A study was made to see which Western babies were the quietest, and people from Denmark reported the least crying.
But when the scientists went to Denmark to study it, they found that Danish babies cry just as much as other Western babies. It turned out that even though you'll find plenty of Danes complaining about noisy babies, Danes in general are much more tolerant of crying babies than in other countries and it takes more for them to get annoyed. So the scientists then tried to explain that, and so far their best guess is that Danes have more room for children of all ages expressing themselves.
The quietest babies in the world can be found in African and Far Eastern countries, where the parents (or grandparents) usually have the babies with them at all time, which makes the babies feel safe.
@loupblanc Sister America should be used to it since she cries just as loudly and obnoxiously as the guy in the white house. It is the rest of us, those who used to be called "conservatives" but are now politically homeless, who are sick of the whining and victim mentality, but most of all the infantile rage at everyone around them that we see on both the right and left.
'@LoveIsGood' learn to enjoy comedy of campus commies (who would have thought that Auburn would be safer for them than Berkeley?) pretending to be revolutionaries, otherwise you may need antidepressants.
@sugarbasil From what we've been seeing in the news, it sounds like a typical American college campus when anyone who isn't a left-wing speaker shows up to challenge the accepted dogma of the students.
@LoveIsGood - If by "challenge the accepted dogma" you mean "spew hate speech for the sake of hate speech" than you are correct. I am, of course, assuming that you are referring to Milo Yiannopoulos, the self-proclaimed troll from Britain.
@Mecharic "Hate speech" is a phrase you use to suppress speech that you hate.
You do yourselves and your peers a disservice when you use name calling to try to rebut those you disagree with. If the guy is so wrong, why not listen to what the guy has to say - record it and transcribe it even? Then you can write a point-by-point rebuttal for your student newspaper. You'll feel good about writing it (anyone who argues on the internet knows how good it is to demolish someone else's arguments), and your peers will benefit from knowing WHY the guy is wrong instead of just knowing that SAY he is wrong.
You can't prevent everyone from hearing Yiannopoulos's words forever. Wouldn't it be better to equip them with the reasons to reject his speech if his speech is so bad?
@LoveIsGood No, "hate speech" is a legal term for speech that explicitly calls for violence against people based on their ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. Milo's speeches qualify on all three regards: he encourages violence against gay and transgender people, Jewish people, and refugees from Muslim-majority countries. His followers are often armed and belligerent when they show up to his engagements: at one such event, one of his fans shot and seriously wounded someone. They make death threats against people on and off campus. Inviting him to speak (especially at an event where there is no one to counter anything he says) does not offer any benefit to students at a college and actively puts their lives at risk.
'@ShoggothOnTheRoof' "Milo's speeches qualify on all three regards: he encourages violence against gay and transgender people, Jewish people, and refugees from Muslim-majority countries"
Examples?
"at one such event, one of his fans shot and seriously wounded someone"
Police say the man who fired the gun Friday night at the University of Washington claimed he had been assaulted by the man he shot, and that he believed he was a white supremacist. Friends of the critically injured man, say he is no racist.
After the shooting, the man, accompanied by another person, turned himself in to UW police, Rittereiser said in the news release. Both people were taken into custody.
Detectives investigated and, after consulting with the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, released both people, according to Rittereiser.
By the way, this is just precious:
" One said his friend supported Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary, and both said he sports an anti-hate tattoo that consists of a black swastika surrounded by a red circle with a slash through it."
Next time he'd better be smart enough not to dress like a skinhead and cover up a swastika tattoo, in case someone does not understand peculiarities of punk subcultures.
@comrade_Comrade You ask for examples of Milo's hate speech but apparently missed that the very article you linked to said that he was permanently banned from Twitter for racism and misogyny. If you want actual examples of what he's said, I'm sure you can easily find it- I'm not going to link to it here.
'@ShoggothOnTheRoof' "that the very article you linked to said that he was permanently banned from Twitter for racism and misogyny"
I've seen the tweet he was banned for, it does not qualify as call for violence. So, examples.
"If you want actual examples of what he's said, I'm sure you can easily find it- I'm not going to link to it here."
In other words, "I have never read Boris Pasternak but deeply condemn him".
Welcome to Soviet Union, comrade.
