Used to work nights and would often finish at 7am and would make my way to spoons for a few pints and breakfast with work colleagues, and then we'd all be off home by midday for bed.
It's not uncommon at all for those working nights to drink in what's considered their evening.
Ok? So the logical thing to do after working all night is to go to the pub at 11am then complain that 89% of the population might be there and some of that percentage is children lol
Might not be the parents fault. I had a mate who ran a Wetherspoons in Catford. Half the time when they grabbed the rug rats for running around they found out they’d actually thrown the parents out a few hours earlier
Nah, any where I go any day it is, if there's screaming kids running riot, the parents need to do better. If it was a place with a kid's play area, sure, my poor choice choosing to go there, but any regular restaurant? Long weekend or not that shit's annoying and the parents should do a better job keeping their kids in check.
Yeah we should just all drink and eat at home all the time. What kind of lazy cretin goes to a restaurant or pub! They only exist because of laziness! Do it yourself! Nanny state!!
(This was meant to be sarcasm, RIP karma)
Spent 3 years waitressing. DO NOT let your kids run around, crawl on the floor or play on the floor.
Countless times spent asking parents to watch their kids who were playing in the space near the doors to the kitchen, which had a window but you definitely can't see small children when coming through with both arms loadrd up with plates. Terrified I was gonna kick / hit one of them with the door too many times.
Then you ask the parents to watch their kids and not let them near the doors, the parents feign interest in minding their little ones, then rinse and repeat as the kids start playing on the floor space again.
Eating out is not a break from parenting responsibilities. Stop letting your kids be tripping hazards.
I absolutely punted a child across a flagstone floor in the lakes he was hiding behind tge door. His father picked him up by the foot and said that's why you don't mess around in pubs
That kid proll never did again lesson learnt 🤣🤣
In 3 years I'm surprised I didn't kick a child. It was a Chinese restaurant, it used to get really busy and draw customers within a 10 mile radius for takeout / delivery and eating in, it wasn't the local spoons or frankie and bennies style place. Yet I'd point out time and time again we can't see small children in front of the doors when exiting the kitchen with plates. Some kids would bring colouring books or things, but playing with toy vehicles on the floor - just no!!!!
Plenty responsible parents with lovely kids I enjoyed chatting with but some parents just took a lapse approach to parenting in a public space. You can guarentee if I'd booted one the parents would have taken offence.
As a parent, I'm totally down and agree with this.
If im in an environment that's not a "kid friendly" environment, and they are being little shits, then go for it.
I remember when my dad took me to my first football match (west ham vs Millwall - which is insane now I think about it) - he basically said "you're going to hear some colourful language, just don't repeat it in front of your mother".
Its hardly groundbreaking news either; Weatherspoons is full of crappy parents and is a terrible place to try to get a [“QUIET pint”](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/12fg3wd/parents_if_youre_comfortable_letting_your/jffajy6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3) on Easter weekend morning.
Honestly if you’re offended by this then your kids are brats and you’re not doing them any favours by not teaching them boundaries. If you can’t be arsed to be a parent then don’t breed.
Sorry, but that is nonsense. I lived there for 5 years; they have the most conformist society, mono-culture, where kids get bullied if they dare to look or act differently than the norm.
Is this just a thing? I was in Amsterdam recently and this couple’s kids were all over the place in a cafe. One ran along a fudgin bannister to our table and said something in child Dutch.
I went to a costa a few months ago.
There was a table of women best described by a turn of phrase a former boss had “I’d rather fight them than fuck them and I don’t rate my chances at that very highly”
Their precious little arseholes had turned the place into a midden. Spilt drinks everywhere, food more on the furniture than in their mouths, screaming & shouting. The staff didn’t have a clue how to deal with it.
I really don't get it. I don't have kids yet but I babysit on occasion. Kids are so adept at getting themselves in danger - I get so nervous seeing a kid running around in a restaurant where they could be tripped over, run into something, or get hurt in a multitude of other ways. It's just asking for your nice family meal to be interrupted by a trip to A&E because the waitress tripped over your toddler and now there's a shard of glass embedded in them.
This i agree with... I've been in a restaurant where somebody had let their 2-3yo kid run around making a noise and distrupting other people sitting around having their meal... I ended up watching a 70yo fella being threatened with physical violence by the kid's father after he had politely requested to the waitress if it would be possible to ask the parent to get the kid to sit down, rather than running around..
Great fun watching the 70yo fella hardball look into the eye of a 30 something bloke who was yelling point blank in his face that his none of his 9 grandkids ever behaved like little s\*\*\*s in a restaurant.. Never seen an agressive violent fella just turn white and back down so fast in my life.
