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Rant Number: 2582
When: On this board
What kind: Garden-variety rant
Where: The heathens eating the wedding cake
Well, I'm not married yet, but I tell y'all what, whenever we do decide to take that big jump, it's going to be on the invitation in BIG BOLD PRINT-Leave your kids at home!Besides, I'm planning on a big old beer and liquor soaked bash afterwards, and it ain't gonna be no place to bring a bunch o-snotlings.
The only people who'd probably disregard it would probably be his sister and her husband and their two crotchdroppings.
All I have to say about the little spawns eating the wedding cake before the bride and groom even got there is that they'd best be glad they weren't at my wedding, 'cause they'd have sure gotten embarrrassed in front of God, the preacher and EVERYONE! Of course, I'd have probably had to drag 'em outside to cuss 'em proper, being as I wouldn't do that in front of a man of the cloth, but, still, JEEZ! How fucking clueless can people get???
Rant Number: 2581
When: Today
What kind: Other
Where: Marriage tax veto
Write to your congressman and urge him to override the marriage tax veto by Clinton!
http://legislation.cwfa.org/marriagetax
Rant Number: 2580
When: Tonite
What kind: Other
Where: The 20th Century Show with Mike Wallace
Interesting show tonite on The 20th Century. It was about family violence and covered the cases of the Menendez brothers, Susan Smith, and Capt. Jeffery MacDonald. (can we all say "but it's different when it's your own!). Some other facts that came out during the show: 1)About 200 parents are murdered by their own children every year, 2)About 400 children are murdered by their parents every year and 3)the vast majority of murders involve family members (and they all worry about us childfree people!). On another note, now the pro-lifers are twisting around every new case up before the courts involving a pregnancy as proof that the pro-choicers are wrong about the fetus not being a person with rights.....sheesh! http://cwfa.org/library/life/2000-08-17_angle.shtml
Rant Number: 2579
When: August 18, 2000
What kind: Garden-variety rant
Where: Local Market
This isn't a rant although it deals with something I've ranted about in the past. Today when I was in the market, I didn't see a *single* one of those horrible "sprog-carts," the ones the little snotleys push alongside Mooommmy when she's shopping. Can there be hope that things may be turning around in that the little monsters aren't getting the "special" carts all their own? Maybe enough people have been blocked by the bratlings shoving the stupid things in front of them and have complained about it. Now, if they just pushed them out into the parking lot, in front of an approaching SUV..... There's a bit more good news (gallows humor here) in that there are 118 crew members on that sunken Russian submarine. People, that's 118 fewer potential sperm-spewers who may leave this world!! A Russian press spokesman referred to this as a "grave situation." Yes, a watery *grave*!! Now, don't let me interfere with your search for someone who gives a damn!
Rant Number: 2578
When:
What kind: Garden-variety rant
Where:
Have you ever heard this phrase:
Breeder to CF person: "I'm sorry you don't like kids."
They always seem SO shocked when I respond: "Why should I be sorry? I'm not sorry!"
~*julia
Rant Number: 2577
When: Aug. 18, 2000
What kind: Garden-variety rant
Where: this board
RE: Dr. Laura & Proper Parental Supervision
You'll see the same mentality at your local pool. Parents drop the kiddies off for the day or (lifeguad hell) buy the season pass for the sprog.
And of course their angel could never do any wrong! Expel a kid with a season pass and you'll see all hell break loose. (Read: "Hey I paid good money for you to babysit my kid all day.")
Rant Number: 2576
When: Today
What kind: Garden-variety rant
Where: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Columnist J.R. Labbe actually had the nerve to tell breeders to stop relying on the damn village, get off their butts and raise their own kids! Here's the link:
http://www.star-telegram.com/columnist/labbe2.htm
Rant Number: 2575
When: Late 1970s/today
What kind: Garden-variety rant
Where: Church
Ranter 2570 (I think), I've heard that story about the clueless moomie who decided to help herself to the wedding cake before the wedding party arrived. In fact, I told that story to my soon-to-be SIL (she and my brother are getting married in October) a couple of weekends ago. She's just 20, but she got this horrified look on her face and gasped, "But everyone knows that you don't touch anything until the bride and groom get there!" "Exactly," I replied.
