"hey when are you having kids? Its getting kinda late."

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I just tell people I'm already consuming enough resources for 2 people, I don't actually need to add another person to speed up global overpopulation.

I've actually been criticized directly for "creating another consumer on an overpopulated planet." Could be, I said.

Or she might grow up to invent a technology, start a social movement, or finagle some legislation that sets the sustainability movement forward by leaps and bounds.

One of the meth-head welfare moms that frequent my store brought her two adults sons, two adult daughters, and three little kids into the store to get subs for all of them with her EBT card. And asked me when I was having kids because I was taking such care with her little kids' sammiches. I said never. She nodded solemnly and said "Well that's best, I guess. More funds for me and my kids." And she patted her belly.

[Doktor Howl]

I've actually been criticized directly for "creating another consumer on an overpopulated planet." Could be, I said.

The correct response to this is a swift kick in the ass, and a suggestion that the consumer who said it to you remove him/herself from the population problem.

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I've actually been criticized directly for "creating another consumer on an overpopulated planet." Could be, I said.

The correct response to this is a swift kick in the ass, and a suggestion that the consumer who said it to you remove him/herself from the population problem.

Yeah, if it wasn't a grandpa of sorts I may have taken a different tack.

[Doktor Howl]

I've actually been criticized directly for "creating another consumer on an overpopulated planet." Could be, I said.

The correct response to this is a swift kick in the ass, and a suggestion that the consumer who said it to you remove him/herself from the population problem.

Yeah, if it wasn't a grandpa of sorts I may have taken a different tack.

Wouldn't faze me a bit, if someone talked about my kids in those terms.

But, then again, I am a very rude person.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I've actually been criticized directly for "creating another consumer on an overpopulated planet." Could be, I said.

The correct response to this is a swift kick in the ass, and a suggestion that the consumer who said it to you remove him/herself from the population problem.

Yeah, if it wasn't a grandpa of sorts I may have taken a different tack.

Wouldn't faze me a bit, if someone talked about my kids in those terms.

But, then again, I am a very rude person.

Even worse, if he's a grandpa type he's directly responsible for at least two more consumers. 

Also, that's oversimplifying the problem. The resources/energy/food/water thing is a little more complex than "Oh, great, one more human."

Send 'em all to Mars and Titan. <---my simple solution

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Well, you want to send them there too Dok, but for wholly different reasons than fixing the population problem. 

[Deepthroat Chopra]

Kids get you to the front of airline queues (but after the age of 8, their usefulness is over).

They also give you the opportunity to go to theme parks, without all the mums looking at you like a potential pedo. Likewise, kids films.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

The plane still arrives at the same time regardless of when im seated. Also im afraid of heights and babysitting my youngest sister killed any chance that i would want to watch a kids movie made any time after 1991.

[Deepthroat Chopra]

The plane still arrives at the same time regardless of when im seated. Also im afraid of heights and babysitting my youngest sister killed any chance that i would want to watch a kids movie made any time after 1991.

Kids also get you through customs quicker. Except China. I don't know why not China.

Also, they a great excuse for avoiding things. Instead of saying "No, I'm not coming to your barbecue because you're a fat waste of time, and all your friends are bushpigs, you can say, simply, 'kids'."

[Nephew Twiddleton]

The plane still arrives at the same time regardless of when im seated. Also im afraid of heights and babysitting my youngest sister killed any chance that i would want to watch a kids movie made any time after 1991.

Kids also get you through customs quicker. Except China. I don't know why not China.

Also, they a great excuse for avoiding things. Instead of saying "No, I'm not coming to your barbecue because you're a fat waste of time, and all your friends are bushpigs, you can say, simply, 'kids'."

Nothing to declare, US citizen, EU citizen, band practice.

[Deepthroat Chopra]

The plane still arrives at the same time regardless of when im seated. Also im afraid of heights and babysitting my youngest sister killed any chance that i would want to watch a kids movie made any time after 1991.

Kids also get you through customs quicker. Except China. I don't know why not China.

Also, they a great excuse for avoiding things. Instead of saying "No, I'm not coming to your barbecue because you're a fat waste of time, and all your friends are bushpigs, you can say, simply, 'kids'."

Nothing to declare, US citizen, EU citizen, band practice.

You mean, I could have just said "band practice", instead of knocking up my woman?

I should have thought my life through better.

[Triple Zero]

Nothing to declare, US citizen, EU citizen, band practice.

You got double citizenship?? NICE

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Nothing to declare, US citizen, EU citizen, band practice.

You got double citizenship?? NICE

Yep. Born on American soil, so I can run for President in 2016, and Irish citizenship transfers automatically from an Irish parent born in Ireland. Got passports for both and everything. I just can't vote over there because I don't legally have a jurisdiction. Mom's Bostonian, Dad's Connemaran.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

[Triple Zero]

Huh, yeah I believed you, didn't need to post a scan

Nothing to declare, US citizen, EU citizen, band practice.

You got double citizenship?? NICE

Yep. Born on American soil, so I can run for President in 2016, and Irish citizenship transfers automatically from an Irish parent born in Ireland. Got passports for both and everything. I just can't vote over there because I don't legally have a jurisdiction. Mom's Bostonian, Dad's Connemaran.

That's pretty cool. It's just I remember how much effort it was for my ex to get dual NL/DE citizenship, and our countries are right next to eachother! She was born with DE citizenship, Dutch/German parents, could've gotten the dual somewhere in the 80s but back then without the Internet it was easy to miss such an opportunity just before they changed the laws again, somewhere last year they changed them again, specifically for people with NL/DE parents, born before 80-something, it was hard to find, lots of paperwork, but in April 2011 she finally got complete, just in time to celebrate Dutch Queen's day as an NL citizen (30 april, think your 4th of july except with more improper dancing in the middle of the streets)