To think that certain people should be banned from public parks

[ElleBing]

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?

FlyingFig. If you deign to actually read my posts, you'll be able to clearly see that I stated there were around ten of them.

Probably best to inform yourself of all the facts before trying to be clever.

elle is right she is getting a pasting,giving and getting.posters have been very mean to her also

overall tone has shifted becoming more personal

you walk away and don't say anything, once you are away you explain to your children that we don't talk to each other that way.

You know, to a point I agree with you
swearing in front of children is nasty
allowing them to cause annoyance to others is a bit grating

my problem is your story has been embellished with so many details
pirate DVDs
Kylie
chips
that I can no longer take it seriously

I have no wish to verify your identity
but rofl at facebook being a means of doing so

I don't think you're a troll
just causing a stir with an mn by numbers tall tale

Elle, walk away from this now. I think it must be a full moon or terrible cases of PMS.
Nothing you say will make any difference. The looney brigade are out in force, poor you

Play areas within parks are aimed at children. This is a fact. If they had been sitting away from the play area I wouldn't have given a shit. They were sat right next to the play area which generally attracts children what with it being a play area and all...

I wasn't trying to be clever - was simply asking a question.

No need to be snippy

walk away

I don't mind being called dim, and you did (in your OP) sound (IMHO) like a wanker.

Your description of the park-people has changed from post to post - but overall it smacks of middle class mummy not wanting to have her bubble burst by nasty common people.

In your OP the bad language you described was 'pooface'....pooface..... I mean FFS!!!

Maybe one day there will be middle class parks where mumsnetters will not have to encounter the park-people.

Until that day, stay away from parks everyone. It's bad out there. There are people doing totally legal stuff and saying stuff like pooface.... keep safe dudes.

It's not just the parks lightbulb, it's the schools, the street, the pubs, the shopping centres.....

Do the park-people actually leave the parks?? Feck me - I need to get out the zombie plan.

Would taking their heads off stop them?

mn and internet full of made up chuff.dont know why elle is getting such a pasting,the narrative (made up or not) is quite funny

kylie
chips
fighting
nanny mcphee
electric soup

all add to the dramatic tension.nice touches

hang on in there elle, i like it

am lovin the judge ye not brigade.who positively embrace individual right to cuss,fight as an expression of ones individuality - ah bless

and oh how very dare you to elle who doesnt care for profanities or neds

wow just thought i'd pop back to this thread and i am really shocked to be honest. you're just a load of bullies. i've shown this thread to my partner and he is surprised that elle and other parents at the park managed to keep their mouths shut which i think shows more adult-ness than going over and causing scene in front of the children. your like a pack of hyenas and all because someone is pissed off that some people are intent on ruining things for others. i know precisely the sort - they think they can behave how they like because they're in a big number so nobody will confront them so they just behave like offensive idiots for sport.

and so what if she said they're common? swearing and smoking in a kids park IS common. it's gross. i cannot see how you think that elle is so terrible for hating this type of thing? i really don't.you're all fucking mental.

Stop everyone. Jessie's partner hath spake.

Let us kill the park-people. Kill them in the face. Kill them all....

Just for you, lowenergy

" The chav parents were sitting on the grassy bit drinking cider, eating junk food and swearing." From my OP.

I say clearly that they were swearing. I just didn't say what because I don't feel it's totally necessary. I added the bit about "pooface" as an amusing but anecdote.

And people are upset that I'm calling you dim? The mind boggles.

Grow up, lowenergy.

You're coming across as a petulant child on the edge of an epic wobbly. No need to slate everyone who doesn't agree with you.

But that's what you are doing Elle

the more people pile in against you elle,more i warm to your post.

Highly entertaining up until the point you tripped up:
"Anyway, DH were talking about them..."

But he weren't were he?

Ooops

I'm not upset - I'm planning to kill the park-people for you. All of them.

Anyway, would two organic chicken legs held in a cross ward them off?

And would we need to wash the boden in holy water?

Poor you op, I would have hated it and then everyone jumps on you here, I would like to bet that they would be complaining if they had experienced it.

Sorry CainInThePunt. You've lost me.

Or could we sprinkle them with a really fine chateau neuf du pape - would they dissolve on contact I wonder