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So, babies. There's plenty of 'em around, and I'm sure everyone has seen at least one in their life. Some people think all babies are precious and the most adorable things ever to grace the planet, others think they look like a sack of potatoes wrapped in flesh and drizzled with saliva.

What's your opinion on (human) babies?

Fat and ugly....they look cute to women because its a natural defense.

comparison to animals

baby polar bears = cute
adult polar bears = not cute

baby wolf = cute
adult wolf = not cute

I find most of them look the same. Everyone gushes about how adorable they are--but if they're all "adorable" exactly what is the benchmark here? Are there hideous babies somewhere I haven't seen or heard about or what?

Not cute. With some babies I wonder if they kept the afterbirth and threw away the baby.

Okay, delicate topic....I'm not a fan of babies all around, but from time to time I see a baby or a toddler that is just so cute or well-behaved or, especially with toddlers, so well-mannered, that I just think "Huh, I hope my kids are like that". But other than those situations, I really don't care. Hate 'em when they're bitchy, though.

I find most of them look the same. Everyone gushes about how adorable they are--but if they're all "adorable" exactly what is the benchmark here? Are there hideous babies somewhere I haven't seen or heard about or what?

Check out the English babies....then take a look at the Chinese babies.

Chinese babies = cute
English babies = kinda.....eww?

I find most of them look the same. Everyone gushes about how adorable they are--but if they're all "adorable" exactly what is the benchmark here? Are there hideous babies somewhere I haven't seen or heard about or what?

Heh, who knows? To me all babies are somewhere between 'unnappealing' and 'grotesque'.

Heh, who knows? To me all babies are somewhere between 'unnappealing' and 'grotesque'.

^-^ You must be a man.

"A sack of potatoes wrapped in flesh and drizzled with saliva." And the little bastards never shut up. And apparently the universe has some sick, twisted law that whenever I go to see a film or hear a concert, theres some dumb bitch who brought her baby along for what I can only assume is sonic weaponary testing. And no matter how hard the little bas... tion of democracy screams, the mother will sit there obliviously, safe in the knowledge that her twisted, mutated offspring is God's gift to the humble peoples of this Earth, and its hellish screams are as sweet music to the wretched masses.

Thank you, anti-stem cell research groups.

comparison to animals

baby polar bears = cute
adult polar bears = not cute

baby wolf = cute
adult wolf = not cute

But they're both consistently awesome throughout their lives.

Now where's that thing....

http://mimi6cu.free.fr/divers%20et%20dr%F4le/incoming.jpg

Gotta go with not cute.

They look like fat, bald aliens.

http://www.hlj.me.uk/ns/8.jpg

isn't it obvious? :fluffle: :D

Ugliest things ever. I hate them, baby rats are cuter then human babies. I can't see how people think the are cute, those people must have some sort of disease that makes them think theyy are cute or something. And what Taldaan said.

I really don't get the "babies are cute" thing. I get quite the opposite. Their appearance is nothing special, and their (admittedly involuntary) behaviour is annoying. My biological clock is clearly broken and locked in a chest at the bottom of a bottomless ocean on a dead planet somewhere lost in a black hole. Or something.

http://www.hlj.me.uk/ns/8.jpg

isn't it obvious? :fluffle: :D

I counter with my pic two posts up, don't make me img tag it.

But they're both consistently awesome throughout their lives.

Now where's that thing....

http://mimi6cu.free.fr/divers%20et%20dr%F4le/incoming.jpg

Gotta go with not cute.

LOL AWESOME!

I really don't get the "babies are cute" thing. I get quite the opposite. Their apperance is nothing special, and their (admittedly involuntary) behaviour is annoying. My biological clock is clearly broken and locked in a chest at the bottom of a bottomless ocean on a dead planet somewhere lost in a black hole. Or something.

Are you a man also? I think if you are we have a new theory.

Men are immune to babies.
Women are suckers. :D

^-^ You must be a man.

