Quote: The Giggle-o @ November 4 2009, 7:06 PM GMTThe best thing any parent can ever do for their children is to never have them.
Phillip Larkin summed it up rather well.
Abort! Abort! Page 3
Quote: sootyj @ November 4 2009, 6:46 PM GMTAre you still knocking on women's doors asking if they're Sarah Connors.
Is that cockney rhyming slang for 'Pregnant With Honours?
Quote: sootyj @ November 4 2009, 6:46 PM GMTThe police threatened to chemically castrate you if you didn't stop.
Huh! They haven't got the balls!
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 4 2009, 7:14 PM GMTPhillip Larkin summed it up rather well.
I didn't know it was a quote, it's just what I believe.
Quote: The Giggle-o @ November 4 2009, 7:29 PM GMTI didn't know it was a quote, it's just what I believe.
I was referring to his poem This Be The Verse:
They f**k you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were f**ked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 4 2009, 7:32 PM GMTI was referring to his poem This Be The Verse:
They f**k you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.But they were f**ked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.
Ha, I'd just found it on my Larkin quotes search. You have kids though don't you Dolly?
Quote: The Giggle-o @ November 4 2009, 7:35 PM GMTHa, I'd just found it on my Larkin quotes search. You have kids though don't you Dolly?
Yep, but I don't think a lot of people should though!
Perhaps even most people!
(Possibly me included.)
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ November 4 2009, 7:05 PM GMTBut I bought the wedding dress and everything.
*sings 'Let Me Take You By The Hand And Lead You Through The Streets Of Hackney'*
Believe me sootyj, the current set up actively encourages young girls to get up the duff. Their boyfriends aren't helping either - 'If you get pregnant, the council will have to give you a flat and then we can live together'.
It's also engrained in council estate culture, with second and third generation single parent families encouraging their prodginy to follow likewise. If these were isolated cases, then I wouldn't have brought it up, but the problem is endemic with thousands of cases every single year.
Why bother going to school, being smart or getting a career, when you can just get pregnant and have everything provided for you?
I worked in Hackney and in community outreach. A damp council flat on a crime ridden estate is the reward for many years f**king up.