Talking About Stuff, with Mike and Christiana

Are you coo'in wit my bird?
Better not be. At least not if you live in Scotland.

Hospital bans cooing at babies 'to protect their human rights'

She said: "We know people have good intentions and most people cannot resist cooing over new babies, but we need to respect the child. Cooing should be a thing of the past because these are little people with the same rights as you or me.

Apparently, there's even a sign, with a doll that says "What makes you think I want to be looked at?"

Yeah! After all, who likes people paying attention and showing affection? Exhibitionist freaks, that's who, and thank heaven for bureaucrats and their zero-tolerance policies. Without them, people might have to use their own judgement, and that could be a disaster.

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Posted by Christiana on Monday September 26, 2005 at 10:48pm
kevin:
This is absolutely the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
9.26.2005 11:28pm
SpakKadi (mail) (www):
Hehe. Goodfeathers!

So, we're one step closer to a human-contact-free world. And then the robot overlords can take their rightful place as rulers of the world.
9.27.2005 8:10pm

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