So the Duggar woman popped out #17.

[LaraMN]

Any bets on how many days until she's "in the family way," again?

:scared:


http://www.todaysthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=50167

[ohiosmith]

1. Is this another Midlo thread?

[LaraMN]

3. Is Midlo in the family way?!!!!1!

:o :o :o :o

:rofl:

[ohiosmith]

5. :

:shrug:

[Midlodemocrat]

49. Dear God, no. Been there. Done that. Got the Tee-shirt.

:rofl:

[sakabatou]

2. She's not a baby factory!!

>_<

[LaraMN]

4. They should just install a zipper in her, already.

:scared:

[Arugula Latte]

79. A zipper? Hell, velcro would be easier.

x(

[bicentennial_baby]

6. again...

[XemaSab]

7. Awesome.

:D

[LaraMN]

8. I would've lost count after six or seven.

Is she SURE she's only got 17?
Maybe they're rounding.

[EstimatedProphet]

22. Oh, that's fantastic!

[asthmaticeog]

27. I've seen that SO many times...

...and it's fucking hilarious every time. :D

[bicentennial_baby]

35. Isn't it though?

I actually kinda look forward to her births, just so I can post it :D

:hi:

[SKKY]

52. Goddamnit Bi-Baby!!!!

You just ruined my monitor by making me spit Green Tea all over it! :spray:

[ronnykmarshall]

69. Oh. My. GOD!

:spray:

[Deja Q]

9. More like how many days until he is in her, eh, "day" again...

Somebody buy them a Nintendo system so they can play with joysticks of no repercussions...

[noshenanigans]

10. Come on, God wants them to

have 20 children. It's in the Bible or something, really close to where we shouldn't eat vegetables but only Tater tots,

[LaraMN]

12. If there were a God,

Jim Bob would have a sperm of count of about five.

[achtung_circus]

11. Days?

more like a case of "stay on the table Honey, and keep your legs in those stirrups".

"Would all you doctor people please excuse us?"

Man it's find to find DU appropriate images of these in action:

[BarenakedLady]

13. Oh dear.

:scared:

[guitar man]

14. yep

old mr duggar itchin' to drive that clown car some more :rofl:

[supernova]

15. Isn't she due for menopause any time soon?

[LaraMN]

17. For her sake, I sure hope so.

That just can NOT be healthy.
I felt like keeling over after having my #2 and #3 thirteen months apart.

[supernova]

18. If she doesn't have a hysterectomy

her uterus is gonna be dangling when she's elderly.

[SarahB]

60. That was my thought.

Part of my patient population is urogynecology- the most of which are getting their bladders hiked up again for stress incontinence in their 40's and 50's (and that's people usually with 3-5 vaginal deliveries). Given what I see every day, I honestly don't know how that Duggar woman goes through life without Depends.

[fudge stripe cookays]

25. My great granny had 11...I thought THAT was bad!

She ended up having to have her girlie parts tacked back up in there.

But shared a wise piece of advice with my mom:

"Never marry a Frenchman. All they want to do is drink and make babies."

My dad? German and English. Way to go, ma! :thumbsup:

[Wapsie B]

16. Damn, look at all those tax deductions.

Still way too many though, like about 14 or 15.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

19. Finally!

Coming from a family of ten I feel, well, small.......... :)

[ghostsofgiants]

20. Popped out?

Wouldn't they just fall out at this point?

[LaraMN]

21. I want to say something about friction, and conception,

but I've been enough trouble for one day.

[Omphaloskepsis]

50. To "fall out" she would have to stand up.

Baby out, cock in.. I don't think she ever gets off her back.

edit :: forgot a word

[AwakeAtLast]

63. Walked out on their own - just like the baby in "V"

:evilgrin:

[philosophie_en_rose]

23. Her poor older daughters . . .

all the burdens of teenage parenting without any of the fun . . .

[China_cat]

24. Does she have a private room or is she in a ward?

My stepfather's cousin was married 9 years before they had their first. In the next 7 years they had 9 kids, all single births. She'd go in for her 6 week checkup and be 6 weeks pregnant. It was (still is) the talk of the family.

The cousin was asked how long they waited after a birth. The subject of this was his reply. (Of course this was in the days when you gave birth and spent 10 days in the hospital afterward)

[Squatch]

26. Can somebody tell her it's a uterus and NOT a clown car?

Props to the previous DUer who came up with that one.

[NC_Nurse]

28. Jesus!

That'll be #18's name, right?

[xmas74]

29. In a family that lily-white looking?

Only if the gardener is the real father.

[NC_Nurse]

31. Yeah, but they're running out of J names...

and they are really INTO religion, aren't they???

[xmas74]

33. They'll find names sooner or later.

Believe me, I live around enough Joe Bob types to know that they'll make up a name first before they use something they think is "foreign". They would think that Jesus is foreign-sounding and would refuse to use it.

