9mo ago

"Why won't my adult children talk to me anymore?"

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"Why can't you give up untold amounts of money, free time, peace/quiet, lack of stress, and freedom so I can have my grandkids around for a few hours a week? Stop being so selfish."
- Also, why don't you want to bring new human beings in a world that we have destroyed, that will struggle when I'll be gone and you'll be powerless to help? So selfish
  
  Fake news promised FEMA camps staffed by Obama death panels if ACA ever passed...
  WE GOT THE ACA... BRING THE FUCKING CAMPS FEDS!
- These are also the people who either disappear anytime their kids need help with the kids, or else were such terrible parents they're the last person on earth their kids would leave alone with their children.
  
  Replace the "or else" with an "and" and you are describing my parents.

Now I want a "my grandchildren are still in my selfish sons huge balls"
- You know what's fucked?
  Women can say that babies make their ovaries twitch and that's totally fine.
  But if a man says that babies make their dick hard, everyone loses their mind.
  What's that all about?
  
  I mean, we don't get off through stimulating our ovaries for one lmao
  
  double standards
- That's not how testicles work.
  
  Not with that attitude
  
  It's not how ovaries work either. Where's the comment about that?
- Porn title if every I saw one
- Now I want a "my grandchildren are still in my selfish sons ~~huge balls~~" sock

I don't know if I find it more abhorrent that someone would proudly display an opinion so needlessly angry, or that there exists a company that is profiting off these assholes by providing such a miserable sticker.
- It's a lot of words to say "I'm a selfish asshole."
- I'm okay with the print company. It lets us see from a distance what kind of asshole we're dealing with.
- There are places you can design your bumper sticker. And if you have a good enough printer you can print them yourself
  
  Today? In this economy? With these printer ink prices???
- Sticker companies will sell blue lives matter and ACAB merch.
  
  Sometimes in the same transaction.
  
  And yet I've never seen "Boob Lives Matter"........Where is the Dolly Parton representation???

Well your generation made housing unobtainable.. Play a stupid game win a stupid prize
- And healthcare is exorbitantly expensive.
  
  You mean all this racist objection to common sense healthcare and using housing as an investment vehicle have consequences?
  
  Even just childcare is super expensive and hard to come by.
  https://childcaredeserts.org/

Wow, the cognitive dissonance of calling your daughter selfish...

I guess saying it’s in my selfish son’s ballsack wouldn’t have the same effect.
- Yeah, because all of the pee that’s stored there, right?
- But.....that's realistically where they ACTUALLY are. If the grandchild is already inside the daughters overies, that means she's already pregnant. Which means, in order to be selfish, that would mean she's just NOT allowing a 9+ month old child to be born. Like the contractions start, and the mother shoves her hand in, and shoves the kid back up there.
  "Oh no you don't! You STAY in there!!! I don't care if it's been 96 months! MOMMIES STILL PREGNANT!!!"
  
  Okay, there are just multiple layers of bad women's anatomy in the original post and in the comments.
  Eggs are in the ovaries. Without hormonal birth control, generally one egg (but sometimes more and sometimes none) is released from the ovary, travels down the fallopian tube, and if it is fertilized, implants in the uterus. If it is not fertilized, it passes out of the uterus, the uterine lining is shed (that's menstruation), and the process repeats the following month.
  There is no "grandchild" in an ovary, any more than there is a "grandchild" in a testicle.
  And if a fertilized egg implants anywhere outside the uterus, that's an ectopic pregnancy -- which is not viable because only the uterus has the capability to grow with and provide nourishment to a developing fetus. Not only that, but ectopic pregnancies are generally fatal to the mother (or however that person identifies).
  
  I mean, the kids are neither in a ballsack nor the ovaries.
  If you consider a fertilized egg a child, which you shouldn't, they would be in the uterus.
  If it's inside an ovary, the mother's going to die.

Obviously this person was too selfish to have enough children to produce grandchildren.

My selfish daughter won't go through childbirth, and raise a child to adulthood and beyond in a world that is getting harder to live in so I can be "gran-gran." The bitch. /s
- Are you sure it isn't "Grandpa?" Because that's how I read it.
  
  Nah, grandpa probably low-key wants some grandkids but that kind of open pressure is nearly always mother -> daughter.
  
  A wannabe pop-pop on the loose.

there are quite a few people who seem to want to be mothers more than they want to actually have kids.
- Some of our programming is hard to resist. If it wasn't, there would be a lot less of us around!
  
  I mean no offence but I find your username horrifying.
  
  I would be ok with there being less of us around. I would be VERY ok with that.
  
  But fewer humans would be a good thing. We’re not going anywhere, might as well live within reason.

