[quote=“the chief”]My point has nothing to do with age, knock off the bullshit jejune act…
Please take a moment also to point out how many spouses and children Loretta is providing for and caring for and trying to spend time with?
It’s bloody arrogant, childish, and ill-mannered to talk like, if you don’t have the luxury of ripping off one or two before languidly rolling out of the sack at 10 am for latte en boule avec madeleines, you’re either a loveless egoist or too stupid to know how to live.
Duh, yeah, maybe me and the Mrs. would enjoy having a good old shag this morning, damn, jeez, why didn’t I think of that???
Grow the fuck up.
My poor dear wife is already dragging it half the time, pulling a maximum of 6 hours a night taking care of me and our daughter, I know, I’ll set the alarm for fucking 4 instead of 5 and deprive her of another hour’s sleep, so’s, you know, I can get my fucking ashes hauled.
Most people in the world have responsibilities to others that preclude being able to engage in this sort of thing.
That doesn’t mean they wouldn’t like to.
And it doesn’t mean that their appreciation of life or their desire to please and care for their mate is somehow devalued compared to yours.[/quote]
Woah! Having a bad day, chief?
You’re right, I choose not to have kids and work my arse off in this insane world. The OP has that choice too and it’s not ill-mannered to remind him. You may not like to be reminded of the alternatives to the life that you’ve chosen, but I’m not responsible for the way you choose to live and I’m entitled to question the sense of the way that most people live.
This is the fucking 21st century, not the middle ages and the whole point of ‘progress’ is that life is supposed to get easier. We have machines that can do most things for us, a greatly increased ability to create wealth, a world full of opportunities. Why the hell is it still considered necessary to work yourself to death in order to live? If you don’t have time for loving, as a privileged member of a wealthy society, then what hope is there for the human race? Surely we, as the most advanced being on the planet, can aspire to work out a better way to live than the ants?
It’s up to you. Accept that hard work and strained relationships are inevitable, or choose to find some alternative. But don’t talk to me like that just because I look around me and see very little worth emulating in the way other people live.
You, like the OPs girlfriend, have apparently bought into the rat race. It’s not arrogant, nor is it childish, to want more out of life than a fucking mortgage and sleep-deprivation. It’s a choice, if you can be bothered to think about it, and it’s not ill-mannered to remnid people that they have the freedom to make a choice before they commit to the path that you’ve chosen.
I do hope that next time I see you you won’t be singing that old Lynyrd Skynyrd song you seem to like so much. You’ve grown the fuck up, so leave the good times to those of us that want to enjoy them. I don’t respond well to hearing that kind of language from people who sing about freedom.