Oh for. . .your point is weak(to non-existent), your justifications flat out wrong, and you're incredibly disrespectful. You go away.

But, if continuances are granted for pretty much any reason(and I'd say a newborn is a pretty decent one), then why would she even think it would be necessary to change her schedule around? And I'd second my own complete unwillingness to hand a week old newborn to a stranger—even for a couple of hours. I wouldn't be…

Sure am glad I can't get into gaming. Sounds like a whole world of jerks I can do without. ((Yes, I'm sure there are plenty of nice people involved as well. Probably the majority. But at the same time, I play pretendy fun-times for . . .fun. Not harassment.))

As a woman who has been going through infertility and who would be happy with *any* baby, I'd kind of like to cry now. And even if I were surprised by my baby's ethnicity (wrong donor, whatever), I think I'd go through it quietly, maybe to my partner, best friends, etc, and then never ever say anything ever again. …

The Rick Scott dress didn't fit either. It was gappy and awkward.

I'm not up for quoting right now, but the thing which amused me most was the "breakfast" scene, in which everyone was stuffing their faces, THEN talking. I was reading it aloud to my mom, making sure I had a "full mouth" voice every time someone put something in their mouth, then talked. We were rolling!!

Why not Janelle Monae?

All the stars for this one. You might be my new hero!

I adore everything about this whole thread. May it never end!!

And, I can only imagine, to experience it, quite another.

I assumed you were a woman. Regardless, for all the reasons enumerated above, I *don't* like it. It's awkward and makes me wonder what I'm supposed to do with such random praise.

Do you enjoy such attention? I know I don't. Men aren't honestly that different from women.

You're right. Start right away *eyeroll*. Either that or learn to be socially appropriate. If you can't. . . I guess start seeing a professional, because just because you don't know how to start interactions appropriately doesn't mean we all just have to "learn to like" inappropriate ones.

Here's a quick litmus test that I use with small children (especially girls), but works fine with adult women too: Is the thing I'm about to compliment her on something which is within her control? If the answer is yes. . .(taste in music, nice shoes, clever t-shirt, great painting, etc), then compliment away. It…

In the US you get 6 weeks unpaid and that only if you happen to work full time for a company which qualifies.

That may be so in some arenas, but this was not a thread about anything you want to talk about. So you decided to turn it into one, rather than seeking out a thread which was already about something you wanted to talk about. Do you have any idea how annoying that is, time and time again? Especially when people come…

No idea, but you clearly have issues with them or you'd have stopped posting exactly the same thing on every thread.

*Reads back* You started that tangent because I was joking about how "selfishly" we women refused to stop menstruating and having babies. . .and then suddenly it had to be about men. And anger. And it just got funnier from there.

That's right, they're not. But you made them so. In literally every thread on this thing. Every one got turned into "Why it's terrible to be a man/get taxed/why child support is awful." All about men. Thanks for playing.

Indeed. My friend's ex has ten or twelve kids, two with her (hers are the oldest) and he's about $60K in arrears to her(no idea about the other moms). Every six months or so they haul him back into court, slap him on the wrist, give him "another chance," and send him home. Clearly, this is a terrible situation for…