| Posted by: hazel_dragoneye | | There is this woman that lives on my block that wants to have eighteen children before she turns forty. She is from India and lives in this small house with her nineteen year old daughter and fourteen year old son. I tried to dissuade her, saying that she could not afford eighteen children and that she had enough children but she refuses to hear me out.
She thinks I'm threating her. She comes to my house and says, "Why are you trying to threaten me, what have I done to you?"
I'm like, no no you misunderstood me.
I'm wondering if it is a custom in India to have eighteen children, because if it is then I would understand. She shouldn't have her fourteen year old son trying to find her a man, I just think that is wrong. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Lawless | | Nothing a paper bag can't help out with.... as long as the body is smokin' | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: lodgebo | | It's what happens in India and a lot of other poorer countries. In these ountries the child mortality rate is high as are the odds of having children with disabilities etc. So the more kids you have the more chance of having some healthy children that will look after you when you become old. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: brochu13 | |
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HECK! said this in post #6 :
Not to mention, more kids = more hands = more work.
-HECK! |
Yeah, exactly, you beat me too it, more famr hands or whatever means more crops and more money for the family. Thus more kids=good. 
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| Posted by: lodgebo | | Like I said in India it is because child mortality rates are so high 54 in every 1000 might not seem high but the US is 6 and the UK is 5.
As for this women well if she has a job or her husband has a job and they can support the kids whats the problem? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Invisible | | I agree with lodgebo. If they have the means (or even if they don't) in my opinion it's not anyone's place to tell her whether or not to have more children.l I say you should leave the subject alone and let her make her own decisions. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: brochu13 | | I thought we were just weighing in. I can't tell the woman what to do, nor should you. Neverhteless, that's farrrrrr more children than I'd want in 3 lifetimes. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: hazel_dragoneye | | Here is why I don't think she should have any more children:
1.) She can't afford children because she is poor and doesn't work.
2.) Has a small house. Her house looks very much like shack.
3.) Has too many animals. She has six cats and four dogs.
4.) Is mentally unstable.
5.) Is an alcoholic.
and...
6.) Uses her children to do things for her. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | |
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hazel_dragoneye said this in post #11 :
6.) Uses her children to do things for her. |
Why else would you have children? Love and companionship? To continue the family genes? To feel the miracle of life? Yeah, right!
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| Posted by: Invisible | | Well those aren't good reasons to have children for sure. And it absolutely isn't the best envioronment. But as honorable as your intentions are, if she is unstable as you say she is, then there really isn't much you can do. The more you try to push her not to have any more kids is the more reason for her to do just what you say not to. Is this woman a friend of yours? If so then it might not be worth losing a friendship over to keep bringing it up. It might be better to let it be and hope she comes to her senses. If you two aren't friends and this is stressing you, in that case maybe it's best if you distance yourself for a while or at least find another subject to talk about. It's sad but true that there isn't anything you can do.
I wish her luck though. I have four kids and I can't imagine adding 14 more to the mix...good god, my uterus would pack it's bags, drop right outta me, and flip me the bird twice if I even thought about having any more. TMI? Well it's true!  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Flutterbywingz | |
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| I'm wondering if it is a custom in India to have eighteen children, because if it is then I would understand |
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lodgebo said this in post #5 :
It's what happens in India and a lot of other poorer countries. In these ountries the child mortality rate is high as are the odds of having children with disabilities etc. So the more kids you have the more chance of having some healthy children that will look after you when you become old. |
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lodgebo said this in post #8 :
Like I said in India it is because child mortality rates are so high 54 in every 1000 might not seem high but the US is 6 and the UK is 5.
As for this women well if she has a job or her husband has a job and they can support the kids whats the problem? |
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hazel_dragoneye said this in post #11 :
Here is why I don't think she should have any more children:
1.) She can't afford children because she is poor and doesn't work.
2.) Has a small house. Her house looks very much like shack.
3.) Has too many animals. She has six cats and four dogs.
4.) Is mentally unstable.
5.) Is an alcoholic.
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6.) Uses her children to do things for her. |
So, where's the understanding, hazel? Lodgebo answered your question already.
What's the problem? Surely, you've known crazies with children before, haven't you? Why does this Indian woman bother you so much?
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| Posted by: hazel_dragoneye | | I said perviously that she was unemployed and was mentally unstable. Does that sound like a nice environment to grow up in? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Lawless | | Man, watching you two post in the same thread is like watching a tennis match between two bitter enemies.  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | hehehe this woman's mentally unstable... hehehe...
