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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Jun 3, 2008 4:26:12 GMT -5
I went to see Longest Yard and several young girls behind me literally SCREAMED every time the rapper guy who was in it came on screen. It may have been Nelly, I just don't care enough to look it up. Oh yeah, teenage chicks who go to a movie JUST to see the male actor they're drooling over and keep squealing whenever he appears. If I did not control myself, I could hang them in barbed wire. Ladies, if you want to see handsome men just for the hell of looking at handsome men, there's a thing called INTERNET. It's made just for that. Im pretty sure it was not made for that. That came along down the line, but i do not think that was the original intention of the web.
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Post by hedonismbot on Jun 3, 2008 4:40:08 GMT -5
I say take it a step further and ban children under the age of five from restaurants. Why on earth anyone would bring an infant to a restaurant is beyond me. And don't give me any of this bullcrap about how you still deserve to be able to go out to eat like anyone else even though you can't afford or can't find a babysitter. If you can't get a sitter, you don't go out. Period. You're not "entitled" to a night out, no matter how hard you work as a parent. In fact, a big part of parenting is learning to make sacrifices. Except for rape victims, nobody is forced into having children. If you value being able to go out to the movies or out to eat at the spur of the moment, you probably shouldn't have had kids. Yea SHAME on people wanting to go out with the whole family. And wanting their kids with them because they do not get to see their extend family that much. SHAME on Billy for looking up to his uncle who travels around the world and rarely comes to the states. And sometimes he is only there for a short time. But he will not go to Billy's house because it is being remodeled at the moment so they can not have people over. So Either Billy can not see his uncle who he looks up to, or he has to go with his family out to dinner. Or lets punish billy's mom because she wants to see her brother, all because well her kid can behave, but that does not matter. Because the parents are evil for going out with thier kids. So what, Billy's uncle lives out of town? If they can't have dinner at the uncle's house because it's being remodeled, then where are they staying? Where has the uncle been staying? Or does the uncle live in town? If so, why can't they just have dinner at Billy's house? Either way, this scenario makes no sense. Letting a mother and/or father enjoy having someone ELSE do the cooking & cleaning for dinner while spending time with the kids is something COMPLETELY different. Hence I don't like the turn we went where we're deciding in this thread that parents should be punished for being parents. You guys that want kids out of resturants, be careful. You're falling into that "ME" entitlement, making yourselves out to be total hypocrits. I have no problem taking parents to task for bringing unruly children to restaurants. And I have no problem saying that restaurant customers who are spending their hard earned money on night out are entitled to some peace and quiet during their meal and shouldn't have to listen to some baby or toddler screaming his head off. You've heard the old saying, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Again, the selfish people are the parents who bring small children who can't behave in public to theaters or restaurants. So your kids are either too young or too bratty to behave in public, but you're going to take them anyway and make it everyone else's problem. Who's being selfish here? This isn't a black and white issue here folks. You aren't forced to choose between not having kids or never being able to go out. If your kids can't behave in public, hire a sitter or dump them on a family member for the evening. If they're just brats, teach them some manners. If they're literally too young to help themselves, just wait a few years and see how they do once they've matured a little bit. No one is is saying that "parents should be punished for being parents." We're taking parents to task for NOT being parents, for doing things like taking small children to R rated movies, not disciplining their kids for acting up in public, or using theaters as babysitters.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Jun 3, 2008 4:54:20 GMT -5
Oh yeah, teenage chicks who go to a movie JUST to see the male actor they're drooling over and keep squealing whenever he appears. If I did not control myself, I could hang them in barbed wire. Ladies, if you want to see handsome men just for the hell of looking at handsome men, there's a thing called INTERNET. It's made just for that. Im pretty sure it was not made for that. That came along down the line, but i do not think that was the original intention of the web.
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Post by Captain Wonderful on Jun 3, 2008 4:56:17 GMT -5
I say take it a step further and ban children under the age of five from restaurants. Why on earth anyone would bring an infant to a restaurant is beyond me. And don't give me any of this bullcrap about how you still deserve to be able to go out to eat like anyone else even though you can't afford or can't find a babysitter. If you can't get a sitter, you don't go out. Period. You're not "entitled" to a night out, no matter how hard you work as a parent. In fact, a big part of parenting is learning to make sacrifices. Except for rape victims, nobody is forced into having children. If you value being able to go out to the movies or out to eat at the spur of the moment, you probably shouldn't have had kids. Yea SHAME on people wanting to go out with the whole family. And wanting their kids with them because they do not get to see their extend family that much. SHAME on Billy for looking up to his uncle who travels around the world and rarely comes to the states. And sometimes he is only there for a short time. But he will not go to Billy's house because it is being remodeled at the moment so they can not have people over. So Either Billy can not see his uncle who he looks up to, or he has to go with his family out to dinner. Or lets punish billy's mom because she wants to see her brother, all because well her kid can behave, but that does not matter. Because the parents are evil for going out with thier kids. f*** Billy and everybody who looks like Billy.