Furthermore, if the kids really were that hungry, why didn't the Mom have some of those ever-present zippy bags of Cheerios, or do like my mom did back in the late 70s with my brother and take zippy bags of crackers and cookies to church to ply him with (because, you know, he couldn't go an hour without eating)?
I can't imagine the horror I would have felt if that had happened at MY wedding, and we even told the wedding guests to go on into the fellowship hall and help themselves to the hors d'oeuvres while we were having pictures taken. No one--and there were plenty of kids at our wedding--dared touch the wedding cake until we got there. People just have no manners at all any more.
Rant Number: 2574
When: August 2000
What kind: Garden-variety rant
Where: parking lot
Last weekend, a friend visited and we went to Blockbuster to get a video. The Blockbuster is in a small shopping center where there is a supermarket, a dry cleaners, and a couple of other things. With disgust, I pointed out the "stork" parking space to my friend. He gasped and said, "Look! It's even closer to the building than the handicapped space!" I had never noticed that fact before. It's a damned shame, that they would give preggos priority over the disabled!
I see the HTML worked in my post below. Yay!
pak
Rant Number: 2573
When: August 2000
What kind: Garden-variety rant
Where: The school where I teach
School just started this week, and besides being a full-time teacher, I also work in our school's afterschool daycare program for extra money. There is a new family at our school this year. They just adopted four girls, in grades Kindergarten, 2, 4, and 5. The girls are all blood-related sisters and had been living in an orphanage.
I do think it's great when people adopt children (especially older children rather than infants) instead of spitting out their own DNA. But I was rather disturbed to see that these girls are in the afterschool daycare program, among the last to be picked up. IMHO, someone should be at home with those girls instead of leaving them in daycare! Why adopt 4 children, one of whom I know has special needs, and spend probably just an hour or two a day with them?
Even worse, about a year and a half ago, another family at our school adopted three children from Russia. They also put them in the afterschool daycare program. These children were WILD. They were in a totally new environment, didn't speak English, etc. Once again, why go through all the trouble to adopt children, only to dump them in daycare instead of spending quality time with them? It just doesn't make sense to me.
Thanks to the person who posted the HTML tutorial the other day. Hope I did it right!
pak
Rant Number: 2572
When: last 2 days
What kind: Clueless parent rant
Where: at work
Well, we just had the breeder family funeral at work this week. As I'm helping write up the deceased's obituary, we start on the list of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The numbers were going up exponentially. Apparently in this family, it is a badge of honor to forego any method of birth control. Then visitation day came. Yuck. All minivans in the parking lot, breeders hauling in scads of grade school, toddler and babies in various strollers, carriers and papoose-things. Then a few rude, sullen teenagers who don't have the manners to say "hello" when I politely greet them to my facility. Then the real fun begins when the toddlers are ignored by their parents--uncontrolled running, screaming and touching everything and anything. One kid broke the emullions (sp?) on one of my windows as he peered out the window behind the drapes. Proud grandpa came out laughing pointing out what had happened with the window, but told me not to fix it yet, since "he's still looking out the window." Ohhh, God give me strength......Then later, we've got grade schoolers bouncing a football off my aluminum siding and taking decorative rocks out of a planter and throwing them at each other. I went out and ripped ass, threatening them with me going to get their parents if they didn't clean up their mess. To my amazement, they actually did it. Why do parents bring kids to funeral homes and expect daycare to be provided to them??? OH--That reminds me. One breeder sow, after looking around at the coffee and drinking fountain, asks, "Do you have any juice for the kids?" Ahhh, NOOOOOOO! I don't encourage the little monsters to run around my building spilling any sticky colored fluid onto my carpet, especially when the parent of the brat just sighs and says, "Oh, kids will be kids..." BARF!!!!
