:rolleyes:
I have a subscription to internet tough guy magazine to gift to you.
Which, I guess, brings us back full circle to the point of my pit: the parents were boarhogs who chose to keep the screaming baby in the restaurant and tell other people to fuck off instead of taking the kid outside. Hopefully, what you posted was a whoosh.
I must admit that I am totally amazed by the direction this thread has taken. There have been some interesting points of view expressed, that’s for sure.
I think I’ve actually seen it happen. Once or twice.
What I find surreal is the number of folks for whom it is, apparently, a serious enjoyment-destroying problem they commonly encounter.
I think we need to sign you up for some weekly remedial Reading Comprehension classwork, young man. You’re just not getting it.
The reason I and others are rightly pissed off is because of the repeated assertions of that world-class pantload, kidneyfailure, that after some attempts to quiet the child in question had failed (mind you, the attempts are explicitly not being done out of any consideration for kf’s fellow diners), at a certain point he just gets to throw up his hands and say “Oh well. Tough shit. Let the wait staff decide who to toss out. I’m not taking my child out of earshot just so you filthy proles can gorge on your swill in peace. Suck it!”
Just “trying to cure the problem” does not give one carte blanche to do as they please in the meantime. Sure, those parents get more slack than the complete shitbags who do nothing, but that slack does run out at a certain point.
Meanwhile, thread newcomer rhubarbarin is merely throwing more solipsistic fuel on the fire of assholishness. You go, girl! (to hell, that is)
Cool. And likewise, a few years down the line, I’ll enjoy tricking out your little darling to pay for her meth habit which I got her started on. Win-win!
It arose out of the great vowel shift, the result of which has been confusion over child as diner and child as dinner.
So what would you do if you kid was causing a disturbance, but not unhappy? Just being loud or making loud happy noises (normal for somebabies I’ve knw). Would you then feel obligated to quiet them even if they weren’t in dstress, but possibly (probably) bothering others?
I was once in a diner where a child was constantly singing “The Song that Never Ends” over and over. By the end of that meal, I was thinking “justifiable homicide.”
Hey, sometimes I can be immature and sometimes I can be idiotic, I get that. But if a kid’s been screaming his head off behind me for 10 mins and the parents have done SHIT to stop it, someone has to. And when I say “any move”, I meant physical move, like if internet tough guy over there decides that someone else screaming is distracting from his own kid screaming and decides to take a swing. Yeah, I’ll put money that at least 1 person on that jury’s been in a similar situation and award me some damages.
And we all know how relevent it is why I was in that Denny’s on that night :rolleyes: Don’t you have some poor wife to beat while in a drunken stupor? 
The bottom line is that I’m pretty tolerant about this sort of thing, but even I have my limits. When a kid’s been going on and on for 10 mins and the parents don’t do shit, what the hell are the rest of us supposed to do? Asking them nicely didn’t work, and I gave them a few more minutes after that, but there are limits to what kind of shit one can pull in a public place. And hey, it worked, so I guess I was doing something right 
If you had any degree of maturity or intelligence you would talk to the parents. Or, in language you can understand, you would talk to the parents if you had any balls. But no, instead you act like a fucking cretin and yell at the child.
It’s not so much the night, it’s the fact you were in Denny’s. And no, not married. She left me because I was a drunk.
No, you aren’t pretty tolerant for this sort of thing. If you were, you wouldn’t scream in the face of a kid. You’d talk to the parents, and if that didn’t work, you should talk to the management. But you don’t have the maturity or intelligence to do that. I’m sure you will now claim you spoke to the parents first, that you talk all reasonable steps, but I don’t believe it.
Instead, your action is to commit what is certainly a tort against the child, and may quite possibly be a criminal offense. And you are stupid enough to believe a jury will award you damages if a parent stops you doing it. Any law suit brought by you in that situation (presuming of course they don’t use excessive force, and believe me pushing/dragging you back is not going to be considered excessive force there) isn’t going to get anywhere near a jury. You’d be representing yourself, because no lawyer is going to take such a sure loser unless you will pay up front. And it is going to get tossed out before you realized what happened.
Whoops, that should have read “great yowl shift”. My bad.
… Wow. You really are mentally retarded, aren’t you? Do you have your little brother type up your posts so they don’t come off as trisomy or something?
You’re such a good acrobat, you must do very well at the Special Olympics. (Do they have a contortion category?) My explanation of why most babies are okay to bring into public–that they’re not nonstop crying machines, and that when they are crying, it’s usually because there’s something they need, which means the parent will be able to stop the crying pretty quickly–suddenly turns into a reason why no babies can ever be brought into public. That’s… almost impressive.
Only if you don’t know what irony means. There’s nothing in a purposely hyperbolic statement designed to hit a couple of points most under contention on these boards that makes any assumptions about your religion or ethnicity.
Yes. This whole post. Go back and read it again, Malthus. This is what it looks like when someone actually reads what I write.
Probably because that’s exactly what it meant. Well done.
When are you coming to Milwaukee so we can go out to dinner and do this in synch? Stereo screaming!
The statements about literally standing at the table and screaming are hyperbole intended to make a point: you wouldn’t think it was appropriate for an adult to do it, so it also shouldn’t be appropriate for an adult responsible for a child to allow a child to do it.
That being said, I have no problem being confrontational to disruptive people in public. Generally in a civil fashion, mind you, but confrontational nonetheless. Yes, I *am *that person in the theater who will turn around and ask you to please stop talking.
