• Taleya@aussie.zone
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    18 days ago

    Ohhh i loathe people like this. They muddy the waters on bad parenting so hard.

    When you’ve got … kids jumping in the pool

    This is called being a child. It is normal. The world does not cater to you exclusively, sit the fuck down. You are making it harder for the rest of us to get bad parents to stop letting their kids eat paint in bunnings

    • tomiant@piefed.socialBanned
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      17 days ago

      Doesn’t that go both ways though- the world doesn’t exclusively cater to you either?

      The only time I hear that line it’s out of the mouths of people who think they don’t have to ever accomodate anyone else.

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        17 days ago

        They’re literally complaining about children being, well, children. Including bitching about a kid screaming on a flight and "if i did that - "

        She’s a grown adult. Not a child still learning to emotionally regulate. I’m cf but there’s a difference between being childfree and being so damned pig ignorant you throw a tantrum when children do not act like adults

        Also what part of what i posted had anything to do with demanding catering

  • MisterFrog@aussie.zone
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    17 days ago

    This is a stupid take. The problem is only parents who aren’t teaching their kids properly.

    A bit of noise from some slightly rowdy children is not a big deal.

    Let’s not further isolate our society. Parents should feel free to bring their kids along places so they can still socialise.

    I say this as someone without children.

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      17 days ago

      It’s completely fine to ask for some spaces to be adults only and no children.

      Honestly some kids are annoying shits and I reckon parents would probably appreciate those spaces when the grandparents or others are looking after their own.

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      17 days ago

      Let’s not further isolate our society. Parents should feel free to bring their kids along places so they can still socialise.

      Totally agree. And it’s not that difficult to find quiet places. I’d like to see more kids out and about be safe and playing, laughing, screaming, whatever, or meeting other people in the company of their parents so they learn about community and communication. So many kids are cooped up with their parents and with gadgets indoors day in and day out.

      it’s like we want to warehouse the old, warehouse the kids and warehouse precious adults. This is no way to have a healthy community.

  • TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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    18 days ago

    I guess these people can start their own non family friendly businesses and see how that goes for them?

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    18 days ago

    Who is ready to see the horrific downfall of the country due to crashing birth rates, like South Korea will be demonstrating for us over the next few decades?

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        16 days ago

        The problem with population decline is always that there will eventually be a lot of retired old people who need support and not that many young people who support them.

        I guess this isn’t a problem if you just let old people have a miserable few last years but I personally want everyone to have a good time.

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          I have heard this one before. But it still all really comes down to the economy demanding perpetual growth, no matter how you twist and turn it. Because under capitalism, there is never any equilibrium. There is only always perpetual growth, there is no “enough”, there is no “this many people is optimal and keep it that way”, it’s only ever more more more.

          The symptom you are describing is an effect of the disease, the ultimate consequence of which is death for us all.

          If you allow for the doomsday preaching, of course, but I’m afraid that is the logical conclusion of all this unless it is stopped.

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        17 days ago

        It’s much worse than that, rapid uncontrolled crash in population will make life hell

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    18 days ago

    There’s a café in Berlin named The Barn which has this philosophy: the doorway has a bollard in the middle to impede the entry of prams.

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    18 days ago

    It would be nice to have adult only public transport. When I first had to regularly use public transport I thought the high schoolers were noisy shits. Jesus now I use a route that a mob of the younger ones use. The parents are there but they just watch the chaos.

    Grrrrrr, get off my lawn, and ferry.

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      17 days ago

      Public transport is one of the only ways teenagers (among many other vulnerable groups) can get some independence in a very car-centric society. You’d be fighting an uphill battle trying convince people to exclude kids from the public transport system.

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        17 days ago

        100%. Parents today won’t let their kids do much by themselves and this is normally where they start

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      18 days ago

      and ferry

      Keelhaul the kiddos!


      Some of our trains have quiet carriages, which are nice. I haven’t been on many but I haven’t seen them noisy either.

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    18 days ago

    She also cited multiple flights where a child screamed “its head off”.

    "If I did the same thing, I’d be kicked out of somewhere.

    1. Headphones
    2. What?? No shit genious. How unfair for you.
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    18 days ago

    Shhhhhhhhhhhh, Tanya!

    You will alert the breeders to the secret quiet places!

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    I don’t think there needs to be a conflict in public with child and not child places, honestly. also I grew up in NV and CA, pretty much everywhere used to be less child friendly in public when I was a kid. you can walk kids through a casino now, they used to really physically stop you in the 80s-90s

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    17 days ago

    What’s wrong with having some spaces for adults to enjoy the company of other adults without someone’s semen demon around?

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      16 days ago

      For one thing, I want our society to welcome children, not dehumanise them as “semen demon”.

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        16 days ago

        Well I don’t want your shitty kids in every single public space.

        What’s weird is…why the hell do you want that? Why would anyone be against this? Y’all are fucking weird.

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    17 days ago

    choosing not to have kids

    There’s also the people who wanted to have kids, but weren’t able to due to medical/fertility problems. The article mentions “fertility intentions” briefly, but doesn’t really explore the psychology of it.

    Much as people who are childfree by choice may be irritated by kids, for those who are “childfree by circumstance” it can be painful to put up with other people’s when you can’t have your own.