GIJoel's Rowdy Rants (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gijoel666) wrote,@ 2008-10-15 08:38:00 |
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Cheaper by the dozen (condoms, not kids!)
http://www.parentdish.com/2008/10/13/ec
"People are losing their retirement savings, their jobs, their homes, their sense of security. Many of us have altered our normal spending habits and instead of going out to dinner or a movie, we stay home and find something else to do. Apparently in Britain, that 'something else' is sex. And according to some, this at-home recreation is having an impact on the sales [of] maternity clothes, pregnancy tests, and sex toys (not necessarily in that order)."
Paul Rodriguez, in a 1998 cable special "Idiots and Armadillos" (before we'd even seen the tip of the iceberg, let alone the completeness, of George W. Bush's idiocy!), did a riff that eventually led to a line like "fucking idiots, they're the worst kind..." '...they'll just make more idiots.' What galls me most about this story is AOL's welcome page headline linking to the "article": "Odd Upside to the Economic Crisis". More babies is NOT an UPside in this situation, and the sad thing is, it's really not "odd" at all, it's rather predictable. The last people on earth whom society can afford to have procreating are the ones that can't figure out that if they can't afford dinner out and/or a movie, they sure as hell can't afford to raise a child, yet they're always the ones that will do so regardless. And the box of condoms is still cheaper than the box of popcorn.
I know, I'm just a mean sonuvabitch if I can't tolerate babies. Well, my only answer to that (after "tough noogies, bugger off") is CONTEXT! -- every thing and idea has its place and/or time.
[And hey, Spellcheck did not flag sonuvabitch!]
http://www.parentdish.com/2008/10/13/ec
"People are losing their retirement savings, their jobs, their homes, their sense of security. Many of us have altered our normal spending habits and instead of going out to dinner or a movie, we stay home and find something else to do. Apparently in Britain, that 'something else' is sex. And according to some, this at-home recreation is having an impact on the sales [of] maternity clothes, pregnancy tests, and sex toys (not necessarily in that order)."
Paul Rodriguez, in a 1998 cable special "Idiots and Armadillos" (before we'd even seen the tip of the iceberg, let alone the completeness, of George W. Bush's idiocy!), did a riff that eventually led to a line like "fucking idiots, they're the worst kind..." '...they'll just make more idiots.' What galls me most about this story is AOL's welcome page headline linking to the "article": "Odd Upside to the Economic Crisis". More babies is NOT an UPside in this situation, and the sad thing is, it's really not "odd" at all, it's rather predictable. The last people on earth whom society can afford to have procreating are the ones that can't figure out that if they can't afford dinner out and/or a movie, they sure as hell can't afford to raise a child, yet they're always the ones that will do so regardless. And the box of condoms is still cheaper than the box of popcorn.
I know, I'm just a mean sonuvabitch if I can't tolerate babies. Well, my only answer to that (after "tough noogies, bugger off") is CONTEXT! -- every thing and idea has its place and/or time.
[And hey, Spellcheck did not flag sonuvabitch!]
