Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

[Non Sync]

My parenting tips:

• Give children mental blocks.
• Put them in a round room and tell them to stand in the corner.
• Record them crying when they're babies and then play it back when they're sullen teenagers.

Points to remember:

• Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids.
• If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I never thought about having kids. Not for a second. I know in my deepest heart and mind - about an inch and a half, in my case - that I would SUCK as a dad. I don't know a damn thing about what it means to be a father. So I'm not even gonna try.

Being an uncle, OTOH, is cool. I like to do things for my nieces and nephews, like take them to baseball games and stuff like that. It's fun being an uncle. But a dad? Not a ing chance.

Or, as John Munch so rightly put it:

"I wouldn't want to give a kid the responsibility of me."

 

[Pumpkin Bread]

Record them crying when they're babies and then play it back when they're sullen teenagers.

Videos of their potty training would be worse...

I wouldn't want to give a kid the responsibility of me."

Or vice versa. I had a cat once, and that's about all the responsibility I can handle.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

i couldn't even handle a cat. Or any kind of pet. Not even a fish.

 

[Aragorn]

The Target credit card site won't let me send a message. Tells me I have to call them. So I just go to one of my previous messages and reply to that and they respond in under 15 minutes.

 

[Velocity]

good work around!

 

[Pumpkin Bread]

couldn't even handle a cat. Or any kind of pet. Not even a fish.

Fish are harder than cats. Leave a fish tank unattended too long, the fish die. A healthy cat, you can leave alone for a few days, long as there's lots of food/water and the box is freshly scooped.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I wouldn't want to leave a cat alone in my house. Not just because it would destroy everything in sight, but also I would just feel bad leaving any animal alone like that.

If I want to look at cats, I'll watch Kittisaurus videos.

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[Pumpkin Bread]

Cats aren't like dogs. Leave a dog alone a few hours, and when you return it runs to you, jumps on you, wags its tail like crazy, and totally guilt trips you about leaving. Cats just look at you with a "yeah, whatever" look.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Cats aren't like dogs. Leave a dog alone a few hours, and when you return it runs to you, jumps on you, wags its tail like crazy, and totally guilt trips you about leaving. Cats just look at you with a "yeah, whatever" look.

Sometimes they're more annoyed that you had the gall to come back!

 

[Mojochi]

I see no reason why I'd want underdeveloped & barely functional humans around, when dealing with adult ones is chore enough.

The only cats I've ever not disliked are the feral ones living in the rough out back, that keep the rodent population down. They patrol, use my truck for shade in summer, & leave traces of slaughter around to indicate they're working the area. Respect.

I like dogs well enough, whenever there's call to interact with one, but not enough to think I should ever keep one. Anything in a cage or aquarium is just alive decor. Just get a plant imho.

I'm also probably going to be physiologically allergic to any & all of the above

 

[JD]

Any thoughts on horses?

 

[Mojochi]

Any thoughts on horses?

Beautiful animals. Not really pets. Livestock. That's a whole different aspect of animal ownership. Never actually been up close & personal with one to know anything more about how I'd feel about them

While we're fleshing out the category... Exotics. I think it's pretty inappropriate to be personally housing exotics like monkeys, tigers, & the like, unless you're some kind of professional animal trainer or something, & even that is questionable imho.

I've gotten a fair amount of blowback for opinions of mine about animal ownership in general. So I'll keep mum. I'm not really a fan of the overall endeavor though, to say the least.

 

[The Friendly Jewish Ghost]

Anyone who says they don't like cats just hasn't met the right cat.

 

[JD]

My mom doesn't like cats, so I've never been around them much, but I've seen some pretty nice online though, so my opinion of them has improved a bit recently.

Beautiful animals. Not really pets. Livestock. That's a whole different aspect of animal ownership. Never actually been up close & personal with one to know anything more about how I'd feel about them

All I'm gonna say about this is that I absolutely hate the whole livestock category for any animal, but especially for horses. The absolutely horrible, cruel shit that people are able to get away just because horses are categorized as "livestock" pisses me off more than you can imagine. And really, for most people who have them these days, they're really not that different from a giant cat or dog.

 

[Aragorn]

Went to Target to buy something, no employees around to unlock the cabinet, plus it was actually 50 cents cheaper on their website so I didn't want to wait around for a price match involving an employee without the power to price match, so I bought it online with free shipping and it's being sent from the other side of the country. Cut into their profit, but I guess a sale is still a sale.

 

[shapeshifter]

Every online sale moves the Corps one step closer to becoming online ONLY where their profits will be optimized by lowest possible overhead including employees, so taking a short term hit on you is worth every penny to them.

 

[Mojochi]

All I'm gonna say about this is that I absolutely hate the whole livestock category for any animal, but especially for horses. The absolutely horrible, cruel shit that people are able to get away just because horses are categorized as "livestock" pisses me off more than you can imagine. And really, for most people who have them these days, they're really not that different from a giant cat or dog.

I didn't really mean it with any kind of negative connotation. I actually think the reverse when using the term. You have a far greater responsibility to animal life & welfare if you care for livestock. There was a time when those animals were your lifeline. You did nothing & had nothing without them. Whereas a cat? If it's got bowls of food/water & box of sand, you're pretty much good.

 

[JD]

You might think that, but by calling them "livestock" people are able to get away with the kind of abuse and neglect that is truly, truly horrifying . I follow a rescue that goes out to a horse auction every month, and there are always horses that are literally walking skeletons, who are so sick they can barely breath, and with huge open wounds, but since they're livestock, people can just dump them at the auctions and nobody can do anything about it. She was at an auction a couple weeks ago and there was horse there who was so sick that she sat him with as he died right there in the one of the auction's pens.
Sorry, this is just something I've become really passionate about.

 

[Candlicious Ghost]

I prefer going into an actual store wherever possible but if there are very few staff and long times to wait, the staff don't have authority to do things well going online is usually the only option outside of that, the items usually end up cheaper even from the same retailer.