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Gotta love Saturday Night Live...]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/17/roomba-robot-love-me/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/17/roomba-robot-love-me/
I can't stand vacuuming!]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/17/roomba-robot-love-me/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/17/roomba-robot-love-me/
I think they've got it backwards. This thing might be a good alternative to HAVING CHILDEREN, not to parenting them. Think of the advantages...

- It doesn't make a mess (in fact it cleans them up)
- It doesn't need food, it eats garbage and minute amounts of electricity.
- It can be stowed in a closet for days or weeks at a time...WITHOUT involving Child Protective Services.
- It is noisy, but predictably so.
- It may be pink at conception, but if you find it's look distasteful you can paint it or adorn it with decals to suit yourself. 'Fugly' kids are much harder to fix...
- It does not require a $100,000 college education to be capable of meaningfull work. Shoot the most it will probably ever need is a firmware upgrade.
- It will never walk in on you while you are contemplating or even actively engaging in filthy 'Asian-robot-sex', and if it did...it wouldn't care, be traumatized in the least, or talk about it during the next family get together.

(And if 'Asian-robot-sex' is how you get down, this thing is probably as close as you're ever going to get to having a child anyway.)

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