Get a Goddamn Bluetooth

OK, people, we’re going to keep this simple.  When you have a phone in your hand, you drive like a fucking moron.  I know you think you’re a master multitask-er in the car, but you aren’t.  If you weren’t a good driver in the first place, you are now 100 times worse.  This is in no way debatable.

A bluetooth is not super advanced technology anymore.  I’ll tell you what is high technology – the medical equipment required to repair your internal organs from the multiple stab wounds you’ll receive after cutting me off while driving 20 miles an hour below the clearly posted speed limit while carrying on a conversation about your cat.  The added bonus?  $30 to $100 for an earpiece is far less than the copay on that ER visit.

 

This is a beautiful device, and will save your life either from an accident, or my wrath.

Are you one of those 50+ year old individuals that feels like you can’t keep up with technology, so you feel like you can cherry-pick what technology you want to use (cell phones) and not bother with the technology that seems like too much work (using a hands free device) while driving?  Tough shit.  On a touchscreen phone you can sync a bluetooth for the first time in fewer screen taps than it takes to dial a number you don’t have programmed into your phone.  Get a fucking bluetooth or don’t talk while you drive!  That’s not asking a lot!

Are you 65+?  Well, then I have a whole separate question for you.  Why do you insist on driving during rush hour?  You’re retired!  You can drive below the speed limit erratically whenever the hell you want!  There are only TWO times a day when you shouldn’t be doing that, and it’ll make for a nicer drive for you, anyway!  Why are you even awake during morning rush hour!?

Old lady, let’s not pretend you need that gun in the car to make you dangerous behind the wheel.

Anyway, back on track, you need a bluetooth.  Gone are the days where you’ll look like your meds just ran out when you’re talking in a direction that no people exist, but you still get all the benefits of being able to screw with people and make them think you’re talking to them when you really aren’t.  It’s all up to you and the direction you face!  Hell, multitask conversations instead of driving and conversing.  I can think of plenty of times I’ve wanted to tell two people at the same time that they’re retarded, all with the extra benefit of looking like some big shot that can’t be bothered to hold a phone up to my head.

 This man either just got finished closing an important deal, or just got news that he received a Wall Street bailout.  Industry sustaining go getter or giant flaming douche-bag, at least he’s definitely a big deal.

These days they’re more comfortable, have better sound quality, are easier to pair to your phone, and have extra features.  You can still talk on them and transfer your contacts and stolen MP3s to other people through them, but now they have voice to text abilities, noise cancellation, extended battery life, etc….  Plus, they’ll stop you from getting a ticket in one of those awful states with all the laws.  

For the record, the fact that WI has a law that you have to ride in a car seat until you’re 25 and 200lbs and no hands free law is kind of stupid.  I guess we have more car seat manufacturing plants than bluetooth factories in this state.

Kohl’s Department Store vs Math

Ah, Kohl’s Department store. You are one of the only department stores in the country that has managed to grow and prosper even through the darkest of this recession. How do you do it?

Is it your friendly staff and customer service?

No, you will never find someone on the floor past the cash register, and the people that are at the register are required to jabber on about Kohl’s cards and cash and savings, yadda yadda yadda, for all eternity.  It is impossible to leave that store without Kohl’s letting you know what a favor they’re doing you by letting you shop there.

Is it about the wonderful brands you carry?

No, no one shops at Kohl’s to look great. You shop at Kohl’s to not look bad. Have you ever said to someone “wow, nice shirt. Did you get that at Kohl’s?” Nope, that’s not a thing. Kohl’s is pretty much Goodwill with a bigger selection, and some of their clothes don’t smell like the previous owner.

Kohl’s has been so successful for the simple reason that they have managed to capitalize on our country’s greatest weakness. Math. They then take that weakness and exploit it using watered down discounts and coupons. Floor sales, mailer coupons/discounts, charge cards discounts, special sale day discounts, scratch off discounts, and more all look deceivingly good.

