And your point is ... ?

Send them my way.

fark responsibility. You only have to be responsible enough to make sure you aren't a burden to anyone else. From there on you can do as you please.

/doesn't play video games

Sounds like stoners I knew back in the 70s. Some now are in their late 40s and early 50s without a nickel to their names, living off minimum wage jobs, meager inheritances from deceased parents, relatives.

/Someday you just have to put down that joint and embrace the suck.

I'd really like to comment on this, but I'm trying to watch Stomp The Yard before going to Abercrombie and Fitch.

I'm a girl and do that, you guys don't get everything fun to yourselves.

Now, anyone wanna come over an play video games and listen to my obsessively organized music collection?

Hey, that's me!

Obvious tag off playing Halo 3?

AirForceVet: /Someday you just have to put down that joint and embrace the suck.

Or keep smoking and enjoy the suck. Frankly it doesn't have to suck at all, ironically, if you work hard enough and don't be a jaded arse. Life's too short.

/Tis possible.
//Wife and two kids.
///Still enjoy stuff.

You forgot to add 'basement-dwelling virgins covered in a mysterious orange powder'

i'm responsible enough to hold a job, pay my rent and bills (mostly) on time, and I still play lots and lots of video games.

Define "responsibility".

Does this surprise anyone? And in 26 minutes, they all have to be at the gym.

Get off the columnist's lawn.


/responsibility is not proven by procreating

Not doing the dreaded "married with children" thing and I do like to play video games. The rest? Not so much.

Chariset: You forgot to add 'basement-dwelling virgins covered in a mysterious orange powder'

WTF is that powder?

i, for one, am shocked that a culture which fetishizes nostalgia could ever create a generation of man-children.

kingMountain: i, for one, am shocked that a culture which fetishizes nostalgia could ever create a generation of man-children.

I for one blame it on baby boomer parents.

/I can be your friend and your parent
//right?
///right?

CALL ME

Thats me. Except I have 2 kids, but I extra wallow in 80's nostalgia to make up for it.

Kids and responsibility are hugely overrated. Leisure and selfishness are hugely underrated.

This guy sounds like every other old person who has ever lived. Don't forget to take your teeth out before you turn in for the night, Gramps.

If I want to honky tonk around 'til two or three
Now, brother that's my headache, don't you worry 'bout me.
Just mind your own business
(Mind your own business)
If you mind your business, then you won't be mindin' mine.

Mindin' other people's business seems to be high-toned
I got all that I can do just to mind my own
Why don't you mind your own business
(Mind your own business)
If you mind your own business, you'll stay busy all the time.

....or find a job in the entertainment industry so that babbling about music and tv and movies and film festivals and video games and CD releases and all that pop culture crap is what pays your bills.

(jeans + t-shirt is my work uniform, so i guess i dress like a teenager too)

None of them vote, thank God, or taxes would be higher than they are now.

Stay in your basements, please, you Eleanor Rigbys. The world has no need of you.

It was a Sunday night and I was broke. I had an aunt who gave me a bit of a stipend and a few quid from well-wishers here and there, but it was gone, and the dole wasn't coming till the following day.

Wow! What rugged individualism and self reliance! If any author has earned the right to decry the new "entitlement generation", it's this guy.

The secret to eternal youth is to never have children. You never had to set a good example.

In other news Funyuns Still Outselling Responsibilityuns.

As long as people who aren't interested in responsibility aren't having kids or making a burden of themselves then I'm fine with them skipping out on mature relationships and pursuits in favor of a life of banal entertainment. For a couple thousand years some people from every generation have escaped the challenges of making something of their lives with booze, drugs, promiscuous sex, or daydreaming about a magical perfect afterlife. Now a generation raised on TV can add entertaining your day away.

vincentpriceisdead: I'm a girl and do that, you guys don't get everything fun to yourselves.

Now, anyone wanna come over an play video games and listen to my obsessively organized music collection?

Will you adopt me?

/didn't say marry because that would be responsible.

Why doesn't this article interview any Farkers?

Only because they figured out women's little con.

Think about it- what possible benefit is there for a guy to get married and have kids??

Poverty, despair, and noise.


/two kids, married 13 years.

Doggie McNugget: vincentpriceisdead: I'm a girl and do that, you guys don't get everything fun to yourselves.

Now, anyone wanna come over an play video games and listen to my obsessively organized music collection?

Will you adopt me?

/didn't say marry because that would be responsible.

It's not responsible if you run away to Vegas to get a quickie marriage.

You said that like it's a BAD thing

that was the most poorly written piece of shiat i've ever read.

Awesome quote.

/sorry for tiny threadjack

What the hell happened to the article and thread about gay marriage losing it's shock value in the UK?

First it went TF only, then it disappeared. WTF?

/end tiny threadjack

Yes, this is me, too.

"Many men I know have no children and play video games. They still wear teenagers' clothes, they obsess about pop music and films and value themselves and their leisure activities over responsibility"

That is because every man that gets shafted in a divorce has half a dozen friends. Pretty soon no one is going to "take the point" because they will just get whacked.

Hi.

/at least I don't obsess over pop music
//also I work on jet engines

Didn't we talk about this like yesterday or Friday?

I thought the consensus last time was that it was fine. Mostly because Fark is populated by nothing but.

Wow. Didn't think Drew would come right out and peg the Fark community like that.

Wait, this wasn't Drew blogging on Farksters?

When the writer of this column was born, the world's population was about half of what it was today. The people who aren't having children aren't the selfish ones.

/Also, video games are awesome.
//People who don't play them are generally either too old and set in their ways to give them a serious chance, or obsessed with the ideal of adulthood.
///30-40 years from now, we will have a president who grew up on Final Fantasy and Bioshock.

Wait, there are girls that like that?

Hot damn. Maybe things aren't so bad.

Wait, the article is in Irish! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Hero tag?

tldr?

7of7: fark responsibility. You only have to be responsible enough to make sure you aren't a burden to anyone else. From there on you can do as you please.

Yeah, you're right. Just because your family, society, country, etc. have given you as much as they have your entire life, that's no reason for you to feel like you ought to return the favor.

After all, if there's one thing Wal-Mart, oil companies, and Microsoft have taught us, it's that everyone's better off when operating exclusively under the principle of unenlightened self-interest.

Onoes, someone's figured out that life doesn't have to be all about being a productive little worker bee, and that pursuit of personal happiness isn't such a bad idea! Quick, chastise them!!

I am one of those!

Why do I have to spend my entire life so I can have a woman sit at home, biatch, and birth more problems my way?

My children would be as much my legacy as I am my parents, there's no point.

I rather live free, easy, do as I please. I take several small trips a year, I live very well, drive a sports car, buy what I want.

The world is like a ride at an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it's real, 'cause that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down and around and around. It has thrills and chills and its very brightly colored and its very loud. And it's fun, for a while. But some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question, "is this real? Or is this a ride?" And other people have remembered and they come back to us. They say, "hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever. Because - this is just a ride."

And we...kill those people. "Shut him up. We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This has to be real."

It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try to tell us that, and let the demons run amuck. But it doesn't matter because - it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money - a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door and buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.

- Bill Hicks

Bad things happen when selfish, irresponsible people have children. Don't encourage them.