hey all!
I thought since we all get bingoed we could make this into a game! heres how it goes...
lets say I start off with:

But its just not natureal not to want kids!

then someone else post a come back like:

Whats so natureal about having kids and not giving a [censored] about them?

then You would post another bingo:

Well your not a real woman until you have a baby!

any one can get pregnat half the jr high girls are pregnat does that make the REAL WOMEN?

bingo

Oh you will change your mind when your clock starts ticking....

your turn comeback and another bingo

go!

My clock's nearly done ticking and I haven't changed it yet!

Bingo!

But who'll take care of you when you're old?

go!

Well, I guess I will have to be a big girl and take care of myself! I am An Adult and all! plus I would hate to be a burden on my children like so many of those poor souls that have there kids fighting over who gets what and when and all the while the parent is draining the life out of one child who wont get anything because he or she was never the favorit....

Bingo:

Well you Dont have Kids so you can work the holidays and weekend oh yeah and you get the night shift to because you dont have a family to take care of!

go!

Well you can work those shift yourself since your kids are going to the babysetters anyways so you can go party because My husband and need time together with out family and friends!

Bingo

Who's going to carry on the family name if you dont have kids?

My husband's brother has two sons. I'm sure at least one of them will have kids. Plus, there are more of them with the same last name in Spain.

Bingo.

Since you're an only child, don't you feel bad that your poor mother won't have any grandchildren?

No, I don't have kids but I still have a family that needs my attention (significant other/pets), errands to run,a home to care for, and ailing elderly parents to care for on weekends, holidays, and at night to give my sister a break. So my weekends, holidays, and nights are already booked.

Bingo:

When you meet the right man (or woman) you will want to give them a child.

When I meet the right man, he won't want children thus he won't want me to give him a child. Seriously, some men actually like retaining a sense purpose in life that doesn't mean they become a walking bank teller handing out money so that the wife can stay home with a screaming baby.

Bingo: But you'd make such a great parent.

The only thing that I would make a good parent to are my animals. I have neither the patience nor the desire to parent a child.

Bingo: But we need more smart people like you having kids!

Yes, I am smart enough to know that having kids is not for me and that parenting is not what I want to do. I am smart enough to know this, to have thought it through and to have made an adult decision, whether it is a popular one or not.

Bingo: But how can you NOT want a baby? Babies are just so cute and so fun!

Bingo: But how can you NOT want a baby? Babies are just so cute and so fun!

So are my furbabies..and they won't grow up and require a total of $300,00 to raise (not incuding college).

Bingo:

Don't you want children to validate your marriage or relationship and make it stronger?

Funnily enough, the last divorce statistics I read, 70% of them involved children under the age of seven. Guess that having kids didn't make those people's marriages strong or valid, huh?

Bingo :

But what if your child was the next Einstein?

What if my child was the next Hitler or Charles Manson?

Bingo:

You know if you don't have a child once it's too late you will regret it and be miserable/unfulfilled for the rest of your life!

I know quite a few CF people who don't regret it and none who do. They have more time and money to travel and they have hobbies and their marriages are stronger.

Bingo:

But don't you want to see what your kids would look like?

They have machines in Las Vegas for that. And damn, they're ugly little suckers too! I'm glad they're not real!

Bingo :

You were a child once, you know!!

Yes, and I'd never want to put someone I loved through that!

Bingo:

Since your brother and SIL are having a baby, don't you want to provide a cousin for their baby to play with/grow up with?

GO!

No.. I've seen the mistake they are making and don't intend to make the same one...If they want their brat to play with someone.. they can have more than one....

Bingo:

Look, the only reason you don't want kids is because you are vain and selfish and worry about your body... don't you realise that children are the future?

Well the more children people have, the worse off the future will be--our planet can't handle the population overload!!!

Bingo:

Don't you know having a child will make you a mature, 'real' person?

Actually I think having a mortgage and paying bills makes me a mature, responsible person.

Bingo:
It's different when it's your own!

Sure is! You can't give them back, walk out the door, and go home!

Bingo :


But why would you bother getting married, if you don't want kids?

My husband and I got married because we love each other, and wanted to enjoy the legal benefits of marriage. By that logic, people who are infertile or too old to have kids shouldn't get married?

Bingo:

You must hate kids if you don't want any!

Go!

I like well-behaved kids who are courteous, respectful, and friendly. There are no guarantees that any kid I have will have the ability to be a "good" kid.

Bingo:

What if your parents thought the same way?

Then we wouldn't be having this pointless conversation, would we?!

Bingo:
But you're so SELFISH for not having kids!

there are many parents who are selfish and their children suffer BECAUSE of it.
Choosing not having children does not make a person selfish AT ALL.

Here is another Bingo...

Bingo: Well, you say you don't want kids - luckily, you are still young enough to change your mind. At least there is still time.

WRONG: The hubby got a vasectomy. No oopsies or mind changing in this house.

Bingo:

Don't you feel guilty that your mom will never be a grandmother since you're an only child?

She made her choices, I'm making mine. I choose no. If my mother wants to spend time with kids, she can always hang out at the playground.

Bingo : (from a recent thread)

But don't you feel sorry for all those baby souls out there, waiting to be born?

I'm an atheist.

Bingo:

Childbirth is a woman's greatest achievement!

No.

Bingo:
But all NORMAL people want children!

Who wants to be normal? I want to love my life whether it conforms to what society considers normal or not.

Bingo:

If everyone thought like you, the human race would die out.

Looking at all these teenagers popping out babies left and right, I don't think we have to worry about that.

Bingo:

Who will take care of you when you're old?

I guess your kids because by then they will like me better then you so who is going to take care of you?

Bingo
Having a baby is good for your health and if you dont have kids then you will get breast cancer and overian cancer....

Look at the number of mothers with those diseases, they don't just strike the child-free. Given that that's only one of the risk factors, I'll take my chances and focus on diet and stress reduction to avoid them.

Bingo:
But having a baby will make you feel like a "real" family.

And we all know that families with kids *always* stay together (sarcastically).

Bingo!

It is wrong not to breed.

Well, I'm in the clear then since I breed rare sheep.

Bingo:
But you'll never know what true love is until you have a child.

But didn't you say that when you got married?


Bingo:

You're missing out on so much of life!

no you are just trying to make your self feel better because your jeolous of my life!

bingo:

Why are you so abnormal?