For example –

Everyone that has ever been to Kohl’s knows that everything they sell is at LEAST twice as expensive as Kohl’s expects you to pay for it. An item they expect to sell for $50 is on the floor for no less than $100, and it’s usually closer to $150 depending on what type of product it is. Items that have more opportunities for discounts (clothes) are usually higher.

Dress pants are a good example. A pair of pants they expect to get $40 for would be at least $120 in store. Doesn’t seem so bad, because it’ll have an immediate sale price of 40% off. That brings it down to $72 already! It’s still high, but that’s OK, because we have a 20% off coupon and when we start our Kohl’s charge we’ll get another 10% off. 70% off of $120 is $84, so we’re getting these pants for $36. They can’t be making that much money on these things!

Wrong. Those discounts most definitely do not work like that. The discounts apply one at a time, so we’re looking at an entirely different number. the first 40% does take it from $120 to to $72, but your second discount of 20% is not as effective. Those sneaky marketing people have now devalued your additional coupons, because instead of your 20% coupon being worth 20% of the $120 ($24), it’s only worth 20% of the $72 ($14.40). Your coupon is only worth 60% of what it seems like it would be worth.

The 10% of the card gets even worse. 10% of the $120 would be 12 bucks, but now you’re getting it off the current value of the $57.60. That’s 5.76 off, which takes that 10% discount and makes it worth less than 5% off your total starting amount.

Your original estimate of $36 for the pants is actually off by $15.84, at 51.84. You’re paying 44% more for those pants than you might have thought. Even if you had three more 10% off coupons for a total of 100% worth of discounts those pants would cost more than the $36 you had in mind.

It gets even worse if you have one of those little coupons Kohl’s mails out every so often for $10 off your next purchase during a select time period. That would bring those pants down from $51.84 to $41.84, making them very close to what you originally expected to pay for them, right?

Nope, that discount gets applied to the original $120 price of the pants, even though Kohl’s at no point ever intended you to buy them for that much. Your ten dollars is subject to all your discounts, so it’s actually worth $4.32. Not exactly as exciting as your original $10. Instead of your $36 – $10 coupon sitting you at $26 you actually are going to be paying 51.84 – 4.32, or 47.52. That’s almost 83% more than you thought.

This is all better than if instead of those pants being 40% off initially, they were 20% off, and then an additional clearance price of 20% off the sale price! If that was the case you’d end up paying about $4 more for those pants.

Long story short, if you do go to Kohl’s just get in line behind an old lady. I guarantee you will watch her get about eight total discounts adding up to somewhere around 200% off of her purchases. If Kohl’s can make money off those people that have all day to take advantage of every coupon that’s ever been offered in all existence, that would mean that if you have a job or a family you have absolutely no hope of avoiding getting sodomized by them.

Christian Bale Plays a Very Convincing Mitt Romney

So I’d like to start this article off with a spoiler alert.  You three people that have yet to see The Dark Knight Rises are welcome.

 

Anyway, I saw the third Batman, and I think that movie finally puts some real balance on that left leaning Hollywood environment everyone complains about. 

Basically, I’m pretty sure this is how the movie was meant to be interpreted.  Mega rich man Mitt Romney (Bruce Wayne, in the movie), takes on the Occupy Wall Street group, headed by Bane, and anonymous figurehead of that group called Bane to represent the members brought down to the 99% by being fired during Mitt Romney’s days as CEO of the Bain corporation.

Mitt Romney’s original persona (Bruce Wayne) is a philanthropist who donates regularly to charity and works on green energy sources (as I now am 99% sure that Gotham City is in Massachusetts).  His liberal side was effective for a while, but now he needs to make a difference against the poor and criminal element, so he adopts an alternate identity as the conservative Batman.  Obviously, he is now huge into defense spending.

Batman fights against the Occupy Wall Street crowd as they flood the street and try and take over the city, terrorizing the rich and causing havoc with the stock exchange.  I feel the bias against this group went a little far with them being a threat to the lives of millions and millions of people, but I can only imagine that the odor that would stem from a protest of that nature would be very devastating.  I do believe that his initial defeat is representative of the 2008 primaries.

