When i fucking want to thanks for asking.
Im poor. I dont want my kids to be poor.
Children annoy me. I mean i like em fine as long as i can give them back in a couple of hours. Small doses. I wouldnt be a good father at this time.
Im not married. I know thats not a requirement but its nice to have those legal protections in place.
Also i dont owe the world more people.
Also im only fucking thirty.
No you know what im infertile so stop asking.
You are obviously a heretic antithetical to Pure American Values.
Just one thing: If you wait until you can afford kids, you'll never have them.
If all the responsible people decide that having children is the irresponsible choice, only irresponsible people have kids. It's kinda shitty. (Also, 30 for a guy isn't that big a deal, but 30 for women kinda is on a physical level. Assuming this is a mother whining at you.)
The one thing I don't see in there is "I don't want to have kids".
This is coming from my sister. It annoys me because the obvious answer is if i wanted kids right now i would have them. I dont have kids so i dont want them right now. Its kind of a shitty thing to ask. Either i cant or wont. No need to pressure me you know?
Quote from: That'll be five Twid, please. on February 27, 2012, 10:55:17 PM
This is coming from my sister. It annoys me because the obvious answer is if i wanted kids right now i would have them. I dont have kids so i dont want them right now. Its kind of a shitty thing to ask. Either i cant or wont. No need to pressure me you know?
Yeah, I find that question rude and uncalled-for under pretty much any circumstances.
Quote from: Nigel on February 27, 2012, 11:01:09 PM
Quote from: That'll be five Twid, please. on February 27, 2012, 10:55:17 PM
This is coming from my sister. It annoys me because the obvious answer is if i wanted kids right now i would have them. I dont have kids so i dont want them right now. Its kind of a shitty thing to ask. Either i cant or wont. No need to pressure me you know?
Yeah, I find that question rude and uncalled-for under pretty much any circumstances.
seconded
I feel you on that Twid. I got that one aunt that thinks it's cute or funny or edgy to always ask me that, and try to make it a competition between me and my cousin.
Quote from: That'll be five Twid, please. on February 27, 2012, 10:55:17 PM
This is coming from my sister. It annoys me because the obvious answer is if i wanted kids right now i would have them. I dont have kids so i dont want them right now. Its kind of a shitty thing to ask. Either i cant or wont. No need to pressure me you know?
Ask her when she's getting 4 new dogs. Because, you know, life is short & all that shit.
Quote from: That'll be five Twid, please. on February 27, 2012, 10:55:17 PM
This is coming from my sister. It annoys me because the obvious answer is if i wanted kids right now i would have them. I dont have kids so i dont want them right now. Its kind of a shitty thing to ask. Either i cant or wont. No need to pressure me you know?
My wife and I didn't want kids 9 months after we got married.
They ain't lying when they say it's the fun-ship.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 27, 2012, 10:38:17 PM
Just one thing: If you wait until you can afford kids, you'll never have them.
Also, this is very true. Kids be expensive, but you find a way to make it work.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 27, 2012, 11:27:40 PM
Quote from: That'll be five Twid, please. on February 27, 2012, 10:55:17 PM
This is coming from my sister. It annoys me because the obvious answer is if i wanted kids right now i would have them. I dont have kids so i dont want them right now. Its kind of a shitty thing to ask. Either i cant or wont. No need to pressure me you know?
Ask her when she's getting 4 new dogs. Because, you know, life is short & all that shit.
:lulz: I like this.
Lol thats perfect dok!
Yeah...that's one of the more annoying conversations you can try to have with a person. Next time just accost her as aggressively as possible about something just irrelevant enough that she wont be able to tell if you're serious. It'll, theoretically, be awesome.
I am with you on this, Twid. Just because I have a vagina, people think it needs to be a fucking clown car. My mom is still pissed I refused to marry the pig-farmer's-son-next-door. She could have fifteen grandchildren right now, god damn it, if it weren't for the fact I'm such a frigid whore.
