UO

AnnieA75

My first 2 are similar to a previous UO above....

I juat can't stand all the animal picture postings on Fb lately. One of my friends posts animal shelter pics constantly, and I do mean constantly. Some are heartbreaking to look at. Maybe they get to me more b/c I'm pregnant and hormonal, but I want to freaking scream at her. I would hide her posts, but she's one of my best friends and I feel guilty hiding her. If she doesn't quit it soon. I'm going to post that Sarah McLachlan song to her page in response to every future post.

Another BFF constantly posts pics of her pets as if they are children. She truly considers them her children, as she doesn't have any kids. Before I had DD, I was probably a spaz about my dog too, but now that I have an actual child, I clearly see the difference between having a pet and having a child. I love my little dog so very much, but he's a dog and not a baby. All these Fb posts referring to pets as babies are on my very last nerve. I just can't understand wasting so much money on little pet outfits and strapping a dog to your chest and walking around like it's normal. Don't even get me started on baby talking to pets...vomit. Again, maybe pregnancy hormones? I'm usually so nice, but geez I'm sounding like such a bitch.

Finally, I detest Barney. Hate you Barney! Any time one of DD's shows ends and Barney comes on, I'm like oh hell no and I race over to change the channel. Even if DD is dancing along to the music and seems to like it, no! I just cannot deal with Barney and I flip it every time.

Kate070

kitchencolors said:

whse13kittens said:

My UO is if you are willfully underemployed (I.e. you can physically and mentally hold down a job and you CHOOSE not to) and live off food stamps, wic, medicaid/medicare and child support, I do not think you should be allowed to spend 1800$+ on a beach vacation. And/or you should be required to show the government where that money came from and have that factored in to your benefit calculations.

Pretty sure this is NOT unpopular. 

There will always be egregious examples of people abusing the system.  They're outliers, though, not the norm.

It drives me insane how many people forget this.  We're doing fine now, but (despite college degrees and thanks to a combination of a shitty economy and disability) DH and I have been poor in the past.  Now, we never used GA, but we also didn't have children or anything.  Some people may know people who abuse the system, but for the love of God, don't paint everyone with that brush.  I know too many people who have just hit some serious misfortune (my mother, who can't stand taking GA but had severe health issues that forced her to stop working for a couple of years; an older man I used to work with who, after a long career making decent money, was laid off during the recession and could only find minimum wage work). 

You never know a person's situation.  My mother got to take a nice vacation while getting disability checks... because her MIL paid to have her whole family go somewhere.  I'm sure if people didn't know that fact, they were judging the hell out of her.  This kind of thing pisses me off.  If you don't know a person's entire situation (which, let's face it, you never will), just keep your mouth shut.

mrspopsicle

@whse13kittens

This is my ex-SIL (her and DHs brother are now divorced). She posted a sob story on Facebook about how her and her boyfriend didn't have money to buy their kids christmas presents which resulted in a few of her friends taking up a collection to help them out. If you scrolled down a couple posts you could have seen where their money went. During the pervious week they had each gotten new tattoos, went to the bar three times, and taken a weekend trip to a casino. Interesting how they had plenty of money for the things they wanted.

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Kate070

Also, I also don't get Twitter (or instagram, or a lot of those besides TB and FB).  And OMG the #s drive me crazy.

Kaylee524

I have two (maybe) UOs - and they both have to do with Facebook.

Firstly - I hate when people use Facebook like a Pinterest board. "Sharing" recipes, home care tips, etc. is essentially the same as "pinning" them on Pinterest, but it eats up my newsfeed. Not cool. I check Facebook to find out what friends and family I don't get to talk to that often are up to - not to find a recipe for Taco Pie.

Second - folks should really fact check things before they share them on their Facebook pages. Just because someone made a nifty graphic with some info on it doesn't mean the info is true. Do your homework. Otherwise, your impassioned political diatribes don't make you sound smart - they make you sound ignorant, and they spread ignorance to all of your Facebook friends.

