My Daily Fuck You

"505Turbeaux" (505turbeaux) 07/28/2014 at 13:48 • Filed to: None

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Fucking asshole mom. Get yo nails did while you leave your kid in a 140 degree car. Fuck !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

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AGAIN sorry about the language, but this makes me so mad as a *responsible* father.

Wacko > 505Turbeaux 07/28/2014 at 13:49

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ly2v8-Brian > 505Turbeaux 07/28/2014 at 13:50

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No need to apologize for language in regards to this issue.

GhostZ > 505Turbeaux 07/28/2014 at 13:51

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Our economy has evolved to the point where we should have screenings to make sure that you are intelligent and secure enough to be able to have a child and raise it properly without putting yourself or the kid at risk. Our social values have not.

Diesel > 505Turbeaux 07/28/2014 at 13:53

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Talk about tragic, she should have gotten her hair done first.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > 505Turbeaux 07/28/2014 at 13:53

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Swear all you want mate, this is Oppo, not Facebook ;) You seem like the awesomesteded dad anyway, so I can't imagine anyone would have a problem with you swearing.

jkm7680 > 505Turbeaux 07/28/2014 at 13:53

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Don't worry. She'll be set up with a VERY nice prison wife. They'll drink prison wine together, and everything.

PS9 > 505Turbeaux 07/28/2014 at 13:53

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Fucking fuckity fucking FUCK MAN.

Some people should just be born sterile.

macanamera > 505Turbeaux 07/28/2014 at 13:53

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I don't even leave beers in a 140 degree car while I get my nails did.

505Turbeaux > macanamera 07/28/2014 at 13:54

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lol

$kaycog > macanamera 07/28/2014 at 13:56

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Thanks for making me laugh here.

macanamera > $kaycog 07/28/2014 at 13:57

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Anytime, $kay.

Schep9d > 505Turbeaux 07/28/2014 at 13:58

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Can't pay $40 for a baby sitter but can post a $75,000 bond? What a piece of shit.

yamahog > 505Turbeaux 07/28/2014 at 14:00

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Argh :( I reallyyyy hate how the news has been running with the most egregious examples of these tragedies rather than focusing on how they are most often genuine accidents, committed by all types of parents. From my earlier comment on an earlier FP post, it's long and depressing but absolutely worth reading:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/maga…

macanamera > $kaycog 07/28/2014 at 14:01

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Hey, totally off-topic, but is there anywhere that one might find a complete list of the Oppo mods?

$kaycog > macanamera 07/28/2014 at 14:04

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I really don't know, but I bet Gamecat 235 would know. Yeah, his list is incomplete.

Signed,

NotOnListMod

yamahog > PS9 07/28/2014 at 14:05

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They should be so lucky. I was only born with no desire for children and a blood clotting condition leaving me more likely to miscarry than anything else, so I just had to settle for this:

Pramoda Ravi (Promo) > 505Turbeaux 07/28/2014 at 14:11

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*I will find you and I will kill you*

I'm stunned it's not attempted manslaughter. Risk of injury? INJURY MEANS HURT. THAT KID COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED.

505Turbeaux > yamahog 07/28/2014 at 14:12

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There is truth there, and I respect your opinion. I am not debating the legality or morality of these issues at all. That is to be decided in a court of law, and what my feelings are about it, are irrelevant. Even the way this article portrays it is somewhat sour though. If you are prone to forgetting things...IMPORTANT things, you need to make yourself a note to make sure you do not forget, or just put all the distractions aside and concentrate on the task at hand. Especially when someone who cannot help themselves is counting on you for survival.

I cannot wish for a worse punishment for people who honestly make mistakes of this magnitude to lose a child or elder you care about. But is a flurry of cell calls or problems at work an excuse? Not at all. Unfortunately I guess there needs to be a deterrent the best way our judicial system knows how, by jailing people (which I also don't agree with). Because in our society we don't focus on the people that we care about and make smart decisions on their behalf.

yamahog > GhostZ 07/28/2014 at 14:13

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Hmmmm, advocating the improvement of genetic traits through the reduced reproduction of people with less-desired or undesired traits? Sounds familiar .

GhostZ > yamahog 07/28/2014 at 14:16

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I didn't say less-desired or undesired traits, nothing was genetic.

Proving that you're in a steady job and can afford to feed a child and are in a safe mental state to care for it are totally different. Those factors can be changed and it's nothing about 'breeding right' as much as making sure that if you're not ready for a kid, hold off a few years and improve your position.

The US already has a system like that, it's called Health and Human Services. The problem is that they're prescriptive and they wait for shit like this to happen first, and THEN take your child away and find a more suitable family to raise it. It doesn't prevent all of the wasted time and energy incurred by bad parenting from the start.

yamahog > 505Turbeaux 07/28/2014 at 14:26

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What kind of person forgets a baby?

The wealthy do, it turns out. And the poor, and the middle class. Parents of all ages and ethnicities do it. Mothers are just as likely to do it as fathers. It happens to the chronically absent-minded and to the fanatically organized, to the college-educated and to the marginally literate.

It's easy to get outraged, because it is an awful and outrageous thing, but I do think it's important to be aware of how our brains work so we can prevent these tragedies.

Diamond says that in situations involving familiar, routine motor skills, the human animal presses the basal ganglia into service as a sort of auxiliary autopilot. When our prefrontal cortex and hippocampus are planning our day on the way to work, the ignorant but efficient basal ganglia is operating the car; that's why you'll sometimes find yourself having driven from point A to point B without a clear recollection of the route you took, the turns you made or the scenery you saw.

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There is a general misconception, Fennell says, about who these people are: "They tend to be the doting parents, the kind who buy baby locks and safety gates." These cases, she says, are failures of memory, not of love.

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In 2000, Chris Edwards, Terry Mack and Edward Modlin began to work on just such a product after one of their colleagues, Kevin Shelton, accidentally left his 9-month-old son to die in the parking lot of NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The inventors patented a device with weight sensors and a keychain alarm. Based on aerospace technology, it was easy to use; it was relatively cheap, and it worked.

Janette Fennell had high hopes for this product: The dramatic narrative behind it, she felt, and the fact that it came from NASA, created a likelihood of widespread publicity and public acceptance.

That was five years ago. The device still isn't on the shelves. The inventors could not find a commercial partner willing to manufacture it. One big problem was liability. If you made it, you could face enormous lawsuits if it malfunctioned and a child died. But another big problem was psychological: Marketing studies suggested it wouldn't sell well.

The problem is this simple: People think this could never happen to them.

505Turbeaux > yamahog 07/28/2014 at 14:33

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The inventors patented a device with weight sensors and a keychain alarm. Based on aerospace technology, it was easy to use; it was relatively cheap, and it worked.

this, this is brilliant, and should be required on all new infant and toddler seats. Mandate it.

yamahog > GhostZ 07/28/2014 at 14:37

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I must've misunderstood your reference to intelligence then, as that is generally considered a genetic trait.

making sure that if you're not ready for a kid, hold off a few years and improve your position.

It's almost as if improved birth control access might help with that!

Jeremy H formerly Kalakaboooom > 505Turbeaux 07/28/2014 at 14:38

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I'm a father as well, and when I read these things, I seriously scratch my head and saw, "how?" How in the world can these people be okay with leaving their kids in the car? I mean, seriously. If someone is so fucking dumb as to not no that too much hot = fucking dead, then they really should be fucking locked up for good.

GhostZ > yamahog 07/28/2014 at 14:42

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You can become more (or less) intelligent depending on your habits, experience, and education. Maybe some part of it is genetic, but it's not enough to make the difference that lifestyle can.

And yeah, you'd think that it would...