It's no surprise that I hate UrbanBaby (the parenting website with a self-proclaimed "cosmopolitan sensibility.") If UrbanBaby were a parent, they'd be the annoying ones cooing all the time about how having a baby is just so "peachy keen" and how they never realized just how gosh darn jolly life could be until they had children. They'd also be the ones buying pink cashmere sweaters and baby blue jumpers for their precious progeny.
Their message boards are even more annoying. Listening to the babbling of idle SAHMs makes me want to puke. All day long, they talk of spending $150 for b-day presents for a friend's kid, guilting their husbands into buying push presents, or giving expensive gifts to their kids' teachers. Are you fucking kidding me?
So why am I writing about them? Because their daily e-mail today was a list of professional photographers in the NYC-area who specialize in capturing those "precious moments." When the StrollerDerby crew saw the subject heading, we had an informal contest to guess which mushy words/phrases UrbanBaby would use in the descriptions: whimsical, sassy, celebration of life, ethereal, the Hamptons.
Want to hear something hilarious? We were right on the money.
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