I spent 4-plus hours tonight at and around PHL waiting for my brother's flight to get in. What a horrendous, horrendous time that was.

i saw on the news at 4 something that there were already 2 plus hour delays on most flights. get with harpua

In retrospect I should have called the 800 phone number for updates more frequently as I was running errands this afternoon.

jerseyhoya wrote:

CrashburnAlley wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:My sister, the third of three children, just told my mom she was irresponsible for having three kids because overpopulation is ruining the environment and the planet. Oh boy, you send a kid to college and they turn into a hippie retard.

Except it's true. However, "ruining" may be too strong a word choice. I'd go with "detrimental to".

She could be completely, indisputably right (she's not) and it would still be an utterly stupid and hurtful thing to say to one's mother.

Family dynamics are all unique, but in mine, the mom's response would have been both obvious and devastating.

That's pretty bad, though. Hope everyone chills out by tomorrow--not much worse than a Thanksgiving dinner table cold war.

Crash, your plan is voluntary self-removal from the human gene pool, correct? I can respect that, but ultimately I decided I'm too selfish not to try and spawn...

My mom actually handled it pretty well. Asked if my sister was disappointed that she was so irresponsible. Then my brother, who might lack common sense from time to time but is good with a quick line, jumped in real quick and said something to the effect of 'Too late now, not even your fellow Democrats would be OK with an abortion this late.' And we sorta just moved on.

Probably just a guess, but while it's a hurtful line, it's likely your mom recognized some youthful arrogance/inconsideration in the perspective and chalked a bit of it up as such.

dajafi wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

CrashburnAlley wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:My sister, the third of three children, just told my mom she was irresponsible for having three kids because overpopulation is ruining the environment and the planet. Oh boy, you send a kid to college and they turn into a hippie retard.

Except it's true. However, "ruining" may be too strong a word choice. I'd go with "detrimental to".

She could be completely, indisputably right (she's not) and it would still be an utterly stupid and hurtful thing to say to one's mother.

Family dynamics are all unique, but in mine, the mom's response would have been both obvious and devastating.

That's pretty bad, though. Hope everyone chills out by tomorrow--not much worse than a Thanksgiving dinner table cold war.

Crash, your plan is voluntary self-removal from the human gene pool, correct? I can respect that, but ultimately I decided I'm too selfish not to try and spawn...

To JH: I didn't really think of that -- yeah that is something best kept to oneself or Internet forums.

To Daj: That's the plan so far. I can't say I won't change in the future but I figure I'll be dealing with enough kids as a teacher. But maybe it'll be like the movies and they'll inspire me to have kids of my own.

Whenever I'm out and about, it just strikes me how overpopulated the country really is, at least in this area (southeast PA). And it's not going to slow down. There was a 9.8% increase in the U.S. population from the 1980 to 1990 U.S. Census and a 13.2% from 1990 to 2000. There's 308 million now, which would be a 9.6% increase, with still a year to spare.

In terms of resource consumption (not oil), I dread to think what the country will look like in 30 years. At a rate of ~10% population increase per year, we'll be at about 410 million people by 2040. Maybe I'm just being a worry wart, but that seems troublesome to me.

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jerseyhoya wrote:My sister, the third of three children, just told my mom she was irresponsible for having three kids because overpopulation is ruining the environment and the planet. Oh boy, you send a kid to college and they turn into a hippie retard.

That is just cold. I think a lot times the girls are the ones most likely to say mean things to their mothers but my sister while she can kind of be a little bitchy sometimes wouldn't and couldn't say something like that. Your mother must have really favored you guys or something but I kind of doubt it.

Hopefully her head will straighten out eventually. It would be funny if she got pregnant with quadruplets.

my sister left me the res hits

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jerseyhoya wrote:

CrashburnAlley wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:My sister, the third of three children, just told my mom she was irresponsible for having three kids because overpopulation is ruining the environment and the planet. Oh boy, you send a kid to college and they turn into a hippie retard.

