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To all of you who have babies (that you add to this overpopulated planted) and complain about the world that your child is about to grow up in, I have one question:
Why did you breed? —celibatesuzanne
This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2010.
62 Comments
I feel the same way. I especially hate those in this city that complain there are too many young people everywhere, and how everything is getting so crowded. Well, you probably shouldn’t have had children then.
I have a child.. and we breed for the same reason your parents brought you into this world!! 😉
The Duggars. That is all.
they should be the poster family for birth control…i have a child he is 6’4″ glad he didn’t come out like that. reminds me of a will ferrell skit…ouch
HTT, I would not be too upset if I was not born.
oh my
The withdrawl method
What’s an overpopulated planted? Maybe he planted his salami in her wee wee and 9 months later out pops another grammatically challenged yo-yap.
Kids are a cheap source of slave labour but u must train them early.
I like this Veeny guy!
I agree NGF… let’s keep him!
yeah but, some babies are quite accidental in nature. meaning that the parents did take precautions, but something went wrong, and lo and behold, the little one came into being. then there are the sex crimes babies, let’s not forget them. and of course the babies born to babies just in high school that their parents didn’t have the brains to teach them to be careful about. babies are a great joy, whether planned or not, if i had my way, i’d make a law stating that all babies fathers had to be in the delivery room, to watch what their mates go thru. but unfortunately, this isn’t so right now. to those that have new borns, love them fast, because they grow up too damn fast, and then they are gone.
that wee grandchild of yours brightens my day suckulous…he has bit mitts on him(no hidden meaning)^^
OP, you obviously haven’t figured out that parents complaining about the kind of world their kids are growing up in IS NOT ANYTHING NEW. My grandmother went through it when my mom was born the 50’s, my mom in the 70’s..and now me. Ask some old folks if they had the same concerns after bringing their kids into the world, OP; I guarantee they did. Was there ever a time the world wasn’t a dangerous place? Is it really worse than it used to be? Personally, I don’t think so.
I’m also pretty sure the worry is also- in part- a hormonal thing. In my own experience, it was my post-partum hormones which seemed to kick off sometime in the hours after I gave birth. Becoming a parent is a life changing experience, and no amount of mental and physical preparation can prevent the life-altering changes to your outlook on life! Even a conceited jerk like yourself is going to ask themselves if they’re really cut our for the job- atleast at first when it’s all new.
They didn’t mean to breed. It was a side effect. Or should I say, byproduct.
ahh the good old days when storks brought your babies and when you finished you didn’t order anymore 🙂
The earth is not over-populated with humans. It’s over-populated with stupid, greedy humans who want more and more shit. The earth could easily support the number of humans on it and more, without adverse things happening to the environment, if people would be smarter and less selfish.
stuff and things are useless…trees and dogs bring it on
Pav’s right…too many stupid, greedy people willing to sell-out our planet and existance due to their obsession with money. Greed is one of the deadly sins of mankind and will likely be it’s downfall.
Grugg, how can you bring child into world full of sabretooth tigers? You one crazy caveman.
OP…I love you. People think only about themselves and thus have children….even when they cannot afford them. Look at the ones who bitch and complain there are no daycare centres available…..did they stop to think for a second before they did the dirty dump and grind about “Hmm….if we are both working parents, where will my kid go during the day? Who will care for it? How will I afford it?” Parents annoy me. STOP breeding.
I’s definitely not into the “dirty dump and grind” thing. Now that’s gross.
[Heavy]Entire city is babies.[/Heavy]
I used to think like sebastion…until i had my own. Now all I DO know is that I would not trade anything in the world for the pure joy I feel when I see my daughter smile or laugh. Sounds pretty touchy feely but hey, atleast I know what I am talking about. i agree with one thing…there are idiots out there who should maybe be sterilized. There are environments that children should not be brought up in. but then again by my standards I would not have been born as my environment as a child was horrible. So I discover during this post now that I am torn on these subjects. Shit!!…anyway …bitching about the world is like bitching about your job …pretty much everyone does it. It just the Maritime way…
OP, those babies will grow up to be taxpayers, cops, doctors, dentists, nurses, yes even diaper changers, etc. to look after your ass and wipe it when you’re too old and feeble to do it on your own, unless you have some other plan in mind.
People who say that those of us who have children are ‘selfish’ must be SUCH saints themselves. I wonder how many empty plastic water bottles the OP has thrown away in her life.
Go on OP, you Superhero, you! Tell us how unselfish you are. Do you use banana leaves in place of maxi pads? Do you ride a bamboo bicycle? Do you walk everywhere by foot? I hope you don’t shampoo- it’s bad for the environment, too! And I really hope you never fly anywhere, or accept rides from gasoline-run vehicles of any kind! Oh, and I hope you compost the poop that comes out of your ass, as opposed to flushing it.
Canada has an ageing population; if we all stop having kids there will be nobody to wipe your shrivelled wrinkled, self-righteous old ass when the time comes. What will you do??? Pay $10,000 to $20,000 to adopt someome from an overpopulated country to come and do it ? Adoption is nice, but considering it costs a fortune to adopt from abroad, for most of us parents who aren’t millionaires, that money could go towards education, for which the cost has already gone through the roof. Can you afford it, OP? Maybe people who don’t have children of their own, yet ignore all the unwanted children in the overcrowded parts of the world are selfish!
Posted by paingirl on August 9, 2010 at 9:13 PM:
“stuff and things are useless…”
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It makes me very happy to hear a woman say this. There is hope.
Maybe, just maybe, those who find something wrong with the world are hoping they can educate their kids to do better than their generation did. I once heard a story about this woman who had several children although she was very poor. When a social worker asked why she had so many, she replied, “because children are our hope for the future.”