I really feel that they capture the full element of Romney’s character.  Not once, even with all the parties he went to, do I remember seeing him smoke, drink alcohol, or enjoy a caffeinated beverage.  He did, however, seem to be carrying on relationships with Miranda Tate and Catwoman at the same time, even if they weren’t all married until the general movie-going audience becomes more accepting of Mitt Romney’s Mormon lifestyle.

There were some ideas in the movie I found hard to believe.

The first of those ideas being that those people had a lot of guns for how little they actually fired them.  Think about when all the cops got loose with handguns and charged the Occupy Wall Street people that all had assault rifles.  Why and how did that turn into a fist fight?

Secondly, after they start ransacking and pillaging everything, I saw a weirdly large number of 100lb attractive women having a lot of fun.  Seems to me that after thousands of criminals are freed from jail into an area with no cops, no laws, and pandemonium everywhere, I would not want to be an attractive small woman readily available.

Right to Bear Arms, Dog Teeth

Am I the only person who sees a comparison between our second amendment and the right to own pit bulls?

Both are basically created to kill things –

Maybe not necessarily kill things in all cases, but the best case scenario for pitbulls is that they were originally bred to hunt down other animals.

Both are frequently taken away after their owners are arrested for something or another –

Ignore the fact that on a episode of Cops pit bulls are to dogs what white, sleaveless undershirts are to clothing. Studies pretty conclusively show that if you love going to jail, odds are good that a pitbull is your dog of choice.

Both are used for killing animals for sport –

Oh Michael Vick, if only you had learned how wonderfully legal it is to just shoot animals yourself.

Both are not to be trusted around kids –

You can feel free to check out those numbers with a quick Google search, but my favorite statistic is that 95% of attacks on kids by pitbulls are unprovoked, which is over twice as high as any other breed.

Both have a vast majority of the population that don’t like them around, and a very vocal minority of the population that are fanatical about how great they are and how integral they are to their lives-

I do love how pit bull owners all say that it’s all how the dog is raised and that their pitbull would do that. I feel like I hear it a lot, as in every time a pit bull attacks or kills something. Remember, 44% of all pit bull attacks are on family members. Even with how many pitbull attacks there are on kids, you never really hear anyone say “well, I should’ve seen that one coming” after it chomps on their daughter’s face.

The big difference between a pit bull and a gun is that the pit bull doesn’t need a person to make it kill someone. Sure, a person can make it a lot better at killing things, but it’s just naturally built to kill things. Do I care if you have one? No, just keep it away from me and everything I love. Kinda like guns, we have concealed carry, so please conceal your dog while I’m around.

Smart Phones, Dumb Folks

As a person who has done troubleshooting for customers in only one type of technical field (cell phones) I really have to wonder if customers are more retarded about cell phones than other electronics because smartphones are relatively new to a lot of people.

This is especially true when it comes to the warrantee replacement issue. If I received a device, it had a problem with let’s say… freezing, and then I got it replaced a half dozen times and it did the same goddamn thing every time I would wonder if it was something I was doing, as opposed to a fatal flaw with every device I have ever used before calling my company to throw a tantrum about how the device is giant dud and claiming I’ve been scammed into buying a device that never works. Like a company with millions of customers would be ok releasing a device and continuing to sell them if every single device of that model had a known issue that caused it to stop working within a month of you having that device.

If you were to get a computer at Best Buy, that computer were to stop working, and Best Buy’s policy was to just give you a replacement computer so they didn’t have to deal with your whining, wouldn’t you assume that after getting a handful of different computers that all had the same issue after a certain amount of time that maybe you should try doing something different? Maybe you would stop loading the same programs immediately onto your computer. Maybe you would check to see if you have enough memory to comfortably run all those programs. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve heard a customer loudly complain that their phone won’t do something basic like recieve picture messages, and then halfway through the process of trying to fix their phone casually mention “oh yeah, and my phone keeps telling me I have low memory”.

