More than 200 breastfeeding mothers descended on a cafe in support of one of their own who claimed she was verbally abused by a waitress for suckling her baby in public.
Kelly Schaecher, 28, claims she was told by a member of staff: 'Don’t you ever come back to my cafe with your t*** out again!'
When word spread about her ordeal, a Facebook page set up by mothers calling themselves 'lactivists' and 'mother suckers' called on like-minded women to take a stand by deliberately breastfeeding there.
Cheered on by schoolchildren and monitored by policewomen on horseback, the group marched to the cafe to have it out with the owner.
Kelly said: 'What we did was a peaceful gathering, not a protest and we had a really good reaction from the police and the public.
'A group of school children started clapping us and there were six policewomen on horseback to make sure no one drifted in the road.'
Kelly had popped out for lunch at the Park Street Cafe in Bristol, where she claims she was told by the waitress that if she wanted to feed her baby she would have to sit in the corner.
Although Kelly was distressed by what had happened, she decided not to pursue anything.
Kelly had never met the person who started up the Facebook page, but word spread about her ordeal very quickly.
She said: 'The cafe's owner was really apologetic and gave everyone a free tea or coffee and a free cake.
'He can't help it if one of his staff was rude to me and he has now put up a sign saying "Breastfeeing is allowed in here".'
Davide Pontini, 35, general manager of the Park Street Cafe, said: 'We want to make it clear that we welcome all mothers and we have women breastfeeding in here on a daily basis.
'It's not company policy for us to make women breastfeed in the corner. This was simply an isolated incident due to a misunderstanding.'
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heh heh - she said popped out.... heh hehKelly had popped out for lunch at the Park Street Cafe in Bristol
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Re: Lactivism
So now he's charging a breast fee and they're okay with that?'He can't help it if one of his staff was rude to me and he has now put up a sign saying "Breastfeeing is allowed in here".'
Re: Lactivism
Excessive affluence.
Not pretty.
yrs,
rubato
Not pretty.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Lactivism
Said the man who oft boasts about how much his wife makes, and how much tax they pay.rubato wrote:Excessive affluence.
Not pretty.
Still, thank god, she won't be joining the breast feeding brigade.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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I use examples from real life to illustrate the unfairness of the tax code. It provides concrete examples of how the tax code further advantages the rich and suggests ways in which it should be reformed.
The truth is interesting.
Your need to invent motives reveals your own smallness of both mind and heart.
yrs,
rubato
The truth is interesting.
Your need to invent motives reveals your own smallness of both mind and heart.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Lactivism
rubato wrote:
The truth is interesting.
Oh the truth is very interesting . Can you show me any "truth" of your statement;
and how it is applicable here?rubato wrote:Excessive affluence.
Not pretty.
Your need to invent motives reveals your Aspergers syndrome.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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In the United States, in spite of whatever flaws our health care system has, a diagnosis which is accepted as meaningful is performed by a medical doctor with board certification in Psychiatry, not an orderly in a mental ward.
And if I did have Asperger's (which is improbable given my demonstrated social skills in 'the real world') it is generally accepted that this is genetically determined and it would be like making fun of someone born with a club foot.
You really are a nasty little toad of a person.
yrs,
rubato
And if I did have Asperger's (which is improbable given my demonstrated social skills in 'the real world') it is generally accepted that this is genetically determined and it would be like making fun of someone born with a club foot.
You really are a nasty little toad of a person.
yrs,
rubato
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So then, Mr "I do not have Aspergers, even though for years I have posted like someone who has", Retard, where is the "excessive affluence" displayed here?
Oh, still waiting on your explanation of; "the connection between sunlight, vitamin D, and dietary supplementation"?
Oh, still waiting on your explanation of; "the connection between sunlight, vitamin D, and dietary supplementation"?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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The defining characteristic of affluence is free time. People with too much free time often use it to vex other people who are not so afflicted with affluence. Can you connect the dots now? Or do you need a crayon?
The woman in the other thread was prematurely aged which could be from smoking (likely, and mentioned) or it could be from a lack of vitamin D. People living in a sunny climate who are outdoors a lot make enough vitamin D on their own. As exposure to sunlight decreases the need for dietary supplementation increases. That is why diet was mentioned in that thread.
