And while were at it, we need to introduce into the discussion hot sauces that have a much higher Scoville rating than mere Tabasco…that is, if we really want those precious baby-blues to BURN…
Did I fail to mention the pool of tobasco sauce the couch was standing in? The rising pool?
That might have helped explain things.
This was a good post. The only thing I’d take issue with is the abovequoted: In fact, I haven’t tried to defend any claim that I’m a good parent. I did assert that my action was reasonable, but I offered no arguments in favor of that claim.
The hypotheticals weren’t meant to give insight into how good or bad a parent I am, rather, they were meant to show how inadequate the information out there is for forming any judgment on the matter.
So wait, was this a hypothetical situation or did it not happen? And if not, what was the point of posting it?
Well then you are indeed a bad parent. The kid needed golf shoes…otherwise there’d be no footing at all…
I let my kid jump on a couch in a waiting room. That really happened. Later on, after the minor pile on, I listed a series of hypothetical scenarios many of which would validate a claim that it’s reasonable in some particular case to let a kid jump on a couch in a waiting room. Some of the hypotheticals were even plausible no less. 
Asserting your action is reasonable is a defense of your good-parent status. A pretty weak defense - but you’ll note I didn’t exactly put a lot of intense argumentive detail in my own assessment of your parenting skills either. We’re pretty weak all around!
And I feel pretty justified in considering the dude in the OP a bad parent too. Actually a lot more justified; after all based on the available evidence he’s demonstrably a complete asshole, and willing to be one in front of his kid. What kind of a parenting example is that?
I really don’t understand why you don’t simply tell people this hidden reason why it was okay, then. If you’re trying to make some point, it’s lost on me. Yes, the guy was wrong to physically grab your kid.
Most of those scenarios don’t really seem to make it okay that he was jumping. If you were filling out paperwork and took your eye off him, he would still have been wrong. You wouldn’t have necessarily been an awful parent, but it would have been the right call to correct him. And letting him jump just for ten seconds to see what it was like wouldn’t really be okay if it wasn’t your couch to let him jump on.
So, I’ve talked to another friend who was at the party. She had left the party before this ruckus broke out, and so I hadn’t talked to her about it until today.
The AYRAB/ISLAMISMS thing came to me fourth-hand and might be speculation. However, my friend says that she directly interacted with the parents earlier that night. Apparently, my friends were talking about setting me up on a date with someone (like I can’t find my own dates, but whatever). The parents were standing nearby and sort of involved in the conversation, which is when they realized I was a HOMERSEXUAL!!!
The man actually made the “I don’t approve of that lifestyle” comment to my friend, but she gave him an icy stare and told him that it’s not a lifestyle, and that this is Los Angeles and if he hasn’t gotten used to being around HOMERSEXUALS by now, he might want to think about moving to another city. She says he was clearly annoyed, but didn’t respond to her and he and his wife went to talk to other people.
So, of course, when they saw me around their kid, I must have been a pervert trying to do bad things with Tabasco sauce to their precious.:rolleyes:
It’s weird, though, he didn’t call me any homosexual slurs (like faggot) when he was insulting me, which I think he would have. So, I guess that’s progress of a sorts. Now someone will try to start a fight without making gay slurs.
I’ll remove the veil. He doesn’t give the reason because as he and everyone else here knows, there is no good reason. When he says “nobody ever wins an argument” on this board, what he means is that he’s going to lose this argument, because the moment he reveals his bullshit rationale, it will only confirm the suspicion that he’s a garden-variety douchebag parent. As long as he keeps being coy, though, he thinks he’s maintaining some kind of intellectual advantage.
His “not caring” about what we think is horseshit too; obviously he does care or he wouldn’t play this childish game. He’s a kid on the playground taunting his friends to guess what’s in his hand, knowing that if they find out it’s just a stupid piece of leaf, the game will be over and the attention will be drawn elsewhere.
My suspicion is that it’s either the “controlled bounce for just a moment” explanation or some equally soggy philosophy about child-rearing and allowing children to explore their boundaries. Merely by saying this, though, I give him another opportunity to giggle “PSYCHE!” whether or not I’m on the mark. It isn’t the first thread in which **Frylock **has shown himself a reliable apologist for what the vast majority would consider bad behavior, and I’m sure it won’t be the last.
Wait, are you a guy? nd isn’t the toddler in question a female child? If so…WTF?
Wanted to PM you but it looks like you’ve turned them off.
I’m really dumbfounded by your comments about me in this thread. Could you point me to what you’re talking about? (PM is fine… can you PM others if they can’t PM you?)
I haven’t turned them off, so there must be some other impediment.
Yes, I’m a guy. And I’ve met people who think that HOMERSEXUALS are free-ranging perverts who will diddle toddlers of either gender, or goats, or Muppets or whatever. I’m assuming he’s one of these people. I don’t really know if he is, but it makes more sense to me than the AY-RAB/ISLAMISM angle. Who knows? They dude has a rep for generally being a douchebag, so it might just be that.
Speaking as someone who knocked a tooth out jumping on a couch…yeah.
And no, I did not have my parents’ permission to be jumping on the couch. In fact, my mother had threatened to beat me to death if she caught me jumping on the bed just. one. more. time. But hey, she never said anything about any of the other furniture, so by kid logic I was golden. In retrospect, I’m probably lucky I fell and hurt myself–if I hadn’t been bleeding, I’d probably have gotten spanked till my ass blistered.
Good lord, enough with the couch jumping, and more with the Tabasco bottle asshattery! I’m leaving this thread, and when I come back there’d better be more children blinded with tabasco or mace or whatever irritant is available goddamn it!
The Simpsons too? Fucking Christ. Everybody’s gay.
Except that he did call you a pervert. In his narrow world, that may be all he needs to say to explain his feelings about your highly deviant lifestyle.
A Gay in Los Angeles. Who ever would have thunk. A Gay Hot Sauce Thief, no less.
I saw a Batman comic with him in it. His criminal master plan didnt make much sense to me, but man was his costume fabulous.
Fabulous? Are you kidding? It made my eyes burn!