Why the Baby "Awwwwwwws"?

Professey Chin

A girl we used to work with had a baby a couple days ago (congrats to her but thats not the point). She sent a couple of pics of the baby to one of the girls on our team and its like its after unleashing some brain melting disease.
Half the convos ive heard in work have been as follows:
"Awwww look at the baby.AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"
"Awwww look at the baby asleep.AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"
"Awwww look at the baby with a teddy. AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"
"Awwwww its amazing isnt it"

Am I the only one who really doesnt get this. I see a baby and I just think baby, not awww isnt it cute and adorable and amazing. I realise it can activate some maternal voodoo in some women but they arnt the only guilty parties.

Does this annoy anyone else or am I just a heartless fecker?

IvySlayer

AWWWWWWWWWWW look at the baby!

*pats Chins head*

D

Well, I'm a bloke and I will go AWWW at baby pics. In fact if I see a baby, and it looks at me I can't help but smile.

I think it has something to do with the fact that babies eyes are larger in comparison to their head and we are genetically designed to like that. Of course I could be talking out my ass.

Acacia

It's not just women. I'm a girl, couldn't give a fcuk about babies tbh, let alone going up to them and "awww"ing over them. Meh.

Kiera

I dont get it either. My friends with kids keep emailing us pics of their little ones and you feel obliged to email back "Aw s/he is such a cutie" Doesnt mean i actually think it. This could be because i dont have kids myself?

MarkR

I can't remember the details, but babies are pre-programmed in a way to be loveable. From an early age they will actually try to mimic facial expressions, which makes them cute to us. Obviously that wouldn't work with pictures, so I can only presume it is some form of voodoo magic as you said.

Daroxtar

OP, I take it you dont have any kids.

OldGoat

D wrote: »

Well, I'm a bloke and I will go AWWW at baby pics. In fact if I see a baby, and it looks at me I can't help but smile.

You are only saying that to score points with the single motherly women that frequent this place. You are a cad and a bounder! I admire that about you.

Victor

We are geneticly predisposed to be benevolent towards babies.

Unless you're a troll and eat them for breakfast.

Professey Chin

Daroxtar wrote: »

OP, I take it you dont have any kids.

Dont have.Dont want for at least 6/7 years (23 now)

I hate when people show off their babies, personally i think their ugly lil feckers, nothin' cute at all about them to me

Dudess

Daroxtar wrote: »

OP, I take it you dont have any kids.

What difference does that make? Plenty of people who don't have kids think babies are cute. Plenty of people who have kids have no time for babies other than their own.

stovelid

The awww bit is a polite social convention designed to hide the fact that 99.9% of newborn babies look like they've been beaten with a baseball bat, and that everyone but the parents can see it.

CreepingDeath

I always love Billy Connollys saying...


Kids are like farts, you don't mind your own but hate everyone elses.

Dudess

stovelid wrote: »

The awww bit is a polite social convention designed to hide the fact that 99.9% of newborn babies look like they've been beaten with a baseball bat, and that everyone but the parents can see it.

Oh dear, stovelid. I take it you don't have any kids...?

Turd Ferguson

When I see a baby its more like "Awwwwwwwwwww Yeahhhhhhhhhh"

Professey Chin

Dudess wrote: »

Oh dear, stovelid. I take it you don't have any kids...?

What difference does that make? Plenty of people who don't have kids think babies are cute. Plenty of people who have kids have no time for babies other than their own.

Cant remember where i heard that before:pac:

Dudess

Irony dude. stovelid does have a kid. Heartless monster. :mad:

stovelid

Dudess wrote: »

Oh dear, stovelid. I take it you don't have any kids...?

I do.

Given my gene infusion, he fell under the 0.1 percentile that I alluded to, of course.

bigeasyeah

aw

chin_grin

Yum, the other other white meat.

Yeah, I couldn't care less about newborns. Well babies in general. They all look like a bigger version of the back of my sack (if I drew a face on it) and have more bodily fluids than..........hurm, dunno...something with a lot of bodily fluids?!

Also ALL BABIES LOOK THE SAME when newborn. Fact.

Sleipnir

All babies look like Winston Churchill and cute, he ain't (or wasn't, I'm sure he's not now)
Who'd pat him on the head and go "awwwwwwww!"?

Terodil

It's actually a pet peeve of mine. In my company there seems to be a tradition to 'present' the baby to the entire dept after a couple of months. It's like doom waiting to happen, you can start counting from the email that so-and-so got a baby onwards to know when it's going to strike. And invariably, it takes three steps.

