Taking sides: Children vs. (non-human) animals

brontosauruses are the worst
I will take hours and hours with bratty kids and stinky dogs over 15 minutes with a brontosaurus

Double Income No Kids
DINK

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.

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this is the part of the thread where i start sharing my 11 year old kid's art.

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

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.

it's sad but it's funny too.

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

the balancing act between respect and condescension

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

did you read this off the toilet wall while taking a piss or something? wonderful input as ever.

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.

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

people talk about music here? xp

lol at an actual dad trying to promote less self-awareness about kids to someone who doesn't have any.

dads and uncles

not reading all of this, did dads and uncles actually get mad at lex pretend here?

oh nevermind why did i post that i need to make friends

i really need to meditate more frequently

fat chance of that, what with all your children and/or animals

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I think I need LocalGarda to grab another beer and explain to me how children are our future

i really need to meditate more frequently

― 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

this is the part of the thread where i start sharing my 11 year old kid's art.

more of this please

is reginald the bee anything to do with this guy?: https://youtu.be/VGcVnXiApNk

^that is a jam! thread delivers

Well done everyone.

I mean this is basically how Trump got elected.

a lot of layabouts with nothing better to do than to cause trouble!

that's how i scold my kid and his friends too!

nuclear families picking on lex by existing.

did not expect it to go there but prob should have tbf

is always latent attention-seeking or willful aloneness.

covering all bases here

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?

lex's parents being as uninterested in him as he wants other parents to be about their kids would explain a lot

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.

i've met the lex's parents. they're great.

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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.

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.

FWIW I'm too irresponsible to ever have children.

Not enough of this here

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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.

Also, having lived in several non-western countries for years on end, though it worth noting that I never heard people saying they "don't like children" anywhere except UK - in China we were constantly having to stop strangers from giving them sweets or old people offering them their seats on public transport.

Really, in the PRC everybody is nice to children, wonder why that could be

Strangers giving children sweets does tend to be frowned on in the UK. A cat is to blame for this, not a dog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3FnCiRpdQ4

LOL, shows how long it's been since I've seen that, dogs are to blame, not sweets.

Children >>>>>>>>> candy

If you were stopping people offering your kids sweets that suggests it is indeed a bad thing to do.