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at the weekend it was R's 40th b'day and she had a huge party, and obv lots of her pals have kids so the afternoon bit was a kid's party

anyway in the evening we put up lots of candles and things all round cz we wub R v..much, and some of the left-over kids were having a cushion fight near all the candles and i told them off and THEY OBEYED!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 07:36 (twenty-three years ago)

this was very unexpected: i guess i am a grown-up after all

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 07:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm looking for a babysitter this w/e, are you interested mark?

We'll even leave a bottle of Blue Nun for you.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 07:46 (twenty-three years ago)

**and i told them off and THEY OBEYED!!**

Mark - come round Wednesday so I can go the FAP. We'll leave lots of Budweiser and posh choccy bics and you can play them some improv before reading them a bedtime story of your choice - "I was a Shrewsbury punk, perhaps"? I'm sure they'd show you Pokemon stuff too.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 08:14 (twenty-three years ago)

come and shout at the youth of Dunedin. this morning I was walking through town with one of my friends, and I had my arm around her and some little boy (who was with his mother) screamed out: "yuck, pansies! Gross, look at the lesbians!" His mother didn't even say anything.

― rainy, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 23:22 (twenty-three years ago)

children are the spawn of satan.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 00:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Seriously, this thread's got me interested. It's made me realise I wanna yell at kids and have them obey me. Usually, when I visit friends who have children, I'm one of those annoying fuckers who gets them overexcited and hyper play fighting and stuff. Then they don't sleep. But I've not been near a kid in ages. Next time I'm gonna be merciless and mean. Shut the fuck up. That's what I'll say. To a group of ten of them. If they do shut up, it'd give me a thrill.

― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 00:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Kids really do live in another universe. It's probably unwise to try to understand most of what they say. I was in the bookstore once and this little girl points at me and announces "He's too fat." (I'm like 160, which doesn't seem overweight for a 5'11 20-year old male though it kind of upset me anyway) To tell you the truth the one I wanted to smack was the mother, who loudly lectured her kid on how it was okay to THINK such things but one shouldn't SAY them.

Another day I was in the same store and this little boy runs up to a lifesize Harry Potter cardboard figure and throws his arms around it. When his mother comes to drag him off he screams "NO! That's my boyfriend!" That was possibly the weirdest thing I've seen in the last year.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 03:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Aw, I wish I'd seen that Harry Potter bit, it sounds funny rather than weird!

I usually like kids, except when I'm out shopping at the farmer's market and there are kids every two feet who want to pet my dog. When I'm busy & trying to get out of there I try to just ignore them, but then their moms say "oh, he loves doggies! can't he pet yours?" So I guess actually I should yell at the moms. I don't really appreciate my errands turning into entertainment for their kids, but I feel bad when I'm rude & tell them no & walk away.

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

As a slash fan and bisexual, I heartily approve of this. I just hope the boy wasn't punished too badly.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

When I yell at my dogs, my dogs laugh at me. I always have to call my husband in to disipline them.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

children are the spawn of satan.

One of my friends always refers to children as 'wannabe humans', Di.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

this was the one and only time i got to do this so far

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

seek out Louis CK's "Shitty Kids" bit on his Live In Houston CD.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The reason they obeyed when you yelled was cuz you're not the daddy.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't Australian Aborigines kill people by yelling at them? Well, at least they could in a movie. I bet their kids at least act like humans, unlike the rest of the world

― dave q, Tuesday, 16 September 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Somedays I shout at kids so much, I lose my voice.

Shouting is bad and I get angry when I let them bring me to this point. I prefer to get them in line with a hand on the shoulder or The Look.

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

This morning the cbc news had a short piece about the Great Antonio's funeral, which went "local eccentric ex-strongman blahblah... liked to frighten children on the street by growling at them BUT NOT IN A THREATENING WAY, IN A PLAYFUL WAY..." and it made me sad (but it was early)

kids wouldn't get shouted at so much if they weren't irritating little fuckers

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Sez Louis: "sometimes kids are just shitty" and then he tells a story about flipping off a kid for no reason at all in line at the store. Just cuz that's how he passes time when he's waiting in line, he picks someone and hates them.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

kids wouldn't get shouted at so much if they weren't irritating little fuckers

OTM

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

'wannabe humans'

Love it, stealing it.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic.

... This is a classic or dud thread right?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

sometimes you just have to shout at children when the 10th time you've told/asked them to do something they have still ignired you. It's cathartic, everyone loves it!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

D00ds, this is something I do for a job. Each time the little rats sit down and obey it's like my first day of teaching all over again.

It's such a great feeling.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 18 September 2003 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

haha this was so a one-off!

― mark s, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

I have never actually got to shout at a child. I did tell my nephew to stop doing something dangerous and he started crying, and then I felt guilty.

What I do like, in a similar vein to mark's original "AND THEY OBEYED ME! I AM AN ADULT!" vein is when kids at a party come and ask your permission to have a go next at a game and such like. I have experienced this with bubble blowing and Wii in the last year.

Yesterday, two teenage girls asked me to go into an off-licence and buy drink for them. I said no and they said please it's for a party and I said "I don't care, I'm not encouraging you to drink alcohol!" and I thought "God, listen to me". But I did the right thing.

― Alba, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 23:30 (eighteen years ago)

I hated more than anything being yelled at when I was a child. I still dislike it.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

I wasn't fucking around, either.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

You're not supposed to like it!

― Alba, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

I went ballistic on a couple of neighbor kids once when they were having a BB-gun war and carelessly shot through our back (screen) door. Sarah was a toddler, playing in the kitchen floor, and the BB whizzed past her -- missed her by two or three feet. I'm pretty mild mannered, but I had those brats shaking as bad as I was shaking by the end of it.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

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