[dropkickpa]

46. Not really

They've started bastardizing other names with their J, hence the poor daughter named Jinjer.

[muriel_volestrangler]

62. Strange thing is, the used "Jinger" before normal names like "Jennifer"

and there are plenty of others they haven't tried yet, like "Julian", "Juliet" or variations.

[Dukkha]

30. fell right out of the womb and into the sewing line

enslaved into servitude for her entire childhood :(

[Elidor]

32. At some point, her uterus is going to fall off

Don'cha think?

[BlueIris]

36. I have no idea how her health is holding up through all this.

And that's all I'm going to say about that.

[jakefrep]

34. They took that "go forth, be fruitful, and multiply" thing rather literally, eh?

Is her uterus roughly the size of an industrial-grade washing machine at this point?

:scared:

[Pushed To The Left]

37. They seem pretty happy. Why do so many people here hate them so much?

Are they a family of hardcore conservatives? I haven't heard anything about their politics. I don't like it when the right wing says negative things about Hispanic people having lots of children, and I don't agree with the attacks on this family either. This society is too damn judgmental.

[LaraMN]

38. The Mr. is a former Republican state representative.

That's part of it.

[LeftyMom]

39. The Dad is a right wing politician.

IIRC, he used to be a state senator or something.

[Debi]

40. Oh No You Didn't

:popcorn:

(Oh how I wish DU had a can-o-worms smilie)

[EFerrari]

41. That would be really cool.

:thumbsup:

[Debi]

43. Ahhhh seek and ye shall find!

[EFerrari]

47. Excellent!

:hi:

[LostinVA]

59. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I'd love a smilie like that!

[Dukkha]

42. when you parade your children around on TV like a freak show

you're inviting the judgement.

[Debi]

44. Yeah Joe Jackson! n/t

[supernova]

45. They have so many children

that they depend on public largesse to finance their large family. That's why all the TV specials and so on.

Nothing wrong with having a large family. But it is hard to take, and hypocritical IMO, coming from a RW bible thumpin' personal responsibility, pull yourself up by your bootstraps idiot when they are depending on the public to pay their way.

[xmas74]

48. hard-core right wing,

the older children are expected to raise the younger children so the mother can get knocked up every few months, they homeschool the children with a fundamentalist christian course and very little time is dedicated to actually learning, the girls are taught "their place" and nothing more (in the kitchen and you get the rest).

There's more but I think we've skimmed the surface. Oh, and who wants to bet that the kids are on WIC and state insurance? I could bet that they don't make enough to pay insurance rates on all those kids. Hell, they probably don't make enough, after the bills and groceries, to pay for insurance for her. I'd think that quite a few insurance companies would probably deny her benefits-meaning that the taxpayers are paying for her to pop out a kid every year while they tell us how evil the government in general is.

[hyphenate]

56. They are hardcore fundies from what

I've read. And they take the conservative meme a little too far: "barefoot and pregnant." And there is no wonder that the Mrs. looks older than Mr.

[Seashell Eyes]

57. I have a few reasons

I mostly hate them because they got to have a normal childhood and they are denying their kids that through the "buddy system." They also shelter their children to the extreme. Home schooling AND home churching? Poor kids. In the first special, Jill, who was 13 at the time, said, "I hope the next baby will be a boy because that would be ten boys and five girls and it would be half and half, or half and, whatever." So sad. They have a new 7,000 square foot house with two bedrooms for the children. WTF? I don't think they appreciate their younger children as individuals. I despise them (the parents) but I'm also fascinated by them and look forward to each special.

[SKKY]

51. What does that mean, "in the family way"?

I'm just a dumb kid from a Kentucky Trailer-park. :shrug:

[Deep13]

53. knocked-up

loaf in the oven

squeezing out a puppy

with rug rat

[Deep13]

54. Her biography should be called Birth of a Nation.

She's already go enough for a baseball team.

[blueknight]

55. i bet having sex with her

would be like throwing a hot dog down a hallway

[BlueIris]

67. Yeah, that's...really the most important thing to criticize about her, here.

Holy shit.

[Gormy Cuss]

75. Yeah, isn't it?

Maybe we can have a whole subthread speculating about it. :sarcasm:

[SoxFan]

85. With a deep bench

Probably has more pitching depth than the Yankees!

[hyphenate]

58. Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duggar


This is the kind of thread I like seeing first thing in the morning. I need the laugh. :)

Ooh, ooh! On edit:

A must read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull

It is about the movement these folks are part of--personally, I think we need more little Duggars around--McDonalds, Burger King and Dairy Queen are going to need new employees in the near future!

[SarahB]

61. I just want to smack them around for all the J names. nt

[Seashell Eyes]

64. me too

especially for Jinger (pronounced Ginger), and having a Joy-Anna AND Johannah.

