The Not Happy Thread

I convinced myself today was Saturday, waited from 8am this morning till 2.30 (eastern time) to watch bbc match of the day 10.30 gmt on a crafty little website I found. I avoided all football sites so's not to see the score and guess what - it's still Friday and tomorrow is Nevada Day and they have some stupid parade so will miss the football anyway!

 

Always Screaming Child is currently screaming away across the street. I'm pretty certain that child abuse is not in play since I see the child outside and, true to form, the child screams away like there was no tomorrow for no apparent reason.

Hats off to all parents who manage to avoid landing in prison or the looney bin before getting their kids off to college first. For real-real, not for play-play.

 

Note to self: instead of having a kid, get a pet fish. Or even a cat.

 

lol. Poor Wreybies I have two kids of my own, and they certainly have their moments, but the kid across the street from me is like what you describe. She SCREAMS all day and sometimes all night. I don't know how her parents retain brain cells at all. They must wear ear plugs or something. She makes me crazy. She's autistic, and apparently incredibly sensitive to everything. Her little brother is also autistic, but never makes a sound. I don't know how they deal...

 

In this case I don't think any sort of cognitive change is in play. When the child isn't screaming, she's playing with her siblings, I hear her interact and jibber jabber away in what seems an appropriate level for her age. She just seems to have discovered and become fascinated by the power of the scream.

 

Poor Wrey.

The kids in my neighborhood are always very well-behaved. I'm lucky.

 

I can't tell you how often, in my head, I'm shouting, "Shut Up! Shut Up! Shut the f*ck up!"

 

That's exactly why I had a vasectomy in my mid-twenties...

 

I find I can tune out kiddie noise, even the screaming, as it tends to be a phase they go through and they get bored soon enough. What I can't abide, is seeing some brat in mid tantrum in the supermarket check out line. And what irks me even worse, is seeing the parents give in to the kid. Why on earth do they think the child's behaving like that in the first place? It's conditioning, plain and simple, and the parents are completely to blame.

Whilst I don't believe children should be physically reprimanded, I think some parents could do with being given a good shake.

 

Yeah, I love the 'wait till I get you home' schtick as well. If anything dire ever happened when they did get home, the kid wouldn't be acting like a heenyock every time they go out.

Little Willie killed his sister
No one knew, until they missed her
Ain't he cute, he's only six
Willie's always up to tricks

I know when we were kids we were NOT allowed to scream while outside playing in the neighbourhood. If my mother heard us screaming we were brought back indoors and kept there for the rest of the day. I used to think that was a bit harsh, because it IS natural to get excited when you're playing, when you're a little kid ...but she was thinking of the neighbours (especially one elderly one), and she was quite right. The constraint certainly didn't kill us, and it made us think about how our public behaviour affected other people.

Don't get me started. Teenage girls screaming on trampolines...??? !!!!

 

I'm actually surprised that many mommies think it's totally cool that their kids scream their lungs out in public transport.

But then it's a problem if:
1) you`re on the phone.

You know, it's ok to talk with your friend(s) while on the train/bus, but they have to be there too, physically. You can't talk on the phone with them. Why is the latter so (much more) annoying? Is it because you can't hear what the other person is talking?

2) you have your headphones on.

I mean, it's again ok to read a book, but if you dare listen to music or an audio book, you're being impolite and stupid and bothersome and should die.

Our local daily newspaper publishes reader text messages, and, like, 98 % of them consist of people complaining about dog poo, cell phones, old people and kids.

 

In my endeavors to keep the forum clean of spam, I have accidentally whacked a real member. This is one out of hundreds of bots, mind you, but still, bad feels.

 

You can't get them back?

 

We discovered that the platform will hold the mods to the courage of their convictions. If I ban someone for one reason or another, be it perma-ban or a time-out ban, deleting the infraction that invoked the ban will not undo it. These flood spammers are making me really unhappy. I hate seeing spam even pop up at all. It makes me feel like I'm not doing a good job.

 

For the second time since I got to this state someone has driven by and shouted a racial slur about Latino's at me as I'm walking home. As an aside, about the only thing in me other than Scotch/Irish is 1/8th Chinese. Hell, I'm not even tanned, wtf is up with these people???

I mean, seriously, I don't look Hispanic in the least bit. (At least I don't think so.)

 

People have serious issues, @Alesia.

 

Not even with the buzzed head that I know you sport now. Some people are programmed to accept certain paradigms as requisite package deals. If you have a bandana (as completely random example) and latinos in your area are fond of and often seen with bandanas, then you must be latino, though all other evidence says no because "bandana" is part of the latino package, ergo you must be the whole package. Anything in your apparel or style or car or any other random thing that might link you in some way to latinoness in the eyes of package-dealers?

 

I guess you live in a racist part of the country. Bummer.

 

While in London in the late 80s I was racially abused several times because of my Irish accent. It only stopped when I put on fake cockney accent. Apparently anbody who drank Guinness was a terrorist. I sympathise with the billions of innocent Muslims today.

 

Unless a restaurant uniform counts, I don't think so.

Yeah, as compared to California the south is not very progressive.

 

Yeah, all the hate-isms are... awful. It's one of the reasons I have different little ways to smoothly mention my husband when I meet new people. If it's going to be a problem, I want to know before I invest any time in that person.

 

I wondered whether this would've belonged in the food thread, but since it pisses me off:

Hot foods or, rather, human bodies. I love hot foods and when you eat them 1-2 times a week, you develop a tolerance for the heat, capsaicin. Well, nowadays my tolerance is at a level where I can taste actual capsaicing extract straight from the bottle and it just feels pleasantly hot. Problems arise when I put enough of it on my plate, so the dish has the perfect level of heat for me. Well, wait about 6 hours and then the stomach pains start, intense burning waves. A few gulps of milk takes away the pains but only momentarily, so every few hours I gotta have a couple of sips and once had to get up at night for milk because I woke up to intense burning in my stomach.

The "funny" thing is that other than that, my body doesn't seem to react to capsaicin in any way; doesn't make me flushed, doesn't affect my metabolism etc, it's just that apparently the stomach (its lining or whatever) just can't take that much heat, the wimp. Now I'm facing two choices: find a way to protect the stomach from capsaicin or try to lower my heat tolerance, which would totally suck since it'd mean no hot foods for, like, a year or whatever. This... fucking... sucks.

 

@T.Trian Yup... but a gastric ulcer would suck worse. Do what you can now to protect yourself long term. Imagine your diet being dictated by an ulcer. It could deprive you of a lot of things you love.

 

Did some cross-posting, but it appears I was worried over nothing.

 

I have a math test tomorrow. Ugh!