There is a reason why in-store tech support will require you to do a factory reset on your phone before replacing it.  That reason is because after we get your crap off the phone, it usually works after that.  When you complain that it stops working a couple weeks after that, the new issue is whatever the reason is that causes the phone to have an owner that puts all the exact same crap on the phone that wasn’t working before.

And please, the next time you talk to your phone company with your undies all in a bunch over your smart phone not working well, let’s not get an attitude, because odds are better than not that the problem with your phone is either your fault because of what you have on your phone, or your fault because you’re trying to do too much with a smartphone you weren’t willing to pay more than $50 for. When you come to me yelling that your phone doesn’t work and I see that it’s giving you low memory errors, I view your blowing up on me similar to how the person who sold you your car would look at you if you came back to them screaming about how your car now has a flat tire; it’s not my fault and it’s an easy fix if you can take a deep breath and act like a grown up.

Stealing Someone’s Identity In Very Simple Steps

Interested in stealing someone’s identity in very simple steps?  Here’s how.

First of all, have a bill from a while ago that you haven’t paid.  In my instance, one of the billion hospital bills I got on my trip the the ER for a breathing problem I had.  Spent 30 minutes in the hospital, ran some tests, couldn’t figure out what was happening, got charged a couple grand even through my very high end insurance.  Very brutal, and apparently one of those bills did not get paid.  Perfect.

The next step is to wait for someone to call you from a collection department.  The new system they have for this is very annoying, as they actually put you on hold after they call you until someone is around to take the call.

The final step seems to be very, very easy.   After they asked me if I was me, I asked them to verify who I was by giving me my social security number, DOB, and address.  Sadly, this actually worked, as without doing anything besides confirming my name that they read off for me, the representative I was speaking with was more than happy to give me my full nine digit social security number, my date of birth, and my full billing address to “confirm they were speaking with the right person”.

Is this crazy?  I don’t even mind that I actually got a call pertaining to me, since I’m used to getting them for other people.  I get calls for three or four other peoples’ debts, though, and I never knew all I had to do was agree that I was the person in question in order to get all that personal’s private information.  If you see me at the library amassing a great wealth of products you’ll know that I’ve just hit the information lottery.  Please do not call State Collection Services Inc. in Madison trying to get my personal information, though.  My credit isn’t worth stealing.

Zooey and Apple, Perfect Combination

After having seen those new iPhone ads featuring that knucklehead Zooey Deschanel dancing around and talking to Siri, I would have to say that those two are a perfect match.

Both are trying to come off as quirky underdogs to be appreciated by the unique free thinking people, when they are most definitely not these things.  Apple is huge, yet they still are represented as the artsy, creative type that ventures away from vanilla Microsoft, yet that company is making enough money to make CEO billionaires.  Someone will have to explain to me exactly why Apple products have such huge markups, because the 25 cents an hour we pay those Chinese slaves factory workers hardly justifies the $700 price tag on phones phones and the $2500 MacBook pricing when you get get similar spec’ed competitor equipment for less than half the price.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/27/foxconn-suicide-tenth-iphone-china

Deschanel is similar.  Not only was she not always the offbeat goofball that her latest appearances would have you believe, there was a time where she actually tried to be sexual!  I know that it’s hard to believe, but that time did in fact exist.

Yeah, that's a girl you would assume would have weird tastes and be awkward around guys.

 

Apple and Zooey, both household names.  Both overrated.  Both pretty annoying.  Both have incredible marketing.  Both apparently think Siri can do a lot more than it actually does.

I am feeling a little bit more generous toward Zooey after that picture, though, so I’ll leave her alone until people start killing themselves because of her.  Although she did recently divorce Ben Gibbard, and anyone who has ever heard a Death Cab For Cutie song knows that guy is constantly teetering on the verge of suicide.

Tiny Soda Cans, Why?

OK, so while shopping today I came across those stupid, tiny cans of soda that have been popping into existence.  Either 7.5 or 8oz cans are available for people that don’t care for the standard 12oz cans, but what’s the reason behind the can size downgrade?  Is weight of a full 12 oz can too much for the lazy people that inhabit our country?  Are the tiny soda cans so adorable that they make the soda taste better?  It must be one of those, because there is no other reason to drink those stupid things.

