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To all the fathers, how do yo feel about this?

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  • #32
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Gee_G wrote: »
    I cannot believe that people even entertain this sort Of ****e!!
    kowloon wrote: »
    Not everyone is a Dad, that's why I posed the question. I don't use facebook and only look at imgur for pictures that amuse me, I have no exposure to the issue, if it actually exists. Report my post if it pisses you off so much.

    Ohhhh! handbags at dawn ladies.


  • #33
    DeanAustin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    Absolute crock of **** of a link. It's designed for the attention whores on Facebook.

    If I brought my son to the park and someone made a pedo joke, I'd either laugh it off or confront the idiot. It would never interfere with my relationship with my son.


  • #34
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,187 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Gee_G wrote: »
    I didn't actually mean your post!(I would have quoted it if I did) Probably should have written a bit more :) I just mean the fact that fathers would even be afraid that people are thinking that is crazy! No parent should have to think like that!

    Sorry! I've been on Boards so long I expect to get abuse for starting a thread. :o


  • #35
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    Oh god - I'm still cringing 2 minutes after seeing that imgur pic.
    That was just the most saccharine, cringiest trite I've ever seen.
    Puke.

    I'm not a father. I am a mother though. Never come across, or even heard of anything like this.
    Why would people be making paedo jokes at men anyway if they thought he were actually a paedophile?! Surely they would, you know, call the police or something constructive like that. Unless they were just idiot 12 year old boys - who call everyone a paedo or a homo or whatever, all the time.


  • #36
    Yellow Lobster
    Site Banned Posts: 14 ✭Yellow Lobster


    Joe10000 wrote: »
    I laughed but something tells me you're in for a ban !

    I think the premise on which the story is based is nonsense, i have a baby son and it would never cross my mind to be self conscious. If it was not my child though now thats a different story, i would probably would feel slightly paranoid about the situation and be careful I was being PC with everything especially after today.....

    I was in the petrol station earlier and there was a kid in front of me buying sweets and when they were added up he was 30c short, the kid asked the girl to take one of the items back and I said don't worry about it, I would pay the 30c. In the end the cash girl said don't worry about it and the kid skipped off.

    It was only afterwards that I thought that these days you just can't do that type of thing, I was stupid and should not have said anything.

    Boll1x, if you want to give the 30 cent give the 30 cent. If any accuses you of anything tell them to cop the fukc on.


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  • #37
    CarPark2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭CarPark2


    The original link was BS, but there is a general issue there.
    I was in Brussels a year ago, sitting in the main square on my own, just looking around. There was a child walking around, looking lost, no sign of any parents near it. Brussels is a very international city, and if someone grabs a child and puts them into a car, they could be at the russian border in hours. It is not a place to have a 5-6 year old wandering on their own.
    Anyway, because i was a male on my own i felt powerless to do anything. I looked around and saw a group of girls (late teens to early twenties). I made eye contact with one and asked if she thought the child was OK. She wasn't sure, so i asked her to do something about it. I'm sure she thought it was odd, but i really felt that if i tried to do something directly people would immediately suspect me.

    On the flip side, in the estate where i grew up, there was a paedophile (not known at the time) who gave sweets to children if they just called to his door and asked. Looking back, it was textbook stuff, but our parents were so naive, and just thought that he was a lovely friendly old bachelor. They could have done with a bit of awareness/paranoia back then.


  • #38
    Ilik Urgee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭Ilik Urgee


    zenno wrote: »
    Unfortunately there are whacko people out there or brain-dead neighbours that think twisted thoughts and assume a man with his child looks suspicious and therefore would call the gardai.

    The society we live in now is so brainwashed and frightened of the news stories that are put out on a daily basis their little pea-brain neurons can't gather together to form a common sense logic...as in...well that is his kid and the father loves them to bits and will so hug them out of love for their child.

    This society in Ireland is twisted and it needs fixing, but how can you fix a society of idiot thinkers that have the brain capacity of a snail ?.

    Can you not see the irony in this bit of your post?

    As a father myself.I've had all the looks, from both sexes!. None at all nice.
    WTF? The more I think of your post, the more derogatory it becomes:mad:


  • #39
    Stereomaniac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,167 ✭✭✭Stereomaniac


    Well, this is a tough one I think. Society needs to be more aware around protecting children for sure. But then again, I think that we need to not assume the worse of everyone who talks to a child. I mean, I have great time for kids, because I lost a child. I'd hate to be branded.


  • #40
    kryogen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen


    Load of **** tbh

    Never felt weird with my own kids, never will. Dont feel like people look at me strange, if they ever do thats their problem, **** them


  • #41
    Ilik Urgee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭Ilik Urgee


    kryogen wrote: »
    Load of **** tbh

    Never felt weird with my own kids, never will. Dont feel like people look at me strange, if they ever do thats their problem, **** them


    Oh they do, rest assured.you've surely seen it? irksome no?


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  • #42
    kryogen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen


    Ilik Urgee wrote: »
    Oh they do, rest assured.you've surely seen it? irksome no?

    Is it supposed to be pronounced lick or like?


