[ginger_kitty]

Some girl I know just found she is pregnant w/ her 2nd baby. She went on and on about the morning sickness and the pain all being worth it. She claimed you forget everything once you see thier faces. All the while she looked ill like she was going to puke any second. She was telling me about being put on bedrest and having an IV b/c she was to sick to eat w/ her first child. The whole thing was pure insanity. I am not going to talk to breeders anymore.(kidding a bit) I just get sick of hearing all that crap.

[doodlebug]

Diapers on beaches is gross, I agree. Although I've known a few people who go too far in the OTHER direction! Our women's centre used to be in a community centre, and we had one mama who had to feed her babe this weird, non-allergenic diet (don't remember what), which made the diapers REEK. But the manager of the community centre got mad when the mom rolled up the diapers and deposited them into the public washroom's garbage, because of the smell. WTF? Where was she supposed to leave them? So the manager made the mom take the diapers all the way 'round back to the dumpster, which I thought was grossly unfair...especially since maintenance emptied the garbage every day. Surely women can tolerate the smell of the occasional diaper in a women's washroom?

I don't think I've seen many diapers on our beach, but most of the trash along there is washed up trash. Then again, our beach is more a walking beach - families go to the big beach at the park, on the other side of the river, 'cause there's a wading pool and water park, too. The only regular trash we get on this beach is broken bottles around the fire pits, from drunken parties. Which is even worse than diapers and other rubbish, because there are lots of doggies running along there, and they have no protection on their feet from bits of broken glass.

[katiebelle2882]

i actually think it might deschat. and puppies are cuter then babies clover. by a FREAKIN longshot. so yes, i would be annoyed if i were you too.

[deschatsrouge]

I wonder if popping out babies decreses the I.Q. of some women. After all it doesn't take that much to put a diaper in the trash can.

[pollystyrene]

I know- you have to walk past the garbage cans to leave the beach. WTF???? On Saturday, I was at brunch with my friends and this place was packed with kids, but it's a fabulous restaurant, so it was worth it. I felt bad for the guys who had to clean up the messes of food left my little kids and their lazy parents on the floors, the chairs, etc. Just bits of food everywhere, like a garbage disposal exploded, beyond a normal level of crumbs. I'm not saying they have to clean up every piece, but at least put some effort into consolidating it a little, scooping it up on a plate. I'd be embarrassed to leave a place like that.

[turbojenn]

Most of the diapers I see are just sitting there in the middle of the beach...which is pathetic, really, considering there are garbage cans *and* recycling containers at least every hundred feet - both on the beach and scattered through the park. Some people have no respect. Of course, I get equally upset by all the other trash, chicken bones and detritus laying around the park too...

[moxiegirl]

Just a thought (not that it makes it better in any way), but I wonder how many of the icky diapers are wash-ups from sea? No, wait...that's still gross. Yep. Sorry. Back to regularly scheuleded gross-out.

[cloverbee]

what I don't get is that they have the foresight to bring extra diapers I assume, but no trash bag. And babies should not be allowed in communal swimming areas anyways b/c of the poop situation. I probably wouldn't be so upset about it if people didn't give me shit about bringing my dog places w/ me. At least I pick up her shit (99% of the time that is).

[moxiegirl]

ok, let me speak up for the environmentally concious, not gross parents- diapers on the beach. SOOOOOO not right. Not even a little carelessness right. In absolultly no way right. A wet diaper left on the changing table in my house...a momentary absent minded move. A poopy diaper in a public place, where water takes the sewage out to sea,,,VERY BAD. And these idioits are probably the same dumb-asses who take their poopy pants kids into the lake! Then wonder why they puke 2.5 days later.

Feh. Dumb parents make me mad.

Polly- that disturbingly rude. My favorite uncle and aunt have no children, and i'd trust them to tell me "hey, that table is hard". Farkin powers of observation. Sheesh.

With that, i will now go check on my wee barin, have a glass of wine, and hit the hay.

[turbojenn]

welcome to my world, clover...I see dirty diapers every morning at the beach. Pisses me off. I carry a bag to pick up glass on the beach, but I will *not* pick up used diapers. EEWWW.

Polly....that totally sucks - how completely rude...even if we choose not to be parents, we do have some clue about child safety, and we are not total child-care morons.

[cloverbee]

ms qb, that reminds me. I went to the river yesterday and counted no less than 5 dirty diapers left by people. how rude is that???

[ms.gb]

wow....polly....that really sucks. i think you forgot to add psycho bitch before the 'mother of the year' part. just my honest opinon.

we went to the beach yesterday, kids everywhere...totally fine...except for the fact that i wanted to trip some of them. hehe.

but a religious group came and did a baptism in the water and then after they left, we noticed a bunch of trash that hadn't been there before....so we cleaned it up. damn annoying though.

sorry, back to topic...

kids, bleh.

[pollystyrene]

I had two uncomfortable childfree moments yesterday. I had to go to a family brunch because my cousin and her husband from San Francisco who had twins in February came into town, and it was first time most of us had seen the babies. They're cool people and the babies are adorable, so I didn't mind.

The first incident was just my great-aunt giving me the run-of-the-mill "what do you mean you're not having kids? Why wouldn't you want kids?" I quickly changed the subject and escaped. No big deal, I have come to expect that stuff, and she wasn't digging any deeper.

The second one, the party was thrown at the new mom's sister's house. She's in her early forties, recently married for the first time, and doesn't have kids. She's a doctor, and I think she chose not to have kids, I don't think it was circumstantial- if she wanted to have kids before she was married, she could have easily afforded the fertility or adoption costs. But she's an extremely devoted aunt, loves her neices and nephews and most kids. Her sister-in-law, her brother's wife, was sitting in a chair, with one of the new babies sitting on the floor at her feet. She's about 6 months old, so she can sit up pretty well, unassisted, but being a 6 month old, they're still unpredictable and tend to fling and fall over. My childfree cousin was sitting there and said to her SIL, who has three kids, "why don't you put that blanket behind her in case she falls over?" The SIL said, "oh, she'll be fine, if she falls, I'll catch her." Childfree cousin again says, "yeah, maybe you should put that there in case you don't." No snarky tone, just a concerned aunt. SIL snaps, "why don't you let the mothers in the room worry about the kids, OK?" My childfree cousin and I just *looked* at each other. She dropped the issue and the kid didn't fall, but after her brother, sister-in-law and three kids left, she was so pissed. Especially since it came from the woman who smoked regularly through all three pregnacies, still smokes in the house and now all three kids have respiratory issues. Yeah, you're mother of the freaking year.

[maddy29]

humanist-was it the "it's 2006 and i'm still deciding if i should take his name" thread?

i think people were talking about weddings in that thread...

yeah, my mom would've kicked some teacher ASS if we had gotten that assignment! i actually would've really liked to see that, heh heh.

last night i babysat for my little dude who i love. he's three. he's standing there with no pants. and he's like "i put my finger in my bottom" and he's standing there with his finger stuck up into his crack. it was so funny, but like ok! go wash your hands now-butts aren't good places for fingers. they are cute and funny, and really gross, too (kids, not butts, although i guess butts are cute and funny sometimes too).

i love him SO much it actually brought tears to my eyes to see him, as i have'nt seen him in almost 2 months. but then he's in the bathroom yelling "i need help wiping my bottom!!!" and i remember why i don't want one of my own.

[deschatsrouge]

I have a fear of commitment ceremonies. My life companion and I have made the joint decision not to have one. I don't mind going to them though, especially if they are gay weddings. I'm going to one next summer. My two gal pals are having their commitment ceremony. They are making it kid free by explicitly noting it on the invitations. I admire them because it may make them unpopular with some of their friends. It will be nice to sit and eat my cake without a teat sucking devil incarnate screaming in the middle of the dance floor with a nose oozing pestilance.

Clover if I had to do that homework assignment I think I would connsumate the union in front of everyone and then eat cake and watch Jay and Silent Bob.

A demon child once attacked the my cat so I made after her like I was going to swat her bum and she let go. she was all "but he likes it!" I said to her if I want some one to torture my cat I'll do it.

[humanist77]

There used to be a great thread on Bust about refusing to have a traditional wedding/refusing to marry at all. I think it might deserve a revival. It was certainly an interesting topic, although it wasn't too consistent, so I'm not sure if it would be considered lucrative enough..hmm..any opinions?

[cloverbee]

holy gawd, we just got back from my friends' kids b-day party. OMG there were a TON of kids there!! There had to be about a hundred kids altogether b/c there were other parites going on in the same park. So I brought my doggie and this kid comes up and starts attacking clover! I couldn't believe it. he just starts wrestling w/ her an scaring the shit out of her! Clover was so scared of this little four year old that she ran underneath a park bench and hit her head, poor girl. Meantime, my roommate was getting pissed and telling the kid to stop and he just ignored us the little budding psychopath. So I'm looking around for the parents of this demon child and they are nowhere to be found. We ended up having to literally run away from this devil child! Aside from that incident, it went relatively well.

[ginger_kitty]

We never had that assignment, clover. Seriously crappy homework. But, I would have went wild with it. Nude beach, open bar. You get the pic.

[katiebelle2882]

that is a stupid assignment and i would have told him i thought just that. when and if i ever get married i may have to elope bc my extended family alone is over 100 people and btw my friends and my parents friends i am pretty sure i could get to 400 pretty quickly. ugh, thats never ever going to happen. i dont get the whole wedding thing either. however, i do like a big ass party. which is why i woould do mine on the beach. a big ass beach party with a bonfire, sounds good to me.

[tatiana]

Huh. My parents got married at city hall, and had a potluck reception. My grandmother made the cake, my mom made her dress and my dad wore his mess kit.

My mom would have been up in that teacher's face so fast it would have made his head spin. What a jerk.