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[Drinking] Children in pubs
- Thread starter South Stand Bonfire
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ROSM
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I know what you mean. I thought Dwayne was a 250lbs muscled/hench black person from the upper bronx
Largely because that was what he said he was mind
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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Why? As you know myself (and Mrs PWK to a lesser extent) like a drink and also I’ll never claim to be father of the year, but when the boy was little we’d go to places with a high chair and he could do his colouring or a bit lego or whatever and occasionally I’d step away from my busy schedule of getting half cut and give him a bit of attention (I would also clean up any peas etc he’d dropped on the floor as I don’t see that as the staff’s job)
This early introduction to pub life meant when he was about five or six we could go to ‘nicer places’ safe in the knowledge that we could spend a hour in there without him pissing the drinkers off in any way.
It wasn’t difficult
My father used to love Crete and it`s people , he often talked about enjoying the relaxed family meal in a restaurant of an evening with all ages present , something that use to drive him nuts in England for the very reasons you make .
Sorry mate I’m on holiday today and just got up and not fully awake yet.
Can you just confirm if you are replying to all of my post with yours or just the second part please?
Slightly confused here or missing point.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Somewhere nice?
Where was this?
No mate I always go somewhere shit, I hate nice places
Just a short break really, I’m in Rye.
Sounds like you're labelling kids that are just being kids are "behaving badly" and being "noisy and intrusive" in your opinion, and one that seems to be widely shared by other British people. The idea that people "weaponise their kids to disrupt public space" is just insane. You are an absolute first rate 
mate.
I'm glad my kids get to spend a large portion of their childhood abroad and not in the vicinity of people like you.
You're going back on ignore. The only reason I took you off ignore is that you started the initial Fabian Hurzeler thread and it was hard to follow the news with your threads not appearing on the main board.
mate.I'm glad my kids get to spend a large portion of their childhood abroad and not in the vicinity of people like you.
You're going back on ignore. The only reason I took you off ignore is that you started the initial Fabian Hurzeler thread and it was hard to follow the news with your threads not appearing on the main board.
So are we , can you please (if not already done) put me on ignore
Weymouth , the most annoying part of this wasn`t so much their behaviour it was the fact that the staff there are such nice patient people doing a very hard job during the "grockle" season . Last thing they needed on that particularly busy day , i still avoid that section of tables like the plague .Where was this?
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Never been, enjoyNo mate I always go somewhere shit, I hate nice places
Just a short break really, I’m in Rye.
Think we have found a person that can't control their kids in a pub.Sounds like you're labelling kids that are just being kids are "behaving badly" and being "noisy and intrusive" in your opinion, and one that seems to be widely shared by other British people. The idea that people "weaponise their kids to disrupt public space" is just insane. You are an absolute first rate
I'm glad my kids get to spend a large portion of their childhood abroad and not in the vicinity of people like you.
You're going back on ignore. The only reason I took you off ignore is that you started the initial Fabian Hurzeler thread and it was hard to follow the news with your threads not appearing on the main board.
- Oct 20, 2022
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Yes, this exactly. It was one of the things about the Med I loved as a kid - our parents did the same with us - we had long evening meals as a family often al fresco and allowed half a glass of wine. We were really well behaved as kids (when we weren’t all sitting in the back of a car or at school
). Wonderful mediterranean way of life.
Worried Man Blues
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Well behaved children are a rarity and of course it's down to the parents.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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It was the bit where you EXPECT kids to be running round a Brewers Fayre etc (However on reflection if it’s got a Charlie Chalk’s I suppose they are gonna run back to the table)
Anyway enjoy your hols
Very well put. With ex-Mrs T, 30-35 years ago, we trained the kids to behave (they were good as gold anyway to be fair) and the occasional pub meal was undertaken with decorous decorum.
A far cry from the sorts who let their kids scream and careen about the place while they chain-smoked, shouting at one another and screaming at the kids. Luckily the landlady at the Albion was not shy to dish out bans.
Arthur
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This is absolutely spot on. But I think it's parents that are becoming worse than dog owners these days.
I very nearly didn't bother last night because last year on halloween the pub was full of kids loaded up to the eyeballs with sugar making a racket. Glad I did as it was actually very good last night. Only two groups in and the kids were well behaved, sat at the table with their parents, didn't keep running about or up to the bar.
My local is in a nice part of the world so the patrons are quite well healed. That Micky Flanagan sketch could have been written about my local.
I've no problem with kids or dogs being in pubs as long as they are well behaved. I take one of my dogs Monday to Wednesday. The other is a puppy and like a kid gets bored and acts up so he doesn't go. I don't take Coco Thursday to Sunday because I sit at the bar and it's not appropriate IMO to have a dog taking up space at the bar when it's busier. Plus I'm constantly on edge worried that someone is going to step on her. They also sell food Thursday to Sunday and I appreciate not everyone wants to be eating around animals.
Braggfan
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- May 12, 2014
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I used to drink in a pub that had a dartboard in a separate room. We'd be in their playing darts and some parents would dumps kids in there, turn the tv on and go get drunk in the other room. It used to drive me up the wall, just very lazy parenting. I don't mind kids if there sat there with the parents behaving, and I don't blame them when they're not. I blame the parents for not considering other people in the pub.
SeagullinExile
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Try writing a feedback email to the owners. A post on NSC won’t help!
Arthur
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Because having a Free Palestine avatar is really helping the kids in Gaza at the moment.