Take your party indoors you inconsiderate [insert suitable expletives here]s on Barry Road

[bawdy-nan]

Weeping child unable to sleep all night. I'd call Southwark Council but they have to come into your house in an hour to check on the noise and we're all knackered.

Go to bed or go indoors you drunk, inconsiderate, unneighbourly loons at the top of Barry Road.

[bawdy-nan]

Sounds like its teens - thanks irresponsible parents who are no doubt snoozing somewhere across town. just had the unfortunate displeasure of hearing your children discuss their sexual habits in loud drunken voices at the bottom of my garden.

[Jah Lush]

Instead of complaining on here go and complain to them.

[bawdy-nan]

I don't fancy it and not sure I'd get anywhere. I'll go and meet their parents tomorrow when the steam's stopped coming out of my ears. Why shouldn't I complain on here? Perhaps their parents read it - or perhaps the parents of these teens do?

very glad mine are not yet quite so rowdy ... Yet, I assume. Though I'm picking up lots of tips about what to talk to my kids about (deluding myself I guess about my parental influence).

[EDmummy]

My rule of thumb is if it's very occassional or, probably in this instance, kids celebrating the end of their exams, then it's best to not let it worry you. If it was constant or on a regular basis, then I would think it's worth complaining. Let them be teenagers, I'm sure you were one once.

[bawdy-nan]

I don't mind teenagers letting off steam and I don't really mind annoyingly loud parties just not midweek. I'm not annoyed with them: unreasonable and inconsiderate is their wont, especially post exam. I am annoyed with the parents who obviously decided that it was perfectly acceptable to let their kids have a party that went on well after midnight and outside mid-week. That really is not ok and its very un-neighbourly. Why not do it on a Friday or Saturday night - or at least be in the house to shepherd the hormone addled poppets indoors at a reasonable hour.

Not especially keen on the example set by the very drunk teenage girl who was bragging - very loudly and very explicitly - to a group of boys about how many times she'd shagged her boyfriend that day with rather a lot of unsavoury detail. Felt a motherly urge to intervene on that one. But didn't.

[Jeremy]

Agree that outisde, after midnight, and midweek is not OK even as a one-off.

[KidKruger]

shame you couldn't record the girl and give her parents a copy on CD.

[EDmummy]

I think my parental instinct might have kicked in too and I would have told her to have some self respect (and thrown over a king size box of condoms 😉. I like KidKrugers' idea of recording it!

bawdy-nan Wrote:

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> I don't mind teenagers letting off steam and I

> don't really mind annoyingly loud parties just not

> midweek. I'm not annoyed with them: unreasonable

> and inconsiderate is their wont, especially post

> exam. I am annoyed with the parents who obviously

> decided that it was perfectly acceptable to let

> their kids have a party that went on well after

> midnight and outside mid-week. That really is not

> ok and its very un-neighbourly. Why not do it on a

> Friday or Saturday night - or at least be in the

> house to shepherd the hormone addled poppets

> indoors at a reasonable hour.

>

> Not especially keen on the example set by the very

> drunk teenage girl who was bragging - very loudly

> and very explicitly - to a group of boys about how

> many times she'd shagged her boyfriend that day

> with rather a lot of unsavoury detail. Felt a

> motherly urge to intervene on that one. But

> didn't.

[LadyDeliah]

What part of the teenage girl's behaviour indicated she had no self-respect?

[LondonMix]

Agree with LadyD. A teenage girl can enjoy sex and have a lot of it with her partner without there being an issue of self-respect.

Are you saying she should be more private / less crass?

[vesti]

...I think the party's over now.

[KrackersMaracas]

Yes, a girl can enjoy sex with her partner and have a lot of it whilst still having self respect.

Perhaps what bawdy-nan was referring to is the increased objectification of girls and women - and there is a perception that women should be judged on their sexual value. Hence the girl may have felt that the way in which she could best impress her male audience would be to tell them how much sex she was capable of having in one day and how.

Perhaps this is the reference to self respect - you should know you are more than a sex object.

[LadyDeliah]

Lol, more than?

Sex object plus. Cool.

[bawdy-nan]

yup

[JohnL]

We used to have our post exam parties on the beach - or miles away from civilization :).

Suppose that's a no no now.