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. 😡

YANBU. It’s horrible selfish behaviour. There are selfish people everywhere but when there is a big group it brings out the worst. Idk why it always seems like the hens are worse, probably some societal observations to be made there.

CannoninD netmums is over there 👉

why was the title edited?

The train’s pulled in, I see

I think the whole problem is that they're not really having fun. Happy people do not go around pissing in the gutter and assaulting homeless people.

People in the cities mentioned should email the link to this thread to their chamber of commerce/council. Hearing how their cities' reputations have declined might motivate them to do something about it.

Agree with OP. Hate this kind of hen parties or stag dos. I don't know when having fun started equating getting plastered like that. And it's horrible. I was talking to someone from Spain and he said they are fed up with this kind of behaviour too.

CannoninD, I'm with you all the way.

Pinkarsedfly

I think a few gins in a tin might have been consumed on the train.

It wasn't fun for the poor young barman I saw sexually assaulted one evening in York by a middle aged woman in a hen party. Yeah sure she seemed to be having fun screeching and laughing away, but the poor bloke was mortified. And yes, I did say something, only to be met with a load of abuse.

It's not fun when you're walking up the street with your children at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon and a stag group walk past discussing anal sex at the top of their voices- again I told them to shut it- at least they had the decency to apologise.

It's not fun when you return from a day out shopping to find someone pissing on your front door at 5pm and when you tell them they're disgusting and to stop, they turn round and give you a load of abuse and swear at you and intimidate you in front of your child.

It's not fun when you walk around the street the next day smelling the stench of piss from the alleyways and having to avoid the piles of vomit and quite often spatters of blood.

Anyone who thinks that is fun is a piece of trash and they can behave like that in their own town and stay the fuck away from mine.

I don't understand why the OP is being blasted by so many posters about this. I totally agree with you OP. Who on earth wants to witness this sort of behaviour? I live in a pretty run-of-mill town,not what you'd call attractive or having any beautiful,historic buildings,but I'd still hate to see this sort of thing here.

unhelpful and off topic but loved @scrumptiousbears typo: smashed class all over the place on page 1 😂😂

I wouldn't want to see this and I wouldn't want my kids exposed to it either. It's just attention-seeking on a grand scale, they want an audience to see their oh-so-funny antics. It's disgusting and completely unnecessary. They just look pathetic, male or female.

The posters defending it are either the ones you're talking about, OP, or they're the ones who would be first to be offended if they were subjected to it. I suspect the former.

Op ‘common’ means usual and normal.

Feel your pain but you sound a bit of a prat yourself.

YANBU. Hen parties are very tacky and 'so last year darling'.
Honestly, don't people move on with fashions?

howrudeforme Only when talking about wildlife species and symptoms of medical conditions.

In the context of human social behaviour, it means ill-mannered. I grant you that this use of common is somewhat archaic, but she's still using the word completely correctly.

howrudeforme Only when talking about wildlife species and symptoms of medical conditions.

In the context of human social behaviour, it means ill-mannered. I grant you that this use of common is somewhat archaic, but she's still using the word completely correctly.

Oh, for goodness sake MN, stop double-posting.

I started reading this thread and I thought it must be York, had the misfortune to visit one Saturday and it was awful, I was on holiday near there.

YANBU

I totally get what you mean and unlike others am fed up with others inflicting their crappy behaviour in others. It seems a given right normality nowadays! Being made out to be a ‘pearl-clutcher’ boils my blood because I was bought up not dragged up, unfortunately we are seeing the product of those that weren’t taught manners... I’d speak to the local PCSO and express your concerns maybe they can meet you so you can show them what is going on - Good Luck!

I hate hen parties with a vengeance so I feel your pain OP!
After dark within a club it's fine but not out on the streets in the middle of the day and the more vulgar ones are really low class. I personally would never attend hen parties as to me for the most part they're just really crass and chavvy.
I do wish there was something that could be done about it during inappropriate times.

Ah pedantry.

How helpful.

Fwiw, the word has multiple meanings.

Yanbu it's awful. Stags are just as bad though.

Don't live in a city then that have loads of pubs and clubs :S

I was on a flight in the US, between New York and Los Angeles with a British hen party on board. They had the T shirts, silly hats, etc. It's not a thing we do in the US, so everyone was a bit perplexed. They became fairly drunk and obnoxious but settled down after one of the flight officers had a word with them.