I judged. I am curious to know how the always impressive Mumsnet anti-judgers are going to excuse this one...

[DuffyFluckling]

At the swimming pool. Woman and friend plus ds of about 4 and dd of about 2. Children having a lovely time. Every once in a while one or other of the children would turn a delicate shade of green and the mother or friend would hoik them over to the side of the pool where they would be copiously sick in the bushes. Child would sit quietly for a few minutes, before leaping back into the pool and continuing having lots of fun.

Now surely, either
(a) the children have a tummy bug, in which case take them home before my children and everyone elses get it, thanks.
or (b) the children have some sort of non-contageous, long standing allergy or something, in which case be more organised than to let them vomit in the bushes by the pool where everyone is playing.

Can I judge in horror? Or is there a perfectly uderstandable and reasonable explanation for this?

MadamDeathStare How dare you judge a parent for an outbreak of rabies!

OP, you can freely judge in horror.

however, did you not complain to anyone????

Or maybe they just swallowed/drank lots of pool water?

Kids with a vomiting bug usually feel quite unwell and wouldn't go near a pool.

And, by the way, the UAE is a very racist kind of place.

yuck yuck yuckety yuck.

Don't care whether they had just swallowed water, they shouldn't have been vomiting and then going back into the pool, fgs! Mother should have called an attendant, explained about the vomit and apologised profusely - or cleaned it up herself.

i had someone tell me the other day it was ok for a kid to shit in bushes in a play park-you are totally being unreasonable op...

ew. they must hav bn ill.

MmeLint

'Her use of "not from England" was due (and, Barbie correct me if I am wrong) to the fact that outside of the UK noone knows the difference between England and UK and so the term England and English are used to denote Britain and British.'

An you think this is acceptable, that whole counties can be ignored and forgotten due to basic geographical ignorance? And people from these countries let that go?

FFS.

ROFL at this thread! Last hols we were at the beach (I live in Brazil) with DD merrily digging in the sand. The mum right next to us pulls down her toddler's swimsuit, finds her DD has done a poo, tips it out onto the sand and buries it in a shallow grave!!

Needless to say, we packed up quickly and moved to a more salubrious bit of sand.

And no, I'm not racist, I grew up here and we're very clean in Brazil!

DSM
Look, I am Scottish so it is not that I am ignoring my country or forgotten my roots but it is a fact that very few outside of the British Isles know the difference between UK and England.

It is not my job to educate everyone I meet, (and it is really almost EVERYONE, I am not exaggerating) that Scotland is a seperate country etc etc etc. Even English teachers get it wrong all the time. For that matter, so do many English friends. I pull them up on it gently and I do correct my German/Swiss friends but not complete strangers.

I am proud to be Scottish and if asked will say that I am from Scotland but I do not insist on it anymore because after almost 17 years on the continent, I am bloody tired of it.

I think thats a very sad state of affairs MmeLindt. And very sad that you don't feel it is right, and worth the time, to correct people.

Allow ignorance to prevail...

I have spent years travelling the world, and on the occasions where I have been asked about Scotland being part of England (granted, this is often), I don't feel it is too much for me to take the time to correct people.

In fact, only a few years ago, I embarrassingly asked a girl I met who was from the Czech Republic if that was part of Czechoslovakia.

I was very glad to be corrected, and informed.