Are you an only child?

[Silver SurferGhost]

You can always tell your mum it's his porn.


Selfish, us only children.

[El Unicornio, mang]

I'm not an only child, but I've never been 'close' to my sis, not in the usual way siblings are, and I feel pretty much the same as a lot of only children on here feel.

I never get lonely, I've always enjoyed my own company a lot more than other peoples. I do have a small group of friends back home who I like spending time with, and who I know well enough to know they're true friends, not just acquaintances (in other words, I never feel uncomfortable when I'm with them, we stick together no matter what anyone does that may seem 'out of line', and if one of them came to me and said "I've just murdered someone" I'd do my best to help them with their problem (within reason, I'd take umbridge to them killing my mum or my wife or something)) I still get annoyed with them occasionally, I have very high expectations of people, which tends to come part and parcel with this personality type, but I've come to learn that you can't rely 100% on anyone, if you're unable to rely solely on yourself then you're fucked.

This may sound a bit cold, but I just don't like people much. I've met so many people who lie and cheat and are generally thoughtless of others, and worst of all those who take advantage of people being nice, that it's really made me suspicious of everyone. I understand people who just live with loads of animals, with animals you know what you're getting, there's no bullshit, with people you never know exactly what their agenda is.

[Jim Jarmusch]

I'd like to get a dog.

[Silver SurferGhost]

That is interesting though. I'm so insular I won't even entertain the idea of a pet. I MUST have SOME time completely to myself every day, even it's only half an hour or so.

If I won/earned a significant amount of money I'd like to see how long I could go without human contact, I think it'd be effortless.

I could probably do that no bother too if I had to, it's more a question of not wanting to at the moment as there's this lady I like, even if it's only on a part-time basis. And of course, I have kids, even if they're also only on a part-time basis, so there's at least some obligation to someone else there.
I think that choice is everything, and my siblingless upbringing has afforded me the luxury to please myself.

Spoilt, if you like, but I think that's a very narrow view of it.
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[fanny splendid]

eurwheurureurwhererur.

Hehehe, congratulations on trying to describe that sound just with letters!

[vladyeti]

You can always tell your mum it's his porn.

My step-dad (who's 51) wanted me to get some old family history pictures that he'd scanned from the hard drive of his old PC.  He couldn't remember which folder they were in, so I scanned the whole PC for image files.  The temporary internet cache was full of porn, a discovery which I found quite disturbing.

I didn't say anything because it would have been hypocritical.

[Billy The Fish]

The lovely old man who lived down the road lent me one of his books once, and when I opened it it was full of old page 3 cuttings. Quite naive and sweet, poor old sod.

I put them back where I found them when I gave them back to him, although thinking about it I should have removed them, as presumably he would have KNOWN that I saw them, and been all ashamed.

Or maybe he was trying to give them to me.

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I've met so many people who lie and cheat and are generally thoughtless of others, and worst of all those who take advantage of people being nice.

Yes, its totally soul destroying isn't it? I really don't understand the way the majority of people behave towards each other. I don't know if being an only child had an effect on this way of thinking or not.

To second what others have said I love spending time alone. I think that's one of the major benefits of being an only child!

[Silver SurferGhost]

internet cache unpleasantness

It's a rite of passage finding your dad's (or step-dad's) porn though, it proves they're human really after all unless it's something very weird. I should think it's happened to many of us, and those who haven't found any probably just have sneakier dads.
It must have put you in a very uncomfortable position though (yes, hah-hah, I didn't mean it like that), do you get rid of it or just leave it? And do you tell your mum? Bloody hell. He mustn't have known it was there I assume or he wouldn't have let you roam around his hard drive.  These things are sent to shock the shit out of us, eh?

He's not an only child as well, is he? ...sorry

I did have a very similar experience with a relative of mine once (lovely bloke, with a hidden stash of extreme gay S+M) although thankfully he wasn't married to my mother. Since then almost nothing surprises me about anyone...

It brings up another (er, possibly) interesting dimension of the thread though, what is the only child's attitude to porn? Statistically speaking aren't *lonely* kids supposedly introduced to it earlier and hang onto it for longer? For most *blokes* it's seen as a disposable commodity to be used *for a laugh*, while the *loner* hoards it and obsesses about it.
I must confess an unhealthy interest from an early age myself, but it's something I pretty much grew out of years ago.


I apologise in advance if my observation turns this into a Wanking Thread, but I'm not asking for details of anyone's masturbatory habits or owt
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[Evil Knevil]

revoltingly racist

Sorry to pick that out of your post when you're obviously having a moment but I thought I'd mention that my parent's were also appalling racist and anti-catholic to boot...
Until my brother converted to Islam and married an Iranian, she met my two best mates from Uni, who are black, and met my current flatmate who's gay. Nothing like demonstration by action :)

oh and met an (ex) girlfriend of mine who is an Irish Catholic.