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Post by The Ultimate on Jun 3, 2008 5:55:25 GMT -5
I can honestly say I have never had a movie experience ruined by somebody who's talked or by kids who have been annoying. Well, for the most part nobody talks during the movies I go to (except for me and my friends. Only special occasions call for us riffing a movie, however: like when we saw Transporter 2!) and parents actually have the decency to leave--yes, leave--the movie if their little bugger is acting up.
Maybe I'm just lucky.
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Post by BrianZane on Jun 3, 2008 6:34:59 GMT -5
I went to see Longest Yard and several young girls behind me literally SCREAMED every time the rapper guy who was in it came on screen. It may have been Nelly, I just don't care enough to look it up. I watched that movie with my girlfriend on DVD a few months ago...she complained that there was "too much football" in the movie. Kind of struck me as odd, since she's the one who rented it for us on her Netflix account, and she knew full well it was a football movie. Not that she didn't like the movie in general, it was just a complaint of hers I found kind of funny.
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Post by BHB on Jun 3, 2008 6:41:59 GMT -5
Wow, after reading through this thread it's made me realise how lucky I am when it comes to cinema experience... The worst I've had is during the Simpsons movie when some idiot teenager threw a popcorn bucket still half-full at the movie screen, right in the middle of the smurfing movie! Bloody heck... Well it did suck.
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Post by willywonka666 on Jun 3, 2008 7:40:16 GMT -5
I don't recall being that bad when I was a kid in a theater. Granted we watched most of our movies on HBO and they were usually horror movies and such that most parents wouldn't let a kid watch.
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Post by The"threadicidal"bristolspapa on Jun 3, 2008 8:17:07 GMT -5
You're depicting an extremely particular case here. In like 90% of the time, you can easily organize a family dinner at home. And I mean I'm sorry, but I don't see why EVERYONE in the restaurant/theater should go through rude kids just because their family doesn't think it's important to teach their kids the basis of social behavior. There's the theatre then there's eating. The kid banning when you need your attention to watch and listen, is something I can get behind. Letting a mother and/or father enjoy having someone ELSE do the cooking & cleaning for dinner while spending time with the kids is something COMPLETELY different. Hence I don't like the turn we went where we're deciding in this thread that parents should be punished for being parents. You guys that want kids out of resturants, be careful. You're falling into that "ME" entitlement, making yourselves out to be total hypocrits. Edit: I hit the wrong Boku quote. So this isn't directed at Snakebite, but the other fellow. Good words Boku. I want to go on a Dan Quayle-esque diatribe about family, because that's where it all starts. To suggest that I have NO right to bring my five year old and two year old to a dime-a-dozen restaurant like the Olive Garden or Outback is foolish. One reason why people have no sense of how to act IS BECAUSE too many parents of the past two decades have left the responsibility of child rearing to other people, citing some "It Takes A Village" BS as justification for letting other people do their dirty work. Yes there are date nights and nights out with the guys. But for the most part, it is all about the family. When you teach children how to conduct yourself, it sinks in. One way to do this is to, ya know, actually go places with your kids! Do you expect that I should throw the sports section at my five year old and say, "Well we could have gone to last night's game, but a fake name on the Internet said it would ruin his fun if we went. So, here kid. Hope you can read a box score. Oh and when you're 21, you'll probably see some drunk dude and think " Man that guy is totally cool. I'm coming to more baseball games so that I can do that. I wish my dad took me to games before so that I could be doing that already. Everyone will cheer for me when I trip up the steps during the seventh inning stretch. It'll be awesome. Dudes, you're in for more games right?" And it'll be okay because at least you won't be some snot nosed kid with cotton candy hands ruining some old guy's fun in what could be his last baseball game. You'll be an adult having fun on your terms. Screw that old guy. I mean, he walks with a cane and it'll take forever to exit the stadium with him walking up the steps. He'll understand that you'll want to toss him aside, because after all, at least it wasn't some little brat sitting next to him the whole game and talking to him about what his favorite team is." Yeah, that's a speech I really want to have with my kids. Oh wait, no it's not. I think I'd rather sit at the dinner table, and talk to them. Maybe even work something in that they could learn so that when we do go out, they can apply it. My point is, there are unruly craps everywhere you go. There are things that annoy you everywhere you go. But as Boku said, there's decorum, and then there's you trying to dictate what constitutes a good time for everyone else, based upon YOUR needs.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jun 3, 2008 9:25:21 GMT -5
Also; Baby's in airplanes are much worse. Last year when i travelled from Melbourne to Darwin overnight there were these 2 kids (one boy, probably aged 5. One girl, aged 2) sitting behind me. And throughout the 6 hour flight it was nothing but "MY EARS ARE POPPING!!!, "I WANNA GO TO THE TOILET!!!", "I WANT MY DADDY!!!", "HURRY UP!!!" Point is, if you're a baby and you're reading this you don't deserve a holiday. Some kid kept kicking my seat on a 5 hour flight. The parents tried their best to clam him down, but the little s*** kept doing it. Eventually he switched seats and bothered the guy next to me instead.
