Ugly babies

krooton

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I'm at the age where more and more of my social circle are popping out sprogs.

As a result and thanks to the wonders of Facebook, I know what every one of their children look like even if I have not seem them in real life.

Some have cute babies, the Gerber/cherub ones, others have horrible alien babies.

Does the above matter? Well no, if going by people's comments on said photos.

Regardless of if the baby could model for Huggies or looks like ET, people will coo "Gorgeous!", "Too cute!", "Beautiful!" til the cows (& Gate) come home.

Obviously modern day tact and generally being a decent person would rule out something like "So happy that you and whats-his-name have had a child, but **** me it's an ugly bugger!", but does that not just dilute the comments to utter pointlessness?

Parents no doubt never see their baby as weird looking, or at least repress those thoughts nice and deep, but should they be allowed a wall of bare-faced lies from their friends?

tl;dr
My friend has an ugly baby and I don't like the moral quandary of having to lie to them about it. :p
 
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krooton said:
but does that not just dilute the comments to utter pointlessness?
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The comments were pretty pointless to begin with.

Most babies look the same to me. They're all pudgy blobs of noise and stink. Parents just want to hear something complimentary, they don't care whether it's in any way true.
 
Just say it's lovely and have done with it. How it actually looks is irrelevant. It's a baby, and babies are just babies.
 
I've never seen a baby that didn't look, to me, a) fugly, b) stupid or c) like every other friggin' baby I've ever seen.

When people start showing photos of their newborns, though, you can't win. All they'll get, and all they're after, is "OMG SO LOVELY", "OH, SHE'S BEAUTIFUL" and whatever other crud. In those situations it's a case of "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

Mind you, I think the last baby photo I commented on was my most recent niece a couple of months ago when she was just born. As usual, just another dopey looking, lead-eyed newborn.

My comment? "I'd hit it." At least it got a laugh from the father.
 
me and 4 of my friends have had babies in the past 2 years, 2 are cute, 3 are ugleeehh. Yes i'm being a typical parent and calling mine cute, but he is :D

I reckon an ugly baby is the offspring of 2 people that never should have been.......... :p
 
Pestilence said:
I've never seen a baby that didn't look, to me, a) fugly, b) stupid or c) like every other friggin' baby I've ever seen.

When people start showing photos of their newborns, though, you can't win. All they'll get, and all they're after, is "OMG SO LOVELY", "OH, SHE'S BEAUTIFUL" and whatever other crud. In those situations it's a case of "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

Mind you, I think the last baby photo I commented on was my most recent niece a couple of months ago when she was just born. As usual, just another dopey looking, lead-eyed newborn.

My comment? "I'd hit it." At least it got a laugh from the father.
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Wow. You're well adjusted.
 
Pestilence said:
I've never seen a baby that didn't look, to me, a) fugly, b) stupid or c) like every other friggin' baby I've ever seen.

When people start showing photos of their newborns, though, you can't win. All they'll get, and all they're after, is "OMG SO LOVELY", "OH, SHE'S BEAUTIFUL" and whatever other crud. In those situations it's a case of "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

Mind you, I think the last baby photo I commented on was my most recent niece a couple of months ago when she was just born. As usual, just another dopey looking, lead-eyed newborn.

My comment? "I'd hit it." At least it got a laugh from the father.
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0_o
 
My sisters first child was really premature, and at the time we all said how cute she looked etc etc.

Now she is a 3 year old, she really is a pretty young girl. But looking back of the photos when she was a baby and the first few months, she really was fugly. My sister will agree to this too lol.

At the time though we all thought she looked fine.
 
Completely agree with the OP. Some babies look like something from planet of the apes and some are gorgeous.

It's the ones with hair and teeth (when 4 weeks old) that freak me out. Random strands of ginger hair sprouting out and green eyes. God... you could puke over it!

If I was the parent I certainly wouldn't be in denial. I'd have mine in big caps and have the flap down on the buggy... even when it's 30°c outside!
 
My daughter is 5 and still can't smile properly for a photo. You have to catch her off guard or she pulls a really ugly face.

And you can't take a photo of my 2 year old because as soon as she sees you with a camera, she puts her hands up to her eyes like she's doing pretend binoculars and wanders about the place saying "Bopo!" over and over again.

Kids.
 
Vonhelmet said:
My daughter is 5 and still can't smile properly for a photo. You have to catch her off guard or she pulls a really ugly face.

And you can't take a photo of my 2 year old because as soon as she sees you with a camera, she puts her hands up to her eyes like she's doing pretend binoculars and wanders about the place saying "Bopo!" over and over again.

Kids.
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My girlfriends the same... pulls the weird face on the camera! Hopefully your daughter will grow out of it lol.

P.S. the two year old sounds cute!
 
Buchanan0204 said:
If I was the parent I certainly wouldn't be in denial. I'd have mine in big caps and have the flap down on the buggy... even when it's 30°c outside!
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I bet you’d have someone walking in front of the buggy ringing a bell and saying “unclean” as well.
 
I'm almost 22 and I can't smile for photos. That's not to say I can't smile, I just can't fake them, the best I can do is a vague smirk.
 
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