Author Topic: Depressed (Read 14548 times)

B E C K · « **Reply #30 on:** Apr 26, 2006, 08:46:38 AM »

You're talking like those of us who don't like children somehow only dislike children. Don't forget the seniors!

Wickedly Yours E · « **Reply #31 on:** Apr 26, 2006, 08:59:30 AM »

I'd like a daughter. The only problem with that is I'll probably end up going to jail for killing boyfriends.

Bernie AKA · « **Reply #32 on:** Apr 26, 2006, 09:10:17 AM »

Every childfree individual I've ever spoken with wants the following. It's really not much.

- Not to get a steaming load of shit in the form of insults and character assassination for not wanting children.

- Recognition of the simple fact that not everyone wants to be or should be a parent. We don't want to "have just one and try it". Chances are very much AGAINST our "changing our minds once we have one". Give us some credit for recognizing that we're talking about another LIFE. Having a kid isn't nickle slots in Vegas.

Now I can only speak for myself here, but not having children was never a "hedonistic lifestyle choice" for me. It was a gut feeling that had been there since I hit puberty. Possibly this is an innate species survival technique to ensure enough resources, as I've heard theorized. Hell, there are muriqui monkeys in South America that practice birth control by eating phytoestrogens. Obviously they're not making a lifestyle choice.

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I don't understand the irrational fury towards children.

99.99% of my fury is toward the irresponsible parents. From day one, it is a parent's JOB to guide, direct and prepare his/her offspring to be a functioning member of whatever society they are a part. This includes correction when the child behaves inappropriately, which has been terribly out of fashion for some time now in the sacred cause of "damaging self-esteem" (usually a synonym for "I don't want to admit that I can't handle my child"). Withholding such is one of the worst forms of child abuse I can think of because the parent is denying the child the opportunity to learn. Mommy and Daddy can't protect the kid forever - someday, there will be a college prof or a boss or someone else in authority that will take Junior or Princess in their jaws and shake him/her until teeth are rattling. Trophies for everyone and not bothering with teaching the social lubrication of simple courtesy and manners are piss-poor methods of preparing for that day.

B E C K · « **Reply #33 on:** Apr 26, 2006, 09:13:51 AM »

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Now I can only speak for myself here, but not having children was never a "hedonistic lifestyle choice" for me.

On the flip side to this, someone with a hedonistic lifestyle probably wouldn't be the best canidate to be a parent.

Bernie AKA · « **Reply #34 on:** Apr 26, 2006, 09:24:57 AM »

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On the flip side to this, someone with a hedonistic lifestyle probably wouldn't be the best canidate to be a parent.

BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!![/size]

So why try to talk them into it? Envy? Misery loves company? Or, as was sneered at me by a former co-worker after my sterilization, "So you're really going to get away with it!" Get away with what??!

B E C K · « **Reply #35 on:** Apr 26, 2006, 09:33:14 AM »

That was your cue to babble "robble, robble" and run off.

Bernie · « **Reply #36 on:** Apr 26, 2006, 12:17:38 PM »

I wonder what the Veggieburglar says? :unsure:

Merla · « **Reply #37 on:** Apr 26, 2006, 12:36:24 PM »

I hear he's an even bigger loser compared to the hamburgler. Why the heck did the hamburgler have to steal anyhow? They cost like what? a dollar a piece? and I know they were even less than that when I was a kid.

Rama · « **Reply #38 on:** Apr 26, 2006, 02:01:09 PM »

He did it for the thrill.

And I hate that "Just have one and you'll change you're mind"arguement. Oh yeah and what if I don't? What if it's just as bad as I thought it was going to be? Not like I can take it back to the hospital and say I changed my mind. I think they are just trying to trick us into being breeders like them.

Bernie · « **Reply #39 on:** Apr 26, 2006, 02:07:23 PM »

I cringe every time I see a headline about some broad having a kid long after the age she should be doing so. Someone invariably bounces up to me with the good news that "it's not too late!" I swear someone's going to be shaking my cremation urn hollering, "SURE YOU DON'T WANT ANY KIDS?" :rolleyes:

B E C K · « **Reply #40 on:** Apr 26, 2006, 11:35:20 PM »

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And I hate that "Just have one and you'll change you're mind"arguement. Oh yeah and what if I don't? What if it's just as bad as I thought it was going to be? Not like I can take it back to the hospital and say I changed my mind.

Not if you remember the receipt. "Yes, I'd like to return this child. It's unwrapped but I never used it."

I think even if I wanted children, I still wouldn't want to give birth. Bleh. Forget what it would do to my body, I'd be mortified that every other thing I did would somehow kill it. And then there would be a corpse inside of me, and I'd give birth to a zombie and everyone would be screaming.

TM2 Rampage · « **Reply #41 on:** Apr 27, 2006, 12:01:47 AM »

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Illustration? You draw? Can I see?

Okay, here's 3 pieces that I did for art classes in high school...

http://members.cox.net/tm3rampage/bottle2.jpg

http://members.cox.net/tm3rampage/pumpkin2.jpg

http://members.cox.net/tm3rampage/toomuch2.jpg

I do fanart and stuff, too btw... except I hardly have any right now... Art class has discouraged fan art and anime-y or comic-y styles... except they still want us to do stylized stuff that is either of our own original styles or something that is less common in comics/anime and more common in art galleries (my person opinion).