Also, as an aside, I think I can give some insight on the whole "treating pets as baby" thing, @AnnieA75. I have definitely been guilty of this in the past - not carrying them around in strollers or anything but definitely baby-talking and posting ridiculous numbers of pics on Facebook. It took us a really long time to get pregnant, and sometimes I felt like my dogs were going to be the only "babies" I ever had, so I definitely projected a little of my longing for a baby onto them. :P

whse13kittens

Kate070 said:

kitchencolors said:

whse13kittens said:

My UO is if you are willfully underemployed (I.e. you can physically and mentally hold down a job and you CHOOSE not to) and live off food stamps, wic, medicaid/medicare and child support, I do not think you should be allowed to spend 1800$+ on a beach vacation. And/or you should be required to show the government where that money came from and have that factored in to your benefit calculations.

Pretty sure this is NOT unpopular. 

There will always be egregious examples of people abusing the system.  They're outliers, though, not the norm.

It drives me insane how many people forget this.  We're doing fine now, but (despite college degrees and thanks to a combination of a shitty economy and disability) DH and I have been poor in the past.  Now, we never used GA, but we also didn't have children or anything.  Some people may know people who abuse the system, but for the love of God, don't paint everyone with that brush.  I know too many people who have just hit some serious misfortune (my mother, who can't stand taking GA but had severe health issues that forced her to stop working for a couple of years; an older man I used to work with who, after a long career making decent money, was laid off during the recession and could only find minimum wage work). 

You never know a person's situation.  My mother got to take a nice vacation while getting disability checks... because her MIL paid to have her whole family go somewhere.  I'm sure if people didn't know that fact, they were judging the hell out of her.  This kind of thing pisses me off.  If you don't know a person's entire situation (which, let's face it, you never will), just keep your mouth shut.

i'm sorry for your troubles, and your mom's. i do know people are live off GA and are completely responsible and just in a hard luck situation. i know most of the people who live off GA are not abusing the situation. but that's why my opinion is unpopular: i still think you should be able to account for where your money comes from to the government if asked. MIL pays for a vaca for you? awesome, pass. you've been sitting on a stash of cash and/or working under the table and lying about it? fail, deducted from your benefits.

i freely admit this opinion is colored by people i know frauding the system. yes, i've reported them and no, nothing has been done about it. it burns me and frankly makes me angry that they are using GA they dont need to when it could be given to people who REALLY need it.

jenb_99

I think musical theater is lame. Broadway makes me gag.

I'm not a fan of most of the literary classics either. I find most of them incredibly boring and some of them even stupid. Romeo and Juliet, for example. Yeah, the play contains some pretty words, but it was just a story about two bratty teenagers who knew nothing about true love.

whse13kittens

whse13kittens said:

Kate070 said:

kitchencolors said:

whse13kittens said:

My UO is if you are willfully underemployed (I.e. you can physically and mentally hold down a job and you CHOOSE not to) and live off food stamps, wic, medicaid/medicare and child support, I do not think you should be allowed to spend 1800$+ on a beach vacation. And/or you should be required to show the government where that money came from and have that factored in to your benefit calculations.

Pretty sure this is NOT unpopular. 

There will always be egregious examples of people abusing the system.  They're outliers, though, not the norm.

It drives me insane how many people forget this.  We're doing fine now, but (despite college degrees and thanks to a combination of a shitty economy and disability) DH and I have been poor in the past.  Now, we never used GA, but we also didn't have children or anything.  Some people may know people who abuse the system, but for the love of God, don't paint everyone with that brush.  I know too many people who have just hit some serious misfortune (my mother, who can't stand taking GA but had severe health issues that forced her to stop working for a couple of years; an older man I used to work with who, after a long career making decent money, was laid off during the recession and could only find minimum wage work). 

You never know a person's situation.  My mother got to take a nice vacation while getting disability checks... because her MIL paid to have her whole family go somewhere.  I'm sure if people didn't know that fact, they were judging the hell out of her.  This kind of thing pisses me off.  If you don't know a person's entire situation (which, let's face it, you never will), just keep your mouth shut.

i'm sorry for your troubles, and your mom's. i do know people are live off GA and are completely responsible and just in a hard luck situation. i know most of the people who live off GA are not abusing the situation. but that's why my opinion is unpopular: i still think you should be able to account for where your money comes from to the government if asked. MIL pays for a vaca for you? awesome, pass. you've been sitting on a stash of cash and/or working under the table and lying about it? fail, deducted from your benefits.

i freely admit this opinion is colored by people i know frauding the system. yes, i've reported them and no, nothing has been done about it. it burns me and frankly makes me angry that they are using GA they dont need to when it could be given to people who REALLY need it.

also i did state and still mean: willfully unemployed. the 3 families i'm specifically thinking of can work and choose not to and/or work under the table for other family members and lie to the government about thei income -- so they do not pay taxes and still receive GA. they are not in hard luck situations. they are in self-appointed situations. they do not need GA. they should be earning a life instead of letting the taxpayers do it for them because, and i quote, "work is hard and i dont want to".

