Overage Kids In Playgrounds

DeadHand

Aren't you just sick of them?

I mean pubescent teens in playgrounds clearly meant for infants.

Now, it's a natural law that idiocy is part of being a teenager. Yet, all this spitting, screaming of foul language and littering take place in a space that is designed for and should be sacred for small children.

There they are, commandeering facilities meant for infants.

Why?

Has our society become so infantilised that it is now acceptable for persons who were, a generation ago, of the age to start families and run businesses to now compete with four year olds for access to the swings?

There is a clear mental deficiency at play here but who is to blame?

(Note: Me and my behaviour in my teens are not cool and should not be held up as an ideal. Yet, in my teens at the height of my stupidity I never stooped to invading the space of small children, ruining their fun or intimidating them).

darkpagandeath

If they are under 18 they are Children... Well apparently with no responsibility for their actions.

Ranchu

If they're teens they should be drinking in a field somewhere.

Herb Powell

lol

Try offering them weed to get them to leave.

DeadHand

darkpagandeath wrote: »

If they are under 18 they are Children... Well apparently with no responsibility for their actions.

I mean like 14-15-16-17 year olds guffawing and galloping around kid's playgrounds.

At those ages I was frequenting nightclubs, fornicating and driving illegally.

Why is it now acceptable practice to at those advanced ages to be intimidating toddlers by invading their space?

Maybe the problem is that there's nowhere to go during those years between playgrounds and drinking.

RedemptionZ

DeadHand wrote: »

I mean like 14-15-16-17 year olds guffawing and galloping around kid's playgrounds.

At those ages I was frequenting nightclubs, fornicating and driving illegally.

Weren't you a cool dude. So you'd rather them break the law than hang out, fairly harmlessly, in a playground?

Shanotheslayer

DeadHand wrote: »

I mean like 14-15-16-17 year olds guffawing and galloping around kid's playgrounds.

At those ages I was frequenting nightclubs, fornicating and driving illegally.

Why is it now acceptable practice to at those advanced ages to be intimidating toddlers by invading their space?

So you were breaking the law? But the kids hanging around the playground are the problem? :pac:

Turtyturd

I am guessing the niteclubs were closed at this time, maybe they drove to the playground and were pissed of to find a group of kids playing in their favourite fornication spot.

DeadHand

Deleted User wrote: »

Maybe the problem is that there's nowhere to go during those years between playgrounds and drinking.

I don't accept that.

I didn't even have a playground growing up.

If I had, my mates and I certainly wouldn't be there in our late teens occupying amusements at the expense of children.

We were far too busy at other things.

There's piles of things to do it's just a sign of mental deficiency: adults ruining spaces meant for children.

kowloon

It's a shame we can't hand them a rifle and send them off to the front like in the good old days.

Cold War Kid

kowloon wrote: »

It's a shame we can't hand them a rifle and send them off to the front like in the good old days.

Thank you very much, Warren Christopher. :mad:

DeadHand

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

So you were breaking the law? But the kids hanging around the playground are the problem? :pac:

Physical adults occupying children's amusements and intimidating small children with their buffoonery is the problem.

Turtyturd

Just because you keep saying it's a sign of mental deficiency doesn't make it true. How did they intimidate toddlers?

RedemptionZ

DeadHand wrote: »

I don't accept that.

I didn't even have a playground growing up.

If I had, my mates and I certainly wouldn't be there in our late teens occupying amusements at the expense of children.

We were far too busy at other things.

There's piles of things to do it's just a sign of mental deficiency: adults ruining spaces meant for children.

You keep saying at the expense of children, how so? Simply their presence?

All I'm getting from this is that you're mad that teenagers are having fun that doesn't involve sex or drinking.

Washington Irving

OP is cooler than the Fonz.

Underage clubbing, teenage sex and driving your parents car on public roads sounds much safer and mature alright.

What could go wrong?

DeadHand

And I don't mean to hold my early life up as an ideal or as what kids should be doing... I just hold it up as a point that I was not ruining things for younger kids.

Cold War Kid

DeadHand wrote: »

our late teens

Late teens or aged 14-17 - which is it?!

DeadHand

RedemptionZ wrote: »

You keep saying at the expense of children, how so? Simply their presence?

All I'm getting from this is that you're mad that teenagers are having fun that doesn't involve sex or drinking.

They run around playgrounds meant for infants and occupy and/or vandalise amusements meant for infants. They intimidate infants by these occupations, their presence and their vandalisations.

If it is "fun" for teenagers to wreck the fun of children we have differing ideas of fun.

RedemptionZ

DeadHand wrote: »

And I don't mean to hold my early life up as an ideal or as what kids should be doing... I just hold it up as a point that I was not ruining things for younger kids.

Yep you were out driving illegally(potential to cause death to you and others), drinking and having sex (potential to have what I would assume was an unplanned child). These teens having fun in the playground are very bold though no doubt.