What's so great about "normal"?

Bingo:

You will regret it!

Not as much as I would having to raise some hellion for 18+ years!

bingo:

Do it for your parents sake?

oh now theres a flash having sex for your parents sake....no sex for me to night...what kind of freak does that? YUCK!

bingo:

you have to have kids to fit into society

What are ya, a sheep?

(no offense Llyn)

Bingo:

It's the only way to become a complete woman.

Yes, because popping out munchkins has obviously made you so "complete." If misery, near poverty, and constant exhaustion for 18+ years comprise a complete life, I'll take mine in pieces, thanks.

(OR: I've already got a part missing. I'll never be complete again without that part of my knee cap. *sigh* So why bother with kids?)

Bingo:

Don't you want genetic immortality?

Hell no! I dont like this life in my life time and I dont see it improving any time soon so why would I want Immortality of any kind???

OR lmao I have seen you Genetic legicy and I think they are going to distroy the world in my life time so I want to enjoy it while it last!

bingo:

But as a white woman you are oblegated to have babies to preserve the "White Race"!!!

So....which are you - a Racist Bigot or a Nazi?

Bingo:

How can you say you don't want kids? Everybody wants kids!

If everybody wanted kids, the world would be even more overpopulated than it already is!

Bingo: Maybe you have more money because you don't have kids, but money can't give you a hug or bring you a dandelion or say I love you Mommy!

The money isn't the reason I choose not to have children. They simply don't interest me, regardless of how cute other people might find them.

Bingo :

Who will keep the family traditions alive if you don't have children?

What traditions? We have Traditions other the watching TV and ignoring the rest of the family? or Drinking till we kill our livers and die? I think the world can go on just fine with out that!

or in general: What Traditions? Why would I can if a ritual lives on anyways? besides I didnt keep my moms habits!


Bingo

You cant just sit at home and watch soaps and Opra all day and eat bon bons for the rest of your life you have to grow up and be a Productive citizen and contribute to the commen good of all.

I don't sit at home watching Opra all day. I have a full time job, I volunteer, and I have hobbies too. I'm very busy living a busy and fulfilling life.

Bingo:

The first time your kid says "mama" (or "dada") your heart will just melt. It will all be worth it.

Oh but my heart melts just fine when your kids say bye bye! That is very satisfing to me and fullfilling! that is enough for me! there little faces saying bye bye bye bye as they walk out of my sight oh I just cant take any more joy or I will bust! (wipe fake tears off face and sniffle) Sigh.

Bingo:

but if you had kids of your own you would feel young again! Kids make you young!

Really? That must be why all the parents I know look exhausted, overweight, unconcerned with what they wear, and 10 years older than their chronological age (hey, if they are rude enough to hit you with a bingo, all's fair).

Bingo:

I didn't know what love was until I had a kid.

REALLY? You didn't first love the man you created that baby with? That's revolting, actually.

Bingo:

People will think you're gay if you don't have kids.

I am sorry you desrived better parents I hope you dont screw your kids up as bad as they scewed you up!

Bingo;
(I have actualy just been told this one!)

you have to have kids for a good sex life. Every time you have a baby the doctor sows your twahoo up and he can add a few stitches so you are tighter then before and you dont get wore out and loose!

(I cant wait to see what you come up with!)

Ak! I'm sorry, I need a break to go barf over that one!!

Ah, if you never have a kid, it never gets worn out or loose.

And, yeah, barf. WHO said that to you? Ick! It's none of their damn business what your vejayjay situation is. Ick!

Bingo:

If you never have kids, you'll never have grandkids!

OK... I'm waiting for the bad news. Is there a downside in there somewhere? 'Cause I don't see it.

bingo:
(I've actually gotten this one)
"You'll be completely different after you have kids. Your type always is. You won't be so caught up in the little things."
(This was a loose reference to what I tend to focus on in my life: my man, my cat, my job, and my writing.)

I will be different... I will be miserable... stressed out... broke... and I will forget what my wife looks like naked... and those little things (kids) are exactly what you seem to be caught up in.



What kind of person doesn't want to make a life? Without kids there will be noone there to remember you.

Well, I don't even know the names of my great-grandparents... so no one remembers them either, I guess. Plus my friends and their kids will remember me. But I won't care if I'm remembered -- I'll be dead. And if I really want to leave a legacy I'll write a book or something.

Bingo:
Don't you want to feel needed?

I AM needed! My dogs need me for love food shelter and to get rid of there fleas. My husband needs me for love and friendship as well as sex, and my friends need me to keep them sane. I dont need to FEEL needed I am needed and wanted and loved! That is more important to me.

(oh yeah the little remark about having kids so my twhoo ha is tighter...that came from a church board member and HE told my husband that he should get me pregnat so the dr would have reason to sow me up tighter then I was before! BARK!!! the guy give me the creeps anyways... my husband told him that It was too bad thy didnt make Viagra back when he was younger... It might have saved his wife from having so many kids.....!!! I love my hubby! he is such a SMART [censored]!!!

Bingo!

Children get you out of the house and make you more social! you need kids to make friends!

no you're more likely to be isolated and too busy to have a social life as your child will always come first. You are likely to cancel plans, rush home early or be unable to get a babysitter in time which would limit going out and make it harder to maintain friendships.

Bingo!

"Accidents happen!!! *breeder smirk*"

Not to us. The hubby got fixed. (That always shuts them up.)

Bingo:

But don't you want to be like everyone else? You'll have nothing in common with your friends.

Guess I'll have to find new friends then. The 25% of the female population that isn't going to have children might be a great place to start looking for some.

Bingo :

People like you need to have kids. Otherwise those Muslim types will take over the world, they all have five.

WOW the WHOLE MUSLIM population only have five kids? WOW I need to find more Muslims to hang out with! they must not have the born to breed gene!

(I am soo Sorry to an Muslims that I may have offend with this come back!)

bingo:

you need kids so you can make them do your housework and you can do other things.....

I've got no comeback for that one....I thought that was what kids were good for?





Bingo:
Won't you feel weird when everyone else is having babies?

Nah, I'll just put my feet up and have a beer or two, since no one else will be able to



Bingo: Why can't you stop using birth control and just let God decide if you should have a child?

Uh, because I'm an atheist and I don't believe in God.

