Why the Baby "Awwwwwwws"?

Professey Chin · 18-03-2009 04:21PM #1

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 · 18-03-2009 04:26PM

AWWWWWWWWWWW look at the baby!

*pats Chins head*

18-03-2009 04:27PM

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 · 18-03-2009 04:29PM

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 · 18-03-2009 04:30PM

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 · 18-03-2009 04:30PM

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 · 18-03-2009 04:33PM

OP, I take it you dont have any kids.

OldGoat · 18-03-2009 04:34PM

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 · 18-03-2009 04:34PM

We are geneticly predisposed to be benevolent towards babies.

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

Professey Chin · 18-03-2009 04:35PM

Daroxtar wrote: »

OP, I take it you dont have any kids.

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

18-03-2009 04:35PM

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

Dudess · 18-03-2009 04:38PM

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 · 18-03-2009 04:38PM

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 · 18-03-2009 04:39PM

I always love Billy Connollys saying...

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

Dudess · 18-03-2009 04:40PM

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 · 18-03-2009 04:41PM

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

Professey Chin · 18-03-2009 04:41PM

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 · 18-03-2009 04:43PM

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

stovelid · 18-03-2009 04:43PM

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 · 18-03-2009 04:43PM

aw

chin_grin · 18-03-2009 04:44PM

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 · 18-03-2009 04:44PM

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 · 18-03-2009 04:46PM

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 · 18-03-2009 04:52PM

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 · 18-03-2009 04:52PM

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

Daroxtar · 18-03-2009 04:53PM

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 · 18-03-2009 04:57PM

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 · 18-03-2009 05:01PM

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 · 18-03-2009 05:05PM

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 · 18-03-2009 05:25PM

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 · 18-03-2009 05:44PM

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

Why the Baby "Awwwwwwws"?

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