Luckyu317

Hashtags do not belong on Facebook.
Also- any kind of nut covered in chocolate is amazing.

bumpuser10194737

jenb_99 said:

I think musical theater is lame. Broadway makes me gag.
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YES! I can stand musicals! (With a couple of exceptions, like Sound of Music.) People are always shocked when they find that out because I have a bachelor's degree in music performance, and one of my best friends was a music theater major.

Mahler, Beethoven, Brahms- incredible!

Broadway musicals- gag me with a spoon.

A pure day of torture to me would be having to go to Chuckie Cheese and a broadway musical in the same day.

I'd rather get a root canal.

Edit for clarity.

jenb_99

ErBear1010 said:

This is apparently unpopular: I couldn't care less how you parent your child. Bumpers, no bumpers, pacifiers, no pacifiers, formula, breastmilk...whatever! I will judge if you're really harming your kid (slaps4jesus), I may side eye some decisions, but I'm sure people would side eye somethings I did with DD. It's personal preference and to start drama on here because someone doesn't do exactly what you do is ridiculous. Unless it's completely cray..in that case...let the drama begin. 

Point being-things are constantly changing on what you're supposed to do, what you can't do, what's safe, what's not safe. It's hard to keep up with and it's hard to tell what is scare tactics and what is legit. Same with pregnancy-deli meat vs. no deli meat, sushi vs. no sushi, nuts vs. no nuts...you get the point. Pick and choose-do what's right for you. I'm sure you could keep your kid in a bubble to keep them safe but studies would show at some point that causes issues too....

This is why I choose not to discuss my parenting style or my ideas on child safety. They're pointless topics, like politics and religion. Especially online. On the rare occasion that I am willing to engage in a discussion on those issues, I do so face-to-face.

I also don't believe the most expensive baby products are always the safest or best, or that used baby gear is always unsafe or nasty. It's ridiculous and hateful to judge other parents for the money they don't spend on baby gear, as if financial output has anything at all to do with parenting ability. I know plenty of crappy parents who spend a ton of money on their kids, and I know plenty of amazing parents who pinch every penny and buy only budget items for their kids.

RedInLove

carissa32581 said:

I think we should really stir crap up today and have a crib bumper clicky poll. If I knew how to do it I might even create one.

@carissa32581, At the top of the M14 board, there is the link to create New Discussion. Click on the arrow to the right of that, and you have 3 choices. Select New Poll.

AnnieA75

Kaylee524 said:

I have two (maybe) UOs - and they both have to do with Facebook.

Firstly - I hate when people use Facebook like a Pinterest board. "Sharing" recipes, home care tips, etc. is essentially the same as "pinning" them on Pinterest, but it eats up my newsfeed. Not cool. I check Facebook to find out what friends and family I don't get to talk to that often are up to - not to find a recipe for Taco Pie.

Second - folks should really fact check things before they share them on their Facebook pages. Just because someone made a nifty graphic with some info on it doesn't mean the info is true. Do your homework. Otherwise, your impassioned political diatribes don't make you sound smart - they make you sound ignorant, and they spread ignorance to all of your Facebook friends.

Also, as an aside, I think I can give some insight on the whole "treating pets as baby" thing, @AnnieA75. I have definitely been guilty of this in the past - not carrying them around in strollers or anything but definitely baby-talking and posting ridiculous numbers of pics on Facebook. It took us a really long time to get pregnant, and sometimes I felt like my dogs were going to be the only "babies" I ever had, so I definitely projected a little of my longing for a baby onto them. :P

@ Kaylee524 I agree about Fb -- use it as Fb people! Also, I do understand where you're coming from about the pets. It took us three years and three failed IVF cycles to get pregnant, so our little malti-poo was my baby for a long time. I get what you mean about projecting the longing for a baby onto a dog. I'm more referring to the over the top pet obsessions. Like, the friend who's currently driving me batty with all her pet talk -- the other day, she said her kitty sneezed a couple of times so she was going to have to leave work early and take him to the vet. For a sneeze? I mean, you have to be kidding me. I reminded her that hey, the cat is new to your home and maybe he needs to get used to the fur from your other pets, or maybe dust is bothering him. And this is not a rare example, this is the norm with her.

