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All your friends without kids will scratch you out of the diary for the next 20 years, and drift away.

Mrs Vagabond and I are not keen to add to the burgeoning global population and further strain the resources that will become increasingly rare and force battles to rage harder than ever over, and as such have lost several sets of friends along the wayside.

Children are not interesting to anyone at all but their parents and perhaps their parents' parents.

The end.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 17 Feb 2010, 10:13, 2 replies)

Not quite sure
what you mean't Vagabond, but I think it is possible to like and be interested in kids without having them or wanting them yourself. But having said that it's quite possible to find yourself "kicked out of the club" if all your contemporary friends find themselves with growing families.
(verynaughtyboy, Wed 17 Feb 2010, 10:22, closed)

What I mean is that new parents are very boring to those without kids.
And "liking or being interested in kids" if one doesn't have them oneself is now an penal offense (see what I did there?).
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 17 Feb 2010, 10:30, closed)

Happens the other way too
We're kidless, but several of our good friends who have kids have drifted away from us. Which is a shame, cos I like the little bastards (but only when I can give them back to their wranglers), and being around them reminds the girlfriend that she doesn't and reinforces her "no babies" rule!
( Fronds are waving gently on, Wed 17 Feb 2010, 11:19, closed)

This thread reminds me of a pet hate (other than the phrase 'pet hate' obviously)
I've recently heard childless couples (I am half of one of these) described as being 'too selfish' to have children.

It's like there's this idea that having children is somehow for the greater good of the world and that by procreating you're sacrificing something of yours for this good.

Wow this annoys me... If anything, it's quite the reverse. People have children because they want them. You could say this was a selfish act couldn't you, satisfying that want?

End of rant.
(Ask Murderer has resigned and is shirking - hello b3ta., Wed 17 Feb 2010, 13:53, closed)

My pet hate
People that have kids then do nothing but moan about it. If you dont want any and dont have any, I applaud you fo doing what you want.
(Obi wanker nobi Its not a bug, its an unexpected feature, Wed 17 Feb 2010, 14:36, closed)