The family must be destroyed

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a)'Incubator of neurosis'
b) Valuing one's DNA so much that one believes the world needs more of it = root of every social ill or at least all irrational behaviour?
c) Imagine what we could spend all our lovely money on, instead of taxes for endless "schools and hospitals"(BORRRRINNNNGG!!) Think how much fun we could have if we didn't have to work so hard on making the world safe for kiddies and dull enough to have a 12 certificate.
d) Having parents teaches people to accept flaws in other human beings, and frankly, the world needs a little less of THAT.

No offense meant to anyone here...

― dave q, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Destroy the family? Why bother? Most families, including mine, seem to do a perfectly good job of destroying themselves. No outside help required.

― Kate the Saint, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

i 2nd kate - families are funny yet self destructive.

― Geoff, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Prediction for Tarden's next namechange: "Fotherington Tomas hullo sky hullo trees"

No offense indeed.

― mark s, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I like mine far too much and they're very nice. I'll opt out of the plan, though I know some families that would in fact benefit from destruction...

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

yeh, i get on fine with mine too, although i have some friends with rather unsavoury relatives

― gareth, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

My God, won't someone please think of the children!

― tOM p, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I do. Then I wish them all dead, DEAD! Well, maybe not all.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I like my parents. My father is a take-no-shit chemist and my mother is a passive-aggressive librarian with a heart of gold. Both of them have impeccable manners and are ultra-supportive of their kids. There were times when I chafed under the yoke of their disapproval, but it was mostly my fault for listening to them in the first place; now that I'm an adult, their rules are now suggestions and the whole thing runs much smoother, at least from my end.

The dud thing is that, because neither of them is overly demonstrative, my wife tends to extrapolate her parents' view of what's going on in our lives onto them, regardless of what they say or how they say it. Her parents are EXTREMELY negative, which can be kind of wearying.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

<=i>= Prediction for Tarden's next namechange: "Fotherington Tomas hullo sky hullo trees"<=/i>=<=p>=hy,is ""Dave Q." some literary reference we're supposed to recognise?

― duane, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

(i hav e no idea what happened there)(you can tell what it's supposed to say though eh)

― duane, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

(oh yeah, & i like my family too. i'm not gonna start another one tho)

― , Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

My father left me when i was 12 and moved up north. He has lived a year in Winnipeg but loves the arctic so much he does not move south of Yellowknife. This is good because he and i do nor get along . Really too similar on alot of counts. My folks treated me like an equal when i was old enough to string together a sentence.

― anthony, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I pretty much stopped speaking to my father after he took my mother to America (LA to Florida to New York) to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary and then waited until the final day of their two- week holiday to announce that he didn't love her any more and wanted a divorce - and that he had made his mind up about this some months earlier. I get along great with mother, sister and most of the extended family though.

― scott, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Careful, I think the FBI automatically monitors any thread about The Family. Of my family members I like my Godfather the best. And frankly if you disrespect him....

― Pete, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Jeez, Scott. At least tell me you slugged him or something, what a bastard.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

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