Should children be banned from pubs?

getz · 14-06-2013 04:21PM

I some times think they shouldn't let 20 and 30 year olds in bars as well,as I can guarantee on a Friday night they will kick off and start a fight,us old ones cannot get a quiet drink.:pac:

looking_around · 14-06-2013 04:33PM

No, but we need to have more adults only restaurants and pubs.

StinkyMunkey · 14-06-2013 04:39PM

looking_around wrote: »

No, but we need to have more adults only restaurants and pubs.

And the answer to that one is - go open one! Once a person has money in their pocket and supervises their childern properly, pubs and resturants will always cater for them.

getz · 14-06-2013 04:40PM

went into a irish bar the other night,it was full of very old men,not one young one,I said to the barman;who is the oldest in the pub?he said we no longer have one,he died last week,

starlit · 15-06-2013 12:11AM

No not really when food is served but up to a certain time like 7 or 8pm maybe have a restriction or something but they have that all ready haven't they though? if under 16 or 18 they have to be accompanied by an adult. They can legally be in a pub/pub on their own from 16-18 onwards isn't that the case? Legal age to be served alcohol is 18.

looking_around · 16-06-2013 04:22PM

StinkyMunkey wrote: »

And the answer to that one is - go open one! Once a person has money in their pocket and supervises their childern properly, pubs and resturants will always cater for them.

I would, if I had money to start off with, want to invest with me

StinkyMunkey · 16-06-2013 04:49PM

looking_around wrote: »

I would, if I had money to start off with, want to invest with me

You supply the Capitol and ill run it for you

ILikeFriday · 16-06-2013 05:07PM

I don't think they should be banned full stop e.g. someone should be able to go out for lunch with their kids on a Sunday or whatever. I do think pubs/restaurants should consider whether they want adults only or not. I would be quite annoyed if I went out for a nice meal as a treat on a Friday night and had a baby screaming beside me for the whole thing for example. But I don't think many restaurants would allow that. I think kids in pubs is something people like to complain about based on the one occasion years ago they had some problem because of it, rather than a serious ongoing problem. If customers were that annoyed, they would leave.

Galwayguy35 · 16-06-2013 05:29PM

The arent allowed to be in pubs after 9pm as it is and I wouldn't be in a pub before that time anyway so I'm happy enough with it as it is.

I was occasionally brought to the pub myself as a kid but knew how to behave and didn't run around the place annoying the adults there which is how it should be, nobody want to be hassled by noisy brats as they are having a drink.

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 16-06-2013 05:33PM

I can't think of a more depressing place for a child to be than a pub during the day, well in my town anyway. All full of middle to old aged drunks who only leave to go to the bookies.

harry Bailey esq · 16-06-2013 06:38PM

if i pub dose not serve meals there is absolutely no reason to allow under 18s on the premises,unless its a teenager trying to earn some extra pocket money with a part time job.

jack presley · 16-06-2013 07:23PM

The amount of supervision of kids in pubs is inversely proportional the the number of drinks the parents have had.

hatrickpatrick · 16-06-2013 07:30PM

Nah, the current general "No kids after X PM" setup works pretty well in my view.
But I absolutely approve of a policy of being allowed to warn first and then eject people with unruly kids from any establishment. As it happens I find kids pretty amusing and get on well with them (a consequence of being a twenty something in a family full of preteens) but I can totally understand how noisiness etc might irritate others, or weaving in and out of tables like mad yokes while people are trying to have their food.

Kids I'm generally fond of - parents who let them run riot in public places, on the other hand.........

old hippy · 17-06-2013 12:23PM

Incidentally, I'd like to thank the couple who brought their wailing young baby, pram and all to the screening of Man of Steel, on Sunday. A bawling infant was precisely what Zack Snyder's epic reboot was missing.

I was feeling so grateful, I almost went to the local afterwards but thankfully the missus reminded me that it would be overrun by unruly kids.

Phew.

Boombastic · 17-06-2013 12:28PM

They should open up bars in play centres

J.P.M · 26-07-2013 03:56AM

old hippy wrote: »

Incidentally, I'd like to thank the couple who brought their wailing young baby, pram and all to the screening of Man of Steel, on Sunday. A bawling infant was precisely what Zack Snyder's epic reboot was missing.

I was feeling so grateful, I almost went to the local afterwards but thankfully the missus reminded me that it would be overrun by unruly kids.

Phew.

Complain! Simple as that! A baby should not have been allowed in. There are age ratings for a reason. The couple should have been refused entry.

Complain and get the free passes you deserve

minidazzler · 26-07-2013 06:33AM

For me, it depends on the pub. A Local bar or a tourist bar, which do food, they probably should be allowed.

A Bar in the city that does food, I don't think they should be, but that's up to the owner, whenever I get the money together to open my own pub (if I decide to have food), I'm going to steadfastly disallow any kid under 10, and those 10-17 won't be allowed after 5.

