I avoid drug addicts and alcoholics, eating only the sober and clean-living.
Good advice. Thanks for fighting ignorance 'round these parts.
I seriously believe that Idiocracy is really in the process of happening. While smart people spend their reproductive years hanging out in grad school, the people who can’t accomplish anything else in life or simply do not understand the instructions on the box of condoms are breeding.
Link?
Masochist.
I reread that recommended diet: 40% fat, mega dosage of vitamin A and choice of adding optional squirrel or guinea pig liver. Extra whoosh factor. :smack:
Our local zoo recently prepared birthday treats for its lion cubs when they turned one year old. They consisted of “ice, two whole cow femurs cut in half, five pounds of shaved beef, and a half-gallon of cow blood.” (link includes pics).
Isn’t that typical? As soon as you get a new supply of protein, you don’t need it any more.
Fruity pebbles have protein??!?
I’ve been to these sites too, on a lark. I feel like the average doper nonparent, even one who absolutely hates kids, knows more about parenting.
The worst participants are the lecturing “experts” who don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. The ones who think unrefrigerated water will kill your child and that if you wash car seat straps with a non-approved cleaners you have to order new ones and keep the baby at home until they arrive.
My favorites - cause mine are older and I’ve gotten past the feeding insanity - are the ones that infantilize their children.
“Of course my twelve year old son goes into the ladies room with me! There are OMG child predators out there!!!”
“My husband and I want to go out to dinner and my mother can’t watch the kids. Do you think it would be ok to let my 13 and 14 olds stay home by themself for a few hours?”
In fairness, I know some 13 and 14 years olds who aren’t really capable of looking after themselves even for a few hours.
Mind you, I have the same opinion of the 18 or 19 year olds who live upstairs from me, so I may just be a grumpy old bag.
To be fair, this is a brilliant idea:
Apparently it’s some madness called the “paleo diet”, which claims that if we all just ate like cavemen, our illnesses would cure themselves. Yeah, I’m buying this.
tygre says the woman advocating this is…a little crocked. To put it mildly.
**drew **ol’ buddy, if YOU’RE preggers all the hungry proteens in the world aren’t gonna help <3 BABBY’S!!!
We would almost certainly see a lot less geriatric diseases - you know, what with dying in our forties from galloping parasitic infections and so forth…
I’m just back from taking Mimi to Baby Story Time at the library. Turns out that the mom who never uses a playpen, ever, has also never given her eight-month-old a bottle, ever. Just nursing.
She brought her husband along and henpecked him about where to sit, how to sit, how to participate in the games and songs.
I’m gonna be charitable and say she’s not a psycho bitch, she’s just fucking exhausted from living up to her own stupid expectations.
I’d have to agree with that. They want to keep their stupid at full strength, not getting diluted with modern societal ideas (like childhood vaccinations).
It’s true, I do. 
(That was a joke, for the humour-impaired out there. I don’t actually hate kids.)
I often wonder what the male version of henpecking would be. Cock-spurring?
Hard to picture a human equivalent.
Enjoy,
Steven