Do you want to have kids?

[angus]

at 15 I found out I was shortsighted

?!

I'm guessing that this is how you say myopic in English English.  

In Yankee English shortsighted means something very different, and the statement looks strange.

[angus]

But I'm sure I'm not the only person who sees the similarity between being around small children, and being the only sober adult in a group of drunk people. 

You might be.  I have no idea what it might be like to be the only sober adult in a group of drunk people.  If people are drunk, then booze must be available, so why would anyone be sober under those conditions.

That said, I voted no in the poll. 

As a rule, children are annoying, especially when you're drunk.  Even one is annoying, especially when you have to stay sober because you're his ride home.  There have been some I really like.  My cousin's daughter who lived with us for about a year when I was a teenager was very charming, and my son, in his better moments, is loads of fun to hang out with.  I certainly don't want to sire any more.

[angus]

I've made this point to people for years, but stick big hair and a bigger moustache on Patrick Stewart damn if he doesn't look like Ramsay MacDonald. C'mon there's a biopic just waiting to happen right there.

possibly, but with big hair and a moustache, Captain Kirk looks like Ron Jeremy.  Now there's an interesting biopic just waiting to happen.

[angus]

Even I don't know what this thread is any more, or if it's an improvement.

I agree.  Kirk had only three seasons to develop his character, whereas Picard had seven.  Not to mention higher-tech gaffing and makeup.  Also, Picard was able to study Kirk whereas Kirk had no precedent.  Kirk is the George Washington of starship captains.

The comparisons are silly.

[angus]

I'd rather have Picard as a dad.

But he didn't like children, and had a plastic heart with a faulty valve because of barfight with some naussicaans who cheated in a game of domjot.

On the other hand, Kirk would probably not be an ideal role model either.