See, that’s terrible. That was as unfair to you as it was to the people you inconvenienced (through no fault or choice of your own). But I’m sure they all thought “spoiled” as they passed by.
I came to post that. Vegas is pretty much midway between the Grand Canyon and Southern CA, and not much else around. The non-casino motels used to be (might still be, but my las IME is 20 yrs out of date) dirt cheap. They had to be to compete with the casinos…so it was a cheap place to splurge on a hotel with a shower and a pool, a buffet for dinner and 99cent ham and eggs breakfast. When we went through there as a kid, my family was camping otherwise.
OH, this is the pit. Well, then I get to say what needs to be said. We now have proof that Morella is a troll. She claims to be so uber-conservative, but doesn’t give a shit about spending random amounts of money. Hardly fiscal conservatism. Then she talks about having two kids, but, now that she is in a thread where it might make people hate her more, she says she hates them.
She doesn’t participate anywhere else on the board. Rather than use the pit to vent off steam, she uses it as her personal trolling paradise. She riles people up in a place where it is permitted to do so.
People like her sicken me, so I’m removing the illness. I was going to let it go, but I’m tired of reading her bullshit. She joins Rand Rover on the list of people I’m not going to let have any participation in my brain. Heck, I’m not sure she’s not a Rover sock.
Goodbye.
So the kids were approximately 90 feet from your door, probably in their own yard? And they were screeching so loud at almost midnight it offended you? You are aware that you can call the police for disturbing the peace, right? You are aware you can close your windows, right? You are aware you can move to the country so you don’t have screeching brats within 90 feet of your door, right? I moved out to the country to get away from my idiot neighbor’s fucking dogs. Worked for me, it could work for you too.
I find it extremely hard to believe that children can scream for 10 hours straight. Did they not lose their voices? I don’t know any kids that can scream for 10 hours straight. I have met dogs that can bark for 10 hours straight though.
And then you add another little anecdote about the mother you are trying to conduct business with. How old were the children? What was the business? Why did the Mom have to bring the kids with her? Is she an illegal alien (Orange county and all that)? Can she afford a babysitter? If not should she leave them home alone? Or out in the car? Or drug them into a quiet stupor?
I don’t have a high tolerance for brats. I just don’t find that many kids bratty. I have this thing called empathy. Some of us are born with it. When I see a kid acting out I try to figure out why. Most of the time it’s because the kid is put into circumstances they’re unprepared to deal with or they’re tired or they’re sick or they have dumb parents or some combination of all the above. When kids around me are acting out I either ignore them (easy with ear buds), try to reason with them, entertain them or move away as a last resort.
And sometimes kids are brats because there’s a troll living in the house across street.
Hmmmmm.
Hmmm, looks like the OP has been banned. What a sad loss. Can we work on curly next?
One individual kid can rarely scream for 10 hours straight. However, a group of them can take turns. Usually a kid screaming will scream for a few seconds, then stop for a couple of minutes, then scream again. Even just one kid can keep this up for hours. This can be nerve-wracking, especially if one is trying to get over a migraine or something. When it’s two or three kids, the volume and frequency of screams increases. I’ll have to invite you over to my in-laws’ place over Thanksgiving for a demonstration.
I’ve actually seen **RR **say nice things, non-inflamatory things and intelligent things in the more kumbayah forums. I disagree with him on a ton of subjects but he’s consistant within his logic framework and loves his kids, whereas Morella made me glad to see a “banned” flag for the first time since I joined the boards. I think you might owe RR an apology for the insult… dude’s a big enough target on his own right, no need to fling at him poo he didn’t shit.
No, no, I insist Captain Midnight is next.
Well, I can’t argue with that nomination. Just as long as curlcoat is in line right behind him.
Depending on the age of our newly banned member, she may have had little or no choice. Birth control wasn’t all that reliable a few decades ago, plus it really hasn’t been that long that choosing to not have children has been even slightly acceptable by society. My father doesn’t like children yet he created four to keep my mother, their parents and society as a whole happy.
