What fuckers - running around council estates for that 'edgy' thing...knowing that they are entirely able to get away with it unlike if they went prancing around Docklands or any other high priced residential development...where real guards and security types are only too likely to offer a special taste of real life brutality...especially if seen 'hiding'.
'People are paying £20 to run around council estates for bants'
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no-no
Small robot you know
no, there's no mention of anyone running through the stairwells or buildings that i can see. This reminds me of the hoohaa with parkrun. I don't mind people running about and playing games but I'm not too keen when it suddenly becomes someone running a business in a public place. At a certain point it just takes the piss.
Yeh I kind of feel like that.
I don't really want to start fencing off estates and banning running around and stuff, otherwise you end up with kids not being allowed to play ball games and stuff like that... and just because I personally dislike the people doing it doesn't mean that I can make special restrictions that apply only to them ha. Making money off it is taking the piss a bit though.
sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
From the article,,
‘One of the checkpoints was in a residential stairwell, while another was on the side of a place of worship.
e.g. I don't like seeing music venues get shut down for noise... I understand that other people don't enjoy the music and get nothing out of it, but I expect them to understand that other people do get something out of it and be tolerant. SO that means I probably have to tolerate other things that I don't get anything out of. Otherwise I would be a hypocrite.
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
Because they were all sent off to boarding school at the age of four and were so emotionally stunted by the alternating indifference and scorn supplied by their neurotic mothers and bitter, impotent fathers that they never had the chance to act like actual children until they were in their mid twenties.
sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
Nailed it.
Bahnhof Strasse
Let's av ya fuckin' dancin'!
Poor comparison; music venues being shut down for noise were there before any residential buildings, the nearby offices get converted in to flats and the newcomers don't like the music venue...
i tried the same thing moaning about Heathrow when living in Hounslow, they ignored me, or more probably couldn't hear over the noise of the planes...
sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
I reckon when they move the hedge goes with them.
"Tee hee! I hope teacher doesn't see us!"
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
A music venue exists to host noisy things. A housing estate does not exist as a playground for tosspots.
It wasn't meant to be a comparison; it was an example of how tolerance operates.
sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
Spiffing.
Not most of the venues I like... the exist for some other purpose, but happen to have a noisy thing there.
I don't think there is any 'regression' going on here...which implies a certain maturity already - this seems to be a clear example of a kind of arrested development which seems to be a fairly common state of being amongst 20-30 year olds. Kinda sad really - a fleeing away from an adult reality which seems either too hard or simply unattainable. The organisers appear to have latched onto a way of monetising anxiety.
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
Such bants.
So they 'won' by sitting in a coffee shop for half an hour? And paid 20 quid for this exciting experience?
Remember when your big sister would pretend to play hide and seek with you and just leave you in the cupboard under the stairs for several hours as a joke, while you thought you were the best hider ever? Smacks of that tbh. Can't imagine anyone wanting to find these three wastes of space.
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
For my money most venues play music needlessly loud* to the point where live bands especially don't sound as good as they should do, but I'm a well known grumpy old man so that's probably just me.
*again, possibly appealing to the infantile streak among those punters who think louder = better because more subtle analyses are beyond them.
no-no
Small robot you know
If nailing it means wild speculation then yes, nailed it.
I think that the idea of play should be important throughout our lives. If they are causing a nuisance then they need to work with the community to fix their game so it isn't a nuisance, but the fact that they are spending their free time playing a game that involves running about in their 20s I don't think is wrong.
If they are doing it in the poorer bits of London because they wouldn't be able to do it in the richer bits, then the problem is that they aren't allowed to take part in an innocent activity in the richer bits, not that they can in the poorer bits.
Except for putting a 'checkpoint' inside a residential building I don't see the problem. Some posh people running past your house isn't the worst thing that can happen on a Sunday afternoon (unless you are a countryside fox)
If they are doing it in the poorer bits of London because they wouldn't be able to do it in the richer bits, then the problem is that they aren't allowed to take part in an innocent activity in the richer bits, not that they can in the poorer bits.
Except for putting a 'checkpoint' inside a residential building I don't see the problem. Some posh people running past your house isn't the worst thing that can happen on a Sunday afternoon (unless you are a countryside fox)
Shechemite
Justice for Harvey
Yes but as in any psychological analysis 'nailing it' depends not on the accuracy of the analysis, but on the feelings of self-satisfaction it gives the analyst.
Hipsters are cunts too.
Rob Ray
Weight is meaningless
I've got no problem with play, but this is all part of a godawful commercial trend to exploit happy memories of childhood through a paid-for enabling of emotional and in this case physical regression. Makes me feel queasy seeing people act out this stuff, it's like watching a sort of commercialised psychological breakdown aimed at people who can't face the reality that they're not making the transition from youthful potential to adult success story.
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Kind of I suppose, but they're not just sticking around in shorts and sucking thumbs, many are trying to be adults in the everyday, but the system people in their 20s grow up in is pretty hopeless. This is escapism for people often living in shoeboxes earning not very much as well as a fun diversion for the moneyed classes.
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sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
No.From my experience of being around these types i believe it sums them up perfectly.
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hiraethified
Not sure why privileged types charging into a poor estate just to use it as a playground for their whizzo paid-for games should be tolerated, to be honest. I'd say it's more a matter of respect.
I always tell myself off for turning into an old fart when I disapprove of this sort of silly stuff. Same with zombie run and that dancing to your own headphones thing with lots of people in public from a few years ago., and having silly beard!
It's very childish and self indulgent, but people are younger for longer now. nerf is really popular with young adults apparently and although its childish, its just a cheap version of paintball which i wanted to do but never bothered to shell out for
I can see why these kind of things piss people off because they are very middle class and the sort of people who do them would put a lot of people off, but I am all for these sort of activities in principle because they are trying to come up with new games. it could be a great way to teach local history, getting younger people to play a game like this based on actual real things that happened. And as well, it's excercise, which is always good.
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Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
What, they're drunken twats?
Bahnhof Strasse
Let's av ya fuckin' dancin'!
Poor example...
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