What is your favorite vegetable to touch yourself with?
Ask a Faithless Street Member
exile
#425
Got to be the butternut squash, naturally shaped to let you know if youāve gone too farā¦
saf
#429
For the parents in the group: how do you make peace with your last baby being your last baby? Itās going way too fast.
nick
#430
For me it was a little different I suppose. I had a vasectomy because we felt that going for any more would be pushing our luck. All three of mine were preemies and spent at least a week in the NICU. They are healthy now. Considering everything that happened when my youngest was just two, I have not only found peace with my decision, but I am also thankful. I look at Leo and he doesnāt truly grasp everything that was taken away from him. It would be even harder if I had one younger than Leo.
DougoBlue
#431
You think it is going fast now, it wonāt be a long wait until grandchildren are hereā¦ then youāll really want it to slow down.
thebalvenie
#432
canāt say iāve thought about that or worried about that. i have two healthy wonderful human beings ā¦iām content and satisfied with the two. i got snipped shortly after our second girl and i donāt regret that at all. my wife is happy with the two too
thebalvenie
#434
so true.
i recall high school taking foreverā¦then time got a bit faster through college and then with kidsā¦itās been a fucking flashā¦a good flash but damn itās gone by
Ely_Plains
#435
Itās sad, for sure. I try to focus on having a richer marriage/partnership/love because the kids are older and more independent. Iām also just happy that I have two children and they have each other. Iād be bummed only having one kid.
In a less sentimental vein Iām in my mid 40s, wife isnāt that far behind and weāve seen older parents have children with autism and other problems. I know Iād struggle with that and being the kind of parent a special needs kid requires.
saf
#437
Guys, which is the better āMy Girlfriendās abortionā song?
The Freshmen - The Verve Pipe
Brick - Ben Folds Five
https://the-toast.net/2014/01/15/songs-i-never-realized-were-about-abortion/ I cried laughing at this.
saf
#440
Not only did I have no idea this song was about an abortion until well into my college years, I once sang it at the karaoke machine in a Discovery Zone at my sixth-grade birthday party.
Still laughing over this because I have my own version of it. I sang A Long December at someoneās 13th birthday in a rented out night club called āThe Edgeā in Iowa City, IA.
Edited to add that I did not know what Recovering the Satellites was about until I posted an article here talking about how the album was about coming to grips with sudden fame and constant touringā¦. I was likeā¦. It was??? I think A Long December is aboutā¦ California? It is, right?
highlife
#441
āDecemberā was the disturbingly lyrically accurate soundtrack to the dissolving of my last adult-kept innocent notions about love. And released right on time too.
Few things will drive me to brown liquor and a two-day funk like that song if I let it burrow. Somehow itās always close enough to touch, even if I forget to.
DougoBlue
#443
Interesting about The Freshman being about abortionā¦ I never knew.
Brian Vander Ark, the lead singer for the Verve Pipe is from around here and my friend used to manage the band. Also a former friend of mine used to live with him when she was still in high school (sheesh). Hope itās not about her, but I wouldnāt be shocked if it was.