What gives you the idea I’m retired?
Well, for one thing, a span of 29 years is hardly the “same generation”. For another, I didn’t say that children were not taken out in public until they were in their tween years. If I remember correctly, the thing I said that you have overreacted to is “seen but not heard”.
Snort. Everything about then was bad, eh? Kind of amusing that you have mixed together several “back thens”.
Ah. My belief that children should be taught manners before being inflicted on the general public translates into a complete disconnet from reality? Wow.
And?
I hate to break it to you, but most folks who had crap for a childhood go on to have children of their own. The two are not connected, particularly in my case.
I know you won’t bother, because it will show you as being dead wrong, but do try to find a post where I claimed “roving hoards”.
No, but doing that sort of thing over and over is reaching for exaggeration. As you have done in this post for example.
Nope, as a matter of fact I’ve laughed out loud at several of your posts!
So, I am trying to get your view. Children should be seen and not heard, women, unless they work a “pink collar” job should not be heard. Just you, right? You are old and annoyed. OK, we get it. You do know that places exist for retired persons with no children, right? At the very least, it gives you something to bitch about.
Ok, wtf is a pink collar job?
It was a saying used to indicate how children should act in public situations, not with their families. I realize this is an odd idea for those who think that children shouldn’t display manners in public.
Business owners ban service dogs against the law all the time, yet they rarely toss screaming children and the only ones that outright ban them are bars and the like. Which parents still try to take their kids into.
Uh, because I never said that?
Are you not paying attention, unable to follow posts or just trying to muddy the waters? That story was posted as an example of people trying to boot a guide dog just because they don’t like the presence of the dog. The “complaining” woman had the police called on her not because she wanted the guide dog out of there but because she threatened an office worker. How would it have played out if the “complainer” had acted in a “reasonable” fashion? It would depend on if the staff knew the laws and had the backbone to follow them. Fortunately for the blind woman, that decision was taken from them by the threat of bodily harm.
Of course, that wasn’t the only thing I posted about access problems, but you knew that didn’t you?
A majority isn’t everyone - you know that don’t you? And despite that majority, dog owners have extremely few rights.
Ask curlcoat. I assume that is code for I was a sexretary–but if I could have been given a chance I would have been the big boss…
Oh, gotcha.
At an old job we kicked a couple of kids out for breaking things. Their parents were outraged, but the other customers were appreciative.
We were also informed that the local laws required us to allow service dogs in the store, but the owners told us to toss them out anyway because they didn’t want to offend the other customers. We never did it though–service dogs, IMO, deserve a lot of respect. I tossed out a couple of teenagers with chihuahuas in purses though. Prissy bitches.
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It probably is, it’s just a catchall word. If I were to spend time thinking about it, I’d probably say I don’t hate the actual children because hate implies an emotional connection. Which I don’t have for them. I do hate pretty much everything that comes out of children, because I do have an emotional connection to my own quality of life.
Children seem to be the only thing that is universally forced upon everyone, especially in the last 10-15 years when it became fashionable to take them everywhere. They are used to sell all sorts of things, even things that have nothing to do with children. They have tons of taxes devoted to them and then tons of charities on top of that. The lives of women tend to be valued on whether or not they have reproduced and adults in general tend to be considered lesser - all you have to do is look at a story about some disaster. “Mother of four dies” - nothing else about her at all. “Twelve die, including four children” - the other eight are apparently not worthy of note. People call those who are at all realistic about the way children are all kinds of interesting names. Is it any wonder that those who were not born with the gene to go ga-ga over babies start to feel hate towards children? God forbid we try to do anything to push back.
Did you notice that of the two childfree housing links, one was about a place in Scotland and the other link didn’t work? Even seniors only housing isn’t childfree.
Wow. The guy/gal thanks you for a link and you go off? Tell us again about who it is that is recreating realities?
Actually, it is either that you are clueless or you are just throwing punches from the corner you have backed yourself into. So, unless you get interesting again I’ll be skipping over your posts.
What I notice is that there are not too many places for people who feel the way you do. If it were the case, I would figure that you could find a child free community. The fact that you will not travel to Scotland or find another child free place in the US tells me that you do not hold this particular issue near and dear to your heart–you just want to bitch.
Maybe she’s like one of the Phelpses, who continue to live here to spread the word that God Hates America. In any case, most people can’t just afford to pick up and leave because they don’t like something. Would that I could move away from my crappy dog-hating neighbors, but I own my house so I can’t just pack up and disappear.
Just to be clear, you now hate children and gay people?
That guy/gal comment is uncalled for.
Its an office job that is mostly done by women - perhaps it is a local saying.
Good lord you are a twit. Yeah, sure just pick up and move to another country, that would certainly not be a problem! :rolleyes:
As for a childfree place to live in the US, as I said that link didn’t work so I still haven’t seen that they exist.
It is my opinion, and my actions that support this: If you choose to own a dog that may be considered vicious, we will have to be extra vigilant. Sometimes we will have to defend our ownership of such critters. It’s kinda like I have to defend having my kid with me when I am out to dinner. He hasn’t done anything wrong but people think he might…so they get preemtively angry.