Birthing in the Bathroom

[RainbowTigress]

"Spud" means potato in the UK too. "Sprog" is a slang term for kids of all varieties, upto and including teens (if you want to put their hackles up, that is  ).

Yeah, that probably would irritate teens, calling them a sprog!

Thanks for the clarification re "mother". *Takes thinking cap off, and rubs head.* Must be going senile.

Uh-oh, your aspiration isn't dipping into the green, is it?  Gotta be careful about that!

[laeshanin]

Aspiration always green, dammit! Just can't seem to get all my needs met...

I have never had a sim put a baby in the cot autonomously. They leave 'em lying around the floor and I have to try and find out where. Or I just click on the cot to make 'em do it. Why do we play this game when they are such a pain?

[ZephyrZodiac]

Well, I think they used to do it in Sims2, but university screwed so many things up!  I'm pretty sure in Sims 2 you could hand babies to family members who were visiting, too.

[RainbowTigress]

I remember before the patch came out, family members would  "kidnap" babies by deciding to go home but forgetting to put the baby down first.  People were panicking all over the BBS, thinking their babies were "gone."

[ZephyrZodiac]

I was lucky, that never happened to me, maybe because most of my sims were only first generation CAS and had very few family members living in a different house.

[laeshanin]

I remember before the patch came out, family members would  "kidnap" babies by deciding to go home but forgetting to put the baby down first.  People were panicking all over the BBS, thinking their babies were "gone."

That happened to me a few times. I thought that it was part of the game initially, then realised it was a Maxis blooper. Kidnapping would have made the game quite interesting, if a little dark.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Well, I suppose if it was all in the family.......you could get the baby back by moving a parent to the kidnappers lot, then the other parent asking them to move in, then they could bring the baby with them.

[laeshanin]

All the babies that I had kidnapped were returned eventually. It was quite bizarre as they would suddenly be back on the lot as though nothing had ever happened.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Just another piece of faulty programming.........

[RainbowTigress]

YAB (Yet Another Bug)

[ZephyrZodiac]

WAG (What A Game!)

[RainbowTigress]

LOL!

[laeshanin]

Indeed. It still worries me that I spend copious amounts of time playing with simulated people instead of trying to have a LIFE of my own.  I do believe the "nerdy bird" title I've got at work is, much as I try to shake it off, fair. Oh, that and "smartarse". LOL