Rant Number: 2571
When: last night
What kind: Hey, did you see this?
Where: The Daily show coverage of democ. convention
I absolutely can't bear to watch the socialist (democratic) convention so I watch the Daily Show with John Stewart since they lampoon it (and the repub. con. too). Did anyone hear DICK Gephardt's response when they asked him how Democrats were going to fix America's public schools? He said they were going to "reform america's public schools, with busier parents and single moms schools will be completely reformed to help parents with the biggest job of all, raising their children" and mentioned preschool and after school programs, etc. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THIS IS SUCH TOTAL BULLSHIT!!!!! I mean he said it plain as day, schools will help parents raise their children. I think this has always been the democrats agenda anyway but they were never so fucking blatant about it.
Why does this not piss people off? If I were a parent I would be pissed that the government thought I couldn't raise my child without the its help. If people in America were the "rugged individualists" they used to be (like my parents' generation) this statement would sound like a totalitarian or socialist governments' position. But no, now nearly every parent has the attitude of a welfare recipient, saying "oh goody, help from the government, well I'm ENTITLED to that since I'm a breeder." You know, people are too fucking stupid to realize the more you let the government take over facets of your life the more rights you give up. It all means that the stupid breeders, half of whom probably really didn't want to be parents anyway (but were too weak to NOT bend to peer pressure), will increasingly have more people to blame when their kids are socially inept, with poor grades, etc. The way the democrats talk, I wouldn't be surprised if eventually they offer sleep-over programs for kids whose parents work nights. Eventually kids won't need to go home at all!!!
Bottom line is, if you want to know whom to vote for, vote Libertarian. No they won't win this time, but they get more votes every election. And they absolutely would hold parents (not schools or taxpayers) responsible for their own sprogs. Thanks for the space to vent! -Susan in DE
Rant Number: 2570
When:
What kind: Clueless parent rant
Where: wedding
On another site I frequent, an irate poster told us of a real prize-winner in the The World Revolves Around My Chyld Sweepstakes: Seems Momma took her two kids to a wedding (probably an adults-only event that she decided didn't apply to her Miracles). Anyway, the kids are tired and bored, and when they get to the reception, they're completely out of control and well into world-class hissy fits. Mom decides a snack is in order -- so she marches up to the head table, grabs a knife AND CUTS TWO PIECES OUT OF THE WEDDING CAKE!!!! This is before the bride and groom have even arrived at the reception.
The rhythmic thumping sound you hear is me, beating my head against a wall.
Rant Number: 2569
When: Aug 18, 2000
What kind: Garden-variety rant
Where: post down below
Why would you have kids if you went to college for a career?
So they can get their Mrs. degree. :)
Rant Number: 2568
When: Aug. 17
What kind: Garden-variety rant
Where: this board
Re: the one ranter's nephew who sent a letter asking for $$ to buy food while in Europe. I think a neat little response would be to buy about a dozen Ramen noodle packs and send them his way.
On another subject, I realize that Dr. Laura has a lot of controversial viewpoints, but there are some points she makes that agree with rants on this board. Case in point: parents not watching their kids, or parents too busy to teach them manners, respect for others, and proper behavior. Today Dr. Laura received a fax from a listener. The listener, a stay-at-home-mom, had taken her kids, 2 and 4 years old, to an indoor playland, where one would pay a $5.00 fee and the kids can play for 4 hours. The clerk at the playland asked the mother if she'd be staying with her kids while they played. The mother was dumbfounded that leaving the kids unattended was even an option. The clerk said, "Yes, as long as they are potty-trained. We don't provide supervision, however." Now imagine this: a bunch of kids who have parents who don't care that they aren't being watched. Do you think those kids are learning respect and manners? HELL NO! We all know how what hellions little kids become when they're not being watched. Why the hell do people even have children if they can't be bothered to provide proper supervision for them? Oh, right, stupid me! They're our FUTURE!!
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