If we look at common pricing at Target or Walmart the tiny 7.5oz cans come in 8 packs for about $3.  12 Packs of 12oz cans are $4.  Bizarrely enough, this means you pay 37.5 cents per 7.5oz can and about 33 cents per 12oz can.

Why are you paying more for small cans?  For one additional dollar you can go from 60oz of soda to 144oz of soda.  Even if you drink 7oz from each can and throw them out you’d still be saving money!  This isn’t like buying a 2 liter where it’ll run out of carbonation over time and it’ll be tough to lug around with you where you go.  It’s almost like by buying 7.5oz cans you’re telling companies that not only are you basically retarded when it comes to math, but you’re actually willing to pay more money in order for them to give you less.  They’ve already had their laughs when it came to selling low calorie small portions to you at grocery stores and restaurants while still charging the same amount, but now they’re sticking it to us again, and changing around the quantities of the items around to make it harder (still not hard) to directly compare items.

Not today, you bigwig asshats.  I hope they’ve designed those tiny cans specifically to fit into your billionaire rectums, because that’s right where you can put them.  Please do not let this give you the idea to release anus flavored soda, though.  Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb have enough competition as it is.

My Daughter’s Future Career Path

Now, as parents, most of us want their kids to work hard and get a job that will provide for them and their kids in the future.  I feel the same way, but I’ve learned in my time that careers of the past just aren’t feasible or realistic, and a lot of those jobs that seemed so great really aren’t good at all.  There really aren’t astronauts flying to the moon anymore.  Presidents age at warp speed during their time in office, and we all want our kids to outlive us.  Firemen have dangerous jobs, and most of them aren’t full-time jobs, anymore.  So what job am I going to suggest for my daughter?

This woman earned three hundred dollars. Why is holding up a fraction of an average American's paycheck supposed to be impressive? Is she paying the bill at Glamour Shots?

Landlord hired move-out cleaning person.

I’ll admit, I don’t know the finer points of this position, the benefits, or the hours.  What I do know, is that apparently this is the highest paid cleaning job in the universe.  I’m soon to be moving into a new apartment, and these are the charges I will face if my apartment that I’ve lived in for three years isn’t spotless when I’m gone.

Kitchen counter tops – $50 – Please note, our current kitchen has about 10 square feet of counter top space.  It’s half the reason we’re moving.  This can’t possibly take longer than 10 minutes to make it look better than when we moved in.

Clean the stove – $50 – This one is almost worth sucking up, because those goddamn burners are annoying to clean.  Still, can’t imagine it taking longer than half an hour, so it seems well within my pay grade.

Clean the refrigerator – $100 – ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS to clean the fridge!?  I swear to you with NO exaggeration, I could buy two of this fridge for under a hundred bucks.  If I were to take this fridge outside and explode it in the street I would be upset if they charged me $100 to replace it.  Ridiculous!

Wash the dishwasher – $20 – This should be a testimate to what a pile of crap our dishwasher is.  They have to remind us to manually clean it, since it makes the things inside it dirtier than they started.  I know Waukesha water is brutal when you have no water softener, but this thing is the world’s most useless appliance ever.  As long as we’re making up insane fees, I would like to charge them $1000 for misleading us into thinking we would have a working washing machine over half the time we lived here, despite numerous calls to complain.

Wash the widows – $50 PER ROOM – That’s $50 bucks a window.  Awesome.

Clean the floors in the dining room and kitchen – $50 – Now, I’m glad they separated floor cleaning by couples of rooms, because if they would’ve told me $50 for all the rooms together it might be acceptable, but the next one is my favorite.

Vacuum all carpeting – $50 – You are going to charge me $50 to run a vacuum over what can’t be more than 600 square feet of carpet.  Are you insane?  What kind of tools are your cleaning people using for these jobs?

Dusting mini-blinds – $50 – What… the.. hell…?  This is only for the mini-blinds.  There are over $170 worth of potential dust related charges!

