Stupid things people have actually said to you.

[Sideshow Bob]

This sort of thing makes you question gun restriction laws.

After paying at another till, I walked out the shop thinking, .....Is it me ?? and shaking my head......The guy was still talking to the Cashier.....
Then thought...Shit, I'm turning into my Dad........before I know it I'll be saying things like....
" In my day..." and....
"When I was growing up we didn't have......" and,
" I remember when this was all fields...."
What a depressing day...I mean it isn't as if it's a difficult 'concept' to grasp......Everything is £1...Is it ??

[The Doctor Alt 8]

Think about it.
That person is allowed to VOTE...


That person is allowed to DRINK


That person is allowed to.... BREED

[Sideshow Bob]

Yes, I know.....

Makes you wonder about 'Natural selection'..........

[Jim_Campbell]

Makes you wonder about 'Natural selection'

Well, we're not allowed to leave 'em on a hillside and let wolves* thin the herd any more, are we?

Cheers!

Jim

*Plus, y'know, no wolves. And all the foxes are in the cities. And the Govt wants to shoot all the badgers. Can't imagine there's that much of an overnight threat from slugs.

[TordelBack]

When you look at the mess the highly-educated politically-engaged folk who have never darkened the door of a pound shop are capable of, even enthusiastic about, making, I wouldn't worry too much about the arithmetically challenged.

[JamesC]

I read a report somewhere (may be on the BBC website but i can't find it) about the population growth in different areas of the country.
It's pretty cut and dried that the more deprived areas have a higher rate of growth than more affluent areas.
I guess it's because the more upwardly mobile you are, the more likely you are to put off having kids until your thirties or so. Meanwhile, your contemporaries who became parents shortly after or even before leaving school are potentially entering Grand-parenthood!

Not sure what that has to do with pound shops, but the conversation got me on a train of thought.   

[TordelBack]

Do you really want a program of sterilisation? Take control of the population BOOM.

Aside from the push and pull  factors behind increased rates of reproduction (lack of other opportunities for developing self worth, the difficulty of being unable to return to work with one child so why not have more, insurance for your old age, lack of relevant education), there's an argument that differential growth in affluent/poorer populations is essential to prevent societal stagnation - if only-child Fiachra Blennerhasset-O'Toole MBA FRSCA has everything he could ever need in terms of short-term access and future inheritance, where's the incentive to change or grow or reach out beyond the cosy nursery? (Anecdotal evidence gathered in pubs and on public transport suggests: none) 

In the cruel realities of the numbers game, I'd prefer to see what little population growth there is take place in those areas of society with a pressing need to strive and innovate, as well as a better sense of the benefits of a supportive community structure.  Or something.

On another note, I'd love more kids me (great heaving piles of 'em), but I can barely feed the two I have, and nor can the world.  Apart from the various emotional horrors I've visited on a handful of women, my main regret in life is that I didn't start breeding earlier.  Big families seem great - while I have a fine brace of brothers I grew up with no cousins, and my own kids' only living cousins are in Australia, and boy do I feel the absence.

[Emp]

Sterilisation is not all bad...to be fair if there was an IQ test for wannabe parents there would be a lot less cretins in the world and it might stop people choosing benefit sponge as a career choice 

[Rog69]

I love her to bits but my 80 year old mother is a professional worrier, she still has all her marbles and is pretty sharp but its getting to the point where I feel as though I am walking on egg shells whenever I have a conversation with her, she will jump on any small detail to use as worry porn.

I'm usually pretty good at biting my tongue but I had to call her out today after her latest revelation, she was asking about the colour of the new car I'm getting soon, I told her its a dark metallic grey. She has asked if I can change the colour because its the same colour as a road so other drivers won't be able to see me  .

[The Doctor Alt 8]

Do you really want a program of sterilisation? Take control of the population BOOM.

Aside from the push and pull  factors behind increased rates of reproduction (lack of other opportunities for developing self worth, the difficulty of being unable to return to work with one child so why not have more, insurance for your old age, lack of relevant education), there's an argument that differential growth in affluent/poorer populations is essential to prevent societal stagnation - if only-child Fiachra Blennerhasset-O'Toole MBA FRSCA has everything he could ever need in terms of short-term access and future inheritance, where's the incentive to change or grow or reach out beyond the cosy nursery? (Anecdotal evidence gathered in pubs and on public transport suggests: none) 

In the cruel realities of the numbers game, I'd prefer to see what little population growth there is take place in those areas of society with a pressing need to strive and innovate, as well as a better sense of the benefits of a supportive community structure.  Or something.

On another note, I'd love more kids me (great heaving piles of 'em), but I can barely feed the two I have, and nor can the world.  Apart from the various emotional horrors I've visited on a handful of women, my main regret in life is that I didn't start breeding earlier.  Big families seem great - while I have a fine brace of brothers I grew up with no cousins, and my own kids' only living cousins are in Australia, and boy do I feel the absence.

Although sometimes they take care of it themselves...

http://themuseumofincompetance.yuku.com/topic/766/Suddenly-VACectomy

[Dandontdare]

not actually said to me, but as we don't have a thread for general boneheadedness - how about pork laced bullets to not only kill moslems, but send them to hell. FFS 

http://www.complex.com/city-guide/2013/06/pork-laced-bullets

[Frank]

not actually said to me, but as we don't have a thread for general boneheadedness - how about pork laced bullets to not only kill moslems, but send them to hell. FFS 

http://www.complex.com/city-guide/2013/06/pork-laced-bullets

Fail! Unless their targets are eating those cross-cut 9mm rounds they're not going to hell. All those high capacity magazines full of the armour piercing rounds American hunters assure us they need to give them the stopping power to murder ducks are really going to stink in hot weather if they're full of ham.

[Theblazeuk]

That is officially the most depressing thing I've seen this week.

[TordelBack]

That is officially the most depressing thing I've seen this week.

Not me.  I read this.  Makes me want to thump people, some of them policemen.

[SuperSurfer]

Not me.  I read this.

Depressing reading.