Welsh Family Values

now get your arse out and have a life, seeing as you're so keen on it

It's a shame to see people erecting unnecessary barriers. You are still a part of society, WoW, and so are people who choose to have families.

So there you go, WoW, it is all your fault that you find the breeders to be so insular and alienating. They are actually incredibly welcoming and full of warmth and love for others, whether they share their ways or not.

Most people are!

you really don't wanna run into me when i'm not full of warmth and love believe me

I wish I lived near my brothers and sisters lol

Does the OP not find this thread fascinating?
http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/post-up-your-old-family-shots-here.143477/

do all english cats stick their tongues out? enquiring minds want to know...

Or this one?
http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/self-indulgent-baby-thread.96974/

only if they left London for greener pastures. It leaves a funny taste in their mouths

Did you know that most of us are descended from people who had children?

this is the thing: moving somewhere that's friendly and has a strong community and then bitching about it? i imagine suggestions of anti-english racism are about to surface

init. It's like one of us moving to London and starting a thread about how nobody will engage or even look at us on the tube. Stupid.

'Community' isn't quite what WoW was talking about. That's not how I read it, anyway.

it might not have been what he was talking about but it is what he was describing.

you really are asking to have arse handed to you on a plate aren't you

Oh, do elaborate.

cba

Spotted the truck-sized hole in your argument, did you?

Why *will* nobody even look at you on the tube, though?

It's fun to smile at people on the Tube - they very rarely get stabby.

Because we're usually knackered on our way to or from work and we decided ages ago that we're all a lot happier if we just ignore each other

i'm gonna be one of those old ladies that gets chatting at bus stops and bores people rigid about their grandkids :thumbs:

The family next door has started their ritual evening bout of yelling, swearing and general psychological abuse.

Apparently one of the kids is a 'fucking weirdo'...

Hereditary as I understand it.

I'd assumed to prevent passing on Visually Transmitted Diseases, shows how little i know.

one of the things about involuntarily coming to terms with a childfree future, is having to cope with the fact that it's such a minority experience. If you'd stayed in london, WoW, what would happen is that your mates would stop coming out so much, and then they'd move away.

I'd much rather that at least I got to see my mates who had kids occasionally, rather than count the exodus of my lovely friends, year by year - making special arrangements to meet up once or twice a year, and know that it will just get worse until there are only a handful of us left.

Same thing happens if you have kids, though.

Sooner or later everyone dies or moves away.

i thought the whole content of this thread was inspired by the fact that in lots of provincial cities and towns, people don't move away? and as for dying, yes... but not usually in their thirties and forties...