I know you’re all proud as punch that you managed to make a baby, but the rest of your coworkers and/ or friends are probably mildly interested at best.
it’d be nice if all conversations after you have a kid don’t lead to a conversation about poop/cartoons/the accidentally funny thing you new child did. and posting every photo ever taken of JR since birth on facebook is A – a bit creepy and B – BORING!!!!
all babies look alike, they all pretty much do the same thing and NO ONE BUT YOU GIVES A SHIT!!!!!
This article appears in Aug 21-27, 2008.
Amen!!
Finally, someone with the nerve to say it out loud!
Let me just add that I don’t want any more pictures emailed to me of these babies, either. Take me off your forward list if we don’t correspond anymore, and remember, if we have no relationship, I couldn’t be less interested in the camera antics of your spawn.Hoping this isn’t the Bitching Hour… do those same rules apply to P.M.?
The only time I haul out photos of the kids is when I want to get rid of company. Works like a charm.Honestly, there are no people more boring than new parents.
“Finally, someone with the nerve to say it out loud!” ….well, if out loud = anonymously on a message board. Seriously when you hit 27, facebook becomes babybook over night! The photos of your used-to-be-cool friends doing kegstands are replaced with, “i’m so in love with my baby in this duck costume”. BARF. I am friends with YOU…. NOT YOUR BABY.
…and ultrasound pictures and week by week updates of the growing preggo belly on facebook- gross!
Well, I’m a new parent and I’m sensitive to the fact that not everyone wants all those pictures in their email inbox. The ONLY reason that I opened a Facebook account was so that I could post pictures for family and friends in other provinces, who I KNOW want regular updates. The people who don’t care about those photos can ignore them. That’s the thing about facebook…you have a choice whether to look at the pictures or not.Someone else posted recently that s/he hated to see the facebook friend’s vacation pictures. I’m curious, just what is an acceptable subject matter? It seems no matter what you do, someone accuses you of showing off, being boring, etc.
I don’t mind baby pictures on facebook. I do mind, however, incessant, inane comments blathering on and on about how “beautiful” someone’s kid is. I’d love to be able to say “Actually, these comments are incorrect. Right now, your baby looks like a squished nerf football at best. With a little luck and some time, however, this will probably pass.”I also hate those hideous pregnancy pictures with the mother semi-wrapped in that weird tulle-like fabric, posing and the father staring adoringly at her giant melon stomach. Blech.
(((splutters))))….what the?….hang on, I gotta go remove some melon shots from my facebook page….
Miranda, how do you know that? Do you have a secret relationship with the His Naziness that we need to know about? You better fess up, lest you get squirted with titty juice. And I’m not lactating, soooo…. yeah. Gross.
I wonder sometimes how the next generation is going to feel knowing so many images of them have been published online without their consent. I’m talking about people doing it with email lists, though. Really, if we don’t hear from each other, I’m not going to email you out of the blue to boast about my recent genetic accomplishment that requires no license and has been happening since the dawn of fucking time. I’m certainly not going to further insult all of us by sending you photographic evidence of the poor thing dressed as a carrot. I think it’s selfish of parents to not care enough about their kids to send a mass email of photos of them, it’s been years, screen who gets shots of your topless baby, for fuck’s sake, it’s been said that pictures like that fetch dirty money in the wrong hands. Strengthen your boundaries and don’t exploit your goddamned child.
I’m friends with YOU and not your baby? WTF? Wow, sounds like they’d be better off not having you as a friend at all. What’s wrong with babies and pregnant people? Nothing. Our society is so ME centred that we forget that the world is about the next generation as much as it is about us or even moreso.You know, when you were younger, your parents showed off their bellies and babies just as much; they showed off YOU. Why are you so angry about it? Do you feel as if you’ve lost your friend now? Are you jealous?Um, and why is it the women, so often, on here that are angry or resentful of children or families or women showing off their bodies?Don’t turn yourself into your own future problems or obstacles. Open your minds. Ironically, people talk with their family a lot about their friends. I’ve never had a family member upset with me about my stories involving my acquaintances.
Sheesh, lilac – could you take yourself any more serioulsly, or be any more boring? You’re such a drag.If you were my facebook friend, I’d delete you so fast…
Well, some people use Facebook as a heavily edited version of their lives. They rarely add anything that might even hint at their true selves, and simply use it to send ‘high-fives’ one one another. They’re lurkers, really. Or posers.I’d rather go on someone’s Facebook page who has a ton of photos that I can either choose to look at or not. I actually enjoy seeing what’s going on in a friend’s life, melon bellies and all. But I’m a bit nosey….hee hee!
Really though. If you don’t want to look at the pics then don’t. Just click on one, write a comment about how ugly the baby is, compare it to a recent beach ball assault victim, and move on.
I’m not a breeder, and maybe that’s a good thing because I am a selfish bastard. I’ll let the rest of humanity’s crush of people populate the planet to the point it looks like a star trek episode, namely ” Trouble with Tribbles ” so I’m kinda neutral on all this LOOK AT MY BABY, ISN’T IT A BEAUTIFUL BABY. I just try to avoid them all together.
Babys grow up to be (among other things) murderers, rapists, feminists, terrorists, and republican presidents…
And “NASCAD” hippies. And trolls. And Julia Roberts.DOWN WITH BABIES!!!!
