Please talk me out of planting bamboo

At a botanical garden I saw it crack and escape concrete formed specfically for bamboo control. I have also seen bamboo go under 2' of metal barrier.
Stick to a pot, that way you can enjoy any variety with no ill effects. Just keep that pot on concrete- NOT lawn or gravel...
Bamboo is neat, but the leaves give the worst paper cuts, and it is high maintenance. (and tacky in my opinion).

When I lived in my grandparents' house in Japan, one of my jobs was to dig out the bamboo shoots trying to invade the paths and sidewalks around the house. A little inch or two of shoot above ground is like the tip of an iceberg; there's another foot or two underground that, as I still remember, is really, really hard to dig out!
Backbreaking as it was, I loved the bamboo. It's so beautiful. The shoots are good to eat, too. Now you've got me thinking: I have a patch of waste ground taken over by invasive Japanese knotweed. Maybe bamboo would compete with that...nothing else does and the sheep don't eat it.