I’ll stop opening threads like these. :frowning: