humorlesscretin: Re: Hatches? We don't need no steenking Hatches!

Fri, 18 May 2007 08:21:23 EST

Does this ENCOURAGE mothers and fathers to abandon their kids? Maybe.

I'll go half a step further (and likely off the ledge). Any would-be parents that really want to drop off their baby in a nice safe baby hatch probably should.

permazorch: Re: This Man Has Really Hit On Something

Fri, 18 May 2007 04:15:16 EST

"You're not too big that I can't squeeze you into that hatch!"

thefadd: Re: tomato tomahto

Thu, 17 May 2007 13:24:57 EST

We use the term "player" in our contracts, although the agreements are called "Agreement for Test with Pilot and Series Options -- SAG Actors," "Actors" being the plural used to refer to a group of male and female "players." That pic is still of a dude, th

nmiguy: Hatches? We don't need no steenking Hatches!

Thu, 17 May 2007 11:58:34 EST

No serious;y folks, much ado, but overall not a bad idea. I mean, IDEALLY every mother and father would want to keep their baby and be able to care for and raise their baby. But in REALITY it is much different. We hear shocking stories of

humorlesscretin: Re: Good Idea

Thu, 17 May 2007 10:10:27 EST

That's because it is a microwave oven. Hospital baby food... for babies, from babies.

[It's official, I'm going to Hell for that joke.]

zyxwvutsr: Re: tomato tomahto

Thu, 17 May 2007 08:42:43 EST

It seems that the word actor is used for either men or women

Not on rferl.org. They use the standard dictionary definition, as explained on Wikipedia

Lou: Re: This Man Has Really Hit On Something

Wed, 16 May 2007 22:10:30 EST

don't forget to install a toilet in his/her room...right in front of the screen.

dzetetes: Re: This Man Has Really Hit On Something

Wed, 16 May 2007 21:27:44 EST

Warcraft is the baby drop. Give a kid a game card and a couple boxes of ramen, and you'll never hear from him again.

Lou: Re: tomato tomahto

Wed, 16 May 2007 19:43:04 EST

It seems that the word actor is used for either men or women.

Checkmate

thefadd: This Man Has Really Hit On Something

Wed, 16 May 2007 18:59:42 EST

They need to build one big enough for teenagers. That'll keep 'em in check. Stop playing warcraft or it's off to the baby drop!

thefadd: Re: tomato tomahto

Wed, 16 May 2007 18:50:17 EST

If that's a woman, the only thing more depressing is hearing that your kindergarten teacher retired.

zyxwvutsr: Re: tomato tomahto

Wed, 16 May 2007 17:41:09 EST

I see an ugly woman...you see a guy in a dress

The caption clearly says "actor." If you see a woman, then he's quite a good actor, I'd say.

Lou: tomato tomahto

Wed, 16 May 2007 16:09:45 EST

I wasn't talking about the ugly photographer in the background. I meant the man wearing a dress and string of pearls, pretending to be a woman.

I see an ugly woman...you see a guy in a dress. To each his own...you'll get no judgment from me

pO157: Anonymously throwing out a child is unacceptable.

Wed, 16 May 2007 13:52:19 EST

On the first day of its operation in Japan a father used it to drop off his 3 year old pre-schooler son. "Anonymously throwing out a child is unacceptable," according to the

thefadd: Re: Cultural Attitudes

Wed, 16 May 2007 13:43:57 EST

I fucking hate Bruce Springsteen for espousing exactly those types of morals in all his putrid, worthless music.

uncarved block: Cultural Attitudes

Wed, 16 May 2007 13:36:19 EST

I don't know that it's so much that women have all the rights- though the courts often rule that way in custody cases- but that there's a long cultural acceptance for men leaving their families, one that's gone on for centuries. For a lighter

thefadd: Good Idea

Wed, 16 May 2007 13:04:08 EST

But it looks like a microwave oven.

skeptic: Re: The insanity of balanced perspective and bias

Wed, 16 May 2007 09:43:49 EST

In most cases in which babies are abandoned or given away, the mother is unwed and the father may not even know that he has a baby, and typically doesn't care even if he does know. If he did care, he would probably have married the baby's mother, or

zyxwvutsr: Re: Baby Hatches: Recycling the Children in Real-T

Wed, 16 May 2007 09:32:39 EST

Yeah z...ugly chicks are a riot. How could I have missed that?

I wasn't talking about the ugly photographer in the background. I meant the man wearing a dress and string of pearls, pretending to be a woman.

wetkarma: The insanity of balanced perspective and bias

Wed, 16 May 2007 06:07:11 EST

Take any particular topic/story and there are bound to be critics. Homes for puppies? We're spending too litle money on humans. Free lottery tickets for voting? We're encouraging the vice of gambling.

Nevertheless it seems that the moral and religious o

Steve Urkel: Akashi Kaikyo Bridge

Wed, 16 May 2007 01:08:47 EST

They need to make things like this for drunk people to climb into.

Seriously though, this is yet another example of how the Japanese do us one better by actually putting some thought into things. Kind of like the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge.

Baby Hatches: Recycling the Children in Real-Time (Trees And Things)

humorlesscretin: Re: Hatches? We don't need no steenking Hatches!

permazorch: Re: This Man Has Really Hit On Something

thefadd: Re: tomato tomahto

nmiguy: Hatches? We don't need no steenking Hatches!

humorlesscretin: Re: Good Idea

zyxwvutsr: Re: tomato tomahto

Lou: Re: This Man Has Really Hit On Something

dzetetes: Re: This Man Has Really Hit On Something

Lou: Re: tomato tomahto

thefadd: This Man Has Really Hit On Something

thefadd: Re: tomato tomahto

zyxwvutsr: Re: tomato tomahto

Lou: tomato tomahto

pO157: Anonymously throwing out a child is unacceptable.

thefadd: Re: Cultural Attitudes

uncarved block: Cultural Attitudes

thefadd: Good Idea

skeptic: Re: The insanity of balanced perspective and bias

zyxwvutsr: Re: Baby Hatches: Recycling the Children in Real-T

wetkarma: The insanity of balanced perspective and bias

Steve Urkel: Akashi Kaikyo Bridge