1. You are *expected* to collect for a baby gift before the date of doom. If you don't contribute, then you won't get to sign the well-wisher card, of course, and are an asocial person anyway. Who cares that you have only ever seen the mother/father once in your life.

2. You then get to the crime scene, only to be greeted by glass-shattering screams from some wrinkly, rather displeased and overly tired miniperson. This is accompanied by the chorus of mumbling coming from the other colleagues who stand around bored with a rather forced smile on their lips (see 3), muttering that they'd rather work than have their eardrums pierced.

3. If the general mood in the room doesn't make you explode with exuberant, vocal expressions of happiness and joy, and if you fail to squeel in glee at the novel sight of the terribly different/unique/... baby ('oh my gaaaawd, s/he is so adoooorable'), you get skewered by looks from the parents and their best friends.

So the true catastrophe of the drama unfolds: Do you choose the smelly doom of 'bootsee bootsee who's a good boy/girl tpfblpftblpt', or do you choose the upright death by ostracism from the righteously furious parents and close supporters?

stovelid

Terodil wrote: »

It's actually a pet peeve of mine. In my company there seems to be a tradition to 'present' the baby to the entire dept after a couple of months. It's like doom waiting to happen, you can start counting from the email that so-and-so got a baby onwards to know when it's going to strike. And invariably, it takes three steps.

1. You are *expected* to collect for a baby gift before the date of doom. If you don't contribute, then you won't get to sign the well-wisher card, of course, and are an asocial person anyway. Who cares that you have only ever seen the mother/father once in your life.

2. You then get to the crime scene, only to be greeted by glass-shattering screams from some wrinkly, rather displeased and overly tired miniperson. This is accompanied by the chorus of mumbling coming from the other colleagues who stand around bored with a rather forced smile on their lips (see 3), muttering that they'd rather work than have their eardrums pierced.

3. If the general mood in the room doesn't make you explode with exuberant, vocal expressions of happiness and joy, and if you fail to squeel in glee at the novel sight of the terribly different/unique/... baby ('oh my gaaaawd, s/he is so adoooorable'), you get skewered by looks from the parents and their best friends.

So the true catastrophe of the drama unfolds: Do you choose the smelly doom of 'bootsee bootsee who's a good boy/girl tpfblpftblpt', or do you choose the upright death by ostracism from the righteously furious parents and close supporters?

How do you deal with colleague's birthdays or other fascistic impositions - by pissing in the water cooler?

me-skywalker

All new born babies are beautiful to their mothers, but not all newborn babies are beautiful.

Daroxtar

I didnt think too much of them myself until the missus had our first 2 weeks ago. If some stranger came up to me, grunted, puked on my shoulder and **** on my hands and then smiled, well....... but because its my baby doing it i think its cute and end up going AAAAWWWW. Mind you, if someone else shows me their sprog i just fake a smile and think "meh, mine is way better".

Lobelia Overhill

I'm a woman, I don't can't have kids, don't want them anyways (the little feckers grow up to be teenagers), if someone shows me a baby I say "well thank goodness it's asleep" ...

cold hearted b!tch me.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

It's worse being a bloke. React with awwwww and you're a paedohile. React with anything else and you're a cold-hearted wanker.

Milky Moo

Seeing he was mentioned in another thread earlier,I rememebered this

I don't find newborns cute,kids are adorable when they get to the walking talking phase though.
My niece informed me today she had a scratch on her elobelow,i am assuming it was her elbow unless evolution has speeded up in the last 22years 'cause I damn sure don't have one of them!

Terodil

stovelid wrote: »

How do you deal with colleague's birthdays or other fascistic impositions - by pissing in the water cooler?

No... never thought of that... that's brilliant though. Almost as good as injecting just a few drops of lemon juice into the candy ornaments on the xmas tree in the main building lounge. Thanks

Turd Ferguson

Terodil wrote: »

No... never thought of that... that's brilliant though. Almost as good as injecting just a few drops of lemon juice into the candy ornaments on the xmas tree in the main building lounge. Thanks

Or finding a junky with AIDS and taking some of his blood and putting it into the canteen coffee machine

coylerwhaa

Daroxtar wrote: »

I didnt think too much of them myself until the missus had our first 2 weeks ago. If some stranger came up to me, grunted, puked on my shoulder and **** on my hands and then smiled, well....... but because its my baby doing it i think its cute and end up going AAAAWWWW. Mind you, if someone else shows me their sprog i just fake a smile and think "meh, mine is way better".

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GirlInterrupted

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Am I the only one who really doesnt get this. I see a baby and I just think baby, not awww isnt it cute and adorable and amazing. I realise it can activate some maternal voodoo in some women but they arnt the only guilty parties.

