Quotes

[cjbreed]

^^i am in this exact argument with my wife right now. true story.

[interest1]

^^i am in this exact argument with my wife right now. true story.

So who's winning?

Maybe you can compromise and just adopt a homeless person.
May placate both of you, though I cannot guarantee the outcome of the carpet.

[Faust]

The wife, obviously. What a rhetorical question!

Also, this:

[interest1]

Totally rhetorical

Can't forget a shout-out to the single ladies; another from Rudner:

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

[galia]

"The result is that 'modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.' Having freed himself fro external authorities, he has achieved the illusion of individuality without its substance. His 'free choice' is the consumer's choice of brands, his freedom of conscience the freedom to disbelieve everything - a pervasive cynicism that merely exposes him all the more easily to fraud. In a world where nothing is true (and where the very idea of truth gives way to the idea of credibility), everything is 'true'. Scepticism thus coexists with a naïve trust in 'experts'."

Christopher Lasch (quoting Erich Fromm) in Haven in a Heartless World, 1977

[mrbeuys]

^^i am in this exact argument with my wife right now. true story.

Have the kid (or better yet 2), then get divorced.
Best possible outcome. Kids rock, dogs suck.

[galia]

or you could have the kids and stay together and tough it out

[mrbeuys]

^ Good one.

Srsly, of course you are right. Just if it doesn't work, 2 happy homes are better than one dysfunctional one. Man, sorry for being such a buzzkill. Kids are great - that's all I wanted to say. To even compare having kids to buying a fucking puppy is ridiculous.

[ES3K]

/\ signed.

[galia]

^ Good one.

Srsly, of course you are right. Just if it doesn't work, 2 happy homes are better than one dysfunctional one. Man, sorry for being such a buzzkill. Kids are great - that's all I wanted to say. To even compare having kids to buying a fucking puppy is ridiculous.

Having a puppy is great too. Maybe the solution is to have both? So much poop to clean in the begining tho

[Faust]

/\ signed.

third. although, never had a puppy, so what do i know.

Galia, YOU would quote Lasch To make it even better, put the date on that quote.

[galia]

What? I think the book is great, I'm currently finishing it. Great summer read. From what I gather it was first published in 77, is that the date you want me to add?

[Faust]

Yep..

[galia]

Yep..

Allright, I edited. Now will you tell me what's so funny?

[Faust]

Cause you are grumpy and so is he. You match!