DS aged 3.9 is stood on our gate …

[indurently]

He’s looking at cars, tractors and so on. We live on a country road. I’m pushing his sister on a swing.

And a couple just walked by and told me he shouldn’t be on the gate.

Racking my brains somewhat as to what we have done wrong!

Doubt the weight of a 3 year old could damage the structural integrity that much.

Dear god.

Someone starts a thread about an encounter with some nosy people in connection to her child standing on her garden gate. The OP used stood in a way that's not strictly correct and posted her child's age in a slightly unclear manner, and immediately you get the 'puzzled' posts.

Are people who can't understand a post unless the grammar and spelling, and everything else, is 100% correct really unable to comprehend what is, after all, casual speech for many people, or are they just trying to appear superior?

The faux incomprehension is really tedious. And no, it doesn't make you appear superior, just nasty.

Stood is the past tense and past participle of "Stand"

Christ, how pedantic. I’m not sure if you’re making a joke about the other posters on this thread or being serious, however I was merely mirroring OP’s language ie using their own wording as they understand.

You'd be surprised. Standing at the opposite end to the hinge generates a lever effect so the force on the hinge will be much greater than the child's weight.

That poster was wrong to say that standing at the hinge end would be the problem though - it's the opposite.

It would if the three year old was a horse.

Omg what on earth do you think about parents with more than one kid who take them to a playground?😂

Oh for God sake. It really is. You see it all the time. My health visitor used it, as do many others.
Everyone else managed to figure out what OP meant.

This explains everything, thanks!

None of your fucking business you nosey cunts.

Best delivered by walking right up to them uncomfortably close in their personal space, hissing it with wide crazy eyes, and walking off. Usually works.

I don't think OP's three year old is a horse?

There is a lot that we don't know about this three year old.

Bet this isn't the way you thought this thread would go, @indurently 😆

@DickEmery chapeau, my friend, chapeau 😂

Good point. I wouldn't want to assume

I don't think OP's three year old is a horse?

Pretty sure not, horses can't stand on garden gates and their filly sisters wouldn't fit on a swing.

(I now desperately want someone who uses CoPilot to illustrate the Bad Horse family at play.)

Maybe the person who commented on 'is stood' is not a native speaker and was genuinely taken aback.

Oooh a 'Gategate' post!

This right here is why so many people feel unwelcome in the countryside. Too many school monitor types who think the own the place.

It's just physics that most people would have learnt at school????

My lovely horse
Standing on the gate

It's not about "school monitor types", it's about the fact that standing on someone's gate is likely to cause damage, which will be expensive for the farmer/landowner (who does actually own it!) to repair. And unlike in a city, that gate is probably needed to keep livestock from escaping the field.

Think about it - would you like visitors to your area to clamber on your garden gate or other parts of your property? No?

People who cause damage to gates by standing on the open end are rightly unwelcome. Would you be happy with people damaging your property and make them welcome?

Couple can butt out. He's on your fence, on your land, looking at machinery - I think that's pretty wholesome. Pay them no mind!

It was their gate! What business was it of the randomers walking past?