RL peeves! >< @$!#
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Once again, motherfucking kids and motherfucking parents who can't or won't keep them in check. Letting your kid flail about in his seat at the movie theater, kicking his legs around while sitting hunched back in his chair so they're flailing about at head level, is goddamn retarded. If you can't stop something like that, get the fuck out. And if you're not going to get the fuck out, die in a goddamn fire if you give me or anybody else attitude when we point it out to the ushers and they ask you to get the fuck out themselves.
Jesus. If I'd done some shit like that my mother would have dragged me out and not let me back into a theater till I was old enough to drive myself home. >_<
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It's possible @HelloRaptor, that the child had some sort of special need that might have made it difficult for the parent to contain that sort of behavior. If so I'm not really going to stand behind a "don't bring them to the movie theatre" attitude. Parents of special-needs children often get stuck at home, isolated, and very little help because their "problem children" receive responses like "you need to get your child in line" or "that child just needs to be whooped".
Of course we want to be considerate of everyone, so if that were the case she probably should have found a spot to sit where they wouldn't have bothered anyone else (too much). Such as in the last row, or at one of the outside rows, etc.
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@Cobaltasaurus True, but there are daytime showings and early showings and movies that have been out awhile with few people in attendance. Besides, that doesn't sound like a kid having fun anyhow.
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@Cobaltasaurus
While I'm certainly sympathetic to your point, if the kid was kicking somebody in the head, that's a massive parenting problem regardless of the conditions involved. I would advocate for keeping that particular child home, if they genuinely cannot help but kick people in the head. Maybe that makes me a bad person, but there has got to be a point where tolerance stops. Generally I would think that would be a bit before the point where someone is getting kicked in the head.
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@Cobaltasaurus said:
It's possible @HelloRaptor, that the child had some sort of special need that might have made it difficult for the parent to contain that sort of behavior. If so I'm not really going to stand behind a "don't bring them to the movie theatre" attitude. Parents of special-needs children often get stuck at home, isolated, and very little help because their "problem children" receive responses like "you need to get your child in line" or "that child just needs to be whooped".
Of course we want to be considerate of everyone, so if that were the case she probably should have found a spot to sit where they wouldn't have bothered anyone else (too much). Such as in the last row, or at one of the outside rows, etc.
Yeah, this was third row back, just off center. On the opening weekend. And there sure as fuck were seats open towards the back. And it's a theater where you pick your seats out when you buy tickets, so it was about as deliberate a positioning as you can get. All of which adds up to me being okay with being the monster who tells the prents with the special needs kid to gtfo, I guess.
That's assuming that's even what it was, and given how many parents I've seen just let their kids do whatever they want (up to and including just running around in the aisles between the seats all across the theater) it's just as likely that they're just assholes.
if the kid was kicking somebody in the head,
To clarify, I didn't mean kicking people IN the head, just that the way they were slumped down (head low, hips forward) they were kicking their feet around at head level, which put them right in line of sight or peripheral vision. The rows are far enough apart in this particular theater that nobody's head was really in danger, except maybe their parents. But a lot of thrashing motion in front of you (or out of the corner of your eye) while you're trying to watch a movie is just aggravating as fuck and not at all cool to just let go on for nearly half an hour, on and off.
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"One more question."
Do not ever say this to someone you respect. Do not ever say this to someone you don't know. Do not ever say this.
It is a lie. What this means is, "I have already monopolized your time and I am deflecting any guilt I have over it."
Or your name is Columbo and you are dropping the bomb.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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I don't have guilt asking a question, one more question, or anything. You aren't my cricket.
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@Thenomain said:
"One more question."
Do not ever say this to someone you respect. Do not ever say this to someone you don't know. Do not ever say this.
It is a lie. What this means is, "I have already monopolized your time and I am deflecting any guilt I have over it."
Or your name is Columbo and you are dropping the bomb.
One more question...
Or you are anyone about to WTFPWN you in some fashion...
One more question... When did you become such a fucking douche!?
BOOOOM! Its almost better (in a douche like fashion) than furthermore...
FURTHERMORE, your face.
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But what if I had one more question and wanted to let you know so that you know escape is nigh?
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@HelloRaptor said:
if the kid was kicking somebody in the head,
Dude, I didn't say anything, man.
That said, I concur with the point that parents ought to manage their kids when they are in public. I concur with @Cobaltasaurus that special-needs kids should get more of a pass on bad behavior, but also agree that there were ways to accommodate that child, if he had special needs, that the parent should have explored.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@Ganymede said:
@HelloRaptor said:
if the kid was kicking somebody in the head,
Dude, I didn't say anything, man.
That said, I concur with the point that parents ought to manage their kids when they are in public. I concur with @Cobaltasaurus that special-needs kids should get more of a pass on bad behavior, but also agree that there were ways to accommodate that child, if he had special needs, that the parent should have explored.
Like a babysitter. If mom and dad need to get out that damn badly, this is the perfect option. No kid, fun times, nobody suffers.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@Ganymede
Shit, sorry. I'm on so little sleep right now. Not sure how I did that. -
I used to think that way until I got kids on my own. It's not always that simple.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@Ganymede said:
I used to think that way until I got kids on my own. It's not always that simple.
Ah. Yes. I do happen to be childless (to my knowledge), so I suppose that I can't directly relate to these circumstances.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@Derp said:
@Ganymede said:
I used to think that way until I got kids on my own. It's not always that simple.
Ah. Yes. I do happen to be childless (to my knowledge), so I suppose that I can't directly relate to these circumstances.
Finding someone to watch your kids when they're "normal" isn't simple, but finding them when they're special needs is even more rough.
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@Derp Don't feel too bad, I have a kid and I'm just as judgy, if not more.
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@Derp said:
@Ganymede said:
I used to think that way until I got kids on my own. It's not always that simple.
Ah. Yes. I do happen to be childless (to my knowledge), so I suppose that I can't directly relate to these circumstances.
I'm not childless. I still maintain that it is that simple. If you need to get away from the kid, get away from the kid. Don't drag the kid with you in the name of getting away from it and thus inflict it on everybody else around you. If your child is such a problem to you that you "need to get away", what the everloving fuck makes you think inflicting that kid on others without pay is right!?
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Based in my one second research, 1 in 6 children have a learning disability. 1 in 68 are somewhere in the Autism spectrum. Does this explain the bad behavior most often cited?
I have a waggish sense of humor.
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@Misadventure Parents and/or the lack of such is the issue. Let the battle begin!
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@Misadventure said:
Based in my one second research, 1 in 6 children have a learning disability.
What is the definition of "learning disability"? I don't consider "having shitty parents" to be a "learning disability."
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