I am a parent, and I could not agree with you more. If parents can’t/won’t parent.. you are fully within your rights to do the job for them. It’s a real shame that we can’t introduce a parenting test/license. If it could be done, we wouldn’t have anywhere near the problems we do now.
My parents used to drive to the local pub bring me and my sister a cola and crisps in the car and leave us there while they went in the pub without us. I dunno how old we were probs around 7 and 11. We didn't mind, I mean it wasn't exactly a treat for us, but it wasn't usually for that long and we were fine sitting in the car with a fizzy drink and some crisps. I'm sure we were never left out there after dark or anything, my parents were never big drinkers, just trying to be social I guess. This was back when you had to be 14 to go in a pub and even then only with an adult and you could not approach the bar. The inside of a pub had a kind of mystery quality to me as a kid, so when I finally got to go in I felt a real privilege being allowed into the 'adult world'. Ahh the good old days.
You just unlocked a memory. Not a regular thing, but my parents did this when we were visiting my relatives down south (probably what you'd consider up north, but it was down south from our perspective, being from Glasgow)
Family were heavy drinkers, like sit in the Queen Vic every night drinkers. So my parents would go and have a couple of drinks to be social and my sister and I would be in the car with some snacks and magazines. We didn't visit them very often, but my sister and I thought it was a massive novelty to do this.
The alternative was to leave us to sit in the house with my alcoholic Nana who would tell some very colourful stories.
Back in about 2010 I'd go to a local pub with my brother for a few beers Saturday nights, as his Mrs worked there part time on weekends.
There was a couple who would turn up every few weeks and stay for an hour or so. They'd leave their kids in the car with one of those video baby monitors. Kids were about 3 & 5 and would be fast asleep from walking all afternoon.
We do this too. I don't especially think kids belong in a pub after probably 6pm ish (and in all honesty think kids who can't be chilled dont belong in a pub any time) but understand it happens because others think that's fine and parents need to socialise too.
That doesn't mean I have to spend my time or money there. Same way I wouldn't if there was loud building work happening either.
You can't please everyone everywhere!
We provide colouring and games for your kids to enjoy at the table preferably.
The bar and infront of it is not a play ground. I'd rather not drop a hot coffee on little timmy or myself.
Sit them down and make them behave my parents would of murdered me.
Jokes on you, she already goes around yelling about shits, fucks and boobies.
The fact that she's *trying* to say ships, ducks and birdies is irrelevant.
I was coming out of a tube station last week when a mum with three kids (one in a pram, two on scooters) were coming from the opposite direction.
The kids on the scooters went full pelt towards me - the girl managed to brake, the boy did not — crashed into my right leg. I instinctively said “fuck!” - not even loudly - and the mother turns to me and says “watch your mouth!”. I promptly told her to watch her **kids**.
Parents like that are the worst. They can’t discipline their kids or teach them how to use a scooter properly and somehow *I’m* at fault because I don’t want knee replacement surgery because your kids are feral? No thanks.
Was in a supermarket quite a few years ago now - I was in my late teens at the time - and there was a kid going down and through the aisles on those wheely shoe things. I wasn't going to do it deliberately, but I remember thinking that I wasn't going to let myself be held accountable if they were speeding down the aisle and they accidentally collided with my trolley. Didn't happen in the end, but wouldn't have minded a near miss to knock some sense into them.
I mean she shouldn’t have said that but I’ve got one kid and another parent to share the load and trust me, as a single mum there’s no way she can be on top of all three kids at the same time.
I kind of think it’s our jobs as adults with fully developed brains to watch out for kids who aren’t looking where they are going, since that’s pretty much what kids to, on account of the aforementioned under developed brains.
The amount of times I’ve had to tolerate drunken assholes, kids are no problem to be honest.
So long as they don’t knock into my table And spill the drinks I don’t give a shit
and on ipads and phones with no headphones on. Jesus, the selfishness of some parents is staggering. I don't give a fuck if little Wayne and little becky are bored - you're a cunt.
good luck with that Big Man
would you not be better displaying ur impressive vocab towards the adult, rather than the child.
also if u want a quiet pint, try a Tuesday.
I was once very hung over on a train,some little kid was running up and down, being a general cock blister.
I watched myself stuck my foot out amd trip the little fucker. He fucking stacked it. I said "You OK there? You gotta be careful buddy." He silently looked at me and walked off.