Guess again. :D

http://mimi6cu.free.fr/divers%20et%20dr%F4le/incoming.jpg

lol! thats cute in a hilarious kinda way! :p

I can't see how people think the are cute, those people must have some sort of disease that makes them think theyy are cute or something.

Its called oestrogen.

babies get cuter after you have one of your own.

before i was a mom, they were not all that interesting to me. now i find them cute as all get-out. my neice is going to have a baby in september and im very excited about it.

Uglier than a disgruntled, naked mole rat.

http://www.hlj.me.uk/ns/8.jpg

isn't it obvious? :fluffle: :D
Alright, I'll see you that, and raise you this....
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b65/theatrefunk/Misc/scarybaby.jpg

-snip-

isn't it obvious? :fluffle: :D

*shudder* That baby creeps me out.

OK, pregnant lady here. Have to say, I think babies are so cute. The only pic I have of mine so far is at 6 weeks, 4 days, and it's a tiny white fuzzy blob with a heart beat in a big black bubble on a sonogram. But last weeks emergency sonogram (11 weeks, couldn't find a heartbeat with the doppler) and my hubby saw flailing arms and tiny legs!
Pregnancy is weird though, just the concept of it all...

They have to be cute, otherwise we'ld strangle them before they reached adulthood.

babies get cuter after you have one of your own.
I'll never have a baby, and if I did, i'd kill it.

Simonist']Alright, I'll see you that, and raise you this....
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b65/theatrefunk/Misc/scarybaby.jpg

Mine was better :P.

Are you a man also? I think if you are we have a new theory.

Men are immune to babies.
Women are suckers. :D

Guilty as charged - male (I think).

My girlfriend agrees, though. So at least we're well suited.

Are you a man also? I think if you are we have a new theory.

Men are immune to babies.
Women are suckers. :D

You'd be surprised by how many women don't like babies.

Don't make me post pictures of deformed, dead babies and aborted fetuses.

OK, pregnant lady here. Have to say, I think babies are so cute. The only pic I have of mine so far is at 6 weeks, 4 days, and it's a tiny white fuzzy blob with a heart beat in a big black bubble on a sonogram. But last weeks emergency sonogram (11 weeks, couldn't find a heartbeat with the doppler) and my hubby saw flailing arms and tiny legs!
Pregnancy is weird though, just the concept of it all...

Seee..... Moms love babies. Men hate them. XD

Ugliest things ever. I hate them, baby rats are cuter then human babies. I can't see how people think the are cute, those people must have some sort of disease that makes them think theyy are cute or something. And what Taldaan said.

You've obviously never seen baby rats then. Trust me, not cute

You've obviously never seen baby rats then. Trust me, not cute

Baby rats are cute. :P

Little furballs that squeak.

Mine was better :P.
I don't think I saw yours, sorry :( I just wanted to point out that it's not all "Awww" and "Precious!" with young drooly babies.

Maybe when you have a baby of your own, your body releases chemicals that tell you that they’re cute. Mostly I think that they’re disgusting. They smell funny, they’re bald, they drool all the time, they cry a lot, and they spend a lot of their time crapping themselves. Kittens and Puppies are cute, babies not so much. Could also be a deep seated fear of them representing the end of freedom as I know it…

newborns are too wrinkly and smushy, I didn't realize it when mine were newborns, but looking back now I am like "ewww".

once they get about 6 weeks old though they are all so cute......

(some of them though are only cute in the sense that you hope that their features even out as they grow)

Don't make me post pictures of deformed, dead babies and aborted fetuses.

Please don't - again, I have to flash my 'pregnant lady' card at you...

You've obviously never seen baby rats then. Trust me, not cute
Yes I have, they are very cute. Cuter whent hey are adults but still cuter than human offspring.

I really don't get the "babies are cute" thing. I get quite the opposite. Their appearance is nothing special, and their (admittedly involuntary) behaviour is annoying. My biological clock is clearly broken and locked in a chest at the bottom of a bottomless ocean on a dead planet somewhere lost in a black hole. Or something.
Hey, I think mine is right in that chest with yours.

And I'm female.

