Overage Kids In Playgrounds

DeadHand · 15-06-2015 01:51AM #1

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 · 15-06-2015 01:55AM

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

Ranchu · 15-06-2015 01:59AM

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

Herb Powell · 15-06-2015 02:00AM

lol

Try offering them weed to get them to leave.

DeadHand · 15-06-2015 02:04AM

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?

15-06-2015 02:07AM

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

RedemptionZ · 15-06-2015 02:09AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:11AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:13AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:16AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:17AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:19AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:19AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:20AM

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

RedemptionZ · 15-06-2015 02:21AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:22AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:23AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:25AM

DeadHand wrote: »

our late teens

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

DeadHand · 15-06-2015 02:28AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:29AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:29AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:33AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:33AM

Ah, jeez...

Can we get back on point?

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

DeadHand · 15-06-2015 02:33AM

Turtyturd wrote: »

Did you challenge them about it?

I do.

RedemptionZ · 15-06-2015 02:36AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:37AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:37AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:39AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:43AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:47AM

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 · 15-06-2015 02:48AM

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.

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