Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 26-11-2014 01:18PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

If she had a trolley I would say it as Lexie :D

Sorry Lex, I know I've mentioned this a few times on thread now......it's just one of those yarns that's stuck in my head.

I didn't ram the trolley into the child! I was walking through the aisles in the supermarket, these kids were running and racing through the aisles. I kept stopping the trolley because they kept running in front of me, winding in and out past me. So the third time, I didn't stop and he ran straight into it.

RoyalMarine · 26-11-2014 01:19PM

Stupid clothing companies that insist on increasing the size of labels on clothes.

Stupid clothing companies that insist on putting labels on the neck area.

Stupid clothing companies that insist on putting labels on the side of clothes. (Right on the side where people are most sensitive)

Stupid clothing companies in general.

Stupid clothing companies.

Clothing companies.

cletus van damme · 26-11-2014 01:26PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Also parents who assume that it's safe and other peoples responsibility to watch small kids who play on the roads into estates

depends on how young the kids are. But I believe kids have more of a right to play there than driver have to drive through.
kids need to play , cars don't need to be driven without utmost care.
there is a nice happy medium

danrua01 · 26-11-2014 01:31PM

RoyalMarine wrote: »

Stupid clothing companies that insist on increasing the size of labels on clothes.

Stupid clothing companies that insist on putting labels on the neck area.

Stupid clothing companies that insist on putting labels on the side of clothes. (Right on the side where people are most sensitive)

Stupid clothing companies in general.

Stupid clothing companies.

Clothing companies.

Stupid companies.

Stupid.

Stu.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 26-11-2014 01:39PM

cletus van damme wrote: »

depends on how young the kids are. But I believe kids have more of a right to play there than driver have to drive through.
kids need to play , cars don't need to be driven without utmost care.
there is a nice happy medium

Forgetting about "rights" for a second, I find it baffling parents will quite happily leave their kids life in the hands of complete strangers behind the wheel because it's the kids "right" to play on the road. It's not something to gamble with. There's usually footpaths and greens in these estates where kids can play safely, the road? Not so much. Even at a low speed, it goes without saying that can be really dangerous. There was a small child killed here last year, in an estate, where she ran out in front of a van. Kids are unpredictable. Obviously as adults and drivers they need to be super aware and careful but parents need to pony up and rear their own children too, and not just assume it's fine to leave them play in the middle of a road, as that's exactly what it is. It's a road, not a playground.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 26-11-2014 01:41PM

The smell of cinnamon it's everywhere this time of year and it makes me feel nauseous

eisenberg1 · 26-11-2014 01:46PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

The smell of cinnamon it's everywhere this time of year and it makes me feel nauseous

I love it, all year round. Sprinkled on porridge, with some honey...the biz:D

jimgoose · 26-11-2014 01:46PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I love it, all year round. Sprinkled on porridge, with some honey...the biz:D

Mmm, I love it too. Makes me feel all sort of "Christmassy"!!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 26-11-2014 01:47PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I love it, all year round. Sprinkled on porridge, with some honey...the biz:D

That's it E. You're officially a weirdo!

eisenberg1 · 26-11-2014 01:49PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

That's it E. You're officially a weirdo!

I'm a weirdo? You are the one who needs airbags on the shopping trolley:D

danrua01 · 26-11-2014 01:51PM

People who get annoyed by trivial things..........................................

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 26-11-2014 01:58PM

People starting to comment on my appearance. I used to have a bottle of wine a night, stopped about a month ago. Have a few drinks maybe once a week the past few weeks. Since I stopped drinking I gained weight, definately did not need to gain weight.

Everyone is telling me im looking better in myself though, and it annoys me that it's noticeable. Even my councillor told me I'm looking "better". Cause I looked so wretched before I guess.

