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Why do you bother with a card at all if you anyway don't want any social contact?
Otherwise I'd give them something that lasts instead, like an appletree. (assuming they have a garden)
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She send me a card for the birth of her child and I don't want to be rude so I just send one back.
We worked together a lot on school assignments, mostly because we both lived far away and didn't have a lot of friends in class.
But we have like nothing in common.
So after school I never bothered to contact her again until she contacted me.
We had some fairly good contact for a while, but now, years later, it's two messages a year, one on her birthday and one on mine.
It's not that I dislike her, but I don't have anything with her either.
Anyway, I hate maternity visits since I really don't like children and I don't like pretending I do.
If this was my best friend I really couldn't skip it, but it's not, it's someone who I haven't seen in years.
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Offer to babysit and mention you will bring your own duct tape.
You probably won't even get an email on your next birthday!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Sander Rossel wrote: sickening stereotype
Sander Rossel wrote: You'd expect it to be more gender neutral or at least less stereotyping in 2019...
Soapbox.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Alas, those old fuddy-duddies who still send physical cards via snail-mail are, unfortunately, unreconstructed reactionaries. For the most part, they think that boys should be boys, and girls should be girls. A bit odd, but it's (still?) a free country.
As for babies, you should be more welcoming. After all, they will be paying your old-age pension!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: A bit odd, but it's (still?) a free country.
Unfortunately, yes.
In my most humble opinion everybody should listen to me.
Sander for president! 
Sending cards for births is pretty common though, certainly not only for old fuddy-duddies.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: As for babies, you should be more welcoming. After all, they will be paying your old-age pension!
I hope I can pay my own pension.
And yeah, we do need kids, but until they're 12 or something they're pretty darn annoying 
I'll never have them
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Sander Rossel wrote: until they're 12 or something they're pretty darn annoying
And after that... they become teenagers! 
Sander Rossel wrote: I'll never have them
IMO, those who don't have children are missing out on one of the biggest challenges (and possibly - the biggest rewards) of being human.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: And after that... they become teenagers!
They stop playing outside so I don't hear them as much
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: IMO, those who don't have children are missing out on one of the biggest challenges (and possibly - the biggest rewards) of being human.
IMO you miss out on sleepless nights, crying, poop diapers, drool, vomit, food everywhere, a lot of mess, freedom to do whatever you please whenever you please, school troubles, and you're saving a lot of time and money.
Unfortunately, I don't miss out on the crying, the neighborhood babies are making sure of that (I live in a "starter neighborhood" where mostly couples in their late 20's and early 30's live).
They touch everything with their tiny droolish paws, especially food, which they then put back because they didn't want it after all.
Babies are ugly to boot. "He looks like his father" is basically saying his father is a bald, fat, trollish blob that's out of proportions and may be a man or a woman, but you can't tell. I only know the baby's a he because I asked the parents.
I have never liked kids, not even when I was a kid myself.
When kids are around I'm never really at ease and if they're really young I get a bit of smear fear.
It's a VERY unpopular opinion that even offends people (sorry if it does) and sometimes makes it difficult to make friends (and get dates), especially at my age
I try to shut up about it, but sometimes people ask and I'm not a liar...
It's only one of my very unpopular opinions, but the most unpopular BY FAR!
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Careful what you wish for. Once the SJWs are on Hallmark's payroll, you're gonna be longing for the days of the old stereotypes.
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Or is it a new beginning?
Either way one thing is sure: This Friday I am checking out from work, and from the Lounge as well (occasionally peeking at the Daily Griff). For five months I am changing tracks, going back to uni for Cinema Studies. I needed a break and this should be fun. Back in February. Cheerz!
Pop quiz: what movie is the post title implying?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Armageddon?
DOOM?
Or just This Is the End (2013) - IMDb[^]
Loads of 'em, really.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No, no. No!
Hint: 1979
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Apocalypse Now?
Mad Max? (The end of civilization)
The Muppet Movie? (The end of intelligent civilization)
The Black Hole? (Swallows everything, except political promises)
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Good film, for its time - but way before his specified year!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Yes Apocalypse Now, even though Mark Wallace nailed it before you.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Wasn't the Doors song featured in Apocalypse now?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I could use a royalty free version of that song, but I'm probably out of luck there. It would be for a video, even when the little star is still getting some makeup. At least I already have a royalty free version of this[^].
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I read the subject and now have a Doors track on auto repeat in my head! Possibly linked to watching Apocalypse Now...
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Root tension underlying Brexit England's reluctant leaders (5)
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Nice one - I don't think it will last too long!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Good - I need  - upvote the winner for me - and if there's no winner, then you're it 
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