And my assistant manager at work asked me when I was going to have kids. I don't remember why she asked this. I made a swirly motion over my Southern gonadial region and said "Recreational use only, Ma'am."
My standard answer when customers ask why I don't have kids or when am I having them is that I would eat my young.
When a mama cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look like mice.
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.
Quote from: Cain on February 28, 2012, 09:06:33 AM
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 like it. :D
That's too logical for my sister cain. Shes a very impulsive woman. Plus ive come to the conclusion that having children clouds your judgment and makes you forget that some people actually want to oh i dont know plan their families rather than have them haphazardly with different unsuitable sexual partners. Actually i liked my nieces father. Dont know why she broke it off with him. My nephews father is an abusive assbag with an drug habit and a massive gambling problem. Shes also miscarried three times with two other men.
Im ok with having two kids with one partner approximately 7 years from now.
I may never be financially ready but i would rather that villager and i at least own a house before we even start thinking about that. And a little time after that to comfortably settle into it and at least build up a decent cushion.
Plus repeated exposure to pickleson has made us both ok with delaying.
I've actually never wanted kids, and been always quite clear on the fact. This gives me the advantage when people try to shock me into having kids, because then I can paint them as uncaring monsters seeking emotional gratification through ultimately destructive acts (remember: most of the people I know IRL who have kids are idiots, and this does not apply to everyone with kids).
That said, sooner or later, no matter how horrific it may seem, either overpopulation will have to be dealt with through social engineering or more Malthusian methods. I'm betting on the latter, given religious idiocy when it comes to contraception, but I'd like to be wrong.
My mum insists that I am missing out by not having kids. My counter argument is that the world is overpopulated, things like breast cancer and schizophrenia are high risk in my family, I'm poor and have never had a relationship last long enough to even consider having a planned family. Conversely if I were to get knocked up by accident (which seems unlikely seeing as I have been sexually active for 16 years and although I may have had to take pregnancy tests due to being a few days late on a couple of occasions, I've never been pregnant.) I would probably keep it.
What doesn't help is that after my parents divorced when I was 6 I lost count of how many live in boyfriends my mum had, and it's something I resent about my childhood, despite getting on really well with 2 of them, and still speaking to them now, and being in the middle still, 26 years later of a constant battle between my mum and dad. Also the freaky thing about the divorce was that my dad was a physically abusive asshole yet my mum didn't want a divorce. As a result of being knocked up at 17 and being knocked about so bad that the twin I was supposed to have come out with me (would have been identical- massive single placenta.) didn't make it. along with another miscarriage by violence, an abortion and finally my younger sister, my mother has a streak of bitterness and misandry, which has resulted in stress levels that has severely damaged her health. My mum wasn't one of those multiple baby-daddy women tho, so at least there's that. Also my older sister went crazy not long after having her son, and frankly another trip to crazytown with a babby in tow seems super hard, as it took a long time to get past the psychosis I suffered by myself.
So, yea, the idea of motherhood SCARES me, and I will try to prevent it. I'm very strongly pro-choice for women in general, but for myself I would not consider an abortion unless the circumstances were incredibly extreme.
:( We could have had ANOTHER Pixie? :(
Wow pix that sucks...
But family does kind of determine if when and how. .y mom broke up with my stepfather because she wanted to get married and have kids married my dad had us and then got divorced and got back with my stepdad anyway (hes not really my step since that happened in my twenties but its just easy to describe him as such). Plus theres my sister and a few cousins to also sour the idea of reproducing yet.
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Quote from: Triple Zero on February 28, 2012, 06:38:14 PM
:( We could have had ANOTHER Pixie? :(
It would've been either AWESOME or WORLD OVAR (and awesome, at the same time).
It kinda makes me sad because I was a weird lonely bookish kid and having a twin might've been more fun.
You'd have to battle over who got Payne though ;-)
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Quote from: Cain on February 28, 2012, 09:06:33 AM
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.
