The fuck are you on about? I never came to such a conclusion. Holy non sequitur. I also didn’t draw the conclusion that you point sniper rifles at random puppies, or pollute the oceans with your evil brand of PCPs. I’m not going to award you a medal for your massive forbearance in not approaching random kids to shout at them for doing nothing that affects you; I maintain that you’ve got a serious character flaw in your hatred of a group of people for an accident of birth (as you originally claimed), OR that you have a serious character flaw in hating an entire class of people if they try to interact with you, regardless of the nature of that interaction.
I don’t require you to like children, Jehovah’s witnesses, or anybody. I just say that hating them is absurd, stupid, and a flaw in your character.
But one character flaw does not a bad person make. You can’t take the only thing you know about a stranger a thousand miles from you, decide it’s negative, and come to the conclusion that based on that one piece of knowledge that they aren’t a decent human being. Why the hatred for the child haters? That’s why I came into this thread in the first place. I’m not gaybashing, I’m not stopping them from drinking at public waterfountans, I’m just going through life and minding my own business unless they provoke me. The OP asserts that I’m a terrible person and since I choose not to have kids, that I have a less fulfilling life. That is bullshit. What about the infertile, are they bad people too?
You know, if you had actually read all of my posts in this thread you never would have suggested some sort of idiotic time line involving McDonalds or IHOP before my kid is deemed worthy of eating somewhere you might be. I have continually said that I am extremely concientious, especially when it comes to my child’s behavior. I have never allowed him to become more than the most momentary disturbance, have only eaten with him in establishments that provide high chairs (indicating that he is welcome), and encourage him to eat the foods that I eat, rather than expecting the chef to devise a special “childrens” meal.
Also, how is it that so many people in this thread are claiming some extreme physiological reaction to minor irritations. Seriously, you are pulling out packets of painkillers, your best friend is falling over from migraines and CCL up there completely understands shaking children to death. If you are all hanging in such a delicate balance perhaps you should try dinner parties or therapy.
I probably have read all of your posts. However, I usually don’t make notes of which poster said what during a thread which spans nine pages (right now), unless I’m doing mod work. I don’t remember, and can’t be bothered, to see if I responded to YOU with the timeline, or to another poster, or was just giving out general child-rearing advice. This thread has been going on for three days now, and I only read the latest posts, I don’t reread the entire thread every single time.
Yes, I do suffer from migraines on occasion. So does my best friend. My painkillers are generally just aspirin or ibuprofen or naproxen sodium, though. I don’t take or carry anything stronger when I’m out in public, unless someone else is driving. I carry the painkillers because I have arthritis and neuropathy, among other problems. Do you want my entire medical history, or just my current problems? My allergies? Just medication allergies, or do you want to know everything?
If you’ve never had to share dining space with an obnoxious, screeching brat then I congratulate and envy you. I’ve found them even in the best restaurants.
For the record, my therapist has pronounced me well-adjusted, and if I have any further problems with my medications, I should start seeing him again. I started seeing him because the meds I was taking at the time were losing their effectiveness on me.
Brags? People were asking for examples, and I offered myself. Is it bragging to give them what they want? If it hadn’t been me, it would have been somebody else. And where the hell is the OP anyway?
Tell me about this napraxen sodium and how it helps your migraines, please. I’ve never heard of it and anything that helps migraines gets my attention.
Because you feel the need to loudly and prolifically proclaim your irrational, moronic hatred. Just like I don’t want to hear some racist or gay-basher spewing venom, even if said dipshit doesn’t run up to gays and tell them the lord gives her migraines when she sees a sodomite.
No. You are a terrible person who has a less fulfilling life because you apparently can’t understand what anyone else is saying. The OP said the childless, by choice, who won’t shut up about it.
You probably know it as “Aleve”, it’s an NSAID, it’s available over the counter in the US, and it helps my arthritis. It is effective on regular headaches and some other pains, but doesn’t really help with my migraines. Do not take this medicine with other NSAIDs, like aspirin or ibuprofen. Also, pay careful attention to the dosage…the kind I take says to take one, followed by another one after an hour or so if the first one didn’t give enough relief, and then not more than one other pill in 24 hours. In other words, no more than three pills in 24 hours.
I’ve had a couple of doctors try to give me Vicodin for migraines, but my body lacks the enzyme to process it properly. The doctors say that Vicodin will at least let the migraine sufferer sleep off the migraine. Maybe your doctor will give you a prescription for Vicodin, if it works for you. Some people say that their doctors are stingy with the stuff, but my doctors are always very willing to prescribe it for me. I guess that’s the way the world works.
The most effective way for me to get over my migraines is to eat a light meal, soup or something, and then lie down in a cool dark QUIET room with an ice pack on my head. I have blackout drapes in my bedroom, and I have turned off the ringer on the bedroom phone permanently. If I’m hungry, it seems to make the pain worse. If I’m too full, it also seems to make the pain worse.
And you apparently can’t understand what I am saying: There are no people who hate children and are childless by choice who never shut up about it. I’ve never met anybody who talks constantly about something they hate. If I hate something, I put it out of my mind. Dude, look at my post count. I am a lurker. I think I’ve posted about my dislike for children maaaybe once before this thread. Go search, and find the thousand threads you think I must have started about how evil children are and how much I hate them. Go on. You’ll find that you haven’t got a leg to stand on. I stay shut up about it 99% of the time.
You won’t show the same kindness that was shown to you when you were a child, on the grounds that it would be “entertaining” them, and hence a job. You won’t talk to kids, won’t look at them, go out of your way to avoid them. You expend so much energy putting up a barrier that you can’t enjoy being inside it. If you’d just relax when kids are around, you wouldn’t hate their presence so much.
You’re the one who boasted upthread about kicking children, no? You’re the one who jumped into the spotlight and proclaimed yourself a childhater, no? You’ve projected a certain smugness about hating children all through the thread. So, yes, you bragged.
Not only that, but she cannot differentiate between disliking occasional behaviors and HATING children. Were she able to muster that much understanding of the world around her, this thread would be full of people who’d agree with her.
Lemmie get this straight. You suffer from “blinding headaches” as a result of what - kids laughing and screeching? And when you go to McDonalds’ of all places you expect everyone to accomodate you, and keep their kids from making noise, so you can enjoy your happy meal in peace and quiet - and when they don’t, you hate them for it? That’s what I’m reading from your example of ‘good kid’s behaviour’ above.
If some old person complained that my kids’ laughter was giving her a headache in McDonald’s, I’d definitely quiet them - but I’d also be wondering what the hell she was thinking.
I’d say that the child-shakers and child-haters sharing screeching as a trigger serves only to illustrate that they have more in common with each other than with people who are not defective.
