Telling Someone Elses Kids to Be Quiet

[xxMAIRxx]

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1)No-one ever gets up for ... pregnant women anymore. It's disgusting.
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I'm fairly easy going, but this really annoys me.   

A couple of years ago I used to get the bus home from work with a friend of mine - the whole way through her pregnancy, nobody ever gave up their seat for her to sit down.

I generally expressed my anger at the inconsiderate chavs who were doing this by giving them a jolly stern look - I think that put them in their place.

There are too many women who are just obscenely fat that it's difficult to tell who is pregnant and who isn't. Someone even designed these for pregnant women to wear to avoid the 'is she pregnant or just a porker?' dilemma.

Sisters, put the Gregg's pasty down and maybe the pregnant will be more easily identifiable.

Maybe not all woman are big from eating and have a medical condition that prevents them from being the slim woman they always hoped to be!

On the topic of the OP I have the 3 children and my mother brought me up the old school way, I wouldnt blink if someone had asked my children to be quiet if they were being a nuisance, as long as it was not said in an over nasty way, but I guess im fortunate that mine show respect to others on the bus by being their playful selves without being over noisy.

I don't believe in smacking my kids, I have the naughty step too and also their room is the place to have a time out when needed and it works well and I am fortunate to have 3 happy kids who respect me.

[AndrewT]

*sigh*

I will try and make my joke posts less subtle in future.

[The Camel]

*sigh*

I will try and make my joke posts less subtle in future.

I was pretty friendly with the barmaid at the local pub years ago.

I hadn't been in for a coupld of months and when I went back she had gained weight in *that* area.

I innocently asked her when the big day was...

I have since learned not to ask questions like that if I am not sure of the answer... it the quickest way to end a friendship!

[Rod Paradise]

*sigh*

I will try and make my joke posts less subtle in future.

I was pretty friendly with the barmaid at the local pub years ago.

I hadn't been in for a coupld of months and when I went back she had gained weight in *that* area.

I innocently asked her when the big day was...

I have since learned not to ask questions like that if I am not sure of the answer... it the quickest way to end a friendship!

It is a very good rule that unless you can see the kid emerging you NEVER ask a woman if she's pregnant, always let them tell you.

[phatomch]

Ronald, disciplining kids since 1955

[Karabiner]

I usually threaten badly behaved kids with retro-active birth-control, that soon gets them back into line.

[cia260895]

Am taking Thomas on a bus tomorrow no DS no nothing,should be fun as he just cant sit still and be quiet,

bet there will be loads of tch tch thc's and under the breath comments.

Always nice when someone says cant you keep him still or quiet,especially when they can see I'm doing my best to keep him still/quiet.

it usually gets the response "when they get a cure for autism maybe" followed by an embarrassed look away.

It is a good feeling.

[Horneris]

I was on a bus today

wtf

[AndrewT]

I was on a bus today

wtf

Those $2k HU SNGs aren't as profitable as they used to be.

[cia260895]

result,, the bus was virtually empty both ways...

there was a sign on the bus saying no amplified noise is permitted and that headphones must be used

[phatomch]

Another bus/disacplining story..

I have just got off the bus at my normal stop, only to be confronted by ten 11-15 year old kids, now as the bus was coming around the corner they started pelting the bus with rocks on my side causing 2 windows to smash into the bus, including the window I was sat next to and the one a few infront. When I got off the bus (about 30yards) down the road they noticed me getting off and decided to throw more rocks in my direction that just bounced of parked cars.

How should I have dealt with this ?

Let it go, walk away?

chase them, slap them about a bit?

chase them try and speak to the parents?

What are peoples thoughts, or what would you do?

[bolt pp]

you can kick the shit out of 10 15-year olds?

[phatomch]

Maybe kicking shit out of them is a over statement, maybe just slap them about a bit <------- epic 1000 th post

[thetank]

What are peoples thoughts, or what would you do?

Are there any pretty girls watching?

If not, leggit... ldo, they've got stones!

[cia260895]

you can kick the shit out of 10 15-year olds?

easy 1 on 1 but mob handed    no chance..