Btw, I'm super glad you're not walking around town with your dog in a papoose b/c I literally have seen that too!
)

Kate070

whse13kittens said:

also i did state and still mean: willfully unemployed. the 3 families i'm specifically thinking of can work and choose not to and/or work under the table for other family members and lie to the government about thei income -- so they do not pay taxes and still receive GA. they are not in hard luck situations. they are in self-appointed situations. they do not need GA. they should be earning a life instead of letting the taxpayers do it for them because, and i quote, "work is hard and i dont want to".

I would certainly agree with you that there's a problem there, and something needs to change with those families.  It just seems to me that a lot of people, knowing of certain cases like that, think that EVERYone using GA is like that, and makes judgments.  Or wants to make changes to the system that would be detrimental to those really in need.

jane8188

I will add to the gov assistance topic. My husband is just starting out in his career and makes around 35k a year, and I sah with our son because daycare costs here are more than I make in a year. Last year I was paying for my own blue cross heath plan for maternity out of pocket because my job had no benefits. We had never been on government assistance before and didn't need to because we do everything possible to save money, cloth diaper, never eat out, but things second hand and receive hand me downs. We have a lot of nice things, brand new car, because we saved and literally have done nothing since our wedding. And also the only way my mother knows how to show love is buying us things.

Fast forward to december, I went to renew my health insurance and I was declined. They told me because I qualified for Medicaid they could not insure me because I would also qualify for subsidies, and if you qualify for Medicaid you can't get subsidies. So now we have no choice and have to be on Medicaid, even though we can pay for our own and we tried to.

I have a nice car and nice things and our family takes us on vacations. I bet it looks like we abuse the system too, and I feel really uncomfortable being on it because I feel like I am being judged. Oh well, point is, you don't know peoples personal situations.

Empireceo

ErBear1010 said:

This is apparently unpopular: I couldn't care less how you parent your child. Bumpers, no bumpers, pacifiers, no pacifiers, formula, breastmilk...whatever! I will judge if you're really harming your kid (slaps4jesus), I may side eye some decisions, but I'm sure people would side eye somethings I did with DD. It's personal preference and to start drama on here because someone doesn't do exactly what you do is ridiculous. Unless it's completely cray..in that case...let the drama begin. 

Point being-things are constantly changing on what you're supposed to do, what you can't do, what's safe, what's not safe. It's hard to keep up with and it's hard to tell what is scare tactics and what is legit. Same with pregnancy-deli meat vs. no deli meat, sushi vs. no sushi, nuts vs. no nuts...you get the point. Pick and choose-do what's right for you. I'm sure you could keep your kid in a bubble to keep them safe but studies would show at some point that causes issues too....

Completely agree.  When people get their panties so twisted about other people's parenting decisions, I feel like they're just passive-aggressively saying "I'm a better parent than you."  Which...I'm not in a contest.  You're probably right.

This does not apply when you are actually abusing/neglecting your child, or when your parenting decisions somehow effect me or my kids ( I can't think of a specific situation for this, but someone always wants to play "what if" with this shit.)

kat8805

Letayloreo #fuck#those#hashtags!!! So freaking annoying! And I swear, I don't associate with people who go overboard with them, but if anyone ever sent me a text, or had a verbal convo with me which contained a hash tag, I would disown them. For life.

On the boat/water trend -  I hate lakes, ponds, and other man made, stagnant water features. I'm not fond of the ocean either. Pools are where it's at.

It also drives me BSC that the people here in IN seem to love them. "Look Bertha! We bought a 1 acre plot of land! Let's waste a buncha money to make the land unusable and slap a 3/4 acre lake in!" Fuck you and the lake you swim in.

getitdone

jenb_99 said:

I think musical theater is lame. Broadway makes me gag.

I'm not a fan of most of the literary classics either. I find most of them incredibly boring and some of them even stupid. Romeo and Juliet, for example. Yeah, the play contains some pretty words, but it was just a story about two bratty teenagers who knew nothing about true love.