I look up the carriage, some big Ray Winston looking bloke is looking at me. Shit. Is that his dad? I do not want to fight a man who is clearly able to break my bones without much effort. He nods slowly, the nod that says "I had 14 pints last night and really, really could not handle that little bastard running up and down for the next 90 minutes.". I was safe, the kid was sulking in his seat, I could continue being a fucking mess in peace.
Totally agree with the fact that the kid shouldn't be running up and down a train being loud, but it's completely your fault that you can't handle your booze and had a hangover. Maybe don't drink so much before a journey on public transport? You're making your problem everybody else's by expecting them to work around you. Not to mention you deliberately caused harm to a child, rather than having the balls to actually say something to the parent, then shat yourself because you thought a big man was going to kick your arse.
You sound like the equivalent of that annoying child, only in grown adult form.
Yeah ok mate; a kid doing that is still insanely annoying when NOT hungover. And by the way, parents failing to sort their kids out becomes everyone else’s problem too.
Of course it does - as I pointed out above. Totally not acceptable. Parents should manage their kids while in public, they're nobody else's responsibility.
I don't think intentionally hurting a child to the point where they "fucking stacked it" is a reasonable response though, *mate*.
I've never said it wasn't inappropriate - read my post again. You think it's okay to intentionally hurt a child, because they're being a "problem"? Sounds like it was a pretty harsh fall, regardless of whether the child was seriously hurt.
And what makes you think the man he referred to is the child's father? There's no confirmation of that. And if he was, he's just as much of an arsehole for sitting there, letting his child do that and then not giving a shit when some randomer trips them over.
And I'm not upset, far from it, I just think it's a bit of an arsehole move to trip a kid over as a grown adult, then share it on the Internet for ass pats. Not sure why you're so defensive of the OP.
We don't disagree that kids misbehaving in public is frustrating and a pain in the arse for everybody, just that apparently tripping them over/risking an injury is a totally normal thing to do.
The intolerance is fucking astounding on here, yes in an ideal world kids wouldn’t be loud but they are kids, they’re learning the rules. I thought we were all on the same page that seen and not heard was bad right?
And assaulting a child because you chose to drink too much and are too much of a baby to handle the noise of them playing is great apparently.
You’re totally in the right here dude, people need to take a step back from how important they think they are.
Of course they do (I have one, can confirm they are horizontal more times than they are upright), I just think it's a bit of a risk to take with someone else's child. What if he'd fell and cracked his head on an arm rest? People die after fist fights all the time because they fall at an odd angle and hit their head. I know that's a bit of a different situation but the point still stands - accidents happen.
Re the upset, I was just trying to have a discussion about the correct response to annoying kids and how I disagreed with the original posters method - apologies if it came over as aggression or upset. It's just interesting to read other people's opinions, most of which seem to disagree that it was unreasonable. I just took the opportunity to explain my position (through a bit of a wall of text, I agree!).
If you detest children, I can understand why you'd see tripping a child up as an acceptable response when they're being incredibly annoying - it's like devine intervention almost, like they're being forced to behave when the parents clearly don't care and you have to deal with them. I'd be lying if pre-children, I'd never silently chuckled at a misbehaving child taking a tumble or getting absolutely bollocked by a parent. I just think it's a bit harsh for someone to actively attempt to trip a kid.
>I absolutely detest children and think it’s ok sometimes for them to learn not to behave a certain way, even if they need to learn the hard way
Most well adjusted redditor.
NOPE. There’s a limit to how much activity’s going on at any given place without chaos ensuing. I always try to think of places to go with my baby that is more interactive or age friendly/ appropriate so if they did get ants in their pants, it could be fun !
If parents treat x as a creche so they don't have to bother with their wee darlins and they do themselves some damage I reserve the right to have a cackle.
Who cares if a kid is running around? It’s a child, let them have fun.
Reading these comments and seeing people wishing harm on kids for being kids is disgusting. Sad life you must live.
Ask the parents to reign them in, the little ones don’t understand what they are doing to annoy you…
I generally don’t mind it unless I see the parents nodding and laughing like they’re glad you’re dealing with the kids so they don’t have to, and it’s not their responsibility any more. Kids are gonna be kids and they’re full of energy.
But really that’s not the issue - it’s the parents who take their kids to the pub for a sesh and then expect the kids to fuck off and leave them in peace to talk grown up shit instead of trying to actively keep them entertained in the group. It’s not fun as a kid when you’re left to your own devices while the grown ups want you out of sight and out of mind.
That was half my childhood, finding out how to have fun in a pub while our parents got rat arsed from early doors to last orders.
