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Atticus, my boy, I think that everyone will agree that I am mostly correct* when I say that the grief you got was because it seemed like maybe you were being just a wee bit condescending and judgmental in your posts about pain control during labor. And, based solely on my experience with Mrs. Not Bob, I think that some women tend to get annoyed with men who say anything about childbirth (other than, "wow, I don't know how chicks do it").

I still love you, though. :love:

*Circle-jerk alert: This is a phrase coined by sebastian dangerfield, and which has been adopted as shorthand by many posters for a sweeping generalization.

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I find it ironic (hahahaha) that the guy who says he freaked out totally thinking he was a failure because his kid wasn't in the upper percentiles of weight, or whatever, doesn't see how saying "for 90% of women it's eventually as easy as falling off a log" might possibly create a feeling that if you are in the 10%, you are somehow a failure.

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Oh, give poor Atticus a break. I took his 90% comment to mean "don't give up because for most women it gets really easy even if at the beginning it seems it never will." And I never took his pain relief during labor posts to be as polluted with superiority as many of the rest of you did; I simply saw it as general philosophizing about the apparent cultural desire to pretend that all pain and sacrifice relating to parenting can be reduced to a barely perceptible level.

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You are no fun when you are pregnant.

Or, your newest crush is Atticus.

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I'm working on my nurturing instinct, bitch.

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WHATever. And, I sometimes think str8s posts are yours now, because of the baby avatar. Put that in your crack pipe and smoke it.

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To be clear I highly doubt atticus has lactacted, but that shouldn't disqualify his experiences with having babies bite his nipples. Not every country has such repressive age of consent laws and who are we to judge.

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Pre-school was rocky for L'il Ty for at least a few months, but he loves it now. But they tried moving him to another class yesterday morning, the class he'll go to f/t in another month, and he apparently spent much of the morning sobbing. He doesn't take well to change, that boy.

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We have some kids who are natural conservatives in every class. On the plus side, they usually don't draw outside the lines.

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You're right; I've been unfair.

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My oldest child (>2 yrs) is in the single digits for weight percentile, and the 90's for height; my youngest (4 mos) is about 50/50. Based on this information, I have slated the oldest to become a supermodel, and then a host for a TV show on the E! network or reality show; the youngest will be pushed to become a professional golfer/tennis player, and/or graduate from a top ten university, and top five graduate school.

I am the best parent ever. You all can give up now and accept defeat.

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I'm pretty sure this is a line from a Tarantino film, but which one? As usual, RP is too allusive for me.

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Dude, you can't miss her, she's the size of a house.

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Actually, wasn't that a quote from the political intern asshat in the letter he wrote to his girlfriend explaining why he was breaking up with her?

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2 (as to the str8 avatar thing). As to the rest of this conversation, I could care less. Actually I couldn't care less, but somehow our society has shortened that sentiment to "I could care less". Less probably doesn't care either, but I wouldn't presume to speak for him.

I told my ever-judgmental sister that I never plan to breast-feed should I ever have any children (such a big if that it is laughable) and then got speeches each time I saw her about how bad it is for babies not to be breastfed, yadda yadda yadda (making one wonder how all the thousands of babies born during the 70s ever survived, but I digress). I have since stopped spending time with my sister and I have no interest in ever discussing breast-feeding with anyone ever again.

Or, to be more direct, I could care less. :mad: (this mad smiley thing popped up on its own somehow (I'm not sure what the code for it is but I must have inadvertantly hit it), but I'll let it stand because it has gumption)

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Are you breastfeeding them? How are your nipples doing?

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Really? I wonder whether he stole if from sebby, or vice versa.

(Oh, and a belated welcome back!)

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Its wrong. Just plain wrong.


You are greedy. Don't just think about the children...breastfeeding is not just for kids! What about Mr. Man or whoever the future flavour of the month is?

LOL!

(not to be judgmental, I am not but fyi) My oldest would have died during infancy without breastfeeding but we didn't know that until many months after the fact. FWIW. YMMV, it was a relatively rare genetic disorder (although there is another 'former" poster who has a relative with the same condition).

This line says no, but the post itself says yes, yes, yes!

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Breastfeeding is for losers. I feed them raw meat and steroids. My nipples miss you, but they are doing fine considering.

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No. :mad:

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You seem very into the mad smiley thing (that has gumption) today. Is your bio clock ticking? FWIW, kids would be a great excuse to watch documentaries on teddy bear factories.

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No what? I am sensing a mixed vibe here.

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This thingy has never, ever conveyed "love" to me. It conveys "tribal custom of greeting by touching tongues." oslt.

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This is not your best material. :rolleyes:

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What percentile is it in?

ETA why are we on the lwk board?

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In other words, (Bilmore - Not Bob + Sebastian Dangerfield) + (mmmm24601 ÷ 2) = Atticus. Sounds about right.

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Or So Less Tells (me)? Or So I Think?

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I want to know why, in the limited amount of time you have for the board these days, you expend all your efforts discussing childbirth and breastfeeding. Not that there is anything even remotely wrong about those things.

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or something like that

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Doh! Thanks.

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I was also posting about arming animal control officers until ninthyeardepraved and his Teutonic Texan Triggerwoman shut the Spanky Board down.

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This, together with recent news events, is all part of the grand plan to get you back to the Board You Were Born For.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BIOS/cpnovak.gif

How much more inspiration do you need, man? Does Bush need to go public with shocking news of his alien baby to inspire you to post there again?

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Where does "Teutonic" enter into RT's persona?

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He means large breastises. You know, like that german opera chick. You can borrow my Atticus to English dictionary if you like. You'd be surprised how many synomyms there are for breastises.

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Teutonic? That's Aristocratic Mexican to you, bub.

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no no no go back and edit. He respects you. If you're gonna ask him a question ask him this
"Why would you ask people who raised someone with all your problems and conflicts how to raise a kid to be relatively free of issues."

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I let your wife raise my kids. Duh.

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It's clear YOU take something to numb your pain.

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My son (20mos) attempted to use the breastpump* last night, but couldn't get it to stick to his little baby nipples. If only I had taken a photo to use as some sort of blackmail-type collateral for the teenage years....

-TL

*This has to be the least sexy invention in the history of the world.

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Of course, when he hits his teenage years, he'll be trying to use it someplace else.