…which is why we have to stop them NOW!
It’s a tough reality to face, reaching carrying capacity and all, but the world will sort itself out, hopefully. There will be some virus catastrophe (er sumthin’) and all the weak and young will die. So you know what, keep popping ’em out. Come on, do it. Every womb is henceforth designated a clown car.
People breed because the Big Guy in the sky made fucking an olympic sport and birth control an after-thought. If it weren’t for babies where else would Maury get a TV gig?
Wars and natural disasters do their best to keep the population under control, but fucking is out performing this. Suggestion; ramp up the wars, kill more Talibanners, global warming, turn up the thermostats and bring on the ice age. Scrap the wind turbine farms, burn more coal. Re-introduce Hummers and V6’s and V4’s are for wimps, make a Hemi V12 standard. Pick a scummy country and test a nuke or 2.
3 days without beer is making me mellow…..
Next federal election Baz, YOU are my write-in candidate.
Ivan – Thanks. Maybe I can run in Mr. Hendsbee’s riding as he seems to be in a shitstorm out in Preston?
you can run with : ” A baby in every pot” campaign slogan ; yea got my vote mister 🙂
no beer make homer, er, basil crazy.
I get sick of seeing teens having kids. It’s not a novelty thing, girls. I swear kids are the new popular outfits for young people. Back when I was a teen it was about who had the best discman or album collection or who had beer connections. Now it’s who has a kid. Gross.
In Lakeside the apartment buildings are teeming with this years bumper crop of teeny mommies, all impregnated by some real fucking winners no doubt. The gene pool is getting shallower and shallower.- graduation used to be a happy occasion, now it’s a nappy occasion – (for clarification purposes, nappy is English slang for diaper).
Not being a mother when you’re still a teenager is a relatively new thing. Most of our ancestors were born to girls in the 15-19 year old range. It’s only recently that society has decided to be horrified by the plague of teenage mothers. I’m not saying that being a teenage mother is a great and wonderful thing, I’m just saying that it’s hypocritical to be so down on them. Besides, most of them are teenage mothers due to a failed education system and shitty parents of their own.
And their children will probably have children young and so and so on
“stuff and things are useless…”
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“It makes me very happy to hear a woman say this. There is hope.”
Oldhand: where in the world did you ever get the idea that wanting stuff and things that are useless is confined to the female of the species? Newsflash: Guys are equally capable of falling into the ‘stuff and useless things’ trap! I know lots of them. Condescending, sexist opinions are least complimentary to the person issuing them, not those who they are being directed toward. Mind your P’s and Q’s lest you look like a fool.
well oceansweetie as me pa would say “there is always hope” even for mr. hand
He’s got hand and he’s gonna need it!
Pavillion, if you think you can genuinely compare the teenagers of the Baby Boom era and their previous to the teens of our current generation of teens you are nuts. The teens of previous generations were (and still are) hard workers from strong families whereas todays teens demand tips for doing their most basic job even. Plus birth control options have changed dramatically since then so contraception is a solid option compared to the World War eras.
LOL – OL. My tinfoil hat must have been transmitting in your direction because you read my thoughts exactly >: )
And who raised today’s teens…?
Message received and transmitted Full Tinfoil Ivan! Over and out…
And curse you FTI, for making me laugh. I decided to try lipstanding as a method of emergency bicycle dismount with predictably painful results. Landing on one’s kisser is highly over-rated but on the plus side I was looking to drop a couple of pesky extra lbs anyway. Should be way easy now!
a) This isn’t Asia so be happy you’ve got space to move/think
b) Maybe the government should enforce mandatory parenting classes (BEFORE BEING PARENTS) so that children are raised to be productive and well-mannered members of society
Parenting and emergency first aid should be mandatorily taught in school. Both are life skills of the utmost importance.
It will stop being a problem when being a teen mother here stops being a mealticket.
Have a single man call welfare and ask what support is available. ($240 per month, 2003)
Have a teen mother call welfare and ask what support is available. ($1200 per month, 2003)
Compare the results. The men can die. Well I’m sorry but we are not at war, nor are we on a sinking ship.
Tell me how a person can survive on $240 per month.
Being an unemployed teen mother pays too well, it puts them at the center of attention for everything.
You have to make these kids work. Forcibly.
Whatever troll. Good argument there. Yup.
OK. When did I tell you I wanted a woman huh?
Chill dude, take some troll lessons, your efforts are very amateurish.
Oldhand: I know lots of teen moms who put themselves through secondary school and are self-supporting besides being exemplary moms. It’s an insult to tar all teen moms with the same brush. SOME teen moms exploit the system, but not all. Try to be informed before you go slamming a whole demographic with your ridiculous statements lest you make yourself look foolish. That’s the second time I’ve had to say that today. You really are gonna need hand, aren’t you!
I agree with Oldhand.
Just pointing out a simple fact. You’re pretty transparent.
So when did I tell you I wanted to be a slave to some woman? I think that is your desire, not mine.
Chill dude. Take some troll lessons. Your efforts are very amateurish.
Transparent? I should hope so. I say exactly what I mean in meaningful comments.
You attack other posters. Wow.
Somebody give him a medal!
Hahahaha LAKESIDE.
I love you, Basil.
fucking lakeside.
This site has gone to shit.
Guerilla Funk: I agree. Some people around here make it not worth reading through the comments anymore. Hence my mostly lurking and not posting these days.
NGF, if you really think having a baby is one of the new fashion accessories for teenagers, you should probably move out of Lower Sacville, or stop watching so much MTV reality tv.
I’m not advocating teenaged motherhood, but just because someone becomes a teen mom does not necessarily mean they’ll be a bad mom.
I live in downtown Halifax, hata!