Children Investigated For Laughing Too Loudly 19
Officials from a noise pollution team are investigating claims that the children at Osmund and Andrew's Primary School laugh "unbearably" loudly. In addition to the excessive laughter, neighbors complain that the children kick footballs against the school's chain link fence, the sports teacher shouts during lessons, and the kitchen routinely runs out of cinnamon rolls on chili day. Headmaster John Thorpe said, "Children have to be educated somewhere and there are obvious good reasons why it should take place in residential areas. Bearing that in mind, it is inevitable that there will be a range of different responses to that from residents. We have always adopted a good neighbor policy and done whatever we can to mitigate disturbances. Some people will say that the sound of children laughing and playing together can be quite uplifting. As a teacher, I think it's good to hear children running around and thoroughly enjoying their lives."
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Funny, this sentiment. It sounds bitter to the extreme, but lots of people must think something like it here in the developed world, because our birthrates aren't enough to even replace people as they die. If we thought having children was worth it, we'd have more kids.
And it's strange, because you'd think we of all people would want to bring new people into the world: We have all the money and power and rights and privileges; you'd think we'd be the ones who enjoy life and think the world is a happy enou
Re:everything is "for the children" (Score:5, Insightful)
I know several people that fully (and vocally) agree with the "why the heck should I saddle myself with an infant" attitude you describe.
Even more sadly, some of them are my friends.
Too band I am not elocuent enough to describe the joy that being a father of two can bring.
Yes, I know that my kids eat up half my income (and probably will continue to do so for the next 20 years)
Yes, I know that my kids are the reason why I have less free time than most of my colleages
Yes, I have to get up at 4am to whack night terrors in the head with a bat, or to get a glass of water
Yes, it is all worth it
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Your evidence for this assertion is ... ?
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Uh, he has two kids. What more evidence do you need?
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Two negatives doesn't make a positive.
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Oh how droll. /golfclap
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That's evidence that he (assuming it's a he, and that he is the father) has had unprotected sex with someone who was fertile and who chose to carry the foetuses to term. It's not evidence that the exercise was or will be worthwhile, nor is it evidence about his (assumptions as above) intentions prior to indulging in sex. The large majority of people simply grow up with an assumption of "I'll have children" without basing it on any evidence. Some people eve
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Yes, it is all worth it
Citation Needed
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You're making the false conflation between "it's not worthwhile making an X" and "it's worthwhile destroying an X that has already been made".
I've long since come to the same conclusion as the original poster - however unlike the poster I realised the way the world is going before I had created any children. So, prior to establishing a serious relationship with another person,
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we tolerate so much BS for the sake of "children". They erode our rights - it's for the sake of the children.
No, lunatic and hardline control freaks erode our rights, along with people who don't think and just blindly follow the nonsense-machine as soon as they've heard some trigger keywords. When those control freaks can't use the "children" straw man argument, they will use terrorists, "values", democracy, tradition, your income, your freedom, or anything else that is largely irrelevant to the issue at hand but which will somehow make you naturally support their side.
Of course, maybe you are also in favour of ge
Don't live next to a school (Score:2)
Bah! (Score:2, Funny)
Chili Day! (Score:2)
What the heck is the correlation between Cinnamon Rolls and Chili.
Note the Author did not say they ran out of Cinnamon rolls on a Chilly day when something warm might hit the spot. The author stated they routinely ran out of Cinnamon rolls on chili day.
The obvious question then becomes why does the noise pollution team care about Cinnamon rolls, I can hazard a guess about the Chili.
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I can think of 2 possibilities.
1) They only serve cinnamon rolls on chili day. This one would be obvious.
2) The kids don't like chili.
As far as why the noise pollution team cares, it probably doesn't. This was just a list of complaints. Running out of cinnamon rolls was a complaint. Noise was a complaint. The neighbours cared about running out of cinnamon rolls because their kids went to the school, and their kids complained.