She was a bit uptight though: you can take the girl out of Cork ...
(c) 1001 terrible jokes

[oldandnew]

with animals you know what you're getting, there's no bullshit, with people you never know exactly what their agenda is.

Unless of course your pets are cattle!!!!!!!!!11111



Sorry. I really shouldn't have done that. But I'm still going to hit 'submit'.

[Xander]

Yes! Next question.

My parents are very extreme. I've always been a good student, so in expectation of me getting good A-Levels, after my AS, dad bought me a Gamecube, with the understanding he would happily dance around it whilst it burned, if I was to get less than a B in any of my 4 a-levels, and my new AS.

It survived (not boasting), and there was always, always the subext of a sound thrashing if I did anything out of line. Yet they let me drink from a very young age, like, 12, because my mum  thought that if I gre up with drink, I'd not be anything out of the normal later on. She was right, because whilst I just get a drunk at uni, a sheltered friend of mine did the lesbian thing, then got her clit piereced while she was smoking weed, then streaked on speed.

So there you go. And she has an older sister.

[Fucknose]

I'm the youngest of 2. My brother's 7 years older than me and I spent my entire life looking up to him. Now, he's got a girlfriend who already has children and he's perfectly content in his ready made family, so much so  that I cant even remember the last time we spoke. He and my mum were so close that I had a constant inferiority complex, one which has deifinitely continued into my adult life. However, I have no problem spending time on my own, in fact I quite enjoy it from time to time. maybe, because the age gap is quite big, I was at times virtually an only child anyway. My boyfriend on the other hand was an only child til he was 15, and yet cant bear to spend a second on his own. Hes always the centre of attention, and has an insanely close relationship with his mother. Im not sure if this is to do with being an only child, or with being male. It seems some boys have that 'bond' with their mothers. Maybe its moreso with first born sons????

[Almost Yearly]

I'm quite happy in my own company listening to my music, abusing twats on the internet.

You missed one:

I do know quite a few wankers though, to be honest.

Mmm, how has this come about I wonder? Get in.

We had this kid called Gareth who scissored a bit of his ear off so we called him vanguff or guff for short.

:-))) I chose to read your monologue in an Alan Bennett accent.

Oooh, you've just reminded me of another of my deeply unpleasent traits..... my ability to just shut people out forever.

Oooh, yes. Me too. Is it unpleasant? Pruning back aids fruitful growth.

Sex, twice?

Oh go on then, as long as I'm home for tea. Rararah.

< Too much, and then... >

yo marco, simmer!

Oh stop it or I'll bust you.




I say, without getting into specifics, it's quite fascinating to discover which Whores are monosibs isn't it.

[sproggy]

I say, without getting into specifics, it's quite fascinating to discover which Whores are monosibs isn't it.

Yes it is.

The oddest thing I have discovered is previously holding most, if not all of them in high regard already.  I have always made a point of reading their posts wherever possible.

All sarcastic, spoilt brats unite.  The world is ours for the taking...


Brawwwhaahaa...  etc.

[Beelzebub]

'Thanks' for the snidey PM too. I haven't a clue what I've done to offend you.

Perhaps your dad has signed up...

I am Ed Jefferson's Mum.

[Almost Yearly]

I say, without getting into specifics, it's quite fascinating to discover which Whores are monosibs isn't it.

The oddest thing I have discovered is previously holding most, if not all of them in high regard already.  I have always made a point of reading their posts wherever possible.

Well yes. Although splatterou's one as well, so fuck that in the ear, obviously.

It certainly does nothing to persuade me that a sibling for my new offspring would be by any means necessary. People in pubs tell us we should have another one, and I let them dig themselves deeper for a while as they explain to me why an only child is so undesirable, before telling them I'm actually one myself thanks very much :-)

And I'm so bloody glad I'm not like a handful of blokes at school who walked, talked and smelled like carbon copies of their dad and/or elder brother. Same politics, same music collection, same hairdo even. Nosiree - I'm my own fuck-up, me.

[Silver SurferGhost]

All sarcastic, spoilt brats unite.  The world is ours for the taking...

Hands off, I'm having it to myself, I shan't share.


Bollocks, I'm not supposed to be doing this. I feel a Godfather quote coming on.
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[Bogey]

And I'm so bloody glad I'm not like a handful of blokes at school who walked, talked and smelled like carbon copies of their dad and/or elder brother. Same politics, same music collection, same hairdo even. Nosiree - I'm my own fuck-up, me.

I haven't had a conversation with my four-years-my-junior brother for about eight or nine years, I never have anything to say to my Dad, and for the past two years I've been living in a house full of girls. I also know, from experience, that I'm a size ten in a dress.

The question is, would it be stranger if I wasn't fucked up? I don't actually know whether I am, I just sort of assume so.