Entitled celebrity idiot parent of the month: Kaley Cuoco

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Why call her out by name and not her DH, Tom Pelphrey?

Oh, for a moment I forgot DCUM hates women.

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Anonymous wrote:Why call her out by name and not her DH, Tom Pelphrey?

Oh, for a moment I forgot DCUM hates women.

Uhh she was the one doing the interview that is quoted...

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone see the interview? I’d be pretty pissed in that situation too. The passenger asking to turn off the noise machine was clearly either not a mom or had nannies to handle the crying babies. Team Kaley here. If you are on a horrible flight with delays and everything and the only thing that can get your baby to sleep is a noise machine next to their ear, so be it. Really, on a plane, you’re going to complain about a noise machine? Would you rather hear the crying baby?

You have no basis for this assertion. Maybe she was just someone who understands the choice to bring a baby on a plane doesn't trump other passengers' rights.

Again - did you watch the interview? That is not the only thing that passenger said. She was clearly not a mom.

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Insanity. Literally first time parents flying with a baby. They know what helps the baby at home so they bring what they know will work on the plane. That's not unreasonable or crazy. We have no idea how loud the thing actually was. Assuming with the plane white noise it wasn't actually needed but come on people. FIRST TIME PARENTS. First time taking their baby on a plane. Have some grace. Sheesh.

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Anonymous wrote:Insanity. Literally first time parents flying with a baby. They know what helps the baby at home so they bring what they know will work on the plane. That's not unreasonable or crazy. We have no idea how loud the thing actually was. Assuming with the plane white noise it wasn't actually needed but come on people. FIRST TIME PARENTS. First time taking their baby on a plane. Have some grace. Sheesh.

Pulleeze. First- time parents have been traveling with babies and toddlers for years without asking for special privileges or inconveniencing others. She literally said she was "so angry" about it. People like her come across as being spoiled and entitled because they are just that.

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Anonymous wrote:Why call her out by name and not her DH, Tom Pelphrey?

Oh, for a moment I forgot DCUM hates women.

Uhh she was the one doing the interview that is quoted...

It was just was easy to say they both were entitled since age describes him as enraged as well.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe she's so rich without any talent or looks. I mean, that might go for most of Hollywood but she stands out. So its too bad she had such a nasty personality too

I think she's pretty. It's that Jennifer Aniston kind of pretty -- cute but in an approachable way that doesn't intimidate people. Sitcom pretty.

I also think that even though she's not like some super-talented method actor, she has a lot of skill as a TV actor in terms of timing, understanding comedic beats, and relating to scene partners as well as the camera. There are technical aspects of acting for the camera that I think most people are unaware of, and she really has them down. It's pretty much impossible to consistently work in TV as she has if you don't have those skills.

Some of her wealth is luck (huge luck in getting that role on Big Bang Theory and then that show hitting some kind of sweet spot with audiences and advertisers and running as long as it did -- every actor who lands a long running sitcom as their first major role lucked into it to some degree) but her success doesn't strike me as that surprising. She is similar to a lot of actors who have had that kind of success on TV. It's a very specific career trajectory and she fits the mold.

I agree with you. She has excellent comedic timing & knows how to play off her cast mates. I am not sure if she has had improv experience or was just natural about it.

And then there was the luck of being on a long running show.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone see the interview? I’d be pretty pissed in that situation too. The passenger asking to turn off the noise machine was clearly either not a mom or had nannies to handle the crying babies. Team Kaley here. If you are on a horrible flight with delays and everything and the only thing that can get your baby to sleep is a noise machine next to their ear, so be it. Really, on a plane, you’re going to complain about a noise machine? Would you rather hear the crying baby?

+1. I'd pick a white noise machine over a screaming baby any day, hour or minute.

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Anonymous wrote:geez the whole ambient noise of a plane is like a giant sound machine for most babies, not need for a separate sound machine.

This was my thought exactly!

