“…the des­per­ate need that some peo­ple have for some­one, any­one to pay atten­tion to them.”

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I agree 100%. And that goes as much for the Mactards as the early-20s mother who lives next to me and thinks the world revolves around her because she has a work­ing uterus. I’m sick of peo­ple who think they get spe­cial con­sid­er­a­tion (in the form of not being offended or hav­ing goods and ser­vices designed specif­i­cally for them). You want it your way? Fucking build it. You don’t like some­thing the media did? Turn off the Goddamn TV. Otherwise, enjoy your glass of STFU.

P.S. where’s my fuck­ing MacBook Firewire? It’s been a month now. I don’t think Apple is lis­ten­ing to ME!

Angry Drunk,

I think you are miss­ing the point. The ad was aimed at moth­ers who wear their babies. Not at angry drunk men. The twit­ter thing was like on big focus group. What mat­ters is what moms who carry their babies think. Not at what angry drunk men think.

BTW — if there is ever a com­mer­cial aimed at angry drunk men that you find insult­ing — I will write an angry twit­ter about. I promise.

I don’t get it, car­ry­ing extra weight around can cause back pain. It’s not like some how because that weight is a baby it mag­i­cally doesn’t. Try walk­ing around all day with 15 pounds of books in a back pack and see how your back feels. Would any­one care if this com­mer­cial had just replaced mom with col­lege stu­dent, and baby with books?

@Googie Baba: No, you’re miss­ing the point. Your pre­cious twit­ter focus group is noth­ing more than a bunch of whin­ing idiots with an obscenely swollen sense of enti­tle­ment and their own importance.

My, you are angry. Are you drunk?

Listen the whole social media blog­ging twit­ter face­book thing is whiney and enti­tled. Why are you so pissed off that it occa­sion­ally effec­tive in get­ting peo­ple what they want. Motrin was try­ing to sell to us. We didn’t like the ad, and they pulled it. Why do you care?

I see your linked in profile.

Does Skill soft like your blog?

877.545.5763

@Anon: Oh yeah, the adult way to deal with hear­ing some­thing you don’t like; threaten someone’s job. Very mature.

Then don’t be a douche and post your linked in pro­file either this is work or this is private.

Wouldn’t it be funny if some­one got dooced for fuck­ing with mommys?

@Anon: Pretty sad for some­one who is afraid to put their own name to their words.

Dude, lemme tell you, argu­ing with mom­my­blog­gers is like rid­ing a week-dead pig. You’ll get nowhere, and you can’t even get good bacon out of it. They’re com­pletely con­vinced that what they want is what they get, and if you dis­agree, you hate chil­dren, moth­ers, what­ever. They’re not as bad as the breast­feed­ing nazis, but not by much.

@Anon: If you were any more of a pussy, you’d drown in 28 days.

@Googie Baba:

Oh, and speak­ing AS a par­ent, I did wear the kid in one of those sling things. They were hot as hell, and my back hurt like a moth­er­fucker, and based on how uncom­fort­able it was for more than ten min­utes at a time, I DO think that peo­ple who walk around with the kid in a sling for 12 hours a day ARE just mak­ing some tren­doid “I’m a bet­ter par­ent than thou” statement.

@John C. Welch: Oh, I know brother, I know. I do find it amus­ing that of all the peo­ple who want my hide: the FSF, the Mozilla Foundation, the LOLbertarians; it’s a mommy blog­ger who threat­ens my job.

John– I never said any­thing like that. I am sure you are a great parent.

I just don’t under­stand why you guys are so angry that they pulled the ad.

@The Angry Drunk:

That’s their MO. You say things that dis­please them, they ruin your life, or try to. Violent Acres has had some really amus­ing runins with them. Kind of like the Mafia, only with less com­pe­tence and more whining.

@Googie Baba:

Actually, I don’t care about your opin­ion of me. I don’t know you well enough for it to mat­ter. As far as being pissed, it was a funny com­mer­cial, and I’m just tired, in gen­eral, of over­sen­si­tive enti­tle­tards cry­ing worse than the infants they’re rais­ing every time some­one says some­thing about them other than OMG YOU’RE MIRACLE WORKERS.

As if spawn­ing was a miracle.

John — how did you get “over­sen­si­tive enti­tle­tards cry­ing” from this whole thing? Where are you get­ting any of this? We didn’t like the ad. We told them. They pulled it. Period.

I’m sure Motrin will ride out the storm.

Don’t you have a more pro­duc­tive tar­get for all of this anger?

@Googie Baba: Googie, I’m not really angry that the ad was pulled. If you read around here you’d see that over the top vit­riol is part of the per­for­mance. And I don’t have any actual prob­lem with you mommy blog­gers. If blog­ging about your kids is what blows your skirt up, then knock your­self out. What I do have a prob­lem with is the sense of self-congratulatory sense of enti­tle­ment over get­ting Motrin to pull an entirely inof­fen­sive adver­tise­ment just because you didn’t like it; and thus I call that out.

Let’s put it this way; we just got though months of some of the most vile, racist crap being spread over the national air­waves about a good hon­est man who merely had the temer­ity to be a Black man run­ning for pres­i­dent. And yet the vit­riol is reserved for a fuck­ing ibupro­fen ven­dor. Seriously, can you not see how amaz­ingly wrong that is?

I would think all those lit­tle mom­mys would have some­thing bet­ter to moan over, like stretch­marks and flap­jack tits, but nooooo Motrin is the devil. My Granny got all pissed over some burger joint add mak­ing old peo­ple look cro­chity and all her com­plain­ing did was sup­port that stereo type.

Ok. I agree. There are far more impor­tant issues.

I was begin­ning to think that you guys worked for Johnson & Johnson.

@Googie Baba: Read around here more; every­one knows it’s Apple that has me in their pocket.

@Googie Baba:

Hey, they want to pay me off, I’ll whore for­mula with a smile.

@Googie Baba:

Hey, they want to pay me off, I’ll whore for­mula with a smile.

This is one of the only sites that I really enjoy the com­ments on. You and Mr. Welch are a blast.

I just watched the baby sling motrin ad on you tube.then I watched the one for big fake boobs. Not sure who I feel worse for?

Wow, this is like watch­ing beef being slaugh­tered in down­town Delhi.

Frankly, if a group of pissed off women can get an ad taken off the air, maybe it’s smart not to get on their bad side.

But I must say, I do love to come here for the flame wars you stir up, Darby.