Well, if you think that the hotel rooms in Vegas are cheap, and having to fly a family is cheap, I guess it would also make sense to you to take kids to a place like that.
If your kids are happy to stay at the pool the majority of the time, great. Just make sure that YOU stay with them, unlike most of the parents.
The pools are there for the adults, that’s why there is swim up gambling, booze served poolside and no toys (none of this may apply to Circus Circus or the Excalibur since I’ve never stayed at either one of those). The casinos do not seriously expect the adults to gamble every waking hour, but they do want them to stay in the casino/hotel area as much as possible. That’s why they offer shows (which are usually not kid appropriate) and cheap food, so once you are in the place you aren’t likely to leave. The pool is there to bake off the hangover, not as a free babysitter.
Already backpedaling - you said that I am “constantly surrounded by nasty people because she is constantly nasty to them”. Now you say you just mean children and parents. If you mean all children and all parents, that isn’t true either.
You didn’t post an opinion.
That was the interesting part - I haven’t had time to post in ages and yet as soon as I start up again, here you are.
No, I didn’t know that. I wouldn’t have any need to search for a particular poster.
Jesus. You must be one of those people that cannot hear the noise that kids can make, even if it is right next to you. FTR -
The screaming made me jumpy because it was the sort that makes you stop for a second each time and remind yourself that no, the kid isn’t getting gutted. After hour four or five, that gets to be a bit much.
You really want me to call the police on a kid’s birthday party?
The windows were closed, the TV was on and we were in the back of the house. Doesn’t make a bit of difference.
The police will respond to a complaint of barking dogs. Screaming kids, not so much.
Really? I should sell my house and move because you and the cross street neighbors think they have the right to allow their kids to scream? Besides, I did live on acreage for many years and that is no guarantee that entitled parents won’t allow their kids to do things like ride their bikes down one’s private road.
Uh, are you being obtuse? I didn’t say that the kids screamed for 10 hours straight - if nothing else they have to take time out to breath. There were also quite a few of them over there, so they could have been taking turns at it. What do barking dogs have to do with any of this?
The hell? Are you really that dumb?
Apparently, you weren’t. Despite what folks like you want to believe, those without kids have rights too. There is no empathy in not only expecting myself and my husband to listen to this extremely noisy child’s party for hours on end and well past those kids’ bedtimes, but telling me to move to the country if we don’t like it. All you can see is the rights of parents and to hell with the rest of the world.
Yeah, right. Their bad manners have to be my fault :rolleyes: If nothing else, I’m not even sure I’ve seen those kids, certainly have never spoken to them.
Got nothing to say about Las Vegas 'cos I’ve never been there and don’t know shit about it. 
But now that curlcoat is here (funny how she always turns up in threads about kids innit?) I do have something to say:
curlcoat, not particularly liking children or having much patience with their juvenile ways is one thing. Actively despising them to the very depths of your soul says more about your pathology than theirs.
Reading the stuff you biliously spew upon these boards about the worthlessness of children always serves to remind me of the traditional ‘wicked witch’ archetype of fairy-tales past. Mostly barren and embittered old spinsters, it seems that their need to annihilate children comes from a primal desire to have children for themselves. I’m sure if you look deep into your psyche, you’ll find that, for all your protestations, you too crave the sublime role of motherhood. Believe me, it will be the making of you curlcoat. 
Cast away the condoms and IUD’s, go get some hormonal treatment if you are post-menopausal, give Mister Curlie some Viagra and have yourselves a good fucking session.
When come back, bring baaaaaaaby.
Compared to Maui, which is where I vacation most years, it’s very cheap.
Past a certain age, children are quite capable of being in an arcade or walking the beach or sitting by a pool without constant parental supervision.
If they were, they’d designate them as “adults only.”