A bar that does no food, kids shouldn't be allowed in ever, even if they do crisps and such. They should at least have a sandwich bar if they wanna let kids in.

aisr1ofk43dpy5 · 26-07-2013 06:50AM

minidazzler wrote: »

whenever I get the money together to open my own pub (if I decide to have food), I'm going to steadfastly disallow any kid under 10, and those 10-17 won't be allowed after 5.

So you're planning on opening a pub and your first move is to bar all your future customers sounds like a plan.

26-07-2013 08:35AM

minidazzler wrote: »

For me, it depends on the pub. A Local bar or a tourist bar, which do food, they probably should be allowed.

A Bar in the city that does food, I don't think they should be, but that's up to the owner, whenever I get the money together to open my own pub (if I decide to have food), I'm going to steadfastly disallow any kid under 10, and those 10-17 won't be allowed after 5.

A bar that does no food, kids shouldn't be allowed in ever, even if they do crisps and such. They should at least have a sandwich bar if they wanna let kids in.

So basically you are happy to lose out on lots of money by having a silly rule like this. There are plenty of people I wouldn't want in my pub obviously, scumbags etc but family's spending money on food and drinks are not one of the groups I'd be excluding or parents and people u-18 coming in to watch matches etc if my pub didn't have food.

The legal time children have to leave is the only rule I'd enforce.

Galwayguy35 · 26-07-2013 07:37PM

The 9pm rule is great, I wouldn't go to the pub too ofton but there was nothing as annoying as having teenage lads going in and out the door every minute and more ofton than not being too thick to close it after them, and if it was mentioned you would get the "fook you, wha ya gonna do bout it" attitude from them.

tatabubbly · 26-07-2013 07:39PM

Why on earth would you take your kids into a pub??

26-07-2013 07:43PM

Incidentally, I'd like to thank the couple who brought their wailing young baby, pram and all to the screening of Man of Steel, on Sunday. A bawling infant was precisely what Zack Snyder's epic reboot was missing.

I was feeling so grateful, I almost went to the local afterwards but thankfully the missus reminded me that it would be overrun by unruly kids.

Phew.

why would anyone bring a little baby to a place where the would be bright flashes, loud noises???

no wonder the child was wailing

Galwayguy35 · 26-07-2013 07:49PM

tatabubbly wrote: »

Why on earth would you take your kids into a pub??

Good question.

26-07-2013 08:16PM

tatabubbly wrote: »

Why on earth would you take your kids into a pub??

Lunch, dinner, watch a match, parents are entitled to a quick pint on a sunny day, quick pint when in town shopping, Christmas and other special occasions etc.

A pub is an everyday place the way people are talking you would swear they were some sort of place where children will instantly die if they enter.

Boombastic · 26-07-2013 09:22PM

Leandro Strong Voyage wrote: »

Lunch, dinner, watch a match, parents are entitled to a quick pint on a sunny day, quick pint when in town shopping, Christmas and other special occasions etc....

Brilliant 'entitled'. I love the way shopping is classed as a special occasion, just like Christmas.

Snowie · 26-07-2013 09:39PM

Yes kids should not be in pubs!

FloatingVoter · 26-07-2013 09:46PM

Brats under the age of 12 should not be seen and certainly never heard. Anything between 12 and 18 should behave like an adult. If you were grown up enough to have them you should be grown up enough to think of something to occupy them that doesn't involve boring or annoying me.

As for bringing them to supermarkets, it is perfectly acceptable to tie up a dog outside the premises while you shop, why not a mewling child ?

On planes and buses, they have baggage compartments - use them. If the child doesn't survive - have another one.

Sandypants · 26-07-2013 09:51PM

people go to a pub to get a break from their kids.... but they should only be allowed if there gettin a family meal or at a funtion...nothin worse then seeing kids being pumped full of crisps and peanuts on a sunday afternoon watching there parents get drunk...bring them to the feckin park!!

Gonzo · 26-07-2013 09:58PM

the 9pm rule should be the 6pm rule... kids should not be in any pubs after 6pm and parents who let there kids run up and down the pub/restaurant screaming should be shown to the door regardless of weather its in a pub or a restaurant.

26-07-2013 11:41PM

Boombastic wrote: »

Brilliant 'entitled'. I love the way shopping is classed as a special occasion, just like Christmas.

Yes entitled. I hate the way you cannot use the word entitled in AH without some stupid arsehole type comment made in reply.

I wasn't saying shopping was a special occasion I was saying Christmas and other special occasions as one of the reasons and having a quick pint if in shopping as another. What sort of dry, do gooders are getting so bothered about parents having one or two drinks while there kids are with them. Of course going out and getting pis*ed with kids is completely out of order but a couple of drinks is absolutely fine.

People really need to lose the sensationalist bull "oh my god a child in a pub call the guards" I was in pubs plenty of times as a child and it never did a thing on me.

Should children be banned from pubs?

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