Having babies

[Puffin]

Maybe I ought to use more Smilies in my messages so people could gather the tone of writing.
Otherwise I am going to have to be constantly apologising for being devil's advocate, painting a different picture, telling the other side of the story...

[wannaduacentury]

Hi Emily, I guess as far as having kids, make sure both of you are ready, if one of you is not, or both, then postpone for awhile. If the bio clock is ticking, well you may have to make a quicker choice, but if you do decide to have kids, make sure it what you both want so the child can have the best possible life. Your ? reminds of an American show called Frasier where Niles wants to be a dad and carries around this 5 lbs flour sack in a cuddly and pretends it's a baby, including falling into a tub of water, drying by the fireplace to catch on fire, then Eddy the jack russell destroys it. A good lesson I say. I also watch a lot of BBC shows(many on dvd) and some of the language quirks I miss and some I have to listen carefully to get their meaning. I guess you really do get into a culture if you stay for awhile. Jennifer

[paigette]

Well, on another board that, if I type something that I think people will see as mean, I generally put ((SARCASM)) after it. Just helps in others translation & takes 2 seconds to do.

[Puffin]

I LOVE Frazier!
When we went to Seattle last year, I looked everywhere for some Frazier parphenalia (spelling?) but couldn't find anything.

[Dianyla]

I have no opinion on the offensiveness of the term chav, but I still think it's at least a wee bit arrogant to want children for the purpose of outnumbering another group of people.

It doesn't matter whether "those other people" are different based on socioeconomic class, religion, ethnicity, or perceived intelligence. No matter how you slice or dice it, that statement means that you think your kind of people are better than those kind of people, therefore more of you ought to exist than more of them.

Just my $0.02.

[Puffin]

Woah there! I never said I wanted to have babies to outnumber another type of person/class, etc. I have TOTALLY been misinterpreted. It was a tongue in cheek comment about having children to populate the world with more people like me & my husband...Survival of the fittest - HELLO? Anyone heard of the Devil's Advocate?
If you read the previous post it was also tongue in cheek about not wanting babies to turn out as a combination of their particular genes. No one is saying that they are better than anyone else
Besides, the CHAV reference is also being completely misconstrued. It's not about a PEOPLE, its about a behaviour, which I happen to have an opinion on.
JEEZ

[Dianyla]

I know that you were joking. My point is that I still think the remark is offensive, sarcasm or not.

[paigette]

HELLO? Anyone heard of the Devil's Advocate?

You do realize that Devil's Advocate means a person who takes the worse side of an argument just for the sake of arguing....right?

Sarcasm is one thing, creating discourse just for the heck of it, is another.

[Puffin]

I give up.
Thanks to all who did offer some kind advice earlier.
I have been bullied off the page.