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Children on flights are no problem if they're well-behaved, and well-supervised.
Unfortunately, it is in the nature of children faced with long hours of nothing to do and being told to be still and quiet, to cease being well-behaved.
Babies, of course, are unpredictable, unreasoning, and capable of being extremely loud, incontinent and disruptive, all at the same time.

Now a parent has effectively signed up for all of this. The other passengers have not.
If I had the money to travel first-class, it would be beguiling to me for the extra levels of comfort and peace and quiet. A screaming child or a kid kicking the back of my seat, or a baby puking on my arm would instantly negate that.
So. The baby ghetto? preferably behind a closed bulkhead door too.
Look on the bright side. Your precious pumpkin is in the most crash-survivable end of the plane.
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In reply to the comment by Angelo:- The rivers Kwai-Yai and Kwai-Noi meet at a confluence just south of Kanchanaburi, at which the combined rivers become the Mae-Klong. The Mekong is in Viet-Nam.
The section shown in the picture is not a part of the famous bridge, but part of the Whampo viaduct beside the river.
My father was one who came back, but many of his friends died as slave-labourers in the jungles around the railway.
The real Bridge on the River Kwai was nothing like the famous one in the film, it was an iron bridge on concrete piers. However, prisoners built numerous other bridges out of timber further up the line.
The reason the british did not build the railway when they first surveyed it was because of the predicted cost, not in money, but in human lives. The report stated that too many workers would die.
When the Imperial Japanese Army decided to build it, they used, to a great extent, the published british survey, but did not see the deaths of prisoners and natives, nor even their own troops as any sort of obstacle.
This is why it's said "a life for every sleeper" What you americans call "Railroad ties" we call sleepers.
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If you want to hear a man who really sings in extremely low registers, you mightlike to listen to Albert Kuvezhyn, singing Joy Division's "Love Will Tear us Apart".

I posted it on my blog long ago. http://gritinthegears.blogspot.com/2007/02/love-will-tear-us-apart-again-by-yat.html
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