Rubberlegs · 26-11-2014 02:30PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I love it, all year round. Sprinkled on porridge, with some honey...the biz:D

Oh, hell yeah!!! Throw in some mixed nuts, and blackberries/raspberries too, and that's some breakfast:). Though it's not true that porridge keeps you going till lunch, or I'm a bottomless pit.

Vel · 26-11-2014 02:41PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I don't think describing people who don't tolerate kids who race around unsupervised, in supermarkets, restaurants ect as "disliking" other people's kids.

I'd go as far as saying those parents dislike their own kids because they don't seem to care what they're doing or where they're treating as a playground.

Also parents who assume that it's safe and other peoples responsibility to watch small kids who play on the roads into estates

As I said, it was tongue in cheek so no one needs to take too much offence! I am in full agreement regarding the parents and have complained myself on here with exampels, but as a parent myself who does their upmost to ensure my kids behave appropriately in public at all times, kids don't have full control of their emotions and need to learn to control them and in the interim they can sometimes let you down, no matter how much you think you have them whipped into shape!

I would hate to think I was being judged as harshly as I see in here sometimes. But hey, it may be that I am too sensitive about this issue as it is close to my heart and I feel very strongly about how my kids should behave in public and work hard on it. Anyway, lets not take a light hearted comment and ruin my favourite thread on AH!

Now I'm TA that this has taken this tangent!

Rubberlegs · 26-11-2014 02:49PM

^^ totally with you on this , Vel! I am that parent whose kid is having a meltdown at the most embarrassing , inappropriate time. I could make and sell the t shirt! As you say, despite your best efforts, they will let u down, the little rips

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Barely There · 26-11-2014 02:51PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Forgetting about "rights" for a second, I find it baffling parents will quite happily leave their kids life in the hands of complete strangers behind the wheel because it's the kids "right" to play on the road. It's not something to gamble with. There's usually footpaths and greens in these estates where kids can play safely, the road? Not so much. Even at a low speed, it goes without saying that can be really dangerous. There was a small child killed here last year, in an estate, where she ran out in front of a van. Kids are unpredictable. Obviously as adults and drivers they need to be super aware and careful but parents need to pony up and rear their own children too, and not just assume it's fine to leave them play in the middle of a road, as that's exactly what it is. It's a road, not a playground.

But as you've said yourself kids are unpredictable. Therefore expecting a parent to be in complete control of their child at all times is surely unreasonable going by your logic - unless of course you expect the children to be physically retrained at all times, or perhaps locked up behind gates?

I'd hate to live in an estate where kids weren't able to play beside and in the road. Estates are place for people to live, not for cars to drive. If you're driving a 1 tonne block of metal in a residential estate, it's your responsibly to ensure you don't endanger a child.

Simple.

Vel · 26-11-2014 02:55PM

My son is in Senior Infants and seems to go to a lot of birthday parties. Last year we would all buy a present for the brithday boy/girl but this year it was decided that anyone who wanted to buy a present would give a voucher for one of the toy/book/stationary shops as often the kid would end up getting more than one of the same toy, or would already have the toy at home.

Now I have noticed on invites that some of the parents are saying: 'No present necessary but if you wish to get one please get a Smyths/Eason voucher'

I don't know, to me, if they really meant that no presents were necessary they would be definitive and end the sentence at the word necessary! I think most people give a present anyway and its obviously not the case that they want no one to buy a present and as such they have managed their child's expectations in advance by telling them they won't be getting any presents.

It just seems a bit....false.....?

Vel · 26-11-2014 03:05PM

73Cat wrote: »

^^ totally with you on this , Vel! I am that parent whose kid is having a meltdown at the most embarrassing , inappropriate time. I could make and sell the t shirt! As you say, despite your best efforts, they will let u down, the little rips .

We went for lunch on Sunday. Unfortunately we got a little delayed for reasons beyond our control and by the time we sat to eat my youngest was hungry and narky. She was in a high chair and started to cry. I let her cry for less than 30 seconds while trying to guage if she was going to stop or go into full on meltdown! Just as I started to get up to take her out and sit her on my lap to calm her, and if that hadn't worked I would have waited outside with her until the food arrived, a lady at a table whipped around, glared at us and started giving out loudly to the man she was with. I might add that this was a restaurant that caters for kids and has a children's menu!!