Bingo:
But your DH would make such a great dad. It would be cruel to deny him children. (No kidding, my MIL actually said this to me!!)

He chose to marry me and I was very up front about the fact that I've always been CF. ::Gasp!:: Could it actually be he's CF too? ::Shudder!::

Bingo:
You'll be so lonely in your old age. Who are you going to have Thanksgiving dinner with, your dogs? (I actually overheard my cousin telling my future SIL this at my bridal shower! They both laughed and laughed, thinking they knew better.)

At least the dogs would be there and more attentive and caring than the children that would not be there, because they were 5 states away and busy with their own lives!

Bingo:

Just wait until you have kids of your own...

Thanksgiving dinner with my dogs sounds wonderful. They love turkey! When they're happy, I'm happy.

Or, I'll invite my friends and neighbors over like I do now anyway.

Bingo:

But kids will keep you young.

Is that the sleepless nights, constant worrying, no time to myself and having to work AND parent in order to afford their education that is supposed to keep me young? Funny, I find that going to the theatre, travelling the world, having plenty of sleep, spending fun times with my niece and godson, and staying up to date with new technology in my job in entertainment keeps me pretty young myself.

Bingo:

There's nothing like the smell of a freshly bathed baby and feeling their lovely soft skin.


(ps - brilliant thread! It's such good practice!)

Uhmmm, actually, to me there is nothing like the smell of freshly washed laundry, the ocean, or fresh cut grass. Bathed baby...not so much.

Bingo:
Kids are what make the holidays. Before we had our kids, the holidays were just so empty. (I used to always get this one at Christmas gatherings watching the kids open presents).

Well you must be f@cking boring people with no friends.

Bingo:

If YOU were a parent, you'd understand what I'm talking about.

....or even THIS bingo --your choice... (straight from TMC)


"Hey biotch,

hope buying all that expensive 'stuff' makes you feel better about your empty life. Keep telling me about all your material possessions because I really care and am *so* envious (-please note sarcasm-). Seriously, I think you're pathetic. I may not have all those things (need I remind you that they are just things), but I have so much more. :P"

I'm glad that you think that you have more and that my things are just meaningless. Please tell all the charities that we donate to that you think their work is meaningless and your giving birth to one more mouth to feed is so much more worthwhile. Also, your attitude is scary. I do hope that you don't pass that judgemental framework onto your children.

Bingo: Doesn't your marriage feel meaningless without children?

No. I got married because I wanted to make a commitment to my spouse, to be his family. We don't have to have children to give our relationship meaning. Sharing life's ups and downs and supporting each other as well as helping others does that for us.

(Duane's Bingo got skipped, so here it is)
Bingo:
Just wait until you have kids of your own.

nope sorry I got fixed ^_^

bingo!

But I always wanted a son! (actual bingo by an ex, blergh!)

Yes, but would the son want YOU? Ever think about that? Oh, no you didn't - you only thought about what YOU'D get out of it...

Bingo: Having children has made me a different person.

Well i would do notice that you didnt say better person but if you ment better I would hate to see the BITC# you were before you had them!

Bingo

Kids make you more respectible.

A rare case of Frieda and myself simultaneously bingo-posting.

T'is OK ... I dinna mind.

I wanted to answer part of Cookie's bingo, since it was two-fold: "...but money can't give you a hug or bring you a dandelion or say I love you Mommy!"

Answer: "The hugs and 'I love you's' I share with family and friends keep the home fires burning without the 25-year commitment to support them. And whatever flowers I don't buy myself, my BF fills in on days he wants to surprise me. It's quite perfect."

And now to answer freespirit: Respectable? If I were running for public office, I'd look into it. But I'm not, and I have all the respect I need in my job, my hobbies, my friendships and my relationship with my BF.

Bingo: With kids, you get to relive your youth!

Relive it? I'm still working on my own, and it's soooo much fun!

Bingo :

Friends won't stick by you like family does.

Yeah well unfortunatly, some family sticks TO you rather than BY you, as exemplified by my friend who still has a dead-beat 23-year-old son living with them -- no job, no school, and who has wrecked two cars. Another friend's son can't seem to stay out of jail, but on the off occasion he gets out on parole, guess where he goes? Home to momma! I'd move overseas, personally. Oh, and might I remind you that Jeffrey Dahmer and Charles Manson were sons once, too?

Bingo: With children, you do give a lot, but you get so much more in return.

But you also PUT UP with a lot. Small things (loud children/ babies, nights of homework, organizing your child's life to the last detail, etc.....) to bigger things (loss of personal space/freedom, tightening of the purse strings, possible distance from your partner/spouse, etc.....)

Bingo: Without children, you will miss out on a lot of joy in life.

I have a lot of joy in my life as it is. Plus, if you DO have kids there is a lot of joy you'll miss out on--like traveling, peaceful quiet romantic evenings, long and deep conversations with your SO, etc.

Bingo: You know having children is the biggest gift of self you can give--don't you want to become truly selfless?

I went to church and was a missionary for a time so I have done selfless and being a slave is not all that it is cracked up to be thanks anyways!


bingo


the only thing women are good for is having kids and housework. You are a failure as a woman. if you dont have kids you are only living up to maybe half your potental.

oh yeah I got this one from a preacher when I was about 14. I cried not because he hurt my feeling but because it hurt so much not to punch him with all I had!

Hey preacher, the 1950's called, they want you back. Ever heard of the feminist movement? Women are more than human incubators and domestic slaves. Cook your own damn dinner!

Bingo:
Don't you want to pass on all your knowledge/experience onto future generations?

That's what books are for. They're more reliable, too and cost far less to reproduce.


Bingo: Kids are not as much trouble as you think...you're so negative without having even tried the experience.


ROFLMAO!

No, they're MORE trouble than I think. And I know myself pretty well to know what things I like and what things I don't like.

Bingo:

Don't you want a little you running around?

Heck half the time i dont want me running around it interfers with my nap time! I dont want a little hubby running a round either his is all the kid i need! two would be one to many! and to combind us into one small child would just be crul and unusual punishment on all of us!

Bingo:

dont you want to make your moma pround? She needs little grandbabies to make her happy and your the only one who can give her them....

Im an only child so I get this one alot...

My mother is mature enough to find her own fulfilment, thank you very much.

Bingo:

But what will you and your husband talk about if you don't have babies? (I've actually been on the receiving end of this one.)