Mine too. I used to have a roommate who was a professional violin player and she said she could go in the back of the plane and play her violin and only the two rows closest to her could hear, because of how little noise traveled. Now, even if she was exaggerating and it was the FOUR rows closest to her, that's STILL a lot of white noise on an airplane.

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Anonymous wrote:geez the whole ambient noise of a plane is like a giant sound machine for most babies, not need for a separate sound machine.

This was my thought exactly!

Mine too. Why didn't they fly private?

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List of responses to a child crying on a plane in the order of annoyance, worst to best:

1. Parents telling baby to shut up, getting annoyed with each other and sniping at each other. Have heard this many times. The worst is when they will say stuff like "Shut up, can't you see you are bothering all the other passengers." When I hear this I will sometime say, if I'm seated very close, "actually I'd much rather listen to your child cry than listen to you yell at your child for crying." Because it's horrible to hear! Kids get upset sometimes and no one enjoys listening to it, but I'm not comforted by the sound a parent verbally abusing a baby or toddler for making noise.

2. Letting child cry with no effort to address. Self-explanatory. You should do something!

3. Using audible phone/tablet noise to calm crying child. Better than crying but still very annoying. Just get headphones for the kid! You can find bluetooth headphones for kids that are fine for like $20.

4. Literally any other solution.

I feel like Kaley's solution was between #4 and #3, depending on what the white noise machine sounded like. Maybe annoying but far from the most irritating thing, and if they were having a terrible travel day and it was their first time flying with the baby, I'm inclined to give them a pass. At least they actually cared that their child was crying and did something to stop it. This already makes them better parents than many people I've flown with.

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Anonymous wrote:List of responses to a child crying on a plane in the order of annoyance, worst to best:

1. Parents telling baby to shut up, getting annoyed with each other and sniping at each other. Have heard this many times. The worst is when they will say stuff like "Shut up, can't you see you are bothering all the other passengers." When I hear this I will sometime say, if I'm seated very close, "actually I'd much rather listen to your child cry than listen to you yell at your child for crying." Because it's horrible to hear! Kids get upset sometimes and no one enjoys listening to it, but I'm not comforted by the sound a parent verbally abusing a baby or toddler for making noise.

2. Letting child cry with no effort to address. Self-explanatory. You should do something!

3. Using audible phone/tablet noise to calm crying child. Better than crying but still very annoying. Just get headphones for the kid! You can find bluetooth headphones for kids that are fine for like $20.

4. Literally any other solution.

I feel like Kaley's solution was between #4 and #3, depending on what the white noise machine sounded like. Maybe annoying but far from the most irritating thing, and if they were having a terrible travel day and it was their first time flying with the baby, I'm inclined to give them a pass. At least they actually cared that their child was crying and did something to stop it. This already makes them better parents than many people I've flown with.

Option # -1: drive

Option #0: private flight

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Anonymous wrote:Insanity. Literally first time parents flying with a baby. They know what helps the baby at home so they bring what they know will work on the plane. That's not unreasonable or crazy. We have no idea how loud the thing actually was. Assuming with the plane white noise it wasn't actually needed but come on people. FIRST TIME PARENTS. First time taking their baby on a plane. Have some grace. Sheesh.

Sorry, it's literally batsh*t crazy.

This reminds me of the South Park Scientology ep where they're like, "oh come on is this really any more crazy than any other religion???" And the response is, "....yes. This is way, way more crazy.' lol

Idc if you are a first time parent. No reasonable person thinks this is ok.

[Anonymous]

Considering the current state of air travel, it would take more than a white noise machine to bother me. Between the nut jobs yielding a weapon to trap doors coming loose mid flight with the potential of passengers being sucked out into the atmosphere, I will gladly accept the white noise machine.

And to those who question why the husband wasn’t blamed for the machine….A man would have never packed it in the first place!

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What if the sound was set to heartbeat (some onfant noise machines are). Can you imagine being stuck on a plane with a giant heartbeat pulsing near you?

I think as parents they were doing what they thought would help, but other passengers have a right to speak up in a common space. Should the other passenger spoken up? That can be argied on both sides, obviously.