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― scott seward, Saturday, 17 December 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link
this thread is better when there are more dog/children comparisons and relative judgments
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 17 December 2016 21:24 (seven years ago) link
i do think reducing the scope of your interests and indeed love to your precious fucking nuclear family is a signifier of a worse person. it's fundamentally anti-solidarity.
The alleged "moral judgement"/ starting point for a moral judgement?
It's none of my business what peoples' interests are, nor my business to tell them what their interests should be - parents or non-parents.
I don't understand the anti-solidarity point.
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Saturday, 17 December 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
if the only people that matter to you are "you and yours" - which is I read when I read "reducing the scope of interests and love to your nuclear family" - then you're probably an asshole
^^^^^^^^^
― lex pretend, Saturday, 17 December 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
Do you have a theory on couples?
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Saturday, 17 December 2016 22:16 (seven years ago) link
Or brontosauruses
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Saturday, 17 December 2016 22:21 (seven years ago) link
brontosauruses are the worstI will take hours and hours with bratty kids and stinky dogs over 15 minutes with a brontosaurus
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Saturday, 17 December 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
Double Income No Kids DINK
― calstars, Sunday, 18 December 2016 01:22 (seven years ago) link
My daughter is the result of a biracial marriage. My grandfather was born in Spring,TX and he loves the family I've help to create. During WWll he he fell in love with and married a czech born displaced german woman. Throughout my childhood I heard many racist comments on pretty much all fronts from this man. Now he is in love with my wife and child via Facebook. My wife has photos of her family and I'm seeing my racist grandfather genuinely asking questions about her grandfather who was also a WWll vet. My grandfather has used the words beautiful in so many of my wife's photos on Facebook that I'm in awe and shock. This was a man I feared for most of my childhood, who is now giving praise to my Mexican wife. Say what you will about parents and "reducing the scope of interests and love to your nuclear family" but sometimes it helps to cure an old man of racism. I can only smile. and rethink who my grandfather is.
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 18 December 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/8QddJLy.gif
― pplains, Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:00 (seven years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Therattlesnakesperforming.jpg
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:03 (seven years ago) link
https://scontent.fbos1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15542317_10155399920982137_8578367664384519682_n.jpg?oh=40de58cea4adb44133b482e7aeb19312&oe=58AE39F2
― scott seward, Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:11 (seven years ago) link
this is the part of the thread where i start sharing my 11 year old kid's art.
― scott seward, Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:12 (seven years ago) link
this is about as facile as the rest of the tombot contributions itt. can you edit these down to "assholes are assholes" in future? or just don't bother posting them.
also the idea that this thread revival is a provocation towards looking outward away from ourselves is so ridiculous as to be hilarious. thread actually embarrasses the board, all in all.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:25 (seven years ago) link
it's sad but it's funny too.
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:28 (seven years ago) link
It is hard to get a man to understand something when his ability to keep posting with righteous indignation depends on his not understanding it
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:28 (seven years ago) link
the balancing act between respect and condescension
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:30 (seven years ago) link
did you read this off the toilet wall while taking a piss or something? wonderful input as ever.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:33 (seven years ago) link
best fortune cookie of all time.
xanax walt whitman
This whole thing started with some prick decrying conversations he's supposedly above and children. C'mon. You feel the need to vent about that, you're obviously the 1% 'raconteur you exalt in your mind's eye and, by that action, not. It's pathetic. Lex, Tombot: who wants to listen to you? Cause smug 'sophistication' is always latent attention-seeking or willful aloneness.
But go figure a board started by music critics tries to police what people love.
― the ilx meme is critical of that line of thought (lion in winter), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:35 (seven years ago) link
eh, I lost much respect for a lot of the angry defensive dads and uncles and affiliated victims in this thread a couple days ago
my cat can't draw, and his food and poops are disgusting, but he doesn't create nearly as close to the volume of laundry that my 5yo does
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:36 (seven years ago) link
people talk about music here? xp
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:37 (seven years ago) link
lol at an actual dad trying to promote less self-awareness about kids to someone who doesn't have any.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:42 (seven years ago) link
dads and uncles
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:42 (seven years ago) link
not reading all of this, did dads and uncles actually get mad at lex pretend here?
