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  • AllNiteThing
    AllNiteThing Posts: 1,115
    JaneNY wrote:
    I have stopped eating at buffets some years back.

    But - I work with the developmentally disabled, teaching fitness classes. They do gross things on occasion - some of them drool, have bathroom accidents, and its perfectly okay to tell them to wipe their mouth - I follow the lead of the staff who bring them over in what I tell or don't tell the clients to do. I have one lady who will just pick at her face and cause sores, so we keep reminding her to put her hands down.

    I agree with one point the original poster made, which was people with unclean hands handling the buffet food at the buffet. I'm thinking of the clients I work with, and the staff that take them places would not permit that - they'd have everyone sit down and bring them their food. Sure people eat gross (not necessarily the developmentally disabled) and that can't be helped, but it would be the responsibility of accompanying staff members to ensure that normal social rules of cleanliness are respected. It is part of socializing the clients to function in society.


    Great post! I've worked with disabled before in the past as well. Of course there is nothing wrong with the way some of them eat of behave, and of course you can bring them out in public. But NOBODY is excused for behaving the way the OP described. Just like little kids, whoever is in charge needs to take control of the situation.
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  • AllNiteThing
    AllNiteThing Posts: 1,115
    in_hiding79 wrote:
    It was just a fucking post on a fucking message board...who cares if "some" of you were offended......sometimes you people act as if you are all perfect angels, Give me a fucking break...so stupid!!






    and yes it sounds like those kids were fucking gross.....is that mean? :p


    Seriously...posters here can be some real whiny bitches sometimes. :p :rolleyes:
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I'm only offended, walking past a posh London restaurant and seeing Oxbridge twats in posh suits guffawing over their overpriced, undercooked haute cuisine and planning their next snort with their necklaced sluts. Not by real people perceived to have a disability and just enjoying their food.
  • AllNiteThing
    AllNiteThing Posts: 1,115
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I'm only offended, walking past a posh London restaurant and seeing Oxbridge twats in posh suits guffawing over their overpriced, undercooked haute cuisine and planning their next snort with their necklaced sluts. Not by real people perceived to have a disability and just enjoying their food.


    What about throwing said food, which you are also partaking in, all over the floor, handling it and putting it back, eating in the buffet line, etc etc. Sure, it's real people enjoying real food and really offending other real people and behaving really poorly. For real.
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  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    TrixieCat wrote:
    W O W
    Is this a joke thread???
    I seriously hope so.
    You think the place is gross yet you eat there anyway? There is problem number one.
    And to call out these unfortunate children is beyond horrible.

    Right on, Trix! This is a joke!

    No one is this stupid and arrogant. :)
  • Brain of J.Lo
    Brain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    Right on, Trix! This is a joke!

    No one is this stupid and arrogant. :)

    :)

    If only that were true... :D
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    Right on, Trix! This is a joke!

    No one is this stupid and arrogant. :)

    :o Are you on the same board as me?
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  • PJ_Saluki
    PJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    Right on, Trix! This is a joke!

    No one is this stupid and arrogant. :)

    Arrogant = Calling people you don't know "stupid."
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    was someone in charge of taking care of these people? maybe i missed something.

    its not their fault they were grossing people out, but it is somebody's fault. Somebody should have had responsibility for these peeps.
  • PJ_Saluki
    PJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    PJ_Saluki wrote:
    Arrogant = Calling people you don't know "stupid."

    Though I have been known to be arrogant before...Just not in this instance.
    "Almost all those politicians took money from Enron, and there they are holding hearings. That's like O.J. Simpson getting in the Rae Carruth jury pool." -- Charles Barkley
  • AllNiteThing
    AllNiteThing Posts: 1,115
    MrSmith wrote:
    was someone in charge of taking care of these people? maybe i missed something.

    its not their fault they were grossing people out, but it is somebody's fault. Somebody should have had responsibility for these peeps.


    Right on.
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  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    PJ_Saluki wrote:
    Arrogant = Calling people you don't know "stupid."

    But... but... try travelling abroad? I dont see what the kids were doing wrong!? What offended you so much? The fact that they were using their dirty hands to gulp down food? What?
  • PJ_Saluki
    PJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    MrSmith wrote:
    was someone in charge of taking care of these people? maybe i missed something.

    its not their fault they were grossing people out, but it is somebody's fault. Somebody should have had responsibility for these peeps.