***GASP**** LOL - My mom and I have tickets to the entire broadway series that comes to our city and I was an English Lit Major To each their own though- I can't stand regular plays but love musicals.

carissa32581

jenb_99 said:

I think musical theater is lame. Broadway makes me gag.

I'm not a fan of most of the literary classics either. I find most of them incredibly boring and some of them even stupid. Romeo and Juliet, for example. Yeah, the play contains some pretty words, but it was just a story about two bratty teenagers who knew nothing about true love.

Sigh....I thought we were going to be bff's...

whse13kittens

jane8188 said:

I will add to the gov assistance topic. My husband is just starting out in his career and makes around 35k a year, and I sah with our son because daycare costs here are more than I make in a year. Last year I was paying for my own blue cross heath plan for maternity out of pocket because my job had no benefits. We had never been on government assistance before and didn't need to because we do everything possible to save money, cloth diaper, never eat out, but things second hand and receive hand me downs. We have a lot of nice things, brand new car, because we saved and literally have done nothing since our wedding. And also the only way my mother knows how to show love is buying us things.

Fast forward to december, I went to renew my health insurance and I was declined. They told me because I qualified for Medicaid they could not insure me because I would also qualify for subsidies, and if you qualify for Medicaid you can't get subsidies. So now we have no choice and have to be on Medicaid, even though we can pay for our own and we tried to.

I have a nice car and nice things and our family takes us on vacations. I bet it looks like we abuse the system too, and I feel really uncomfortable being on it because I feel like I am being judged. Oh well, point is, you don't know peoples personal situations.

In my personal opinion, if your husband works and you still have to use Medicaid, you're in a hardluck situation, and I'm sorry for that.  I wish there was more I could personally do to help you.  You're also not who I'm speaking about, cause I bet if the government said, "hey, where'd ya get the nice car" you could say, "hey, my husband works, here's his paystubs."

I am, again, talking about people who willfully choose not to work because "i don't want to and shouldn't have to" or who lie to the government about working (work under the table and still collect all types of benefits - healthcare, food stamps, wic, etc).  I freely admitting knowing people who abuse the system has colored my opinion, a lot.  But I feel like it you were/are asked to provide documentation about where you get certain LUXERY items (super fancy car, for example, like a brand new Lexus, when you're on food stamps, wic, and medicare/medicaid), you should be willing and able to produce documentation that it was a gift and/or a prize, not something you just had the cash laying around to purchase.

Huge difference in those who actually need the assistance (yourself) and those who are playing the game (the people I am using as examples.)

jenb_99

@Mamarazziof3 People are shocked that I don't like Broadway too because I was a singer and almost majored in vocal performance.

The literature thing really freaks people out, though, because I have a language degree and I'm a book editor.

codik86

My UO-

Twitter and Snapchat are dumb. I'd elaborate but that's the jist of it, and I am going to take a nap. Bon nuit!

brittcraw75

Ok, I've been holding out on this one until I feel like maybe I have enough love from you ladies to act as a powerful counterbalance to the hate this may breed...

First, a little context: I grew up on a farm. I love animals. I've owned a horse, bottle fed a calf whose mother didn't make it, and given CPR (successfully) to several afterbirth-covered puppies. I love animals. 

My UO..It irks me to the pit of my soul for people to treat their pets like (or better than) their offspring. Please stop referring to Ruffy as your "puppy daughter." and please take that tuxedo off your cat. They don't like it. I really do understand that animals are part of the family..but I just can't get down with treating them like they are equal to my human children. 

All that said, to each his own..just know that when you tell me a cute story about how your puppy daughter licks out the food that's stuck in your teeth, I'm going to be gagging and crying a little on the inside. And maybe on the outside, too. And maybe on your shoes a little bit.

jenb_99

@carissa32581 The Broadway thing is a deal breaker for a lot of people. I've come to terms with it. I got the side eye a lot in high school choir class. lol

IBackBevo

I am 100% with @ErBear1010 and @empireceo - I don't care what parenting decisions you make regarding your kids so long as it doesn't affect me or my kid and isn't abuse/neglect.  I can almost guarantee everyone on this board will at some point do something that is against the "recommendations" or "best/safest practices" even if it is unknowingly.

Edit: I also find it slightly disingenuous when people try to "school" you on a subject and use the excuse that they are trying to protect your child.  If they are doing it in a respectful manner, I may buy it.  But sometimes it is clear that they just want to be right or win an argument...