Surprisingly, because we don't have children we have time for fun things called "interests" and "hobbies". We can then share those with each other and talk about what's happened in our day. We also can discuss world events, which in our eyes are more important than discussing little Johnny's day on the potty or how much he threw up.


Bingo: Your lives must be so empty (accompanied by a little sympathetic shake of the head).

I'll take the "emptiness" of being able to do one thing: RELAX ... in the evenings/weekends for hours on end if I wish, without worrying about the kids being "too quiet" or expecting "Mommmie!!! Johnny took my Hot Wheels!"

Bingo:

My kids are the most important thing in my life! You do NOT know what you are missing out on!

Well lets see there is the getting up way earily in the morning to fight to get them up and ready for school then making breakfast for them and cooking and cleaning and runny may [censored] off before I can go to work and work my [censored] off there and then picking them up from school fight with them to get there homework done while cooking dinner then bathing them and fighting them to go to bed. of course this is all on top of staying up all night with baby and watching changing baby diapers and feeding baby and burping baby. oh and the babysetter but being dependible so I am late for work and have to take off earily to pick up kids because I cant trust the sitter to do it. oh and then the kids come up pregnat or in some other troble and dont move out until I die... What have I missed? Did I leave anything out? Oh yes there is the mommie day card and the funny barf stories and the endless pictures I would have to tell and carry around to PROVE how happy I am and con others to be just like me because I cant stand them to remind me how my life sucks and how much I hate having kids. I did forget that one.

Bingo

you can play with kids or go to the movies for kids or even the park with out people thinking your a prev.

(Personaly I just borrow my friends kids but.. I would Like a better comeback because this one just invites more bingos...)

Um, I don't actually WANT to play with kids or go to movies for kids, thanks - I'm a bit busy with other things. And as far as I know, parks are public property and if kids/ adults make the presumption I'm a perv, well, that's their problem - at least it will give them something to talk about.

(Sorry, this isn't the comeback you are looking for, but it's what I'd say...)

Bingo:
It feels SO wonderful to be pregnant - I was glowing.

If glowing is puking, crying, screaming, bloating, and having a parasite form in my abdomen... I will pass.


Bingo:
But won't it be great to watch them grow up? He/She could be anything!

They could be anything and I'm a risk averse person. There's a 0.00000001% chance that they'd be a Nobel-Peace prize winner and a 5% chance that they'll be a criminal. Those odds aren't good. I wouldn't invest in stocks that had that type of return.

Bingo: But you'll never feel a new life growing inside you.

Hmmm. I felt many things the first time I watched "Alien," but envy wasn't one of them. By the way, how big were Sigourney Weaver's character's stretch marks after that ordeal? There are quite a few things none of us will ever do that many people have done, but I don't see you lamenting over it: walking on the moon; singing the National Anthem at a Yankee game; driving a humvee through roadside-bomb territory; ringing the opening bell on Wall Street...it all depends on your "thing," and kids aren't my "thing," so I really don't care about what I'll miss along the way to get them.

Bingo: The best day of my life was the day I laid eyes on my child for the first time. There's no other feeling like it.

Really? I think all newborns look like slimy lizards. I'd probably just feel repulsed.

Bingo :

But your sister is having a baby. Don't you think you could do better than her and that deadbeat husband of hers?

Did you reproduce in order to show up a relative? How sad that you feel so competitive with members of your own family.

Bingo:

Your boyfriend is just going along with you for now, but one day he'll leave you for someone else who will have a baby for him.

Then I will be better off with out him because I was up front about how I dont EVER want kids so if he wants to leave because of the no child law that WE made then there is no one gone stop him! Besides what business is it of yours?


Bingo:

your child would love you no matter what you do that is the best feeling in the whole wide world! yeay!

Well, there is that recent Texas murder case.....young teen girl was told to break up with a slime ball boyfriend so she and the slime ball and a couple of their friends killed the girl's mother and siblings. The father was badly injured but managed to escape. I think we can most likely agree that murder is not an act of love so then it follows that children who kill their parents do not automatically "love them no matter what". So your theory is not logical.

Bingo: But children are the future of the world!

I am glad I wont live to see your kids run the world! Clinton and Bush have done enough damage to it I would hate to see what your kids would come up with!


bingo
you could give birth to the person who grows up to cure Aids or Cancer...........

If all the people already alive could look for a cure for AIDS or Cancer, rather than "pausing" their careers for umpteen years to raise children, wouldn't that make more sense? All those sick people are going to be long dead waiting around for you to finish creating your little genius.


Bingo:

Children are so pure and full of wisdom, and we learn so much from them.

It's ridiculous to say a child is wise because they have absolutely no life experience. As for their purity, I think that's true if you mean purely selfish, because kids don't do anything but take, take, take. And just so you know, I have learned a lot from lots of people who are already born, and I don't need to wipe their butts.

Bingo:

Babies are so cute, you should have one!

Just because something is cute, doesn't mean it's the best thing to own one. With the way I want to live my lifestyle, I won't be owning a baby anytime.

Bingo:

"Wouldn't it be cute to see (insert your name) with a little bump in front?"

(This was said to me in front of 4 other women once.)

I have a little bump in front, I'm trying to make it SMALLER, not bigger!

Bingo:

You owe it to your husband/partner to give him a baby!

My body, my choice. If I owe him that, what's he owe me? I can't think of anything he could do for me that would affect his body and his lifestyle in the same manner having a baby would affect mine. No thank you.

Bingo:

WHy don't you just conform? Why do you always have to be different than everyone else?

If my husband wants a baby he can get pregnant and have one his self then take care of it.



bingo
prego sex feels so much better then regular sex.

[cherry red's bingo]
-Besides companionship , love and respect I don't owe my husband didley-[censored], ESPECIALLY if it means using my atonamy for his wants instead of my own. my husband did not purchase a baby maker, he married someone he loves, respects and treats as his equal.

-yuck! sorry but theres NOTHING sexy about pregnancy , it seems like a major turn off to me. And aren't you worried about prodding the baby in the head when you do the do? He might be born with a mishapen head! And guess want, sex won't feel to great AFTER the birth, can anyone say stretched [censored]?

Bingo!

I used to be "childfree" and think the way you did too! Untill I changed my mind, now I love kids. You'll have them one day too.


