Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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The worst behaved child* I have ever seen was a boy of about 2-3 at a wedding reception. He simply wouldn't sit in his seat for as much as 10 seconds, he dived under the table and began pulling at Mrs B's dress with his mucky fingers, he ran around shouting.
After a few moments of this, his father (father and mother were - and I swear this is the truth, however unbelievably convenient it sounds - both professors of social work) turned to him and announced:
"Jeremy! that's socially unacceptable behaviour"
The effect was predictably minimal.
*older kids? Well, I taught at a school for bad boys and girls for 18 years...0 -
You're met Pinno's toots then?Ill-behaved kids and their useless touchy-feely parents, especially in places which are not for kids such as showrooms, galleries, pubs.
Feck right off and take your useless parents with you.
And +1
If my toots behave like that, it's game over and home or strapped in to the back seat of the car whilst and if we have something important to sort.
I took mine out of a soft play area twice because they didn't listen or were over boystrous. Once they know that "Please listen/stop doing that now/apologise, or it's straight home" is not a hollow threat, they are far less likely to act up. Permissive parents are breeding a generation of ill disciplined, ill mannered, hedonists who think they can do what they like.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Very true, simple rules work with kids.Permissive parents are breeding a generation of ill disciplined, ill mannered, hedonists who think they can do what they like.
Be consistent. If you say no stick to it. Change your mind once and they will smell weakness for evermore.
Be fair. They know if something isn't right.
Give them fair warning. If you're leaving the playground give them a bit of notice and when it's time to go be firm. They then know what to expect.
Don't let them make you keep repeating yourself. My kids knew that if I had to repeat something a third time there would be trouble.0 -
I am old school discipline although I do draw the line at beating them. Carting them off to their rooms is within limit though.
TDV is washy washy lib dem discipline.
We have some "interesting" conversations about disciplining the bambini.
Very, very luckily the bambini are pretty darn good - ok, they have moments, but generally we can trust them to act pretty spot on.Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
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This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
Bang on.
Very true, simple rules work with kids.Permissive parents are breeding a generation of ill disciplined, ill mannered, hedonists who think they can do what they like.
Be consistent. If you say no stick to it. Change your mind once and they will smell weakness for evermore.
Be fair. They know if something isn't right.
Give them fair warning. If you're leaving the playground give them a bit of notice and when it's time to go be firm. They then know what to expect.
Don't let them make you keep repeating yourself. My kids knew that if I had to repeat something a third time there would be trouble.Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
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I love this:-
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reminds me of a flight several years ago. We'd been up since 5am to get the transfer bus back to the airport, much queuing though the airport and security, and so feeling pretty jaded as well as despondent to being going home.
On the flight were a bunch of tarquins belonging to a large party travelling together and they were all over the place, shouting, playing and wrestling in the aisle. The third time that they jostled into me nearly landing in my lap I asked in a loud voice "Why don't you go and play outside?" They were recalled to their seats amid nasty looks in my direction. Job done.
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
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Brilliant.Ben
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I blame the 'c-word'
Not that c-word, this one.....careful. I hear this said a lot to kids these days.
I was on a UK beach a few years back and was hit in the middle of the back by a stone thrown by a "Tarquin". His mum said...
"If you're throwing stones, be careful"
I have a lamentably short fuse when it comes to f-wits and so asked, quite forthrightly, "Careful? what's wrong with stop?"
She said "If you'd listened, you'd have heard me say stop". "No you didn't", I replied "You told him to be careful, there's a big difference".
She owed you an apology, should have made sure the child wasn't throwing stones in the direction of other people and shouldn't have lied to you, but why should a child stop throwing stones on the beach if it's away from other people and supervised by an adult?0 -
why should a child stop throwing stones on the beach if it's away from other people and supervised by an adult?
No problems with them throwing stones on the beach, except when I form the backstop
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
why should a child stop throwing stones on the beach if it's away from other people and supervised by an adult?
No problems with them throwing stones on the beach, except when I form the backstop
Ah, that's OK, I just thought you were a curmudgeonly git. 0 -
why should a child stop throwing stones on the beach if it's away from other people and supervised by an adult?
No problems with them throwing stones on the beach, except when I form the backstop
Ah, that's OK, I just thought you were a curmudgeonly git.
No. That's me.Ben
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why should a child stop throwing stones on the beach if it's away from other people and supervised by an adult?
No problems with them throwing stones on the beach, except when I form the backstop
Ah, that's OK, I just thought you were a curmudgeonly git.
No. That's me.
I might have known it would be you.0 -
why should a child stop throwing stones on the beach if it's away from other people and supervised by an adult?
No problems with them throwing stones on the beach, except when I form the backstop
Ah, that's OK, I just thought you were a curmudgeonly git.
No. That's me.
I might have known it would be you.
Utter tosh.
He's a ball of joy, happiness and light compared to me.Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
why should a child stop throwing stones on the beach if it's away from other people and supervised by an adult?
No problems with them throwing stones on the beach, except when I form the backstop
Ah, that's OK, I just thought you were a curmudgeonly git.
No. That's me.
I might have known it would be you.
Utter tosh.
He's sane and I am not
FTFYseanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
why should a child stop throwing stones on the beach if it's away from other people and supervised by an adult?