*Squirts breastmilk at Qwerty*
Babies are way over-rated as the future of tomorrow… Critters on the other hand are still waiting for their day in the sun… One of my two dogs was born on the CDA-US border, near Woodstock NB, and since he is over 35 (in dog years) technically he is eligible to run for oval office… I’m “grooming” him now for the 2012 ticket… Watch for us after Nov on LKL when he announces his candicacy…And vote Sockpuppet Scooter…
Gimme a splash of that over here lilac… I don’t think Qwerty likes titty milk nearly as much as I do…
Can you aim a little lower lili? My Starbucks needs a top-up.Mmmm… organic.
I know the extra milkfat is going to go straight to my hips.
Not your man-boobs?
Nah, I had those removed a few years back and gifted to an organ donation program… But apparently they weren’t picked up right away as they were only A-cup.
And BTW before anyone wants to jump all over me over that one, I DO have young family members (yes plural) that are currently fighting this horrible disease… But crying over spilled (titty) milk never ever helps..Bleah…!!!
Last PM post… Did anyone notice how quickly that breast cancer bitch & thread exploded then disappeared yesterday… WowContentious or what…
Yeah. Turns out the OP meant it as “dark humour”, was mortified at the reaction, and asked the WebNazi to remove it. I felt kind of bad for her.
Was NOT funny. You don’t joke about such a thing. I don’t feel bad for the OP at all. Cancer is the least funny thing you could ever attempt a joke about, dark or not. What did they expect to happen?? There’s a lot of heart on these boards, though they try and hide it sometimes. 😉
Yeah. NOT funny. I mean, I wished cancer on the OP! Yikes. A solid argument against drunken bitch-posting, if there ever was one.
I couldn’t let this pass without squirting a little breast milk of my own:<@@>Babies also grow up to be Bill O’Reilly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJjNVVwRCYMan…wotta twat!
Oops, should’ve read: <@@>The other one looks like a fish and that’s just plain silly.
‘Dressed like a carrot’ – too fucking funny, Beav. I used to dress mine up as grapefruit halves and make them do the hokey-pokey on an overturned bucket.
Sorry Qwerty. As much as I would like to fuel this rumour of a clandestine relationship between myself and the Web Nazi, the author of that bitch wrote a lengthy and heartfelt apology, and begged the Nazi to remove it. Which he promptly did. So I think lots of people missed the apology itself.
I think you’re arguing a separate issue, Beav. I dislike getting an email that takes up half of my storage capacity of some stupid “have a nice day, jesus loves you” crap. But I have no problem with one or two scaled down images of one of my friend’s newborn babies, even if it does look like a nerf ball (ha ha). It’s when they continue to give you daily updates that it could become a problem. In which case, suck it up and send them a politely worded response that you wish to be dropped from their mailing list.But the issue of the OP was people’s photos on Facebook, of which you definitely have a choice whether or not you look at their pictures. It’s like walking into a friend’s house, removing their photo albums from the shelf, browsing through them, and then complaining to everyone else about the massive amount of dumbass pictures they had.
I think that what is much more disturbing is the “dogbook” application. One person I know has two dogs and they each have their own dogbook. They email each other regularly to say shit like “I wuv you- woof woof!” I mean, I love my dogs, but that’s a little over the top!
As a brand new parent (of a baby a week old) you gotta forgive parents who are just overly excited, its hard for someone without children to understand, but its just an amazing feeling knowing you created life. Perhaps you should have the balls to tell the parents that your just not hat interested, instead of cowering your anger her. But I suppose thats what “love the way we bitch” is for. anyhow, new kids are great, but new parents should learn not everyone wants to hear about their little shit machines. I love my kid, but I don’t showcase her. On that note, my baby’s cord is really smelly, but that happens with rotting flesh, good thing it fell off the other day! She cant see well yet, but we still watch cartoons together, like this one with this bunny who had a caterpillar on its head, it was awesome! Oh and it was so funny, when I sit her up to burp her, she usually burps herself without any back patting! its simply adorable! man, you gotta see this kids crap! it started off as Chocolate pudding, but now its more of a chunky peanut butter texture. Lots of love!
What’s the big fuckin’ deal?? Mine is often much like chunky peanut butter too. Except sour-smelling, with chilis in it. And spots of blood.Now excuse me, I have to get off this chair; my ass is so fuckin’ itchy.
I know, Tasha, I am arguing something different. This just reminded me of something very similar. I hadn’t heard from an old co-worker in over a year and was excited to get an email from her. Almost 30 pictures of junior in antlers (it was Xmas). I wrote back asking how awesome motherhood was and how great it was to hear from her, how are things? – no response. A few months later, another email with a ton of pictures, same nice-nice from me – no response. I think she took me off her list after that. Maybe she found my interest in her well-being annoying, when all she was looking for was a pissy gush of empty compliments from everyone on her email list. Getting a new house, graduating, exotic vacations, new pets are all exciting too, but who emails estranged friends 27 pictures of those? I did what any normal person would do… congrats, how are you doing? It was the lack of response that gave me something to bitch about. Really, my point was, if you haven’t spoken to someone in a while, don’t kid yourself that they’re interested in your baby’s endless Geddes photoshoots. I was just responding to this Bitch with a “while we’re on the subject”.
Agreed, Beav. I’ve got a cousin like that- it’s always: “look at my two step-kids (I’m such a better Mom to them than their REAL Mom) and look at my two REAL kids- I’m a Mom of four- wheeeeeee!!!” But if I respond to her annoying emails with a “Hey-how’s it goin’?”, no response. People like that hide behind the fake version of themselves, but have no interest in actually connecting with others….oh, and Jammie….um, better get some ointment for that….or maybe you need something cauterized?