Editing Talk:1650: Baby

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In second sentence, it says bobble instead of  bubble. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.252.233|162.158.252.233]] 10:08, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
:Fixed it. This referred to the transcript which was the only part of the explanation at that time. You could also just have done it yourself, even faster than writing here. It is a wiki, and correcting spelling errors in explanations is always appreciated. Not everyone who writes here is a native English speaker (I'm not, and I know I make several mistakes.) Hopefully the explanations make up for this, and others will fix the bad spelling/grammar. ;-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 15:52, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

"Good job getting it outside" ... Talking to people about their baby is basically something like talking with collector about his hobby you don't share. Well ... at least they can't show you two things looking exactly same and talk about how they differ. Unless they have twins. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 10:35, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
:the pressures of a new baby are such that it's very tempting just to stay inside and deal with them. having to gather up all the stuff you think is essential to take them outside and then actually do it is absolutely a big deal. if you see people with a newborn, congratulate them, they'll appreciate it. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.153.29|162.158.153.29]] 13:06, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
::I meant outside of Megan. Which, while certainly something worth congratulating (despite Megan not really having so much choice), is usually not said directly, so it would match other "weird" responses. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 10:21, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Say something creepy, maybe they'll keep the baby away from you... [[User:Seipas|Seipas]] ([[User talk:Seipas|talk]]) 11:48, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

In explanation "...he actually refers to the sex part, which may be uncomfortable for many people." - Now, I know what is meant. And I also know that sex ''can'' be uncomfortable, in the performing. But I think we need different words here. That though it is often quite plain that a woman with a baby, or obviously pregnant, has had (s) (e) (x) (!), and that this is probably even very much expected of married (or 'modern') couples, and quite clearly all non-adoptive parents did it at some point, possibly even with each other... ((Yes, that probably applies to your own parents. And if you don't already somehow know what it looks like for them to 'get it on', you're potentially going to now start to imagine them 'doing it', right? Urgh!)) ...yet the idle fiction is maintained that nothing much like that goes on and most people don't try to break through that fiction. At least not in a baby-meeting social situation. ...but how to insert that into the Explanation? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.187|172.71.178.187]] 15:43, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

 
===Small talk category===
How about introducing a category "Small talk"? Containing e.g., [[222]], [[1640]] (I didn't do an exhaustive search) --[[Special:Contributions/198.41.242.240|198.41.242.240]] 12:43, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
:Could be interesting. Would that then also include all those where two people walk together, or should it specifically be when it is a subject like the weather he cannot find out to discuss like people expect? (There is also one like that with the weather... [[1324: Weather]] ) But it is difficult to search for this I think? If anyone care to list anyone they can think of here it would be interesting. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 12:48, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
:I would find that appealing. The focus should be the socially awkward smalltalk, like just lately [[1643]] --[[User:TheHolgi|TheHolgi]] ([[User talk:TheHolgi|talk]]) 13:10, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
::That is three in less than a month. I have included this in the explanation. If there are enough of these for a category, we could link to that instead of individual comics. But I think for this a little sketchy category, there should be some more than five... Maybe if we can find ten it would be relevant? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 15:54, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
:::Would this new one [[1652: Conditionals]] also belong in this category and if so what about this [[1576: I Could Care Less]] 


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In answer to the question posed in the title text, you can't generalise about children. but it's mostly true that they alternate between putting on weight and using that weight to get taller. so they'll get chubbier and chubbier and then suddenly lose the weight and get tall and thin. or, if they don't eat, they stay small. or, if you feed them sugary crap, they stay fat. but not necessarily. each one is different. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.153.29|162.158.153.29]] 13:06, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
:Have included almost a copy of the above in the table. Thanks. Fell free to add it yourself ;-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 15:52, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

In an earlier comic RM outright trashed the idea of humans reproducing. I'll link to it if I can find it. As a father of two I was outraged, but I was over it until the comic today raised his prejudice against parents again. Today he's oblique, but still reprehensible. ''&mdash; [[User:Tbc|tbc]] ([[User talk:Tbc|talk]]) 14:50, 2 March 2016 (UTC)''
:Could it be some of these? [[441: Babies]], [[583: CNR]] or [[674: Natural Parenting]] ;-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 15:49, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
::How on Earth is this "raising his prejudice against parents"? He's basically admitting his own incompetence in dealing with a somewhat common social interaction, not attacking parents. Even in his other comics involving babies, it's far more likely he's making jokes about the incompetence or malice of the individual characters, not a general comment on parents. I am curious which comic you've interpreted as "outright trashing the idea of humans reproducing", especially since [[387: Advanced Technology]] implies he finds it fascinating. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.162|108.162.250.162]] 00:34, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

I don't think it's a ''newborn'' baby, since he refers to it as "getting big". Can someone correct this? --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.29|173.245.54.29]] 15:56, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
:I think you could do it yourself, when you can post here? Anyway I agree so I have changed this. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 23:13, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

It would also be socially inept to suggest that the baby looks more like a child of [[Hairy]] than Cueball 2, so I won't.  (On the other hand, less embarrassing than the possibility of it being Cueball 1's...) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.153.101|162.158.153.101]] 16:47, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
:Well it would be inept, but since the mother has a lot of hair, it would not be strange for the baby to have that too. Maybe Cueball was not bald as a kid, and generally Cueball is not necessarily a bald guy. But just a generic every man so he could in principle have hair, as well as clothes, facial expression and hands and feet and body... ;-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 23:13, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

At the end of the comic, where Cueball says "That's a cool baby", and them immediately reprimands himself for saying something dumb- possible reference to the same habit Trunks has in Dragon Ball Z Abridged? --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.178|108.162.245.178]] 20:33, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

""I can never figure out what to say about babies. "" :

My father in law used to look at babies and to say :" Our babies are much more beautiful" 
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.90.159|162.158.90.159]] 22:02, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

I am so using one of these lines the next time someone shows me a baby. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.23|108.162.216.23]] 20:05, 4 March 2016 (UTC)