Can we do some confessions/flamefuls?

[rbp]

May 28, 2015 17:42:33 GMT -5 darnkatz said:

My dad wouldn't let us watch Family Matters growing up because black people.

Thank god I found my way out of the racist hole I grew up in.

My mom wouldn't let me stay the night at a friend's house because her dad was black.

[bowies]

I'm dying to know if I'm a reasonable human being. I don't feel guilty for working but enjoy potty humor.

[gibbinator]

May 28, 2015 9:47:21 GMT -5 @natariru said:

Here's another one.

I HATE when people randomly speak to me in Spanish. Just cuz I look like I speak Spanish?! And it's never a non-English speaker who needs information or help (which I would never be bothered by, before people try to rip me a new one here).

Example: I'm working an exhibit today. Sale rep in booth next to me, wanders over and starts full blown conversation with me in Spanish. I look at him and go "I'm sorry, I don't speak Spanish" and he goes, "WHAT?! But you're Hispanic! Or at least you look Hispanic!" No dude.

Similarly, I HATE when a whole group of native French speakers switches to English the moment they hear my accent, despite being well aware that I'm fluent and understand their conversation. I am very aware my accent is terrible, but God it makes me self conscious and then I start losing my cool (and vocabulary). I don't even understand these people when they speak English half the time!

[niq]

May 28, 2015 17:13:16 GMT -5 chickens987 said:

I used to be afraid that I would be unmemorable. Then I started a thread that turned into 10 pages of pee and poop talk.

Mission accomplished.

Well your pictures & videos on FB are cute and memorable even before that

[gibbinator]

May 28, 2015 14:05:52 GMT -5 niq said:

I don't get why people avoid saying the word "died". I really dislike "passed", it feels like a euphemism.

This thread shall never die.

I feel like I'm constantly telling people I'm going to kill my child at naptime

"I've got to go put the baby to sleep" "I'm going to put the baby down"

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I can't respect being pro-life. I have friends that are pro-life that I respect as people in general but I can't respect that belief.

Not wanting an abortion yourself is fine. Wanting to make them illegal or generally inaccessible for everyone is absolutely dead wrong, no matter your stance on birth control, sex education, etc.

[holly116]

When my hair is long and curly, I get compared to Darlene from Roseanne and I hate it.

[ny96]

I know I'm late to the party, but I love when the grandparents come to town and watch J. We often don't even go on dates, but instead go off for the afternoon to shop, look at real estate, drink at establishments that won't let us in with a kid, etc. There is no right way to use a babysitting opportunity.

[niq]

Well, now this thread will really never die move on from this world.

[cjeanette]

May 28, 2015 18:35:01 GMT -5 page said:

I can't respect being pro-life. I have friends that are pro-life that I respect as people in general but I can't respect that belief.

Not wanting an abortion yourself is fine. Wanting to make them illegal or generally inaccessible for everyone is absolutely dead wrong, no matter your stance on birth control, sex education, etc.

Preach it.

My H let it slip once that his SIL votes pro-life like their mom.  It sucks because her and I have so much in common and this one this flashes in my head pretty much every time I see her.

[cjeanette]

May 28, 2015 18:52:47 GMT -5 @this said:

Ah and I see we've moved on to abortion.

Team page FTR.

I'll bet Roseanne Conner was pro-choice.

[sh10]

May 28, 2015 18:22:24 GMT -5 name said:

I guess this is the thread to admit that neither of my kids ever had a pouch. Not based on any vegetable (lol) objection, I just never bought one. Maybe that'll move me from unremarkable to the not-like-me column on the spreadsheet?

DS has had a few but I'm usually too cheap to buy them. He does eat about $5 worth of fruit in one sitting but apparently I'm okay with that.

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h you got it. The idea that an embryo or a fetus is a human being with full human rights equivalent to those of a pregnant woman is wrong, ludicrous, and incredibly, incredibly dangerous. It is not just ill-conceived, I think it is distinctly harmful. It forces an actual person to give up her fundamental rights in favor of a potential person.

I realize that where life begins is a gray area for a lot of people, but at the very minimum I think a first trimester embryo/fetus is demonstrably not a human life and to insist that it is is incredibly dangerous for women and society. (And for the record I am in favor of abortion past the first trimester but it's the most relevant one to discuss.)

I respect pro life friends but the belief that abortion is murder is wrong and harmful. I do not respect pro life beliefs.

ETA and FWIW one of my best friends is a strongly pro-life evangelical Christian who genuinely believes abortion is murder and who has adopted a child from an unwanted pregnancy. She is a great person and I love her and I respect her tremendously. But I can't respect her belief. 

ETA 2 and I also try to dissuade her from voting. Lol.

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When abortion and gay marriage come up, it always makes me lose a little respect for the US in general. How can a country with cutting edge research, top scientists and artists etc also be a country still talking about these issues?
I think the pM Of Canada brought up abortion once and it was not viewed well by the majority. It was almost like people thought 'that's old news - why are you bringing that up?' And then we talked about some other stupid thing.
And I understand the US is vast and encompasses small towns and big cities and morons and smart people but so does Canada.