(real bingo said to me by a deluded co worker)

Oh well mistakes happen and some of us have gotten smart enough to prevent the mistakes too so.... I know my mind and body better then you and I know there will be no mistakes for me at all. and I love most kids in small doses but I would kill myself if I had yours!


bingo

women cant get into heaven unless they are mothers....

(this was a sermon I heard when I was younger and my aunt who is cf took my hand and we left and the preacher pointed out that we were leaving so... she told the preacher that he had his head so far up satens behind it was a wonder he didnt burst into flames!)

Oh I'm sorry to tell you but I am sure that anyone who spawns saten goes to hell with the devil after all who else will love him?


bingo:

kids keep you active and up to date on what is hip and cool.

Well, if that is true I'd rather stay unhip than listen to High School Musical and Hannah Montana [censored] all the time. Actually, I think those are really non-hip and very uncool. So that doesn't really make any sense.

Bingo:

You will feel so sad when you are the only one out their without kids.

Oh, it may seem that way to you - especially when I'm always the one getting stuck doing your job half the time when you're away for work because your kids are sick or need this or that or the one who always misses out on all the "family friendly" perks. But the truth of the matter is that I'm laughing all the way to the bank and an early retirement.

Bingo: You must be one cold hearted (insert word meaning "a female canine" here) not to want kids.

Then you must really think I am a cold hearted b**** (or b*****d in my case) if I tell you about my weekend trip away to (insert favorite local getaway spot) because the rates were cheap.

Bingo: Don't you feel lonely without a houseful of love known as children?

Ah, but I have a houseful of love known as dogs and cats...look, I have some pictures...aren't they just too adorable?

Bingo: I just can't understand why anyone would not want to have a baby....after all, it's normal and natural to want kids.

There are a lot of "normal" and "natural" behaviours that we as a civilized society must not succomb to... like men beating women over the head and dragging them back to the cave by the hair. War is also normal and natural, but thinking people try to avoid this sort of thing.

Bingo:

But don't you worry about the low birth rate?

With 5 billion people in this world... HELL NO! Bring on the low birth rate -- it'll do the planet good!

Bingo:

You were a child once!

Yeah, I was - and when I was, I found that I didn't like being forced to be around other children.

Bingo: I feel so sorry for your poor parents! If your brothers and sisters think like you do, your parents won't have any grandchildren.

Why should I have children to make OTHER people happy? Or did my parents only have me so that "some day" they could have grandchildren?

Bingo:

But it's so wonderful to hold a newborn. There's nothing like it.

Even if I agreed with you, I hardly consider such a fleeting experience to be worth the life-long worry and responsibility. If I wanted to hold newborns, I'd work at a maternity ward.

Bingo:

But having children is the most important job in the world!

No it isnt Being a good mother or father is very important for people who have kids to do but having kids is not important at all. You need to learn the difference!

Bingo:

but you would be SUCH a great mommie!

And what if I'm not? I'd rather not run the risk of damaging the child. And the chances are pretty good that I WON'T be a good mommie, simply because my heart's not in it.

Bingo:
There's no feeling in world like the love a mother has for her child. Don't you want to experience that?

I've already experienced it--the other way around. My mom and I are very close, so I already know this.

Bingo:

You take care of your dogs like they are your children. They are just substitutes for the real thing. Do you want to be the crazy cat/dog lady when you are older?

if it means that i can live out the rest of my life exactly as i choose, i'll take the risk that the rest of the world might think i'm crazy. after all, they already do! i live for myself, not for what other people think of me.

bingo:
well, you have plenty of time to be selfish. you're still young.

What could possibly be more selfish than wanting to spread my DNA all over the place, and to see a little me running around? Having kids is what is inherently selfish, not consciously deciding it is something that is not for me.

Bingo:
You are still a child until you have a child of your own.

The law defines a child as anyone under the age of 18 and seeing as how I'm way past that, I would beg to differ.

Bingo: Well I guess if you change your mind someday (after 40) you can always adopt.

yep I can and that will be fine because i dont want to have a baby or kids and when I am 120yrs old and IF i change my mind I will be a better mom because I took in kids that I liked and WANTED to care for.

Bingo:

you will never feel like a whole woman until you have kids.

OMG this is the greatest thread I think we've ever done...I'm getting such a kick out of it. Just when I think we've squeezed out every bingo we've ever heard, you all just keep goin'. Okay, here's my answer and requisite bingo:

Oh honey, I'm so woman-hear-me-roar more than you'll ever know every time I bed my boyfriend. Every time I land a sale. Every time I accomplish a new goal. How limiting for you that you only feel "whole" womanhood in breeding, like an animal with only instinct sans logic or reason.

Bingo: "Seriously? You don't want kids, ever?!?"
*followed by grimace and dramatic, overtly twisted face of disapproval*

Well DUH! like who wants to set around and talk baby poo and barf all day? Oh Im Sorry I I forgot your life revalves around that. poor thing such a waste! (smile sweetly and walk away before the big words sink in her baby mush mind! try not to laugh....to loud.... never mind I cant do it either!)

bingo:

You will never ever COMPLETEly know or understand your self or your husband until you have kids....

I'm sorry, what? I'll never know or completely understand my husband? Until *I* carry and birth a baby? WTF does that have to do with HIM? What about the 24 years we've spent together, supporting each other through all of life's ups and downs? How can having a child possibly help me know him better than that? Ugh!

As for knowing myself... I know eactly who I am. I'm a woman whose known since she was 4 that she was CF! My mother often tells me that I'm the same person I was when I was a child. I have not changed. Sounds like she knows me pretty well. Sounds like *I* know me pretty well. Moms are always right, right?

Bingo:
But who will you leave all your money and possessions to? What's the point in working so hard if you have no one to work for?

Can anyone ever completely understand themselves, let alone completely understand anyone else?

Bingo: But the Bible says "Go forth and multiply" so if you don't have children you're disobeying God's Commandments and will burn in Hell.

There are no luggage racks on a hearse, so I'm not really concerned with working hard to keep it, nor leaving anything to anyone. I work for me; whatever possesion or money-type goodness I have leftover after my blood stops coursing goes to the charity of my choice, by God, they need it. The SPCA sounds like a fantabulous place to receive my net worth, thanks for making me think hard to surface it.

Bingo answer to follow Llyn: Ohhhh man, I'm so glad this thread went Biblical! Challuuunge!

