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Kids these days

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Some real gems here:

Pre-children: I was going to cloth diaper. 
Post-children: I did with my daughter, sort of, but not with my twins.

Pre-children: No TV until age of 2 and then only 30 minutes a day. 
Post-children: Ha.

Pre-children: Only organic, healthy, homemade food. 
Post-children: My kids love Wendy’s.

Pre-children: Public tantrums are unacceptable. 
Post-children: Removal of the child is only sometimes doable; predicting when a tantrum is going to strike is often impossible.

Pre-children: Complaints about childrearing and its hardships annoyed me (this was your choice, no?) and saddened me (parenthood is supposed to be a wonderful thing!). 
Post-children: Parenthood isn’t wonderful 100 percent of the time.

Put on your aluminum deflector beanies folks!

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?pagewanted=all

“If we send someone a catalog and say, ‘Congratulations on your first child!’ and they’ve never told us they’re pregnant, that’s going to make some people uncomfortable,” Pole told me. “We are very conservative about compliance with all privacy laws. But even if you’re following the law, you can do things where people get queasy.”

Why the Lord of the Rings Secretly Sucks

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After watching the amazing battle scene at the foot of Mount Doom at the beginning of the Fellowship of the Rings on the Big Screen for the first time in a long time I remembered why the Lord of the Rings sucks.

I’ll have to rent that one.

The rushed-through story the screenwriter threw in as the first ten minutes of Fellowship of the Ring looked a lot more interesting than the movie we were forced to watch. Why didn’t somebody make a movie off that instead?

The rest here.