What's with the no kids guilt trip?

[4_2_it]

People are being way too tough on you. If are like most OOTiots, you should be given a commendation for voluntarily taking yourself out of the gene pool.

[KJS]

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my friend told me his insurance company paid him $300 to get a vascectomy. i was ready to do this, till he told me i have to have a kid first.

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I got that much for mine and did not have a kid first. Look for studies at hospitals in your area. I got in a UN funded study at the University of Washington.

$75 per week to rub one out, ftw.

KJS

[prohornblower]

This is the typical mentality of many Americans:

High School: OMG I need a boyfriend/girflriend!
College: OMG I need a future husband/wife!
Post-Grad: OMG I need to be hooked up w/ a sweet-ass job!
25: OMG I need to get married ZOMG!
Post-Marriage: ZOMG I need to buy a hudge house!
After house: WE NEED KIDZ OMG ALREADY!

Age 32: OMG WE GOT A DREAM HOUSE AND 2 KIDS ZOMG WE CANT MAKE ENDS MEET IM UNDERPAID I HATE THE GOVERNMENT!

Age 35: MY LIFE SUCKS WATCHING LITTLE LEAGUE GAMZ IS AS GOOT AS IT GETS
Age 38: DAMN IM AN ALCHY!
Age 40: Where'd my liver go?
Age 42: We're getting divorced.
Age 47: I live alone in an apartment and collect comic books and stroke to moose pron.

OK OK so that's a stretch but up to age 32 I think it's pretty close. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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You had me right up to moose pron.

[renodoc]

wow.

i just got back from parent conference for kindergarten- (got me out of my office for 30 min) My kid is the smartest and best looking in his class. Also, I can devise trick soccer throw in plays with his playmates. Finally, someone will eventually whip my ass on the chessboard.

Do you folks have parents? Are they still alive? Are you close with them? Maybe when you grow up a little you'll figure it out, but its a pretty cool thing.

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renodoc,

You sound like every other parent I meet. Today is my daughter's 18th birthday, but I have never once in my life told anyone that she was the smartest or the best looking in her class, or bored anyone with stories about how great she is, or propped up my fragile ego with her accomplishments. Just because I had a kid doesn't mean I have to drive a minivan, coach soccer, worship the little crayon Jackson Pollocks on the refrigerator, or go around thinking that I'm the God of parenting because my kid passed the first grade and covers her mouth when she sneezes. I love her to death and she knows that but I hate groupthink and I won't participate in it.

[bottomset]

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yeah haha if anything i salute people who say they aren't having kids. thank you for not bringing another idiot into the world. not you OP, but in general.. just playin the odds

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too many people on the planet anyway

now only if they could get China/India to stop reproducing so goddamn much

[SomethingClever]

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Lot of smart, articulate people choosing not to breed here. That might play a role in why they are so thoroughly outnumbered by idiots!

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Haha, so true.

When intelligent people have kids, they also tend to have one or maybe two, instead of eleven. There's no hope.

[CharlieDontSurf]

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Try being a GIRL and saying that you don't want kids. Especially a girl whose room looks like this:



My excuse is always that I have worked at a daycare before - I love little kids but I already know what a handful they can be.

The real reason is that I'm selfish and don't want to be tied down to little people - I like the idea of being able to travel whenever I want and not really have any obligations. I think this can still be fulfilling if one spends one's time volunteering and doing charitable works - you can make the world a better place without producing someone else to do it for you.

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i predict you'll be knocked up before 30.

Also whats with the green comforter? Looks like it was bought at the salvation army.

[Hass]

I always try to avoid the: I don't want kids or to get married conversations. Especially with my friends wifes. They always seem to have a friend that will "change my mind" I don't feel rude when I say I don't want kids/wife. But I hate trying to find an excuse not to meet their co worker or friends. If I'm going to sleep with a girl then never call her back I don't need it to be my friends wife's best friend.

How am I supposed to enjoy Golfing, fishing, hunting, poker, drinking, sleeping, eating, vacationing with a little stink ball following me everywhere.

I have already apologized to my parents for anything I did to make their life hell when I was growing up.