@ShoggothOnTheRoof I googled "Milo Yiannopoulos calls for violence". The first three pages were filled with stories about Yiannopoulos's opponents using violence. Finally on the 4th page I saw a Salon article whose title claimed Yiannopoulos was promoting violence, yet when I read the article I didn't find any specific examples. It did mention one a shooting at one of his speeches, but not anything he said that would have caused it. If incidences of violence can cause guilt by association, then sure you yourself are far more guilty of promoting violence than Milo Yiannopoulos because the people you agree with have been using violence to stop Milo Yiannopoulos's speeches.
Regardless, "hate speech:" is still a term that haters use to suppress the speech of people they hate. The fact that it has been incorporated into law does not make it right - in fact it makes it fare more evil because you are now using the threat of government sponsored violence to suppress the freedoms of those you despise. You may say that it is only used when there are calls to violence, but I saw the translation of what Geert Wilders was arrested for, and it wasn't calling violence any more than any one else seeking changes in law is calling for violence - that is the same kind of violence you desire when you seek to outlaw "hate speech".
If it comes to that, if you use government-sponsored violence to suppress the freedom of speech of those you despise, how do you expect them to react? With a peaceful dialogue that you have forbidden to them?
@LoveIsGood #9625576 I agree with you. I won't point blame at anyone because it is both sides fault. The farther left you are, the less open to ideas from the right. The farther right you are, the less open to ideas from the left. Both sides need to be better at accepting criticism and both would be more open to new ideas.
@Baconcheesewheel How about accepting some ideas from somewhere other than left or right? Now that Trump is being used to define "the right", I see very little difference between the right and left. Maybe we need a political movement that promotes freedom, family, generosity, responsibility, equal treatment for all Americans regardless of race or religion, rule of law rather than of whim etc.
And here I thought Denmark would feed that baby from his green bottle.
Turns out it's the opposite: Denmark drinks from that bottle until whatever the baby does is fine with him. Quite reasonable, as far as I am concerned.
Babies cry, its how they communicate with people around them. How else would you know how a baby would be hungry, need a diaper change or generally be lonely. Crying babies don't annoy me, it's when their parents ignore their cries and don't acknowledge it which ticks me off, because obviously their kdis are in need of something.
@Shitzadorina babies also cry when you're sitting and holding them, instead of standing. Or when they don't like wearing clothes. Or when the brand of strained pees you're feeding then isn't their favorite. It's their only way to communicate, but babies are still people. They still have things that annoy them, for whatever reason, they just loudly let you know it.
@Shitzadorina varies, I had one with colic, literally cried for no reason, wasn't hungry, didn't need a change, just had gas. We did everything the doctor said, he had never seen such a ridiculous case. We could get her to sleep 6-8 hours a night, but she wouldn't nap unless you were holding her, and even then she'd cry for 30 minutes straight first. Our parents and siblings where the only reason we retained any semblance of sanity.
It got funny when she was 6months or so, she'd cry if she heard our voices, but if she didn't she was fine. She wanted to be included in everything!
@Boingyboingy Did your doctor tell you to stop with cow-milk for 6 weeks? Our doctor told us to stop eating milk products for a few days and see if it got better. It didn't so we started again. A month later we found out that it takes much longer for the milk protein to go out of the mothers milk so after about 4-6 weeks it started to improve and our daughter could sleep without crying or being rocked to sleep constantly. Milk protein allergy is very tricky to get around, there is milk protein in almost everything.
@shedemon "I'm quite mature (read: old)" well, Americans will elect you if that's the case! (Or not, there is lots of sexism around here and bc you're a girl, they will probably hate you for trying
@HollieKim I kind of like it when they do both. It gives us insight into how people think and view things verses what is measured and objectively observed.
life hack: when a baby is screaming, dont scream at it, attack it, or even kill it.... just put on some mother fucking earmuffs, you fucking worthless child-murdering retards.
youd think that after 150 years this really ought to be common sense across all humanity, but apparently its not nearly as common as shaken baby syndrome, so i thought id share my ~!~revolutionary wisdom~!~ with as many people as possible.
i dont mean to break the mood of the funny and interesting comic, but this is one of those things that busts me right up... its bizarre, its grotesque to me how many more people blame, abuse, and MURDER their own INFANTS than those who simply put on some earmuffs until they fix the problem. i mean, if they have to mow the lawn, do they scream at the lawn mower and choke it until it shuts up? ive even worn my usual, broken mp3 player HEADPHONES and even THEY take that maddening edge off the babys screams.
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