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Every time one of my friends posts ultrasound/baby pictures it reminds me that I'm still single. 
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Stairs posted:Childbirth isn't really heroic because every other animal on Earth does it and you never see glurge-y memes about "a mother sewer rat's love" and at least in first world countries its usually voluntary. I have given birth four times and the women who post crap about the magic of birth make me laugh. Heroic is running into a burning building to save some kids/a dog/ grandma's last surviving photo of the son she lost in 'Nam. Birth isn't anything special. Well, most other animals don't die in childbirth as much as humans do, because we're the only animal with the awkward big head/upright-walking pelvis combo. I don't know, I've been to a lot of births and I've seen a lot of people push themselves to the limit mentally and physically to get their drat babies out; that's at least as heroic as, say, running a marathon. I know a lot of people don't want to have a limit experience when they want to have a baby, which is why it's awesome that we have epidurals for those people, but I've seen a lot of people who were looking to push themselves and boy did they. I get as irritated as the next person about that twee "I'm a chauffeur/I'm a chef/I'm an event planner/tee hee I'm all those things because I'm a MOM" as the next person, and I don't think having a baby necessarily has to be defined as the most important thing you can do with your body but it's pretty crazy when you get right down to it.
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Jul 20, 2014 20:48
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Dogfish posted:Well, most other animals don't die in childbirth as much as humans do, because we're the only animal with the awkward big head/upright-walking pelvis combo. I don't know, I've been to a lot of births and I've seen a lot of people push themselves to the limit mentally and physically to get their drat babies out; that's at least as heroic as, say, running a marathon. I know a lot of people don't want to have a limit experience when they want to have a baby, which is why it's awesome that we have epidurals for those people, but I've seen a lot of people who were looking to push themselves and boy did they. I think that's a Kenny Chesney song?
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Jul 20, 2014 20:52
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Dogfish posted:I get as irritated as the next person about that twee "I'm a chauffeur/I'm a chef/I'm an event planner/tee hee I'm all those things because I'm a MOM" as the next person, and I don't think having a baby necessarily has to be defined as the most important thing you can do with your body but it's pretty crazy when you get right down to it. What really, really, reeeeaaaaaaally grates on my nerves is when a woman with a two year old child says crap like that and acts like she's on the same level as a chef working in a top tier restaurant with more experience making food than she has life. Yeah, I get it, being a parent isn't easy and it takes a lot of skills to do effectively, but it does not magically grant you the same skill set as a chef. You're cooking for like three to six people, most likely. A chef cooks for hundreds to thousands. Really, it's a different skill set and being a mother for a few years also doesn't turn you into a gourmet chef that could create a lobster thermidor the likes of which could make a jaded old emperor weep with joy. That and all this bullshit circulating around social media of "well I'm a mother and I know what's best for my children!" as if giving birth suddenly makes a person an expert on anything medical. Going to medical school gives you medical knowledge not producing offspring. Having babies doesn't grant you the authority to decide that alternative medicine is better than real medicine because reasons. Being a good mother is certainly something we should respect but let's be honest, you don't become Dr. Chef Jesus.
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Jul 20, 2014 21:49
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I'm turning 25 in a few weeks. Several old high school friends have already gotten married. How long until I get to experience the baby spam?
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Jul 20, 2014 21:56
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karl fungus posted:I'm turning 25 in a few weeks. Several old high school friends have already gotten married. How long until I get to experience the baby spam? It's coming. Started when I was about your age for me. A strict "One poo policy" will keep you sane. Basically, as soon as someone post a status update including information about their baby's poo poo, the consistency, quantity and color thereof, unsubscribe from them. They've gone beyond the salvageable.
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Jul 20, 2014 21:59
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karl fungus posted:I'm turning 25 in a few weeks. Several old high school friends have already gotten married. How long until I get to experience the baby spam? About a year. Then again in 3 years when they all have their second. After that they're too tired to give a crap.
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Jul 20, 2014 22:01
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karl fungus posted:I'm turning 25 in a few weeks. Several old high school friends have already gotten married. How long until I get to experience the baby spam? Wait until one of your baby-mad friends has a miscarriage. Upsetting, sure. But if they're particularly nuts, they will post on the anniversary of that miscarriage for years about poor baby [[nChild_name]] who, at least, is with Jesus now, smiling down on their parents.
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Jul 20, 2014 22:06
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Wait until one of your baby-mad friends has a miscarriage. Upsetting, sure. But if they're particularly nuts, they will post on the anniversary of that miscarriage for years about poor baby [[nChild_name]] who, at least, is with Jesus now, smiling down on their parents. loss.txt?
