I’ve supported this assclown in other threads because he and I tend to have similar views on things but this is fucking ridiculous. He just walks into threads and claims to know how everything works like he’s the master of the fucking universe. The idea that there aren’t people who take their babies out to eat in just diapers is really, really fucking retarded. I’ve seen it a shit load of times.
The baby is welcome to put his ass on the table where I work. It’s a Japanese grill.
So we should add people changing diapers on tables to the list of things that don’t exist because Dio has never seen them? That’s going to go right under minors who can’t possibly look 18, right?
Yeah! Who cares about feces mixing with meat? I so wanna eat at your house, Dio.
Well hey, what’s a little e. coli outbreak among friends? :rolleyes:
Jesus, I never figured you to be the douchebag type. Seriously.
I’m one of the biggest “don’t-tell-me-how-to-deal-with-my-kid-you-butt-the-fuck-out” types of people, but the scenario quoted above is just gross. For Christ sake, take your kid to the bathroom to do that!
That’s not what I said. I said people don’t take babies to restaurants dressed in nothing but a diaper. Of course they change babies on tables, but the baby starts out wearing more than a diaper.
Again, that’s noy what I said. I said the Health Department is going to drop everything and run out to a store because one person says they saw somebody changing a baby on a table. If they gt a hundred calls saying it maybe, but not one. They can’t do anything about it anyway without seeing it themselves or getting more witnesses.
The OP situation, while gross to me, isn’t “wrong”. The restaurant can’t control what customers do, only how they clean up between them. If they seated somebody else at that table without sanitizing it, then I’m on board. Otherwise it’s just more icky (but private) parenting.
But this exchange…
Is really really gross, and illegal IIRC. I realize you backed off of the “what’s the big deal” tone to “the regulators don’t care”, but I disagree with both defenses.
Stop and read some of your recent posts some time Dio… It’s true that you’re off your game lately.
Most of the time he’s alright. Sometimes he just latches onto and idea and refuses to let go, though. You get used to it after a while.
As to the subject of babies and “only” diapers: There are these things called "diaper shirts"that babies wear. When I had babies, in the summer time this is all they’d wear when going out: a cloth diaper and a diaper shirt. I suppose that might not be the case in Minnesota being as how it’s not as hot there and all.
I’ve never been guilty of changing a baby on a restaurant table, though.
Never mind girl babies who wear cute little dresses in the summertime- it’s not like you’re going to put pantyhose or leggings on them, so it’s cute-little-dress-and-diaper. I’ve been out numerous times over the years with my stepdaughter and her kids (one boy, two girls) where you couldn’t miss the fact that the girls were wearing dresses and diapers only. Of course, it’s been known to get up over 100 degrees in the summer down here, unlike Minnesota.
Unless, of course, dio is clinging to a semantic issue of babies showing up in restaurants wearing ‘ONLY a diaper’- in other words, wearing nothing else. But that would be silly. :rolleyes:
Well now - I have seen people take babies around in only a diaper. Not often, but sometimes. It kind of depends upon the neighborhood, and the restaurant. Never in any place more upscale than, say, Applebee’s.
Well, that makes it all good then. :rolleyes:
Dio, most of the time I’m on your side, but not this time. Sheesh.
Speaking as a parent of a kid who’s still in diapers (hopefully for not much longer, but you never know):
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No, you don’t change kids on tables that other people are going to use. Not even a fucking outdoor picnic table. (In that instance, the bench will work just fine.)
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Unless there’s no reasonable alternative, you don’t change your kid in a room where people are eating. Having that going on a few tables away from where I’m eating would do a number on my appetite, and it takes a lot less to affect my appetite than pre-kid. Take the kid to the restroom (where hopefully they’ve got one of those changing tables), or outside if the weather’s tolerable, or to your car.
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In general, if you’re gonna change your kid in public, try to conduct the changing away from people, out of the traffic flow, and out of people’s view as much as possible. You, the parent, have to deal with your kid’s piss and shit; you signed on for this. The rest of the world didn’t sign on for it, and shouldn’t have to deal with it.
And love at first sight not existing and never having happened to anyone (from a relationship thread a few weeks ago).
They won’t likely catch the person who is currently changing their baby on a food counter, but maybe they’ll go give that food preparation area a thorough going-over after they have a report. If there’s one violation, there’s likely to be more, and if you have to pick a spot for an intense inspection, I’d start with one where there’s been a complaint.
For the record, my husband and I have seen someone changing their baby’s diaper on the table at a restaurant - it does happen, and it is gross. Never mind whatever might get on the table, who wants to see or smell that while they’re eating? {Insert barfing smiley}
Personally, I’d rather not change my baby in front of the entire world either.
Here ya go. Of course, you will probably argue that that’s not a restaurant, it’s a formal wedding, and that the child is also wearing wings, not just a diaper. There’s also this which could be considered to cover the “not anywhere really” part. These were found in about 19 seconds of googling “baby in public wearing diaper”; I’m sure if I looked past the third page or so I’d find more, and more damning. People feel there’s nothing wrong about bringing their babies out in public wearing nothing but diapers. It happens. Really. No, really.
Be warned. Some of the pictures that come up in that search are not actually babies. Uck.
At least the baby wasn’t wearing these.
I’m stunned that anyone would think that changing a baby on a restaurant table is acceptable.
It’s not. On the table? Unbelievable. I would probably walk out. Every public facility that I know of has those baby stations in the bathroom. Why don’t the parents just whip out a bucket and take a shit?
I guess I have been lucky. At 49 years old I have never seen this.
What kind of idiots are these parents?
You’re confusing two didfferent things. I didn’t say “what’s the big deal” about the owner changing a baby on a meat table, I said it about customers sitting babies on tables.
The Health Department isn’t going to rush out for a phoned in report of either.
I never said that you do, and I never defended it.
I never defended this either.
Once again, I never defended changing babies in public view at all. Just sitting them on the table with pants on.
No it doesn’t. Not really. Especially not in restaurants. Your first picture is of a costume. Neither is in a restaurant.