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Do you like kids? Because after spending the weekend at my parents house and being around my step-brother's two kids, I have come to realise that I hate kids. I always knew I wasnt a big fan of them, but this weekend put my over the edge.
So whats your opinion of the little buggers.

Yes, I do like kids. But I'm pretty sure I'd make an awful father, so I never intend to raise any.

yes yes i do

but you have to deal with them on their own terms. if you expect behavior out of them that they are never going to provide, youre screwed.

Yes, I do like kids. But I'm pretty sure I'd make an awful father, so I never intend to raise any.

Why you do think you would make a bad father?

Why you do think you would make a bad father?

Because I'm lazy. That's the most basic reason. :)

I rather enjoy mine with garlic and pepper in a mushroom sauced casserole.

I generally dont like children, but they seem oddly drawn to me at family functions and volunteer work. I dont really connect well with anyone that I cant have a real conversation with.

I rather enjoy mine with garlic and pepper in a mushroom casserole.

Rarely done with just a little salt and a good red wine with sprouts and creamy mashed potato on the side.

It's too tender to casserole really well.

Don't like them. Too loud, too hyperactive.

define "kids"

define "kids"

anyone under 10 or 11.

Rarely done with just a little salt and a good red wine with sprouts and creamy mashed potato on the side.

It's too tender to casserole really well.

Tender yes. One could simply add childmeat with some sauce over elbow pasta and bake it in the oven. And enjoy with some Australian white wine.

Kids are good I think you have to be a kid deep down to have any real fun looking after them though

Plus you can dress like a pirate and not be considered a drunk!

There are a few kids that I can tolerate (when I happen to be in a good mood) but mostly I hate them. I have no wish to ever have children. Looking after one for a day is bad enough, I never want to be responsible for one for 16+ years.

I dont particularly like kids, but I am sure that I will like mine some day.

anyone under 10 or 11.

then i hate 'em.

Tender yes. One could simply add childmeat with some sauce over elbow pasta and bake it in the oven. And enjoy with some Australian white wine.

Wouldn't kids be red meat? and therefore call for red wine?

Wouldn't kids be red meat? and therefore call for red wine?

As one can see. New Xero Seven is not a wine connoisseur. :)

i like kids. i like how uncomplicated they are and how they can have fun just running around and yelling without anyone thinking they're strange. the only thing i find particularly annoying about kids is their lack of attention span.

Tender yes. One could simply add childmeat with some sauce over elbow pasta and bake it in the oven. And enjoy with some Australian white wine.

For some reason I am now hungry:p

Yes, I do like kids. But I'm pretty sure I'd make an awful father, so I never intend to raise any.

I'm pretty sure I'd be a great father and that's why I intend to adopt.

The world needs more sane parents, not less.

Depends on the kid.

I'm pretty sure I'd be a great father and that's why I intend to adopt.

The world needs more sane parents, not less.

Fewer, Fewer, Fewer.

Learn English, fass, or post in a Swedish forum, or whatever.

:rolleyes:

To wit, from the UK guardian

Further, this is a subject over which it would be very hard to lose friends. You could irritate friends with pedantry, but I cannot conceive of a situation in which you would come to blows. (Actually, I can, but it's pretty unusual - I have a friend who is obsessive about the less/fewer rule and regularly corrects people in conversation, which sooner or later resulted in someone calling him a grammar Nazi. He replied "Less Judaism; fewer Jews". He was just trying to conceive of the grammatical application of Nazism. His opponent mistook him for a smart-arsed antisemite.)

Zoe Williams
Tuesday April 27, 2004
The Guardian

Fewer, Fewer, Fewer.

Learn English, fass, or post in a Swedish forum, or whatever.

:rolleyes:

Oh, hush your pretty face. "Less" is perfectly acceptable this side of the 50s, so get with the programme, old-timer.

I would like to like kids! I like to pretend I like em'! I tell myself over and over again that I like em' because I'm hoping that enough constant, persistent, repetitious bullshit will make it so!!!

