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_Maxxx_ wrote: you need to move somewhere where the street is filled with families with similar-aged kids
... so I was not really wrong with the "ghetto", this is just unbelievable ...
Alternatively, complaining people could also move out to somewhere "more quiet" (even if I doubt such a place exists), why should I be the one doing it ? I've been in the place for more than 35 years now, and should move out because I now have kids ? If so, i there any kids age limit at which I am allowed to come back then ...?
This is to me really one of the more obvious signs that the society is getting more and more selfish : people tend to forget that we have to live together.
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Rage wrote: people tend to forget that we have to live together.
Not at all - that's what this is about, surely? **WE** have to live together. It seems that you are in an area where it is unusual for kids to make noise, and it upsets the residents. You've been there for 35 years so I can imagine that many residents maybe are older, have had their kids and the kids have left the area - so don't want kids making a noise and disturbing them (been there, done that)
So you either conform or move.
It's not a personal thing - but if the majority are in the area for peace and quiet ...
Of course the complaining people could move - but from what you're saying they are in the majority.
We moved to our current house because there are lots of kids around my son's age in the street - so they play outside, make a noise and all is well with the world; we expect their noise to be reasonable as there are one or two families without kids.
We previously lived in an area with mostly older residents (post-kids) where it was nice and quiet and suited us (pre kids)
Also, there's noise and there's noise. What noise are your kids making that they get complaints?
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Rage wrote: I too hate noisy kids. But I have noisy kids, and honestly, telling them to shut up every other minute is much more annoying than the kids themselves.
Chloroforme.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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 I am a bad parent for already having seriously considered using some ? 
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I wish more parents would do so. There is no greater pleasure than sitting in a train after work with yet another one of those larvae screaming for 30 minutes.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: those larvae screaming for 30 minutes
I bet the parents would do it in such a case if they could : For having been in this situation (having my one year old kid screaming for more than hour in a train), it is rather uncomfortable. I ended up in that area between two wagons holding him until he slept, but the noise was frightening him more than anything else, so it had not been easy.
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I think Phenergan is the legal approach that some parents use on flights etc. according to some mums we met in Cyprus a few years back!
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You are making an assumption that his kids were being noisy and out of control. I know for a fact that he would not tolerate his kids behaving in this manner.
If he is as he claims a comedian/writer/star, do you not think he would be able to deal with confrontation?
I know when my two used to kick off in public, they were soon brought back into control, as a parent noise levels have different levels of tolerance to maybe some other jumped up hypocritical individuals.
Wonder how he would have reacted if his wife whipped out her puppies and started breast feeding a nipper.......
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I don't think it's called 'breast feeding' when it is with puppies!
DaveAuld wrote: If he is as he claims a comedian/writer/star, do you not think he would be able to deal with confrontation?
Doesn't matter does it? Maybe he was with his elderly father & didn't want confrontation. Maybe he was running late & wanted to get out, maybe maybe maybe.
I'm not making an assumption, just trying to be fair about this sort of thing - a one-sided opinion on either side is just as bad as the other.
DaveAuld wrote: I know for a fact that he would not tolerate his kids behaving in this manner.
Well, you just don't know **for a fact** that they didn't - maybe they were just making some repetitive noise, that except for a doting father, is as annoying as fingernails on blackboard - one really doesn't know.
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Preach much? This level of self-righteousness should surely be transferred to the Soap Box so I'll refrain from saying exactly what I think of it but seriously not cool!
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Member 9082365 wrote: Preach much
Not sure you know what 'preach' actually means. it doesn't mean 'stating an opinion' or 'asking a question'.
Member 9082365 wrote: seriously not cool!
Calm down! Jeez - next thing you know you'll be getting all noisy and annoying the neighbours!
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Quote: it doesn't mean 'stating an opinion'
Um, yeah, it does ..
Quote: deliver a sermon or religious address to an assembled group of people, typically in church.
"he preached to a large congregation"
synonyms: give a sermon, deliver a sermon, sermonize, spread the gospel, evangelize, address, speak; More
publicly proclaim or teach (a religious message or belief).
"he preached the word of God"
synonyms: proclaim, teach, spread, propagate, expound, explain, make known
"a church that preaches the good news"
earnestly advocate (a belief or course of action).
"my parents have always preached toleration and moderation"
synonyms: advocate, recommend, advise, urge, exhort, teach, counsel, champion, inculcate, instil
"my parents have always preached toleration"
give moral advice to someone in a pompously self-righteous way.
"viewers want to be entertained, not preached at"
synonyms: moralize, be moralistic, sermonize, pontificate, lecture, harangue
Maxxx wrote: next thing you know you'll be getting all noisy and annoying the neighbours
The shoe is very much on the other foot there except that I don't get annoyed not having that toxic sense of entitlement which is displayed by so many these days and so ably demonstrated by Mr Glasgow's billet doux!
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I agree.
I have kids and DO NOT tolerate them being a disturbance in public.
I have to agree with Dave though, on the way the note was signed - pretentious f***er.
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Yeah - I'm guessing a bit of a smeg head ... Maybe it was Freddie star 
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Should have just bought the kids a big bottle or red bull of V before he left and then left to the parents to look after the consequences 
modified 31-Aug-15 4:05am.
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DaveAuld wrote: retweet
Why don't you get a hobby like the pussycat?
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Well at least you got the first half right. 
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To me Florians response is invalid[^] IMHO you are NEVER going to fix even the biggest problems on this planet, no matter how much money you pour into support programs you cannot fix them all. I'll be astonished if we can ever fix the refugee issue currently plaguing Europe.
This planet is well on the way to ruination, unless we get into space I figure the human race will quite rapidly revert to barbarism.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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When the same human race is sent to space, we would eventually 'rapidly revert to barbarism' in outer space. What's the guarantee of this not happening?
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I think it would be little difficult to revert when your existence is reliant on a certain level of tech. Dying out may be a real probability, I do believe vacuum will be fairly unforgiving of stupidity.
As for guarantee, there is none of course.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Speaking as a fully-dues-paid member of the Society Of Citizens Keeping Planets Unpopulated (SOCKPUP), I say leave Mars alone, and let's get on with fully exterminating the two-legged parasitic primates that have the hubris to call themselves "Sapien."
A good start would be to place in geostationary orbit those users of on-line fora that start new threads rather than click the "Reply" button  Of course, they would have enough oxygen to get to see at least one earth-dawn.
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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BillWoodruff wrote: and let's get on with fully exterminating the two-legged parasitic primates
Oh I'm pretty confident we are well on the way to achieving that goal for you.
I figured this belonged in the Lounge rather than a news forum. 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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