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Jul 20, 2014 22:08
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Wait until one of your baby-mad friends has a miscarriage. Upsetting, sure. But if they're particularly nuts, they will post on the anniversary of that miscarriage for years about poor baby [[nChild_name]] who, at least, is with Jesus now, smiling down on their parents. Yeah, my good friend's wife had a still born, and they went nuts. They posted pictures of the dead kid and everything =/
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Jul 20, 2014 22:09
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ToxicSlurpee posted:That and all this bullshit circulating around social media of "well I'm a mother and I know what's best for my children!" as if giving birth suddenly makes a person an expert on anything medical. Going to medical school gives you medical knowledge not producing offspring. Having babies doesn't grant you the authority to decide that alternative medicine is better than real medicine because reasons. gently caress I hate that more than anything else. People who have been practicing medicine longer than you've been alive probably know a thing or two you don't. That kind of arrogance gets children killed. Fashionable Jorts has a new favorite as of 22:15 on Jul 20, 2014 |
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Jul 20, 2014 22:13
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I guess it makes sense in the context of knowing what's best for socialising with and relating to the kid. The parents know the kid's personality best (if they're good parents anyway), so they know what they like and what kind of support they need. A shy kid with low self-esteem needs more encouragement, and an egotistical kid needs more emphasis on things like taking turns and playing with others. Some kids really like noisy, colourful toys, other kids are terrified of them. All kids are different like that. But when parents overstep into areas that don't depend on the kid's personality, and it crosses over into things where professionals really do know best, like medicine, nutrition and education, there's a big problem.
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Jul 20, 2014 22:38
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BonHair posted:The thing that gets me is that it's just wasting fuel for no reason. I get that you don't care, but you are pretty much just burning (extra) money to prove a stupid point. It's like a perverse form of the yin-yang philosophy.
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Jul 21, 2014 00:23
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It would be like some hambeast going to a restaurant and throwing his food at other patrons because they eat less than him.
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Jul 21, 2014 00:58
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razorrozar posted:Alright, fair enough. That's still ten or fifteen times as much food you put into it as you're trying to produce so I still think meat farming is a bad thing. This has probably been beaten to death like the cow that makes up the hamburger I'm about to eat, but not all land is created equal and not all land can produce food edible for humans. Sometimes all the land can produce is lovely cattle feed that only cows can digest. If humans ate it, we'd die of starvation. On the other hand, down with lovely organic farming. All my relatives post that crap about organic being better for the environment but never post about how farmers are destroying rainforest just to grow some lovely soy beans where half the crop will fail and die due to bugs and diseases.
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Jul 21, 2014 01:17
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I have one of those parents on my facebook. She's also the crunchy granola hippie one, so that's fun. She unschools, for added bonus. I will say though, through the circles I've run in having a special needs child, I've known a fair number of people who become those crazy "I know what is best for my child!" parents because they've been failed by the system time and time again when it comes to their child's needs in education. You kind of have to become that parent in that case. They take it to extremes, but for some it's coming from a legitimate place.
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Jul 21, 2014 01:53
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Wait until one of your baby-mad friends has a miscarriage. Upsetting, sure. But if they're particularly nuts, they will post on the anniversary of that miscarriage for years about poor baby [[nChild_name]] who, at least, is with Jesus now, smiling down on their parents. I had a classmate enter her stillborn baby in one of those baby beauty pageants. And she spammed everyone for pity votes. So every day until I hid her updates, I had to risk seeing a giant photo of a dead baby on my newsfeed. Depressing as hell 
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Jul 21, 2014 02:05
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Doctors and experts also tend to address one-size-fits-all generalizations. They look at statistics, which may not apply to our special little angels. My doctor was all alarmed at my kid's BMI at age 11. On paper she looked unhealthy, but I knew her eating habits and activity levels. Sure enough by age 12 she had sprouted 6 inches and was now underweight. Of course when it comes to vaccines and medicines, doctors kind of know more than the general population.
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Jul 21, 2014 02:07
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So when you get a stillborn, the hospital's just like, "here you go, see ya"?
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Jul 21, 2014 02:10
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Can't you report dead baby pictures? Like it sucks but that's how the dice roll.
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Jul 21, 2014 02:12
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Crain posted:^^It's like telling a child to wash their hands after using the bathroom before lunch and they decide to poo poo on their hands before eating a sandwich. ^^ I remember the first time I saw someone "rolling coal". It was about 3 years ago and I was stopped at a pretty busy intersection. This dick in a huge Dodge was about 4 cars in front of me. At first I thought there was something wrong since he was just billowing out black smoke. He must have been keeping that engine at about 4,000 rpm because it was just spewing smoke. It was a bright summer afternoon and he put so much diesel exhaust in the air, I couldn't even see the traffic lights. He was causing a legit safety hazard since he had reduced visibility to about 50 feet. I really can't see the point of this other than announcing to the world that you are a huge rear end in a top hat and should probably be beaten with a rubber hose. I sincerely hope that every single one of these fuckers has to watch as their trucks get compacted into a metal cube and then they get slapped with a nice four figure ticket on top of it.