I do indeed like kids, and, fortunately, the feeling is generally mutual.

Oh, hush your pretty face. "Less" is perfectly acceptable this side of the 50s, so get with the programme, old-timer.

Not unless you vant to go to ze grammarkamp, ja voll.

Achtung.

Less is never acceptable in place of fewer, and 'was' is not acceptable in place of 'were' in subjunctive constructions.

It really depends. Generally I don't like kids all that much. The kids I would enjoy having around would be those who are either very open to learning and are curious about the world around them or kids who just want to play and have fun, basically the ones who are innocent at heart. The problem is that most kids I've seen always have this obnoxious side to them that when they are angry or just bored they seem to have this need to annoy the hell out of everyone just for amusement. An example is my neighbor across the street who would water balloon my house and then run back to his mommy and do this almost everyday for the whole summer.

Do you like kids? Because after spending the weekend at my parents house and being around my step-brother's two kids, I have come to realise that I hate kids. I always knew I wasnt a big fan of them, but this weekend put my over the edge.
So whats your opinion of the little buggers.

I love kids. I want to have kids. I especially want a daughter, because sons are overrated.

It really depends. Generally I don't like kids all that much. The kids I would enjoy having around would be those who are either very open to learning and are curious about the world around them or kids who just want to play and have fun, basically the ones who are innocent at heart. The problem is that most kids I've seen always have this obnoxious side to them that when they are angry or just bored they seem to have this need to annoy the hell out of everyone just for amusement. An example is my neighbor across the street who would water balloon my house and then run back to his mommy and do this almost everyday for the whole summer.

*hands MrWho a pellet gun, winks, smiles, does an about face, and walks out the door*

*hands MrWho a pellet gun, winks, smiles, does an about face, and walks out the door*

Dont need one, at the end of the summer vacation I was so sick of that kid that when that kid came by to waterballoon my house, I gave my little brothers my mom's purse and they beat the crap out of him with it then they and all the other neighborhood kids who hated him locked him in the portapotty for an hour, he never came back again. In fact he doesnt even cross the street by our house :D

Not unless you vant to go to ze grammarkamp, ja voll.

Achtung.

Less is never acceptable in place of fewer, and 'was' is not acceptable in place of 'were' in subjunctive constructions.

You be trippin', geezer, even if the situation were such that I didn't use the subjunctive as a conditional.

It really depends. Generally I don't like kids all that much. The kids I would enjoy having around would be those who are either very open to learning and are curious about the world around them or kids who just want to play and have fun, basically the ones who are innocent at heart. The problem is that most kids I've seen always have this obnoxious side to them that when they are angry or just bored they seem to have this need to annoy the hell out of everyone just for amusement. An example is my neighbor across the street who would water balloon my house and then run back to his mommy and do this almost everyday for the whole summer.

This is what supersoakers were MADE for.

I like kids, but I'd never want to have one.

This is what supersoakers were MADE for.

Hehehe, that reminds me of the two years I lived in California, which was the only time we ever lived in a typical residential area of a city(that is, extremely close houses with nigh no lawn and whatnot.) There were these kids who would constantly waterballoon the house day in and day out all summer long, and finally I busted out the single largest super-soaker ever built on them when they came around to waterballoon again.

I will forever remember the screams of panic, the shriek of the dying, MY MANIACLE LAUGHTER ECHOING THROUGH THE HEAVENS! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

...

Excuse me. I seem to have gone overboard again.

This is what supersoakers were MADE for.

My brothers already tried that, the kid only got madder and tried to run our dog over with his bike.

I didn't like kids...when babies were around I never wanted to hold them. I tolerated my many younger cousins, but I didn't LIKE them.

But then I had kids, and my perspective changed. Not just about kids, but about life in general. They teach you things that are pretty fantastic. The joy you can have in devoting the bulk of your time to someone else...it is tiring, and sometimes you really want a break, but you start wondering what you ever did before and why you bothered. Then they ask you questions that force you to really think about the topic so you can break it down in a way that makes sense to a child...and sometimes they just shock you with what they don't take for granted.