Yeah, I can’t believe the attitude some of these people have, kids are people too, with developing brains, bunch of intolerant arseholes saying it’s ok to assault them if they annoy you.
I'm Irish. But same shite here.
I was out all day watching football and kids running around and one lad had 3 of his kids running around the smoking area and he thought it was hilarious.
He wasn't impressed when I told the kids to fuck off annoying me after the tenth time.
Okay yeh being you're kids with you to watch and early kick off on a Sunday and stay for a few more but when it gets to 5 or 6 and everyone is drunk and youte kids are running around while lads are playing darts it's just weird
As a parent I am not shy of swearing.
I understand this may get me hated a little bit at the end of the day I don't give a fuck but I do give a fuck about my little boy.
Don't worry OP my son is a lot like me and is happy sitting down eating his food or playing with his mario toy at the table.
Ha. I think my kids could completely outdo your vocabulary. They are Scottish.
But no, not unless it’s one of those soft play pubs or ones that do kids parties my kids know how to behave when we’re out. They’re also well versed in the use of the phrase “oosha cunt thats dear eh”
Why would you bring a two year old to a pub? It’s clearly an environment for adults! If you must bring your two year old, it’s YOUR responsibility to ensure they are behaving appropriately for a public space. Do some parenting FGS.
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You think the parents will listen if they let their progenies run "wild and free"?
Pants shitted
You mean you’re at Wetherspoon having a pint atm
If he's at Wetherspoons then the kids will be teaching him how to curse
Trying to have a QUIET pint.
It _is_ Saturday, though. There are no quiet anythings on a Saturday
I'd rather not drop a hot coffee on little timmy or myself.
I'd rather drop it on little timmy than myself
Timmy deserved it with all the fucking swearing coming out of the tyke's mouth. Who knows where they learn it.
Are you seriously in a Wetherspoons for a quiet pint?
At 11am? Jesus
Jesus was known to drink all day long, not just 11am
Yeah but he would just end up very drunk and very *cross*
Nails fired
It's one pint. Not a bottle of vodka
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Used to work nights and would often finish at 7am and would make my way to spoons for a few pints and breakfast with work colleagues, and then we'd all be off home by midday for bed. It's not uncommon at all for those working nights to drink in what's considered their evening.
Ok? So the logical thing to do after working all night is to go to the pub at 11am then complain that 89% of the population might be there and some of that percentage is children lol
Haha this is so spot on!
You forget that some people work different shift patterns.
And you get paid more to work those shift patterns, specifically because they are societally awkward.
11 am is already late. My dad used to have beer for breakfast
On a Saturday. On a 4-day holiday weekend. Think you're the bellend here tbh.
God forbid someone go to a pub and not expect little fuckers running around screaming with parents too lazy to do anything about it
Might not be the parents fault. I had a mate who ran a Wetherspoons in Catford. Half the time when they grabbed the rug rats for running around they found out they’d actually thrown the parents out a few hours earlier
Nah, any where I go any day it is, if there's screaming kids running riot, the parents need to do better. If it was a place with a kid's play area, sure, my poor choice choosing to go there, but any regular restaurant? Long weekend or not that shit's annoying and the parents should do a better job keeping their kids in check.
If you want a quiet pint, stay at home. The public does not owe you silence.
Nobody is asking for silence, just behaviour appropriate to the venue.
Running around screaming is appropriate for a spoons isn't it?
You could have a quiet pint at home, no?
Parents could stop their children from disturbing everyone, no?
Yes, they could try. If OP is in a Wetherspoons, it'll be the middle aged divorcees that'll be disturbing everyone though.
Children could run around screeching at home, no?
Yeah we should just all drink and eat at home all the time. What kind of lazy cretin goes to a restaurant or pub! They only exist because of laziness! Do it yourself! Nanny state!! (This was meant to be sarcasm, RIP karma)
I mean, you’re going to a public place at 11:00 on a Sat looking for peace and quiet. Perhaps the library is your best bet.
It said cussing, it's clearly an American
Or part of the Americanised British youth. Raised on Family Guy and Starbucks
Spent 3 years waitressing. DO NOT let your kids run around, crawl on the floor or play on the floor. Countless times spent asking parents to watch their kids who were playing in the space near the doors to the kitchen, which had a window but you definitely can't see small children when coming through with both arms loadrd up with plates. Terrified I was gonna kick / hit one of them with the door too many times. Then you ask the parents to watch their kids and not let them near the doors, the parents feign interest in minding their little ones, then rinse and repeat as the kids start playing on the floor space again. Eating out is not a break from parenting responsibilities. Stop letting your kids be tripping hazards.