Empireceo

IBackBevo said:

I am 100% with @ErBear1010 and @empireceo - I don't care what parenting decisions you make regarding your kids so long as it doesn't affect me or my kid and isn't abuse/neglect.  I can almost guarantee everyone on this board will at some point do something that is against the "recommendations" or "best/safest practices" even if it is unknowingly.

Edit: I also find it slightly disingenuous when people try to "school" you on a subject and use the excuse that they are trying to protect your child.  If they are doing it a respectful manner, I may buy it.  But sometimes it is clear that they just want to be right or win an argument...

Word, Bevs.

mileswithmyles

jesstellina said:

I don't understand how so many people can dislike nuts. I love them.

I like nuts when they are by themselves, but they ruin any chocolate or baked good. 

mileswithmyles

awc1986 said:

On the chocolate and nuts debate, I think the combo is disgusting. I like chocolate I like nuts Why the fuck did people decide to put them together?! You can't mix sweet and savoury like that. Also, peanut butter is an abomination.

I agree with everything except the bolded part.  I eat that shit with a spoon.

mileswithmyles

jenb_99 said:

I think musical theater is lame. Broadway makes me gag.

I'm not a fan of most of the literary classics either. I find most of them incredibly boring and some of them even stupid. Romeo and Juliet, for example. Yeah, the play contains some pretty words, but it was just a story about two bratty teenagers who knew nothing about true love.

As a former musical theater kid and English teacher, this makes me want to cry.  I love all things Broadway!

yvanehtnioj

kimberlykl2009 said:

ooooo I have an UO and I remembered it today! But I'm not sure if it is totally a UO....

My UO is that I can't take degrees from online universities (Devry, Phoenix, etc) seriously. But this is total bias on my part just from knowing/working with higher-ups who completed their degrees online and strike me as totally incompetent. It is probably relevant to add that I work in education. I'm sure that is not the case for everyone, but I have yet to have an experience which makes me feel differently (and I think there are an awful lot of pitfalls to online education). 

Edited cause words are hard. 

Those for-profit schools are no good. They enroll 13% of all college students but claim a whopping 46% of all student loan defaults. There have been efforts (and successes) in California to reign these places in.

That being said, I am personally very excited by the online expansion of liberal arts studies by the public universities here in California. It used to be only the vocational stuff like nursing, education & criminal justice were available online. If you wanted to to obtain liberal arts degree, you had to be in a classroom 3-5 days a week, during business hours. As a soon to be working mother, it is probably my only hope for completing my 4 year degree.

jenb_99

hcorcoran said:

jenb_99 said:

I think musical theater is lame. Broadway makes me gag.

I'm not a fan of most of the literary classics either. I find most of them incredibly boring and some of them even stupid. Romeo and Juliet, for example. Yeah, the play contains some pretty words, but it was just a story about two bratty teenagers who knew nothing about true love.

As a former musical theater kid and English teacher, this makes me want to cry.  I love all things Broadway!

Well, I do work in publishing, and I read for a living. I'm a book editor. Does that help or make it worse? LOL

I'm not very popular at Tony time.

mileswithmyles

My UO- I hate having bigger boobs now that I am pregnant.  I lost a lot of weight a few years ago and went down to a small C.  These DDs are killing me.  Everyone keeps asking me if I hope the  big boobs stay.  The answer is no.

julesf817

sheriot said:

I think it's ridiculous to put your dog in a baby carriage and stroll around town with it. The first time I ever saw this I was in LA having lunch with my sister. Tori Spelling rolls up and out comes a stroller. "Aw, she's babysitting!" I thought (this was before she started having kids). Nope. It was her damn dog. She brought her dog to lunch in a STROLLER. I can't.

