There is a big difference between A kid vs. YOUR kid. It is very different when you are talking about a real person instead of some hypothetical one.
For example, this line of thought would be wildly strange if you were talking about any other family member. “There’s no place I’d ever want to go with a sister, if I had one; but she doesn’t exist and is just someone I’m imagining I’d definitely dislike.” Uhh sure ok.
Idk hanging out at a Kids Playground without a kid would be weird
story time. my wife and I go to the zoo and my wife likes taking pictures. she wants to take pictures of the carosel they have and im like. oof. imma sit on this bench and you knock yourself out. Anyway did not feel wierd until she to like the opposite side of the thing and I suddenly realize im a grown man sitting on a bench facing the carosel alone. so great when she got back around to me.
From cute couple to werido Creep in one easy step
basically yeah.
I just went to a water park with my 9 year old son. It's his first time and I enjoyed watching him experience it.
Going to a water park kinda sucks solo.
Children's playground.
The Karens will get very suspicious if you don't have a kid with you.
Good edge case. I've updated the title accordingly, since I have no interest in being at a playground or anywhere else that's built specifically for kids
to be fair kids at a right age make camping better. Especially if they are excited to do work because its camping. I think there are a few other times.
Never been to a museum? Learning stuff alongside a smart kid to whom most of it is new and wonderful really brings you back to great, absorbent state of mind.
I'm if sorry your parents set such a terrible example that very obvious questions like this baffle you.
Hell to the fuck no. I'm going to the museum to enjoy myself and learn about cool stuff for myself. Bringing a kid is absolutely not going to result in a "great and absorbent state of mind", especially if I constantly have to worry about where said kid is and what they're doing -- I can just as well take an (adult) friend or partner to whom it is also new and wonderful if I want to share the experience with someone (and we can go someplace that's not fucking McDonald's after.)
I'm sorry that your state of mind is so terribly moribund that simply being in a cool place of learning doesn't suffice for you to learn and absorb new things and that you have to rely on an external locus to delude yourself into believing you're getting to that point.
I'm childfree too but you don't have to be such a jerk. You're like a 13 year old that read the god delusion for the first time
Don't disparage someone for enjoying something you don't. It's about choice and allowing people to have the life they want to have.
Cut the sanctimonious attack on intelligence. I have a doctorate. I love going to museums alone. I have no desire to ever have kids. Ever.
But nothing makes me smile like being able to witness the purity of joy and awe as someone learning something new. Child or adult doesn't matter, but children show it more cleanly and plainly IME. I like helping and I like educating. Does that make me moribound? Because I get a dopamine hit when I spread knowledge and understanding?
Plainly speaking, you and I are total and complete biological failures. Life's only objective purpose is procreation - going back to self-replicating RNA molecules. The genes that perform best are the genes best at replicating themselves.
So before you go spouting off some slop about how someone has a "moribund" mind, maybe remember that we're the ones that are defective. But that's okay, because we are all more than our contribution to genetic diversity.
Act with more humility and kindness. Be confident in your own decisions, and maybe you'll act a little less like a shithead better-than-you-know-it-all.
But nothing makes me smile like being able to witness the purity of joy and awe as someone learning something new. Child or adult doesn’t matter, but children show it more cleanly and plainly IME. I like helping and I like educating.
That is wonderful and I'm genuinely delighted it brings you joy. The world would be a far better place if there were more people like you in it.
Does that make me moribound? Because I get a dopamine hit when I spread knowledge and understanding?
No. It makes you moribund if you need another person there with you to enter a "great and absorbent state of mind". For me the annoyance of having to watch over a kid far outweighs any potential joy I could derive out of educating them or watching them learn something new, which is why there is no place I would want to go or experience I would want to have that would be made better with the presence of a kid. It's that simple.
This is so true, my daughter, fostered her since she was 11, is in a long term care facility trying to get over her trauma and become functional. She could be there for years. My wife and I went to the museum last Friday after I got off work, favorite place in the city and all things in it are free fridays and it's open late.
While we were there there were many times I wish she was there. She has severe mental trauma and is quick to, "just give up". She's missed Holidays, birthdays, and potentially the death of both her grandmas (tecnically she is my wife's cousin).
When you have a kid things change. You think more about what they would enjoy l vs what you would enjoy. It's not really this would be more fun with or without children just, ai want to give my child this experience. I miss my daughter.
If there's no kids around who are you censoring yourself for?
I avoid using curse words to maintain their strong effect. If taboo words become overused we will have to find new, even tabooer words to fill the gap. If I swear irl, people know it's serious, because I do my best to avoid it under normal circumstances.
You don't have to swear just for swearings sake, it just voids the effect of swear words and we have to find new ones
He didn't avoid it, he censored it. Those are different things.
We are adults lets use the words no censor. It's FUCK!
Disney is great with both. Fun as an adult, but more fun to see magic through a kid's eyes. Probably not somewhere you'd want to be regardless if kids annoy you though.
I wouldn't want to go to the beach with any ol kid, but I felt practically high bringing my kid there the other day. The ocean has never felt so magnetic, and I've never wanted to stand in the sand and do nothing for as long. As an adult it's cool to see the little clams burrow down in the turf for a minute. With a kid, it's mesmerizing for twenty. Things hit different with someone experiencing a concept for the first time. It's cool to be around.
As an adult it’s cool to see the little clams burrow down in the turf for a minute.
As a mid-30s adult I and my partner (also mid-30s) spent about two hours on a beach in Thailand collecting pretty shells and digging in the sand to make little waterways. It was indeed cool to be around.
That's because you've never been invited to Epstein's Island.
You wouldn't get far in american federal politics without wanting a kid
Is this an Epstein joke?
Good thing I don't want to be anywhere near that stinking trashpile
american federal politics is just how much you can
ignore your constituents,
blow up or SA as many k1ds from the Global South( and even american kids too. Anyone remember the Epstein Files?)
send another shipment of weapons to a genoc1dal dictator.
and never face repurcussions for the awful things you and your partners-in-crime do.
Bacteria in dung has more value than pretty much every american politician lol.
wanting??? more like: "Oh, great. We'll adopt! I'll call my agent, he'll find some kid who wants in on the deal."
Neither Sonia Sotomayor nor Elena Kagan have children. . . .
