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I just popped into my local for a quick pint,only to be confronted by what looks like a kindergarten crossed with a f
king zoo!
I don't necessarily mind kids being in a pub environment, but 4 And 5 year Olds running around, screaming and rolling around on the floor is taking the fking piss!
Meanwhile, the parents were all having a jolly fking time while the rest of the pub wondered what the fk was occurring.
They eventually managed to gather their little darlings together and left.
Seriously, what the fk is wrong with people?
king zoo!I don't necessarily mind kids being in a pub environment, but 4 And 5 year Olds running around, screaming and rolling around on the floor is taking the f
king piss!Meanwhile, the parents were all having a jolly f
king time while the rest of the pub wondered what the fk was occurring.They eventually managed to gather their little darlings together and left.
Seriously, what the f
k is wrong with people?It's my local and is a good old fashioned pub. No flat roofs, no tracksuits, no orange wags and Geordie Shore wannabes, so the last thing I was expecting was the Swiss Family fking Robinson to be in situ.
I've never seen them before, and none of the regulars know them.
Hopefully that's the first and last time they'll visit!
king Robinson to be in situ. I've never seen them before, and none of the regulars know them.
Hopefully that's the first and last time they'll visit!
There IS a reason it's called a PUBLIC HOUSE.
If you don't like it, drink somewhere else that doesn't cater for parents and children.
As a simily, Just remember, a chap who has enjoyed a sociable few is just as annoying to a sober person as the children are to you. Kids just don't have to drink to achieve that state to gave a good time.
Suggestion? Stop being miserable in a Public House and perhaps think how nice it would be to be someone (a child) who actually doesn't give a Fcuck (mainly cos 'giving a Fcuck' doesn't compute yet) and have fun. I disliked children intensley until I adjusted my attitude towards them.
They arent annoying anymore.
Try it.
If you don't like it, drink somewhere else that doesn't cater for parents and children.
As a simily, Just remember, a chap who has enjoyed a sociable few is just as annoying to a sober person as the children are to you. Kids just don't have to drink to achieve that state to gave a good time.
Suggestion? Stop being miserable in a Public House and perhaps think how nice it would be to be someone (a child) who actually doesn't give a Fcuck (mainly cos 'giving a Fcuck' doesn't compute yet) and have fun. I disliked children intensley until I adjusted my attitude towards them.
They arent annoying anymore.
Try it.
jogger1976 said:
It's my local and is a good old fashioned pub. No flat roofs, no tracksuits, no orange wags and Geordie Shore wannabes, so the last thing I was expecting was the Swiss Family fking Robinson to be in situ.
I've never seen them before, and none of the regulars know them.
Hopefully that's the first and last time they'll visit!
I bet they spent a shed load more money than you though. Ask the Landlord about how he feels.king Robinson to be in situ. I've never seen them before, and none of the regulars know them.
Hopefully that's the first and last time they'll visit!
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
People who take children to pubs should be teaching them that it's not a playground. That's how people learn to have respect for folks around them.
Decently behaved children should be welcomed anywhere.
I was a regular before I was born Decently behaved children should be welcomed anywhere.
Sit down, be quiet you had fun a coke and if lucky a packet of scampi fries.
Not sure why less parents seem to instil simple manners.
Unless a Playbarn type place in which case suck it up.
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
People who take children to pubs should be teaching them that it's not a playground. That's how people learn to have respect for folks around them.
Decently behaved children should be welcomed anywhere.
Restaurants yes. Pubs? Crack on. You go to a pub to let your hair down don't you?Decently behaved children should be welcomed anywhere.
TVR1 said:
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
People who take children to pubs should be teaching them that it's not a playground. That's how people learn to have respect for folks around them.
Decently behaved children should be welcomed anywhere.
Restaurants yes. Pubs? Crack on. You go to a pub to let your hair down don't you?Decently behaved children should be welcomed anywhere.
)TVR1 said:
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
People who take children to pubs should be teaching them that it's not a playground. That's how people learn to have respect for folks around them.
Decently behaved children should be welcomed anywhere.
Restaurants yes. Pubs? Crack on. You go to a pub to let your hair down don't you?Decently behaved children should be welcomed anywhere.
In reality, pubs are the ideal environment for parents to teach their children how to behave in pubs and how to appropriately share public spaces with other customers.
Uncle John said:
I'm with the OP on this one. I'm fine with kids in pubs as long as they behave.
It's predominantly an adult environment so children should be on their best.
IME it's worst with the la di dahs who sink bottles of Chardonnay while Tarquin and Oscar run riot.
My eldest son Oscar is 20 (almost 21) and goes to the pub on his own (well without us) It's predominantly an adult environment so children should be on their best.
IME it's worst with the la di dahs who sink bottles of Chardonnay while Tarquin and Oscar run riot.
Are we La Di Dah ? there werent any Oscar's that werent small and gold about in 1995, well, ones that werent canine and long gone by now anyways !
Edited by J4CKO on Sunday 23 October 20:06
jogger1976 said:
It's my local and is a good old fashioned pub. No flat roofs, no tracksuits, no orange wags and Geordie Shore wannabes, so the last thing I was expecting was the Swiss Family fking Robinson to be in situ.
I've never seen them before, and none of the regulars know them.
Hopefully that's the first and last time they'll visit!
TBF some of the worst examples of annoying brats we've experienced is more aspiring midlish class tking Robinson to be in situ. I've never seen them before, and none of the regulars know them.
Hopefully that's the first and last time they'll visit!
ts with their weak and lazy permissive parenting letting their little can-do-absolutely-no-wrong precious little things running amok.As for other comments the pub is an adult enviroment, kids are fine but screaming,running, playing up have no place any more than they do from any other patron, only its the parents rather than a bouncers job to drag them out.
I'm with you on this one OP. Unless the pub is clearly marketed as a family friendly one, with play park etc in the back then the kids should at the very least be controlled and behaving. Over the summer I went to a pub near my house that is one of the family friendly types with play park in the back, but given that it was a Thursday night at 10pm I was not amused to see / hear Primary School aged kids, some still in their uniform, running about the place - I figured by that time of night I was safe to conduct a quiet pint and chat with my friend without the noise.
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