These boomers are lucky we are civilized enough to NOT take the matter into our own hands to save social security and permit proper economic distrbution of resource so normal couple can have kids.
Truly fucking clueless.
Regime bootlickers won't acknowledge that many people are NOT having kids due to failed social policy their beloved owners and their regimes whores got going for us.
- Wait how is that civilized? It seems like we have a coordination problem but should totally do it.

I will just never understand the desire people have to be in total control of others.
- Yes it's my children who are selfish! Never me, couldn't be me at all

That is so gross

As a selfish daughter, I think this is hilarious tbh.
But I also have a mother who understands and fully supports my and my partner's reproductive choices and I probably would not feel that way if circumstances were different.

please stop being selfish and suffer 360 days of the year so that I can play with my grandchildren the remaining 5 days

Y'all reacting to this with no context or anything.
I'm sure most of us know someone who would 100% give a sticker like this jokingly to their parent, and the parent thinking it'd be a laugh to slap on the car.
I sure as hell do.
So for all y'all know, this is a joke that you arent in on and getting pissed over.
- Waiting for context? In MY internet?!

Then just make a new kid yourself, mister/missus, and show you daughter how it's done.

Dude I'd love to have kids but I'm fuckin broke with no career. The selfish thing for me to do is have kids anyway and leave them with my parents.

Jesus, this is insane.

I mean, yeah. These are the kind of people whose skeletons should be found on the couch in front of a still running television by whoever shows up to evict them for failure to pay taxes because they didn't have anyone in their lives willing and able to put them in a home.
Bedsore Meadows is the luxurious death option.

I hope he daughter has gone no contact. If you want kids this bad, adopt.

I feel like there are a ton of assumptions being made in this comment section. When I first saw it I thought it was funny and imagined a much more light hearted relationship between that woman and her daughter.
- Someone that places a sticker that unaligned on their car can't be a good person! /s
- I could see someone (maybe me when we were younger) trolling my Dad by putting this on his car for him to find.

You can already imagine what this lady/guy looks and acts like in her/his daily life.
- A wrinkly bag of entitlement, with obnoxious earrings and bad teeth.

I'd disown her

Plot twist. Daughter is 12

I hope he daughter has gone no contact. If you want kids this bad, adopt.

I still have no idea how to pronounce Hyundai.
Hee-un-dai?
Hi-un-dai?
Hunt-dai?
Hu-in-dai?
Hin-dai?
- Hi-yun-dai is what I've always said, but I've heard that Hyoon-dai is more "official".
- I usually pronounce it "hun-dai" or "off-brand honda"
- It's Hyundai, like Sunday according to their Super Bowl ad
- The name of the company is the Korean word for "Modernity". It is pronounced like "Yun" with an "H" in front of it. Or "Hun", but with the "Y" from "Yum" after the H.
  To the best of my knowledge, there's no English word or phrase that uses this combination. "He Yawn Day" is pretty close, but slur the first two words together into a single syllable, and make it rhyme with "Sunday"
  The wikipedia page for Hyundai has a recording of the correct pronunciation.
- Were it korean, it would probably be Hyun-dai.
- We say “Yan-dai”

People just assuming bad faith, I would totally get a "my grandchildren are in my selfish son's balls" sticker for my parents if it weren't a wierd thing to put on a car.

Come on, that's funny.

It's a joke.
Sorry! BOOMER BAD! (please with the upvotes now)
- jokes are supposed to be funny
- Sure, but it still a bit much to put on your car. I don't have ovaries but I don't think I'd like to see my parent have this if I did.
  "my children are thrown away in a tissue" doesn't quite have the same ring to it
- Go back to reddit you troll.
- I assume this person’s daughter is ok with the bumper sticker.
  
  I don't even assume this person has a daughter. For all we know, they have a non-binary child and wish them "happy daughter's day" every year. Not that I have a mom like that or anything /projection
  
  I wouldn't assume that. What a horrible position to be in. I could see my mother slapping this on and exclaiming GET IT IT'S A JOKE?! Which, how does a reasonable person respond to that? Most would probably wince and move on, while mom is gleefully unaware at how much it hurts her daughter.
  And we haven't even gotten to what if daughter can't have children and is too ashamed to admit it!
  
  I assure you they are very likely not... Or they disowned them so they don't give a shit

Overreacting much op?
Some people beat their kids and abuse them. These parents made a corny joke that nobody would have batted an eye at 10 years ago. Not that big a deal
- Jokes are supposed to be funny. Where funny?
  
  Has every joke your parent or family made funny? And if the joke wasn't funny, did you cut them out of your life and abandon them?

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