After reading that, I think it's warranted.

wil: Donald_McRonald: After reading that, I think it's warranted.

Really? You think it's warranted to write a hateful attack on a child? A four year-old child?

Wow.

exactly. Dad may be a schmuck but don't take it out on a 4 year old kid.

You know, I really wanted to get on subby's side, but then I read the article.

It's tough to disagree with the author.

Meh. He's four.

I once chased a squirrel around a tree trying to pee on it when I was four.

Four year olds are assholes. They grow out of it.

Aw, now, everyone knows 4 year olds suck.

Then they suck more and more and more as they get older.

'Til they're about, oh...thirty.
HOWEVER

"So it is both a compliment and just to describe Elijah Pollack as big, big trouble in the making."

I LIKE this kid.

Go figure.

Hating on a 4 year old seems pretty stupid to me. At least wait until they're an obnoxious, all-knowing teenager.

wil: Really? You think it's warranted to write a hateful attack on a child? A four year-old child?

It's not really a hateful attack on the kid as much as it's a hateful, well-deserved attack on the douchebaggery of Neal Pollack, one of David Eggers' favorite masturbatory aids, and Neal Pollack's pretentiousness.

The man has been inflicting his genius on the world for long enough (I AM GIVING READINGS OF MY BOOKS IN BATHROOMS!). Let the world strike back once in awhile.

So, let me get this right - guy, who I've never heard of before, writes a blog piece about his kid and he buying cheese. In the article the kid eats a piece of cheese with no flavor and another piece of cheese that tastes disgusting. He politely swallows both and says "don't buy that, dad" about the second one.

The some other blogger, who I've also never heard of, decides to take time out of his day to write a post about what a hideous waste of oxygen this child is based on the fact that he dared comment on foods he likes and dislikes?

I'm sorry, I must not be up on my Fark today - who am I supposed to be rooting for here - the professional blogger who fluffs through his writing obligations with stories about his kid eating cheese? Or the professional blogger who fluffs through his writing obligations with vitriol about kids who eat cheese?

I don't see the big deal. However, I now have an uncontrollable craving for Cheez Whiz.

Donald_McRonald: After reading that, I think it's warranted.
This

and this...

Subby, if you think that was hateful, you need to get out more.

plus, I think the dad is the one who needs to "stay classy"

wil: I honestly can't believe there's even a debate about this.

I was going to say "been here long?" then realized who I was talking to.

How about "forget where you are?"

We sshould remember that kids can be really annoying.

beve: We sshould remember that kids can be really annoying.

So annoying sometimes, that they cause one to stutter ;)

AFter reading the article, I was actually let down. So a guy tasted cheese with his son and wrote about it on the internet? I don't get the hatred.

/Although I, too, hate cheese

steveo: So, let me get this right - guy, who I've never heard of before, writes a blog piece about his kid and he buying cheese. In the article the kid eats a piece of cheese with no flavor and another piece of cheese that tastes disgusting. He politely swallows both and says "don't buy that, dad" about the second one.

The some other blogger, who I've also never heard of, decides to take time out of his day to write a post about what a hideous waste of oxygen this child is based on the fact that he dared comment on foods he likes and dislikes?

I'm sorry, I must not be up on my Fark today - who am I supposed to be rooting for here - the professional blogger who fluffs through his writing obligations with stories about his kid eating cheese? Or the professional blogger who fluffs through his writing obligations with vitriol about kids who eat cheese?

Either way, in the end, we are the saps for reading it.

I'm the head football coach at Okie St, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies...

/didn't RTFA

i think this was more aimed at the dad...

Honestly, who gives a shiat about any of this shiat?

.

Yeah, he sounds like a real shiat. And the dad is a piece of work too.

I can't even form an opinion about this. It's cheese, for fark's sakes.

Dante?

baorao: Does not approve.

I lawled.

