Man sues parents for giving birth to him without consent.

[Sebastian Cobb]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2019/feb/05/consent-being-born-man-suing-parents-for-giving-birth-to-him

Quite interesting this. I dare say that if given the choice a lot of us would think being born isn't worth the bother. I think he might also have a point that forcing someone into this world and forcing them to have to have a career just to survive just for a couple of decades of boredom relief is a bit shitty when you think about it.

[imitationleather]

Was on his side until I saw the photo of him.

[rasta-spouse]

I think I'd prefer it if he sued God. It would make a better movie.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

What a dickhead.

[chveik]

what a shit article too

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Meh. The Grauniad has used that format for years. It's just a little quirky news side column.

If he wins, will his parents be compelled to abort him?

[Cloud]

Just promise a pardon to his parents if they shoot the ungrateful twat in the head?  Problem solved?

[PlanktonSideburns]

The fuck is that article style? Felt like an insurance advert

[gib]

The fuck is that article style? Felt like an insurance advert

was just about to ask the same. There has to be a name for something that shit.

[Gregory Torso]

Quite interesting this.

Nah.

[Kelvin]

was just about to ask the same. There has to be a name for something that shit.

"A Guardian Article."

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

I assume he's just doing this as some sort of performance art thing. Still, what a dickhead.

[gib]

I assume he's just doing this as some sort of performance art thing. Still, what a dickhead.

Come on, i've read worse threads, have you seen the pub one!

[PlanktonSideburns]

I assume he's just doing this as some sort of performance art thing. And therefore, to an even greater extent, what a dickhead.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Pretty shite as a piece of performance art really tho inni?
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GG Allin for people who follow piers Morgan on twitter

[Funcrusher]

Was on his side until I saw the photo of him.

Racialist.

[flotemysost]

Yeah they've been doing the Pass Notes column in that format for years, it's a bit cringe sometimes, but it's just the style of that regular item.

I agree that the guy seems to be on the knobhead spectrum, but it does make me think of the argument I've seen used online by lots of earnest pro-lifers, 'How would you like it if your parents had aborted you?!' (to which the answer is obviously, well I wouldn't know about it, so it wouldn't bother me one way or the other).

It seems like the idea that choosing to have children is less selfish than choosing to not have children has definitely fallen out of favour, but this is taking it to another level. If your parent/s have generally tried to do a decent job of raising you, providing for you, being loving etc. then it's clearly a pretty pointless/ungrateful thing to say.

I suspect this is either some sort of performance thingy as suggested, or an attempt at Richard Dawkins-style posing an extreme position on social media to prove a hypothetical point.

However the fact that he's in India (rather than Dalston or something) could mean this is quite a daring stance to voice - going by my admittedly very limited knowledge of the country's current social climate and views on family - so fair play to him in that case.

[Sebastian Cobb]

If your parent/s have generally tried to do a decent job of raising you, providing for you, being loving etc. then it's clearly a pretty pointless/ungrateful thing to say.

Even in the most serene of upbringings, someone's still getting a literal lifetime of modern-day hassle and drudgery against their will. I don't think it's something you have to automatically feel grateful for, it's something people have been conditioned to do, in a process similar to Stockholm Syndrome.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

"One woman described how she had been suicidal for six months after giving birth, until she decided to sue her baby for what it had done to her figure."

[a duncandisorderly]

"One woman described how she had been suicidal for six months after giving birth, until she decided to sue her baby for what it had done to her figure."

fuck's sake.

[BlodwynPig]

I bet he's not even called Samuel.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

fuck's sake.

It was a Blue Jam quote.
https://youtu.be/To4iStAspMc?t=162

[BlodwynPig]

fuck's sake.

CHECK OUT THIS DUNC

It was a Blue Jam quote.
https://youtu.be/To4iStAspMc?t=162

[a duncandisorderly]

CHECK OUT THIS DUNC

eeek.

that'll learn me.

[Mister Six]

Yeah they've been doing the Pass Notes column in that format for years, it's a bit cringe sometimes, but it's just the style of that regular item.

Since the 90s - I'm pretty sure it's been a fixture since the Guide or G2 or whatever that little mini magazine thing was called. Which was also the last time I read the Guardian with any regularity.

[touchingcloth]

Meh. The Grauniad has used that format for years. It's just a little quirky news side column.

This makes me wonder if they're still doing that Diary of Sam Cam shite. Google time.

[touchingcloth]

No. They are not.

[JesusAndYourBush]

What a pillock.  If he wins, does his mum have to shove him back up?

[Bronzy]

What a pillock.  If he wins, does his mum have to shove him back up?

Ooh, kinky.

I'd pay to see that, phwoar, eh lads?

[a duncandisorderly]

Ooh, kinky.

I'd pay to see that, phwoar, eh lads?

I bet dirty would bollocks you & that.