I think some people's levels of intolerance when it comes to kids can be a bit extreme at times, and while she might have felt we were ignorant and rude to allow our kid to do whatever it was that annoyed her so greatly (cry for 30 seconds?!) I think her behaviour was just as rude!

Graces7 · 26-11-2014 03:11PM

Cat who has been playing at being a hot water bottle for me all morning, emerges, dances across the bed and manages to unplug the modem... so I have to get out of bed, let all the warmth out....

Vel · 26-11-2014 03:11PM

Barely There wrote: »

Estates are place for people to live, not for cars to drive. If you're driving a 1 tonne block of metal in a residential estate, it's your responsibly to ensure you don't endanger a child.

Simple.

But they have roads and driveways and are set up to take cars. What do you expect people to do with their cars? Abandon them at the side of the road and finish the journey on foot? Get out and push it home? What do you do with your car? If you don't have one, is it because you have taken full responsibility and decided to to have one would mean you might just knock down a kid in your estate and you couldn't take that risk?

If god forbid, an unsupervised kid ran out from behind something in front of a car you were driving and you hit them even though you were driving at an appropriate speed, would you fully, 100% blame yourself? What about the parent who let the kid play unsupervised? Have they no responsibility to ensure the safety of their own kids?

Both parties have equal responsibility - that is the drivers and the parents and to say otherwise is CRAZY talk!!

Not a chance I would let my kids play in our estate unsupervised as I would not trust them not to run out in front of a car and equally I would never expect my neighbours to take sole responsibility for my kids.

I think your logic is very warped and rather worrying!

Graces7 · 26-11-2014 03:19PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I always feel sorry for the poor animals in those scenarios. Being shipped alive long distances in God knows what kind of conditions and then probably being slaughtered inhumanely as soon as it arrives at it's destination. I know the idea is that they keep them for milk or whatever but does anyone really believe that? Come off it. Imagine you're starving and someone says, "well you can have a steak now or a glass of milk every day for the next year" - how does one possibly decide? :rolleyes:

My family do this in Nepal BUT the goats are bred locally and they new owners are monitored for several months to teach them to make cheese etc which they can then sell. That works fine.. BUT if a family really is that desperate at least they would be fed a few times.. We cannot imagine the utter deprivation some families endure.. like Ireland in famine times. To watch a child starve...

It is a wonderful thing to do and in my family and friends we dont do gifts as we all have all we need. Giving is great.... far better than getting...

OldNotWIse · 26-11-2014 03:30PM

Graces7 wrote: »

My family do this in Nepal BUT the goats are bred locally and they new owners are monitored for several months to teach them to make cheese etc which they can then sell. That works fine.. BUT if a family really is that desperate at least they would be fed a few times.. We cannot imagine the utter deprivation some families endure.. like Ireland in famine times. To watch a child starve...

It is a wonderful thing to do and in my family and friends we dont do gifts as we all have all we need. Giving is great.... far better than getting...

Well that sounds fine, but as an animal lover I would rather not give the gift of live transportation with no water/food, overheating, standing room only and then inhumane butchering by people not trained to do so (under the Irish scheme that is). It just wouldn't feel quite right to me so I wouldn't so it, and I would be annoyed if someone did it for me. There are other ways to help people and sadly we have our own share of homeless and needy too

LynnGrace · 26-11-2014 03:31PM

Thread being derailed...

By happy porridge eaters

Off to the happy thread with you!

Barely There · 26-11-2014 03:34PM

Vel wrote: »

Not a chance I would let my kids play in our estate unsupervised as I would not trust them not to run out in front of a car and equally I would never expect my neighbours to take sole responsibility for my kids.

