Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

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

170 replies

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

OP posts:
FontSnob · 04/10/2016 12:14

Fishwife :-) fair enough. The problem isn't the babies it's rude parents who should be told in advance they will be asked to leave of the baby cries and then actually be asked when the baby does cry. Banning all babies from a school play is just ridiculous though. It's like as a teacher punishing a whole class for one child's talking!

As a side note I've counted 3 "entitlements" on this page alone...not overused at all!

RedSauceAndJellyJuice · 04/10/2016 12:16

I wouldn't want to take them , it's too loud for them

passingthrough1 · 04/10/2016 12:18

Baby screenings aren't too loud - they turn the volume down.

BillSykesDog · 04/10/2016 12:27

If my baby is going to be breast feeding and fussing about on me at home, how about a cinema instead?

Because other people haven't paid £15.00 for the privelige of your baby ruining a film when you're at home!

passingthrough1 · 04/10/2016 12:30

BillSykes it would be pretty weird if they paid £15 to go to a specific baby friendly showing in then middle of a week day awhich will be full of about 40 babies all crying without a baby. But I guess if they want to ...
Cineworld is one of the few cinemas not offering BJ Baby for baby screening and this makes no sense.

BillSykesDog · 04/10/2016 12:30

rude parents who should be told in advance they will be asked to leave of the baby cries and then actually be asked when the baby does cry

This is exactly what happened at the musical I mentioned. When the baby cried and she was asked to leave she went to the papers saying they were discriminating against her because she breastfed.

Blame people like that. Businesses are too scared to remove mothers with babies so they just don't let them in in the first place now.

BillSykesDog · 04/10/2016 12:31

Sorry passing didn't realise you were referring to a baby screening. Fair enough.

JustDanceAddict · 04/10/2016 12:32

She is unreasonable as if baby cries it's going to disturb the film for others. Blimey, I paid about £13 to see Bridget and I would not have wanted a screaming baby there. Baby screenings exist (they didn't when mine were small), so she should go to them or wait for the DVD!

SapphireStrange · 04/10/2016 12:32

Well, she's an idiot for not thinking/caring about the possible effect on other cinemagoers. But I don't know why you think the film's certificate has anything to do with it. Many parent and baby showings are of 15 and even – gasp –18 films.

FontSnob · 04/10/2016 12:33

So you'd be fine with me banning your DC and their whole class from doing an activity because one of the other children were noisy?

furryminkymoo · 04/10/2016 12:37

I had friends that took a newborn to see the Batman film, its was sooooo loud. No idea why people take babies to normal showings. Odeon Kids is there for a reason.

PoppyPicklesPenguin · 04/10/2016 12:38

passing fair enough in baby screenings but this is about your bog standard cinema visit and in my experience they really don't leave quietly, they generally start protesting loudly.

But even if they did get up and walk out at the slightest sign of a whimper there is still a disruption. I was in a cinema a little while ago cost us £60 and someone was in and out five times during a two hour showing. Very very annoying.

So I don't understand why these people don't just go to a baby friendly viewing, nobody is going to care as your all be in the same boat

Don't agree with the blanket ban on school plays that is crazy.

RufusTheSpartacusReindeer · 04/10/2016 12:41

I took 2week old dd to the panto

And apparently that makes me the type of mother that is entitled and will tell a polite person to fuck off

No generalising at all there

Some people are bastards...some people aren't

In my opinion if the baby/toddler cries you should remove yourself (or be removed)

RufusTheSpartacusReindeer · 04/10/2016 12:42

Went to the cinema to watch Natural born killers

There was a mum with her baby in that, she did turn the buggy away from the screen

Baby slept through the whole thing

FontSnob · 04/10/2016 12:44

Yes but Poppy, you can't then just ban anyone who might disrupt your viewing. So, no one with a weak bladder, no one with a cold, no one who buys crisps. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't take a baby to the cinema personally and I can't bear people talking in a film/concert/show of any kind. I just don't agree with the argument that a quickly removed child is any worse than anything else that could happen in a place.

FontSnob · 04/10/2016 12:45

Or that a minority of people's attitude should dictate a policy for all.

FontSnob · 04/10/2016 12:46

Actually scrap that, if I knew that the baby would sleep soundly throughout or was a quiet baby then maybe I would. I wouldn't take ds though, he's a dynamo.

SapphireStrange · 04/10/2016 12:48

no one who buys crisps

I think people who eat crisps in a film (except in very noisy bits) should be basically taken out and shot.

I'm a cinema Nazi purist.

bruffin · 04/10/2016 12:51

Went to see Girl with a Dragon Tattoo on new years eve one year. 2 patents with a 7 or 8 year old. Didnt realise how little she was until she got up at the end.

FontSnob · 04/10/2016 13:00

I am too Sapphire :) I have politely asked people to please stop talking at many an event but I wouldn't be annoyed by someone who makes noise then removes that noise asap.

SapphireStrange · 04/10/2016 13:09

for FontSnob.

I go for icy politeness, personally. 'Would you please stop talking/switch that off/be quiet.'

People must hate me. Grin

KondosSecretJunkRoom · 04/10/2016 13:12

Went to see Girl with a Dragon Tattoo on new years eve one year. 2 patents with a 7 or 8 year old. Didnt realise how little she was until she got up at the end.

But that must have been actually illegal instead of illegal in the OPs mind because it suits her point of view.

FontSnob · 04/10/2016 13:18

Ha ha. Me too. My kids are going to be so embarrassed of me when they get older.

catkind · 04/10/2016 13:20

So in fact, they are legally allowed to let babies into a 15.
The cinema may have a policy against it, and it may be generally considered a bad idea or not polite (particularly if you don't exit the moment they squeak), but pretending something is illegal when it isn't just makes you look silly.

starsinyourpies · 04/10/2016 13:22

DD thankfully slept most of the way through Gone Girl, this was a baby friendly screening though.

Swipe left for the next trending thread