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The birthday party
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biology. i don’t believe in much, but i DO believe in biology. we are wired, deep in our dinosaur brains, to fuck all.the.time.
I’d agree with that. It’s the completely natural state of affairs.
All those sexless years when I thought “It must be just because I’ve got a low sex drive.” Ha ha!
‘I thought “It must be just because I’ve got a low sex drive."‘
No, no, no. It just means you’re a bit of a perve.
Welcome to the club.
Mind you I really showed restraint.
After your comment to Kevin, my first thought was to say “I bet you felt a real Dick", but thought better of it.:=)
Still a bit concerned about your increasing awareness of the details of your ladies clothing.
What does it all mean.
Do you feel hemmed in?
Do you have a bias?
Do you feel your life is just a tapestry, all but sewn together?
Or are you just shading towards a modicum of transvestism?
I had the same experience last week. (the baby part, that is. The remainder of your post is foreign to me.) Lunch with a friend and her 16-month old son. Perfectly normal kid. Screamed. Grabbed the water glasses. Threw food. Hogged all the attention. It made me damn glad to be past that phase of the game. It made me want to get a vasectomy on the way home from work.
Never got on well with kids… even my own a lot of the time frankly!
TSB: I’m certainly biased in being interested in clothes. How can men not be interested in women’s clothes? I don’t get it.
UB: That is not a “perfectly normal kid". That is an undisciplined child with weak needy parents. I’d have walked out. Don’t implicitly endorse that form of parenting by tolerating it. One of the bestsellers on the Guardian’s book site this month is called French Children Don’t Throw Food.
F: No mine neither. We live in a mixture of companionship and distance. It works.
As a childless harpy who has learned to keep her mouth shut around ‘parent friends’, I’m always hugely relieved when I come across admissions of ambivalence or - whisper it - disapproval as to the behaviour of some kids (and by definition, their parents), from adults who’ve actually had kids themselves. Thank you.
Last week I spent a hellish hour with a friend whose seven-year old had just lost her first milk tooth. The child was in an uncontrollable spasm of hysteria, literally screaming and wailing at top volume while her mother knelt calmly beside her and advised her to “just keep on screaming till it stops hurting, then we’ll take some time out and work through your feelings.”
If they’re not recruiting at La Scala for divas when this kid leaves school, I fear she is going to be unemployable.
Lordy, that is just awful. Shut the fuck up, I’d have been more likely to say, or just lock it in a room where it can to “express itself” to its heart’s content.
Other people’s children are completely uninteresting to me, unless they have qualities that I’d like in an adult friend. For a father of three, I’m actually not a child centred person at all.
While we’re on the subject, the way that some parents immedidately cut off a conversation mid-sentence to attend to their child gets my goat. It should be “Don’t interrupt please, I’m talking to X, just wait.”
Was that ten PINTS??? Good Lord, I’d be on the floor after three
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