The SL pregnancy...what many wish to know:)

Yes, you have to turn the tummy off. I too get wary of it myself especially at weddings.

They eat their young, don't they?

I must have missed that book-

I think that was in "The Furry Cannibals of Gor".

Ahh...talking tummy spam. A favorite among non-roleplayers.

Hmm...

To put it another way: are the services of a man required at any point?

I don't know why scripters insist on having their creations spam public chat when it'd be much more appropriate using something like llOwnerSay. This goes for not only the pregnancy crap but all the other public chat spamming objects.

*snorts tiredly* I remember my club going days when some pregnant woman's belly would belch out that she had a craving for strawberries. You know, I never had a craving for strawberries my entire RL pregnancy. It was always carrots, oranges and *gasp* pickles with cottage cheese! Never the good stuff, nope.

As for the whole, baby is kicking mommy's intestines, kidneys and other assorted bodily innards? Never got announced by my belly. I think my look of occasional discomfort did enough announcing for me

I mute whatever belly I happen to hear. I know this will sound completely callous, but honestly, after my RL pregnancy, the last thing I ever wanna hear is someone who got knocked up prim style announcing every tad and tiddle of their *ahem* prim offspring whom we all know is going to wind up left the inventory after the shiny has worn off.

If I want an SL baby, I'll get a Grimm Baby and have some fun!

I can't even keep a straight face when I hear anyone over the age of 7 use the word "tummy"

Can't those things be set to send an IM to the owner if they get the urge to communicate?

Any random jerk off will do.

It's like built in advertising. For every sane person that is annoyed by the fetal spammer there are probably 5 silly twits that see it and *have to* have one of their own.

more like for every 100 sane people that are annoyed, 1 silly twit has have one.

Wait a minute....



Stork?

Okay, this explains a few things now.

this

Well, there is that. But there's also "parental pride": Ever been stuck in a dinner party where you're treated to a recital by that "specially talented" child of the host couple?

That's when a Mute button would really come in handy.

/me nods in total agreement, having been around way too many tummy talkers in her time.

(And heck, why not adopt one of us fine kid avvies instead?)



/me makes a note of this for her next birthday.

Mari

Yeah that part confused me too...like, how does the HUD *know* when a couple is doing the pixel thing?

So there I was, RL, many years ago, holding my baby daughter in my arm and feeding her while planning my next move on TradeWars (a BBS door game or a multi-player, turned based stratagy game played in the dark ages if the first definition does not make sense) not thinking much about anything. My baby always liked to put her feet on the desk and kick as any baby does, but when she pushed with her feet against the desk she rocked me back in the chair. .... I suddenly thought of my wife's ribs and I felt very sorry for what she had been through ...

I never read about eating the young, but there was a tribe called the Alars who took any child born with a defect of any kind into the mountains and left them there to die.

That caused a HUGE brewhaha on one of the Gorean forums from IRC years ago when one of the two men who basically pioneered Gor online said he agreed with that and a woman (who happened to be from my home channel) has a disabled brother and took offense to that (as any caring person would) and...sheesh...what a mess.

The thing to remember about most of the Gorean novels is that the author set the storyline in each book from ancient cultures (ie. ancient Rome, Greece, Vikings, etc.) or current geographical areas (the Amazon, North Pole, Native Americans)...so the customs usually existed in RL somewhere, past or present.

I was wondering that myself. I haven't seen pads or tampons for sale in SL. And does the avatar, really the avatar's owner, know when she is haveing a period?

Actually I am glad that there is that RL problem we don't have in SL.

Why isn't the cabbage patch included?

You just nominated about half of SL!

What.... did you think the came from the cabbage patch?

Actually, the most disturbing tummy talker incident I ever had was at an inworld funeral, being held in conjunction with the RL funeral. The prim-baby-to-be's "father" had passed away very unexpectedly, so no one was going to tell his widowed partner to shush that thing. But.... very disturbing, especially under the circumstances.

There was a purse I saw advertised in SL where various items would fall out intermittently and I *think* one was tampons.

I'm with you in glad there are some things in RL we really *don't* need in SL. One reason I don't put a toilet in my home.