There goes your theory...

Seee..... Moms love babies. Men hate them. XD

Probably accurate. Despite being female, I have never considered babies as cute. Most of them actually scare me, with their deformed physique and their general eeriness. I'm sure however, if I became a mother (or broody?), they would all suddenly become absolutely adorable. I fear those times.

I'd go with the person who said it was maybe to stop babies being murdered before adulthood; mothers have to think babies are adorable, to not kill off their own. They're annoying enough with their crying and non-toilet-trainingness. Having them perceived ugly to boot, would just be having a laugh.

Baby rats are cute. :P

Little furballs that squeak.

Thay don't get their fur till they're about 10 dyas old, their eyes don't open till about 16 days old. They're about 1 inch long at birth, pink, wrinkly, with skin so thin, you can see their insides. Not attractive till they're three weeks old, and by them females are sexually mature and need to be separated from their brothers...!

Seee..... Moms love babies. Men hate them. XD

Depends on the man!

What's your opinion on (human) babies?
I helped raise two of them ( my children from my wife's first marriage were 2, 5, and 6 when we married, so I didn't get to see them as babies. :( ), we helped raise our first two grandchildren, and now have seven, so yes, I'm a bit familiar with babies.

IMHO, there's really something wrong with someone who has a problem with babies. That little person didn't ask to be here, and they need all the love and support we can provide for them. I love holding them, talking to them, playing with them, nuzzling them, teaching them to talk, teaching them to walk, and lots more.

The greatest feeling in the world is when a small child's eyes light up when you enter the room, and when you pick them up, they warp their arms around your neck and lay their head on your shoulder. Total trust. Total acceptance. Total love. :)

The greatest feeling in the world is when a small child's eyes light up when you enter the room, and when you pick them up, they warp their arms around your neck and lay their head on your shoulder. Total trust. Total acceptance. Total love. :)

Sounds grandparent-y, parents know them for the large pile of clothes ruined by spit-up

I'm the oldest of five at home, I remember three of them as babies. I was so close to the youngest, that she called me mammy until she was 18 months old. I was credited by an old woman on the street who told me that she was a credit to me, and I freaked out a (male - also 18 at the time) friend of mine one day when he realised he was walking and talking to an 18 year old girl with a toddler in a pram.

newborns are too wrinkly and smushy, I didn't realize it when mine were newborns, but looking back now I am like "ewww".

once they get about 6 weeks old though they are all so cute......

(some of them though are only cute in the sense that you hope that their features even out as they grow)

to prove my point, here (http://us.a1.yahoofs.com/users/42c45cb3z69f688ec/297a/__sr_/da80.jpg?phYgvMEBIVCoEOnY) is my oldest minutes after being born (you will have to excuse my appearance since I just got done with 65 hours of labor)

and here (http://us.a1.yahoofs.com/users/42c45cb3z69f688ec/297a/__sr_/ef5c.jpg?phYgvMEBSOc_rAVn) she is at 6 weeks old, see? much cuter.

Babies: generally cute. Big shiny eyes, high cheekbones, relatively cuddly. Women spend lots of money on makeup and surgeries to get big-looking eyes and high cheekbones. Having said that, there are some truly ugly babies out there. Still usually considered cute, if only because it's not considered exactly proper to be like, "That baby's hideous!"

Still are little bundles of Id, though. Can't wait to be dealing that.

Lol true. Babies in the womb don't look human at all....so why should they when they come out? :o

After a few weeks they are 'cute' I guess.

y'all are insane. babies are hilarious, especially once they get old enough to wreak destruction. and on that note, they must be cute, or their parents would strangle the lot of them for said destruction.

clearly, this logic is infallible.

Its not.

Though I don't think I should attempt to show you it. Also....if born in China as a girl....you might dissappear so they can have a boy. :eek:

No newborn is EVER cute - imagine what YOU'D look like if you were pushed through a hole not quite big enough for your head!

Im not a big fan of babies, I dont see why everyone loves them

I think I'm pretty happy with the fact that most of you hate babies. It means that you're less likely to have them, and thus less likely to spread your influence to future generations.