Clean the sink – $25 – The one sink in the apartment.  Thankfully there aren’t more, because these things are brutal to clean, apparently.

Return the parking pass – $10 – Why do you want this three year old parking pass back!?  Do you think we’re going to come back and use this place as a parking lot later in life?

There are many, many more, but that gives you a general idea.  $1270 is what I’d estimate they’d charge me if I did no cleaning.  On the letter it says “Experience has proven these are the areas that generate unexpected deductions from security deposits”.  Yeah, no kidding those are unexpected!  This doesn’t include any actual damages.  I could hire a group of hot chicks in french maid outfits to do this for me for half as much, and at least I’d get something out of it.

So I figure the management of my apartment complex must pay the cleaning people at least $300/hr, based on how much they charge for how little they actually do.  Over $1200 for general cleaning on an apartment around 950 square feet is robbery, so I’m going to have to view it as a lucrative opportunity for my daughter when she’s old enough.  She won’t have to waste her time on education (unless the Spanish speaking ladies I see cleaning the other units in the complex have Bachelor’s degrees in cleanology), she’ll make a fortune, and she’ll be able to start at a very young age.

What I never realized is that those are Gucci yellow rubber gloves, the latest Prada bucket, and a Versace checkered apron dress. I know nothing about fashion.

Keep this in mind, parents.  College is expensive, and kids straight out of college are having a hell of a time finding jobs that pay better than what non-educated people are making.  Apartment cleaning is the way of the future!

Some People Sure Hate Kids

I’ll admit, I’m not kids’ #1 super fan.  Sometimes poorly behaved kids annoy me and make me wish I could keep them far away from me, but damn.  Some people take kid hating to a somewhat creepy level.

http://www.experienceproject.com/groups/Hate-Kids-And-I-Dont-Want-Any/248610

Interested in sharing stories about how much you hate kids?  Want to talk about ways you would like to murder them in cold blood?  I hope not, but here’s where you can find people that share that point of view.

Here are a few wonderful example stories, followed by actual comments.

Why Do Women Waste Time And $$ On An Education Just To Kill Time Before They Breed…

Posted December 12th, 2011 at 12:58AM

• By: onetallbichick
• Age: 36-40, Woman

I have a friend that is SO smart, SO educated, who just finished her SECOND PH-D… not to mention she also has 2 Bachelors degrees. She is in her mid 30s and hasn’t even started a career yet because she has been working ALL these years on her education. Well, along comes a man. Now, keep in mind she is Jewish, and though I do not discriminate against someone’s religious/ethnic background, it can play a key role in your life decisions. Yes, I AM saying that religion can pressure a person to do things out of GUILT and SHAME that one would never do ordinarily to please their so called “God” or others, but whatever happened to rational thinking is another topic.

Anyhow, this friend of mine meets a nice Jewish man, and instead of following through with her goal of actually USING her education for the good of herself and society by getting a high end job she could truly contribute her talents to, she gets married, knocked up within the 1st 3 months of marriage, and now has a second kid on the way and hasn’t worked in her educated career field SINCE she graduated college and met her man. THIS IS JUST SAD and PATHETIC. Women who go to college (or even not) and just go through life “killing time” until they can get married and breed is a sad state of affair if you ask me. Certainly there ARE women, to be fair, who do work AND raise kids, but DON’T convince me she isn’t either COMPLETELY wiped out at the end of the day trying to do both, OR she has a VERY high child care bill while someone ELSE raises her kid. It is no wonder most CEOs are MEN, and it’s no wonder companies prefer MEN in the work place. MEN aren’t going to take a responsible job only to quit within 6 months because “ooops, I just wanted to be pregnant anyway!” Nor do men need to dart out of the office every hour on special break priveleges to pump their breasts, or leave work early for a parent/teacher meeting because your little brat who is attention starved was throwing spit wads again at the teacher. Point is, we have an over population problem, we have thousands of foster kids ALREADY on the earth with NOBODY to care for them, and yet, the intelligent women of the world SAY they want to be educated and want equal working rights, and to go out there and change the world, but then just ADD to the problem, throwing away their passion, intelligence, and degrees, not to mention man hours and student loans for nothing. OH WAIT, but I guess the whole point is not to USE your OWN intelligence, it’s to pass it on to your children via genetics. OHHHHHHHHHH! MY bad, I get it now!!!!

