Stroller Derby Anyone?

Rose wrote: I don't like when men tell me to smile, as if I had some kind of obligation to look cheerful for them.

Oh, I used to get that all the time when I was younger. I always wanted to say something like "fuck you, my whole family just died in a plane crash".

Subject: Re: Stroller Derby Anyone?

boosedog wrote: After what will undoubtedly be my last daytime visit to the Tea Lounge ever, I feel compelled to post this rant about the Stroller Mafia. Ladies, the place is not a daycare center. The people who actually spend money there and can see over the counter don't want to be tripping over pacifiers and strolllers, anymore than you would want a bunch of hispter teenagers lurking around your kid's daycare center.

Amen.

I'm cool with babies quietly and neatly contained in one area, but babies gone wild spilling out all over the place, their stroller wheels crushing my toes, their sticky little hands grabbing at my coffee cup while their parents are babbling ya-baa-baa at each other is too much of a scene to cope with.

kensingtonmom wrote: I mean Hugh Grant was doing it with a transvestite hooker?? (Although some transvestites look better then some women I know)

I'm not enough of a fool to get drawn into a discussion on feminism vs. hegemonic male privilege or a freeloading-hipsters-vs.-entitled-mommies throwdown, but I do follow the gossip pages, and I can't let this pass.

Hugh Grant was busted with a biological female hooker. It was Eddie Murphy who picked up a trannie.

I almost posted a rant today.
I was out having coffee with a friend who needed to discuss a personal crisis. We were sitting and a very cute toddler wandered over (we were at the only table left which was near some toys). The mother walked over and with her butt up against our table stood and watched her kid take all the toys off the shelf and then put the toys on the empty chair at our table and play with them. While I was peeved and pissed (I had carved out time for this friend) and I was thinking to myself (hey lady I GOT KIDS, I DIDN'T COME OUT TO WATCH YOURS PLAY!). But then after we left not able to discuss this problem of my friends, I realized we did choose a public space for a conversation and well, what did I expect? If it hadn't been a toddler, it could have been someone yacking loudly on a cell phone. Some parents are so clueless and think that everyone wants to enjoy and partake in the joy of their child. So in the end, I was disappointed not to help out a friend today but then figured today it was a child and a clueless parent and tomorrow it might be a hipster or whatever. Maybe a coffee shop was not the best place for a conversation of this nature???

kensingtonmom wrote: I almost posted a rant today.
I was out having coffee with a friend who needed to discuss a personal crisis. We were sitting and a very cute toddler wandered over (we were at the only table left which was near some toys). The mother walked over and with her butt up against our table stood and watched her kid take all the toys off the shelf and then put the toys on the empty chair at our table and play with them. While I was peeved and pissed (I had carved out time for this friend) and I was thinking to myself (hey lady I GOT KIDS, I DIDN'T COME OUT TO WATCH YOURS PLAY!).

Cat got your tongue? Perhaps a polite "Excuse me, we're trying to have a talk" to the person in question would have gotten her attention and alerted them to move. You don't ask, you don't get. Only then do you have the right to rant.

I am constantly amazed by the martyrdom and subsequent intolerance here.

brklyngirl wrote:

I am constantly amazed by the martyrdom and subsequent intolerance here.

why should anyone 'tolerate' rude behavior?

MOD NOTE: I know this topic can get heated, but can we please leave off the personal attacks? I've moved one flame by an anonymous guest off-site already. It's ok to disagree with Kmom (I know I do), but let's keep things civil, ok?

Carnivore wrote: MOD NOTE: I know this topic can get heated, but can we please leave off the personal attacks? I've moved one flame by an anonymous guest off-site already. It's ok to disagree with Kmom (I know I do), but let's keep things civil, ok?

Look, I've done my my best. I didn't post that flame but I almost did, and I was 100% in agreement with the content (assuming this was the [MILF=N-word] = idiocy post). Flames follow trolls, and my opinion is that kensingtonmom is an attention-loving stealth troll. But you know what? I'm glad she's back. She's a fun character.

kensingtonmom wrote: But sincerely thanks because you have finally made me realize once and for all that the minute someone tries to turn a thread into a dialogue (Linus) about a larger topic there are more people interested in just reverting it back to personal drivel or attempted personal characterizations. So I will use my computer wasting time to read Slate and the Times and stop popping in here. Believe me after the fury my (yes, judgmental) comment raised in people I am sure this will be quite welcome. So carry-on--I think i saw a homeless person on the corner of Garfield today asking for change that you direct your anger at. Meanwhile I'll see if any of the kindergarteners at 321 can recommend a good contractor for some renovations I need---or maybe they can't since I don't live on a Park Block 2 million brownstone?

why should anyone 'tolerate' rude behavior?

No one should tolerate rude behavoir. But to sit there and not say a damn thing about it and then rant about it in relative anonymity on a message board.....I mean seriously - textbook passive aggressive.

You only have power over your own behaviorl

oh forget it........

Jamzer wrote: I'm married to a MILF. I love MILF. MILF is beautiful!

Good for you Brutha! High 5's all around my man!

kensingtonmom wrote: But Julie Aigner-Clark is just out shilling for a buck.

Maybe but she is definitely one hot MILF

[sorry but I couldnt resist]

The Chipster wrote: To refocus: it's not parents Vs child-free. It's the entitlement behind those moms allowing their kids to run rampant that defines them. As assholes.

STOP IT RIGHT THERE! What is wrong with YOU? Blaming the moms....Get your facts straight: the dads are just as guilty. Out on the streets, those boys juggle cell phone conversations with sacks of Co-op food under their arms while shoving tripplet-packed strollers into LIVE human bodies. I've go scarred toes to prove it.

Subject: Meg Whitman

kensingtonmom wrote: [quote=eggcream] How about the woman in the audience of the SOTU who sold her Einstein videos to Disney for millions and who is now making videos w/John Walsh to help kids be safe from abductors just to name two.

Do you mean Julie Aigner-Clark? The woman whose husband is a big donor to the Republican Party? Do you mean her Baby Einstein videos that have been denounced as not only useless but possibly even detrimental to the development of babies? Please!! Granted, Condi Rice is a powerful woman in a boys club administration--But Julie Aigner-Clark is just out shilling for a buck.

The President and CEO of Ebay is a woman and has been doing a pretty good job since 98, no?