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #42 on:** Apr 27, 2006, 12:13:11 AM »

Ah. Sweet. I remember drawing bottles and gourdes in art!

B E C K · « **Reply #43 on:** Apr 27, 2006, 12:51:33 AM »

Ha ha, "cox". Reminds me of one of my old art professors who I would make fun of in my dumb drawings: http://www.darthnuriko.com/forums/uploads/...-1146116975.jpg

I love that last one, Ramps. I wish I drew even half as good. Is that more your style?

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #44 on:** Apr 27, 2006, 01:01:24 AM »

my ex art history professor wants to fuck me.

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #45 on:** Apr 27, 2006, 01:02:30 AM »

Art history, eh? He probably wants to fuck me too.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #46 on:** Apr 27, 2006, 01:05:24 AM »

No, hes 100% straight and all the girls love him cause he flirts a LOT.

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #47 on:** Apr 27, 2006, 01:08:06 AM »

Sounds like a class act. I say go for it.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #48 on:** Apr 27, 2006, 01:09:13 AM »

won't, im worried he'll have a wrinkly ass. that would freak me out

IDE · « **Reply #49 on:** Apr 27, 2006, 01:11:34 AM »

My career planning instructor wanted to fuck me...

she got her wish.

B E C K · « **Reply #50 on:** Apr 27, 2006, 01:11:44 AM »

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won't, im worried he'll have a wrinkly ass. that would freak me out

Then don't look?

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #51 on:** Apr 27, 2006, 01:16:34 AM »

Yeah. Let him go anal.

TM2 Rampage · « **Reply #52 on:** Apr 27, 2006, 03:45:49 AM »

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Ha ha, "cox". Reminds me of one of my old art professors who I would make fun of in my dumb drawings: http://www.darthnuriko.com/forums/uploads/...-1146116975.jpg

I love that last one, Ramps. I wish I drew even half as good. Is that more your style?

Ah, thanks Nuri. I used a black marker with a brush tip (only shaped like it; no actual bristles) to draw it. I used a bunch of references, though, so it wasn't too hard. My dad took my picture in those poses/angles and I sketched them out before using the marker. You can kinda tell which ones I made up real quick where the face is too round... (I did it late at night before it was due).

So uh... what's a switch?

B E C K · « **Reply #53 on:** Apr 27, 2006, 11:04:12 AM »

I shut my brain off, so here:

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A Switch is a flexible rod typically used for punishment. Switches can be made of willow branches, for example.

What kind of marker was it? Just curious. I used to draw early, early stuff back when I was a kid with sharpies, not knowing the damn things greened over time. But yeah, it's pretty damn good for you having done it late at night. Also wondering, do you have one of those posable mannequins? Or do you prefer using pictures as a reference?

TM2 Rampage · « **Reply #54 on:** Apr 27, 2006, 05:01:43 PM »

It was a black Copic Ciao marker. Yeah, expensive <_< (well, it's like 5 bucks for one)I just used it because it came in a set... yeah, even more expensive <_<.

There are brush-tip markers and pens that are much cheaper and actually the ink on those are darker and blacker (and don't fade) than a black Copic marker. I have 2 Faber Castell pens that I use that don't smudge/bleed when you color over it with a Copic marker, so the ink on a Faber Castell is alcohol-proof and waterproof (as it says on the pen).

I don't have any of those poseable mannequins. I don't feel that they realistically represent human anatomy, and they are not that poseable. I've drawn enough figures using guidelines and 3d geometric shapes that I can usually draw a figure and work it out from memory and adjust to make it look right.
When I do need a reference, I either look for a photo or take one, or even look at another artist's work from a comic or something.

Or, I use a Super Poseable Spider-Man figure from the Spider-Man 2 movie's action figure line. http://www.mwctoys.com/REVIEW_010504b.htm
Yeah he's rigid and looks very odd when you try to stand him up straight like a normal person, but it kinda helps... at least for drawing people in Spider-Man poses. But his poseability is pretty impressive... I think it's the first time where I've seen an American action figure where you can move the shoulders forward and back.
What's weird is that the current version of this toy has magnets in his hands. I feel kinda gipped.

B E C K · « **Reply #55 on:** Apr 29, 2006, 08:35:43 PM »

Magnets? Can you toss him up on your fridge?

TM2 Rampage · « **Reply #56 on:** Apr 29, 2006, 11:06:33 PM »

Yes.

Actually now I think the magnets are in his feet.. anyway the point is I got mine early on and it has no magnets at all.

Wickedly Yours E · « **Reply #57 on:** Apr 30, 2006, 11:56:46 AM »

I have that figure......I have the one too with magnets in the hands and feet. He's been on my Fridge for years now.

B E C K · « **Reply #58 on:** Apr 30, 2006, 11:42:34 PM »

Give him a carrot.

Guest · « **Reply #59 on:** Jul 17, 2006, 07:42:35 PM »

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