Except it's true. However, "ruining" may be too strong a word choice. I'd go with "detrimental to".

She could be completely, indisputably right (she's not) and it would still be an utterly stupid and hurtful thing to say to one's mother.

It could be in a lot of ways, but I thought the main point in that was: "My sister argued for reducing population in favor of her own birth."

jerseyhoya wrote:My sister, the third of three children, just told my mom she was irresponsible for having three kids because overpopulation is ruining the environment and the planet. Oh boy, you send a kid to college and they turn into a hippie retard.

I see she lacks the art of deduction.

CrashburnAlley wrote:Whenever I'm out and about, it just strikes me how overpopulated the country really is, at least in this area (southeast PA). And it's not going to slow down. There was a 9.8% increase in the U.S. population from the 1980 to 1990 U.S. Census and a 13.2% from 1990 to 2000. There's 308 million now, which would be a 9.6% increase, with still a year to spare.

In terms of resource consumption (not oil), I dread to think what the country will look like in 30 years. At a rate of ~10% population increase per year, we'll be at about 410 million people by 2040. Maybe I'm just being a worry wart, but that seems troublesome to me.

Meh, it's not that bad. The fact that you live one state over from the state with the densest population (NJ) and one above the 6th densest in Deleware probably skews your view a bit. Go to some places in the south and the midwest, and there's barely anyone.

In light of Ireland's recent failure to qualify for the world cup, I find my hunger for sporting success grow to that of a ravenous and starved wolf in winter. I want a world series next year so badly it gnaws at my stomach.

I would also like roast haunch of blatter on a platter and video review technology in place for Euro 2012 qualifiers.

And for domenech's france side to be denied world cup victory by handball. See how the that grey curley-haired fuck likes it when he has to swallow the line 'well, that's football' with all the enthusiasm of a rent boy nearing the end of a world record bj attempt.

I'm not asking for much this christmas. Really, I'm not.

Harpua wrote:In retrospect I should have called the 800 phone number for updates more frequently as I was running errands this afternoon.

Well I guess we're too late now, but dincha know about google flight tracker? Text the flight ID (i.e. "US 1234") to GOOGLE ("466453") and they'll text you back with the info.

http://www.google.com/mobile/products/s ... #p=default

jerseyhoya wrote:My mom actually handled it pretty well. Asked if my sister was disappointed that she was so irresponsible. Then my brother, who might lack common sense from time to time but is good with a quick line, jumped in real quick and said something to the effect of 'Too late now, not even your fellow Democrats would be OK with an abortion this late.' And we sorta just moved on.

Excellent response on your brother's part!

philliesphhan wrote:

CrashburnAlley wrote:Whenever I'm out and about, it just strikes me how overpopulated the country really is, at least in this area (southeast PA). And it's not going to slow down. There was a 9.8% increase in the U.S. population from the 1980 to 1990 U.S. Census and a 13.2% from 1990 to 2000. There's 308 million now, which would be a 9.6% increase, with still a year to spare.

In terms of resource consumption (not oil), I dread to think what the country will look like in 30 years. At a rate of ~10% population increase per year, we'll be at about 410 million people by 2040. Maybe I'm just being a worry wart, but that seems troublesome to me.

Meh, it's not that bad. The fact that you live one state over from the state with the densest population (NJ) and one above the 6th densest in Deleware probably skews your view a bit. Go to some places in the south and the midwest, and there's barely anyone.

It's important to note that US population growth is largely due to immigration, not JH's sister. Second, it turns out that while world population is still growing, most Malthusian/Doomsday/Soylent Green scenarios are well off the mark--based on current fertility trends, population will level off world wide at around 10 billion people.

The biggest problem is water and pollution. JH's sister I'm sure is forgoing the use of non-renewable energy consumption, and probably showers once every other week or so. And is of course a vegetarian. So, everyone should get off her back.

pacino- what is with your sis's youtube channel?

I'm ready for the turkey

I just took the first batch of rolls out of the oven, and they look like they need some taste-testing....