Now I have wasted 3 1/2 minutes marginally reducing the ignorance of a jackass. Why did I do that? You will never improve thereby. You will continue to find in posts which are innocuous something to whine about because you are an asshole who needs someone to hate and bitch about. You have demonstrated numerous times that once you have decided to hate someone you will pretend that they had said something they have not; but in others who really only post shit, like Timster, you will forgive pure crap.
yrs,
rubato
The woman in the other thread was prematurely aged which could be from smoking (likely, and mentioned) or it could be from a lack of vitamin D. People living in a sunny climate who are outdoors a lot make enough vitamin D on their own. As exposure to sunlight decreases the need for dietary supplementation increases. That is why diet was mentioned in that thread.
Now I have wasted 3 1/2 minutes marginally reducing the ignorance of a jackass. Why did I do that? You will never improve thereby. You will continue to find in posts which are innocuous something to whine about because you are an asshole who needs someone to hate and bitch about. You have demonstrated numerous times that once you have decided to hate someone you will pretend that they had said something they have not; but in others who really only post shit, like Timster, you will forgive pure crap.
yrs,
rubato
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Gee I always thought "the defining characteristic of affluence" was wealth....The defining characteristic of affluence is free time. People with too much free time often use it to vex other people who are not so afflicted with affluence.
Shows what I know...
I can hardly wait to tell the bums downtown, (who are just up to their unwashed necks in free time) how their big problem is their affluence....
Okay so rube doesn't know what the word "affluence" means....
No big surprise, he's shown a number of times there are many commonly used words and expressions that he doesn't know the meaning of....
Now I have wasted 3 1/2 minutes marginally reducing the ignorance of a jackass. Why did I do that? You will never improve thereby. You will continue to find in posts which are innocuous something to whine about because you are an asshole who needs someone to hate and bitch about.
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A group of women who have given birth, and are still breast feeding, going for a coffee is "excessive affluence"?
Jesus, no wonder retard is always bragging about how well off he is, most of us are "la creme de la creme" by his standards!
Oh I do love it, his double standards and unerring accuracy when shooting at his feet never fails to amuse.
Jesus, no wonder retard is always bragging about how well off he is, most of us are "la creme de la creme" by his standards!
Oh I do love it, his double standards and unerring accuracy when shooting at his feet never fails to amuse.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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All-in-all, this was great PR for Park Street Cafe; that held a booming business of 200 more patrons than average, that day ... mom's had a day out with their babies, and it was safer than rock-climbing!
Win/Win
Rockin' baby-
He wears;
Win/Win
Rockin' baby-
He wears;
Re: Lactivism
Like the homeless?Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:58 pm by" rubato"
The defining characteristic of affluence is free time. People with too much free time often use it to vex other people who are not so afflicted with affluence.
On a more serious note:
I see you point, rubato. My late father retired in his late thirties (he inherited a sh-tload of money) and made everyone in the family miserable. He'd pick and pick at the smallest things and constantly bitched about other people's supposed short comings. He had no job to keep him occupied and feel a sense of worth.
I never lacked for any material thing while growing up, but my childhood was hell.
It took cancer to kick him in the ass and show what a complete jackass he had been for the past 30 years.
He died 12 years ago, made his peace with his family and with God.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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But you are a stupid person.Lord Jim wrote:Gee I always thought "the defining characteristic of affluence" was wealth....The defining characteristic of affluence is free time. People with too much free time often use it to vex other people who are not so afflicted with affluence.
Shows what I know...
No one really expects you to understand anything important.
The defining characteristic of affluence is that you don' t have to spend all of your time trying to make a living, or solving the brute problems of existence, you have free time to do other things.
Only world-class stupid would not know that.
yrs,
rubato
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Bollocks Rubato!
Free time is a result of affluence rather than a characteristic... defining or otherwise.
Do you actually know what affluence means or was it just a random multisyllabic word you decided to throw in to make yourself look clever?
Free time is a result of affluence rather than a characteristic... defining or otherwise.
Do you actually know what affluence means or was it just a random multisyllabic word you decided to throw in to make yourself look clever?
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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ROTFLMAO 
Well lookie here:
Let's see, that's the definition of "affluence" from four different reputable sources and I make that "wealth" being listed in the definition four times, and "free time", well....zero....
(Rube you may want to have someone else add that for you; you've demonstrated before that your math skills aren't much better than your knowledge of the English language)
The "defining characteristic of affluence" is, as I stated, (and as these definitions clearly show) wealth....
NOT, as you so ignorantly stated, "free time"....
"Free time" is one of a list of things, (like nice cars, nice homes, nice vacations etc.) which an "affluent" (ie "wealthy" person) may or may not have; (there are plenty of affluent/wealthy people who work a hundred hours a week and have little to no free time. )
"Free time" is also something that many people who could never be remotely described as "affluent" have in abundance.
It is certainly in no way shape or form a "defining characteristic of affluence".