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Post by The"threadicidal"bristolspapa on Jun 3, 2008 9:30:49 GMT -5
Also; Baby's in airplanes are much worse. Last year when i travelled from Melbourne to Darwin overnight there were these 2 kids (one boy, probably aged 5. One girl, aged 2) sitting behind me. And throughout the 6 hour flight it was nothing but "MY EARS ARE POPPING!!!, "I WANNA GO TO THE TOILET!!!", "I WANT MY DADDY!!!", "HURRY UP!!!" Point is, if you're a baby and you're reading this you don't deserve a holiday. Some kid kept kicking my seat on a 5 hour flight. The parents tried their best to clam him down, but the little s*** kept doing it. Eventually he switched seats and bothered the guy next to me instead. One thing I hope people understand when it comes to these types of things: Most parents know that it's aggravating. Sure there are the oblivious parents, but most know. When the kid throws something in the restaurant, or when the kid kicks the seat, or yadda yadda, it's just as frustrating for the parent. We've all been on the receiving end of it. We know and we want it to stop, but what does a Lois-esque (Malcolm ITM) tirade accomplish other than more noise? Provided that the parent is apologetic, and is trying to do SOMETHING to alleviate the situation, I think it's worth the benefit of doubt.
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Post by amsiraK on Jun 3, 2008 9:31:21 GMT -5
Wow.
LOL - lotsa anger in this thread.
I think there needs to be a distinction made, though. There are two groups: kids out with their parents and then crazy people who drag their kids along and don't give a shit what they're doing.
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Post by DSR on Jun 3, 2008 13:24:21 GMT -5
I, uh, don't really have anything to add except that after reading this paragraph...
...I got confused and lost track of what this guy's point was.
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Post by BRV on Jun 3, 2008 13:52:47 GMT -5
When I went to see "Four Brothers" back in the day, my buddy sneezed about six or seven consecutive times and some guy actually had the audacity to turn around and say, "Dude, shut the f*** up!"
So yeah...that's my two cents to this argument.
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Post by hooeylewis on Jun 3, 2008 13:56:48 GMT -5
While I expect to see children in Family restaurants and places such as McDonald's. I should not have to deal with children and parents in every single public setting. There are some restaurants that are simply not child/infant friendly. It is unfair of parents to think every place is automatically be accommodating for them. And if your little angel cannot behave in public take him/her elsewhere. Its that simple
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Post by Max on Jun 3, 2008 13:58:58 GMT -5
Important:It's not the kids' fault, they're just being kids. If you're going to blame anybody, blame their idiot parents who don't know what they're doing. END. For example, at One Night Stand, there was a woman in the crowd who had her baby in one of those obnoxious baby sling things. First of all, how can you NOT immediately punch anyone wearing one of those? Second, what the hell kind of environment for a BABY is One Night Stand? A baby that couldn't even hold its head up yet. Pyro at WWE shows hurts MY ears, and I'm a 21-year-old metal guitarist who knows a thing or two about loud. That kid is deaf now. Also, in my experience, it's not kids that are the problem. It's teenagers with cell phones. smurf every last one of them. do you mean teenagers with cellphones alltogether, or just ones that use them in movies?
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Post by hooeylewis on Jun 3, 2008 14:00:51 GMT -5
On the topic of teens with cellphones. Kids and teens should not be allowed to own cellphones altogether.
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Post by Max on Jun 3, 2008 14:05:49 GMT -5
On the topic of teens with cellphones. Kids and teens should not be allowed to own cellphones altogether. LOL NO
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Post by Max on Jun 3, 2008 14:06:35 GMT -5
While I expect to see children in Family restaurants and places such as McDonald's. I should not have to deal with children and parents in every single public setting. There are some restaurants that are simply not child/infant friendly. It is unfair of parents to think every place is automatically be accommodating for them. And if your little angel cannot behave in public take him/her elsewhere. Its that simple lol that reminds me of that one cosby show episode where he takes rudy and her friends to a fancy restraunt.
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Post by hooeylewis on Jun 3, 2008 14:07:51 GMT -5
There are kids and teens that use cellphone etiquette however the bad ones outweigh the good ones.
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