  • #43
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    Bollocks!! Anyone said anything like that to me when I' with my son they'd get a serious slap! Mines 9, up to my shoulder and I still make him hold my hand crossing the road! I'd also still bring him to a public bathroom and same little dressing room when we go to our local swimming pool. One time he did shout "you've a hairy willy" when we were swimming. Could of sounded bad to others there but I didn't care because I was to busy breaking my hole laughing.

    All that crap on reddit/imger or what ever the fock its called is for karma. The shit people put up on that site for upvotes and karma is pathetic. The new one seems to be posing with dead relatives while looking upset. Bollocks once again. Fock off.


  • #44
    Stereomaniac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,167 ✭✭✭Stereomaniac


    More power to you for being like that. Fair play.


  • #45
    Shanotheslayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,191 ✭✭✭✭Shanotheslayer


    Sulla Felix wrote: »
    I'm not sure that getting locked up for assault is the best way to demonstrate your dedication to your children.
    Oh wait, what am I saying, you're making things up. Carry on.

    What's the weather like up on your high horse?


  • #46
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Ilik Urgee wrote: »
    Can you not see the irony in this bit of your post?

    As a father myself.I've had all the looks, from both sexes!. None at all nice.
    WTF? The more I think of your post, the more derogatory it becomes:mad:

    Maybe you are not understanding it correctly. I'm not your tutor.


  • #47
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Sulla Felix wrote: »
    I'm not sure that getting locked up for assault is the best way to demonstrate your dedication to your children.

    Sometimes getting tough is the only option. Be sure.


  • #48
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Cathal Cloch wrote: »
    Sometimes getting tough is the only option. Be sure.

    Assault and battery can come back to haunt you if you're not sure of the circumstances. Aggressive and course language can quell the incident without violence, most of these mullies back down when their spoken to by a male.


  • #49
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Assault and battery can come back to haunt you if you're not sure of the circumstances.

    You can never be absolutely sure of the consequences because even if you lose your own life you leave behind people who will be affected by your actions or lack thereof.


  • #50
    brokenarms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭brokenarms


    I think every father should be safe to take their kids to the park.

    Father Duffy took me to the park every week and bought me lots of sweets.


  • #51
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    So, some fathers are afraid to take their kids to the park because they're afraid a stranger might call them a name?


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  • #52
    Ilik Urgee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭Ilik Urgee


    zenno wrote: »
    Maybe you are not understanding it correctly. I'm not your tutor.

    I understand it perfectly.


  • #53
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    I have two kids , a boy and a girl and I do feel a little edgy in public with them to be quite honest. However I have started going out without my clerical and I get much fewer suspicious stares.
    Fr Buster.


  • #54
    dub_skav
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭dub_skav


    I'm a father and I'm sure people do look twice when they see me with my daughter, but it won't stop me bringing her to the park or the pool or wherever she enjoys.

    If anyone were to approach me I would not assault them or raise my voice as that would upset my child, I would however calmly and quietly tell them to keep their prejudice to themselves and kindly **** off and leave me and my child alone


  • #55
    Stereomaniac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,167 ✭✭✭Stereomaniac


    I think it's a reflection on what sort of a person you are if you're going to get into a violent altercation in front of one of your children, surely that puts them at a whole other sort of risk? Anyway, I think no one should be nervous about being with their own children in public. As the old adage goes, if you haven't done anything wrong you've nothing to worry about.


  • #56
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    There's a long thread on this topic on the Gentleman's Club forum: here.

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #57
    Peter The Pedo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 64 ✭✭Peter The Pedo


    No comment.


  • #58
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    So lets get this right, when I'm walking my dog there are people out there who think I'm into bestiality ?


  • #59
    Swarly45
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭Swarly45


    When I was in america for a month visiting my aunt. I took my cousin to the park and got stared down by every single mam there. Felt awkward as hell.


  • #60
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    In November 2011 I was in pennies helping my 12 year old daughter buy her first bra. The looks I got from 3 middle age women were unbelievable. Luckily one of the women working their knows me and spotted them staring us out of it.
    She came over and loud enough to be heard by them she asked my daughter. "hey ---- how are you doing since your mam passed away last week. Your dad is doing a good job helping you. If you need anything give me a shout."

    The 3 red faces of the women could be seen for miles around. Bitches judging stuff they know nothing about.


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  • #61
    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    i have posted before about when our daughter was younger my husband took her to our local park, doing as she usually does she ran off in the climbing frame up to the slide so her dad was just standing back watching her when this woman started staring at him suspiciously and asking him why was he there watching the children play, he explained he was keeping an eye on his daughter but she wasn't convinced, he felt so uncomfortable after that...

    likewise his uncle is a priest thats his job, when he's off duty and hanging out with us, he loves playing games and messing around with our daughter and she him, but still people freak out when you say that, its ridiculous, he's like a grandfather to her, and treats her like a grandchild but because of his job he shouldn't be near her?

    people just make assumptions all the time based on one or two things (be it looks, or a profession) without knowing the persons character and thats wrong in so many ways...


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