Posted by skullcrusher on Jan 19th, 2012 at 4:57PM

I couldn’t agree with both of you more. Truth is you are both right, and to throw away a shot at a really good career for what…..a money-munching wallet monster that you are STUCK with for at least 18 years! So instead of making money you are draining your bank account on baby wipes, diapers, baby food, all that crap and nonsense when you should be taking your money and booking a cruise, getting a nice car or truck…and get back to LIVING FOR YOU!! I will personally NEVER put myself through all that for what? Society’s approval? Then THEY can pay to raise the spoiled little **** and wipe his a$$. No people, WE are the smart ones. We didn’t go add to the already overpopulated nation that’s sinking in child welfare debt faster than Titanic. So glad to see others who can agree that it just is not worth the time, aggravation, money, bull$**** and nonsense.

Reply by onetallbichick Mar 1st, 2012 at 4:47AM

Hello Alien, it is a FACT that most pregnancies are accidents (more than half) and it is also a fact that the 86% polled middle class workforce disliked their jobs. I’m asking you to bridge the correlation here. Accidents = do what you gotta do, put dreams on hold to take care of kids. Now, since 60% of us were UNplanned, don’t you think that MAY just fall under a category not relevant to baby bliss? Why don’t you take a look at these posts: http://www.secret-confessions.com/hate/hate-being-a-mom I’m afraid dear, that a majority of people feel this way (not ALL parents of course!) But a majority. No one wants to talk about it because you can’t just give away your kids once you have them. You kind of have to just make the best of it. But I think personally misery loves company and so when one person struggles with having a family and feels stuck, they falsely tell the world, “hey it’s great! I will feel better if I’m not the only one that made a premature decision to have kids!” I am speaking in general terms here Alien. Not for EVERYONE. I am however judging the ignorant, miserable, majority though. And, if society were not overrun with irresponsible, uneducated, overpopulated groups, you can bet your *** there would be more happier, healthy communities indeed using their talents and intelligence to work in a field that makes them happy and fulfilled. Everyone has a ******* dream, and you know it! And yes, everyone has a right to fulfill that dream, OR they can choose to let life live for them instead of the latter. When you let an “accident” live life for you, it is pretty hard to take control of your dreams. I say – LESS ******* ACCIDENTS!

Yea, no thanks. Dont expect me at any more holidays

By: Iseuel

Age: 31-35

So, my sister told me last weekend that she’s pregnant. Now I’m fine with that, she lives far enough away from me that I probably won’t have to be anywhere near it. But she keeps telling me things about being pregnant. I don’t want to know. Pregnancy details make my skin crawl. Every time she mentions it all I can think about being forced to be in the same room with this puking, pooping, screaming thing. I just don’t want to be anywhere near it.

Posted by Spaceship44 on Mar 1st, 2012 at 3:22AM

She wants an ear. Too bad. Don’t give her our time. She messed up with getting pregnant in the first place! You weren’t asked if you’d be a part of this because you’re not ready anyway. Complete selfishness on her part!

Posted by skullcrusher on Mar 17th, 2012 at 12:47PM

I’m with you! Who give’s a rat’s ***! We as a group of people need to stick to putting ourselves first! It’s her mistake and now there’s no turning back. I purposely avoid the holiday locations where people’s kids are and go to the location where they aren’t! Like I will have dinner at moms when the kids arent there. Then, when the kids are on their way, i leave and go to the sisters, where the kids just left hahaha. At least she lives a good distance away. Only the neighbors will have to hear that kid scream at the top of his lungs lol.

