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NotFromHere · 09-10-2003, 01:16 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
With the birth of my first, when the delivery nurse said to my husband -- "look, the head is coming out," despite my utter exhaustion, I bolted upright (22 hours of labor can really take a toll on your energy level) and said "NO!! He's not allowed to look!!!" Even if I hadn't done that, hubby had been schooled on the prohibition against looking, so he was saying, "uh, I'm not allowed" just as I was bolting upright.

Then why why why would anyone, ANYONE ask you if you wanted to watch the video of the miraculous birth of their child? Why would you want your child to watch its own birth? Isn't that traumatizing to the child? I'm not speaking from first hand experience because my friends know for a fact that the childbirthing video we were forced to watch in high school horrified me enough to never offer that option to me. But others have told me that they had such offer to watch said video. I was shocked. Amazed. Hell, I can't even watch the birth of puppies - and they're sooo cuuuute.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 09-10-2003, 01:17 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
paigowprincess

[useless post but for the header]

I'd like to propose that we merge the Mets and Expos. As one team, they'd have a fighting chance. They could play 90% of their games in NY and 5% each in Montreal and Puerto Rico, allowing them to one up the Braves by declaring themselves NORTH America's team!

robustpuppy · 09-10-2003, 01:17 PM

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
That the aunt even thought of that -- instead of having some sympathy or thinking that her niece's problems might just be sufficiently dire to excuse a breach of etiquette -- is repugnant.

Thank you. I read that letter to Miss Manners as a thinly-veiled moral judgment about her niece's having a child out of wedlock and then giving it up for adoption. Tsk, tsk, how untidy! That she went to all the trouble of writing the letter suggests that it wasn't an innocent question. She claims that she only wanted to be informed, that she didn't want the gift back, but the subtext is, "I really didn't have to give a gift to that little whore in the first place."

greatwhitenorthchick · 09-10-2003, 01:19 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Then why why why would anyone, ANYONE ask you if you wanted to watch the video of the miraculous birth of their child? Why would you want your child to watch its own birth? Isn't that traumatizing to the child? I'm not speaking from first hand experience because my friends know for a fact that the childbirthing video we were forced to watch in high school horrified me enough to never offer that option to me. But others have told me that they had such offer to watch said video. I was shocked. Amazed. Hell, I can't even watch the birth of puppies - and they're sooo cuuuute.

I think it's neat.
But then I used to help animals give birth so that's what I am reminded of. I really do think it's quite miraculous.

Sidd Finch · 09-10-2003, 01:19 PM

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Originally posted by ThrashersFan
I cringe when I hear people inquire about when someone plans to have children/why they don't have children/why they have so many children -- none of your fucking business is what I would say.

Probably the closest I've come to hitting someone who wasn't actually trying to threaten me was when a guy asked me and Mrs. Finch if we had kids, we said no (this was a few years ago), and he said "Well c'mon, what are you waiting for???"

The correct answer would have been "to get pregnant and not have another miscarriage. You stupid motherfucker."

09-10-2003, 01:20 PM

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Originally posted by dtb

With the birth of my first, when the delivery nurse said to my husband -- "look, the head is coming out," despite my utter exhaustion, I bolted upright (22 hours of labor can really take a toll on your energy level) and said "NO!! He's not allowed to look!!!" Even if I hadn't done that, hubby had been schooled on the prohibition against looking, so he was saying, "uh, I'm not allowed" just as I was bolting upright.

gotta ask? why coudlnt he look? A fear that you would never have sex again?

NotFromHere · 09-10-2003, 01:20 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Conclusion: Eat and drink what you like. Speaking
English is apparently what kills you.

OK, since we're doing that...

Five Things A Woman Needs from Men to be Happy!!!!!

5 requirements for happiness

* 1. It is important that a man helps you around the house and has a job.

* 2. It is important that a man makes you laugh.

* 3. It is important to find a man you can count on and doesn't lie to you.

