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News & ArtsMonday, April 2, 2012
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I always thought "food baby" was bulging bellyfat, but I still thought it was a gross, stupid phrase.
Fur baby is a little eye-rolling but not extraordinarily offensive.
Fur baby is a little eye-rolling but not extraordinarily offensive.
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Poo is more repellent than pets. What can we say?
Also, @ 7 is right. Spellcheck recognizes both spellings of "repellant" (but curiously it doesn't recognize "spellcheck").
Also, @ 7 is right. Spellcheck recognizes both spellings of "repellant" (but curiously it doesn't recognize "spellcheck").
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Food babies end up getting flushed away, but fur babies get dragged around by people who expect the rest of us to respect and adore their "kids".
Fur babies are the worst!
Fur babies are the worst!
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Of course, babyfur is far more repellent than either. Don't believe it? Google that word and you WILL habeeb it. Twinkie house!
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Both are lingusitic monsters.
Food baby is a horrible, twee euphemism. Any parent who uses it when talking to their child should be reported to CPS for stunting the emotional growth of their offspring.
Any adult using it is infantile.
Fur baby is just slightly less horrible because it doesn't euphemise a bodily function but anyone using it should have to wear doll clothes 24/7.
Food baby is a horrible, twee euphemism. Any parent who uses it when talking to their child should be reported to CPS for stunting the emotional growth of their offspring.
Any adult using it is infantile.
Fur baby is just slightly less horrible because it doesn't euphemise a bodily function but anyone using it should have to wear doll clothes 24/7.
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I thought food baby referred to belly fat, or alternatively to the noticable abdominal distension that occurs when thin people eat a large meal.
No matter the meaning, it's still distasteful.
No matter the meaning, it's still distasteful.
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Fur babies are what we call the clumps of fur the dog produces that get stuck under the furniture.
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Never heard either of them before.
But anyone who ever uses the expression "pet parent" receives, and deserves, eternal scorn.
But anyone who ever uses the expression "pet parent" receives, and deserves, eternal scorn.
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Food baby is physically repulsive; fur baby is psychologically repulsive. The utterance of either lessens the speaker and all who hear them.
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