"Go forth and multiply" is not in the commandments. I think it might be Old Testiment, even. Regardless, I know the Bible also says that if you don't have to hook up, don't. "Stay single if you can," (paraphrasing). Check it out in Corinthians, if I'm not mistaken (too lazy to go check myself). As far as "burning in hell," my Christ has given me reason to scoff at such a thought. Even without Christ, religion or faith, I refuse to "multiply" when I feel absolutely no need.

Bingo: "You just don't understand. You haven't really matured yet, but maybe you will, and maybe you'll know what it is to want to bring life."

I am plenty mature enough. I understand what is involved in "bringing life". The world does not need me to bring more life, when it is suffering so badly already with the life already here. Which is where, by the way, I choose to focus my efforts.

Bingo: My children are my life - I couldn't imagine my life without them (insinuating that your life is nothing)...

Gosh, that's pretty sad if you can't imagine your life without children. You must not have had a very interesting life BEFORE children.

Bingo:

You have a headache! Uh oh, you must be pregnant!

No thats what you say so you dont get pregnant! Remember?

Bingo:

At baby shower...

Cf says "Oh you have a cute baby to the new mommie." trying to be nice....
Everyone else says "Oh well change her mind soon she has baby fever!?

No, I just think this is a cute baby. Period. There is no hidden meaning behind that statement. I also think your dog is lovely, but I actually don't want a dog right now or possibly ever. I can appreciate things without having to have them myself. I am intelligent enough to make a distinction between the two. By the way, don't forget your cute baby will be a teenager one day!

Bingo: You're not too old (said to me, aged 41) - my sister had a baby at 43!

Naturealy? oh well my grandma had 14 kids and she had her last one at 45 but that doesnt mean that I want to have one! besides I have went through the change and take hormones so NO baby here
(so what if it is not totaly true what are they going to do check to see if you have a period every month? call your dr and ask?)

But you are so fat anyways its not like you have a figure to watch!

yeah been here and b!tch slaped that!

...Well I would hate to get any bigger because I am already big enough that if you dont get out of my face in the next 2 seconds I could easily know the hell out of you and still not be winded! And if you think I would do it and get away with it think again. all this Obecity epodimic BS may just work in my favor if I get caught that is first they would have to find you!!!


Bingo:

you can lose weight by having a baby. after you have the baby the fat just melts off like butter.

I have acualy had the last two comments made! I get the double bingos combos the CF+fat+you-need-to-cut-your-hair+ Diebetic bingos! so I have plenty more bingos in those vains are we running out of bingos?

[sarcasm] Ah, so that's why every single mother is so svelte and fit! [/sarcasm off]

Bingo:

Thinking up baby names is such fun! Don't you want to be responsible for naming a child?

If that is a reason for anybody having a child, what a sad world we live in. But ok - let's think up some baby names... we can do that without even having a baby around!

Bingo:
Poor me - we will never have the joy of having grandchildren around (this comes from my BF's mother - he's an only child)

Oh honey! I am still raiseing your last child! I think we need to finish raising him before we add another snottly or Bratly dont you think?


Bingo:

Oh baby cloths are so cute and fun to pick out! dont you want to shop for pretty cloths? This will be your last chance because they never have pretty cloths in YOUR size....

(this is a fun game I didnt think we could keep it going this long! no wonder we come here to unload!!!)

When I do my shopping, I shop online and have my stuff shipped to my doorstep. It is this little thing called the Internets. Saves gas and time as well too.

Bingo:

You need to have children! Who else is going to pay into the Social Security system to support you in your old age? (with the implied ... as well as me!)

We probably already won't have Social Security by the time I retire, so I'm already paying into it for nothing. I save my own money anyway so I'm not expecting a dime from the gov't.

Bingo:

If you think there are so many bratty kids out there, don't you want to produce a child that will be well behaved and a great kid to counteract the brats?

Why would I want to put a poor innocent child amongst a whole lot of brats? Why would I be so cruel?

Bingo:

Won't you feel that you've missed out on that intergenerational thing, ie the continuation of the generations and feeling part of that?

Frankly, that is just about the stupidest reason to have kids that I've ever heard.

And here is what has to be one of the top 10 stupidest bingos I've ever heard:

You HAVE to have babies - babies make the world smile.

Actually the world can't smile -- the world is a planet, not a person. And actually the more babies there are, the more polution, and really, if the world had a facial expression, it would probably be one of disgust as it had more and more garbage on it!

Bingo: If you had a sprog, you could share the family change room at the pool.

Why on earth would I want to do a thing like that?

Bingo:

Don't you want a child so that you can give them the opportunity to do all the things you weren't able to?

I'd rather not have the child, and then go ahead and do all the things I've always wanted to do!

Bingo:

Aren't you afraid of seeming weird for not having kids?

Afraid of seeming weird? Nope, weird is just phase one. I'm going for having enough money to be eccentric.

Bingo:

Your siblings will be so sad if you don't make them aunts and uncles.

Llyn - LOL! I'm heading for all-out nutjob myself. I'm going to be the old lady standing in the mall, screaming at running children and chasing them with my walker!

Re the bing0 - My siblings like children so much - they can have their own. I have better things to do.

Bingo :

But you're so smart. You having children would make the world a smarter place.

Rent Idiocracy. Watch the first 15 minutes. Then get back to me.

Bingo:

You don't want children? Are you gay or something?

No I dont want kids and what does sexual orinitation have to do with having kids? I am not going to have sex with kids so... you need to grow up or give your kids way. If your not any smarter then that......

bingo: Bogus Bingo from idiotvill

but having a baby will make your marrage stronger! your husband would be obigated to your babies to stay with you and he will never leave you.....

If it takes biological entrapment to hold him, he's free to go. Why would anyone want to live in a marriage that epitomizes the phrase "the old ball and chain?" He's a husband, not a prisoner.

Also, you really ought to have a look at divorce statistics. A marriage is MORE likely to fail with kids than without.

Bingo (I've actually gotten this one): You say that now, but give it a few years. Everyone says they don't want kids at your age.
(I was 24 when I got this!)

(I borrowed this awesomeness from someone's post on Britgirl - paraphrased) :

How much do you want to bet? How about, if I have a kid by the time I'm 40, I'll pay you a million dollars. But if I get to 50 without having one, you owe me a million dollars. I have a lawyer friend who can draft it up as a watertight deal, let's go see him. Right now.