Does this annoy anyone else or am I just a heartless fecker?

You are heartless.

Babies are cute and adorable and every one of them is beautiful, even the ''ugly'' ones. There's just something so special about a new little life.

And no, I'm not a fully activated maternal unit (no children).

Berty

I was just about struggling with pretending to appreciate other peoples babies until I was sitting holding my finacees friend baby whilst the babies mother and my fiancee were chatting, and this is what i heard between the two:

Mother "oh my god its so disgusting the stories you hear from the nurses"
Fiancee "whats disgusting, child birth itself?"
Mother "Apparently, when some women are told to push, they are told to push as though they are trying to have a poo"
Fiancee "Yeah so"
Mother "Well, some women push so hard that they push out a poo right onto the table in front of the doctor/midwifes face"




WELL I nearly got sick all over the baby who, I still belive to this day, pumped some green goo into her nappy just for the hell of it.

Dudess

I think babies are well cute and I do ooh and aah at them, but know my limits. Some women turn into awful gibbering eejits.

Earthhorse

Dudess wrote: »

Some women turn into awful gibbering eejits.

Yeah, but what's that got to do with the topic at hand?

Dudess

Berty wrote: »

I was just about struggling with pretending to appreciate other peoples babies until I was sitting holding my finacees friend baby whilst the babies mother and my fiancee were chatting, and this is what i heard between the two:

Mother "oh my god its so disgusting the stories you hear from the nurses"
Fiancee "whats disgusting, child birth itself?"
Mother "Apparently, when some women are told to push, they are told to push as though they are trying to have a poo"
Fiancee "Yeah so"
Mother "Well, some women push so hard that they push out a poo right onto the table in front of the doctor/midwifes face"




WELL I nearly got sick all over the baby who, I still belive to this day, pumped some green goo into her nappy just for the hell of it.

Oh apparently most women sh1t themselves when giving birth. It actually doesn't make sense for them not to - think of the pressure on the bowel.

Victor

Berty wrote: »

I was just about struggling with pretending to appreciate other peoples babies until I was sitting holding my finacees friend baby whilst the babies mother and my fiancee were chatting, and this is what i heard between the two:

Mother "oh my god its so disgusting the stories you hear from the nurses"
Fiancee "whats disgusting, child birth itself?"
Mother "Apparently, when some women are told to push, they are told to push as though they are trying to have a poo"
Fiancee "Yeah so"
Mother "Well, some women push so hard that they push out a poo right onto the table in front of the doctor/midwifes face"




WELL I nearly got sick all over the baby who, I still belive to this day, pumped some green goo into her nappy just for the hell of it.

You should hear how they make these babies in the first pleace. :eek:

Milky Moo

Your lady bits get all ripped up aswell! :eek:

Berty

Dudess wrote: »

Oh apparently most women sh1t themselves when giving birth. It actually doesn't make sense for them not to - think of the pressure on the bowel.

I dont have the same muscles down there for that purpose(as far as I know) so no I wouldnt understand nor do I care to after hearing all about the outcome.

Professey Chin

Earthhorse wrote: »

Yeah, but what's that got to do with the topic at hand?

Its what caused me to start it

stovelid

Dudess wrote: »

I think babies are well cute and I do ooh and aah at them, but know my limits.

No tongues on first date?

Latchy

Apart from the ' I dont have the maternal instinct ' people , lots who dont have babies just dont get them until their own come along .Then that creature becomes the centre of your universe and you want to show him / her off to all and sundry .Tis the natural order of things

.

Turd Ferguson

Milky Moo wrote: »

Your lady bits get all ripped up aswell!

Sexy

Breaktown

All babies look alike to me and I certainly don't find them cute. I'm not a good liar so I can't do the awwww thing. It's more like uh....

I would be one of those people with no maternal instinct.

mymo

I don't get it either, good love 'em some are ugly as sin. Even my own wasn't a looker until about 8 months, when the smiling, sitting up and those wobbly first steps start. People kept calling after she was born saying "isn't she gorgeous", I was actually asked if i had post natal depression when i answered honestly to one woman. :mad:
I do like well behaved and polite little people, who can hold a conversation. They are few and far between sadly, although my friend has a girl age 4 going on 80 who has better small talk than some adults i know.

Blush_01

I love babies. I've only been in the office for one baby so far, but there's another due soon and I can't wait for the girl on maternity leave to bring the baby in for a visit.

I'm a bit nuts about kids - I had great fun chatting to a friend's 20 month old at the weekend. Kids are so funny.