I think your logic is very warped and rather worrying!

I'm presuming your 'supervision' consist of physically tethering your children to either yourself or some fixed immovable object of some type?

How else do your ensure they don't suddenly dart out into the road?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 26-11-2014 03:36PM

Barely There wrote: »

But as you've said yourself kids are unpredictable. Therefore expecting a parent to be in complete control of their child at all times is surely unreasonable going by your logic - unless of course you expect the children to be physically retrained at all times, or perhaps locked up behind gates?

I'd hate to live in an estate where kids weren't able to play beside and in the road. Estates are place for people to live, not for cars to drive. If you're driving a 1 tonne block of metal in a residential estate, it's your responsibly to ensure you don't endanger a child.

Simple.

I don't expect kids to be well behaved all the time, and I know they do have their moments, but I don't understand parents (or whoevers minding them) that leave them race around the place, completely oblivious. The parents who let them race up and down supermarket aisles or around cafes as they continue on with their shopping or their coffee. That's annoying.

OldNotWIse · 26-11-2014 03:39PM

I don't hate kids but one thing that does TA me (mostly because I know I am being unreasonable because the kid is so young and the parents can't control it anyway) but you know when toddlers do that spontaneous, high-pitched shriek for no reason? Mother of all that's holy that unnerves me (and bores a hole in my eardrum) :P

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 26-11-2014 03:42PM

Vel wrote: »

But they have roads and driveways and are set up to take cars. What do you expect people to do with their cars? Abandon them at the side of the road and finish the journey on foot? Get out and push it home? What do you do with your car? If you don't have one, is it because you have taken full responsibility and decided to to have one would mean you might just knock down a kid in your estate and you couldn't take that risk?

If god forbid, an unsupervised kid ran out from behind something in front of a car you were driving and you hit them even though you were driving at an appropriate speed, would you fully, 100% blame yourself? What about the parent who let the kid play unsupervised? Have they no responsibility to ensure the safety of their own kids?

Both parties have equal responsibility - that is the drivers and the parents and to say otherwise is CRAZY talk!!

Not a chance I would let my kids play in our estate unsupervised as I would not trust them not to run out in front of a car and equally I would never expect my neighbours to take sole responsibility for my kids.

I think your logic is very warped and rather worrying!

This country needs more parents like you.

Graces7 · 26-11-2014 03:49PM

Barely There wrote: »

But as you've said yourself kids are unpredictable. Therefore expecting a parent to be in complete control of their child at all times is surely unreasonable going by your logic - unless of course you expect the children to be physically retrained at all times, or perhaps locked up behind gates?

I'd hate to live in an estate where kids weren't able to play beside and in the road. Estates are place for people to live, not for cars to drive. If you're driving a 1 tonne block of metal in a residential estate, it's your responsibly to ensure you don't endanger a child.

Simple.

Allowing kids to play in the road is child neglect. Yes, behind gates is grand and else parents need to ensure that their children are road safety aware.

Graces7 · 26-11-2014 03:51PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I don't expect kids to be well behaved all the time, and I know they do have their moments, but I don't understand parents (or whoevers minding them) that leave them race around the place, completely oblivious. The parents who let them race up and down supermarket aisles or around cafes as they continue on with their shopping or their coffee. That's annoying.

Amen to this.. there is a place for running around and a place to be respectful of others. I stop any kids who race in supermarkets. Or at craft fairs etc.

Barely There · 26-11-2014 03:53PM

Graces7 wrote: »

Allowing kids to play in the road is child neglect. Yes, behind gates is grand and else parents need to ensure that their children are road safety aware.

I'm glad I don't live where you live.

Love getting home to my estate full of children happily playing with their friends alongside the road - even (shock-horror!) kicking football in the road.

I'm sure you're happy living somewhere that kids are locked up behind gates at all times, but it wouldn't be for me and it wouldn't be somewhere I'd want to raise kids.

Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

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