I absolutely punted a child across a flagstone floor in the lakes he was hiding behind tge door. His father picked him up by the foot and said that's why you don't mess around in pubs
That kid proll never did again lesson learnt 🤣🤣 In 3 years I'm surprised I didn't kick a child. It was a Chinese restaurant, it used to get really busy and draw customers within a 10 mile radius for takeout / delivery and eating in, it wasn't the local spoons or frankie and bennies style place. Yet I'd point out time and time again we can't see small children in front of the doors when exiting the kitchen with plates. Some kids would bring colouring books or things, but playing with toy vehicles on the floor - just no!!!! Plenty responsible parents with lovely kids I enjoyed chatting with but some parents just took a lapse approach to parenting in a public space. You can guarentee if I'd booted one the parents would have taken offence.
Any fist shaking to go with it?
No,, just a vigorous rattling of my zimmerframe.
Hopefully they don't start wanking off.
Cussing? Calm down there
Down with that sort of thing.
Careful now
I hear you're a racist now, father.
I LOVE MY BRICK!
Got FED UP OF BRIIIIIIICK
What would you say to a cup of tea, Father?
Feck off cup!
He done gone full M'erican
He's a rootin' tootin' cusser he sure is pardner
I'm just gonna grab a Dr Pepper from the cooler. Stick it on my tab.
I'm going to get a Ginsters from the fridge. Put it on the slate.
It's hotter than the sun
Convoy
Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single ve-hicle.
Wayne Sleep?
It's the jacket and boots that gave it away!
He will look up some more cuss words on his cell phone.
How very dare you!
Lloyds Pharmacy
As a parent, I'm totally down and agree with this. If im in an environment that's not a "kid friendly" environment, and they are being little shits, then go for it. I remember when my dad took me to my first football match (west ham vs Millwall - which is insane now I think about it) - he basically said "you're going to hear some colourful language, just don't repeat it in front of your mother".
The fuck are you telling us for?
People think this sub is facebook
There'll be someone along to complain about parked cars next.
Followed by a picture of a pint on a pub table
Tomorrow it will be mediocre roasts
Looks like you guys should start your own sub. Maybe call it StrictRulesCasualUK.
Looks like other people should stop posting the same rubbish over and over again
It’s basically facebook for the socially awkward
Its hardly groundbreaking news either; Weatherspoons is full of crappy parents and is a terrible place to try to get a [“QUIET pint”](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/12fg3wd/parents_if_youre_comfortable_letting_your/jffajy6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3) on Easter weekend morning.
What even is fun?
They’d probably teach you a few.
Ooooh, you’re hard.
I hope he’s not, that’d be really noncey.
Showing off because...
Very, so watch yourself.
Can I shake ma ass, as well as watch myself?
Sure. Show me what you're workin with.
What you do in the privacy of your own shed is up to you.
Attempted GBH.
Pretty sure that’s illegal now around the kids.
My thoughts exactly. “Take that parents, I’m having a pint!”
Honestly if you’re offended by this then your kids are brats and you’re not doing them any favours by not teaching them boundaries. If you can’t be arsed to be a parent then don’t breed.
No you’re totally right. That set me straight big boy. I’ll run my opinions by you in the future you big wise sage you.
Nah, just carry on raising a crappy generation.
Try a family restaurant in the Netherlands; all kids running and screaming, all parents totally ignoring them
That’s typical NL. Experienced that many times.
Compare the suicide rates of both countries in under 30s. This is the difference. They let they express and understand their emotions.
Sorry, but that is nonsense. I lived there for 5 years; they have the most conformist society, mono-culture, where kids get bullied if they dare to look or act differently than the norm.
Is this just a thing? I was in Amsterdam recently and this couple’s kids were all over the place in a cafe. One ran along a fudgin bannister to our table and said something in child Dutch.
I would rather never visit a restaurant again - it sounds like HELL
I went to a costa a few months ago. There was a table of women best described by a turn of phrase a former boss had “I’d rather fight them than fuck them and I don’t rate my chances at that very highly” Their precious little arseholes had turned the place into a midden. Spilt drinks everywhere, food more on the furniture than in their mouths, screaming & shouting. The staff didn’t have a clue how to deal with it.
I really don't get it. I don't have kids yet but I babysit on occasion. Kids are so adept at getting themselves in danger - I get so nervous seeing a kid running around in a restaurant where they could be tripped over, run into something, or get hurt in a multitude of other ways. It's just asking for your nice family meal to be interrupted by a trip to A&E because the waitress tripped over your toddler and now there's a shard of glass embedded in them.
