Is anyone not having children....

[charliecharlie]

why thank you kind sir, so nice to be appreciated...

[katie1997]

wow I am so glad you asked that...I have just moved here and I was seriously thinking i must be the only person without children/husband in tow....I have been checking out the shops/market coffee shops and east dulwich is lovely but sometimes I wonder where all the people in my position are!! So you are definitely not the only one guppy :)

[HAL9000]

Those who choose not to have children are abandoning any further participation in mankind's evolutionary future.

Also, they are breaking a hitherto continuous link though tens of thousands of ancestors who fought and suffered to pass on their genes only for their lineage to be snuffed out as a result of a contemporary life-style choice.

[PeckhamRose]

The need to breed is something one has or one does not have.

If we stop breeding - nature science chemicals and stuff will take back the planet and maybe it will be alright. We won't know or care, because we won't be here.

Oh - and to a poster above - my parents didn't want me. I was an accident. Had they not had me, I wouldn't know so it wouldn't matter.

I think kids should choose their parents that's for sure! Having a womb and all the workings, doesn't necessarily mean the 'right' (loving caring conscientious) people have kids.

[charliecharlie]

[quote name=Those who choose not to have children are abandoning any further participation in mankind's evolutionary future.

Also' date=' they are breaking a hitherto continuous link though tens of thousands of ancestors who fought and suffered to pass on their genes only for their lineage to be snuffed out as a result of a contemporary life-style choice.]

irony... a marvelous form of humour Hal

ps if you knew my family you might doubt the benefits of passing on anything!

[Keef]

To be fair, I've lost a load of really close friends, because they've moved away for work, or gone abroad, kids are not the only reason people leave London.

They do stop[ you getting down the pub though, little sh!ts.

[Guppy]

Those who choose not to have children are abandoning any further participation in mankind's evolutionary future.

Also, they are breaking a hitherto continuous link though tens of thousands of ancestors who fought and suffered to pass on their genes only for their lineage to be snuffed out as a result of a contemporary life-style choice.

Fought and suffered? That's one way to describe your sex life...

[ontheedge]

Hal9000 once our siblings have children our genes are passed on thus taking care of evolution.

[RosieH]

HAL9000 Wrote:

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> Those who choose not to have children are

> abandoning any further participation in mankind's

> evolutionary future.

>

> Also, they are breaking a hitherto continuous link

> though tens of thousands of ancestors who fought

> and suffered to pass on their genes only for their

> lineage to be snuffed out as a result of a

> contemporary life-style choice.

Spurious tosh. Fought and suffered to pass on their genes my arse - because ALL babies have been strenuously planned? And all those without kids are making a contemporary life-style choice?

[annaj]

What RosieH said.

Especially "spurious tosh" not just because it's true, but because it just sounds lovely... go on try it a few times...

[Mick Mac]

Keef Wrote:

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> To be fair, I've lost a load of really close

> friends, because they've moved away for work, or

> gone abroad, kids are not the only reason people

> leave London.

>

> They do stop[ you getting down the pub though,

> little sh!ts.

Raid their piggy banks and come out friday night.

[HAL9000]

charliecharlie Wrote:

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> ps if you knew my family you might doubt the

> benefits of passing on anything!

Having had the pleasure of you acquaintance, I beg to differ ? I imagine any child would be blessed to have a parent like you.

[HAL9000]

RosieH Wrote:

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> Spurious tosh. Fought and suffered to pass on

> their genes my arse

I was thinking of our ancient ancestors - those ape-like bipedal hunter-gatherers who roamed the savannahs of Africa when I wrote that. Mind you, we can all trace our ancestry back to one amoeba-like blob that lived around three and a half billion years ago - so my time line was a bit arbitrary.

> - because ALL babies have been

> strenuously planned?

> And all those without kids

> are making a contemporary life-style choice?

I wasn't being judgemental - just generalising about our amazing evolutionary history - put it down to poetic licence after a long day and a couple of glasses of wine.

['bout now]

....."put it down to poetic licence after a long day and a couple of glasses of wine."

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That's how I got my Ex up the duff!

[????]

or give Hal 6/10, not bad work but need more effort to really excel

[Mick Mac]

You'll need a bigger spade than that Hal, to get you out of that mess.

[HAL9000]

Once they invoke their arse, it's time to stop digging and run like hell!

[Moos]

Don't bring my 'arris into this, Hal. You're in enough trouble.

[Muley]

Blimey Hal, how long has it taken you to develop this theory?

[Brendan]

Being ape-like, bipedal* and having spent a portion of my life roaming African savannah I would like to say to everyone that my genes and I take no offence if you choose not to reproduce.

*Not so much for the hunting a gathering though. I prefer Wimpy.

[Muley]

Yes, and it's that sort of preference (for Wimpy) that lead to the evolution of Iceland, which could be taken over by Waitrose or M&S, thereby preventing ED from evolving into the new Clapham.

I put it to you, sir, that you are standing in the way of evolution.

[Brendan]

Muley Wrote:

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> thereby

> preventing ED from evolving into the new Clapham.

Which proves that although sometimes inevitable evolution is not always preferable.

[Muley]

Very true.

And I could murder a Bender in a Bun right now.

[woofmarkthedog]

Oh really

I fancy a Big Mac, I like to try and get all of it in my mouth at once

" Ahh mmmmm mmHmmI ahh hhmmma "

W**F

[SteveT]

RosieH wrote:- And all those without kids are making a contemporary life-style choice?

I made the same lifestyle choice not to have kids, but it just didn't happen for me.

I was wrong, I made the wrong decision, I am quite happy about the end result.