You are caught in the woke conundrum of being for equal rights for women yet not wanting to offend a muslim so you end up confirming yourself as a total fucking idiot

Agreed. I’ve lived in California most of my life and have moved all over. I’ve not once been able to find a non-HOA home that wasn’t A: a shit hole, B: in the ghetto or C: anywhere that wouldn’t give me a 1.25 hour commute. Just not easy to find in some places.

They slow down older models based on the identifier number, they all do it.

Planned obsolescence? I’m half-joking.

Please Don’t pander to me, seriously. It’s insulting to me and every reader here who knows better You tried to put one over on us twice and you’re still doing it, still brutalizing the English language to leave “from Russia” in there when it has no fucking business being in there.

Really FTA, WTF? I see no correction because it still says FROM Russia.

I'm sorry but the last story sounds like the very definition of crazy. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I bet both her and her husband have large stable families and have the support to change their lives but refuse to do so and continue to make stupid decisions. I know many…

I don't understand the hate your comments (and others like it) are getting. Why can't we blame the parents for shitty choices and, frankly, giving their already existing kids more miserable lives than they already had? Why is it up to the employers to make sure a family can support 7 kids, they don't have to care…

You do realize that their quality of life would have been ten times better with only two kids, right?

It reads to me like a pair of adults who are forcing upon themselves and their family all of the so-called "standard" life choices they feel obligated make (buy a house, have lots of kids) despite the obvious reality that their life simply doesn't support that.

Yeah I have to jump on that bandwagon. It sucks that happened but why so many kids? A room for every kid? Eventually you need to look at your lifestyle and see if you can afford it.

So having 8 children is a privilege for the wealthy. How long should he have stayed in a job before having his 8th kid? is 18 months long enough? 2 years? At what point as he had a job long enough to earn your permission to have a family 8 times over?

lmao what? This is 2015 not 1800. We barely have jobs for the adults as it is, the planet is already a wreck from the billions of people on it. They don't need 5+ kids, they just don't.

We don't need more and more people, we don't need to procreate more, we're beyond the point of needing to spread our species around…

Methinks you don't understand the following terms: horrible person, tough, decency.

The only victims are the children. No one is blaming the children.

Bitch, please. It's called personal responsibility, and you can't buy it at Walmart.

I felt the exact same way by the end of the story. When she then adds "and I was seven months pregnant" I about fell out of my chair. I don't think it is illegal to think that both the companies that hired/fired the guy *and* their choices sucked.

Don't wait too long.
See: Opening credits of Idiocracy

Congrats on being able to afford 4 kids. The people in the story obviously had trouble affording 4, so maybe they shouldn't have went and had a fifth.

A year and a half later, we were told he would be laid off in two months. I was seven months pregnant. Our insurance would end two weeks before the baby was due.