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- pascii
Is it really like this? When we have a Baby at home, we turn automatically into boring and uncool Dads?
...that's what the guys in my office think. i think they're just plain wrong.
- Bluejam0
what the fuck do they know
- theres nothing more embarising than a "cool" DadcosmicEntity
- pizzafire0
mostly the ones who were boring and uncool to begin with.
- Peter0
I don't have a baby, but I were boring and uncool way before you guys.
- pascii0
it makes me damn angry to hear the stereotypes of eternal youngmanhood
- richardkark0
There is no cool. You gotta be real. If you're not real, you're an idiot.
- congrats on being a dad, I'm looking forward to it someday.richardkark
- chossy0
Look at your own fathers were they boring and uncool when you were young?... mine made me cross bows and took me out climbing and all sorts.
- yeah, my dad was pretty cool too. He'd take me surfing.richardkark
- groovy :)
chossy - mine was coolJaline
- chossy, were you born in a forest? Is your dad John Rambo?ian
- skii0
im due to become a dad come march. i've got my farah's and pipe at the ready...
- ..and the jumper!Morning_star
- a cosby sweater.chossy
- You don't know haw close to the thruth you are.Morning_star
- chossy0
Allot of the uncool factor I imagine comes from the necessity to be strong and provide for the family, when you have another life to look after you have to be very sensible.
- Morning_star0
Hey Pascii...
...fuck 'em, they no nothing.
Granted, for the first 18months children are very hard work and a little bit boring. After that there is a whole new world of discovery that is a cool as you wanna make it.
I have two small people (5yrs and 3yrs) and they rock. Every day is something new and i am quite literally the luckiest man alive.
I'm sure you feel the same.
- jimzyk0
being a dad doesnt make you boring or otherwise.
you are who you are,once you have a kid, you may change your ways or habits a bit but if you decide to sit at home all day and make your kids watch tv then you are a fool. bring your kids outside, show them some animals, feed them horse manure, dress them up as goats...
- i prefer dressing them in horse manure and feeding them goat. It makes 'em grow.Morning_star
- ill try that this weekend!jimzyk
- drgss0
it does make you mature
- Khurram0
cool???? coooooool?????????? lol, you still buy into that high-school paradigm??
- they do. really. i can't help, but maybe it's the fact, we're so close to the hip places here.
pascii - i use the term "cool" toopascii
- what does that mean? is this about not being able to follow local "fashion" or "trends" anymore, rather than "cool?"Khurram
- something like this, yes. kids = uncool in terms of "i want to be unbound & my own boss"pascii
- they do. really. i can't help, but maybe it's the fact, we're so close to the hip places here.
- Khurram0
mate, "cool" is NONSENSE.
It's the worst kind of chode group-think imaginable.
Be an original in EVERY sense. Do you know what makes a place "hip" or "cool"? The fact that *I'M* there. Simple as.
by the way - pascal!! You gonne be a baby daddy???!!?!?!?!?!?!!
- thebottlerocket0
If "The Fonz" was a father, would he be 'uncool' ?
- cls0
Im a father of two kids, and just got back from vegas with 18hr trip and 9hr time difference in my system, then one of my kids kept me awake for 5 hrs last night. Now i am at work and feeling anything but 'cool'. Other then that i have no problems with being a father.
- blaw0
My son thinks I'm cool as hell and he's got the only vote that matters on that front.
I'm with Chossy: Build shit, break shit, blow things up, check things out. There's a lot of fun to be had.
- monoboy0
Try entertaining a 2 year old at 6am with a hangover, it'll knock any kind of indulgence on the head believe me. It changes everything.
- But in a good way.monoboy
- Yup. Pretty much stopped drinking precisely because of this. Now he's a little older don't like drinking anyway.JerseyRaindog
- monoboy0
^ I should probably point out that it was me with the hangover, not the 2 year old.
- mikotondria30
Yes, you only really try to combine taking care of kids and having a hangover once - they just don't care..
"Daddy's got a really bad headache, why don't we just sit here really still and grip the sides of our head, breathing shallow and occaisionally darting off the to toilet to dry heave ?"
"Oh how kind, you knew that when I'd finished spitting stringy green bile I'd want to watch Dora the fucking Explorer with the volume up really loud.."
What's that ?
Of course I'll lurch round the kitchen desperately cobbling together a bowl of cinnamon oatmeal, theres nothing I'd like more than great foaming lungfulls of cinnamon right now, and the noise of the microwave ? Just music to my ears..
Oh and you've opened the curtains, how kind...
ok, daddy's going to have a little sleep again now... I think elmo-bear wants to go night-night too, lets just turn him off....
ok - ok, we'll leave him on - please don't make that noise..
No, leave daddy's phone alone, don't make it make those sounds - Im serious...Repeat for what can subjectively seem like 10 years...
- obviously "Dora the fucking Explorer" is pronounced "Dora The Explorer"...mikotondria3
- Khurram0
i'd be all like - daddy is sleeping, disturb him and get the living shit kicked out of you.
obviously why there are court injunctions against me ever reproducing.