Clocks go back and as if by magic....

[Sonato]

The selfish people show themselves

Bang. Bang. Bang. Footballs against the fence.

Parent. Your. Children.

Its unacceptable

Just take them to the park ffs

Wow. How sick is that?

Disgusting comment, not funny at all.

Exactly!

I don’t think many people object to the normal sounds of children playing out - just to that very high pitched screaming.
And TBH the sound of a football endlessly banging against a fence can drive anyone mad. It used to make me feel positively murderous, especially since there’s a huge park very close by where they could have gone to play. .

I saw it before it was deleted and actually gasped. Worrying that someone's mind made the leap from annoying kids to that.

OP, YABU. IMO though, as I love the summer and all the sounds that accompany this most blessed season.

In that case you don't live somewhere with an end wall that kids use for tennis or football practice.

Whump whump whump whump .... whump-whump whump whump whump whump

How long would it take for you to get sick of it?

Whump whump whump whump .... whump-whump whump whump whump whump 10 minutes?

Whump whump whump whump .... whump-whump whump whump whump whump 20?

Whump whump whump whump .... whump-whump whump whump whump whump half an hour?

Whump whump whump whump .... whump-whump whump whump whump whump half a day?

Whump whump whump whump .... whump-whump whump whump whump whump

Whump whump whump whump .... whump-whump whump whump whump whump

Whump whump whump whump .... whump-whump whump whump whump whump

WHUMP Whump whump whump whump .... whump-whump whump whump whump whump Whump whump whump whump .... whump-whump whump whump whump whump Whump whump whump whump .... whump-whump whump whump whump whump

Whump

Yes, I've come to that conclusion.

when I was a kid we never used to play out on the street, we would always go to the park or the woods to play. Why can't modern kids do the same?

This reminds me of Spud in Trainspotting 2 - "of course I don't know about the clocks, I've been doing skag for 20 years" 😂😂

I know what you mean. But it's sunshine rather than clocks. I love the sunshine. I do not love the noise that comes with it.

One of my neighbours is always playing crap music at full blast out of their open doors. As soon as it gets sunny.

As ever with these sorts of things there are shades of grey.

The kids who live up the road ride their little bikes up and down the street when the weather is good. I hear them laughing away and see them ride past from my living room window. All good fun.

The teenage boy who lived next door, however, was football obsessed for a few years - as was his football coach dad - and would practice walloping goals into his full size net, which backed on to our shared fence.

There is a WORLD of difference between a tinkly laugh as a child cycles around on a little bike, and sitting in your garden trying to enjoy it whilst a lad pounds a football directly off your fence inches from your head.

If they weren't out playing, people would moan about the screen based generation.

I am not yet a pensioner but as long as I can remember, since I was in my early 20s, in fact, I have appreciated peace and quiet and been irritated to the point of pain by the kind of noise OP describes. (I am a migraine-sufferer - perhaps that explains it? I don’t know.) But I do find it hard to take seriously any argument predicated on X person's right to cause inconvenience and distress to others being a more valuable right than Y's right to peace. I appeal to an analogy to the Classical Liberal fist-and-nose principle: your kid’s right to scream definitonally ends where your neighbour's ear begins.

Horror! Quick get those kids indoors and on tictok, that’ll keep em quiet

I feel your pain..I have young children and dont allow them to batter the balls in the garden because theres a lot of older people round about who like a peaceful time...there is a park less than a minute walk up the path with a big set of goal posts they go to play. The next door neighbours on the other hand let them run riot with the ball in the back garden annoying the next neighbour to them with the balls constantly going over her fence, shes taken to locking the gate and keeping them till they chap a few days later to get them back as they just ran in and out her garden for them with out a sorry missus. The neighbour down WhatsApped me the other night saying "And the fun begins for the better weather" 🤣

I love the sound of children playing. I can faintly hear the noise of the 3 nearby primary schools at playtime. There are quite a few kids on my cul-de-sac and yes I sometimes hear them shouting but that is what kids do. Any miserable grinches who dont like it should go and live on the moon 🤣

@Sonato- Have you considered going getting a full time job outside the home so you’re not at home immediately after school to hear neighbouring children play?

You could go get a job that taxes your brain enough that you’re no longer bored and end up going on parenting forums to try to wind up parents with ridiculous complaints about perfectly normal children’s behaviour.

Are you me? 😂 Brings out my irrational side every year, I pray for rain at 3.30,our back garden is tiny and the the little fucker kicks a ball against the fence again and again, aaaaghh FUCK OFF,
I spend the summer in headphones, can't sit in the garden otherwise, fucking piss off to the park with any kind of ball.

Regardless of your error. it still hasn’t happened yet?! 😅

Are you looking into the future OP?

can you tell me the lotto numbers? Thx

I always think if you feel that annoyed about children making noise, playing out in day light hours, having fun, but being considerate ,you should get yourself a nice detached house in a field.

We have a really big back garden. My kids have goals, basket ball net and a trampoline up. If it gets hot enough they will also have a 10ft paddling pool. They can do what they want in the garden; make noise, have fun etc. cos as working parents sometimes the best we can do is work from the patio table and let me kids run round.

They also play in street; they’ll have their bikes, skateboard,scooter and they will run around with the other kids in the street:

sorry but as long and they are not doing damage they can play out

I just thank God that I live somewhere where there are no bloody kids in any of the local houses. Used to live where there was a trampoline next door - spring, creak, spring, scream, creak, scream endlessly. Drove me nuts - they should be banned - and trampolines!

Quite obviously, that's not children playing, so why would you describe it as such? That's vandalism/harassment.

The children playing in my neighbourhood aren't chucking rocks through windows daily and I'm pretty sure they aren't doing that on a regular basis anywhere. Don't exaggerate!

Very ageist comment.
You realise pensioner's were children once? Perhaps they were better behaved.
Maybe the birth rate is falling because shrieking/thumping footballs is not conducive to erotic pleasure.....

I dislike it as it will be dark again in the morning when I go to work and that it will take my body clock at least a week to get over losing said hour.