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24 Jun 2016, 10:45 pm

If children are screaming or otherwise making a lot of noise in a public space, you should be well within your rights to tell their parents to shut them up. I'm not advocating the complete children-should-be-seen-not-heard attitude, but in areas like trains (ESPECIALLY designated quiet carriages) or restaurants, people should not have to out up with children screaming or yelling shrilly. But if you say anything against a child to their parents, like "this is a quiet space, please keep your children quiet or move away," you're automatically a monster.
This drives me crazy. Children are allowed to just ruin everything for everyone and make other uncomfortable whenever they want, and no one is allowed to say anything.


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25 Jun 2016, 12:27 am

its part of the bigger picture,
children are seen more as a possession(because of choise?)
it is not normal to exclude others from interacting with the chosen kids, the future citizens and its not normal of others to do nothing with/for children but being judgemental towards parents
and also the 'education' by rewards brings out lazy behaviour and reward seeking conformists



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25 Jun 2016, 2:02 am

C2V wrote:
If children are screaming or otherwise making a lot of noise in a public space, you should be well within your rights to tell their parents to shut them up. I'm not advocating the complete children-should-be-seen-not-heard attitude, but in areas like trains (ESPECIALLY designated quiet carriages) or restaurants, people should not have to out up with children screaming or yelling shrilly. But if you say anything against a child to their parents, like "this is a quiet space, please keep your children quiet or move away," you're automatically a monster.
This drives me crazy. Children are allowed to just ruin everything for everyone and make other uncomfortable whenever they want, and no one is allowed to say anything.


this. this so much.

i find a good portion of them absolutely unbearable, within my family too.

when i am in my "room" (which is just a small connecting room with all my tat in it) and i'm drawing in the background of a party going on in the backyard adjacent, inevitably, inevitably, there will be small children obsessed one of two things: whatever it is in my room they find fascinating, be it small toy cars or miniature food package replicas...or my drawings, or the desk i use for said drawings.

i am engrossed in a painting and my 6 year old, cousin is playing with my chair, turning it, poking my hair, turning off my phone which i use for music, asking me what i am painting...when adequately answering such would require a dissertation far too lengthy for her attention span, and one i am not even prepared to spout.

i mind my own damn business drawing, and some other snot nosed, fat little buggers are grabbing stuff off my refrigerator with their sweaty mitts, hovering dangerously close to my mounted paintings i spent too much time on. i get up for a drink and they lift the lid off my "desk", with all my stuff on it. and bang on the keys underneath. surprised the sheer weight doesn't hurt them. he keeps asking me where his toy gone after i told him i had no idea where it went (i really didn't).

they run, screaming past me from the living room, to the backyard, back and forth until my grandpa tells them to calm down.

i normally am disgusted by their mother (read: my aunt) but when she told them to stop bouncing off the damn art covered walls and to not make a mess, i almost cheered her on.

you may say i have far too thin skin, but i do not bloody care.

makes me glad i was never a kid. :skull:


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25 Jun 2016, 6:06 am

I, too, hate this 'children are more important than adults' mentality. In fact, I'll be completely frank with you, I detest children.


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25 Jun 2016, 5:54 pm

Parents who refuse to control their children are idiots.


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25 Jun 2016, 8:47 pm

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25 Jun 2016, 10:28 pm

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26 Jun 2016, 9:34 am

I'm opposed to electoral democracy. I think representatives and senators both at state and federal level should be chosen randomly by computer. A list could be generated for each district and the person at the top of the list would be offered the position. If refused or ineligible for some reason, then it would go to the second person on the list and so on.

Some benefits:

- true representation of, by and for a representative distribution of the people. Not just lawyers and business bigshots.

- no political campaigns, hence no corrupting campaign contributions.

- no need for term limits as the chance of a person getting chosen randomly twice is infinitesimal, consequently ...

- no career politicians

- no need for political parties as individuals would be selected regardless of any affiliation. Some members of a legislature having a common interest might form some group, but it would disappear as soon as their terms ended.

:arrow: This would be for all senate and representative seats.

As for governors and presidents, the task of selection would go to their respective legislatures, which could select anyone from among eligible people. Disgraces like a Hillary or a Trump would stand virtually no chance of being selected in such a scenario. The evil of presidential campaign contributions would be gone. The country would live happily ever after. 8)



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26 Jun 2016, 6:00 pm

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26 Jun 2016, 9:45 pm

thoughtbeast wrote:
I'm opposed to electoral democracy. I think representatives and senators both at state and federal level should be chosen randomly by computer. A list could be generated for each district and the person at the top of the list would be offered the position. If refused or ineligible for some reason, then it would go to the second person on the list and so on.

Some benefits:

- true representation of, by and for a representative distribution of the people. Not just lawyers and business bigshots.

- no political campaigns, hence no corrupting campaign contributions.

- no need for term limits as the chance of a person getting chosen randomly twice is infinitesimal, consequently ...

- no career politicians

- no need for political parties as individuals would be selected regardless of any affiliation. Some members of a legislature having a common interest might form some group, but it would disappear as soon as their terms ended.

:arrow: This would be for all senate and representative seats.

As for governors and presidents, the task of selection would go to their respective legislatures, which could select anyone from among eligible people. Disgraces like a Hillary or a Trump would stand virtually no chance of being selected in such a scenario. The evil of presidential campaign contributions would be gone. The country would live happily ever after. 8)

The problem with this is that it's virtually impossible to achieve true randomness on a digital computer. As well, this system would have to be programmed by a human, which means that there would be at least some small degree of bias. With well-commented, open source code this would be a bit less of an issue, but even still most people wouldn't know what to make of it. Otherwise, I actually rather like the idea.


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27 Jun 2016, 2:44 am

I don't see Manson as a murderer.



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27 Jun 2016, 2:58 am

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And now I'm an agnostic atheist. Long story.


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27 Jun 2016, 3:37 am

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