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Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
May 6th 2011, 2:38 am
#91
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
Sorry for any offence Louise.
But please try to understand two points:
1. Just because you think it is acceptable doesn’t mean everyone else should accept it. In a 2009 survey one third of Australians found breast feeding in public unacceptable.
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news...-1225767893350
I am not sure I would do something in public that a third of the people around me would find offensive. Obviously some people have a different attitude.
2. The current “trend” for breast feeding in public is just that. A trend. My mother breast fed me. My grandmother breast fed her. Queen Victoria breast fed nine children. All managed to do it outside of the public gaze.
Public breast feeding is another change that would not have been acceptable even 30 years ago, along with women having tattoos, nipple piercing, friends with benefits, and a host of other things. Some people are less than enthusiastic about these changes, and see them as a “trendy” retrograde step in society.
But please don’t be offended at my comments.
But please try to understand two points:
1. Just because you think it is acceptable doesn’t mean everyone else should accept it. In a 2009 survey one third of Australians found breast feeding in public unacceptable.
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news...-1225767893350
I am not sure I would do something in public that a third of the people around me would find offensive. Obviously some people have a different attitude.
2. The current “trend” for breast feeding in public is just that. A trend. My mother breast fed me. My grandmother breast fed her. Queen Victoria breast fed nine children. All managed to do it outside of the public gaze.
Public breast feeding is another change that would not have been acceptable even 30 years ago, along with women having tattoos, nipple piercing, friends with benefits, and a host of other things. Some people are less than enthusiastic about these changes, and see them as a “trendy” retrograde step in society.
But please don’t be offended at my comments.
I'm not getting a debate with you about the pro's and con's of breastfeeding in public or otherwise because I think it's pointless.
Oh and I'm not offended at your comments. It takes more than narrow mindedness to upset me.
May 6th 2011, 2:46 am
#94
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
Constructive criticism is always welcome Sally.
Exactly what part of my post do you think was rubbish?
Perhaps the survey? How dare 30% of the public disagree with you!!!
Or my comment that breast feeding in public was not prevalent 30 years ago?
Or maybe tattoos on women and pierced nipples?
Exactly what part of my post do you think was rubbish?
Perhaps the survey? How dare 30% of the public disagree with you!!!
Or my comment that breast feeding in public was not prevalent 30 years ago?
Or maybe tattoos on women and pierced nipples?
May 6th 2011, 2:47 am
#95
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
My children haven't wrecked our bodies. My wife is slim and down to her fighting fit weight- without a single stretch to be seen. She moisturises every day including her abdomen. Actually, after 3 babies she has a 'nick' in her navel that you can barely see...
She looks better than some women 20 years younger. She wore a little bikini on holiday a few years ago and many of her friends and family gasped. They said 'you look like an athlete that's had a baby' which was itself inaccurate - she is slim and curvy and soft and very feminine!
She is a very yummy mummy and I am one lucky See You Next Tuesday! Cheers.
She looks better than some women 20 years younger. She wore a little bikini on holiday a few years ago and many of her friends and family gasped. They said 'you look like an athlete that's had a baby' which was itself inaccurate - she is slim and curvy and soft and very feminine!
She is a very yummy mummy and I am one lucky See You Next Tuesday! Cheers.
May 6th 2011, 2:54 am
#97
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
Learn to read. (since we are slinging insults)
May 6th 2011, 2:57 am
#98
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
No issue at all.
I said women having tattoos would not have been acceptable even 30 years ago.
I don’t have an issue with it at all, however women with tattoos were VERY uncommon in the 1970s.
I said women having tattoos would not have been acceptable even 30 years ago.
I don’t have an issue with it at all, however women with tattoos were VERY uncommon in the 1970s.
May 6th 2011, 3:11 am
#100
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
You might all want to calm down and think before you hit the keys girls.
One third of the nation doesn’t think it is acceptable to breastfeed openly in public. I am in that category. This doesn’t mean I am a “twat”, talk a load of rubbish, or I am “narrow minded”.
It just means that I disagree with you.
Societal constraints come in two forms. Either imposed by law – e.g. age of consent for sexual relations, or by social convention.
Social convention is the thing that stops us doing things that would offend others, even if they are legal. Its what stops us laughing when someone falls over in the street. It isn’t illegal, but society as a whole disapproves of it.
When you reach a point where only 30% of the population find something offensive or upsetting then it will take place. But it doesn’t stop the 30% not liking it.
What is scary is this “attack” mode – inferring that anyone who disagrees with you isn’t entitled to speak.
One third of the nation doesn’t think it is acceptable to breastfeed openly in public. I am in that category. This doesn’t mean I am a “twat”, talk a load of rubbish, or I am “narrow minded”.
It just means that I disagree with you.
Societal constraints come in two forms. Either imposed by law – e.g. age of consent for sexual relations, or by social convention.
Social convention is the thing that stops us doing things that would offend others, even if they are legal. Its what stops us laughing when someone falls over in the street. It isn’t illegal, but society as a whole disapproves of it.
When you reach a point where only 30% of the population find something offensive or upsetting then it will take place. But it doesn’t stop the 30% not liking it.
What is scary is this “attack” mode – inferring that anyone who disagrees with you isn’t entitled to speak.
May 6th 2011, 3:13 am
#101
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Location: Sydney
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
I have used the 30 years statement in discussions for so long. I was referring to the late 60s, to the late 70s, a time which is now 40 years ago
May 6th 2011, 3:14 am
#102
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Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Melbourne
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
This must be the third or fourth time recently I've seen you bring up this observation of forum behaviour. You post your opinions on a forum, you take what you get back. Very few people seem to have an issue with it. If it irks you so you could always disappear....again.
May 6th 2011, 3:16 am
#103
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
If they were no kids now, they'll be no health service or indeed public services in 20 years as we've already spent all the money we used to have as a nation. We need tax payers in 20 years time.
So taxing people for having kids? How about taxing people for NOT having kids, because they are expecting other peoples children to pay for them in their retirement in 20 years time.
JTL
May 6th 2011, 3:19 am
#104
...giving optimism a go?!
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Location: Brisbane (leafy, hilly western suburbs)
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