Kids say the loveliest things.
Sometimes.
Perishing scripture-free, chilled-out small humans.
*kicks telly*
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Kids say the loveliest things.
Sometimes.
Perishing scripture-free, chilled-out small humans.
*kicks telly*
Thanks Thomas Morris
Tumbleweed…….
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Wow these kids are so learned….do they believe in a fat old bearded man who gives gifts to childer on the 25th of december too?
Sick burn man!!
haha
After the referendum there’s more of the hilarious “Was it for this” and “Things that look like Ireland” promised. That’s in another month though.
The Windsors are coming !
Thank heavens for small mercies.
I hate when kids are made ape the political and social opinions of their parents/teachers.
I was just thinking that. Remember when that “Youth Defense” crowd pulled a similar stunt on the abortion issue a couple of years back?
Fatuous.
Fatberg.
I am guessing you don’t have children (or at least not ones who can read, yet). The Vote No posters went up in our neighbourhood on Monday night and we’ve been inundated with questions from our 6yo ever since. What is surrogacy? What does it mean on that poster when it says ‘every child deserves a mother and father’ and ‘vote no’? It’s impossible to answer these questions without getting somewhat political. Most importantly, I want my child to feel he can safely ask and talk to us about anything. But the referendum wasn’t even a topic of conversation until the ‘vote no’ posters were put up.
Spot on. Kids ain’t what they used to be. I am looking forward to the next 20 years. Unless they take off and leave us rot in our “moral” delusions.
Kid second from the right is. He’s exactly what kids used to be – in 1981.
Pretty sure he’s in some of my family’s old photo albums.
Used to be at a lot of birthday parties and the like.
Good to see him.
Been a while.
I’m guessing you’re telling porkies. 6 year olds can’t read surrogacy from a poster.
I should know I have one. Admittedly he may be a little slow.
They may still have asked what it said, and what it meant. Everyone’s happy. I don’t have one.
They may also have asked what the Samsung billboard said so should we approve the Nokia Alcatel merger” for the children?”
“My kids read……..” Me hole. 6 yr old kids are interested in how much trouble can I cause and how big a hug gets me off. If you are explaining the referendum to your 6yr old then shame on you.
I’m the parent of said 6 year old. Yes he can read- he reads everything he sees. I was with him on a walk when we saw the no posters- he had to ask what surrogacy means of course.
I don’t understand what’s shameful about explaining a referendum to a 6 year old. His uncle is gay, we talk openly about this stuff in our family. When he saw the posters he wanted to know what they were for. I guess we could just say ‘oh that’s grown up stuff’ but that seems a bit moronic. I think it’s shameful to treat our kids as if they don’t have the empathy or intelligence to understand that there are different kinds of relationships in the world. I’m not suggesting this be foisted on them, but if they ask they deserve an age appropriate explanation.
He came to his own conclusions about the referendum, and thinks it’s unfair that he can’t vote.
And he’s the one with two gay parents?
Well in reality, they’re the people that this change is really going to be for. Some of those children will be gay and hopefully will experience a more tolerant, free and open society that respects their rights better than the one that adults who are gay grew up in.
I can’t take another month of this.
Children are idiots. Who cares what they think about anything?
Boom! :)
In fairness, anyone who makes up their mind on how they’re going to vote on the basis of what a bunch of 5 year olds think probably shouldn’t be permitted to vote.
This is terrible.
They were forced to learn off these lines by over zealous parents.
The Yes campaign doesn’t need this.
+1
Not really, one kid in it has two dads and the other kids are his friends so I’m sure, and it is implied, I think, that they have talked about it before…. as opposed to being “forced” to do anything, I’m sure they were aware, when hypothetically… Jimmy, aged 5, turned to freckle faced Jackie, aged 6, and said “Sweet sufferin’ Jesus, Tommy’s got two feckin’ Dads! He must have the best Action Man toys ever ever ever !”
And of course, there’s editing and preparation
And this :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDtjLSa50uk&index=16&list=PL_IlIlrxhtPOTUi-PQHkWIzXuSY85pAjx
Damn, that’s a playlist… if u watch this, I was looking for a short 3 minute one called – Robert Seyfarth: Theory of Mind – it’s about 5th in the list :)
Another criticism of the Yes campaign? Seems to be a bunch of ‘definite’ Yes voters who criticize every single aspect of the Yes campaign and moan about how it will ‘Make people vote no!’. Not a breath of criticism of the No campaign of course.
Their attitude seems to be ‘Shut up, gay people. Don’t let us hear you or see you or rub your gayness in our face! Just shut up and maybe us straight people will let you have marriage if we’re in the mood’.
Wind your neck in Kieran, as it happens if it wasn’t for the straight people your referendum wouldn’t pass.
Serious question, do you think that marriage is the precursor to homosexual adoption? I would love to follow this discussion up with someone on the yes side.
If it wasn’t for Ireland being such a messed up country, I wouldn’t have to beg and plead for my straight friends to make me an equal citizen. Do you know how demeaning that is?
It’s galling to be pontificated to then by people saying they’ll then hold their nose and vote ‘Yes’, but only if the gays don’t act too gay.
So running a mindless inept campaign is a gay thing? Who knew?
“Gay” adoption has already preceeded SSM marriage
Sick as in sick
Seriously guys!?! I watched and thought that kids will say what they think. And I agree with them.
Damn these parents for indoctrinating their kids into the gay, socialist, leftist, liberal, atheist agenda!
You forgot the pinko PC-SJW feminazis!!
Pfft kids! Remember the good old days when they were up chimneys cleaning them, now its all opinions and chatback.
+ 1870
Its amusing to see the Yes campaign use all the campaigning tricks and manipulation usually employed by Youth Defence and other right-wing Catholic movements, just because it suits their needs. There would be uproar if the Christian right do something like this with kids as propaganda tools for the NO side.
Changing the Constitution is a big thing – I expected something more intellectually rigorous than simplistic emotion-wrought clichés like “Its all about love”.
““Its all about love” – and if you are to stupid to see that simple message of truth then its because you are a hateful, vicious, knuckle dragging ****.
So, Odis, any note of dissension and I’m a “hateful, vicious, knuckle dragging ****.” There’s a constructive insightful rebuttal for you.
Thanks for proving my point.
Ooooo – someone needs their coffee.
The Christian righ already are with those awful irrelevant signs
Implying that makes it OK to use kitsch murals and kidsploitation. I suppose its a matter of taste and the lack of it.
True – its a bit too cheesy for me but does show how much more adult kids can be about these issues than some grownups.
“True – its a bit too cheesy for me” – Crickey – Et tu Don?
Yeah, me too. But then I have a bit of a kid aversion generally…. they are terrifying unpredictable