    I think there were a couple teachers there. There was a hot chick sitting with two teens who were with the group. I guess she was either a teacher or the best looking bus driver ever. I saw one other adult at that table, but no more. Of course when I got to my table I ate like I was sitting in the prison cafeteria -- head down, no eye contact.
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  • Brain of J.Lo
    Brain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    AllNiteThing wrote:
    Excellent response. Some of these people are being WAY too high and mighty around here. If you wouldn't be grossed out by the OP's then you are f'n lying. He didn't point and make fun of them or complain or ask them to leave. He was just grossed out and wanted to discuss his experience. Some of you really need to get an f'n life.

    And what's so crazy about someone feeling bad for them? They obviously don't know proper restaurant etiquette, whether they had never been taught it or their disability prevents them from acting properly. Either way it's a shame, because I'm sure they aren't meant to be disrespectful to others, they just can't help it.

    There is NOTHING right with disrespecting other people in an eating establishment, putting your hands all over the food, throwing it on the floor, etc etc. I don't give a shit if you're special needs, elderly, a baby or a dog. It's gross. Period. You can't blame these kids if they are being unsupervised. Whoever brought them there is responsible, just as if you brought a busload of 5 year olds. You don't let them run amok if they are going to misbehave.

    What the OP describes sounds gross, I would look on amazed and so would you, so get off your pedestals you lying s.o.b.'s.

    No one disagrees that it was probably gross and that the kids were behaving inappropriately. You (and a few others) are missing the point.
  • PJ_Saluki
    PJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    But... but... try travelling abroad? I dont see what the kids were doing wrong!? What offended you so much? The fact that they were using their dirty hands to gulp down food? What?

    Well, that's fine in places where it's acceptable. It isn't acceptable here, especially at a buffet.
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  • Brain of J.Lo
    Brain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    PJ_Saluki wrote:
    especially at a buffet.

    Maybe you don't realize, MCKB, but buffets are the *epitome* of fine dining in some parts of the U.S...especially in southern Illinois.



    I kid! I kid! ;)
  • PJ_Saluki
    PJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    Brain of J.Lo wrote:
    No one disagrees that it was probably gross and that the kids were behaving inappropriately. You (and a few others) are missing the point.

    What's the point? Anything goes? If some kid wants to sit at a table and consume food through their asshole, I don't care. I don't have to look at it and it doesn't touch me. If there's a kid with filthy fucking hands grabbing all over food at a buffet it's a different story. How do I know what this kid has on his hands? He or she could have written his or her name in shit on the bathroom walls for all I know. Yes, that's an exaggeration, but a finger slipping through toilet paper when wiping the ol' ass isn't. Tell me how that's fair to the other customers at that place? It's a public health concern. Feces isn't healthy to eat.
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  • AllNiteThing
    AllNiteThing Posts: 1,115
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    But... but... try travelling abroad? I dont see what the kids were doing wrong!? What offended you so much? The fact that they were using their dirty hands to gulp down food? What?

    Using there hands on food he was there to consume, throwing food on the floor in an area where everyone walks, eating away from their tables, etc etc etc. Are people here being dense on purpose??? :rolleyes: It's not a crime to find gross behavior gross and it's not horrible to wish people with special needs be supervised adequately so they do not hurt themselves or others or act inappropriately where they are not able to on their own.
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  • PJ_Saluki
    PJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    Brain of J.Lo wrote:
    Maybe you don't realize, MCKB, but buffets are the *epitome* of fine dining in some parts of the U.S...especially in southern Illinois.



    I kid! I kid! ;)

    As soon as I typed that I knew i was going to get drilled. :) I just meant a lot of different people are exposed to the same food. There are no individual dishes. And no, southern Illinois isn't as culturally advanced as New Jersey. :D
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  • AllNiteThing
    AllNiteThing Posts: 1,115
    Brain of J.Lo wrote:
    No one disagrees that it was probably gross and that the kids were behaving inappropriately. You (and a few others) are missing the point.


    Which is? You're not allowed to feel something's gross because it's from a special needs person? I disagree.
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