AIBU to think that having paid to see Florence at BTS Hyde Park, I shouldn't have to put up with other people's children

[monstiebags]

I went to the BTS festival today and was lying on a blanket in the sun listening to some cool tunes when a family turned up and sat down a few yards away. Parents got in pints and pints of beer and settled down for some tunes whilst children ran up and down between my husband and I screaming and playing tricky. The band playing was a rapper and every other word was fxxxck. Am I being unreasonable to think that this was not a suitable
venue
for children who were very distracting for the rest of us who were there for the music.

[monstiebags]

Why would anyone give a shit about hip hop -oh dear, I am too old

[Just5minswithDacre]

Also amused that you were "there for the music" but apparently unable to identify "a rapper whose every other word was fuck" (that would be kendrick Lamar, generally acknowledged as one of the most lyrically talented hip hop stars of his generation).

Why would a Florence fan necessarily give a shit about hip hop ?

[BillSykesDog]

I can possibly see the point about the kids. Going to a gig and complaining about the acts swearing is a bit like...maybe you should stay home with a nice mug of horlicks and Radio 2 nana. As a great Eminem once said 'You're too old, let go...'.

[Runningupthathill82]

What Idaho said. With bells on.

[BigGreenOlives]

I was there too & saw Kendrick Lamar - I don't think I've ever heard so much swearing in all my life. Jamie XX was on before & we like him so got there for his act. I'd listened to some Kendrick Lamar before going so I'd be familiar with his work & didn't like it. I've seen other rappers & liked their music.

[monstiebags]

But I am amused that you think so.

[monstiebags]

I think lyrically talented would be a more suitable description for Carlole King - not sure that repetitive fxxx and bxxx etc is talented or indeed a lyric.

[myownprivateidaho]

Also amused that you were "there for the music" but apparently unable to identify "a rapper whose every other word was fuck" (that would be kendrick Lamar, generally acknowledged as one of the most lyrically talented hip hop stars of his generation).

[myownprivateidaho]

Speaking for myself I'm more bemused that (1) you found small children louder and more irritating than the large groups of pissed and high youths that made up most of the crowd and (2) that whoever it was you found irritating, you couldn't just move away, given that you were in a large london park. I agree that kids are going to be bored at a festival like that, but they're hardly the most intrusive characters there!

[Lovingit81]

I'm with you OP! You have clearly hit a nerve with all the parents who drag their kids to inappropriate festivals so they can get pissed.

[BigGreenOlives]

We were there too & my teenagers said there were masses of people doing drugs in the middle/front of the crowd. The children near us all looked bored. Not sure what the cool way of saying people smoking marijuana & taking tabs/mdma etc is.

[KissMyArse]

With a hey nonnny nonny ...

[monstiebags]

Methinks a lot of posters have protested too much. I have obviously hit a soft spot by suggesting that a festival like BST is not suitable for children. Attack is often the best form of defence (someone please tell the England team that).

[Just5minswithDacre]

*May have mentioned my requirement for an extra long speculum/long fingered doctor to break my waters on a previous thread

[Just5minswithDacre]

We've nearly got a Tudor popular beat combo

[KissMyArse]

Just5minswithDacre

Forget the knickerbockers, let's just play some cool tunes on the lute (you hum it, I'll join in on the harpsichord)

ExitPursuedByABear

Previously PiranhaBrothers (though I think that was a while back). May have mentioned my requirement for an extra long speculum/long fingered doctor to break my waters on a previous thread
Probably not a good time to mention rashes (good or bad) ...

Actually just too much time on my hands lately (insomnia and a week on annual leave)

[ExitPursuedByABear]

IPOAT?

[ExitPursuedByABear]

No Kiss. I mean who are you.? Namechanger?

You are everywhere like a rash at the moment.

In a good way obvs.

[ephemeralfairy]

WHAAAAT IS TICKY??

I must play it!! I can add it to my repertoire of Pub Games, including Hot Cockles, Duck Duck Goose, 20 Questions, Compliments and Wax Hands (my own inventions).

[Just5minswithDacre]

Oh sorry kiss, I thought you were making up some bollox. That's real is it? I can't really follow it. Probably because I'm not wearing knickerbockers.

[KissMyArse]

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION OF TICKY/TRICKY



"One child is chosen to be "Ticky," i.e., to be on the quivive to lay hold of or touch any one who is not touching wood. If played out of doors it must be clearly defined what is ivood, trees and all growing wood being forbidden. The fun consists in the bold ventures of those who tempt " Ticky " to run after them, and contrive to touch " wood,J just before he touches them. When one is caught he is Ticky " in turn"

//www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/traditional-games-2/traditional-games-2%20-%200392.htm

[TheNaze73]

What the hell is "ticky"

I think YABU for your sense of entitlement around putting a beach towel down at an open air festival & claiming the land as yours

[Eiram49]

Get a grip.....

[Just5minswithDacre]

I still don't know what ticky is

YABsoveryU to say 'ticky is not tricky; it's something from before X boxes' OP.

You have a following here.

YANBU about feral children at live music events OTOH.

[KissMyArse]

Kiss who be Ye?

I doth be the parent who has verily had a bad experience with a parent rather than a childe at ye olde festivals.

Went to Wireless in 2009 with a bloke from my son's football club and our 11 year olds. Within half an hour of being there said (until then perfectly normal) bloke was in the portaloos snorting ket

Cue him screaming his child had been lost "for 7 hours" (they'd been gone 20 minutes and were happily watching some minor rapper, having already told me where exactly they would be).

Finally calmed him down and when I popped off to the loo he stole my noodles. £5 fucking quid they cost me!

He also turned out to be a recovering alcoholic who ran off and drank himself into a stupor.

Give me kids enjoying themselves every time.