POS Kids

Posted November 13th, 2011 at 8:04PM

• By: Snare
• Age: 26-30, Woman

I’ve never liked kids, but I think my hatred ignited when my boyfriend’s sister had her second illegitimate child with a married man twice her age.  She had her first child when she was 20 with her then boyfriend who she later dumped.  Then she got married to a guy in the Navy and left him (but they’re still married because she needs those sweet benefits for her rug rats).  Right when she was leaving her Navy husband, she got pregnant but it (thankfully) resulted in a miscarriage.  She got all upset about it for some reason (she’s had 5-7 abortions previously so you think she’d be used to having fetuses die).  So then she hooked up with a married middle school teacher who is very much NOT separated from his wife since he lives with her, their two kids, and his mother to this very day.  She had his child a year ago and lives with my boyfriend’s parents who are nearing retirement age and shouldn’t be raising two children and having their grown POS daughter mooching off of them.Anyway – aside from this scenario being not so ideal, the two girls are awful.  The older one (who is now 5) is a total brat.  My boyfriend’s mother (who hasn’t worked a day in her life because she’s a baby factory and doesn’t have to work) dotes on the child and buys her everything that she would ever want even though the child deserves nothing.  The baby gets the same treatment.  In fact, my boyfriend’s mother threw out all of the older child’s hand-me-down clothes because she wants the baby to have all new clothing even though the fathers provide no support for said clothing (or food, or shelter, or anything – my boyfriend’s father finances their lives 100% along with the rest of their family).  I’ve gotten a little bitter about this money situation especially because whenever my boyfriend and I need anything we are forced to ask my parents because his parents are paying for his sister’s two little mistakes.  Not only that, but they purposefully did not pay for my boyfriend’s college tuition because they thought he needed the responsibility.  So he’s in major college debt still, but they WILL pay for these two children who in my mind are mistakes unlike a college education which is a positive life change.  Plus their fathers should be paying for the children – not the grandparents.  Why do people get rewarded for screwing up?  It makes no sense.So I have a good deal of resentment towards these two children.  I did not like children beforehand and this situation has put the nail in the coffin.  My boyfriend’s mom and his stupid sister ask me when I’m having kids and I say never.  Although I’ve been saying that for over 2 years they just don’t seem to get it.

Breeder/Birther Wall at Work

Posted March 6th, 2011 at 9:33AM

• By: Atomicplayboy
• Age: 36-40

Its bad enough I have to see their ugly kid pics in their cubes ! This isnt good enough ! Now we have a disgusting birther wall  of their gross hideous newborns plastered all over the noticed board! What makes it even worse its near the kitchenette sink/microwave. I have to see their ugly newborn faces while I prepare my food ! I dont know what is worse, their ugly kids or the breeders ! All breeders thinking their kids are the most beautiful things ! Oh yeah, and “how smart their crying, spitting, and crapping  brats are” GRRRRRRRRRRR ! Last week myself and a co worker had enough!  In response to this disgusting birther wall  we took a stand against the breeders ! We removed their blown up self indulging, self centered ,ugly newborn  pics from the noticed board ! Less than a day later their ugly offsprings were plaster all over the board again ! Then we had the male breeders stating in response to their offsprings being removed. ” I dont care, take them down.” Yeah we did  ! You so called men put your ugly newborn pics back up ! Stop being rude and stop posting pics of your ugly clones ! We dont want to see your disgusting “job security / you cant lay me off , i have kids.” Pics !!!! BS !  When will you breeders realize ! YOUR BABIES ARE UGLY AND WE DONT GIVE A RATS *** ABOUT THEM !

On a separate note…

Posted by skullcrusher on Jan 21st, 2012 at 1:24PM

OH believe me I wanted to!!! I have thought about it in retrospect. Drilling holes in the kid’s fingernails, hooking them with telephone wire, and dragging him 7 miles across I-95 would of been too easy of a punishment. Dumping hot oil from the french fries over him would of gotten rid of that ugly little pie hole he calls a face, but it wouldn’t of gotten rid of him. I could of threw him through the second story window and tell the cops he fell but the tears running down my eyes and my uncontrolled laughter would of given it away LOL