Beer Drinking in the Goose Green Playground

[Otta]

Valuable contribution there.

[aquarius moon]

What is all this nonsense?

I can't ever remember going for a picnic in any London park in the last 15 years without a bottle of wine. And looking around me, every picnic also had bottles of wine (or cans) because let's face it, how do you put up with a picnic in the park without alcohol?

And take a look at Clapham Common in the summer. They have more bottles than food!

[Swit and bold]

Out line anyone drinking smoking in a kids play ground is setting a bad example and should be informed to stop.

[hpsaucey]

dimjim79 Wrote:

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> Happy Hour at Goose Green playground. 3-5pm every

> Saturday. Children welcome.

Wahey - I'll be there. Escorting 2 feral kids and armed with a big bottle of red-label Thunderbird and a straw. There - that should make you lightweights with the odd small bottle of beer feel less guilty!

[hpsaucey]

Swit and bold Wrote:

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> Out line anyone drinking smoking in a kids play

> ground is setting a bad example and should be

> informed to stop.

'Lol' - 'informed to stop' by whom? What next - citizen's arrest?

Christ on a bike - think everyone needs to get a grip.

Fe fi fo fum ... perhaps I smell trolling going on????

[david_carnell]

hpsaucey Wrote:

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> dimjim79 Wrote:

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> > Happy Hour at Goose Green playground. 3-5pm

> every

> > Saturday. Children welcome.

>

>

> Wahey - I'll be there. Escorting 2 feral kids and

> armed with a big bottle of red-label Thunderbird

> and a straw. There - that should make you

> lightweights with the odd small bottle of beer

> feel less guilty!

3 straws surely - otherwise how will the kids get any?

[DaveR]

"I'm a little bit torn on this. I have no moral issue with it at all, so long as you're not pissed.

And yet, I dunno, I'd just feel a bit scummy doing it.

I'm no goodie goody, but drinking in a kid's playground just wouldn't feel right for me."

This.

Parks are for everyone, pubs are essentially adult spaces where kids are allowed. Kids playgrounds are kids spaces where adults are allowed. There's just no need to crack open the beers.

[Nigello]

DaveR is right. Having a beer while you "supervise" your offspring in an urban kids' playground is naff, sad and potentially dangerous. Can you imagine your chagrin, gentle parent, should your child come a cropper whilst your slightly buzzed and similarly distracted? It'd eat you up.

[Jeremy]

Think that's a bit daft Nigello... who hasn't had a drink while looking after their kids, at family gatherings, summer barbecues, pub gardens, etc? I don't think one drink is going to make any difference to anything.

I probably wouldn't do it myself in kids playground because it looks a bit skanky, but in principle I don't see the problem.

[bobbsy]

Agree with Jeremy.

By the logic some posters are putting forward I derive that it's fine to have say 5 beers at home BEFORE going to the playground as long as:

a) you can hold your drink and don't appear drunk

b) you have both hands free "just in case"

c) you don't have a drink in hand at the playground even though this is technically legal

d) cleaned your teeth and took a breath mint so no-one can smell alcohol

But let's clamp down on the person who happens to be holding a drink whilst supervising children.

Maybe we should also ban people supervising children eating mints as it's possible they have been drinking and are trying to disguise it.

[KidKruger]

Isn't this all really just about some parents being jealous because they've spotted other adults who had the savvy to pack a couple of ice-cold beers and crack 'em open at the playground, while their kids do their thing on the climbing frame ?

[Dopamine1979]

I find that a can/glass/bottle of 'Daddy's special fizzy drink' magically transforms me into much better company for my 4 year old.

[Jah Lush]

James Barber Wrote:

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Dulwich councillors were very clear that this risked social picnic etc style drinking could be interpreted to fall fowl of it.

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Chicken sandwiches in the picnic hamper?

[El Presidente]

I would like to see more children drinking beer in the playground

[bermygirl]

I would rather they have a responsible drink in the playground while their kids play, then sit I a local pub for hours and hours with their child running about and their buggy blocking up free space, together with a gaggle of other people and their babies/children, drinking and acting like the pub is a cr?che.

[KidKruger]

^^^^^^^^^

What Bermy said.

[Jah Lush]

Seconded.

[indiepanda]

Spot on Bermy.

[rubyroo]

apart from all the typos I think I agree with Bermy

[Asset]

Nice that Dulwich is exempt. Obviously the citizens who live near, say, Burgess Park are not capable of having civilised picnics in the park.

[Otta]

What Asset said (including the sarcasm).

[ourbubbleonline]

LOL - This post is a joke no? Half the kids around here are always asking if I wanna buy some weed - So I don't know whats wrong with an adult having the odd beer whilst in the park as long as they put their rubbish in the bin its no different from picknickers not throwing their rubbish away. As for the legal side of it - if the council can't enforce a law (which they can't expect the Police to do 24/7) for no drinking in Southwark they shouldn't bother having that law - its meaningless. If i were in a playground and was witness to a drunk when kids were about I myself would tell them politely to "piss off" thats called making a good judgement call whilst having a nice beer in hand and keeping an eye on my kids playing a bit of footie! We do not need the council & Police to worry about such menial things - they have better, more important things to deal with - I could list them but you'd probably get bored - if your already not from reading this! PMSL!

[jimbo1964]

I think there's something a bit unpleasant seeing parents swigging from beer cans in a playground.

[????]

What's the difference between drinking from a can in GG playground or having a glass of wine in the Abretorium area in Peckham Rye?...i don't see much other than 'class'

[Saffron]

Cold hipflask of gin is were it's at, on a hot day like today, surely?