on a very similar theme to my front room thread....

 

whats the fucks happened to our nice meals out?!

 

went for tea tonight with our peg,our pegs mum and dad ...and our 16 month old son.

 

normally a lovely night where me and the father in law lock horns in lager drinking and mixed grill eating and silently acknowledge eachother meat sweats ,whilst the women slag the rest of the family off,then we have the charade over who is paying the bill,when we all know in this little game of wills that the in laws will pay....infact,the card i 'intend' to pay with everytime is infact a morrisons miles card!...but anyhow...is always a pleasant evening....

 

tonight however,i feel like ive just been witness to an armed robbery.....ketih fucking moon would of been proud of the wreck we have just left that resteraunt in....

 

ice cream on the table,floor,high-chair,walls,ceiling,waiters face,my face,the mother-in laws face,and in my father in-laws eyes.

 

a spilled pint,a spilled coke,and more peas on the floor than a fucking frozen pea shop!

 

disgruntled couples and families behind us are out to enjoy a nice spring evening with a bottle of vino,now tarnished by our lad screaming 'hiya'...his one and only word,at the top of his voice whilst throwing chips on the floor...they smile,but i just know they are thinking 'i wish they would fuck off'!

 

then the tykes restless and its endless back breaking walks to keep him entertained and making waiting on staff come to a standstill whilst little lord fauntleroy parts the waves!

 

then i get home 9 miles away and realise we have left his bear,....ah yes,the dam bastard shagwanking bear...off i go to drive across town to retrive the filthy rag with a bears head on it.....

 

good times....

When we go out for a meal I openly say, not near children, please.

A bloke with wife and kids heard me once. His face said "can I come sit with you?". Poor bloke.

Love going out with my 3, especially when they're paying.

Just started going out for meals with the kids again. Stopped when our youngest was about 12 months, he's just turned 3 now. It's not worth it, no one enjoys it. It's just about bearable now.Take plenty stuff for them to do.

When we go out for a meal I openly say, not near children, please.

A bloke with wife and kids heard me once. His face said "can I come sit with you?". Poor bloke.

I used to be like you for years,then i became a dad - and everything changed for the better..........much better.

Each to their own an' all that.

I used to be like you for years,then i became a dad - and everything changed for the better..........much better.

Each to their own an' all that.

 

I dont think I'm ever going to be a dad though.

Trust, me there really are people out there who don't do kids. I'm not just doing it for effect because I "probably cant have them" as some people seem to think women without children must be.

Each to their own. One person's better is another's worse.

Spot on that NB. I get looked at like I've got 2 heads when I say I haven't got any kids and have no intention of having any either. Proper winds me up!

Lezzas

Stop pissing about wondering where your nice clean living room has gone or I can't sit down for five minutes and have a bite to eat with my wife. Those days are gone my friend. You eat out with the kids do it around naps and do it fast, longer than that and you're a chavvy fucker who no one likes. You're a Dad. Your life and what you want is secondary from this day forth.

When we go out for a meal I openly say, not near children, please.

A bloke with wife and kids heard me once. His face said "can I come sit with you?". Poor bloke.

 

We always seem to get the seat in front of them on a 12 hour flight

When we go out for a meal I openly say, not near children, please.

A bloke with wife and kids heard me once. His face said "can I come sit with you?". Poor bloke.

 

You are sooooo fooking right!

 

I love my kids, but I will try and stay away from other families & kids if and when we go out without ours.

 

Their is always a younger kid, that just keeps staring, and to be polite, me or the Mrs will say hello, or smile....BIG mistake, they have hooked you, for the full meal they will be doing it, or trying to be cute!!!!

 

Food on the floor, always peas and chips......this pisses me off, as it looks like some families allow food fights, and also ITS WASTE FOOD. My dad would have give a a look that would chill me to the bone if I dropped food when I was a kid !!!

 

2 places we take the kids, Nando's and Frankie n Bennies, and the moment they play up, they get nothing. They know better now !

It's strange though as once you have kids, kids screaming their heads off in public doesn't really register anymore.

Unless you are in a Wacky warehouse !

 

Screaming kids still annoys the piss out of me, probably even more now I have them. Probably because their is NO reason ANY child should be screaming and shouting in a restaurant !

That's true. Crying becomes a background hum that is just there most if the time.

Well I'm off to Centre Parcs tonight - 3 meals out booked, accompanied by flying beans and shouting.

 

Kids will be crayoning quietly.

Spot on that NB. I get looked at like I've got 2 heads when I say I haven't got any kids and have no intention of having any either. Proper winds me up!

 

Do you get that pitying you look? I love that one. No honest, I really don't want one of those things.

Well I'm off to Centre Parcs tonight - 3 meals out booked, accompanied by flying beans and shouting.

 

Kids will be crayoning quietly.

 

I've recently seen the price for a stay at that place, fook me!

Spot on that NB. I get looked at like I've got 2 heads when I say I haven't got any kids and have no intention of having any either. Proper winds me up!

 

You should tell the nosey fuckers you did once have a baby, but you didn't like it so gave it to some gays.

Recently holidayed in Norway, very typically Scandanavian, kids everywhere and very child friendly.

 

But then again, the kids seem far more tolerable. Apart from a couple of kids doing some whimpering, they are incredibly well behaved.

 

It's us. We're a peasant nation feeding kids peasant food and shit manners.

Edited May 4, 201214 yr by jayjayoghani

Recently holidayed in Norway, very typically Scandanavian, kids everywhere and very child friendly.

 

But then again, the kids seem far more tolerable. Apart from a couple of kids doing some whimpering, they are incredibly well behaved.

 

It's us. We're a peasant nation feeding kids peasant food and shit manners.

 

JJ, I'm off to Norway on the 25th for the weekend, any tips on reasonably priced bars hidden away from the extortionate ones?

Should have said it's Oslo we're going

Edited May 4, 201214 yr by athywhite1958

Recently holidayed in Norway, very typically Scandanavian, kids everywhere and very child friendly.

 

But then again, the kids seem far more tolerable. Apart from a couple of kids doing some whimpering, they are incredibly well behaved.

 

It's us. We're a peasant nation feeding kids peasant food and shit manners.

 

I found its the same with German kids, better behaved, and have more respect.

 

Its the English kids that are out of control.

I've recently seen the price for a stay at that place, fook me!

 

Aye, don't remind me.

 

Also don't remind me it was booked for the weekend of our bleeding final home game

I found its the same with German kids, better behaved, and have more respect.

 

Its the English kids that are out of control.

 

Nowt to do with parenting?

JJ, I'm off to Norway on the 25th for the weekend, any tips on reasonably priced bars hidden away from the extortionate ones?

Should have said it's Oslo we're going

 

As I'm sure you suspect, ale aint cheap. Paid between ?5.50 and ?10(!) a pint.

 

There's this place http://www.dovrehallen.no/

 

Beer is 52kr (?5.50) for 500ml. Never saw beer cheaper than that.

 

Also does good food, if you're there on a Tuesday, have the eisbein. Fucking huge, very tender pork leg.

 

Also Teddy's Soft Bar nearby on Brugata street

 

For a few more to choose from http://wikitravel.org/en/Oslo#Drink

 

Dont do Andy's Bar, Munich/Scouse pub! If that was ever possible.

Edited May 4, 201214 yr by jayjayoghani

Nowt to do with parenting?

 

100% the parenting. But why ?

Dunno. You tell me, you're a parent.

 

It seems to me that so often it's the kids that rule over their parents. Parents (and yes, I am generalising a hell of a lot here) seem to be too bothered about not wanting to upset their children, rather than making sure the children know their place in the heirarchy.

 

Not sure if I'd rather have been a kid when I was one, or if I'd rather be one now. I had a lot less then kids nowadays have, but I'm pretty certain I appreciated what I had a lot more.

 

Without wanting to sound like an old, miserable fucker, when I was a kid McDonalds (or anywhere like that) was a birthday treat. A takeaway was a similar such treat. My mum cooked food. A portable telly in my room, a CD player/tape deck, ZX Spectrum, etc wasn't a right, that was Christmas presents over three years.

 

Kids just get so much of what they want, when they want it nowadays. I've spoken with breeders about this plenty of times. They usually agree, but the way they see it is all the other kids have got these things so it's not fair that their kids should be the ones who have to be without.

Edited May 4, 201214 yr by DazBobParr