Oh, I’m sure that’s why. It’s simply obnoxious, because I’m the center of the fucking universe, don’cha know.
Did you take some fucking retard pills this morning, dear?
Real women do it with their tits.
Forget nursing. They could put out an eye with those things.
Had to do those stupid skills test things for a placement agency I’m working with. God, all the MS stuff was 2003. I haven’t used 2003 for over a year. I don’t remember where the Replace function is in 2003. Let’s see… where’s Page Setup again? And save a copy to the floppy disk folder? Is this 1999? If you’re assessing my skills, could we please assess them in a version of software anyone at my level would actually be using? Right here and now in 2011?
I like, particulary, how the Excel “skills” assessment has nothing whatsoever to do with, say, formulas or data and everything with how to change the color of text in a cell.
:rolleyes:
Annoying. And of course every assessment has 40 questions…
I work for a large, global company and we’re still all on Office XP, though I think we’re supposed to finally be migrating to 2010 sometime soon. A lot of employers, especially large ones, can have a great deal of momentum that keeps them from upgrading their applications. (The standard *browser *in my company is IE6: you have to submit a form and give a business reason to get anything else. I’m lucky to even have IE7.)
Part of the problem is that there are three versions of office in widespread use so they’ve got to pick one. Still sucks.
I complained back when I did one of these was that the test didn’t support the shortcut keys for the answers. Everything had to be done with the mouse. Gah!
ETA: 90% of our thousands of Office installations is 2003 and we’re migrating to 2007. IE 7 is standard and IE 8 is prohibited.
I didn’t say he was setting me up, I said it felt like bait and switch. As for it being considered polite to ask if it’s OK to sit in an empty chair next to someone, that doesn’t happen often in busy coffee houses, particularly here. Plus, if he was all that polite, he’d have asked if it was OK with me if his wife sat there and breastfed her baby.
Well, actually, they are. Babies and to a lesser extent, children, are like a freaking religion these days - would you like it if people spent almost all of your time trying to force you into their religion? No one, particularly a female, is allowed to have any negative reactions to anything baby or child related at all. Such as the fact that anything to do with babies makes my skin crawl, nevermind some woman in the next seat repeatedly flashing me. Yet I’m expected to happily put up with all of the irritations, cost and inconveniences that other people push on me in the name of children. ETA: Christ, I can’t even rant on a rant page without people jumping all over.
As for all of those medical benefits for mother and child, they have nothing to do with the situation. That woman did not need to breastfeed her baby in that Starbucks, it was a choice she made. And yes, I’d be offended if it were squalling too - again, a choice she made to drag it out at night, apparently to a basketball game and then to a Starbucks. I cannot see how that is in the best interests of the baby, which was maybe 1-2 months old.
Nor do I care if it is easier for the mother than giving the baby a bottle. The whole bloody world revolves around making life easier for mother these days, to the detriment of those of us responsible enough to either have not reproduced, or those who manage to raise children without making the rest of the world help.
I’m tired, and I’m sore. My left hip hurts like hell for totally unknown reasons. Another chip fell off my broken tooth, so it hurts more. That’s more than enough for now.
'Twould seem that just showing up with your offspring should get that point across quite effectively.
And I, for one, lament that far too few women are willing to engage in the behavior that you view as rude. At least when I’m around. 
I want to see the listing for that job.
Paid for seeing tits?
I think every heterosexual male who read that was at least mildly confused.
Because we usually PAY to see tits.
I don’t think we’re outrageously happy-looking; we’re usually just chatting quietly as we wait for the movie to start. Maybe next time I should ask people why they have to sit right next to us.
I agree with this, but I don’t agree that breastfeeding in public is a terrible thing. There are plenty of reasons to be irritated with entitled parents these days but public breastfeeding isn’t one of them, in my opinion.
Breastfeeding IS the best choice for an infant of that age. An occasional bottle of formula won’t hurt it, but the mother will probably have to express some milk at the normal feeding time. Having overly full breasts HURTS. So, instead of having someone nursing an infant next to you, you could have walked into the bathroom to find a woman expressing milk into the sink…because it’s just about impossible to aim the milk stream into a toilet.
I’d say that an infant of a couple of months old is usually the least disruptive for adults who are out late at night, as the infant is generally either sleeping or snuggling/nursing. When they’re old enough to be awake more, then they start kicking up more of a fuss. Toddlers and gradeschoolers can be particularly obnoxious, as they don’t want to sleep through all the activity.
But breastfeeding isn’t nasty or unhygienic, any more than any other method of eating.
That’s a pretty neat trick, considering the baby is staring right at its mother.
But, seriously, how do you know? Were you there each and every time she fed one? She could have been feeding one of y’all under a recieving blanket while sitting on the pew at church, for example. There’s all kinds of ways to be discreet about breastfeeding.
I also want to ask lindsay: if a naked boob makes you sick to your stomach, do you get dressed in the dark?
Of course! Having neither baby nor husband, she is required by decency to hide herself from all eyes lest she be nauseous!
There’s hardly anything special about being able to reproduce…
I dunno - being a hetero female, I don’t get the fascination, but in this case the boob was, er, bloated looking? :eek:
I don’t expect that everyone would agree, but enough do that polite people shouldn’t be doing it, particularly in places where others are eating/drinking. Shoot, La Leche (I think - one of those organizations) had sit ins and marches to force the issue, isn’t that a clue that many if not most find public breastfeeding to be gross?
Good lord, are you trying to say that a woman who has had a baby in the past, what, six months? cannot go out at all without needing to express milk some way? I am having a lot of trouble believing that.
It is to many people. If this was about people employing the eating method of chewing with their mouths open, would you be defending them too?
Well, for one thing I don’t think she did much breastfeeding. She had to go back to work after my brother & I were born, so we may not have been breastfed at all (not that it made a bit of difference). When the last two were born, she waited to go anywhere at all until after we got home from school, so we could babysit. Mothers did not drag their babies everywhere back then.
snicker Actually yes, I usually lay out my clothes the night before. I don’t mind naked boobs in the lockerroom either. But clearly there’s a place between making the world your nursing room and being anti-child.
this is just puzzling. You have neither either.
I thought the general trend was getting people not to use IE? Isn’t Firefox safer for the company in general? Every place I’ve worked at/interned at (admittedly small companies under 200 people) has pushed Firefox.
Are there any universities around you with dental schools? They do work for cheap. I hope you feel better. Tooth pain is horrible and unmitigated; I’m sorry.
You guys say don’cha know? I thought that was only ND/Minnesota. Fact: my first boyfriend (is that what you call the 15 year old you go bowling with?) was from Minnesota, and said “don’cha” know all the time.
lorene was having a pharm party 
You forget that I am an old bat, too. I was around “back then” and some mothers did take their babies places - to church, for example.
My first mother-in-law tended her younger siblings when her mom & dad went to pick crops in the field. She took the baby out twice, once mid-morning and once mid-afternoon, for her mom to breastfeed him. It is just as natural as breathing.
Church is not “everywhere”. We didn’t do church so I have no idea if there were babies there.
So is taking a shit, which I imagine they also did out there in the field, which is not public.
Oh, goddammit, can we not turn this fucking thread into the “curlcoat is an idiot” show AGAIN? She’s not going to listen or change her mind, and there have been plenty of Pit threads about her already.