Posts by Morgan Nichol
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But: I can't see how it relates to the "40 year old first time parents", other than a convenient segue.
Me neither, but I thought (whoever it was's) line about parents showing off their flash prams was pretty on the money.
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Here's a thought. If it's a decision that you're not directly affected by the consequences of, why not, say, MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS?
I don't think I've told anyone what to do at any stage.
What decision are we even talking about?
If anybody gives a single fuck what a person on PAS think about (anything at all, but more specifically:) when or even if they should have children then colour me absolutely shocked.
Anyway, this is a discussion board - on the internet! - idle fruitless chatter is kind of what it's for. Apparently also: people shouting at me, building lots of awesome strawmen, the occasional genuine grievance, and apparently sometimes people conflating me with someone who made lame misogynistic jokes earlier on in the thread (before I ever even posted).
But it's all good. I love this place because it's... ahhh... not kiwiblog.
Ahem.
I kid!
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Haha. Yeah, Joe, I so definitely said that.
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Keir, lolwut? Seriously... That's what you've got?
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Thanks for the heads-up there, Morgan, because none of us would have known that otherwise. We don't get *any* 'OMG YOU HAZ NO TIME BREED BREED BREED' messages from the age of thirty or anything.
Well if it's any consolation I've had three slightly-past-mid-30s friends have beautiful healthy babies in the last few months.
And don't pretend there isn't any pressure on men to settle down and have kids. I'm sure it's not the same, but it's real and I feel it.
Also: fucking hell. Unpacking all the offensive assumptions in this thread might cause my brain to explode.
From who? Me?
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Um you do realise some pretty similar facts apply to men, right?
Of course I do. Tends to be a bit later though, and different consequences (most dramatically in an increased incidence of schitzophrenia).
And yet it is mainly those nasty unnatural women wee hear about. Odd, eh?
I don't think I said anything like that. At all.
Morgan, I think the point is that women can take their own hints.
Um, yes? Remember once upon a time, in the long distant past, when I said "I'm not telling you what to do with your body." Those were such good times. Innocent times. The sky was somehow bluer. Food tasted better.
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It was clearly the patriarchy that designed women to be born with their full complement of eggs, and which has faked up the stats to say it gets harder to get pregnant with every year from about 28. Or that prevalence of Down syndrome goes from less than 1:1000 at 25 to about 1:100 at 40.
Or perhaps it's not sexism, but biology, to suggest that it's better for women to conceive a bit younger than they've been trending towards?
To be clear, I'm not telling you what to do with your body. (But nature is giving you some very strong hints of its own.)
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If it ain't broke...why 'fix' it?
I think it's quite clear that large numbers of New Zealanders weren't sure what the law had become. So one reason is: certainty.
The media has a helluva lot to answer for.
Abso-fucking-lutely.
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Vanilla, seems to me to be merely dismissive, so doesn't feel nearly as nasty as Breeder.
As for the awful English B&D witch hunts, I've got a couple of friends who fled England for that very reason, escaping to our liberal isles where we - at least mostly - let consenting adults be consenting adults.
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Dal in 10 minutes? Fuck. No.
My favourite dal recipe (self link):
http://www.the-monkey.net/2009/06/07/spicy-dal/Instant rice sachets still suck, though.
I've tried the Uncle Ben basmati a couple of times, if you make it exactly as directed it's pretty much ok. Not nearly as good as the real thing, of course, but sometimes 90 seconds is as long as you want to wait.