It’s par for the course for bigots of every type.
NEITHER of you will tell us your age; we have no idea what generation EITHER of you are in.
Ed
HA - so much fail.
Hubby is even less patient with children than I am. No way he would ever want one in the house.
Shallow men go run off after young pretty thangs. Perhaps you only know shallow men - I don’t put up with them.
If you bother to look at my posting times, you would see I hardly sit all day. As for bitching, the husband doesn’t give me much reason to do that. So I don’t.
My over-the-top responses? :rolleyes:
Uh, no. I don’t know about you, but I tend to learn from my mistakes. I called about the screaming pool party exactly once. Which is also the number of times I have called the police about children at all.
Which, again, has nothing to do with what I posted.
I didn’t assume anything. I wasn’t even referring to you, I was actually thinking about my neighbours dogs who don’t sleep outside, they stay awake. All night. And they bark. All the fucking time.
I think it’s you who is assuming here.
On the contrary. 
You are pretty obviously looking for ammunition to support a pre-existing hatred. Exactly how many people here are “defend[ing] children screaming & running amok”?
What people are saying is that you and those like you are exaggerating the incidence of this.
You are doing what all bigots do - taking an example of the hated group’s alleged “offence” and assuming it is characteristic and commonplace - and anyone who denies it is “defending” these offenders.
Well, lets see…
Post #45 is a start. #76 is also a good beginning. #99 is pretty much spot on - “Yes, most of us find a child screaming at the store tobe annoying. The difference is that most of us understand that this is one of those things that happens over the course of civilizing an uncivilized beast, and that said civilizing is a fundamental (though not universal) part of being human, and that it’s not always plausible for the parent to leave the store immediately with said screamer.” I love how you try to soften this by saying - “(Again, I draw a distinction between this and truly over-the-top behavior that needs an immediate stop due to something more than the minor inconvenience of hearing an unpleasant sound.)” as if you have the sole right to decide what is over-the-top and what is a minor inconvenience.
What else? Let’s look more recently. There is #251, where Kalhoun indicates that standing in line for 10 minutes with a misbehaving child is something everyone should put up with. There is #300 where RickJay wants to know how one socializes a child without inflicting it on the general public. Then there is #480, where Kalhoun tells me that since there is no “childfree zone” sign on the door of a store, it’s OK to inflict screaming children on the patrons within, because gosh, “Parents are entitled to carry out their daily tasks even if it hurts your ears for a while”.
All from a random sample of pages in this thread. And now, I must sign off for awhile and go be useful. Bye!
Okay, you’re insane, and I need to remember that and quit coming back to this thread.
Really? **Kalhoun **stated that parents shouldn’t have to remove their screaming kids from a grocery store, and implied that I was an immature child for complaining about having to stand behind a screamy kid in a store. I’m sure I could go back and find more examples, but I don’t care that much.
Well, if their kids are just playing on their own property during the day you have no reasonable complaint anyway, unless they’re setting off firecrackers or some such thing.
See examples in previous post. Those are only a few that I found by looking thru random pages of just this thread.
Any word on how that worked out?
Just kidding, I don’t care…
In the GD you repeatedly refused to acknowledge that your husband is more important than your pets, although you would save him if you had to choose between him and the pets (???), so, yes, your pets are an ersatz for humans.
buttonjockey308, the following statements speak for themselves:
On this:
Hypothetically speaking, as it never happened to me, but as others said here: if my child continues to cry, I will not leave my full caddy in the supermarket and leave. I will continue my shopping. I “accept” that you are not happy with it, but that’s it. What shall I say, shit happens :dubious: So, all these people telling me that I MUST do this and that … yada yada yada … well, there is no way you can make it happen.
Nowadays kids respect people they look up to, and IMHO that is as it should be. In the “old days” kids were afraid of roles (police, teachers), whether the person in the role earned that respect or not.
And, where I live, kids still respect the police. They don’t really have a choice …
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You’re so cute when you continue to make incorrect assumptions. Particularly when you keep changing the generation you grew up in.
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First, stop patronizing me. Cute is for children.
Second, show me where I changed anything about my generation.
For the record, and because I’m getting very tired of you ducking and dodging what I’ve said, I’m 53. Not exactly news, I’ve posted my birth year here before. If you’re going through menopause, I’d guess we’re not too far apart. As I said before, unless you’re unusually early with it.
Several generations? Again, show me where.
Uh, if I would save him if I had to choose between him and the pets, doesn’t that indicate he is more important to me? Of course he is. :rolleyes:
(Not that I really remember that thread, nor do I go digging around looking for way to try to trip folks up…)
When you do, I shall.
When I pointed it out, you said something along the lines of you were just listing a bunch of bad things of the past and didn’t mean it to come across as from just one generation.
As I told someone else upthread, I wasn’t going to tell you my age because I figured you would change yours to match - no, I don’t trust people that tell me I’m full of bullshit, wonder why? Tho, why am I the one “ducking and dodging” when you were doing the same thing?
I’m sorry that I don’t keep close enough track of your posts to be able to memorize details, but, I don’t. You are older than I am.
Now that is out of the way - so what?
That’s hilarious. You think kids of YOUR generation were better raised than this one?
Kids of your generation were shitty as all hell. Go on, tell us another one.
Well, apparently this does not indicate that he is more important, as you say in this posting