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To think having children is not a right!

275 replies

cremeeggcook · 08/02/2015 16:22

If you can't afford children thats just tough! IMO. We should abolish child benefit to be spent on real rights such as having something to eat and decent levels of sanitation. I would rather my hard earned tax went there than child benefit!!

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Andrewofgg · 08/02/2015 19:54

RTFT I now wonder if OP was taking the piss and trying to get a rise out of us - in which case in my case she has succeeded. If you were just joking and not expressing your real views cremeeggcook I apologise for getting riled and congratulate you on having fooled one or two of us!

Ineedtimeoff · 08/02/2015 20:36

my mum used to work in a restaurant where they would use physalis fruit as decoration. She would mispronounce it all the time. It was really funny to see the customers reactions.

To think having children is not a right!
natureplantar101 · 08/02/2015 20:36

Considering child benefit gets paid to pretty much every parent in the country and others YABU. Biscuit go educate yourself

jellybeans · 08/02/2015 20:38

YABU

Biologically everyone has the right to reproduce

It's not necessarily 'right' the way our society is set up, look cross culturally

'Can afford it' is subjective to the norms of our current society and not absolute

Society is unjust and therefore to deny someone's biological right is inhumane

HowCanIMissYouIfYouWontGoAway · 08/02/2015 20:52

I blame this thread and its many temptations for the fact that I now have a strawberry crumble in the oven at nearly 9pm.

Chillyegg · 08/02/2015 20:56

I've just got back from a lovely curry! Grin

Did I read someone's post correctly did someone say shut the doors!

Now I feel really stupid! I had no idea that Dover had magical doors like Narnia that us cheeky foreigners could sneak through! Although me and my partner are 1st generation born hear....
I didn't have any dessert whilst out I'm too full!
Well they gave us complimentary lollies!Grin

Chillyegg · 08/02/2015 20:57

Is that right it's always confused me if your parents were immigrants and you were born hear, the child born hear is 1st generation aren't they?

PrettyFeet · 08/02/2015 21:00

Did i read rightly that you started a goady thread that you think is funny?

Do I forgive you due to you being a bit insecure?

Ummmm, debating this as I do I would have to say...

what a yeat.

cremeeggcook · 08/02/2015 21:02

That's ridiculous.

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cremeeggcook · 08/02/2015 21:02

Jellybeans

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Chillyegg · 08/02/2015 21:02

Er prettyfeet just to clarify this isn't my thread.. It's ok there's been some previous confusion!

PrettyFeet · 08/02/2015 21:03

Its ok not to share each others "humour"

PrettyFeet · 08/02/2015 21:06

Its also ok not to share each others "open door" theories too...

Chillyegg · 08/02/2015 21:10

Well in not sure if your addressing me!
How bizarre
Good night folks

cakepopbakeshop · 08/02/2015 21:13

Had a delicious fish n chips here on Ye Olde White Cliffs before Shutting The Doors for the night, don't worry if I see any more of those disgusting Refugees from Afghan, Iraq etc heading this way I will Shoot Them. Now, for dessert, that will be before I put on my Chastity Belt and give myself a good whipping for forgetting my contraceptive pill earlier this week which could very well lead to the overpopulated demise of this Planet, now off to vote for Euthanasia as I have quite a few annoying elderly relatives whose off-bumping could assist my Misanthropy Fund.

PrettyFeet · 08/02/2015 21:16

Still a sore point then I see.

Im just glad no-ones calling me a racist.

Governments cant address this but know what to do.

I didnt say send anyone home by the way.. I just said shut the doors Grin

cakepopbakeshop · 08/02/2015 21:18

I will Shoot Them I will let them Drown

PrettyFeet · 08/02/2015 21:20

Killing them is far too harsh even for me.

I'd give them away to a "better" family.

pineappleshortbread · 08/02/2015 21:21

Well I enjoyed my turkey dinosaurs and crispy cakes although I may have ate 5 too many whoops oh well that's what happens when you discuss dessert for an hour ha :)

TwatFaceBitch · 08/02/2015 21:23

I think we need to bring in the unicorns now. They like cheese cake I think

cakepopbakeshop · 08/02/2015 21:24

Boggling suggestion Pretty - some of them are quite Big and Grown Up, not little ones.

Try to educate, you said?

PrettyFeet · 08/02/2015 21:24

culture wise, lets look at statistics here.

culture wise on the whole, lets look at how many children are born?

cakepopbakeshop · 08/02/2015 21:26

Anyone for a pint of Rum?

TwatFaceBitch · 08/02/2015 21:28

Mmmmmmm ruum.

That would be a yes, is it spiced?

timer · 08/02/2015 21:30

Someone should tell the German government about this overpopulation ishoo. They're positively begging people to have kids - financial incentives and all Smile