I think it depends on why the dog is in the stroller. if it's a perfectly capable of walking dog, i think it's asinine. the dog would rather walk and be able to sniff and pee on things! if the walk gets too long, then just pick him up and carry him!

but there's a lady who comes to a lot of our shelter events and her dog is elderly and small and she puts him in a stroller so he can still go since he can't handle long walks. you can tell he loves being out and about still so i think the stroller is great. it would be sad if she had to leave him home.

my possibly dog related UO is that I HATE the terms "fur kid/fur baby/fur child." i might be mildly obsessed with my dog, but he's a DOG, not a "fur baby." "fur baby" kinda makes my skin crawl.

also, i LOVE instagram. i'm on it more than facebook, and i hash tag the shit out of my photos. and most of them are of my dog, because out of everything i post he gets the most likes. and i totally care how many likes i get. in fact, i posted a TBT picture of him today and i'm about to go see how many likes it has. it's my dirty secret. don't judge meeeee.....     

yvanehtnioj

hcorcoran said:

My UO- I hate having bigger boobs now that I am pregnant.  I lost a lot of weight a few years ago and went down to a small C.  These DDs are killing me.  Everyone keeps asking me if I hope the  big boobs stay.  The answer is no.

Having big boobs SUCKS. I am a DD not pregnant. My frame is not big enough to support these stupid things. I have a small ribcage. My shoulders & neck hurt. Shirts that are cute on others look disgusting on me. Unless I am wearing a super expensive insane bra that lifts, my torso just looks fat & fatter instead of shapely.

I have been putting up with them for a years, waiting to see what would happen after childbirth, before I made any permanent decisions. But seeing as how I'm only halfway through pregnancy and they have already expanded into G or DDDD or whatever the fuck, I'm certain surgery is in my future.

Oh my. That was more like a WTF Wednesday than a UO. Sorry. Letting it out.

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marielynnk said:

ErikaLynn75 said:

reneewhite90 said:

I really didn't know there was anything against taking little kids on boats. I actually consider myself pretty overprotective/overbearing and I just never thought of it as an issue until yesterday. I've even gone as far as taking our pack n play out on the boat when DS was really young to sleep and play. It worked out awesome. Oops.

I don't actually think there's anything wrong with taking a kid on a relatively slow, smooth boat ride. As long as you have a quality life jacket that will keep your kids head above water in the event of an accident. 

It's just interesting to note where different people draw the line. Most of the time I'd tell you I want to take every possible safety precaution when it comes to my kid, but I also don't want to be that Nervous Nelly that never lets my kid do anything fun because I'm scared.

Ditto, I spent a lot of time on a boat as a baby and small child, I always had a life jacket on and I was always with family. They weren't the rock and roll/speed type of boaters either!

This. I grew up on boats. My first boat ride was when my family took a 1 week trip on a canal boat in England with me. I was about 3-4 months old.

My entire dad's side of the family are sailors so I may just have a different out look on it. However, even though my late grandpa was an exceptional sailor he often fell off the boat into the water. He even did it on the canal trip in England when they came to visit us. It's kind of a running joke in my family.

I do plan on taking my kid to swim lessons ASAP along with taking him out in the Puget Sound on the boat my grandpa built in the 60s and my dad refinished in the 90s this summer.

whse13kittens

Here's another one:

Customer service is reflective upon you, the customer.  You treat me like I am lowlier than the dirt on your shoe, I'm going to be snarky to you, at best and that's okay.  The customer is not always right.  You get what you give.

Letayloreo

*staying out of the pet discussion*

don't look at my sig.

 

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Babybarlow2014 said:

My UO is: I HATE baby clothes, blankets, pacifiers, WHATEVER! with god awful mustaches! I think it looks trashy/tacky.

HAHAHA I love these. Guess I'm trashy?

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yvanehtnioj said:

hcorcoran said:

My UO- I hate having bigger boobs now that I am pregnant.  I lost a lot of weight a few years ago and went down to a small C.  These DDs are killing me.  Everyone keeps asking me if I hope the  big boobs stay.  The answer is no.

Having big boobs SUCKS. I am a DD not pregnant. My frame is not big enough to support these stupid things. I have a small ribcage. My shoulders & neck hurt. Shirts that are cute on others look disgusting on me. Unless I am wearing a super expensive insane bra that lifts, my torso just looks fat & fatter instead of shapely.

I have been putting up with them for a years, waiting to see what would happen after childbirth, before I made any permanent decisions. But seeing as how I'm only halfway through pregnancy and they have already expanded into G or DDDD or whatever the fuck, I'm certain surgery is in my future.

Oh my. That was more like a WTF Wednesday than a UO. Sorry. Letting it out.

I just have to say I feel you. This is me exactly. I went to Nordstrom to buy a couple bras on Tuesday and found out I am now a 34G and was mortified. Hopefully they don't get any bigger....