Quote from: Net on February 29, 2012, 05:44:48 PM
Quote from: Cain on February 28, 2012, 09:06:33 AM
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.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on February 29, 2012, 07:03:53 PM
Quote from: Net on February 29, 2012, 05:44:48 PM
Quote from: Cain on February 28, 2012, 09:06:33 AM
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.
:facepalm:
Quote from: Net on February 29, 2012, 05:44:48 PM
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.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 29, 2012, 09:21:24 PM
Quote from: Net on February 29, 2012, 05:44:48 PM
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.
Quote from: Net on March 01, 2012, 12:06:27 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 29, 2012, 09:21:24 PM
Quote from: Net on February 29, 2012, 05:44:48 PM
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.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 01, 2012, 12:47:29 AM
Quote from: Net on March 01, 2012, 12:06:27 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 29, 2012, 09:21:24 PM
Quote from: Net on February 29, 2012, 05:44:48 PM
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. :wink:
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
Well, you want to send them there too Dok, but for wholly different reasons than fixing the population problem. :lol:
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.
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.
Quote from: That'll be five Twid, please. on March 01, 2012, 11:29:14 PM
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'."
Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on March 02, 2012, 12:46:59 AM
Quote from: That'll be five Twid, please. on March 01, 2012, 11:29:14 PM
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. :p
Quote from: That'll be five Twid, please. on March 02, 2012, 12:57:49 AM
Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on March 02, 2012, 12:46:59 AM
Quote from: That'll be five Twid, please. on March 01, 2012, 11:29:14 PM
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. :p
You mean, I could have just said "band practice", instead of knocking up my woman?
I should have thought my life through better. :oops:
Quote from: That'll be five Twid, please. on March 02, 2012, 12:57:49 AM
Nothing to declare, US citizen, EU citizen, band practice. :p
You got double citizenship?? NICE
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 02, 2012, 02:30:24 AM
Quote from: That'll be five Twid, please. on March 02, 2012, 12:57:49 AM
Nothing to declare, US citizen, EU citizen, band practice. :p
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.
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/passports.jpg)
Huh, yeah I believed you, didn't need to post a scan ;-)
Quote from: That'll be five Twid, please. on March 02, 2012, 02:38:32 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 02, 2012, 02:30:24 AM
Quote from: That'll be five Twid, please. on March 02, 2012, 12:57:49 AM
Nothing to declare, US citizen, EU citizen, band practice. :p
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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranjegekte)) :D
Incidentally, any offspring I have will also be entitled to dual citizenship, providing that Irish citizenship laws remain the same and I register their births with the Irish consulate (which I will), however my grandchildren will not unless they are born in Ireland.
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 02, 2012, 03:07:44 AM
Huh, yeah I believed you, didn't need to post a scan ;-)
Quote from: That'll be five Twid, please. on March 02, 2012, 02:38:32 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 02, 2012, 02:30:24 AM
Quote from: That'll be five Twid, please. on March 02, 2012, 12:57:49 AM
Nothing to declare, US citizen, EU citizen, band practice. :p
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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranjegekte)) :D
That was more because it was an opportunity to show off shitty ID photos. I can show you my horrible drivers license too, if you like. :lulz:
Missed the second part of your post. I remember she was mentioning that in Connecticut. It's funny how such laws change. If I had been more proactive in getting my Irish passport before 9/11 I would have been able to have both my English language and Irish language names on my passport without it being considered an alias. Now my Irish name is an interesting hypothetical.
Wait.... ex? I missed something....
Yes, ex, I sorta mentioned it in another thread a little while back, sorry it's really late now here so I'm not elaborating cause I'm tired, but yes, ex. It's okay though, we separated as friends and such.
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 02, 2012, 03:26:39 AM
Yes, ex, I sorta mentioned it in another thread a little while back, sorry it's really late now here so I'm not elaborating cause I'm tired, but yes, ex. It's okay though, we separated as friends and such.
Glad to hear it was amicable. I liked her. Sleep well, sir.