to think chavy, tacky hen parties should SOD off [Edited by MNHQ at OP's request]

[CannoninD]

I’m fed up.
I’ve lived in my beautiful, respectful and historic city my entire life .... but over the last year it’s been invaded by GOD AWFUL hen parties!

20+ strong groups of horrifically common (referring to behaviour not social class) women who inflict their horrific behaviour on everybody within reach.

They’re EVERYWHERE and I know it’s not just me as there are sunbstantial concerns being raised by residents all over the city.

I counted 23 large groups this weekend (I only walked into the (small ish) city centre on Saturday morning and witnessed the following behaviour-

• Loud swearing (F and C word) right in front of/across young families and children just trying to enjoy a day out.
• Shop doors slammed in elderly shoppers faces (too busy pratting around to pay any attention).
• Stock being damaged by pratting about (and then hidden) to avoid paying.
• Horrifically vulgar and inappropriate content being loudly discussed in family areas (a garden/park area) to the point that families got up and left.
• Completely inappropriate Lingerie being worn in the street (before 2pm).
• Vomiting in the street! Whilst being jeered by the rest of the group.

Personally I would rather bleach out my own eyes than go on a hen do like this- but honestly at what point do we just call the police on these ridiculous idiots inflicting such unreasonable behaviour on families and regular people? What’s worse is, I bet back home they’re perfectly normal women. They just all get together and come away from home and behave like total arseholes!

Being in a large group and celebrating an event- does not give you a hall pass to behave like scum. 😡

Idk what I hoped to achieve - my anger is towards those who have already behaved this way and inflicted this behaviour on us.

I rather hope some people (due to go on hen do’s) may see this and take it onboard.

I don’t know why people are acting so morally superior. It’s disgusting behaviour and they should have some fucking pride!!

Yanbu

Hen parties like the one you describe are uber cringe and attention seeking. YANBU.

Yanbu.

Not sure why you think it would be better for such behaviour to be on display internationally though.

I haven't seen nastiness and door slamming, but the vulgar, drunk, rowdy behaviour starting in the afternoon is something we get with stags and hens here in Cardiff. I wish they'd go away, but the pub proprietors probably wouldn't thank me.

It sounds awful but I think the only way forward is for residents to take it up with the local hoteliers and pub owners.

They're always happy to take their money and will often encourage that sort of drunken behaviour, or certainly enable it to keep the cash tills ringing.

It makes me so frustrated - numerous times this weekend I thought to myself ‘if that was my child I’d be livid’.

The families will stop coming and suddenly our ‘classy’ city won’t be ‘classy’ anymore and the hen do’s will have ruined it, then abandon it for the next ‘popular’ place and we’ll be left a beaten,stained, gross wreck of what we were 😒

It sounds like pretty inexcusable behaviour to me. I don’t know why pp are defending these strange hen gatherings. I dislike them while I’m on a night out, let alone being confronted with their animalistic behaviour in the afternoon.

They should be filmed and made viral. Then I’m sure that Kate, age 31, wouldn’t be so proud of herself when her fellow BT managers are wincing through videos of her lapdancing over a defenceless homeless man.

If it is Bath I feel your pain I live near the centre and I can barely go to Sainsbury's without hearing the dulcit tones.

Thing is, you could have easily said 'Hen parties seem to be getting a bit raucous these days, please be mindful not to talk about blow jobs and say 'fuck' in front of children - save that for the bars'. Banging on about your 'classy' city just makes you come across as a frightful snob.

Blackpool?

Chester?
We saw a woman trying to have sex with a traffic cone recently, about 4pm on a Saturday afternoon. She was totally wasted. It's particularly bad on race days. Caernarvon is also quite bad for this.

It is isn't it? It's Blackpool.

@Gibbon

🤔 I didn’t say ‘classy’ in my OP. I said ‘respectful’ and ‘historic’ and if you think those words make me a snob then I can only assume you’re looking for any argument you can possibly find.

My money is on York. I was there one night. Police everywhere. People fighting, vomiting, pissing in the streets. Disgusting desecration of that beautiful city

Well mabel, Blackpool is definitely beautiful, respectful and historic. Classy too. I think you're on to something there!

I absolutely hate groups of women who try to act " laddish"- antisocial, mob behaviour.

What on earth is fun about the endless variety of plastic crap in the shape of a willy?

TBH YANBU i'm not sure its entirely limited to Hen Parties is it? or do you excuse such behaviours from Stag parties?!! Surely it should be both hen and stag dos your livid at.

But I'm not entirely sure what you can do, someone has suggested blackpool as the city your talking about (to that poster Blackpool isn't a City) but blackpool is a good example of how much trade and tourism Hens and Stags bring in to an area. i suspect the authorities may be willing to put up with it for the incoming money.

Reading the OP my first thoughts were York and then Bath, interestingly enough both Univisity cities, if students know not to behave like this then it really does say how bad this behaviour is!

@GibbonLover

It won't be Bath. They've been under an onslaught of screeching hens and bellowing stags for well over a decade.

Op YANBU.

A normal city shouldn’t have people behaving anti socially during the day - anti social meaning swearing, throwing up, being sexual, being loud. It’s a normal day with kids and people working,

After 10pm yeah do what you want within reason.

Yanbu

Absolutely no need for it! But is it really only hen parties? Are stags not as bad? I find that hard to believe.

But yes agree it's unacceptable behaviour, residents should be complaining to the licensing authorities and police, I'm sure they must be committing public order offences.

Particularly good idea to raise the issue with councillors especially in run up to election time!

YANBU. Stags are as bad though, peeing and puking all over the place. Why can't people just be a bit more refined?