Sorry, I just find that funny. Don't mind me. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Flutterbywingz | |
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Lawless said this in post #16 :
Man, watching you two post in the same thread is like watching a tennis match between two bitter enemies. |
Well, it is the flamers ward, and since people have flamed each other on this board for lesser things, I figured I might as well join in on the fun. 
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| Posted by: Lawless | |
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Flutterbywingz said this in post #18 :
Well, it is the flamers ward, and since people have flamed each other on this board for lesser things, I figured I might as well join in on the fun. |
Actaully, you two do this wherever hazel posts on the board.
Flamers Ward or not.... it's like a personal vendetta or something.
Maybe Grant has it right! 
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| Posted by: Flutterbywingz | |
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Lawless said this in post #19 :
Actaully, you two do this wherever hazel posts on the board.
Flamers Ward or not.... it's like a personal vendetta or something.
Maybe Grant has it right! |
Awww, there you are, Lawless. I was starting to think your hate covered heart had disappeared for another few weeks.
A personal vendetta? Uh-huh...
and this would be?

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| Posted by: Flutterbywingz | | And you threatened to ban NikiTa for what comment?
Twisted sister. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | "Gracious, my bones are aching... storm's coming on, Annie. You'd better get home quick."
-HECK! | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Lawless | |
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Flutterbywingz said this in post #20 :
Awww, there you are, Lawless. I was starting to think your hate covered heart had disappeared for another few weeks.
A personal vendetta? Uh-huh...
and this would be?
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My HATE COVERED HEART? My my my, Flutz... do you have a personal problem with me? Decided that it was time to sling some crap-covered mud my way?
Yay, I get to participate in the tennis match! Maybe Heck can keep score of all the points of wastelessness.
I was just saying that I see you and Hazel go at it in many threads... personal observation.
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| Posted by: HECK! | | Well if I'm keeping score, I can tell you it's not Love - Love.
Thank you, I'll be here all night, don't forget to tip your waitress.
-HECK! | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Flutterbywingz | | Do you ever get tired of playing twister, Lawless?
Your intentions, once again, were obvious. Either that, or you are very inarticulate
Once again, remove my name from this board immediately. I did not give you permission, as you already know, to use my name. It is a violation of my privacy. Understand?
I'm starting to like the way you twist. It's amusing, to say the least. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: brochu13 | |
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HECK! said this in post #22 :
"Gracious, my bones are aching... storm's coming on, Annie. You'd better get home quick."
-HECK! |
Tihis had me laughing out loud. Props. 
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| Posted by: Flutterbywingz | | Remove my name, please. You had no right to post it, but, you already knew that, didn't you?
The saddest thing of all is that you got your kicks out of posting my name, even knowing my feelings toward your board lunatic/bigot. If I want to put myself in danger, I'll do that on my own, thank you very much...and on my own terms. Miss lunatic has no right to know my name.
Maybe Grant has it right? Seriously, do you really not see the things you say?
How about your ceaseless harassment of Delta over her spelling? Spelling, Lawless?
When you've got a member on this forum posting his/her delusions about a man showing a child pornography and chainsawed animals, then claims to have found "kitty" porn on your own website's advertisements, then starts a thread asking members to post childhood photos, using the picture of some innocent little girl with big glasses to lure people in, then posts photos of corpses, time and time again, plus spewing countless racist remarks, then posts countless pictures of other people, with different names, claiming to be that person, I just can't figure out why it is that you feel you need to protect this person.
How about the thread where she posted the picture of the Vietnamese girl, claiming to be hazel's sister? Did you not see the title of the picture? It was lifted off the internet. Your board bigot needed a reason to spew yet another racist remark out there, which she did, by lovingly calling her "sister" a chink.
And this latest issue...where she called immigrants and their children filthy. What?
I really want to know what would have happened if someone would have said that they are tired of hearing lesbians and their filthy partners complain about everything, or how Harry Potter was written for mental retards. Seriously, what would have happened?
Remove my name. In fact, Lawless, I want you to forget that you ever knew my name.
In my next life, I want to live in the dark, too. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Flutterbywingz | | yeah, well, just a word of caution to anyone who takes the time to read this, or to care:
Please protect any pictures you may have posted of yourselves and children on this forum. <REMOVED> | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | Wait... are you trying to tell me Harry Potter wasn't written for mental retards. Then my camp leader at the loony house has been full of CRAP!
:::runs off screaming in a dress singing old show tunes while eating peanut butter through a straw:::
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| Posted by: Lawless | | Oh, don't fret, Heck... it was. I mean, MILLIONS of us 'mental retards' flock to read the books.