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Jul 21, 2014 02:14
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karl fungus posted:So when you get a stillborn, the hospital's just like, "here you go, see ya"? No, but they let you see it (hold it, whatever) and then give you the option of disposal or burial/cremation. I'll say from experience it's pretty terrible.
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Jul 21, 2014 02:22
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karl fungus posted:So when you get a stillborn, the hospital's just like, "here you go, see ya"? Pretty much. If you'd like to see the baby then they put you in a private room and let you take as much time with it as you like. There's a nonprofit organization of professional photographers that often comes around and takes photographs if you'd like, for free of course. Because a lot of time the parents don't think to do something like that, or feel uncomfortable or just don't know what to do. Often the parents are grateful after the fact that there's a nice photo they can use to remember. It's not always just a pic of the dead baby either, they're actually tasteful where the mother is holding the baby or whatever. Anyhow yeah seeing pics of dead babies on facebook is kind of lame, but I give those parents more leeway than the ones who just post constant poo poo about their kids that doesn't matter. Because really, unless you're in that situation, who knows how you'd react. Going from planning for a new baby to immediately planning their funeral is rough poo poo.
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Jul 21, 2014 03:09
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 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2695755/Police-Arrested-man-ordered-5-pizzas-station.html He went down fighting, in his own way.
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Jul 21, 2014 03:29
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karl fungus posted:I'm turning 25 in a few weeks. Several old high school friends have already gotten married. How long until I get to experience the baby spam? Ha, it already started for me when I was 22. Consider yourself lucky, or perhaps appreciate your school's sex education program.
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Jul 21, 2014 03:55
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Just saw this posted unironically believing it's a real display of fireworks. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10203410283609532
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Jul 21, 2014 04:17
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 Clearly peace talks will be much more successful with the terrorists in charge!
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Jul 21, 2014 04:42
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Holy poo poo, that Star Wars pic is the gift that keeps on giving.
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Jul 21, 2014 04:48
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I have no idea who Soros or the Koch brothers or other quasi-political figures are, but I've generally learned that when people use terms like "bankster" or "sheeple" or invoke their names, usually in political ranting about the latest news item of the week, it's safe to let my eyes glaze over and stop paying attention.
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Jul 21, 2014 04:58
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They're incredibly powerful industrialists and financiers with a huge amount of clout and influence. Soros isn't really that influential in America though, so generally if you see an American talking about him in relation to American stuff they're talking out of their rear end. Edit: Well, influential compared to the Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson or other guys like that. He's still orders of magnitude more influential than any of us, of course.
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Jul 21, 2014 05:07
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Picnic Princess posted:Just saw this posted unironically believing it's a real display of fireworks. That was still really cool though.
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Jul 21, 2014 05:24
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Oh for sure, if they had posted "This is a really cool rendering program that produces gorgeous results that I wish existed in real life" I would have totally agreed, rather than "The Chinese are the best at fireworks because they've been doing it for 7000 years! Here's proof!"
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Jul 21, 2014 06:25
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Picnic Princess posted:Oh for sure, if they had posted "This is a really cool rendering program that produces gorgeous results that I wish existed in real life" I would have totally agreed, rather than "The Chinese are the best at fireworks because they've been doing it for 7000 years! Here's proof!" Well, is it a Chinese program doing the rendering? This is important.
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Jul 21, 2014 06:40
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News website comment sections count, right? From "DutchNews.nl" which is a news website in English for foreigners in the Netherlands, like myself. News piece: "Dutch MPs return from break to discuss MH17 crash, Russia's role"  Sometimes conspiracy theorists just fly right off the deep end.
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Jul 21, 2014 10:51
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moerketid posted:Sometimes conspiracy theorists just fly right off the deep end. And no SAM can ever bring them down again...
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Jul 21, 2014 11:22
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While I would hesitate to call a reality where the US has covert anti-air lasers better, I can say with some certainty that it would be cooler.
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Jul 21, 2014 13:13
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On the topic of conspiracy nuts: He only moved to the US a few months ago 
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Jul 21, 2014 13:28
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Picnic Princess posted:Just saw this posted unironically believing it's a real display of fireworks.
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Jul 21, 2014 13:37
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Aphtonites posted:On the topic of conspiracy nuts: You get some pretty crazy conspiracy people outside the US too. I didn't screen cap it because I didn't feel like translating but I saw a guy in a French language public group post a big crazy rant about how regionalist and separatist movements in Europe, specifically in Scotland, Catalonia, Alsace, the Basque Country and Brittany were created whole cloth and funded by the US, Germany and the European Union to weaken the idea of traditional European nation-states to pave the way for a United States of Europe. Bill Clinton was involved, I don't remember exactly how.
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Jul 21, 2014 13:56
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So the US planned for all these countries to want to out of Europe, so that they will want to no longer be countries but instead become just states within the nation of Europe? 
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