No problems with them throwing stones on the beach, except when I form the backstop
Ah, that's OK, I just thought you were a curmudgeonly git.
No. That's me.
I might have known it would be you.
Utter tosh.
He's sane and I am not
FTFY
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king, and don't you forget that my friend......Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king, and don't you forget that my friend......
I used to be unstable, then they put me on Lithium. I'm happy now, living in a stable.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
No, seriously. It's Matt.Ben
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Far too much smiling and morale around here - cut it out or there will be punishments.
What is it with people being happy anyway? Don't they realize how utterly crappp life generally is?Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
What is it with people being happy anyway? Don't they realize how utterly crappp life generally is?
A huge advantage of having grown up through the 70s and 80s is how nearly everything has improved - it gives you a sunnier outlook on life.Specialized Roubaix Elite 2015
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I did grow up through those eras and generally find that I enjoyed the mid 90 s more than today.Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
mee too... then again, I was at uni in the early to mid 90's rather than working for a living ;-)CS7
Surrey Hills
What's a Zwift?0 -
A huge advantage of having grown up through the 70s and 80s is how nearly everything has improved - it gives you a sunnier outlook on life.
Except music. Modern music sucks0 -
A huge advantage of having grown up through the 70s and 80s is how nearly everything has improved - it gives you a sunnier outlook on life.
Except music. Modern music sucks
Agree 110%.
Society seems to have lost its vim and vigor - I remember growing up with proper student thinking and rebellion, through action writing and music (The Smiths, Bragg, etc).
90 s threw up Britpop, the Bristol sound, YBA, the twaaaat that is BLiar, the end of Toryism as we knew it, massive shifts in Middle Eastern get politics that still cause us ructions today.
Cinema was new and groundbreaking. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs. Late 80s we had John Hughes, trash such as Top Gun that is still utterly utterly wonderful to watch with a beer. Emerging Ron Howard.
People wanted to be new, exciting - make something of themselves. Grafting was not a bad word.
Computers and the 'net were new and unheard of. And you had to talk to people instead of having your face stuffed in a telephone all day texting your BBF.
Today seems to be a series of repercussions caused by the 90s, people not wanting to graft to do well but be a footballer or a WAG. Music is just regeneration of what we had before - there's nothing ground breaking. Art is not exactly radical anymore.
Sport is the same: you're not having Dopestrong/Ullrich/Pantani/Ciapuccie anymore. It's a snooze fest of Froomedog/Wiggins/Contador. Microcosm I know, but apart from that sprinter dude who pulls wheel is (not the dullard Cavendish) no ones really making me laugh/get excited.
Or is it me just being old?
Perhaps it's because it's all been done before and now you're not having the advances that you did - it's just development of what exists.
Discuss.Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
It is true that you get grumpier as you get older, in which case I must be the age of Methuselah.
I think that as you get older you lose that childlike wonder at the world and you just realise that there is an awful lot to be grumpy about.0 -
Oh BTW of course music as deteriorated since the 70s.
Given the choice of hanging my wet bollox over an electric fence and listening to the latest 'music' output, I have to say, it's a close run thing.0 -
Oh BTW of course music as deteriorated since the 70s.
Given the choice of hanging my wet bollox over an electric fence and listening to the latest 'music' output, I have to say, it's a close run thing.
Where do you stand on the choice of listening to the latest music or Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep?Specialized Roubaix Elite 2015
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Dust off your Black Lace LPs and let's party like it's 1978!Oh BTW of course music as deteriorated since the 70s.
Given the choice of hanging my wet bollox over an electric fence and listening to the latest 'music' output, I have to say, it's a close run thing.
Where do you stand on the choice of listening to the latest music or Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep?Ecrasez l’infame0 -
A huge advantage of having grown up through the 70s and 80s is how nearly everything has improved - it gives you a sunnier outlook on life.
Except music. Modern music sucks
Agree 110%.
Society seems to have lost its vim and vigor - I remember growing up with proper student thinking and rebellion, through action writing and music (The Smiths, Bragg, etc).
90 s threw up Britpop, the Bristol sound, YBA, the twaaaat that is BLiar, the end of Toryism as we knew it, massive shifts in Middle Eastern get politics that still cause us ructions today.
Cinema was new and groundbreaking. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs. Late 80s we had John Hughes, trash such as Top Gun that is still utterly utterly wonderful to watch with a beer. Emerging Ron Howard.
People wanted to be new, exciting - make something of themselves. Grafting was not a bad word.
Computers and the 'net were new and unheard of. And you had to talk to people instead of having your face stuffed in a telephone all day texting your BBF.
Today seems to be a series of repercussions caused by the 90s, people not wanting to graft to do well but be a footballer or a WAG. Music is just regeneration of what we had before - there's nothing ground breaking. Art is not exactly radical anymore.
Sport is the same: you're not having Dopestrong/Ullrich/Pantani/Ciapuccie anymore. It's a snooze fest of Froomedog/Wiggins/Contador. Microcosm I know, but apart from that sprinter dude who pulls wheel is (not the dullard Cavendish) no ones really making me laugh/get excited.
Or is it me just being old?
Perhaps it's because it's all been done before and now you're not having the advances that you did - it's just development of what exists.
Discuss.
You're a miserable git.
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You really didn't need the rest.me just being old0