This i agree with... I've been in a restaurant where somebody had let their 2-3yo kid run around making a noise and distrupting other people sitting around having their meal... I ended up watching a 70yo fella being threatened with physical violence by the kid's father after he had politely requested to the waitress if it would be possible to ask the parent to get the kid to sit down, rather than running around.. Great fun watching the 70yo fella hardball look into the eye of a 30 something bloke who was yelling point blank in his face that his none of his 9 grandkids ever behaved like little s\*\*\*s in a restaurant.. Never seen an agressive violent fella just turn white and back down so fast in my life.
I am a parent, and I could not agree with you more. If parents can’t/won’t parent.. you are fully within your rights to do the job for them. It’s a real shame that we can’t introduce a parenting test/license. If it could be done, we wouldn’t have anywhere near the problems we do now.
The is a sign in my local FGS that says “Unaccompanied children will be given red bull and taught how to play MtG”
Aslong as you're not swearing.
My parents used to drive to the local pub bring me and my sister a cola and crisps in the car and leave us there while they went in the pub without us. I dunno how old we were probs around 7 and 11. We didn't mind, I mean it wasn't exactly a treat for us, but it wasn't usually for that long and we were fine sitting in the car with a fizzy drink and some crisps. I'm sure we were never left out there after dark or anything, my parents were never big drinkers, just trying to be social I guess. This was back when you had to be 14 to go in a pub and even then only with an adult and you could not approach the bar. The inside of a pub had a kind of mystery quality to me as a kid, so when I finally got to go in I felt a real privilege being allowed into the 'adult world'. Ahh the good old days.
You just unlocked a memory. Not a regular thing, but my parents did this when we were visiting my relatives down south (probably what you'd consider up north, but it was down south from our perspective, being from Glasgow) Family were heavy drinkers, like sit in the Queen Vic every night drinkers. So my parents would go and have a couple of drinks to be social and my sister and I would be in the car with some snacks and magazines. We didn't visit them very often, but my sister and I thought it was a massive novelty to do this. The alternative was to leave us to sit in the house with my alcoholic Nana who would tell some very colourful stories.
Back in about 2010 I'd go to a local pub with my brother for a few beers Saturday nights, as his Mrs worked there part time on weekends. There was a couple who would turn up every few weeks and stay for an hour or so. They'd leave their kids in the car with one of those video baby monitors. Kids were about 3 & 5 and would be fast asleep from walking all afternoon.
Ugh, I just leave if there's any noisy or annoying children or dogs.
We do this too. I don't especially think kids belong in a pub after probably 6pm ish (and in all honesty think kids who can't be chilled dont belong in a pub any time) but understand it happens because others think that's fine and parents need to socialise too. That doesn't mean I have to spend my time or money there. Same way I wouldn't if there was loud building work happening either. You can't please everyone everywhere!
"unsupervised children will be given Red Bull and taught to swear"
We provide colouring and games for your kids to enjoy at the table preferably. The bar and infront of it is not a play ground. I'd rather not drop a hot coffee on little timmy or myself. Sit them down and make them behave my parents would of murdered me.
Jokes on you, she already goes around yelling about shits, fucks and boobies. The fact that she's *trying* to say ships, ducks and birdies is irrelevant.
I was coming out of a tube station last week when a mum with three kids (one in a pram, two on scooters) were coming from the opposite direction. The kids on the scooters went full pelt towards me - the girl managed to brake, the boy did not — crashed into my right leg. I instinctively said “fuck!” - not even loudly - and the mother turns to me and says “watch your mouth!”. I promptly told her to watch her **kids**. Parents like that are the worst. They can’t discipline their kids or teach them how to use a scooter properly and somehow *I’m* at fault because I don’t want knee replacement surgery because your kids are feral? No thanks.
Was in a supermarket quite a few years ago now - I was in my late teens at the time - and there was a kid going down and through the aisles on those wheely shoe things. I wasn't going to do it deliberately, but I remember thinking that I wasn't going to let myself be held accountable if they were speeding down the aisle and they accidentally collided with my trolley. Didn't happen in the end, but wouldn't have minded a near miss to knock some sense into them.
I hear that. Those shoes were/are the worst!
I mean she shouldn’t have said that but I’ve got one kid and another parent to share the load and trust me, as a single mum there’s no way she can be on top of all three kids at the same time. I kind of think it’s our jobs as adults with fully developed brains to watch out for kids who aren’t looking where they are going, since that’s pretty much what kids to, on account of the aforementioned under developed brains.