It took a while for me to like kids other than my own...but it happened, almost against my will.

So do I like kids? Yes...in a lot of ways, much more than I like adults.

My intense, seething hatred for children is exceeded only by my hatred for their parents who insist on bringing them near me at all times.
However, I understand that sometimes getting a babysitter is impossible and that, either way, children need to be socialized and exposed to others in order to develop social skills and immune systems, so I propose an alternate plan to the mass-executions that the lump of coal resting in my chest demands:
Kindertration Kamps.
It is really quite a brilliant plan: at birth babies could be whisked away to large, out of the way living areas. There they could learn the value of hard-work and making an honest living through sweatshop labor (bringing some of those lucrative textile jobs back from overseas in the process), until they begin puberty, at which point they can be returned to their parents. Hopefully, they will by now have achieved a delightfully polite and waifish countenance as is befitting the protagonist of a 19th Century novel, or one of its later stage adaptions, though their is a slight chance that they may also develop a tendency to break out into song. I understand that this can be beaten out of them in time, though, and shouldn't serve to dissuade any one of my plan.

Rarely done with just a little salt and a good red wine with sprouts and creamy mashed potato on the side.

It's too tender to casserole really well.

I, personally, prefer the enfant tartare.

On a more serious note, I can't stand kids (Kids being defined as around 0-12).
For most of this period, it's not their fault.

During infancy, I just find them gross. Learn to use the fucking toilet!!!
From toddlerhood 'til their about 8ish, I can't stand their personalities. It's really not their fault, it's just that they are not mentally developed. Or maybe they're just selfish little bastards.
And then they're fine until they go to middle school. Everyone hates middle schoolers. Then, bam, they're teens!

to hang out with kids you have to understand them, sadly most people don't.

I like kids, most of the time, when I find kids I don't like it's because they have one of those personalities that annoys me and if they were an adult with the same personality they would annoy me the same way (make sense?)

...Then, bam, they're teens!

Which can be far worse in many respects. *shudders*

It depends on the kid, but usually I don't like 'em.

Which can be far worse in many respects. *shudders*

*takes offence*

Do you like kids? Because after spending the weekend at my parents house and being around my step-brother's two kids, I have come to realise that I hate kids. I always knew I wasnt a big fan of them, but this weekend put my over the edge.
So whats your opinion of the little buggers.

Weekend? Two? Is that all?

Try competing with 5 or 6 of them at a time (each rotated out and replaced with a fresh snot-nosed brat every few years), in your own home, since the first day you could hold a remotely conscious thought, until the day you go to college, because a parent chose daycare as a full time job.

Not "a big fan of them?" My opinion can not be expressed in words.

Kids are okay (I have...many... younger siblings), but if I ever had any I would train them in meditation and the fine art of STFU. :D

I picked 'other' because I like kids when they are sweet and nice but I don't like them when they are mean and selfish. And I actually prefer chaotic kids to lil' miss perfect tattle tales.

Kids are great when you flame-broil them to perfection.

I hope all my children are gamers like me. That way they'll never expect me to do anything physical or go out some place with them... outside of camping at a store for a new console or going to a gaming convention. But if they ever beat me in a game they're gonna get pwnt in RL lol.

I hope all my children are gamers like me. That way they'll never expect me to do anything physical or go out some place with them... outside of camping at a store for a new console or going to a gaming convention. But if they ever beat me in a game they're gonna get pwnt in RL lol.

You are aware that gamer is just a term that nerds use who don't want to use the term nerd? :p

As the father of two wonderful daughters and one incredible son, I'm going to say I like children.

I dont hate all children, just annoying little bastards who run around screaming and just making a lot of noise.

Once there were these two moronic brothers swinging around the poles while in the Subway!!! During Peak Hour and they keep fighting.....i so want to kill those brats