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rene moon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:04 PM
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Why do people HAVE to like kids????
I can tolerate kids for the most part. I love my niece---she's cute at 17 months! I treat kids like I treat anyone else. I don't hold them to be anymore special than adults----they are people, just smaller.

I think a lot of people have disliked kids in the past but were fearful to bring it up. Now, many feel like that they don't have to like them or follow the script of doing so.

I wonder how many women had children due to societal norms "back in the olden days" when they really didn't want them/like them? My guess it was more than you think.
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:05 PM
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1. You don't HAVE to do anything except be polite
Or did you spring fully-formed from the forehead of your father?
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rene moon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:06 PM
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4. What's that suppose to mean?
I'm always polite---who says I'm not? My parents brought me up well, thank you.
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:09 PM
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11. I didn't say that you were impolite
in your post or anywhere else for that matter. I stated my opinion - the only thing humans are obligated to do to/at/for each other is be polite. In the context of this thread, that includes not automatically placing every kid into the "Things I dislike category." Unless something miraculous happened, you were a kid once too.
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rene moon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:11 PM
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14. So I was once a kid, so what?
That's doesn't make me like kids anymore than I like adults. I never get that argument.
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:06 PM
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2. you don't have to
But I am getting most annoyed by people of both sides who think they automatically are "right"- that is, those who dislike kids think the world revolves around them, and those who have kids think the world revolves around them and their kids.
Both are wrong. Society functions to accommodate both within reason.
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rene moon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:07 PM
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6. I dont think either way
I'm just trying to get through life---like most people are, I think:)
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:14 PM
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15. tell that to the bitch
Edited on Tue Feb-22-05 07:14 PM by 7th_Sephiroth
who brings her litter of 8, none of wich over 10, and atleast 2 crying babies, to an R Rated movie at 10 o'clock at night, seriously, there has to be a law
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:14 PM
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16. She is in the wrong
I mean, it's just common sense- which is something that a LOT of people, judging from these ridiculous threads,seem to lack.
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:16 PM
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17. i'm trying to watch Zatoichi the blind swordsman
and all i hear is WAAAAAAH WAAAAAAH WAAAAAAAH MOMMY I WANT POPCORN, AND I GOTTA POTTY, i swear the last 4 times i have been to the movies she and her litter show up
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:17 PM
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18. report her to management
Most movie theaters now have policies that R movies will not let in kids after 6- which is a perfectly reasonable compromise, IMHO.
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:17 PM
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19. i did
management won't do a damn thing
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:19 PM
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20. do you have any theaters that offer what I suggested?
Sorry management is a jerk- I'd have tossed those people out a long time ago :hi:
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:22 PM
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22. this is a bigass rave motion pictures
its just about shut down every other movie theatre for 50 miles, i did confront her with a manager she goes nuts crying, her husband left her (with 8 screaming brats i'd drive off too) and "its so hard to be a single mother" the idiot dismissed it and in the hall she laughed, and i showed her the gun i got a concealed carry for
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name not needed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:06 PM
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3. I love kids!
Especially when stir-fried!

:9
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:08 PM
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8. I've got a good stew recipe. Want to exchange?
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:07 PM
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5. I like/dislike kids the same way I like/dislike adults:
Case-to-case basis.
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:08 PM
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7. I hate kids--trust me, I know I'm not the only one
Well, actually, I just hate OTHER people's kids. They allow them to be loud, disgusting, and obnoxious in public places, and it's really freaking annoying. You try to be gracious, but they scream like goddamn monkeys, and that just tears it. :grr:
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:08 PM
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9. It's instinctual
We are suppoes to find children cute because little children are vunerable. Humans are social animals. While parents bear direct responsibility for a child's survival, in some less industrial cultures, it really does take a village to raise a child. All humans are instinctively attracted to babies. Markerters have used this fact to create cute characters that have baby like faces to sell products.
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DrWeird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:09 PM
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10. Some sort of weird biological instinct...
drives parents into thinking that their kids are the greatest thing since sliced bread and that anybody who thinks otherwise is a commie.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:10 PM
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12. kids are fine, I just don't want any
no big deal... not really a matter of disliking them

I think some people automatically assume you don't like kids of you want to have your own.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:10 PM
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13. Shit happens.
:eyes:
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tcoursen Donating Member (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:21 PM
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21. Be nice to the kids
Be nice to the kids of today, they will be paying for your social security when you are older.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:31 PM
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23. I like kids
Edited on Tue Feb-22-05 07:34 PM by JitterbugPerfume
I just do not want other peoples kids in my space


on the other hand , my 5 yr old identical twin grandsons-------- hee heee hee
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tcoursen Donating Member (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:42 PM
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24. Respect
I have a lot of respect for the people that recognize that they don't want to have children and are honest about it. I don't really see anything wrong with that.

It is much better to flat out not have the children than to have children and be a bad parent, a not there parent, etc. etc. There are a lot of bad parents out there.
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