tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37400848.post5493967964491909262..comments2023-12-31T08:43:00.853+00:00Comments on Wife in the North: Making whoopeewife in the northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227214647512546906noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37400848.post-73197518768442663332007-02-20T19:02:00.000+00:002007-02-20T19:02:00.000+00:00Some of these people need to meet some real childr...Some of these people need to meet some real children. real children are enuthusiastic, full of energy, fractious and love/hate their siblings in equal measure. They also can behave wonderfully and with great love and respect but not all the time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37400848.post-52407587614999209032007-01-24T21:07:00.000+00:002007-01-24T21:07:00.000+00:00The Guardian had a feature today on the 'Most irri...The Guardian had a feature today on the 'Most irritating noises' and the whoopee cushion was number 7 in the top 10. Vomiting was the number 1.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37400848.post-50780337406819433912007-01-24T17:55:00.000+00:002007-01-24T17:55:00.000+00:00oh god, she is telling us about her life, not aski...oh god, she is telling us about her life, not asking us to disect and ridecule it. I think of it as observing from afar. If it was advice she was looking for I am sure that she would write to an advice column. I know that Hillary Clinton said that "it takes a village to raise a child" but please let this nice lady and her husband have a go at it on their own.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37400848.post-91229295605402938282007-01-24T16:20:00.000+00:002007-01-24T16:20:00.000+00:00I could give you the spin and tell you how my chil...I could give you the spin and tell you how my children sat there in mute silence, broken only by the sound of their felt-tips in their little colouringbooks or I could let you into my real world where real people live - including me - and occasionally (make that quite often) act with immense stupidity. Not everything I am going to tell you is going to put me in the best light. Is it better not to take you into those moments?wife in the northhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15227214647512546906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37400848.post-89315143737370486822007-01-24T13:32:00.000+00:002007-01-24T13:32:00.000+00:00my husband said 'it says nothing about whoopee cus...my husband said 'it says nothing about whoopee cushions'. <br /><br />Is he even more stupid than you ? <br /><br />I get royally pissed off when on the 'quiet carriage' [the clue is in the title, folks!] and people will try and use any excuse to make a racket. <br /><br />'It only says 'mobile free', nothing about laptops'<br /><br />'It says mobile free, nothing about having a business meeting that can be heard three carriages away'<br /><br />What ever happened to consideration for others ? Which part of 'Quiet Coach' don't you understand ? Why do you think they have 'family coaches' on the bloody trains ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37400848.post-91964267216939306042007-01-24T13:29:00.000+00:002007-01-24T13:29:00.000+00:00What the heck is the point of having a 'quiet carr...What the heck is the point of having a 'quiet carriage' if people like you think you are above all that and sit there anyway ? <br /><br />Of course, if you were travelling alone and someone was playing their mp3 player in the quiet carriage at full volume, I suspect you would be the first to be sanctimonious and complain. Inconsiderate bat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37400848.post-6769845743368335502007-01-24T11:52:00.000+00:002007-01-24T11:52:00.000+00:00Don't be so limp-wristed. Here's a novel idea: jus...Don't be so limp-wristed. Here's a novel idea: just tell your children to behave, take the whoopee cushions away and give them something else to concentrate on. It's really not that hard, and much nicer for everybody else. L'enfer, c'est les enfants des autres, or something like that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37400848.post-45502599815864197812007-01-24T06:19:00.000+00:002007-01-24T06:19:00.000+00:00What it boils down to is that you and your husband...What it boils down to is that you and your husband deliberately sat in the quiet coach and allowed your children to make enough noise that it disturbed other coach users.<br />Seems a selfish attitude to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com