Now I have wasted 7 minutes attempting (unsuccessfully I'm sure; If any attempts to marginally reduce your ignorance have ever succeeded, I am unaware of them) to marginally reduce the ignorance of a jackass. Why did I do that? You will never improve thereby. You will continue to find in posts which are innocuous something to whine about because you are an asshole who needs someone to hate and bitch about.
(I have to say rube, there's one way in which I regularly find your posts quite educational; I had no idea that the abysmal quality of public education in the state of California goes back at least 40 years until I encountered you.)
So here's the question we're left with....
Having revealed yourself to be a middle-aged supposedly college educated man who is so ignorant that he does not know the definition of the word "affluence", will you also reveal yourself as a middle-aged supposedly college educated man who is too stupid to learn it?
Well lookie here:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/affluenceaf·flu·ence
noun
\ˈa-(ˌ)flü-ən(t)s also a-ˈflü- or ə-\
Definition of AFFLUENCE
1
a : an abundant flow or supply : profusion b : abundance of property : wealth
2
: a flowing to or toward a point : influx
af·flu·ence (fl-ns, -fl-)
n.
1. A plentiful supply of material goods; wealth.
2. A great quantity; an abundance.
3. A flowing to or toward a point; afflux.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
affluence [ˈæflʊəns]
n
1. an abundant supply of money, goods, or property; wealth
2. Rare abundance or profusion
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definitio ... /affluenceDefinition of affluence
noun
[mass noun]
the state of having a great deal of money; wealth: a sign of our growing affluence
Let's see, that's the definition of "affluence" from four different reputable sources and I make that "wealth" being listed in the definition four times, and "free time", well....zero....
(Rube you may want to have someone else add that for you; you've demonstrated before that your math skills aren't much better than your knowledge of the English language)
Wrong again, Your Royal Wrongness....The defining characteristic of affluence is that you don' t have to spend all of your time trying to make a living,
The "defining characteristic of affluence" is, as I stated, (and as these definitions clearly show) wealth....
NOT, as you so ignorantly stated, "free time"....
(Of course it could be that in addition to not knowing what the word "affluence" means, you also don't know what the phrase "defining characteristic" means...Hardly a day goes by where you fail to demonstrate that you have not yet fully expressed the outer boundaries of your ignorance; you seem to be pretty much a bottomless pit on that score.)The defining characteristic of affluence is free time.
"Free time" is one of a list of things, (like nice cars, nice homes, nice vacations etc.) which an "affluent" (ie "wealthy" person) may or may not have; (there are plenty of affluent/wealthy people who work a hundred hours a week and have little to no free time. )
"Free time" is also something that many people who could never be remotely described as "affluent" have in abundance.
It is certainly in no way shape or form a "defining characteristic of affluence".
Now I have wasted 7 minutes attempting (unsuccessfully I'm sure; If any attempts to marginally reduce your ignorance have ever succeeded, I am unaware of them) to marginally reduce the ignorance of a jackass. Why did I do that? You will never improve thereby. You will continue to find in posts which are innocuous something to whine about because you are an asshole who needs someone to hate and bitch about.
(I have to say rube, there's one way in which I regularly find your posts quite educational; I had no idea that the abysmal quality of public education in the state of California goes back at least 40 years until I encountered you.)
So here's the question we're left with....
Having revealed yourself to be a middle-aged supposedly college educated man who is so ignorant that he does not know the definition of the word "affluence", will you also reveal yourself as a middle-aged supposedly college educated man who is too stupid to learn it?
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Re: Lactivism
So, going for a coffee with like minded people is "excessive affluence"?
My god, what a poverty stricken world retard must live in.
My god, what a poverty stricken world retard must live in.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Lactivism
After I had given birth to the Hatch, I had 18 months off work.
I used to meet mothers with children of a similar age for coffee.
It help to share my stories to see how things were progressing with the Hatch. It helped to vent when things weren't as rosey as I thought they might be.
I wasn't being excessively affluent.
I was trying to make sure I didn't lose my mind in caring for my child and I could share experiences with others who would understand me.
Unfortunately I was never a great breast-feeder and I would never subject the public to my style of suckling.
I used to meet mothers with children of a similar age for coffee.
It help to share my stories to see how things were progressing with the Hatch. It helped to vent when things weren't as rosey as I thought they might be.
I wasn't being excessively affluent.
I was trying to make sure I didn't lose my mind in caring for my child and I could share experiences with others who would understand me.
Unfortunately I was never a great breast-feeder and I would never subject the public to my style of suckling.
Bah!