What? You don't want to bet? But just a minute ago, you were soooooooo sure I'd change my mind!!

Bingo :

Don't worry about the cost. You'll find a way to make it work.

Honey, I'd rather find a way to make owning a Ferrari work.

bingo: You will miss your calling in life if you don't have children.

My child phone line has been disconnected because of snipping.

Bingo:

You don't want to have kids? Really? (Pregnant pause)... Get away from me and my family! I don't want you spreading that perverted, unnatural blasphemy to anyone who DARE go against the word of my God!

I think people who are as religious as you are nutjobs. I will GLADLY get away from you, as long as you promise to stay away from ME.

Bingo (which I got yesterday after talking about how I took the neighbor boy to the library):

Look at how helpful you are with children! You would enjoy teaching YOUR child about the Dewey decimal system! I mean, someone who would go to such lengths to help a neighbor's child would be a fantastic mother!

(To which I replied, well, I've spent the last 12 years raising this boy because his parents don't pay any attention to him, so I guess I've already had a child.)

I got something similar when I was caught sitting with a friend's little girl answering all her "Why?" questions. (There were at least 15 to 20 of them; she's as curious child.) She's also a quiet, well-mannered child with a love of learning. I didn't mind her littany of questions in the slightest.

Everyone exchanged knowing looks. "Just look at how patient you are." snicker, snicker. "You're a natural," they all kept saying.

Indeed I am. A natural aunt. But only to well-behaved children. My nephews were unfortunately nothing like this child so I missed out of much we could have shared. I'm holding out much hope for my niece who's so far so good--but only 2 1/2, so we'll see. I'd really enjoy being much closer to her as she grows up.

BINGO:
Oh, no, you'll absolutley change your mind. You have such patience with children.

Bingo: It is your duty as an educated, well-balanced individual to pass your genes on to the next generation.

Although it's a variation of others that have been posted, I've really been told that - verbatim. To which I replied something about my mentally disabled sister and cancer running rampant in my family. Just because I'm educated and well, somewhat balanced, doesn't mean my genes are high quality, nor that I should feel a sense responsibility to pass them on.

I absolutely love it when I'm saying something about not wanting children, and how poorly some kids act in public, when someone has to say "But it's different when they're yours!" I like to reply, "I think it's interesting that people always say that, but nobody says that it's BETTER when they're yours." Usually shuts them up or makes them laugh.

Thanks, but I doubt it. I'm patient only because I know I get to hand them back to you in a couple hours. (with big smile)

Bingo:

Women who don't have children become so cold and bitter.

Really? I've always found CF women to be warm and charming.

Bingo: You'll never know the joy of hearing the pitter-pat of little feet running around the house.

My former signature line on this forum: I'd rather hear the pitter patter of little paws, thank you!

Bingo: But wouldn't it be fun to dress up a little one for photos, the first day of school, etc.?

Oh but it is so much nicer to sleep in til noon and not have to taxi kids from school to school function to another activity. I save so much time and money collection pictures of my neices and nephews.... oh and I can take them shopping when I want to so... this is just a pointless topic isnt it?

bingo:

this one from my nephew as a joke i think but...

but I dont want to be the youngest grandchild your the only one left young enough to have a baby!
(this was actualy ment as a dive on his mom who put him up to bingoing me... but I was laughing so hard at the look on his moms face that I could not think of a comeback! )

Have to interject on behalf of the Browncoats - "ah, the pitter patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots" - Captain Mal Reynolds

Followed immediately by "SHUT UP!!!"

The two lines combined are a very CF response. I knew I loved Mal for a reason! lol

"bingo:

this one from my nephew as a joke i think but...

but I dont want to be the youngest grandchild your the only one left young enough to have a baby!"

But if I had a boaby then you'd lose your special position as "youngest grandchild" and all the attention that goes with it. You'd just be overlooked because everyone would be ohing and ahing over and ugly squalling baby. I bet you wouldn't like that one bit, now would you?

Bingo: It's just impossible to really enjoy life without children.

Oh honey! if that makes you happy thats fine but if you cant see any other way to enjoy life you need a life!!!

Bingo:

Well I can see why you dont want kids.

OOPS now I know why this thread stoped!!

Bingo correction!

Well I just can NOT see why you dont want kids!

And I just can't see why you WANTED them.

Bingo:

Why don't you just grow up and accept the life society expects of you? Why do you insist on being different in everything you do?

I will always live a life that is true to myself, and if that means I don't do what's expected of me by society, then so be it. It also has nothing to do with "insisting on being different" or "proving something" if perhaps that's how you see it. Be grateful for people who don't follow the "rulebook" because they are the ones who make the world more colourful. I don't feel the need to have my own children.

Bingo: Hmmmmm, I wonder who'll be pregnant next (looking meaningfully at you)...

Well, it won't be me. Early menopause and endometriosis saw to that. Guess I'll have to buy somebody else yet another baby present.

Bingo: How could anyone not want children?

How could anyobe want Ebola? They are both little parasites that eat you from the inside out until you look forward to death.


Bingo: But you will never truly understand life without one

Well I still dont know how computers work either but I still work on one so I dont need to UNDERSTAND life to have one either!


bingo:

But if you dont have a baby you wont understand other (read as REAL) women!

Maybe they're the ones who should be trying harder to understand ME. Otherwise, I don't give a d#$% about that at all.

(my first reaction on so many of these is to answer, "That's so stupid!", and it's hard to think of something better)

Bingo:

You should have kids because they last longer than dogs and cats.

(that one courtesy of my SIL, after one of my pets died)

That's true. They also cost way more, and give new meaning to the word ungrateful - a word my dogs and cats know nothing about.

Bingo :

It takes a village to raise a child. (Sponsored by my a$$hole neighbour, who thinks it's my job to raise his...).

no it takes PARENTS to raise a child , no one else, I have dogs yet I don't expect anyone else to feed, pet, play or even interact with them in any way. They are MY responsibility, likewise your children are yours and only yours, instead of blaming other people for not giving snotleigh and brattina attention as the reason they get into trouble or get lost or whatever why not actually blame your [censored] poor parenting .

Bingo!

Babies are not a choice!!! If I too many to support or the world is seriously too overpopulated it's because we can't HELP but have babies, it just happens, we can't control that.