OP you seem like you're inadvertently advertising the construction of more playgrounds. You say you didn't have a playground growing up and look what you resorted to. Meanwhile these teens do have a playground and are staying out of trouble.

Maximus Alexander

Drunken, sex-obsessed pubescents driving around illegally, or some teenagers swinging out of the monkey bars? I just can't tell which one sounds more utopian.

Turtyturd

DeadHand wrote: »

They run around playgrounds meant for infants and occupy and/or vandalise amusements meant for infants. They intimidate infants by these occupations, their presence and their vandalisations.

If it is "fun" for teenagers to wreck the fun of children we have differing ideas of fun.

Did you challenge them about it?

DeadHand

Ah, jeez...

Can we get back on point?

Young adults dominating playgrounds meant for kids... Is that not wrong?

DeadHand

Turtyturd wrote: »

Did you challenge them about it?

I do.

RedemptionZ

DeadHand wrote: »

They run around playgrounds meant for infants and occupy and/or vandalise amusements meant for infants. They intimidate infants by these occupations, their presence and their vandalisations.

If it is "fun" for teenagers to wreck the fun of children we have differing ideas of fun.

Nobody said vandalism was fun. Hanging around the playground with your mates can be fun when you're a teenager I'm sure.

There are plenty of teenagers who drink and drive illegally and go to nightclubs. I know what I'd rather have my son/daughter doing.

DeadHand

DeadHand wrote: »

And I don't mean to hold my early life up as an ideal or as what kids should be doing... I just hold it up as a point that I was not ruining things for younger kids.

I'd draw your attention to the above.

RedemptionZ wrote: »

Yep you were out driving illegally(potential to cause death to you and others), drinking and having sex (potential to have what I would assume was an unplanned child). These teens having fun in the playground are very bold though no doubt.

Cold War Kid

DeadHand wrote: »

Ah, jeez...

Can we get back on point?

Young adults dominating playgrounds meant for kids... Is that not wrong?

I wouldn't deem people aged 14-17 to be young adults. Not all that age have started going out - they wouldn't be able to get into clubs and bars most of the time anyway (certainly under 17).
I guess hanging out in playgrounds doesn't make sense for people older than children, but as long as they're not causing trouble, they are just occupying a public space to be fair.

DeadHand

Seems my original point has become bogged down in the pedantry and personal digs that are fairly typical in AH.

It's mostly my own fault, I'll admit.

DeadHand

Cold War Kid wrote: »

I wouldn't deem people aged 14-17 to be young adults. Not all that age have started going out - they wouldn't be able to get into clubs and bars most of the time anyway (certainly under 17).
I guess hanging out in playgrounds doesn't make sense for people older than children, but as long as they're not causing trouble, they are just occupying a public space to be fair.

I mean vandalising the swings and occupying the merry-go-round.

At the day of the races, in suits, if you don't mind.

While toddlers looked on perplexed, idle and despondent.

Mental deficiency on the part of the physical adults.

dubscottie

The playground is a public park right?

I am unaware of any law that says swings are for kids only.

Smashing stuff up is crap (and call the garda if they do) but they have as much right to be there as the 2 year olds.

RedemptionZ

DeadHand wrote: »

I'd draw your attention to the above.

DeadHand wrote: »

Seems my original point has become bogged down in the pedantry and personal digs that are fairly typical in AH.

It's mostly my own fault, I'll admit.

No what happened was you posted an OP about some teens hanging out in a playground then went on to imply in a condescending fashion that when you were their age you were a legend and were breaking the law regularly. You also claimed these teenagers in the playground were mentally deficient. When people called you out on this obvious hypocrisy and stupidity you recanted and said 'not about my life these guys are bad' without addressing the point that you were obviously a worse teenager(I don't mean that maliciously, I would've been a bad teenager by that definition too) and that the teens being in the playground is actually good for society.

Then you claimed this went off topic and people were having digs. Can't stick on topic of you ignore all the posts arguing against you.

DeadHand

RedemptionZ wrote: »

Weren't you a cool dude. So you'd rather them break the law than hang out, fairly harmlessly, in a playground?

I'd rather them break laws that don't harm anyone then harm children by destroying their sanctuary.

PucaMama

Teenagers aren't physically adults

RedemptionZ

DeadHand wrote: »

I'd rather them break laws that don't harm anyone then harm children by destroying their sanctuary.

You're switching the goal posts now. Your OP never said anything about criminal damage. I doubt anyone would condone that.

If it was between hanging out in the playground and not destroying it(which id wager would be the majority of teens) and teens going knacker drinking I'd pick playground every day.

DeadHand

RedemptionZ wrote: »

teens being in the playground is actually good for society

Teens being in a children's playground can never be good for society.

If a physical adult insists on commandeering an amusement meant for an infant at the expense of an infant I will say that is a sign of mental deficiency on the part of the physical adult.