I love babies, and plan on having many of them.

they look cute to women because its a natural defense.Not to this woman. I don't find them cute in the least, and they all look pretty much the same to me.

I think I'm pretty happy with the fact that most of you hate babies. It means that you're less likely to have them, and thus less likely to spread your influence to future generations.

I love babies, and plan on having many of them.

With an attitude like that, I'd like to see you find a woman willing to carry your demon spawn for nine months

Most babies are cute. Some babies, particularly ones with birth defects, are homely, but not ugly. I really can't say that there is such a thing as an ugly baby. Ok, maybe I can. Babies born with anencephaly are ugly.

If you consider a small human being that's half-naked and wears a bag of its' own crap all day cute, then meh. But that's just rationializing it, babies are pretty cute, just don't think about it too much or it gets creepy...

I think I'm pretty happy with the fact that most of you hate babies. It means that you're less likely to have them, and thus less likely to spread your influence to future generations.

I love babies, and plan on having many of them.

I don't hate babies. I just think they're noisy, smelly, unnattractive and generally undesirable. I have nothing against other people having babies, or other people liking babies.

But you know, either way, still ends with me not having babies. I couldn't handle one, nor would I want to.

However, baby-dislikers not having babies won't make for less baby-dislikers in the next generation. Where the heck do you think we came from?

http://pics.livejournal.com/jaggedapple/pic/0001kfxp

I'mma go with cute D:. I nannied for this baby and he was just wonderful. He wasn't a bother at all. Of course, his 12-year-old brother was a handful, but eh, puberty. And tuberous sclerosis.

Most babies are cute. Some babies, particularly ones with birth defects, are homely, but not ugly. I really can't say that there is such a thing as an ugly baby. Ok, maybe I can. Babies born with anencephaly are ugly.

True unfortunately. Makes you WANT to stick your your prenatal regime of folic acid to prevent neural tube defects. Tragic - to have to give birth to a child with no brain function, unconscious and dead within hours is so heart wrenching

Neither.

Men are immune to babies.
Women are suckers. :D[/QUOTE]

I'm definitely female. I've had two kids. The results are: As adults they are so much better. My daughter, at birth, looked like Eleanor Roosevelt. My son, at birth, looked like Winston Churchill. They went at both ends and screamed. They practiced projectile vomiting until they perfected it. Babies, even your own, aren't cute.

I still love them, though.

The greatest feeling in the world is when a small child's eyes light up when you enter the room, and when you pick them up, they warp their arms around your neck and lay their head on your shoulder. Total trust. Total acceptance. Total love. :)
I think you might be reading to much into this, here. It isn't as if the small child has a whole lot of capacity not to trust you and accept you since you loom over it and could out-run it, grab it, and drop kick it a few yards with relative ease. More over, the "love" can be attributed to Stockholm Syndrome.

In case you haven't guessed, I hate babies. No, really, all babies suck until around age 6. A few of them become awesome at that point (though this is relegated to either the foul mouthed little bastard-sister of your best friend, or your own sister), but most continue to be horrible, malformed sacks of worthless skin until around 16 or 17 years.

In case you haven't guessed, I hate babies. No, really, all babies suck until around age 6. A few of them become awesome at that point (though this is relegated to either the foul mouthed little bastard-sister of your best friend, or your own sister), but most continue to be horrible, malformed sacks of worthless skin until around 16 or 17 years.

And some stay that way all their lives! Hoho.

absolutely ugly fresh out of the womb for a couple of days. Cute after the umbilical cord falls off completely.

I love babies, but couldn't eat a whole one.

You've obviously never seen baby rats then. Trust me, not cute
ewww ugly pink things that look like the kind of space aliens that pass on some horrible plague

they are not cute

but the worst are newly hatched birds. *shudder* they are SO ugly. the bigger the bird the more horribly ugly they are.

until they get first downy feathers, then they are extremely cute

I'll never have a baby, and if I did, i'd kill it.
nah you wouldnt. as soon as you picked it up and it looked at you with those sweet baby eyes you would fall in love with it and your life would never be your own again.

nah you wouldnt. as soon as you picked it up and it looked at you with those sweet baby eyes you would fall in love with it and your would never be your own again.