Yeah right, like going down the road to your doctor and choosing one of hundreds of variations of contraception is not within your control. What sort of a cop-out is that?

Bingo: (said with condescension)..."Look at her. Her cat is her baby."

No, my cat is the perfect baby.

She gets an hour or two of my day, in little five or ten minute increments, and is quite satisfied with it. She gets food, water, cuddle time, playtime, and a clean place to $h!t in those little snippets of time. She's happy. She only visits the bathtub once every couple of months, she only visits her doctor a couple of times a year, and she gets paid in treats for allowing herself to be brushed.

If I want to skip town for a couple of days, I spend five minutes getting her supplies ready and wave goodbye.

If I have a day when I really don't feel like spending time with her, I don't. She gets her basic needs met, again something that takes about five minutes, and we each go off and do our own thing.

She doesn't require constant care. She doesn't cost a fortune. She doesn't hold grudges. She doesn't talk back. She doesn't bring over obnoxious friends. She doesn't wear diapers. She isn't loud. She doesn't reek havoc in schools, stores, restaurants, etc. She loves being left alone. She can tell time (sort of), though she was never taught. She understands some English words and phrases, but we never had to invest hours or dollars in making that happen. And here's something of note: She lives with us because she chose to, not because it was someone else's idea or as an accident of genetics.

Can you say any of those things about your kids?

Bingo: "So you're well on your way to becoming the proverbial crazy cat lady. People will think you're weird if you keep this up. You could avoid that if you traded that animal in for a baby."

Is there a place you can trade in an animal for a baby? If so, that's a bad deal... I'd much rather keep the animal. Besides, I think a lot of "crazy cat ladies" had kids at one point anyway and they just grew up, moved out, and then the ladies realized they much preferred the company of cats.

Bingo: People will start to think you are a pervert if you don't have kids.

What sort of a perverted statement is that? Was Mother Teresa a pervert? She didn't have kids. Are you aware how many perverts molest their own kids? And you may like to know, I was molested by a pervert when I was 14 years old. He had kids. I'm interested as to why you would even think about things this way - this had never occurred to me. Are you, perhaps, a pervert?

(Pinecone, that was directed at the imaginery person, not you!!!)

Bingo: (said by pregnant friend) But if you had a kid, our kids could play together!

but that is why they have daycare so your baby can have lots of playmates and I dont have to have a baby.

Bingo: but child free people have no rights at all. you will never have the life you want because you have to work all the time you get all these bingoes and people bash you from everyside and no one cares because it is you that is in the wrong.

I have no rights? I didn't realize having kids made you a felon! If you are referring to your tax credit for having children, no amount of money given back to me will make up for the overall cost of children.
I will never have the life I want? I live exactly how I want every second of the day. This includes planning for the happy future my husband and I will share. My best friend refers to her child as "The Boss". Now that is never having the life you want.
I rather be bashed for not having kids than fold to public pressure and live a life dictated to me by absolute strangers.
BINGO:
But you would be such a cute pregnant lady!

I'm much cuter as I am! And I hear a lot of women who have had kids complain about how gross they feel now. So appearance is probably the last thing someone would get pregnant for.

Bingo: you are an excellent candidate for reproduction.

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I am an excellent candidate for a lot of thing but it doesnt mean I want to run for any of them!

Bingo:

true happiness is having children.

True happiness is being happy - and that means something different for everybody!

Bingo:
What? You got a tubal ligation? But you don't even have any kids!!! (this actually happened to me!)

WOW you got your tubes tied and you dont have kids? I cant believe there is a Doctor out there who would do that!! I have been trying for years!!! sorry off topic...

Oh yes and It was a miricle for us! I have such piece of mind knowing that I dont have to worry about getting pregnat anymore! My husband even got a vesectomy so we are 100% Child prove! Thank God!

Bingo:
Why do you not want to give birth to your own kids?

Wow -- I just have to say that this is an absolutely brilliant thread -- everyone who is not CF and has given a CF person or couple the "aren't you strange eye" now and again should also read this. It was incredibly eye-opening as to exactly why this sort of community is necessary for support.

I know this forum is going through some pain right now, but it will settle down and others just finding you will be extremely grateful to find this sort of thread waiting for them here. I should actually start something similar in my breastfeeding forum where we get the same cr*p on the "other side of the spectrum."

Nicki

So as not to disrupt your "game," freespirit's last bingo was --

Bingo:
Why do you not want to give birth to your own kids?

Given the food shortages in Haiti, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan and many other countries, I think the last thing the world needs is yet another mouth to feed. I would consider adoption if I had one parental bone in my body. But I don't, so I have made the decision that is right for me.

Bingo...
But you're so good with kids!

Thank you! I love kids when I can deal with them in small doses but to tell you the truth I babysat for my nephews and niece for a whole weekend and as well behaved as they are I was more happy to see there mom and dad come home then the kids were!

Bingo:
Oh that is just a phase you will grow out of it when an unexpected suprise comes along.....

let me guess I suppose you think being gay is a phase too right?Since that's also a lifestyle that is different from yours, guess it must be a phase too beacuse anything that goes against the "life script" is wrong and will be grown out of *SARCASM*. By the way wishing a pregancy on me that I do not want is very very horrible. And don't you worry ,any "surprise" I get will get taken care of very quickly either by plan B or by an abortion clinic. Maybe your need for kids is also phase , except when you have them theres no turning back, so if having kids was a mistake , your screwed, as for me I have nothing to worry about ^_^

Bingo!

(if you are marrying an only child with grand child rabid parents)

"But if you don't have kids , we'll never be grand parents! You denying our son/daughter a child , you're the reason why our family will never carry on it's legacy/grow/know the joy of grandchildren etc etc. It's beacuse of your influence that our son/daughter doesn't want kids, not beacuse she/he doesn't want any."

This didn't happen to me but I have read CF stories that had this reaction in them, it's really mean isn't it?

So are you saying that your child is mindless or has ne brain of there own? WOW you dont know your child at all do you? maybe that is why your kid dont want to have kids! Just something to think about!

Bingo:
going in that same vain....

How could you brain wash my child with all that childfree non since!? they cant be happy with out kids! No one can really be happy with out kids!!! Whats wrong with you? My child needs to have babies to be happy! (note that child is 12yrs old and has been sexualy active for sometime now... this happened to me when I was a sunday school teacher...)