[hyphenate]

65. Imagine if it had been

Z, X or Q. ;)

[zanne]

66. My grandmother popped out 20.

She's looking down at this Duggar woman now, saying "What's the big deal"?

[HughBeaumont]

68. Snowflake #18 will be realized this week.

Jim Bob Dumbass doesn't even wait for the cord to be cut, apparently.

[IndianaJones]

70. Cool...why are we making fun of this woman? nt.

[Deep13]

72. Because she made herself to be a baby machine...

...because God somehow wants her to. They have been in the news before and are known Fundies. Apparently, they do what they think God wants without any regard to how that family will be sustained especially since most or all will grow to be adults. This is not the 1700s.

The general feeling is that it is a backward, unfeminist, unprogressive way to live. It relegates the mother to a walking uterus and produces excessive children at a time when we are already overpopulated. Instead of doing ones best for each child, it is mass production. Further, pregancy is dangerous. Sure, it is an individual choice, but when one resigns her will and judgment to whatever God wants, how much of a free choice is it really?

[IndianaJones]

73. thats all interesting. she is unhappy and miserable obviously. nt.

[Deep13]

74. This is the lounge.

We laugh at things here.

[IndianaJones]

76. oh, I'm laughing. nt.

[Deep13]

83. Sarcasm is not an argument.

[IndianaJones]

84. no sarcasm....this thread is funny. i'm not arguing. nt.

[AngryAmish]

77. It is backward and unfeminist to critize a woman's right to choose

[Deep13]

78. I'm not criticizing the right.

I'm criticizing the choice itself. There are too many of us. Maybe you can explain how having 17 children in the 21st century USA is a good choice. Anyway, I didn't start this thread.

[AngryAmish]

80. FAir enough, but a woman can do what she chooses with her body

If the population gets reduced by 75% due to disease, and then you take it in your head that we need more babies, would you offer the same criticism of women who choose to go childless?

[Deep13]

82. Let me put it this way.

She has a right to do what she wants.
I have a right to think what I want and to express those thoughts.

First of all, as horrible as it would be, the disease scenario you describe would be a chance to do what we cannot-get our population under control. So no, I would not be urging people to change a stable population into runaway growth.

What if the reason she is having 17 children is to perpetuate the white race? Many supremist groups urge that very thing. What if it was because she is Catholic (she is not) and simply believes the Pope's admonitions against birth control? What if she was living Harlem instead of a white-bread suburb? What do people generally say about producing children they cannot care for? (To some degree that is the case here.) What if this was a common practice?

In this case they are doing it, whether they realize it or not, to perpetuate socially conservative religious fundamentalism. It is sometimes observed that the people least able to raise children well are the most likely to have them. She is doing it because she thinks that is what God is commanding. Making a person should only been done with the greatest sobriety and thoughtfulness. Oh well, my imaginary sky-daddy wants it is little more than making people on a whim.

We are not talking about five children. We are not talking about eight children. We are talking about seventeen--so far. So many means each one will be poorer, more ignorant, less attended-to, more likely to be sick than if there were fewer. One more kid and they will have three times the number on the Brady Bunch. It bugs me that people think this is something to be happy about. It is appauling. And the paternalistic, religious brainwashing she had means it is not a free choice.

[AngryAmish]

87. So you have no problem with the fundy abortion "counselors" who tell women not to have an abortion?

[Deep13]

89. What did I write that could possibly make you think that?

I'm sorry to put it this way, but that is the kind of non sequitur I have come to expect from my O'Reilly-fan mother.

[texas1928]

71. I bet with as many as she has had.

She could fart and deliver the baby.


So no gassy foods in the last trimester of her pregnancies.

[Arugula Latte]

81. Monty Python's "Meaning of Life" redone for the Duggars:

(We see the Duggar house. A stork flies above it, and drops a baby down the chimney.)

Duggar Dad: Oh Bloody Hell!

(Inside the house. A pregnant woman is at the sink. With a cry a new-born baby, complete with umbilical cord, drops from between her legs onto the floor.)

Mother: Get that would you, Jinger...
Girl: All right, Mom.

(The girl takes the baby. Mom carries on.)

Duggar Dad: The legislature's closed! There's no more work. We're destitute.
(His several dozen children murmur in dismay.)
Duggar Dad: Come in, my little ones. I've got no option but to sell you all for scientific experiments.

Duggar Dad: (singing)

Every sperm is sacred,
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

Duggar Daughter: (singing)

Let the heathens spill theirs,
On the dusty ground.
God shall make them pay,
For each sperm that can't be found.

[WindRavenX]

86. Her vagina must be like throwing a hot dog in outer space

Women did not evolve to rear so many children.

[Crazy Dave]

88. My wife's grandmother had 18 kids

She's not with us anymore but she was fascinating to listen to. Her stories about farming during the depression had you all ears.