AIBU?
To think that photos of children with food all over their faces are NOT cute?
NickiFury · 09/08/2015 18:15
Yet another child on FB with dried food stuck all over it's face. It's actually only parents think their kids look cute like this and quite frankly the novelty wears off pretty quickly.
Please stop doing it makes me feel sick.
Gileswithachainsaw · 09/08/2015 18:23
presumably the photos you see are of kids of your friends? ergo you know that usually said child is happy healthy and clean?
Then I find it strange why it's something to feel so ill about tbh. I'm sure people out there think that pictures of your garden/pond/cats/dogs/nails/ hen night are just as dull or pointless? its a chikd who's enjoyed a lolly and who's mum took a picture. not to your taste then fine but hardly something to get upset about
EponasWildDaughter · 09/08/2015 18:28
YANBU
A bit of choc round the mouth at Easter makes a cute pic, but i find it hard to see the cuteness about a baby's face plastered with food too OP. I just think 'ugh, clean their little face up'.
Kids being filmed sticking their hands and fists into birthday cakes makes me 
too.
Totality22 · 09/08/2015 19:55
I had a picture of nephew on my desk - complete with spag bol mess around his face.
One of my colleagues came in one day and said "Totality, I really hate that picture. It makes me feel ill every time I see it"
Which one of you is my ex colleague?? 
By the way picture stayed put!! No-one was forcing her to nosy at my desk..
EmpressKnowsWhereHerTowelIs · 09/08/2015 20:04
I have a full-on phobia about people with food on their faces, ever since I was a kid. They make me start choking and sometimes throw up (and I know it's not rational but that's how it is). The MN content team's taste for them is one of the reasons I stick to the mobile site. I'm glad we're not in the same office, Totality, because I wouldn't be able to go near your desk.
StarlingMurmuration · 09/08/2015 20:10
I'm kind of on the fence about this. Before I had DS (8.5 months old now, and learning to eat solids very messily), any picture like that would have made me boak. Even worse was watching a baby or child eat in real life! But I've found my tolerance for really vomit-making things has risen a huge amount since I had my son. I mean, I don't love looking at him plastered in food, especially if he's regurgitating bits when he's stuffed in too much at once, but I don't really care very much anymore, so it doesn't bother me when I see facebook pics of my friends' little ones. Maybe I'll feel differently when he's bigger and he's not stuck in the weaning phase any more, but now I just see it as a celebration of babies managing to eat!
Baffledmumtoday · 09/08/2015 20:12
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CoffeeAndOranges · 09/08/2015 20:14
Sorry Empress I posted my pic about the same time you posted your message. Didn't do it deliberately to make you feel ill. Was just a silly off the internet, I can take it down.
If it's any consolation, I can't bear to watch children eat, especially with mouths open. Babies = cute/funny. Older children = grim.
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