What if it couldn't open it's eyes yet?

I think I'm pretty happy with the fact that most of you hate babies. It means that you're less likely to have them, and thus less likely to spread your influence to future generations.

I love babies, and plan on having many of them.

Yeah, I suppose I do hate babies. Ugly, annoying, so on and so forth. I really want to eat one though. Just to see what they taste like. I bet it'd be bloody amazing, cooked properly.

But the thing is, while I plan on never having children, it is my intend to get in to some sort of job in which I yell and scream and lecture people for a living...maybe a college professor or somesuch. So I hoipe to have influence over many. While I don't think the subject of bbies will come up much in whatever profession I choose, I sincerely hope that I can convince another that they are little balls of fucking evil who need to be killed off.

nah you wouldnt. as soon as you picked it up and it looked at you with those sweet baby eyes you would fall in love with it and your life would never be your own again.

You would have been horrified if you had heard my hearty, sinister laughter a moment ago.

What if it couldn't open it's eyes yet?
Dude, it's a baby, not a puppy.

ewww ugly pink things that look like the kind of space aliens that pass on some horrible plague

they are not cute

but the worst are newly hatched birds. *shudder* they are SO ugly. the bigger the bird the more horribly ugly they are.

until they get first downy feathers, then they are extremely cute

Kiwi chicks are always adorable. They hatch fully-feathered and with eyes open.

Dude, it's a baby, not a puppy.

Eh, hard to tell the difference in the beginning >_>;;

What if it couldn't open it's eyes yet?
i once used that as an illconceived joke when coming upon the newborn baby of someone the husband worked with. it was in the shopping cart (i think) the way babies are, you know, put on that seat thing crosswise?

i looked at it and exclaimed about how its eyes had already opened.

the parents were NOT amused.

Why isn't "delicious" up there?

hehe, I'm just kidding.

But really though... why isn't it?

Are there hideous babies somewhere I haven't seen or heard about or what?
Yes, yes there are and I've seen some of them.

i hate babies.i don't see why people say they are so cute etc etc they all look teh same lol:headbang:

Some human babies are cute, and some are unspeakably ugly. Most are somewhere in the middle...not the cutest things ever, but not something you want hanging around and drooling on you. I hear that you generally love your own baby and think that he or she is the cutest thing ever, so...I guess I don't have to worry too much about that.

So, babies. There's plenty of 'em around, and I'm sure everyone has seen at least one in their life. Some people think all babies are precious and the most adorable things ever to grace the planet, others think they look like a sack of potatoes wrapped in flesh and drizzled with saliva.

What's your opinion on (human) babies?
Newborns? They're like insect larva with limbs and a nose.

http://www.hlj.me.uk/ns/8.jpg

isn't it obvious? :fluffle: :D

Looks like a tadpole under the microscope...

I've never seen a baby yet that I would call cute.
Yep, I'm a nasty person.

It really depends. Some of them are in fact quite cute (the well-behaved ones, that is ;)). Others are ugly as sin. Many more are somewhere between the two... While I'm not a parent, and thus biased against them until I become one (after which I'll become biased in their favour... seems as though there's no middle ground) I try to maintain an objective viewpoint rather than giving in to ingrained prejudices.

mine were. but even as a mother, i don't find all babies cute by default, nor do i fawn all over every one of them as if it were my own.

I don't think fat old men are cute. Babies are essentially miniature, fat old men. Therefore, I was forced to vote "Ugly."

Infant humans are disgusting, annoying, and plain ugly. The fewer of them we have, the better. And parents aren't much better either, fawning over every little thing their kids do or say and overprotecting and catering to their every whim, then complaining about how they rebel as teens. :rolleyes: :headbang:

Sometimes I wish humans reproduced asexually... just split into two already fully-grown humans. It would make life so much simpler. :p

Meh, babies are babies. They all look more or less the same to me. Cept the ugly ones.

