Drinking wine in the park while children play?

It's a picnic - maybe they are celebrating something

Not allowed in any of the parks near me. Public Space Protection Orders in place, likewise the town centres. If you're caught and are lucky you'll be made to pour it down a drain, if you're not lucky you'll be arrested. In the eyes of the law there is no difference between Special Brew and a naice prosecco.

I was apparently in an animated political conversation with a teacher for half an hour, then attempted to steal the school's electronic keyboard.

😆

Flipped from unexpected junior political activist to budding musical criminal - sounds like you opened a second can !

It used to be on tap in one of the local flat-roofed pubs where I grew up, but "watered-down" to just under 7%

Pirates drink rum not gin!! (Notoriously lol)

This is pure class. How did you think you were going to steal a keyboard from a school?

I thought I'd had a wild youth but I can't hold a candle to that. I did once pass out on a toilet floor after a substantial amount of Red Label Thunderbird and had to talk the landlord out of calling an ambulance.

Let's just say I'm very glad Gen Alpha doesn't have a taste for booze...

Can you tell us your source for this. Or better still show us the detailed research that proves it.

Can you still buy Tennents Super 🤔? Only tried it twice. First time, I blacked out at an event at a school where my friends were the live band. After the event I was apparently in an animated political conversation with a teacher for half an hour, then attempted to steal the school's electronic keyboard. Managed to get it to the car-park but it was confiscated as I was climbing into a taxi. Second time (shortly after), I smashed a shop window on the way home and we were all arrested. Had to personally apologise to the shopkeeper and pay £200 to replace it (quite a lot of money at the time). At least I was under 20. Having an uneventful day, so might pop to the corner shop in a minute... 🤨

mugs of neat gin AND at midday??

Jesus Christ

All that's missing there is an eye-patch, peg-leg and a shoulder parrot

and/or ankle tag

Back in the day, school sports afternoons, in the local park, always involved a group of mums, a picnic, and a couple of glasses of wine. 🙈

Sounds good to me!! But then I used to take my kids to a mums and tots group in a little Cheshire village hall on Friday afternoons and there'd be prosecco and nice nibbles laid out.
Lots of fun and laughter and the kids had a blast too.

Im guilty of this and I hardly even drink. Maybe if OP saw me she would assume I was an alcoholic.

That's the thing about assuming!

That wasn’t what you meant though, was it? You were definitely judging.

I cracked open a beer with our friends at the playground/park recently while the kids played together. We was all fine, not drunk, just enjoying a catch up, some autumn sun and letting the kids run around.

It's a shame playgrounds don't have gin bars for the adults... As per Jen Bristers brilliant stand up piece 😂

Completely get you on the nuclear fuel. Don't get me wrong, I've tried most if not all of these in my 20s.

But I stand by the idea that most people who drink them over the age of about 25 are pissheads/street drinkers. If you're drinking something like this around your kids you're definitely in problem territory.

This was my thought too. Then when the OP didn't get the onslaught of outrage they were anticipating it suddenly switched to concern in case they needed to pee!

I tried 2 of those exactly once, between age 17-19

The first time I was sober and thought the Super Strength would make for a refreshing beverage on a summer's day after sports - 3 cans got tipped / unblocked the town's entire sewer network

They have a taste of lager mixed with spent nuclear fuel

Whatever was wrong with what they were doing? Presumably two people weren’t going to get falling over drunk sharing a bottle of wine?! 🤣

@mumumental

a bottle of wine is not a large amount . No one is staggering about puking and pissing themselves after half a bottle of wine

It's banned in all of ours. If you're in England, I'm surprised if yours doesn't have signs up. Mind you, ours are too cold to picnic now IMO.
Of course, it could be non-alcoholic wine they had!

Oh purrrrleaase….. you absolutely were judging! “I was just concerned they might need the loo!” Give over. That’s not what you said. You came home and posted on MN about it and asked if other people thought this was acceptable.

Thunderbird red
White Ice
Crucial Brew (is that still a thing?)

etc

Maybe I am being a snob. But most people who buy these drinks aren’t buying them for the taste.

I don't feel they are doing anything wrong necessarily. A nice day, a one off perhaps? Like with anything if they can't get through the day without it, there's the problem. People who drink and have kids will be doing this around them at some point and this is not necessarily a bad thing. Everything in moderation and all that.

Sounds like a really lovely afternoon to me. I don't drink too often now but I do enjoy a glass of wine.

Sitting on a picnic blanket having a 'naice' glass of prosecco? No probs.
Sprawling on a park bench covered in vomit and singing "Dirty Old Town"? Probably not 🤣

Get them early, that's what I say !! 😁