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To think this lady is going to be very disspointed with motherhood

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Thefishewife · 04/10/2016 10:47

Listening to 3 counties radio

And this lady was raging because Cine world wouldn't allow her to bring her 4 month old in to watch Bridget Jones

It's a 15 btw

The radio presenter said well it's a 15 and can you not see that they aren't legal allowed to let under 15 in

she went on to say well life has to carry on I shouldn't be stoped from doing things because I have a baby😳 I think this lady is going to be very disspointed with all the things YOU can't do once you have a child

She said that they shouldn't have age limits and it should be left to the parents to choose 😳The fact she is trying to take a 4 month old to the pictures shows that it really really shouldn't be left to parents

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Thefishewife · 04/10/2016 11:39

People moan about not being able to take babies into school plays as well its the same stubborn parent who allows there child to cry the whole trough the darn thing

The cinema is not cheap

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Salmotrutta · 04/10/2016 11:49

Well, I'd imagine this is about crying baby disrupting other people's viewing?

When you have children you have to accept that you can't expect to take them everywhere and lots of people myself included can't abide the noise of other people's children crying. Especially if money has been paid to enjoy a film/play or whatever.

WoodliceCollection · 04/10/2016 11:49

Sounds like she already is disappointed. But maybe she'll realise that in addition to not being able to access leisure activities, she's also likely to struggle to access public transport, work, health services freely available to non-mothers, private rented housing, exercise facilities, etc, and then go on to develop PND due to isolation, especially if she doesn't have supportive family locally. Hope you continue to feel smug then, eh?

Meanwhile, every other group gets some fucking solidarity, but if you dare to be a woman who breeds, well, back of the queue for you. Fucks sake.

FontSnob · 04/10/2016 11:50

Why wouldn't you be allowed to take a baby into a school play ffs?! The vast majority of children in dad's year group have baby siblings. Ridiculous, it's not the Old Vic. If the baby cries you go out. It's not that hard. If person doesn't go out, someone politely asks them to.

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Thefishewife · 04/10/2016 11:51

poster WoodliceCollection Tue 04-Oct-16 11:49:58

I know my friend was told yesterday from next month only 1 single buggy will be allowed on the bus no if or buts she has two small children in a double buggy

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PurpleDaisies · 04/10/2016 11:51

If the baby cries you go out. It's not that hard. If person doesn't go out, someone politely asks them to.

If only. Have you not been around for the ruined nativity threads?

KondosSecretJunkRoom · 04/10/2016 11:52

If it were as simple as that, why is it that the conversation between the radio presenter and the woman was about the age rating of a movie?

Do babies cry less during a pg12?

Anyway, I can't be added with a guessing about a woman I don't know, I just think it's poor form to be so scathing about her based on a lot of wooly assumptions.

IceRoadDucker · 04/10/2016 11:52

If the baby cries you go out. It's not that hard. If person doesn't go out, someone politely asks them to.

...and gets a mouthful of abuse from some cunt ranting that she should be able to do what she wants with her baby, and why should she leave because others don't like its crying.

KondosSecretJunkRoom · 04/10/2016 11:52

Added= arsed.

foobio · 04/10/2016 11:54

Those saying it's not illegal to take infants into 15 rated films, could you link me something official about this?

My local cinema cancelled Bridget Jones from their parent and baby screening last week after some adults without children were turned away the previous week. They complained to the council that the cinema were showing a 15 to minors, and the council have told the cinema they can only show upto 12A to the baby club. I offered to appeal to the council, but the cinema say it's the law, and I can't find any official exclusions for infants at 15s. (Despite there being cinemas up and down the country doing it at baby clubs).

MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 04/10/2016 11:55

Woodlice - it's not being smug, it's being realistic. If every parent removed their crying baby immediately to stop others being unnecessarily disturbed there wouldn't be a problem.

As for solidarity, well it's the ones who refuse to take their children out that have caused the problem so that's not showing much solidarity is it!

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Thefishewife · 04/10/2016 11:56

poster FontSnob Tue

You would think people would just take baby out

However ........

Dosent matter how many funny stares how many coughs and eye pointing people stay put with the wailing baby

I have seen it at weddings , plays , Christnings school meetings oh even had on of his staff bring her toddler to a staff meeting once 😕 He said he may of let it slide if they were quite but there were screaming there head off

Children are not hand bags meaning they cannot be taken anywhere with you some places are right for babies or if you must bring them then why they cry you leave

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BillSykesDog · 04/10/2016 11:57

Totally with the cinema on this. Look at what happened at that theatre musical recently - they let a woman with a baby in, then when the baby disturbed people and they asked her to leave she went and did a Daily Mail sad face story saying it was because she was breastfeeding. It's not fair to have other peoples' enjoyment spoiled for the sake of one other person, especially when lactivists have made it almost impossible for a parent with a disruptive baby to be asked to leave.

maddiemookins16mum · 04/10/2016 11:57

Who in their right mind would take a young baby to a noisy film anyway (regardless of the certificate). I went to see BJ' baby last Tuesday (loved it) and if she'd have sat next to me I would have moved as far as possible away from her.

MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 04/10/2016 11:59

Kondo, I suspect that U, PG & 12A have a lot of children wanting to see them that have younger siblings, the guidelines make it easier for one parent to take them all (or both parents so it can be a family outing), rather than it being about babies crying more or less.

FontSnob · 04/10/2016 12:00

There will always he people in every walk of life that behave in a shitty way. Blanket bans on babies aren't going to stop that. I don't get our countries attitude towards small children.

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Thefishewife · 04/10/2016 12:02

Having a child = parent not always being able to do as they please it = missing out often hence childless people always out for dinner looking fab and gernally out and about town

While us parents are at home with the one show that is being a parent

Entitled horse shit

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passingthrough1 · 04/10/2016 12:02

I went to see Bridget Jones with my baby (not at a cine world). Some bits of motherhood are harder than I expected and some easier. I would say on balance, it's as expected ... I don't see why wanting to go to the cinema with your child (who frankly will cry, sleep, feed anywhere) has to do with it?

Also cineworld are wrong, other cinemas have run Bridget Jones as a baby cinema showing.

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Thefishewife · 04/10/2016 12:04

I think many haven't learned when small about spoiling things for others

Babies are mostly banned from school plays and cinemas due to others entitled behaviour so they try to counter this with more entitled behaviour and going to the media 🙁🙁🙁

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FontSnob · 04/10/2016 12:04

Was that in reply to anyone Fishwife or just a rant?

PoppyPicklesPenguin · 04/10/2016 12:05

The entitlement of some people, YANBU there are things if you are decent human being you don't do when you have a small baby out of respect for the rest of the population. The cinema with a 4 month old is one of them.

I don't go to the cinema very often but when I do go it is with DP and it works out incredibly expensive, tickets and baby sitter alone comes to a fair bit.

If I'm going with DP, we're going for some very much needed "adult alone" time I don't want to be disturbed and certainly wouldn't put others into that position, and have you ever tried to politely ask a mother to move with their child? Because if your the sort of mother who thinks it's ok to take a four month into a cinema your the sort of mother who is entitled and will undoubtedly tell the polite person to fuck off as just because you have a baby doesnt meantgat your life will change for you - it is not fair on other people it really is that simple.

She should either go to a mother and baby sitting or get a babysitter.

passingthrough1 · 04/10/2016 12:05

Also to people saying about having the baby in the cinema - there are parent baby showings for that reason!
If my baby is going to be breast feeding and fussing about on me at home, how about a cinema instead?
It's not about being entitled .. instead the opposite. I haven't left my baby for more than an hour ever. And I won't be for a very very long time. So that's the point isn't it, I need to take the baby where I go.

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Thefishewife · 04/10/2016 12:06

No no just a rant 😁

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bruffin · 04/10/2016 12:09

Fontsnob,we dont have an attitude to small children, just entitled parents with no common sense.
I was in California last month,restaurants there ban small children outright as parent let their little ones scream and run about

FleurThomas · 04/10/2016 12:09

I've had my neice since birth. Took her everywhere right from the start as did sister . Though we refrained from the cinema to protect her little ears (local cinema doesn't do special screenings, just lets you bring any baby under 1 to any film).

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