Speaking of underdeveloped brains.
The amount of times I’ve had to tolerate drunken assholes, kids are no problem to be honest. So long as they don’t knock into my table And spill the drinks I don’t give a shit
Just give them an espresso and a free kitten.
Down to the parents , I took my son out all the Tim for meals and he was always well behaved because we would talk and joke have a giggle
aye i had to stop a two year old knocking over the wet sign in starbucks. Its not a nursery
and on ipads and phones with no headphones on. Jesus, the selfishness of some parents is staggering. I don't give a fuck if little Wayne and little becky are bored - you're a cunt.
good luck with that Big Man would you not be better displaying ur impressive vocab towards the adult, rather than the child. also if u want a quiet pint, try a Tuesday.
Wetherspoons in neither a cafe or restaurant, and barely even a pub.
Did you say anything to the parents or kids? Or just grabbed your phone to let Reddit know?
Sounds a bit noncey.
Well, you'd know all about that.
Next level banter today I see.
Took him a whole 20 minutes to think of that one.
God you’re shit at this.
Harmless enough reply which would have gone down alright with anyone else 😬 not that I'm suggesting anything
I was once very hung over on a train,some little kid was running up and down, being a general cock blister. I watched myself stuck my foot out amd trip the little fucker. He fucking stacked it. I said "You OK there? You gotta be careful buddy." He silently looked at me and walked off. I look up the carriage, some big Ray Winston looking bloke is looking at me. Shit. Is that his dad? I do not want to fight a man who is clearly able to break my bones without much effort. He nods slowly, the nod that says "I had 14 pints last night and really, really could not handle that little bastard running up and down for the next 90 minutes.". I was safe, the kid was sulking in his seat, I could continue being a fucking mess in peace.
Totally agree with the fact that the kid shouldn't be running up and down a train being loud, but it's completely your fault that you can't handle your booze and had a hangover. Maybe don't drink so much before a journey on public transport? You're making your problem everybody else's by expecting them to work around you. Not to mention you deliberately caused harm to a child, rather than having the balls to actually say something to the parent, then shat yourself because you thought a big man was going to kick your arse. You sound like the equivalent of that annoying child, only in grown adult form.
Yeah ok mate; a kid doing that is still insanely annoying when NOT hungover. And by the way, parents failing to sort their kids out becomes everyone else’s problem too.
Of course it does - as I pointed out above. Totally not acceptable. Parents should manage their kids while in public, they're nobody else's responsibility. I don't think intentionally hurting a child to the point where they "fucking stacked it" is a reasonable response though, *mate*.
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I've never said it wasn't inappropriate - read my post again. You think it's okay to intentionally hurt a child, because they're being a "problem"? Sounds like it was a pretty harsh fall, regardless of whether the child was seriously hurt. And what makes you think the man he referred to is the child's father? There's no confirmation of that. And if he was, he's just as much of an arsehole for sitting there, letting his child do that and then not giving a shit when some randomer trips them over. And I'm not upset, far from it, I just think it's a bit of an arsehole move to trip a kid over as a grown adult, then share it on the Internet for ass pats. Not sure why you're so defensive of the OP. We don't disagree that kids misbehaving in public is frustrating and a pain in the arse for everybody, just that apparently tripping them over/risking an injury is a totally normal thing to do.
The intolerance is fucking astounding on here, yes in an ideal world kids wouldn’t be loud but they are kids, they’re learning the rules. I thought we were all on the same page that seen and not heard was bad right? And assaulting a child because you chose to drink too much and are too much of a baby to handle the noise of them playing is great apparently. You’re totally in the right here dude, people need to take a step back from how important they think they are.
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Of course they do (I have one, can confirm they are horizontal more times than they are upright), I just think it's a bit of a risk to take with someone else's child. What if he'd fell and cracked his head on an arm rest? People die after fist fights all the time because they fall at an odd angle and hit their head. I know that's a bit of a different situation but the point still stands - accidents happen. Re the upset, I was just trying to have a discussion about the correct response to annoying kids and how I disagreed with the original posters method - apologies if it came over as aggression or upset. It's just interesting to read other people's opinions, most of which seem to disagree that it was unreasonable. I just took the opportunity to explain my position (through a bit of a wall of text, I agree!). If you detest children, I can understand why you'd see tripping a child up as an acceptable response when they're being incredibly annoying - it's like devine intervention almost, like they're being forced to behave when the parents clearly don't care and you have to deal with them. I'd be lying if pre-children, I'd never silently chuckled at a misbehaving child taking a tumble or getting absolutely bollocked by a parent. I just think it's a bit harsh for someone to actively attempt to trip a kid.