The greatest feeling in the world is when a small child's eyes light up when you enter the room, and when you pick them up, they warp their arms around your neck and lay their head on your shoulder. Total trust. Total acceptance. Total love. :)
If you think about such a thing in connection with me, it gains a highly disturbing and slightly twisted connotation......

all of my three kids were exceptionally beautiful. Born with full heads of hair, good complexions and great looks. My kids even smelled good.

Everyone else's babies seem to be horrid blotchy,drooling big-heads, with visible blue veins.
Keep them away from me.

If you think about such a thing in connection with me, it gains a highly disturbing and slightly twisted connotation......

You're not the only one who noticed how an alternate meaning could be perceived.

Total trust. Total acceptance. Total love. Total perversion.

At birth, all babies are funky looking, except to their own parents, but I think that's a built-in parent hormones thing. After a few days, they turn a more normal color and shape, and some of them are cute, and some are ugly. My mom tells a story about a baby she saw where the mother was fishing for a compliemnt and she took one look at the baby and all she could think of was "Wow! Isn't he... you can really tell it's a boy!" Heh. But MY baby... well, judge for yourself? She's in preemie sized clothes here, and only a week or so old.

http://img449.imageshack.us/my.php?image=purpleonesiee3fx.jpg

At birth, all babies are funky looking, except to their own parents, but I think that's a built-in parent hormones thing. After a few days, they turn a more normal color and shape, and some of them are cute, and some are ugly. My mom tells a story about a baby she saw where the mother was fishing for a compliemnt and she took one look at the baby and all she could think of was "Wow! Isn't he... you can really tell it's a boy!" Heh. But MY baby... well, judge for yourself? She's in preemie sized clothes here, and only a week or so old.

http://img449.imageshack.us/my.php?image=purpleonesiee3fx.jpg


Ok,Ok-I'll make an exception- that is one pretty and peaceful baby.

Best wishes to you and baby.

Of course babies are cute - even the so-called "ugly" babies are cute in an ugly sort of way. How can anything with toes the size of peas not be at least somewhat cute? :p

You're not the only one who noticed how an alternate meaning could be perceived.

Total trust. Total acceptance. Total love. Total perversion.
You see my point. Gaining people's trust and friendship, sometimes even more, and then violently betraying it is one of my many not-quite-moral acts committed for no reason other than sheer spite and hate. If I didn't find babies so disgusting, I'd do it with them too, and with total trust... but that's getting into a realm this forum tends to ban... so, I'll stop now.

I have pedophobia, and that is the fear of children. I'm terrified of the demons. -_-

And yet some think they're cute?



Scenerio:
:gundge: <- *Me.*
:D -> "AWWWW LOOK A THE BABY SO CUTE ^^ ||||||||"

Wouldn't pedophobia be an irrational fear of feet? Or was it just a typo?[/spelling nazi]

At birth, all babies are funky looking, except to their own parents, but I think that's a built-in parent hormones thing. After a few days, they turn a more normal color and shape, and some of them are cute, and some are ugly. My mom tells a story about a baby she saw where the mother was fishing for a compliemnt and she took one look at the baby and all she could think of was "Wow! Isn't he... you can really tell it's a boy!" Heh. But MY baby... well, judge for yourself? She's in preemie sized clothes here, and only a week or so old.

http://img449.imageshack.us/my.php?image=purpleonesiee3fx.jpg

My opinion is that your baby (at that moment) is not ugly. I don't really find her cute, but she's not ugly.

Babies?

Food.

Yum.

Wouldn't pedophobia be an irrational fear of feet? Or was it just a typo?[/spelling nazi]
Exactly. Paedophobia is the irrational fear of children. :p

I think it depends. There are some babies who are really cute and when you look at them your immediate response is, "Awww" however, there are also babies who are really, really ugly and your immediate response is to either look away or gouge your eyes out. *May I suggest option number 1*