No Small Fries: Restaurant Bans Kids Under Six Years Old

[jimmy olsen]

Those films have an 18 certification in the UK, I'd have assumed the situation is the same in the US and Canada 

R - rated films can not be viewed by minors under the age of 17 unless accompanied by a parent/guardian.

[Martinus]

You Americans are silly in your belief that an average parent is well placed to make decisions that could affect his or her child's wellbeing. 

[Grey Fox]

Those films have an 18 certification in the UK, I'd have assumed the situation is the same in the US and Canada 

Quebec has it's own rating board. Shit has to get fucking violent for it to administer a 16+ rating. Nudity usually just gets you a 13+ rating. You need context with it to make it 16+.

Don't remember an 18+ movie that wasn't porn.

[Malthus]

it certainly sounds like you are offended. "what an asshole" methinks you protest too much.

Sure. But the "offence" isn't from the fact he won't let kids under 6 eat at his restaurant. It's from his obnoxious interview quotes.

He sounds like yet another "Slargossian Hero". Useful term, that. 

Edit: wait, here's a Statue of him:

http://www.parentfail.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/baby-statue.jpg

Where are these "obnoxious" quotes? I see him saying that parents may believe their children are more important than they really are, but since when is that untrue?

Between what you lay claim to, and what you're actually saying, there is a wide chasm.

Filled with children and jews.

Which seem to be the subjects on which you grow entirely irrational.

Look, I get that a guy who is into Nazism is unlikely to understand what is obnoxious about making disparaging generalizations about whole classes of people. 

But I'd think that even you could see that a guy making a huge fanfare about banning young kids from a golf course restaurant is just being an attention whore. How many people take their 4 year olds golfing?

[Valmy]

How many people take their 4 year olds golfing?

Tiger Woods' dad did.



That worked out pretty well.  Maybe I should get David out on the links.

[Malthus]

i went to a planetarium in san francisco last year. for about 70% of the time, some little fuck in the row behind me kept talking. his father said and did nothing to stop him. it irritated me to no end, and pretty much ruined the experience. the father could have simply told his son to shush and be quiet as the display ran its course, but no. he did nothing

given that mcdain's is a fine dining restaurant, i've no issue that the owner wants to ban little fuckers from entering. everything he said in the article seemed perfectly reasonable

Know what? A Black person was once rude to me. So was a gay person, a few years ago. I think that was in New York.

Clearly, we can't have Blacks and gays out in public. My experience proves that.

[Valmy]

i went to a planetarium in san francisco last year. for about 70% of the time, some little fuck in the row behind me kept talking. his father said and did nothing to stop him. it irritated me to no end, and pretty much ruined the experience. the father could have simply told his son to shush and be quiet as the display ran its course, but no. he did nothing

He was in the row behind you and you did not say anything?

[Martinus]

Malthus are you saying that any restrictions imposed on minors are discrimination akin to nazism, racism and homopobia? Because otherwise you are making no sense. 

[Martinus]

And for the record, even if after a baby screams its mouth off for 30 seconds its parent shuts it up,it's still 30 seconds of annoyance. The annoyance created by babies is therefore not only dependant on whether the parent is an obnoxious arrogant cretin or simply a well meaning moron.

[Grey Fox]

And for the record, even if after a baby screams its mouth off for 30 seconds its parent shuts it up,it's still 30 seconds of annoyance. The annoyance created by babies is therefore not only dependant on whether the parent is an obnoxious arrogant cretin or simply a well meaning moron.

The 45 seconds I have to smell your perfume smell because you put too much on as you walk by me is still 45 seconds of untolerable smell I have to endure. The annoyance created by perfume wearers is therefore not only dependant whether you are an obnoxious arrogant retard or simply a smelldeath moron.

[Malthus]

Malthus are you saying that any restrictions imposed on minors are discrimination akin to nazism, racism and homopobia? Because otherwise you are making no sense. 

If I was saying that, it would indeed make no sense. 

No, what I'm making fun of is the sort of argument that begins "Two years ago in Shanghai, I saw a parent being rude. Obviously, this means ... ".

It's the habit of making sweeping (usually negative) generalizations from limited specific incidents that tend to support a particular POV - a sort of "confirmation bias". You see this all the time with racists and homophobes - as in, "I wasn't a racist until a Black Guy mugged me" or "I knew this gay guy, he was a real coward. Gay guys are cowardly". The falsity here is that a White guy mugging the same person, or a hetero coward, would not have the same effect. The fact that the mugger was Black or the coward was gay is given a significance it probably doesn't merit.

Same here - some guy with a kid acts rude in a planetarium. If it was just some guy, it would not be significant.

[Eddie Teach]

He didn't say the guy acted rude, he said his kid wouldn't shut up.

[Ed Anger]

You Americans are silly in your belief that an average parent is well placed to make decisions that could affect his or her child's wellbeing. 

And for the record, even if after a baby screams its mouth off for 30 seconds its parent shuts it up,it's still 30 seconds of annoyance. The annoyance created by babies is therefore not only dependant on whether the parent is an obnoxious arrogant cretin or simply a well meaning moron.

gays. 

[Valmy]

He didn't say the guy acted rude, he said his kid wouldn't shut up.

Letting your kid talk during something like that is pretty rude.

[Valmy]

You probably do not realise when you go out with a kid how much noise and annoyance your "darling" makes. So go back to making more fat kids and fuck off.

You know what?  Nevermind I hope screaming kids stalk your dreams.