So, go back to the 'camp' and take your meds... it will all be okay once you do that. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | Whew. Thought I was going more crazy... any more crazy actually I might go sane again.
-HECK! | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Flutterbywingz | | Yes, that's right: Harry Potter wasn't written for mental retards.
I was posing a "what if" question. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | | I had a dog that had close to 18 puppies one time. Some of them died, but most of them made it.
Based on that, I'd say let the woman have 18 kids if she wants. That's Southren LOGIC. Deal with it.  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Invisible | |
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Whew. Thought I was going more crazy... any more crazy actually I might go sane again.
-HECK! |
But if us Harry Potter fans are crazy, how would we know? Maybe we think we're sane and everyone else is crazy! I gotta go...the picture of Jesus on my wall is telling me to go set something aflame.
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| Posted by: HECK! | |
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Invisible said this in post #39 :
But if us Harry Potter fans are crazy, how would we know? Maybe we think we're sane and everyone else is crazy! I gotta go...the picture of Jesus on my wall is telling me to go set something aflame. |
Visy, I know we don't talk much, but you are the peanut butter that is the InReview P&B sandwich fo sho. 
PS I spilled some kind of sticky s from my drink on my keyboard so this is taking like a minute type.
-HECK!
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| Posted by: Invisible | | Heck! Thank you! I'm blushing.
Harry Potter and Jesus are in cohoots! It's one great big darn conspiricy! | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Lawless | | I KNEW IT!!
At least you're let us know, so that we can keep our eyes open on this situation. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Invisible | | Funny how this thread turned from someone having 18 kids to Harry Potter, Evil, Jesus, and Peanut Butter.
I love this place! | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | Speaking of Peanut Butter, I found a book of Snoopy comics the other day. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Lawless | | Man... speaking of Snoopy... now I wanna go in an airplane, and go someplace. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Lawless | | I bet that Snoopy would pull out a pan of lasagna, and Garfield would just bow at Snoops feet!!!! | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | I knew a girl in high school that fed her cat so much it died.
-HECK! | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Lawless | | I knew a girl in high school that ate so much that she... well, you get the picture. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Lawless | | I can't tell you... it's a horrible ending... and it still makes me shudder to think about it.
How about them Dodgers? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | Sorry 'bout that.
Dodgers have been licking boots, Twins are about to sweep. Play the Angels this weekend if I'm not mistaken. First place though, that's cool.
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| Posted by: brochu13 | | wait, did the girl eat herself to death? or explode or something? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: hazel_dragoneye | | [QUOTE]Flutterbywingz said this in post #31 :
[B]Miss lunatic has no right to know my name.
Oh yeah, I'm such a lunatic!!!!! If I did know your name, what good would that do me? How many people in the United States share your name? [COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]When you've got a member on this forum posting his/her delusions about a man showing a child pornography and chainsawed animals
What are you talking about? That episode that I posted about earlier was a coworker of mine showing my daughter photos of child pornography. You have no idea what your talking about when you say I have delusions. Delusions are false beliefs or opinions which does not make any sense in your sentence. If I had delusions, then I would strongly believe that this man was showing my daughter porn but could not prove it or was not true.
"kitty" porn on your own website's advertisements,
then starts a thread asking members to post childhood photos
What are you talking about?
posts photos of corpses, time and time again,
Those photos were on the Iraqi war thread. Does the sight of dead corpses of soldiers and children scare you or does reality?
plus spewing countless racist remarks
I have never made any racist comments about any race on this board? The only close comment that I have made is that Hispanics have many filthy children and it is not a racist comment. I have not said that Hispanics were inferior or stupid; it is the truth. They like to have more children so that they could support themselves and have grown up in larger families as well.
I just can't figure out why it is that you feel you need to protect this person.
I can't figure it what you have against me. You have called me a lunatic, a potential killer and even a racist, bigot. What have I ever done to you? I even apologized for my said comment, but you would not accept that. It doesn't matter now. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Flutterbywingz | | Oh, for the love of God.
So, you're not delusional, then, you're just a compulsive liar?
No, I do quite well with reality, Casey, Theresa, Eleanor, or whatever your name is today.
So, yeah, I do have a problem with you even knowing my first name.
You just don't make sense and your claims just don't add up. And, yeah, the things you have displayed on this forum are alarming.
I made a promise to some people at INReview, and I intend to honor that promise (even though I'm biting my ever-loving tongue), so if you would like to discuss this further, utilize private messaging.
http://www.inreview.com/showthread....d=34#post620543 | | Reply To this Message
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