Well, you could have gone with “... that births not happen over the age of 60, then make men all have vasectomies at age 50.” Why 50? Well, why not? Who wants to be chasing a toddler in your 50s? Really, vasectomies should be very much encouraged.

Well, all societies are pretty terrible about this in general. Married couples have to deal with this from within seconds after saying “I do” (wost offense was in the recieving line after the wedding - like are you for real?). Questions I’d like scrubbed from social acceptablity include “Why are you single? When are…

.....aaaaaaannndddd, a parent then got shot. (thank you google images)

Honestly, group baby naming couldn’t go any worse than letting the parents do it on their own like now. If it isn’t some obtuse/invented/re-appropriated name, then it is ‘creative’ spelling to burden their precious little snowflake. When my brother was having his kids, each time they were picking names, his criteria…

Thank a department store 100 years ago...

Many of those countries are likely kind of backwards, but they have the right idea. Besides, what pregnant woman wants to sit in front of a group of people for an entire afternoon doing stupid games and stuff when all she really wants to do is lie down, eat weird food combos and pee every 10 minutes. Wait until a few…

This is where you need to throw it back in their face and be like, “No, I knew, but I didn’t want to burden the kid with more of the same crap. My gift, everyone’s going to know who that came from. Now, which pink shitty thing did you buy again?”

Why stop at $5? Highest bid. How badly do you want to know? Show me the money! Baby needs diapers!

Do I want to know how one can have an argument about C-sections? How are there ‘sides’ to that conversation?

The irony of the pink/blue “issue” is that apparently the gender/colour relationship was reversed in the early 1900s, but was changed in the 30's (may be wrong on the specifics). As per usual, it was some department store chain that made the declaration..... :/

This is so true. Granted any baby gifts I have bought for friends or family is after the child is born, so worring about the gender is a non issue. But also, I have opted to go with Baby Roots (or HBC) hoodies for 8-16mo because a) everyone buys the kid newborn stuff, which they grow out of quick, so they have…

My take aways from this story:

Don’t do another one of these

This is terrible. “The Grand Tour” sounds like some yawn-fest, ‘intelligent comedy’ film by Wes Anderson. Try again boys.

I don’t own a modified car, but I can understand why people do it, even if I don’t agree with (or understand why) the modifications. It is something on my ‘bucket’ list to do, once certain other life concerns are at least better resolved than they currently are, and I have a space to actually make the attempt.

It depends on how bad the divorce goes. I know a couple people who have lost a lot because of it. They should be mandatory - removes the issue of someone ‘forcing’ one on the other person. Also forces both people to share a clear financial picture of each other - nothing worse than the surprise your new spouse comes…

I’ve always maintained that prenup agreements should be part of the marriage application process. What, you want to get married? File that prenup paperwork here first. Oh? Don’t have any. Too bad. Mind you, that would pretty much kill the Vegas wedding industry.

Thanks. I did know what the acronym was and the basics of the procedure (ie: where the eggs were fertalized). What I was unclear about was the viability of eggs vs sperm being frozen, as in general discussion of IVF both options are brought up as possible. Interesting to know eggs alone aren’t as survivable.

Though I’ve not had to face the issue directly, I decided for myself a long time ago that I would never choose to do IVF. The cost emotionally when it fails (given a 20-35% success rate would be a lot) would be too great.

Who are you to say who deserves children vs. who doesn’t based on their physical situation?