What pisses you off?

[Maddy McCall]

It pisses me off when people go to the casino with their children and make the children sit OUTSIDE the gamefloor for HOURS while the parents gamble their hearts away.

Sickening. Child Protective Services ought to patrol casino grounds.

[GOPisEvil]

1. LOL! My parents did that to me in Reno once.

It was only about 30 minutes or so. An hour at the most. My 9-year-old reaction? "Reno is the only place where adults can play and kids don't." I obviously hadn't heard of Vegas at the time. ;)

But hours on end? :grr:

[Maddy McCall]

5. Yes. When we stayed at the Choctaw casino a week ago...

I checked into the hotel at 4:00. The kids were sitting there. We unloaded the car and took all of our stuff up to the room and I came back down to move the car to the parking lot (since I'm to cheap for valet). The kids were still sitting there.

At 7:00, my son and I went to eat. The kids had moved to another bench, but they were still sitting there. However, I saw their mother come over to them and hand them a casino Coke to split. I kind of observed from a distance. She spoke to them for about 30 seconds, and then back to the slots floor she went.

AT 10:OO PM, my son and I went down to buy some snacks. The kids were still there. The oldest was probably ten, the youngest was probably about five. The little girl, the youngest, was asleep on the bench with her brother sitting beside her. The other brother looked to be about seven or eight.

If I would have known where their mother was, hell, I would have asked her to let me bring them back to the room for Cokes, snacks, and to play Playstation with us. I figure she probably would have let them go, seeing as how she allowed them to care for themselves for AT LEAST seven hours. :grr:

Broke my heart.

[GOPisEvil]

13. Oh, holy hell...that's just fucking wrong.

If you're going to do that, leave the kids with other family or friends. Selfish people like that should really examine whether they need to be parents.

[Maddy McCall]

19. Yep, I agree.

[Kerrytravelers]

2. Older children in strollers.

It pisses me off when I'm at an amusement park, or even just out in public, and parents are pushing an 8 year old in a stroller (and I"m not talking about a special needs child.)

The kids always have that royal pout, as if their parents are doing their job to serve them. It is creating a larger generation of brats... becuse when they get to my clsasroom, it's a whole new world, baby!

[Maddy McCall]

7. WTF?

That kid will end up weighing 250, parking illegally in handicap spots, and taking escalators instead of steps.

Don't people know that they are creating tomorrow's monsters?

:hi:

[Left Is Write]

12. But do you know the child has no special needs?

[Kerrytravelers]

34. Obviouly, I can't know that every older kid I see in a stroller isn't

special needs, but when you hear them speak to their parents, making demands, telling others to "get out of the way", etc, they aren't special needs. It's not like I stare or say anything to the parents.

We have Disney passes and are there all the time. We have been watching voer the past few years and have noticed how much large strollers are being designed. The stroller companies are looking to increase their sales by increasing the size of the strollers. It's really quite a clever deal they've got going.

I have taught special needs kids. Their behavior is quite different. And even so, we really pushed out special needs kids and wouldn't let them use strollers and carry them in our arms when we took them off school grounds.

[Fiona]

3. yes

that pisses me off, too.

Children are never too young to learn the finer points of craps. Bring 'em in!

[Maddy McCall]

10. It should be illegal.

It fucking should be illegal. Give me a badge for a day, and I'd take care of some of the "breeders." LOL

:hi: FiFi! :D

[merh]

4. That is a big no, no here on the coast.

Security is supposed to be on the look out for it and the local police are called. Was that something that happened on the Coast???

I agree with you, that is disgusting and the people should be arrested for neglect.

:hug:

[Maddy McCall]

14. No, up in Philadelphia, MS...

at the Silver Star hotel/casino.

By the way, if you ever want to get away from the coast, you HAVE to go up there. It's nice, and the rooms are CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP.

Indeed, I am sure that mother gambled away a couple hundred dollars. She could have gotten a room for about $50, maybe free with her player's card, and the kids could have at least had a safe room to stay in.

Fucking negligent parents.

:hug: :loveya:

[merh]

24. Now you know, once I get beyond the situation here.

We are going to have to plan that Meetup - I say October/November will be perfect time.

Also, Mardi Gras on the Coast is something to consider. Our office is right next to the parade route. We are closed for the day and we use the office as a place to chill between parades.

Things to consider! :think:

:loveya: :hug:

[Maddy McCall]

28. What is the date of Mardi Gras?

Don't y'all have a festival of decorated boats on the water, too?

If your Mardi Gras isn't the Saturday before Fat Tuesday, I'll see you there! Otherwise, I'll be in Monroe, LA for their Mardi Gras. I have a standing engagement for the Sat. before Fat Tuesday in Monroe.

:D :loveya: :hug:

[merh]

32. Our Mardi Gras is Fat Tuesday - the 3 parades downtown roll.

Last year the morning and the evening parades were throwing tons of stuff. Open invitation for you and MMjr to be sure.
*February 28, 2006 is Mardi Gras* You better mark your calender.

They used to have the blessing of the fleet, well they still do, but it has decreased in size and importance over the last several years. They stopped allowing the pleasure boats to be a part of it and the shrimping fleet has decreased in size. It is almost too costly to be a shrimper these days, the cost of ice and gasoline. The costs and the Asian imports have hurt the industry here. The blessing happens in June and has passed.

There is a boat parade on the water during the Christmas holidays in both Gulfport & Biloxi, they usually occur in early December.

:hug: :loveya:

[WCGreen]

6. It pisses me off when people take their kids to

a restaurant and let them run all over the fucking place, and scream and yell...

Isn't that what fucking McDonald's is for........

