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

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.

http://ffmedia.ign.com/general/multimedia/bubbleboy1.jpg

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNm49X-U8AEz4vX.jpg

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.

Yeah, I mean I used to train teachers and I told them not to give sweets to kids as (1) parents have own diet plans (2) unhealthy (3) they will associate sugar = reward / savoury = punishment (4) kids should be trained not to take sweets from people (5) demonstrates underlying poor motivation skills (6) possible allergies - so obviously we said no every time, without lecturing a stranger if possible.

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, December 19, 2016 1:39 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i do hope this is the kind of thing you teach your brats to say in the playground

I don't have children, which you'd have seen the multiple times I said so in this thread if you actually bothered to ~pay attention~ to other people rather than concentrating on how much they entertain you, you fucking bore.

But if I did have kids I would unquestionably teach them to subject cretinous a-holes to endless mockery.

i do hope this is the kind of thing you teach your brats to say in the playground

p intellectually stimulating conversation tbf

completely insane that an opinion that someone dislikes children sends you into utter insult-flinging meltdown like this. nagl dude

me, seeing this thread constantly at the top of sna: lol, children ARE non-human animals

fwiw i literally had no idea who you were before this thread but you seem to be acting as though you know things about me? yet you say i bore you?

can we poll the categories of human beings i dislike? cos there are quite a few

lol, yes, lex, I've been posting here for like ~over a decade~ and I've read your writing both on and off ILX.

makes sense that fear of not being entertaining would cut deep then

https://media.giphy.com/media/13xwqzjTev2RIA/giphy.gif

http://dibaustralia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/projection.jpg

you're the one who's consistently gone for direct insults even when not being addressed

it's obvious that lex is heavily invested in his dislike of children and in his dislike of those who would have him like children. if his dislike of children makes him reviled by much of the world, he apparently is ready to turn his back to the world. ilx must accept this is lex's final position: he dislikes kids. (shrugs)

if I accept it does that mean I can't make fun of it

I mean I accept that lex's personality is beyond repair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFHPsThGQ1E

I remember the thrill I got when I first learned that tapping a particular spot near the patella caused a person's leg to kick. I did it over and over again. But eventually the thrill wore off.

I took a shit in someone's backyard once, as a child.

This needs to stop.

children's poop vs (non-human) animal poop

both are horrifying when they are on your hands

I guess I'm trying to say I just don't know where I stand in this debate.