A baby is a human child and that alone!

Silverbrooks

Indigo8

Did anyone ever have a Baby Belling?

No Silverbrooks but I was the proud mother of a Baby Burco at one time.

I'd forgotten about those. Small cooker, small boiler. One for sale if you are interested!

Baby burco boiler belonging to my grandmother who used this for years to boil tea towels.

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276549157320

And Baby Belling! Often found in bedsits in the past - maybe still are, only nobody calls them bedsits now - they’re studio flats, which do at least come with a bathroom. People in bedsits usually had to share.

Plans are afoot in Japan to create AI android babies that are more beautiful than natural children, multi-talented, super intelligent, always polite and good-tempered, never poorly, never smelly and good at all sports.
No school fees, no medical issues, no food bills, no moody adolescent phases no emotional hassles. Perfect kids!

What sane woman would want to have a baby in this day and age?

Girls, the world is (finally) your oyster.

Why do you let how other people behave bother you so much?

nanna8

Do you not realise how very important animals are to some people ? How insensitive.

To compare a child to an animal…..how insensitive.

To some people, their animal may be the most important thing in their life. I've said before that I'd choose my dog over most humans any day of the week.

But a dog is not a baby. Many people would choose many things in preference to a baby, but they do not then call their preference a baby - and mean it.

Jolene2

Plans are afoot in Japan to create AI android babies that are more beautiful than natural children, multi-talented, super intelligent, always polite and good-tempered, never poorly, never smelly and good at all sports.
No school fees, no medical issues, no food bills, no moody adolescent phases no emotional hassles. Perfect kids!

Like Stepford wives!!

I can imagine nothing worse than having a child without the individuality, querks, personality traits that makes them fully human, even the tantrums, the tidying up after, and the mess that says this is a real human love me for who I am.

What about Baby Yoda (Grogu) in Mandelorian ?
I'm becoming slightly obsessed by him and wonder if I'm in danger of becoming one of those people who falls in love with cars or other inanimate objects....
🤣🤣🤣😉
Only sayin.......
Also I had a Baby Belling.

The cost of a Thermomix and additional bits would cover the cost of a baby and a few years to preschool too. Can understand why OP calls it her baby. My neighbour is a District Manager for Thermomix and she is never at home, always flying away for another meeting or weekend treat on the company, hence the high cost me thinks. My pets were always my pets, never babies.

Am I the only person who has never heard of thermomix ?

welbeck

Am I the only person who has never heard of thermomix ?

No. I've not heard of it either

Who cares. Love a Baby Bel Cheese 🐭!

Rula

welbeck

Am I the only person who has never heard of thermomix ?

No. I've not heard of it either

Neither have I.

When I was a child I remember asking my mum why people always sang about their babies.

As a huge animal lover any pets I've had over the years have been my babies as I don't like kids and chose never to have any but calling a kitchen gadget a baby and getting upset over it's ''death'' is utterly ridiculous!

When my kettle, microwave, washing machine, laptop, mobile... no longer work I get rid of it and get a new one, there's no ''hysterical crying that the fridge has died!''

I'm killing myself laughing here about the poster on Thermomix!

I wish I hadn't read this thread! What a lot of grumpy people.

Miserable bs. Never mind, takes all sorts and my two girls are purring next to me. Husband is watching tv, probably purring as well.

One dog I owned was the love of my life. He was there for me when nobody else was. But he was a dog, not a child not a baby or furbaby. My companion and emotional support. I don't believe in dressing up animals with clothes or bandanas either.

I don't believe in dressing up animals with clothes or bandanas either.
I remember DD dressing up our dog in her woolly hat and scarf when she was about six. I have a photo of them both grinning 😁

Everyone is someone's baby. There's a horrible story in the news today about a US 'influencer' snatching a baby wombat from its mother in Australia. The woman laughed whilst the baby and mother were in distress.

She finally gave the baby back. Hells bells, what is wrong with some people.

If it gives an animal owner happiness to call any of their animals ‘baby’, that’s fine with me.

Live and let live.

Love your dog, cat or other pet for what they are. They are not human so not babies.
I think animals are much nicer than many humans so they should have the respect they deserve.

I have learnt to avoid, in Facebook. anything to do with cats, or any other feline. The gush of sentimentality is nauseating, almost always referring to young animals as 'babies' and expressing the writers' longing to snuggle them... and on and on. I've had several cats in my time and I doubt if I ever called any of them 'baby'. It affronts the dignity of the animal.

My AC and my DGC all live a plane ride away, I only see them maybe twice a year.
So The Magical Master Merlin is my baby lol. He's much better behaved than any child I've ever cared for and great company when we're home alone, always pleased to see me
I really don't care what other people think, oh and he has jumpers and coats for walkies. He even had a Halloween outfit. I don't see it's doing any harm
I agree there really are some miserable judgemental people on here but heyho