* 4. It is important that a man is good in bed and loves making love to you.

* 5. It is important that these four men don't know each other.

ThurgreedMarshall · 09-10-2003, 01:22 PM

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Originally posted by taxwonk
I guess so. I could have sworn it was you moaning about home ownership having forced you off to Red Bank. My bad. Maybe it's just the lameass insults you've been handing out lately had me thinking you'd lost that Big Apple edge.

Lately?

TM

09-10-2003, 01:22 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
paigowprincess

You wouldn't say this if they were directed at you, diva.

But really, I think you're right, let's save bandwidth for the umpteenth fucking discussion about whether and when to have kids, because I am sure that I am not alone in finding it to be a perfect FB diversion, light and amusing, the feel-good discussion of the year!

Maybe next we could talk about overweight people! Yay!

Darlin, may I invite you to join us at the next Taxapalooza Luau where you can actually get a gander at old Taxwonk. Its like your dad talking about fucking your mom, or how great your tits are.

Tell me where to send the invite and if you come, I will allow you to enjoy all the taxwonk leery perviness you can stand.

greatwhitenorthchick · 09-10-2003, 01:22 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
OK, since we're doing that...

Aii! I've created a monster.

Tyrone Slothrop · 09-10-2003, 01:23 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
OK, since we're doing that...

Five Things A Woman Needs from Men to be Happy!!!!!

5 requirements for happiness

* 1. It is important that a man helps you around the house and has a job.

* 2. It is important that a man makes you laugh.

* 3. It is important to find a man you can count on and doesn't lie to you.

* 4. It is important that a man is good in bed and loves making love to you.

* 5. It is important that these four men don't know each other.

Speaking of which, conservatives are attacking NPR's funding. You need to sign this here petition and forward it to your friends.

Bad_Rich_Chic · 09-10-2003, 01:23 PM

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Originally posted by ThrashersFan
I think of being mortgage-free as also "taking back my life" but I wouldn't trade my house or its impact on my life for anything.

I cannot, cannot over emphasize the sheer freeing joy, the lifting of the immense weight of oppression, that came with paying off the last of my student loans. When I think about the sheer relief I felt, the deliverance from servitude, even now, I start to cry. All suffering in too-small apartments in outer boroughs, all forgone vacations, all the time altering old suits instead of shopping for new ones ... all totally, totally worth it.

My memory of the realization that I didn't have a CLUE how incredibly depressed and miserable I was until I freed myself from that debt is still so strong that I am terrified of a mortgage. No capering dance there, I was too stunned with relief to do anything other than sit and gape for days.

BR(you and your non-mortgage are my heros)C

ThurgreedMarshall · 09-10-2003, 01:25 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Maybe next we could talk about overweight people! Yay!

I think Penske's on hiatus.

TM

robustpuppy · 09-10-2003, 01:25 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
Reality TV! Yeah!

(Umpteenth is in the eyes of the observer, I think.)

It's the same discussion over and over, bilmore, with little variation; in contrast, the differences between FLO$ and FLO$2, as well as among the specific types of base behavior displayed by each contestant on BB4 and Survivor, while not apparent to the untrained eye such as yours, are infinitely variable.

Sidd Finch · 09-10-2003, 01:25 PM

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Originally posted by purse junkie
Yeah, but they seem to hand the kid to you pretty fast afterwards. I don't think it would be an auspicious start to mother-child bonding if I were to pass out in horror at my first sight of it.

Trust me, they wipe 'em off good. Much as I love Sidd Jr. (and agree with everything Greedy-cubed said about kids enriching your life), I do not pretend that I sighed about his beauty when he was born. He was covered in blood and shit. It was gross.

He got better.

About three months ago, I was doing a puzzle with him and, for no apparent reason, he piped up "Sidd, I love you so much." (this was in his "call dad by his first name" phase). Hard not to melt over that.

Worth every second, and every dollar.

And I do manage to find time for fun and games on the side.