Loud, entitled families at the beach

[Tuxedomaddness]

Aibu to think they are so self absorbed. 5 windbreakers, take over so much space and then play loud ball games,screaching. Performative parenting at it's worst. Just so feckin rude. No wonder their kids are spoilt brats.

It’s not expecting people to “be quiet”
just don’t be loud inconsiderate twats. 90% of us seem to manage to do so.

I live right by Barry Island, and spent yesterday evening on a beach (not the main one, the dog friendly one around the corner) with a load of singing teens with music blaring. Two bonfires going and a barbecue.

The beach was left clean and people were friendly so I'm good. Those are my standards. Noise is fine, people are getting away from everything and letting their hair down. We should all do more of it.

I endured the knob head family for around 4 hours..in the end i and many other beach patrons just took to taking the absolute piss out of them, which helped!
As for the performative parenting, we watched Yummy Mummy urge Henry to practice his timetables while building his sandcastles and watched Dear Henry knock over other kids sandcastles, Yummy Mummy just did a 'tinkly laugh'. The whole family were utter twats.

Nothing to proudly boast about being inconsiderate

I knew it would be "posh" rather than another kind of family.

Oh ffs lighten up its a family having a good time on a bank hol, why does MN hate fun

Not in Polzeath are you? I've seen very similar 🤣😉🙄

Course you should be able to have fun. But not at the expense of others. Because that would be selfish and self entitled, wouldnt it?.....

Could be worse, you could be doing a 12 hour work shift!

Fun doesn't have to be loud.

Yes how dare babies and toddlers simply exist 🙄🙄

MN on a hot day is hilarious 😂

It’s the shit music that does me in. Not arsed how much space they’re taking or even how loud they’re being. But if they’re playing shit music, it sends me over the edge! It’s a sign of getting old I fear!

A family having fun on the beach, how awful. Even worse, the parents playing with their children! What is the world coming to?

From what l can gather l would describe this incident as a perfect case of Non Performative Parenting.

You know we are just having a larf!

Performative parenting is about Virtue Signalling and Wokeness where l live.
Children are given the names of Greek and Roman Gods and Goddesses at birth.

And only drink massively expensive,imported Organic Well Water.

Firstly,l would not go to a packed beach on a Bank Holiday if you want to a have nice,quiet day out. Never going to happen.

Can be a cross between a stampede,animal.circus and. a war zone.

Non Performative behaviour seems to be perfectly acceptable nowadays all public places.Even funerals.

Such is life.

The most memorable bad parenting I've ever seen was on a beach. Two kids racing each other. Frazzled dad calls out "Stop running!!"

FFS.

On a beach!

If you can't run around noisily on a beach, where can you?

I mean I have another thread going about arseholes using power tools all day on BH Monday but I don’t think going to a very likely crowded beach on such a peak day and complaining about somebody talking is justified?

Depends what you think the 'expense of others' means.

I find far too many Brits (and I am one) to be ridiculously joyless, always keen to whinge and constantly projecting their own ideas of how one should behave, onto others.

The OP's sneering update confirms my thoughts of some on here. As does the pp who has decided to deny herself the use of her 'expensive garden furniture' because her neighbours are, also performatively parenting, in THEIR garden.

A lot of effort goes into being such a grumpy sod. Must be draining.

Could be worse, they could be playing loud music, swigging beer cans, singing football songs and swearing loudly (our experience yesterday)

Windbreaks and ball games on a beach? Whatever next!
Maybe whilst Henry was practising his times tables, you could have used the time to 'practice' (sic) your spellings?

I think of beaches more like parks)playgrounds, ie I expect (and love to see) kids enjoying themselves, which includes being loud and a bit wild, there are so few places they can truly be kids and they do actually need that time.

But that's probably because I'm a big kid at heart and not a sunbather so I don't want a quiet beach myself.

I don’t care about the noise, and wouldn’t call it performance parenting, but I do hate all the blooming tourists with their millions of windbreaks, beach tents, and trolleys to cart all their crap onto the beach. We normally go to secret beaches that are very quiet but I met a friend to day at our nearest beach which is much busier. For that reason we were there by 8:30am and left at 11:30am as all the pink lobsters with their baggage were struggling down to the beach and putting up enormous shelters and tents in front of everyone else, without a care or thought for others.

Today I had to stop a load of tourists from unaliving themselves because they TOOK THE CHAIN OFF the entrance to the bascule bridge and tried to cross it as it was getting ready to open. I rushed over and told the woman she absolutely could not do that and had to put it back. She looked at me like I was dirt on her shoe!

I was always raised to believe that the noisiest people are the most unintelligent, "the emptiest vessel makes the most noise".

You don’t ’own’ the beach just because you live a stones throw away. Everyone who visits a beach is a tourist. Whether you live 200 yards away or 200 miles away is irrelevant.