Baby screaming in restaurant

jimgoose

LexieOnRale wrote: »

And to be fair there are plenty of parents who think their child is the centre of the universe and everyone else should be in awe of their bad behaviour - or is that self expression and spirited?

I've seen plenty of examples of naughty brats and disgusted parents with people not bowled over by how "cute" bad behaviour is

People tend to be blind to the sometimes poor behaviour of their own smallies, and this is evolutionarily necessary or else no-one but the hardened sado-masochists among us would bother with the whole rigmarole at all. Some kids have lungs on them like a fog-signal, whether they're happy or sad, and I suppose I'd rather listen to a content, entertained foghorn than otherwise. I think what bothers us at least as much as the physical noise, on some subconscious level, is the idea that the child might be distressed or in pain.

thattequilagirl

Basically, the dad and his kid would have been adorable at the park, in the playground, in a ball pit, in their home or basically anywhere you go where kids being loud is expected.

If I'm on my lunch break, I don't want to hear it. Well, actually, there are days when I might laugh along. But most days I'd think the dad was inconsiderate. Just like I'd think someone being loud and obnoxious on their phone is inconsiderate.

esforum

darkpagandeath wrote: »

What are you on about, You made the ridiculous comment about management not being able to move you. They have the right to do what they like bar breaking the law.

Read your own statements, you said management can kick you out if they want. I replied saying no, they cant just willy nilly refuse people and your reply was that I had to prove it but I wasnt allowed use any of the 9 parts of discrimination.

Had you made that distinction by saying "Management can refuse you within reason" then there would have been no issue butn your didnt.

Just like you tried to say that a child cant act in a manner that you cant by stating that if YOU slept in a restaurant you would be removed

using an adult as an example to justify your arguement against a child, now thats ridiculous

darkpagandeath

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Nothing to do with chill out. The farther is the one to blame not the child. Manners are manners. Your child is not the centre of the universe to others.

I think this thread needs a good dose of chill out.

Everyone is getting unbelievably wound up and for what? An loud baby in a restaurant? A father who may or may not have been acting badly?

Surely this is a tiny inconsequential event in the grand scheme of things.

catbear

Deleted User wrote: »

I think this thread needs a good dose of chill out.

Everyone is getting unbelievably wound up and for what? An loud baby in a restaurant? A father who may or may not have been acting badly?

Surely this is a tiny inconsequential event in the grand scheme of things.

Are you advocating that children be encouraged to be needlessly loud?

Do you really despise everyone else that much?

jimgoose

catbear wrote: »

Are you advocating that children be encouraged to be needlessly loud?

Do you really despise everyone else that much?

I got a belt of a low-flying Strawman in the chipper last week - I got the hell out of there quare lively before things went all Reductio ad Hitlerum! :pac:

rhabarbarum

Jesus this thread is out of control. As someone up there said, loud noise of any kind is expected in any kinds of parks and open café’s. In closed spaces it tends to reverberate and cause more far more distress. But really, situations like these are easily diffused with a bit of polite talking.

One eyed Jack

catbear wrote: »

Are you advocating that children be encouraged to be needlessly loud?

Do you really despise everyone else that much?

Of course, that's exactly what she's saying. That's how I picked it up too. When Persepoly was saying everyone needed to chill out, she was really saying that children should be encouraged to be needlessly loud :rolleyes:


I'm really starting to wonder how people have such difficulty with the english language.

catbear

catbear wrote: »

Are you advocating that children be encouraged to be needlessly loud?

Do you really despise everyone else that much?

Now. I wasn't clear in my opinion. I do believe the father was displaying disregard for the other people there if he was continuously winding his child up to the point of loud screeching laughter.

However the point I was trying, clumsily, to make was that perhaps some posters need to take a step back, remind themselves that these things happen all of the time, there will always be those unaware of others, and that this is just an internet forum. Opinions abound left right and centre.

Just like yours where you ask if I despise everyone. I don't and didn't mention anywhere that I did. After that I couldn't bothered getting all wound up and irritated over your comment.
Life is to short.

Alf Veedersane

catbear wrote: »

Are you advocating that children be encouraged to be needlessly loud?

Do you really despise everyone else that much?

Yes, in the same way you're advocating that children have cloths shoved down their throats in restaurants/cafes (*chloroform optional*) because you despise children.

KERSPLAT!

Closed for review. Probably won't be reopened considering where we're at