pic of kids/pets on desktop/phone

people who do this, what is the deal?

Isn't this 50% of all people.

i like to imagine that they're quietly horrified by people who don't have a pic of their kids or pets on their desk top or phone, who they secretly suspect to be unfeeling monsters.

They love their kids/pets perhaps.

got a pic of dooniver strand on my phone, keem bay on desktop, kinda do think kids/puppies on yr workstuff can be nagl, depending on the pic maybe

on my old phone i had a couple of pics of Hannah the deal was they cheered me up when i was feeling shit

ages ago i saw a dog walker (obv not the best at his job) at earls court tube platform waiting around with a great assortment of like seven diff dogs chilling (spaniel, husky, black lab, yorkie etc, all sizes you name it) so i had a photo of that as my phone background for a while

why cos dogs idk

what picture do you have on your phone/desktop, tracer?

i will take your lack of response to mean that you are quietly changing your picture of Michael Jordan to a picture of a Lamborghini Countach.

Trayce, I shared your confusion until quite recently. Then I was away from home on business when aero jr.'s mom reported that he had taken to removing all the books from a given shelf and strewing them around the room. I was struggling with heavy depression that'd been eating at me since October, with nearly 2 weeks still to go before I'd get to go home. I set the picture of aero jr. destroying the bookshelf as my desktop. Picture gave me an automatic mood improvement about ten times a day, which I needed. Gigantic baby laying waste to some books, fuck yes. I don't think about other people's desktops in a "where's your pictures of your kid??" way, who gives a shit what other people have on their phones imo but that's the deal w/the baby pic on my phone.

is aero jr in fact gigantic tho

aero, jr. is big enough to strew books about the room now?

I wouldn't do this in a work setting, but I have done this on my PC. My thinking - I like the mister's face, it is a good face, I like to look at it.

Also, pictures of pets - animals are cute, I like to look at them.

It's quite simple, really.

emil.y + aero otm. seeing pictures of people i love makes me happier.

when work is shitty it's nice to have a pic of my daughter and wife to remind me why i'm putting up with the shittiness of work

BUT I GUESS I'M JUST A BIG FUCKING WEIRDO, WHAT IS MY DEAL

I have had a picture of my kids on my laptop for ages but the desktop is so cluttered I don't really see them

yeah I really don't question this -- esp work desktops when maybe it helps ease that bummertown feeling of going to work all day and not seeing yr babby. not all parents feel that way but some do and I think it's nice

Tracer Hand, what is the deal?

this is fine, i used to do it, rn i'm more into the nasa picture of the day. i can see how it can be kind of clingy or like an identity declaration thing but uh judging someone along those lines is nagl because like lots of people have said it basically cheers people up. unless they have annoying sayings/maxims pinned up all over their walls too, then judge all you want i say.

i wish tracer would elaborate, i don't get how this could be perceived as weird. is it weird in some ultra-heteronormative wife + 2.3 kids pleasantville way or...? what am i missing.

maybe if yuppie resentment could be captured in a single image tracer would understand wanting a visual reminder of the thing you love best close at hand

I only wouldn't do this in a workplace because my experience with workplaces is that I want co-workers to know as little as is humanly possible about me, and leave me the hell alone. I don't have a problem with anyone else doing it.

http://benigngirl.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/yuppie_inside1.jpg

people can be weird about desktop wallpaper. I had this Traum wallpaper of birds for awhile and people would be like "oh so you're really into birds?". No, I just like the pic.

i think there's a certain kind of advertisement in the way certain people do it (esp. somewhere like the workplace) that has overtones of other motivations beyond "i like looking at a picture of this person regularly because i like them." generally more than one photo displayed proudly between candy jars and scented candles, idk. which yes can be off-putting if you happen to be single/a single woman/a single childless woman/a partnered childless woman/a gay person not blessed with the miracle of children.

I understand perfectly, I have a picture of Daniel Agger on my work desktop.

a childless man even xp

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otm

what if you have a pic of yrself as a kid
is that double-yahtzee gross or

this is awkward

pictures of yourself are always acceptable imo

Updated version of wallet photos, I figure.

My phone has a pic of my 2 nephews wearing googly eyes, which amuses when I check it for the time during a stressful day at some customer's paper plant, wood shop, etc

why aren't coupled ppl more sensitive to single ppl? what a human tragedy.

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emil.y + aero otm. seeing pictures of people i love makes me happier.

― Mordy, Friday, January 18, 2013 12:46 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

when work is shitty it's nice to have a pic of my daughter and wife to remind me why i'm putting up with the shittiness of work

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BUT I GUESS I'M JUST A BIG FUCKING WEIRDO, WHAT IS MY DEAL

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OTM OTM OTM I just had a baby a week ago and mmediately put his adorable face all over the place because I'm super proud fuiud

psh, that's my C game. xp

tracer's desktop:

http://www.wallpaperpimper.com/wallpaper/Landscape/Mountain/Blue-Mountains-2-800x600.jpg

At previous gig, I had a photo sent in by a customer of their cat at their front door looking out, right by a sticker for the alarms/security systems place I worked.

Why because watch cat is funny

Tracer's desktop:

http://www.punknews.org/images/bands/nodoubt-1336417497.jpg

lol al

I've got a picture of my cat on my iphone because I didn't know what else to put on there. (I used to have the borderline between Kansas and Colorado.)

I keep random pix of the kids in my personal folder here at work. Always neat to go in there looking for something and haha I forgot I had that picture of Beeps holding the cat, love that girl.

don't u think lolcat photos are kinda insensitive to the hypoallergenic?

i think i used the word hypoallergenic wrong. serves me right.

The cats photo background on my phone is a photobomb