/seriously, though
//If you've got nothing better to do than hate a BLOGGER's 4 year old son
///You should seriously re-evaluate your life
//With a Smith & Wesson

There's a Gawker tag?

Wow, my head just rolled from the extra healping of internet douchebaggery. First a douchebag article about cheese snobbery, and then the usual Gawker gossip douchebaggery. Does anyone really read Gawker or do they get all their readership from unsuspecting Farkers expecting real news or humor?

And the commenter was probably Randal

I hated the kid at 2 when he proclaimed pampers were a poor toddler's huggies.

This is more aimed at the father, as the child does only has his father teaches him.

How the fuq was this story greenlit?

Sharch

I don't see the big deal. However, I now have an uncontrollable craving for Cheez Whiz.


Despite the testimony of the wizened oldster in 'Blues Brothers', that is not Cheez Whiz. Cheez Wiz is a discrete product.

You are correct, however, that both items are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike cheese.

wil: Donald_McRonald: After reading that, I think it's warranted.

Really? You think it's warranted to write a hateful attack on a child? A four year-old child?

Wow.

I don't get it - the kid expresses his dislike of two different types of cheddar and this is enough to hate the kid?

wow indeed

He is essentially a formless mass that has been fashioned into what he is by his father.

HE'S A FOUR-YEAR-OLD KID. Of COURSE he's going to be reflecting whatever his beloved (to the kid) Father is showing him.

We're ALL fashioned into what we are by our parents - either by repetition or by revolution (mimicing or rebelling).

Get a clue, article-writer-personage. Even better, get some kids of your own, and see how 'easy' it is.

CtrlAltDelete is obviously a big jerk who should be put away for animal cruelty, and general goings-on.

By four, you should be able to function as a contributing member of polite and correct society.

Or, you could be a stupid kid. Like, say, a four-year-old.

The "father" should be beaten severe about the head and shoulders.

Use the kid as your blunt object.

Wise_Guy: wil: I honestly can't believe there's even a debate about this.

I was going to say "been here long?" then realized who I was talking to.

How about "forget where you are?"

Hey, it's not like the kid thought he could pilot the Enterprise or anything....

/Please don't strike me down, Wil....

Duh...that should say "beaten severely"

Now we know both he and his portrayal are at the mercy of his daddy.He is essentially a formless mass that has been fashioned into what he is by his father. But if we were to come across a sculpture that resembled, for instance, a large penis, we would be remiss not to mention that fact simply because the statue was created by a sculptor and did not form itself.

I LOLed.

That kid dislikes the kind of cheese that you and I eat. That means by proxy, he dislikes us, because he thinks that he is better than us. What a little shiathead, I hope he falls over on some broken bottles.

Did I get that right?

I should hope that when I have children, they too will have the taste to show interest in decent cheese. Way to raise a child with taste, Neil Whoever-you-are.

Wow, a "Manhattan media news and gossip" blogger turns out to be a bitter little waste of oxygen that has to pick on a four-year-old to reinforce its illusion of superiority.

Then again, I'm in a flyover state, so I can't imagine what possible relevance my opinions might have. I guess I'll just go back to mowing my hay.

Scathing? I think not.

bongmiester

I don't get it - the kid expresses his dislike of two different types of cheddar and this is enough to hate the kid?

Perhaps the 'hatred' is displaced. We are very lucky to find ourselves living in a culture where children spit out food because it doesn't make their taste buds explode, all the while the adults laugh and think its cute.

Sounds like the author was trying to attack Neal Pollock through the kid, which shows bad form on the author.

Still, I know a lot of parents trying to "mold" their youngin's into insta-adults. I hate to say it, but I agree with the author that some of them are going to turn out into sociopath monsters - think "guys behind Enron" levels.

wil: Donald_McRonald: After reading that, I think it's warranted.

Really? You think it's warranted to write a hateful attack on a child? A four year-old child?

Wow.

I hate that farkin 4 year old piece of shiat.