10 Good Reasons You May Not Want to Have Kids

1) They are Noisy
I am not saying that all of them are, but the fact is that most of them will be constantly mouthing off about something. They have questions coming out the ass every day, day after day. No single thing is too small to be worthy of comment, no problem too insignificant to whine about, and then there’s the nagging. They nag. You give in once and after that they never let up.

2) Social Responsibility
You are not supposed to leave them alone for extended periods of time according to law, so you have a commitment to always providing people for them to be with, and sometimes to be with them yourself. You have to watch them in stores, keep them in sight wherever you are, and you absolutely cannot be mean to them in public for fear of winding up before a judge. How your child behaves will reflect directly upon you and your character. They say one curse word and people assume that you speak in 2 Live Crew lyrics.

3) They Are an Economic Drain
Food, clothes, school-supplies, tuition, school-projects, toys, fast-food, prescriptions, not to mention having to pay for a large enough living space for two adults plus however many of them those two adults choose to have. If you rent, then there is always the potential of them destroying something that you will have to pay for.

4) You Have to Teach them Things
You may or may not have figured this out: They are born knowing nothing. A blank slate. This means that you have years, possibly decades before they have anything insightful or interesting to say. But still, you will be a bad parent if you don’t listen to them. You are obligated to listen to all kinds of nonsensical irrelevant crap, all kinds of worthless interests and recaps of the Hannah Montana marathon they had on TV last weekend. You are obligated to tell them about life, sex, how to spend money, hygiene, calculus etc.

5) The TV Shows and Books you will have to Endure
A big part of knowing nothing is poor taste. Taste is a product of experience and therefore there will be a considerable length of time before they like things that make sense. You are obligated to read stories to them unless you want them whining about it when they grow up, you are also obligated to surrender at least one of the TVs in your house to the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon for several hours each day.

6) Their Friends
If your kids are normal they will at some point make friends, which means that you will not only have their presence to endure, but an assortment of other people’s failures as well. They will, perhaps, invite them home, at which point you may have to feed these other children, and endure their noise.

7) Constant Illness
Kids, especially when small, are walking petri-dishes. Nothing guarantees repeated stomach-flus, colds, and assorted random illnesses like being in the presence of a small child for hours at a time. Have a co-worker who is always sniffling or running to the bathroom? They either have a cocaine problem or they have a small child.

8)They Attract the Ill-Will of Strangers
Nothing in the world will get you more dirty looks than a poorly trained child. For some reason whole segments of the American population either have not yet had children, or will never have children, these people will not be sympathetic to your plight. Children to them are mere annoying strangers being inflicted upon them by you.

9)Once they are Born you are Pretty much Stuck with them
Under normal circumstances anyway. You don’t get to give them back, you don’t get to pass them on to somebody else short of going to prison or dying. If they are ugly or stupid, you will have to endure them for a long time to come.

10) They are Ungrateful
Kids in America grow up with a sense of being entitled to good parenting, as if it were something they earned in a previous life and have now come to collect. No parent, however is good enough, and they usually cannot find it in themselves to see how much worse it could be. They feel entitled to your time, the contents of your wallet and the remote control. And what do they give back? Maybe you will get to see your grandkids every now and then, and maybe, just maybe, they will pick a good nursing home for you when you are too old to take care for yourself.

Taken from:

http://dirtyword.byethost12.com/wordpress/?page_id=120

Strange and sad news...

I got a phone call from a buddy, who told me he had news about a guy we both used to work with. I'll call him "Bill." Way back when, I spent quite a bit time with Bill outside of work, and considered him a friend. I hadn't heard from him in a long time, but attributed that to just being busy.

Apparently, Bill's life went off the rails. Big time.

It seems that at some point he sold the Financial Planning practice he inherited from his father. This was a VERY mature practice with at least 50 million in Assets Under Management, and easily generated at least $300,000 in annual revenues. Apparently, he ran it into the ground, and most of the clients left. By the time he sold it (for $200,000) there was basically only a handful of remaining accounts.

In September of 2004, he was arrested for misdemeanor DUI, and felony drug posession. He pled guilty to the misdemeanor, and got the felony dismissed. He paid a fine, and got 3 yrs probation. Essentially a slap on the wrist.

On New Year's Eve 2006/2007, he was arrested for Kidnapping, Rape, Assault and Robbery. Yes - all FOUR charges in one fell swoop. He's currently in prison in lieu of 2.2 MILLION DOLLARS bail. He's done. His life is over.

In retrospect, he was a pretty messy drunk. Acting really stupid, etc. I just never would have imagined he got that bad.

Springdoo is COOL

UPDATE: Springdoo was cool. They no longer offer the service I was talking about.

Nappy-Headed Ho!!!

The 3 men who stood accused in the "Duke Rape Case" have been exonorated, but not without tremendous cost. Their families have not only suffered, but spent millions to provide legal representation for their sons.

The lying accuser is named Crystal Gail Magnum. See the following link:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0411071duke1.html

Imus was wrong. Now THIS is a nappy-headed ho.

I hope fate follows her and truly serves justice upon her.

Finally got an iPod... and my XBOX 360 likes it...

I finally broke down and got an iPod. I loaded it up with a bunch of music, video, etc.

I love it. It made my recent trip to Hawaii much more pleasurable, and my upcoming trip to Florida will put it to more good use.

However, I also have an XBOX 360, and had understood that I'd be able to plug the iPod into the XBOX 360, and play music from the iPod on it.

I installed the "Optional iPod support" from XBOX Live.

I plugged in the iPod. The XBOX 360 shows all of my content but doesn't play it. Even worse, it seems to crash the XBOX 360.

I figured out why. The "Optional iPod Support" module assumes that the content on iPods is AAC. All of my content is MP3.

This seems kind of stupid, since the XBOX 360 natively supports MP3.

Microsoft seems to have no clue about this issue yet, and I can't seem to find out anything about it on the web. Hopefully someone really smart will read this and help me out...

UPDATE: Apparently, only some of the songs on the iPod exhibit this action. The songs affected are from a Blue October CD I ripped ("Foiled") on my MacBook to iTunes, and from there to the iPod.

It seems only songs ripped from that particular disc are affected. All the other songs seem to work fine... My bad... ;)

Zales ad - deceptive or honest...?

I just saw an ad for Zales Jewelers. They were advertising a sale on a specific style, saying that it was $$$ less than the regular price.

The shifty part is at the bottom of the ad. "Previous prices may not have resulted in actual sales."

In other words, they normally sell the item at an artificially inflated price.

I guess they get credit for admitting the whole thing, albeit in fine print...

Just getting started

I've just started this, and I have no idea what I'll do with it...

Stay tuned...