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:43 (seven years ago) link
oh nevermind why did i post that i need to make friends
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:44 (seven years ago) link
i really need to meditate more frequently
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:47 (seven years ago) link
fat chance of that, what with all your children and/or animals
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:48 (seven years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NobQk4AMpuA/Tm43Gh-PVqI/AAAAAAAAHhs/U_huPc6QEJs/s1600/HomerBirds.jpg
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:49 (seven years ago) link
I think I need LocalGarda to grab another beer and explain to me how children are our future
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:50 (seven years ago) link
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, December 18, 2016 3:47 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
misread that as "mediate" and thought you were proffering yourself as the person who could have reconciled Lex + the ilx dads/uncles
― soref, Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:54 (seven years ago) link
more of this please
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:59 (seven years ago) link
is reginald the bee anything to do with this guy?: https://youtu.be/VGcVnXiApNk
― soref, Sunday, 18 December 2016 04:03 (seven years ago) link
^that is a jam! thread delivers
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, 18 December 2016 04:25 (seven years ago) link
Well done everyone.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 18 December 2016 04:59 (seven years ago) link
I mean this is basically how Trump got elected.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 18 December 2016 05:00 (seven years ago) link
a lot of layabouts with nothing better to do than to cause trouble!
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 18 December 2016 05:11 (seven years ago) link
that's how i scold my kid and his friends too!
― nomar, Sunday, 18 December 2016 05:16 (seven years ago) link
nuclear families picking on lex by existing.
did not expect it to go there but prob should have tbf
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Sunday, 18 December 2016 08:37 (seven years ago) link
is always latent attention-seeking or willful aloneness.
covering all bases here
― ogmor, Sunday, 18 December 2016 10:33 (seven years ago) link
but disliking parents for being child-obsessed kinda has to be a generational thing, right? I mean, you wouldn't be annoyed by your own parents taking an interest in your life?
― niels, Monday, 19 December 2016 13:26 (seven years ago) link
lex's parents being as uninterested in him as he wants other parents to be about their kids would explain a lot
― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Monday, 19 December 2016 13:39 (seven years ago) link
but disliking parents for being child-obsessed kinda has to be a generational thing, right?
Not for nothing but my great-grandma was one of 20 kids, my mom basically raised her 4 siblings bc my grandmother wasn't the motherly type, and my mom used to throw US out of the house for hours at a time when we were little. I know this isn't everyone's experience, but the hyper-attentive indoor "apartment" parenting thing is a total mystery to me--when there's no "outside" to tell your kids to go play in without you. I spent about 3 hours cooped up with my boyfriend's two adolescents yesterday and I wanted to cry by 1pm.
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Monday, 19 December 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
i've met the lex's parents. they're great.
http://ffmedia.ign.com/general/multimedia/bubbleboy1.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 19 December 2016 15:52 (seven years ago) link
I'll have you know that as a child I never dared interrupt substantive adult conversations about politics or weather given how darn close they clearly were to figuring it all out, what with my observations and anecdotes about toys, video games, hunger, billowing smoke or whatnot.
― Evan, Monday, 19 December 2016 16:04 (seven years ago) link
Children seem like a huge self sacrifice and the ultimate patience project. The tenants above me occasionally look after some and it's non-stop noise on the hardwood floors. Can't think of many things more challenging than that.
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Monday, 19 December 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
FWIW I'm too irresponsible to ever have children.
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Monday, 19 December 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
Not enough of this here
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNm49X-U8AEz4vX.jpg
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 19 December 2016 17:48 (seven years ago) link
FWIW I was too irresponsible to have children, but now I seem to have two and have no choice but to be responsible, and that seems to work out ok.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 19 December 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link