I still want to OP to tell us who he’s pitting. Who is Cc and why can’t he type out the full username?
My preferred method is watch scenes from The Phantom Menace, accompanied by the background noise of a monstrous machine running without oil.
I don’t really care what the rest of society thinks. I mind my own business, and when someone allows their toddler to scream and throw things in a public place, I tell them how annoying and inconsiderate they are for not taking it outside. If there seem to be extenuating circumstances (child is sick, very long lines, etc.) I’m likely to keep quiet for a while longer. And don’t even get me started on those preggo parking spaces. Pregnant is not equal to handicapped. This is why I no longer shop at BestBuy.
A pleasure. But the page does say
FWIW, while I really enjoy kids, I’ve got nothing against people who don’t like 'em. I kinda think of it like I think of my insane needle phobia. Yes, it’s YOUR choice to get the flu shot, but that doesn’t mean the burden is on you to make sure I’m not inconvenienced by it. Rather, it’s incumbent on me to recognize that our society places a value on prevention of the flu and holds public flu clinics that inconvenience me, and if I’m worried that I’ll pass out and have another concussiont that requires another ambulance trip, it’s my job, not yours, to make sure I don’t encounter the flu shot clinic. And I might gripe a little when virtually every scene involving a hypodermic in a movie or TV show is traumatic and stressful and definitely not phobia-soothing, but I’d never dream of seriously blaming directors for my loopiness.
My loopiness, my problem. Your dislike of children is your loopiness, it’s your problem.
However, when some chucklehead at Flumist decides to package their non-injected vaccine in something that looks very much like a hypodermic, and I find out under traumatic circumstances, I’ll get a little irritated. Flu vaccines are the equivalent of whiny children at a supermarket, but this obnoxious packaging decision is a child snatching groceries from my cart and throwing them at me while their parents stand by passively. That goes beyond just my loopiness and into a seriously poor decision.
Okay, bad analogy over!
Awesome; society reciprocates!
I read your post 3 times. And sorry, I’m not understanding. A poor decision on whose part? And who is the one being inconvenienced?
I’m with** LHoD** on this one. My intentionally childless boss used to (good naturedy) complain that our employer subsidized (my) children and people with children. To which I finally replied “Yes, that’s so there will be America in fifty years”
Whoops, I thought they meant the last section. My stupid streak strikes again!
Thank you, Jettboy. Your post has found it’s target, and I feel special. I guess I haven’t mentioned it on the board before, but I am pretty much* the guy you defined, and proud of it. I’ve often thought about Pitting “Kids”, but knowing it would only turn into a Pit about my OP, I have to thank you for offering me this opportunity to share my internet-hate in the proper forum.
I’d be thrilled if kids would just evaporate right now. Please keep your filthy brats away from me. Virtually without exception, they’re loud, stupid, smelly, sticky, mean, and in the way. I have no qualms about telling any mother this truth. Most of them do not argue. In fact, they’ll tell it right back to me, and even more sincerely from experience.
And almost worse than Kids … Parents! Somehow almost *everyone *is a shitty parent and still think they’re god’s gift to parenting. Half my hate for Kids comes from things stupid Parents do because of them.
And I have to say the whole tax situation bugs me. There should be no rewards for procreation. Especially since in the abstract, it’s my money rewarding your crotchfruit.
*short of actually wishing to harm people in any real way
**special vocabulary thanks to the SDMB!
Right. Are children like flu clinics? Or like flu shots? Or are they like concussions?
Children are like parasites.
Hum, sorry, but your analogy doesn’t work. You get the flu shot you hate because hopefully after it you won’t get the flu. I go to the dentist I loathe because hopefully it’ll keep my sinus infections in check for a few years. We both gain something from dealing with out loopy.
But what do I gain for tolerating little Timmy’s throwing spitballs at me for the entire trip and fighting the urge to curb stomp little Timmy ? A spiking blood pressure, that’s what. Hell, what does *anyone *gain from letting little Timmy do the annoying brat thing ? If anything, expecting people to suck it up and STFU when a toddler behaves like a pint-sized drunkard is counterproductive, as it teaches said toddler it’s OK to.
And FTR, disliking annoying brats, or mere loud children ? Not loopy.
My God. What if someone posted a message stating that they hated puppies or kittens?
How can you hate or dislike small beings of our own kind? I’m seriously flabbergasted by the thought. Kids are our future and I love all of them: especially my own!
The lack of clarity is mine.
FluMist is a product that in part serves the market of us needlephobes who want to be responsible. When I talk about the ambulance, I’m not kidding: last year I realized that my loopy phobia was literally life-threatening to me. I really don’t like getting shots. My phobia gets triggered in ways I can’t predict.
So if I were the marketing folks at FluMist, I’d make the packaging look like, I dunno, Winnie the Pooh. Or like a bottle of nasal spray. Or like, I dunno, Mother Theresa. I’d make it look like anything EXCEPT like a syringe.
But they make it look like a syringe. And when I first saw it, already nervous from all the needles around me, my phobia hit the jackpot, I hit the floor, and the blood was a-flowin. It sucked.
Not that FluMist is liable in any legal sense–but I really think it was a poor decision on their part to make their medicine look like the thing many of its users are trying to avoid, and I’d say that $1800 in medical bills counts as an inconvenience.
Ok, I am actually pretty confuzzled here. I understand the flu vaccine analogy, but you can always go to the supermarked on a day when you know they won’t be there. I can’t go when I know there will be no children there, because that’s never. Also, you are one individual in what is probably a very small part of the population. By giving out flu vaccines, they are probably only freaking out one or two people. Children screaming are annoying to pretty much everybody in the whole store. Not an accurate comparison.
Wrong idea. I’m not talking about the flu clinic I attend: I’m talking about the one at the grocery store that I’m shopping at, the flu clinic I’m NOT attending. That one doesn’t do me any good, any more than your child does me any good.
And Peanut Gallery, I have a great technique to help you deal with the terrible unfair situation you find yourself in.
I’m pretty sure he means Curlcoat.
It’s not the best analogy in the world. I’m trying to find some way, any way, I can relate to your incredibly self-absorbed viewpoint–that because you find something annoying, all society must reshape itself to you.
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.
You don’t give a shit what society thinks, you say, and that’s great, because society doesn’t really give a shit what you think. Those kids are gonna keep on intermittently screaming at the store, and those parents aren’t always gonna take them out, and most of us understand.
(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.)
OK, that must be an American thing I don’t get. Are there public needlings going on in your supermarkets ?