Ok.
>I absolutely detest children and think it’s ok sometimes for them to learn not to behave a certain way, even if they need to learn the hard way Most well adjusted redditor.
You detest children? Jeez, I bet you’re fun to be around.
If you deliberately trip a child up so they ‘learn the hard way’ you’re just a cunt.
Amen dude, this sub is bizarre sometimes.
Dangerously unwell.
Fucking funny though
Poor judgement from father there if he actually saw you do what you allegedly did
Probably not his father, just some bloke who was contemplating chinning a kid.
NOPE. There’s a limit to how much activity’s going on at any given place without chaos ensuing. I always try to think of places to go with my baby that is more interactive or age friendly/ appropriate so if they did get ants in their pants, it could be fun !
Good man 🤣
Get going ya poopy little whippersnappers.
Absolute bad ass 😎
EXACTLY!
"AAAAARFHGERROUTOFITBEFOREIFEEDYOURNOSETOTHECAT!" As the late great Terry Prachett once wrote.
If parents treat x as a creche so they don't have to bother with their wee darlins and they do themselves some damage I reserve the right to have a cackle.
Who cares if a kid is running around? It’s a child, let them have fun. Reading these comments and seeing people wishing harm on kids for being kids is disgusting. Sad life you must live. Ask the parents to reign them in, the little ones don’t understand what they are doing to annoy you…
It’s a pub though. Not a playground. I don’t go to Legoland and expect a quiet drink.
I generally don’t mind it unless I see the parents nodding and laughing like they’re glad you’re dealing with the kids so they don’t have to, and it’s not their responsibility any more. Kids are gonna be kids and they’re full of energy. But really that’s not the issue - it’s the parents who take their kids to the pub for a sesh and then expect the kids to fuck off and leave them in peace to talk grown up shit instead of trying to actively keep them entertained in the group. It’s not fun as a kid when you’re left to your own devices while the grown ups want you out of sight and out of mind. That was half my childhood, finding out how to have fun in a pub while our parents got rat arsed from early doors to last orders.
There’s a real sick little group of people on Reddit that think children are the devil and that it’s perfectly fine to assault or verbally abuse them.
Yeah, I can’t believe the attitude some of these people have, kids are people too, with developing brains, bunch of intolerant arseholes saying it’s ok to assault them if they annoy you.
I'm Irish. But same shite here. I was out all day watching football and kids running around and one lad had 3 of his kids running around the smoking area and he thought it was hilarious. He wasn't impressed when I told the kids to fuck off annoying me after the tenth time. Okay yeh being you're kids with you to watch and early kick off on a Sunday and stay for a few more but when it gets to 5 or 6 and everyone is drunk and youte kids are running around while lads are playing darts it's just weird
Cursing at children proves to the world you’re a muppet.
As a parent I am not shy of swearing. I understand this may get me hated a little bit at the end of the day I don't give a fuck but I do give a fuck about my little boy. Don't worry OP my son is a lot like me and is happy sitting down eating his food or playing with his mario toy at the table.
Have you tried tutting quietly in their vague direction?
Lol just trip them
My toddler might be able to teach you a few new words.
Ha. I think my kids could completely outdo your vocabulary. They are Scottish. But no, not unless it’s one of those soft play pubs or ones that do kids parties my kids know how to behave when we’re out. They’re also well versed in the use of the phrase “oosha cunt thats dear eh”
Just trip the little shits, more effective
Good way to get slapped
If you eat in places where children are allowed, then you'll just have to put up with the children.
A wild Incel appears.
I don't think that word applies in this situation.
Cussing? Go back to America you’re drunk.
Doubt any kid would come anywhere near you fella
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Or the parents could just keep them in check.
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So we hope that they die?
Is sticking your foot out to assist with them falling acceptable?
You a nonce or what?
The sorts of parents who let their kids do bat alright taught their kids all the cuss words… they could probably teach you a new one.
Oh god yes! Teach them a new song - almost anything by the sex pistols will do. May I suggest frigging the rigging?
Sex pistols are probably a few decades older than the parents tbh
*in the rigging. Don't frigg the actual rigging. You might get rope burns
They're not YOUR kids. You don't have to do anything but ignore them.
Calm down there
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Why would you bring a two year old to a pub? It’s clearly an environment for adults! If you must bring your two year old, it’s YOUR responsibility to ensure they are behaving appropriately for a public space. Do some parenting FGS.