Some people need to get a serious grip on themselves

sbsquarepants · 20-12-2016 01:36PM

SarahS2013 wrote: »

More worringly....is she suggesting she's going to use her child in a buggy as a battering ram?!

Those bugaboos are built to last

ollaetta · 20-12-2016 01:43PM

Big Bag of Chips wrote: »

Yeah..... But this was a Bugaboo. Different rules apply. She shouldn't be lumped in with "regular" buggy users. It's ok that other buggies be left outside.

But this was a Bugaboo.

Never heard of the yokes so I googled it. The makers describe themselves as "mobility concept creators". Oh dear.

lawred2 · 20-12-2016 02:26PM

SarahS2013 wrote: »

Reminds me of a letter I received recently(attached). Self-righteouness at it's finest.

For some background:

We live essentially down a laneway with mews type houses on either side of the road.

If all cars who lived both sides of the road parked all 4 wheels on the road, you wouldn't get a push bike down the middle of the road, never mind be able to drive down it.

You'd swear she had to divert onto the M50 :rolleyes:

I fully respect that cars can sometimes get in the way of pedestrians unnecessarily; but if we had the space to stay off the path we would. In this case, it is physically impossible!

More worringly....is she suggesting she's going to use her child in a buggy as a battering ram?!

seems fair enough really - and not remotely comparable to the story in the OP

public footpath is not a place for cars

Randle P. McMurphy · 20-12-2016 02:41PM

Cut the woman some slack guys. At the busiest time of year for traffic, she drove up from Co. Kildare with a 10 month old baby to see a choir service. That alone tells you she has some kind of mental problem. The indo should be ashamed of themselves for exploiting this obviously sick woman.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 20-12-2016 04:50PM

Excuse my language but how the fcuk did this complete ****e nonsense non-story get into the papers? No doubt she'll be looking for compensation next.

cruais · 20-12-2016 04:53PM

This my friends is a classic case of 1st world problems

20-12-2016 04:54PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Imagine the horror, being expected to carry your own child, and leave your precious bugaboo unattended. The therapy that will be needed to get over that!

Or the even greater horror of being stuck beside a little darling howling it's head off at a social event? Well done organisers!

Special Circumstances · 20-12-2016 04:59PM

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Excuse my language but how the fcuk did this complete ****e nonsense non-story get into the papers? No doubt she'll be looking for compensation next.

Maybe there's something deeper at play here, or maybe some in-joke between the major papers in Ireland?

Irish Times publishes a piece wishing (as many posters on here do) that people would stop using the term snowflake to describe snowflakey behaviour:
http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/is-anybody-else-getting-sick-of-the-term-snowflake-i-know-i-am-1.2898228

Generation snowflake, snowflake girls, infantilised youth, privileged adult children – the list of derogatory generalisations of our nation’s youth in today’s media continues. Anybody else getting sick of it? I know I sure am.

Indo publishes a piece demonstrating just how snowflakiness is rampant?

Irish times responds by finding a way to place trump in the cab of the lorry in Berlin? OK, a step too far even for them maybe.

learn_more · 20-12-2016 10:22PM

Bringing a 10 month old into a choir service. Wow..

Sure she is right she's being discriminated against. Only things is, it's deserved.

Some people need to get a serious grip on themselves

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