You said that while you’d try to get your kid to shut the fuck up and stop being a nuisance, if it didn’t work, tough shit to everyone else. So, that’s where you said that.
There is no argument–except from a mental defective like you, who can’t read what’s right in front of him, probably because his eyes are squinted shut in pleasure as he furiously strokes his little lap pinkie at the prospect of getting to tell someone else how wrong they are.
Why should you talk to the parents? Is there any chance that they don’t know that their baby who has been screaming for 10 minutes is bothering the whole restaurant? Is there any chance that people who will keep on sitting there, having their dinner while their baby screams, will get anything out of you going over there? There’s a fair chance that they’ll get mad at you and tell you they don’t give two shits if you don’t like their baby screaming.
You can take the condescending attitude and suck on it.
I get it just fine. The point stands. This thread is a perfect example of both sides taking something to the absolute extremes for no actual good reason. I doubt that Kidneyfailure or anyone else is going to just sit there and ignore a screaming baby in a restaurant. I also doubt that people are subjected to unconsolable babies with any frequency, much less parents who just won’t try to fix the problem.
In short, this isn’t anywhere near as big a problem as people are making it.
But that sure doesn’t stop the pitchforks and torches from being whipped out, does it?
Agreed. It would just escalate a bad situtation. The parents already know there’s an issue and it’s likely that they are a) already embarrassed and b) stressed over it. I know I would be.
Some jerkoff diner coming over and saying something does nothing to resolve the issue.
Road trip!
Why? Because that is how society works. Parents are responsible for their children. They may be clueless enough to not realize their child is disturbing others, or may simply be thinking they can get away with it, but will be shamed enough by someone saying something to them they will take the kid outside. Getting in the kid’s face is just ridiculous, and if you want a parent to get mad at you, I would suggest that is a much more likely way of doing it.
I must live in a different world, or, more likely, just be lucky. I just don’t come across this situation. I haven’t seen parents who think it is tolerable to let the child scream non stop and just ignore it. And I also don’t, thank God, come across ass clowns who think the response to their enjoyment of Denny’s Deep Fried Pig Parts being sullied is to scream in the face of a child.
Tell you what, sport. You show me can actually read for comprehension, and I’ll knock off the condescension. Deal?
No good reason? The OP’s obnoxious parents’ refused to take their noisy kid out of the restaurant, and told someone who complained to “get fucked”. That’s not good enough reason to get pissed off? Give me a goddamn break.
Well, now we’re back to that old reading comprehension hang-up of yours. kidneyfailure has indeed, in more than one post, said exactly that: he’ll try to keep the kid quiet, but if that doesn’t work, then yes - HE IS GOING TO JUST SIT THERE AND IGNORE A SCREAMING BABY IN A RESTAURANT. This has been noted not just by me, but by several other posters who apparently don’t share your learning disability.
The frequency with this kind of thing happens is totally fucking irrelevant. The parents’ behavior is unacceptable - doesn’t matter if it happens once or a hundred times.
Well, if kidneyfailure would just shut his stupid pie-hole for awhile, this thread would rapidly sink to the bottom of the Pit. Take it up with him.
Actually, in a restaurant, I’d probably go to the waitstaff. If they are unwilling or unable to persuade the patron with the bothersome child to leave, then I will cancel whatever of the rest of my meal is forthcoming, express my extreme displeasure to the management, settle my bill, and leave.
You know what’s a really easy way to relieve all that embarassment and stress? Taking the fucking kid out the door to calm them down in a more private area, or take them home if they can’t be calmed down. I know, it really is some kind of rocket surgery.
I’ll even show you the basement where I keep all the dead hookers!
Yeah! Hitler killed a lot of Jews–next thing you know, these guys are gonna try to say that that makes killing Jews okay! Hey guys, let’s all go kill some Jews–no, no, it’s okay, everybody’s doing it.
Yes, I *am *enjoying being as Godwinesque as possible, thank you.
Heh, I never knew that parents had this wonderful ability. I assume you know all about stoping a baby crying. Parents can turn tantrums off just like that! Wow, you must be a genius, you know so much about parenting.
Have you considered teaching?
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Well done. Perfectly content free snark.
So I ask again - one very simple question: are you, or are you not, saying this?
Please excuse my - what was it again? Mental defects? - that cause me to assume people mean what they write.
The part that you are missing genius, is that YOU are starting the confrontation by getting within inches of a kid’s face and screaming at them. To any normal person out there, they would assume you are some sort of a nut and would have bad intentions, because nobody does that. “Someone” does not need do anything about a kid screaming, certainly not you. The minute you make a move on a kid regardless of your intentions, for most parents, except for those in your fantasy land version of Denny’s, it would be on like Donkey Kong.
Wow, such tolerance, 10 whole minutes, plus a few more. What are you supposed to do? Here are a couple of ideas: Move. Ask the management, not the wait staff for assistance. Finish your Grand Slam and GTFO. Those are three better alternatives than screaming at a kid. None of which will result in stitches or a lawsuit.
I’ve said it earlier, I have three kids of my own, and perhaps that allows me to tune out other kids. When we go out, I guess my tolerance of other people’s kids is just higher than that of the majority of participants in this thread. When mine are bad, and it does happen from time to time, we get up and leave. It is better to avoid confrontation than to provoke it regardless of the reason. Bolding mine.
I find it deliciously ironic that a few months ago you were attaching violent tendencies to some of us involved in a thread about gun control simply because we own firearms. Look who is the first one to provoke violence in this situation because a kid is upsetting the enjoyment of their Grand Slam. :rolleyes: