AIBU to be shocked at

[MrSpoc]

Just found out that large retail chaines, i.e Tesco, boots do not give you reward points if you buy formula milk.

Apprarantly its because they think it is un ethical? and want to promote Breast is best

Yes I too remember this awful creature who said he would drive his daughter around while she sold sex and he would take 10% of the money
That's MrSpoc everyone.

sorry i mean the post prior to that.

however as you pointed out, baby rice in a bottle isn't the most sensible of things, which proves my point that when it comes to feeding babies, even those that you would imagine to be intelligent do silly things for silly reasons, so what woul stop someone from buying an inappropriate formula based on teh fact that they will get points for it? many people have no idea how many points they get, jsut that they get points in tesco and they dont in morrisons. so even though tesco only do one brand of formula, they will still buy it because they get points.

and no, i did not 'educate' anyone on how to feed their child. i am not qualified to do so. neitehr are tesco, but tehy are obliged to make it a level playing field when it comes to choice. therefore, no promotion of any kind.

VanityRocks - oh dear, taken out of all context. never mind aslong as it makes you feel better about yourself.

Your words not mine.

so I'm trying to talk sense into someone who admits he has the potential to pimp out his daughter???

you may of noticed but what you wrote was a little tongue and cheek

I bet Spocky likes to DO the mansplaining. I dont think he's coping very well with having stuff explained to him in Very Simple Terms

catinthehat2 - i like the expalanation of mansplaining. you should look up point 4 in particular.

I have'nt read whole thread just skimmed through.

Sorry if it is insensitive but do you really think your wife would feel any better about not being able to breastfeed if you got loyalty points? Sorry but I find that piss funny :o

I can just see it now-

MrsSpoc: Oh no darling babyspoc won't latch on :(
MrSpoc: Oh don't worry honey we will get loyalty points for formula
MrsSpoc: Wow I suddenly feel like a weight has been shifted off my shoulders then :o

Mr & Mrs skip happily into sunset.

Does this not strike you as rather odd MrCock?

good point mamadiva. i imagine mrspoc would find something else that would be passing judgement on him and his wife if it weren't the lack of points on formula.

*mamadiva that is brilliant. I said further up the thread that anyone who sees this as something to make them more guilty about ff has issues that they need to resolve. not Tesco

Oh don't assume I read the whole thread, I can spot a Mansplainer in a single post with a couple of follow ups. The first page was quite enough. Dearie.

Wow, left the thread for abit and its gone odd.
Why put in AIBU if you dont want other peoples opinions?

@ Mamadiva

MrSpoc YABU

I ff my two dc and it never once occurred to me that not getting points, or any other form of promotion, was a 'slap in the face'.

OK I had no fucking idea you didn't get points or why tbh.

The reason however isn't so embaressing!! Basically I BF DS until 7 weeks, milk stopped due to illness so had to FF. DS had severe colic too. It NEVER crossed my mind about whether I would get points FFS more that I could feed my baby who depended on me a milk that wouldn't render him doubled in pain.

And MrSpoc I felt guilty about not being able to BF DS for at least a year as planned. I did fell guilty (esp as he has allergies too) but please tell your DW you can move on from the guilt as you realise all the wonderful things you can do for you baby.

Sorry, I haven't read the majority of posts but YABU. Anything that (sort of) promotes BF'ing is alright with me.

"Now buying formula and not getting the points feels like a smack in the face."

Does it? Really? I think you need to get out more.

I FF DS1 not out of choice and felt incredibly guilty. It blighted the first few months and all I could see were all the BF mums, and feeling like I was being judged

I then chose to FF DS2 - no guilt, noticed how many people were also FF, did not feel judged - saw that everyone else was just getting on with it. And it would never occur to me to worry about supermarket rewards

Attitude is everything. Tell you DW this Mr Spoc

Just to complicate this a bit - I bought formula in a Tescos in Ireland when visiting my parents and got points on my Mum's card. It was the 0-6 months one too. I'm sure it was an error but still - it was on the receipt.

Lmao at this thread. What is mrspoc going to post about next? Childfree weddings? Controlled crying? Lazy parents who stick their kids in buggies?
Oh yeah you are being unreasonable. But then you already know that, don't you?

OK, so now we know formula milk is the same as cigarettes / booze!!!

The sooner these do-gooders stop being able to tell us what to do, the better.

How bloody ridiculous!

guess where this thread is going.. dons hard hat and sits and waits...

[pombear] anyone?