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AIBU?

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To think that certain people should be banned from public parks

445 replies

ElleBing · 11/04/2010 10:59

We have a really lovely park near where we live. It's really big, with lots of grassed areas for picnics etc then an enclosed play area.

DH and I took DS there yesterday for a quick run around before dinner time. I noticed that a group of chavs had set up camp next to the enclosed park whilst their kids ran amok inside. The chav parents were sitting on the grassy bit drinking cider, eating junk food and swearing. Two of their kids started fighting one another and rather than try and intervene, the person who I assume was the father sat in the kids' pushchair screeching at the LOs to stop fighting. They carried on drinking their cider before deciding they were going home to "watch Nanny McPhee on pirate wiv a bag ov chipz" then when the motehr of one of the LOs wanted the child to leave the play area she started shouting "come on will ya pooface" Eugh?

All of the other parents were doing cats bum mouth, not just me. I wanted to tell them to shut up with their common mouths and bad language but too middle class, you see? I'dlove to be able to stand up to these people who make life unpleasant for everyone else...

Anyway, DH were talking about them and I said that people like them shouldn't be allowed in parks. They should have an admissions policy. AIBU?

OP posts:
saslou · 11/04/2010 19:19

Everybody judges everybody else. Anyone who says they don't is a liar - it's human nature. Sometimes we are U, othertimes not. AIBU is the wrong place to criticise people making judgements about others. It is what we are invited to do everytime we go on here. Think Elle has been given a really hard time unfairly. Imo any person on here faced with what she experienced today would feel the same deep down. Elle has just said it out loud and she is right to consider this inappropriate behaviour

lowenergylightbulb · 11/04/2010 19:21

"what she experienced today"

A bunch of grown ups doing totally legal stuff in a public space.... it's not exactly the holocaust or summat FFS

usualsuspect · 11/04/2010 19:21

I think ElleBing knew exactly what she was doing when she started this thread ....

ElleBing · 11/04/2010 19:21

Morecrack I don't read tabloids so I have no idea what you're talking about.

I don't profess to know so much about MN. I'm basing what I say on what I've read on MN for myself.

OP posts:
ElleBing · 11/04/2010 19:23

Usualususpect there are lots of perfectly legal things that we wouldn't do in certain situations. It's perfectly legal for me and DH to get down and dirty if front of MIL but eugh, you just wouldn't. Because we are civilised. Do things have to be illegal to be deemed a bit unnecessary?

OP posts:
Northernlurker · 11/04/2010 19:24

Oh i'm real - just not sure about you.

lowenergylightbulb · 11/04/2010 19:25

Ellebing - you are talking bollocks. Your OP is a lie and you are stirring.

I feel like going to your park and flicking fag ash on the slide, whilst shouting 'wanker'

scottishmummy · 11/04/2010 19:25

cycling christ the paranoid is she/isnt she a journalist conspiracy theories. who cares

mn is open forum and anyone can join even journalists.i do believe some mn are journalists anyhoo

all this faux of course one can swear,fight,slurp elctric soup,cuss in a play park.how very dare a snob dare to deny any ones entrenched god given right to act in such a way

aye right.

parks are predominately for children and families - and yes there is a particular expectation of behaviour. swearing,cussing,alcohol usually breaches that normative behaviour

Needanewname · 11/04/2010 19:28

Although I was taking the piss earlier, I do have a bit of sympathy with EB and think shes had a lot of stick.

I also hate seeing people behaving like that in public parks, however I am able to teach my LO how not to behave so I suppose it serves a purpose.

I don;t think that I've seen op slag anyone off for being WC only chavs, of course different people have different deas of what a chav is so maybe that is why she has caused some offence.

I too would have been pissed off if I were in that park, we have one near us that is lovely in the week but at weekends is full of chavs (please feel free to substitue the term chav for any term you prefer) with their scary looking dogs, we now don;t go there at weekend which is a huge shame.

There is another nice park nearby which is full of yummy mummy and banker dad types ( I also can;t stand that one and very rarely go!) but I've never felt threatened there.

Doesn't matter what class you are unsociable behavious is unsociable behaviour and you have a right to have a cats bum mouth!

MoreCrackThanHarlem · 11/04/2010 19:28

Well perhaps not tabloid
but there has been a certain amount of media attention on mumsnet recently

much of what you 'know' about mn and it's members seems to be a stereotyped notion
not sure you could get to grips with the demographic in a few short weeks

you speak of mners as if you have been here for years
it makes me uneasy
I feel you have an agenda

lowenergylightbulb · 11/04/2010 19:30

Staggering around the swings with a can of special brew shouting 'cunt' = bad, chilling on the grass with a cold one = good.

People nowadays have no common sense.

MoreCrackThanHarlem · 11/04/2010 19:33

Not saying ElleBing is a journo

just that she has a false familiarity with mn and it's users

scottishmummy · 11/04/2010 19:34

y'all need to put dem glistening torches down as you seem a bit frothy at gob and bit ott to go check her other posts

what the hell is all this hark at her and her mn knowledge.dont get many strangers round these parts

quick hide the pentangle
stuff the goat under the table
there be strangers lurking professing to know mn and its business

some of you lot crack me up

funny if obvious op.so what if she made it up.got some of you apoplectic

Blu · 11/04/2010 19:35

I am amazed that anyone who spends his afternoons consuming junk food can fit into a child's buggy without becoming painfully wedged. Or maybe he WAS painfully wedged which is why he had to shout at them rather than popping over and mediating? Or maybe adults cannot actually lounge around in baby buggies at all??

usualsuspect · 11/04/2010 19:36

Thats what I meant ...obviously made up op to get a scrap going..

scottishmummy · 11/04/2010 19:38

made up or not doesnt matter.plenty others post made up chuff

usualsuspect · 11/04/2010 19:39

Yep they sure do....

lowenergylightbulb · 11/04/2010 19:39

It was the watching Nanny McPhee on 'pirate' that got me. Were these chavs from the 80's - the Gene Hunts of chavs...

Anyway, of all the chav films to watch illegally...Nanny McPhee, how fucking common.

scottishmummy · 11/04/2010 19:43

i quite liked the post and attention to detail. i more despair of the tap tappers who went off to garner info about elle and her mn ancestry to decide whether she was legit or not

get a fucking grip

it is the internet,heaving with made up chuff and tall tales.mn isnt any different.mn has its pram scams,made up sob stories,fantasist aplenty

the op is obvious and wee bit funny.thats all

no need to knot yer knickers

MoreCrackThanHarlem · 11/04/2010 19:44

Scottishmummy

am not apoplectic
just slightly intrigued

EggyAllenPoe · 11/04/2010 19:45

all just 'words on a sceen' innit.

scottishmummy · 11/04/2010 19:46

fuck yes.so chill out all you detectives

usualsuspect · 11/04/2010 19:47

'Controversial' words on a screen still,entertained me for a while

scottishmummy · 11/04/2010 19:50

loved the we been looking at your mn ancestry.some funny business goin on missy...

lowenergylightbulb · 11/04/2010 19:51

I like drinking, smoking, eating junk food and swearing. So I reserve the right to get my common handbag out and dance around it.