Yep.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:13, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

How can you not care then?
That's weird.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:13, Reply)

No, what's weird is society's belief
That we should care when someone does what's in their nature to do.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:15, Reply)

Empathy is fundamental to the entire human mind.
Family is hardwired into our brains. Apathy is not our default setting.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:16, Reply)

"Apathy is not our default setting."
I like this a lot.
(TheColonel, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:17, Reply)

Then I seem to easily override that

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:18, Reply)

I'm pretty apathetic about almost everything.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:18, Reply)

I don't care

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:19, Reply)

So?

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:20, Reply)

*shrug*

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:29, Reply)

I have an intense fear and loathing of babies.
And I don't particularly like my cousin.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:15, Reply)

Oh fair enough, I'm close to all my cousins.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:17, Reply)

I bet you are

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:17, Reply)

I like exactly half of mine.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:21, Reply)

I don't have any
I totally win
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:29, Reply)

You can have some of mine

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:30, Reply)

Take half of mine.
Please. Not the good half though.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:33, Reply)

half my cousins
are slags (in the good sense) the other half have caught religion
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:35, Reply)

Of my four:
The eldest is a dancer, super cool and very pretty and lets me rummage through her wardrobe every now and then.
Then is the rude bint that just produced a crotchfruit
Then is the 13yr old shy one who I like to take under my wing whenever I see her, and take her shopping and stuff.
Then is the hyper, noisy, rude spoilt brat that I can't fucking stand.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:38, Reply)

I have fifteen cousins on my mother's side
They range from the oldest who is about forty and let me use a shotgun when I was ten, the nice ones who are unrepentantly having fun, through to the 3 female ones I cannot stand, all of whom are nurses, religious in the worst kind of way and very much signed up to the 'husband and children as soon as possible' doctrine
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:43, Reply)

I don't care when people I don't really know have babies
especially people in the office. I hate when they then bring them in.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:17, Reply)

If the baby screams a lot.
Don't say "jesus woman people are trying to work".
It doesn't go down well.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:19, Reply)

Love this.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:21, Reply)

They usually come into my room and say "why is this door shut"
and I'll go "someone's screaming spawn was giving me a damn headache" and then they laugh because they think I'm kooky like that.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:30, Reply)

Also on the list of things not to say
Hey do you want me to bring my Uncle Pete in?
erm.. what?
Well you seem fascinated by crying, screaming bald things that shit themselves and he could do with a day out
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:33, Reply)

Or "I'm legally not allowed in the same room as a child"

(PsychoChomp, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:36, Reply)

it's funny because it's true

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:37, Reply)

Yeah, I'm going to have to go and look at it and make cooing noises and say congratulations.
Why anyone should be congratulated for not knowing how to use a condom I have no idea.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:19, Reply)

My MD (millionaire) and his new wife (millionaire in her own right)
Had a child recently, and just after it was born there was a card and collection going 'round. I went for a walk around the building until it had passed through my team.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:21, Reply)