Children - Classic Or Dud?

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Refreshingly unpretentious fun machines or tiny, messy, clumsy people who don't know when a joke has stopped being funny?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I filed this under "Objects".

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i am speculating.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

for one.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Good luck!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

...but I couldn't eat a whole one, etc.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Both, probably. (ask me again in April).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic! It takes a villiage, you curmudgeons.

Why are they cool? They don't give a damn about fashion and they still think things from Hong Kong are exotic and cool.

― andy, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

And they all want to be public servants!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

This obliquely reminds me of this:

FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.

(I lurve kids, actually. I also lurve that I don't have to take care of any; your mileage may vary.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

(Sorry, the above quote is another example of Ambrose Bierce's brilliance from The Devil's Dictionary)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

A conversation at work today...

Dan: I've got my inter library loan! It's a rare book about automata.

Nick: Why don't you just have kids like a normal person? You and your little 18th century French robots.

Dan: Kids are messy.

Billy: True.

Nick: Aye. I guess with automata all you need to do is wind 'em up every so often.

Dan: "You've got big ears! And you're only a robot!"

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

It was funny at the time.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

...............#

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

;)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

May you be shoved into the ass of a Mullah.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

X-post.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

ILM has shown that they are the best at reviewing records.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

There's one in the house at the moment. It hasn't quite learned to speak yet. It has a blond bowl cut and big blue eyes and looks utterly adorable, but it's a bit hard to manage. Especially around the dog. But I can see why people would want them.

― The River Kate (kate), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Do those clever people at Apple make any useful apps for managing them?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

This one is classic (though not entirely easy to manage):
http://i.myspace.com/95/90/410959/2573859_l.jpg

The rest = dud.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

your own kid=classic
other people's kids=dud

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I find Nick and Scott's vision of the world to be entirely right and proper.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

hey! two more classics in the line-up:
http://textamerica.com/user.images/IMG_375126/Thumb/T304010712470.jpg http://textamerica.com/user.images/IMG_375126/Thumb/T304012218370.jpg

...at the risk of turning this thread into "Proud Parents Showing Pictures - Classic or Dud?"

― BrianB (BrianB), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i actually take pleasure in other people's kids being stupid(or at least thinking that they are way stupider than our kid). that's just one of the twisted things that happens to you when you have one.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.impawards.com/1991/posters/curly_sue.jpg

{"UHhhoolddttnnngggghhh!!!" - coughs up a hairball.}

― andy, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually children-behaving-badly doesn't bother me much at all. What does bother me is parents who don't know how to deal with their children, like this mom I saw at the grocery store last night whose daughter was all "i want a balloon i want a balloon i want a balloon etc." and the mom turned around and straight-up hit her daughter (prob'ly about 6) and simply said "be quiet". Treat your kids like this and see what kind of people they grow up to be, asshat.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

My girlfriend is not fond of them AT ALL. Which is fine, we have cats.

I like them when they are smart and doing entertainingly cute things, and I can have someone take them away when they get messy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait... JOHN HUGHES made Curly Sue? That bastard...

― andy, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Treat your kids like this and see what kind of people they grow up to be, asshat.

You've just descibed typical Caribbean parenting, 'Licious (though not ALL do it). I'd see that kind of shit happen at the mall regularly (when I'd go). I've been tempted to walk over to the parent, and go, "Excuse me, but WTF does that solve?" Kids have mighty long memories, and that behavior creates mucho resentment in them.

To answer the thread question, I'm still at the stage where kids are Classic, as long as they're someone else's. I enjoy being around them mucho, but I'm not yet ready for 24 hour parenting. I've babysat my mum's godson when he lived with us in NYC, and she worked so much, I became the "parent": he hated when I had to discipline him over homework or bad behaviour; I was the first person he'd run to when he scrape his knees.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Kids are either incredibly cute or incredibly annoying. I think its like Tinker-Bell - they're so small they can only be one or the other, since there's not enough space for both.

― Johnney B, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i really love kids. it's babies that i can't stand.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I.JUST.CAN'T.STOP.MYSELF.

http://www.dutchtoenglish.com/rufus3.html

(it really is a sickening urge to share the bundle of joy pictures, but there is nothing i can do about it apparently.cool pictures of my 99 year old granny too if you are a granny fancier.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

You crazy man. (I like them pictures.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The pinnacle of the simultaneous classic/dud-ness of children is at the age where they start to wonder "why?" in regards to EVERYTHING. The curiosity is endearing, the tenacity is overwhelming.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

What?

― Pious Twin (abennett), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

children (your own at least): classic
child support: dud

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris to thread.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm feeling they're pretty classic right now (i'm at work and missing them), but ask me again in a few hours (when i see them)

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris to thread.

V or B? Their attitudes are quite different.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

"stepfather of Matos" Chris.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh heh heh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

THE TOBACCO IS GOOD ALSO.

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 29 January 2004 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

People that have their own personal children - do you dress them up in those tiny suits that make them look like animals? You know, like the lion suits that have a tail and a hood with little ears on them? Or the sheep suits - I like those.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Tshirts that say GRANMA SPOILS ME ROTTEN - c/d?

― Pious Twin (abennett), Thursday, 29 January 2004 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

@d@ml, that's the main reason I'm going to have kids one day.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 29 January 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't you just hire kids for that sort of thing?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 January 2004 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

we made rufus wear a camouflage t-shirt when he was a little baby that said "Pee all that you can pee" on it and took lots of pictures so that we could embarrass the hell out of him later in life. plus, we make him wear ridiculous hats.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 January 2004 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

my kid starts school tomorrow. i totally love him right now. yesterday afternoon we had an hour long dance marathon where he showed me his moves. then we built a lego castle.

he has several ridiculous hats too.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 29 January 2004 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.tshirthell.com/babyhell.htm

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 29 January 2004 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.halloween.it/kids/images/p_JHA549-d.jpg

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:16 (twenty-two years ago)

http://dutchtoenglish.com/mohawk.jpg

He'll hate me for this later

― maria d. (scott seward's wife) (scott seward), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha! I like this Maria D. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

fantastic!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

He'll love you for that, later.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

She's gonna kill me, but I can't resist.

http://incolor.inetnebr.com/wmw/images/sophiaclownhat.jpg

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The last two pictures have just proven that the answer is CLASSIC. Way too cute.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 January 2004 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Children can be cute, can be bratty.

That makes them a Classic

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 29 January 2004 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you have many children, Aja?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

As friends.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 29 January 2004 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

one of my friends didn't believe me when i explained to him that every person thinks their kid is special and the best kid ever. it was strange. i thought everyone knew that.

i like other people's kids. i also like being able to give them back to mom and dad when they cry/poop/scream/etc.

and dressing kids up like animals and super heroes and stuff is totally classic.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 29 January 2004 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ideal-hosting.co.uk/~go-quick/pics/crisps.jpg

My kids win.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark, I could believe you if I could see the photo.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Now.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Howzabout this: ILX kids=classic

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Aw, bless.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

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