This explains a great deal.
Paging Dr. Freud.
She just hates them SOOO MUCH! They ruin her life! YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND!!! Maybe someday…somehow…she will be able to get through to the rest of us, to make us all see how her life has been utterly and completely destroyed by screeching, out-of-control children. Maybe not this 25-page Pit thread. Maybe not the next 25-page Pit thread. BUT SOMEDAY, there will be a 25-page Pit thread in which she forces us all to see the light of reason! Someday, I tell you!
…Jeez, I need a pumpkin latte or something now. I’m all tired out. curlcoat, how do you maintain this energy level for so long?!
Oh don’t worry. Curlcoat will calm down and discover the joys of motherhood when she has her own,
Her own mother?
Well then what the hell are you doing there? I thought you and your husband were being driven into the ground by oppressive California taxes? But now you have tons of money to blow on frequent expensive vacations? If you have that kind of money then why don’t you go to an adults-only resort somewhere?
This is not backpedaling. Seriously, you need to learn what backpedaling is because you accuse people of it all the time and it is seldom remotely appropriate. I said you were a nasty cow to *people *in general. Children and parents are a subset of people, and are the subject of this thread. Thus my second comment focussed on them since you were describing your experience with children. But, fear not, I still think you are a hateful old bag overall. I didn’t say "just’ children and their parents. See, no backpedaling.
Well, I’ll give you a tip. When you’re trying to insult someone maybe you should make sure you have even a vague clue of what you’re talking about. Most message boards have a search function. So saying “What, do you have a search function or something?” as an insult is like saying “What, do you have fingerlike digits with which to type those words or something?” It’s dumb, just like you.
Regardless, I did no searching. The child-hating threads are not your exclusive stomping grounds, you know.
Lands sakes, they rode their bikes down your private road, right in front of god and everyone? Well I never! I hope you sent the butler out there to shoo them away so their little urchin faces didn’t begin to drive your property values down.
You take children to Maui most years?
Depends on if they have been taught any manners. There have been little bitty kids of 4? that have been no problem, and there have been teens who have broken things. It’s not particularly surprising that the latter sort (of all ages) are the ones that tend to be abandoned by their parents, to be supervised by whoever happens to be around.
Some are and it doesn’t make any difference. However, the subject was why the casinos built the pools, not whether or not any children are allowed in them.
:rolleyes: Lord you have an interesting out look on life. If nothing else, adults-only resorts are much more expensive than driving out to Vegas for a weekend. And, the subject was hotel room costs - staying in a casino is usually three times the cost of, say, a Motel 6 or Super 8. Those are cheap.
Apparently you are the one that doesn’t know what backpedaling is, since you just did it again. I even quoted what you said - "“constantly surrounded by nasty people because she is constantly nasty to them” - and now you are trying to pretend that just meant children and/or parents. Which isn’t true either, but that isn’t the subject. If nothing else, if you looked at my posts at all you would see that even in here I am not "“constantly surrounded by nasty people because she is constantly nasty to them”. It is your bias that makes you think I must be nasty to everyone, when it is only bratty children and entitled parents I have a problem with. Which I’ve said many times, which you choose to ignore.
You took that as an insult? Huh.
Yup, right over the flowers in the bed next to the parking area, on their way to harass the birds and the dogs. That’s how I knew they were out there, when the birds and dogs went ballistic.
And even if they just rode down the road, what the hell right do they have to be riding their bikes a couple of acres into our private property? This is the part I don’t get about folks like you, that you see no problem with kids just doing whatever they want, including trespass, destruction of public and private property, and violation of the noise laws. Someone said that if I don’t want to have to listen to hours of screaming into very late at night, I should move into the country, and I am here to tell you, that doesn’t work. We finally had to put up a three strand electric fence to keep out the kids that thought our place was their private petting zoo.
If people don’t want to parent and monitor their kids, they shouldn’t have had them.