DeadHand

RedemptionZ wrote: »

If it was between hanging out in the playground and not destroying it(which id wager would be the majority of teens) and teens going knacker drinking I'd pick playground every day.

Then you've lived a cloistered, childless life.

RedemptionZ

DeadHand wrote: »

Then you've lived a cloistered, childless life.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, so I don't see where my life experience is relevant. I think you misunderstood what I was saying, maybe you have a mental deficiency

Joking aside I was saying that I would prefer teens to be playing peacefully in a playground than knacker drinking. Don't know how you could argue otherwise

Not a NSA agent

Any time I have seen older children in a playground it would be in the evenings when no younger children were around. Although I suppose this means that they have already threatened the children and their parents so they left.

I don't spend much time watching playgrounds though.

DeadHand

RedemptionZ wrote: »

prefer teens to be playing peacefully in a playground

I mean spouting foul, sexual language in front of kids, rushing around in an intimidatory fashion, occupying their amusements, spitting and generally being a pest in a space in which they have no business being.

Jesus.

I make a good point but the typical AH assholery has me in a quagmire.

coffeepls

You sound so annoyed - those teens are just kids too. They're perfectly entitled to be in a playground too. Little kiddies don't actually have more entitlement to public playgrounds.
I think these teens are getting your heckles up. Stop letting them annoy you by their presence. If they're spitting and foulmouthing in front of wee kids, they're probably only doing it to annoy you a bit more.

LadyFenghuang

DeadHand wrote: »

Aren't you just sick of them?

I mean pubescent teens in playgrounds clearly meant for infants.

Now, it's a natural law that idiocy is part of being a teenager. Yet, all this spitting, screaming of foul language and littering take place in a space that is designed for and should be sacred for small children.

There they are, commandeering facilities meant for infants.

Why?

Has our society become so infantilised that it is now acceptable for persons who were, a generation ago, of the age to start families and run businesses to now compete with four year olds for access to the swings?

There is a clear mental deficiency at play here but who is to blame?

(Note: Me and my behaviour in my teens are not cool and should not be held up as an ideal. Yet, in my teens at the height of my stupidity I never stooped to invading the space of small children, ruining their fun or intimidating them).

I am often in a way an overage kid in a playground :-) I don't invade space I usually am invited. I don't put age limits on when you have to stop doing stuff! :-)

I have a weird innocence!

LadyFenghuang

I would off course let kids play ...it's only when the swings are free ;-)

incrisis

I have a play park for toddlers just down the road from me ....I think I might go play on the swings.

LadyFenghuang

incrisis wrote: »

I have a play park for toddlers just down the road from me ....I think I might go play on the swings.

:-) Go for it!

Optimalprimerib

I always thought that the public playgrounds were for under 12's.

LadyFenghuang

Optimalprimerib wrote: »

I always thought that the public playgrounds were for under 12's.

They don't check for ID. How do you think parents get in?

Optimalprimerib

LadyFenghuang wrote: »

They don't check for ID. How do you think parents get in?

Come on, i mean to use the equipment. It is more of a common sense law rather than it being actively imposed. i thought there were signs up in some of them stating this.

Pumpkinseeds

I suppose it depends on the teens. Our local playground apparently had an issue with teenagers pissing on the equipment and generally being intimidating to little kids. I don't accept the argument that they've got nothing to do, they have all sorts of computer games, laptops, tv in their rooms etc. All in all they've a damn sight more to occupy themselves than previous generations had. They don't need to be occupied with something fun every waking hour. Personally, I think they're far too over indulged.

Timberrrrrrrr

DeadHand wrote: »

I don't accept that.

I didn't even have a playground growing up.

If I had, my mates and I certainly wouldn't be there in our late teens occupying amusements at the expense of children.

We were far too busy at other things.

There's piles of things to do it's just a sign of mental deficiency: adults ruining spaces meant for children.

And kids ruining places meant for adults.

DeadHand wrote: »

I mean like 14-15-16-17 year olds guffawing and galloping around kid's playgrounds.

At those ages I was frequenting nightclubs, fornicating and driving illegally.

Why is it now acceptable practice to at those advanced ages to be intimidating toddlers by invading their space?

If it bothers you so much then just tell them to leave.

Timberrrrrrrr

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I suppose it depends on the teens. Our local playground apparently had an issue with teenagers pissing on the equipment and generally being intimidating to little kids. I don't accept the argument that they've got nothing to do, they have all sorts of computer games, laptops, tv in their rooms etc. All in all they've a damn sight more to occupy themselves than previous generations had. They don't need to be occupied with something fun every waking hour. Personally, I think they're far too over indulged.

Yeah

Because locking themselves in their rooms 24/7 is healthier for them than being outside in the fresh air :rolleyes:

The next AH beers should be in a playground.