[Maddy McCall]

15. It pisses me off when they let their kids stand up in the booth and throw

shit over the back of the booth into my booth, or let them stand up and eat and smack in my ear, instead of saying, "Sit down, little Princess Monster!"

[GOPisEvil]

8. People who talk during music shows.

It's the little things that get to me. Like being out somewhere listening to a band, where there is only standing. It seems I always find the group of glorified frat boys and their girlfriends and they have to play catch-up with their inane lives WHILE THE MUSIC IS PLAYING!!! Hello, dipshits spending daddy's money, some of us WORKED FOR THE TEN BUCKS we spent to get in here, and we'd like to hear the fucking music.

:grr::mad:

[Maddy McCall]

20. That drives me crazy, too.

In movies, too, when Muffy wants to talk to Biff at the top of her lungs, so that we all know all the intricate details of their relationship. Pisses me off.

[Left Is Write]

9. Yeah, that pisses me off too.

It also pisses me off when people speed WAAAAAY up on the road, desperate to pass you, then they cut in front of you and slow down to a crawl.

(I've just spent two 11-hour days on the road; can you tell?)

[Maddy McCall]

21. Or when granny jumps out in front of you when you're doing 65...

and her top speed turns out to be 35. And she WON'T speed up no matter how much you flip her off. ;-)

[Swede]

11. Injustice.

Injustice really irks me.

[Maddy McCall]

22. You want to be happy about justice being done...

when no one ever expected it?

If you have satellite, check out Discovery Times Channel. Look for the documentary on Mississippi Race Issues....can't remember the name of it.

You will feel VERY good when it's over, having seen three Klansmen rot in jail at a very old age.

It's an excellent documentary, and it's playing all day, throughout the day today, on DTMS. (Discovery Times)

[WindRavenX]

16. People who don't believe in evolution

Please. Don't embarrass yourself.

[Maddy McCall]

23. What? You mean that the world was NOT created 5000 years ago?

:cry:

;-)

[WindRavenX]

27. the conversations I've had...

...are like what you said. Only they were serious :o
I tried arguing about the fossil record and how it's million upon millions of years old...
Then he said the world was only 6K years old.

::SCREAM:::

[Maddy McCall]

29. But dating techniques are flawed. They are only relative...

and they have made great mistakes! And, how can you know that Lucy was half human. YOu scientists just want to shove evolution down our throats.

Now, if you want to talk about "adaptations" caused by God's hand, then I do agree somewhat with that. But don't you dare try to teach my kids micro and macroevolution. Satanist!!!!

;-)

Yeah, I teach world civ. Amazingly, I've only had two students complain. I told them it was their choice, that they didn't have to listen to my lecture on early protohumans, but that they WOULD be responsible for the material.

:D

[WindRavenX]

31. WORD

That's my plan when I teach too- believe whatever the fuck you want, but in MY class you WILL be tested on REAL SCIENCE and not theology psuedo science :thumbsup:

You rock!!!

[Maddy McCall]

33. Here's a pointer, if you want it.

I start my evolution lecture with a piece on the difference between science and mythology.

I read to them the Cherokee creation myth. They all giggle and laugh, and then I read them the Christian creation myth, and they sit silent, knowing that they've been caught in a trap.

I told them that believing in creationism required faith. Believing in evolution required scientific proof. That you could have faith in one hand, and learn scientific theory in the other, and neither should challenge the other.

Then we move into evolution--the historical side, of course, and we look at the technical accomplishments of each...and the increase in brain capacity through time.

I've only had two complaints, and those were before the lecture.

I actually had an Episcopal clergymember's daughter come to me and THANK me for teaching her something that had been taboo in her household. She did say that she could believe that God's guiding hand had worked through evolution. I WAS so proud of her. She had broken through a barrier that had prohibited her from even enrolling in anthro classes. I heard from her a couple of years ago. She had changed her major.

Guess to what.





ANTHROPOLOGY.




:woohoo:

[Solly Mack]

17. small children, the elderly or animals left in cars

I've seen all three... sometimes the window is cracked...often times not

One old gentleman was struggling to unlock the door, he was all white and clammy looking....I noticed him because he was trying to pound on the window ...turns out he couldn't walk...just left in the car on a really hot day in Georgia...he had had a minor stroke (or so the EMTs believed)

I called 911 while my husband went in search of the cars owner...my husband didn't trust me not to hit the owner.

[Maddy McCall]

25. I've called the cop on parents for that.

Twice it's resulted in a parent being arrested. I'm a hard ass when I see kids being abused. After what I had to go through to have mine, damn straight I'll call the law if your that stupid.

And I'm glad you do, too.

[Democracy White]

18. Being taken advantage of

from my family asking for money, favors and not getting anything in return when I ask for something..

BTW Maddy who is that in your sig line?

dee

[Maddy McCall]

26. ROLLERBALL! THE MOVIE!

LL COOL J IS IN THE HOUSE!!

:D

[oregonjen]

30. When I have my eye on a parking spot, almost there and poof

some idiot speeds in and takes it! That pisses me off.

[Maddy McCall]

35. Thank god that southerners are more genteel than that.

That's never happened to me. :D

[grannylib]

36. I'm with you on that one, pissed me off too. If you have the money to

go to Vegas and piss it away gambling, you have the money to get your niece/nephew/kid next door to come babysit/hang out at the pool/watch tv while they sleep, for pete's sake...
Otherwise, CHINOS and Repulicans piss me off, along with stupid drivers and rude people in general

[Maddy McCall]

37. Rude people...

I'm waiting on the elevator door to open. A kid of about 16 darts in front of me and jumps in the elevator, almost tripping me in the process.

Why, 16 year old, I oughtta knock you to the moon! Pow!

:grr: