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[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Perfectly legal for them to do so as well

But not - Ride on the pavement or ignore red lights.

Also your are wrong - there is a good chance you could get em for fail to pay due care and attention to other road users.

IanS

[getagrip]

Yeah, one lesson of learning how to say things right then four years of higher level maths, computer programming, data analysis, and survey design. Doddle really. 

Nicely put

[Westmarcher]

Have to agree with that last comment. I often go for a coffee and a read in a local Italian Emperor's coffee shop. Sometimes there'll be a couple or more of young mums in there with buggies. That's fine. Then a baby wakes up and starts yowling. Kids do that. 40 minutes later one or more of the babies still yowling and the two or more mummies are still engrossed in conversation - WTF 

If after 11.00 am, could try the pub. The ones I go to also serve coffee ....... but no cake ...... damn ..... so much for that idea.

[getagrip]

I don't mind kids being there; I've got a four year old.  I just don't like them running riot in a place where people are trying to relax.

It's not on!!!

[Leman]

Likewise, but letting them yowl non-stop for 40 minutes is a little insensitive to other customers. In the end I left first.

[Vamboozle]

Luckily our local chain coffee shop (named after a Spanish Coast) has an upstairs which broadly appears to be off limits.

What really annoys me is kids being allowed to run around in restaurants - and I'm not talking toddlers but 7,8,9 years olds.

When I was that are I'd already been taught how to behave at the dinner table. You didn't get up until everyone had finished.

Grrrrrr

[getagrip]

Luckily our local chain coffee shop (named after a Spanish Coast) has an upstairs which broadly appears to be off limits.

What really annoys me is kids being allowed to run around in restaurants - and I'm not talking toddlers but 7,8,9 years olds.

When I was that are I'd already been taught how to behave at the dinner table. You didn't get up until everyone had finished.

Grrrrrr

My fella is four and will say "is this a restaurant?"

He gets "it", cos we taught him "it!"

Perfect parents we aren't, but there are standards!

[Leman]

I think "learning manners at the dinner table" is the key point here. I get the impression that fewer families in this country now sit down together around a table for a meal. We seem to be developing a grazing culture, where eating and drinking (and putting on makeup for that matter) is being subsumed into other activities rather than being a discrete activity (or in the case of makeup a discreet activity). I hate seeing these things going on  on the morning commute. Go to bed and get up earlier.

[Techno]

What really annoys me is kids being allowed to run around in restaurants -  

Or casualty...When you've got a broken toe and you don't want ANYONE to touch, kick, or tread on it.
Cheers - Phil

[getagrip]

Agree with both of you,  it's just respect!

Sounds like Phil's been using a lump hammer.

DON'T LET PHIL NEAR TOOLS!  Will they never learn,  oh the humanity 

[fsn]

I was nearly run over by a young gentleman on a bicycle  ... in the middle of a supermarket. 

[Leman]

Whatever happened to social awareness and/or the sense of shame?

[getagrip]

I was nearly run over by a young gentleman on a bicycle  ... in the middle of a supermarket. 

That ain't no gentleman but he is curiously perceptive  

[fsn]

I suppose it was a rather large supermarket.

[Techno]

Sounds like Phil's been using a lump hammer.

No.....It was when one of the gee-gees trod on it, and then pushed down with most of his weight, as he walked forward.
Mrs T thought I was having a laugh, until I took my sock off, and we saw the toe had gone almost black....and was sticking out sideways.
That smarted !! 

That's why I objected to a small child running around casualty, and getting WAY too close, to my somewhat sore foot, for comfort.
Cheers - Phil

[Vamboozle]

Now horses - there's something I just don't get (unless they are small, metal and chasing my opponent off the map)

Have friends who have them and are mad for them - they keep trying to get us interested but they are large skittish prey animals that smell funny - just don't see it.

[getagrip]

No.....It was when one of the gee-gees trod on it, and then pushed down with most of his weight, as he walked forward.
Mrs T thought I was having a laugh, until I took my sock off, and we saw the toe had gone almost black....and was sticking out sideways.
That smarted !! 

That's why I objected to a small child running around casualty, and getting WAY too close, to my somewhat sore foot, for comfort.
Cheers - Phil

You are a one man disaster area

11 pages in 2 days!  Is that a record???  

[fsn]

My recollection of Shetland ponies (proper ones from Shetland, not the pamper overgrown poodles they have down here) is that they come in two varieties - those that kick and those that bite. To be fair, this may also be determined by your position relative to them.

Describe then, dear, and black footed Mr Techno, the pleasures of equine ownership?  

[Techno]

They're Mrs T's passion/hobby.....Not mine ! 
But the irony is, it's how I got into photography.
Like I've said before, I used to get dragged along to horsey competitions......And get bored out of my tiny little brain.
One of Mrs T's friends (who WAS a photographer) suggested I take up photography to give me something to do, rather than stand around going "Is it finished yet".

So I did.....Got reasonably good at taking pics of horses going over jumps and galloping around.....Combined the photography with the wee painted men.....And it all just developed ( ) from there.
So in some respects.....Horses are why I do the job, I do now. Weird, Eh ?

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

So we have Mrs T to thank for everything?

Please, for the assembled gentlemen of the forum, could you give her some sort of affectionate squeeze, or a hug, or shake hands, or whatever you do in the privacy of your own home to express your affection?

Perhaps a "thank you, jolly well done" could be added?


Sort of makes up for the whole "governing the country for 13 years" thing in my eyes. - FSN