Ahhhh yes – Park Slope, Brooklyn. The place where smug, identical, inbred-looking, upper class yups come from around the country to breed and impress each other while skipping around the “nabe” with bags of expensive groceries and microbrews. Also, Park Slope is the place where many North Brooklyn hipsters graduate to after transplanting from fly-over state suburban settings to Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick a long, long, long 7 years ago to teach us pre-historic and uncultured New Yorkers what music, coffee, alcohol, art and food is.
Link: NEW YORK POST – Park Slope Yups to ban Ice Cream from parks.
Not an April Fools joke – the NY Post reports today that a number of Park Slope parents are joining forces to prevent ice cream and icee vendors - a Brooklyn staple – from selling their products in Prospect Park; making statements like:
“I should not have to fight with my children every warm day on the playground just so someone can make a living!”
These extremely irritating Park Slope parents are horrible parents. If not being raised by a nanny, their infants and toddlers are confined to their Strollersaurus Rex, or some snot and Cheerios play center or sitting and screaming in a some smug bar so Mommy or Daddy can get their drink on and discuss the happenings in “their” new community. By the time the kids are around 4 or 5 and are unleashed on society, like a park, they have no idea how to control themselves. They will not take no for an answer. Instead of teaching their kids, basically from the time they are able to walk and get their hands into things – that you can’t always get what you want or you have to earn rewards, the kid ends up feeling entitled. This sense of entitlement lasts until about 40 when they are still asking their parents for ”ice cream”, a metaphor for rent at this point.
I am over 50 and I have observed this cultural phenomenon/abnormality for a while, now. It is a cultural sickness; it is pathological. It is the bane (Old English for death) of American culture and society.
Modern American culture has now, unfortunately, become the basest form of narcissism. I do not have cable. I have access to Russian, French, German, Arabic, and, God forbid, Iranian TV news networks via the internet/IPTV. When you can see how the whole rest of the planet sees things, and then compare it to the corporate/government contrived shyt media that we in the U.S. are fed, American media is shown for what it is: a shill for the corporate powers that be.
It is no wonder that this “Hipster” faux-culture has come to be. We have reality TV, and the Hipsters are just the logical extension of the American media culture that wants to pull its pants down in the public square to get a pimp-ass dollar.
Why? Because entitled Mommy and Daddy have said that it is ok to do so, and nobody should say mean things to you because we live in an insulated, special world where precious little sissy can do or say whatever he/she/it wants, and they will always be protected.
Now comes the next holocaust/industrial wasteland/shytStorm. Little baby-fucks, don’t you wish you were hardened? Don’t you wish you knew how to duck and dodge and come back with a middle fore-fist blow to the solar plexus? What, you never learnt fighting skills? Sucks to be you, hipster, when the shit hits… oh yeah, it will hit and it’s gonna get F’ugly.
I’m glad I know how to handle every kind of civilian and military issue small arm, including the LAW, 40mm grenade launcher, M-16, M-60, 10, 12, 20 ga shotguns, 22, 222, 30-06 rifle, .380, 9mm,45, handguns, and I can throw a grenade. I can fire and maneuver. I can sleep in the mud, the cold mud, And I can issue forth with a Seiken Chudan-Tsuki…
Question: Hipster, when the shit hits (and IT WILL), what you gonna do? Mommy and Daddy are long gone. You will just be one of the bodies over which I have to step to get to the radioactive squirrel that I need to capture for dinner.
Hipster, any advice? Welcome to the suck, hipster (with a lower-case ‘h’)… Welcome to the mother fucking suck…
+ 1
Oh, and props/congrats for being prepared for the inevitable shit storm.
+2 These little cocksuckers think communism and socialism are great. They’re not old enough to remember the likes of Kruschev, Pol Pot, and a host of other despots of modern times. With that said…
I read this article with disdain. Once again, I can’t parent, so someone else has to do it for me. Go to familt court and you will see these same shitheads with out of control teens…teens who need nothing more than the swift boot in the ass they should have gotten when they were younger but Buffy was fearful for their “self esteem.” I got a foot up my ass when I fucked up, and my self esteem was just fine. These people equal the pussifying of America. No wonder the shithead in the white house got in. Real people never would have put an asshat like him in!
EXCELLENT!! Very well written…
I’ll bet Caleb and Megan were creaming their jeans when the Hipster-in-Chief said that their parents will still be able to carry them on their health insurance till age 26.
worse yet, these weaklings make it harder for the rest of us that want to be prepared for anything. I live in Canada and because of generations of whiny and vocal bitches, it’s hard to get a hold of firearms and to practice with them. I practice hand to hand, knives, and swords. But I can’t legally obtain many firearms.
This is relevant to disciplining children how, exactly? Do you pistol-whip them when they whine for ice cream?
One more thing… the only thing dumber than an unplanned pregnancy is a planned pregnancy. Baby boy/girl gonna thank you for leaving it to grow up in industrial shithole c.2020.
That’s one reason I’m glad I’m not married or have any children. My father tells me I’m pessimistic and I have to hold my peace because no amount of explaining or point to the “writing on the wall” will make him see things my way.
At least let ‘em eat ice cream while they die…
Check out the awesome comments to that story by a woman named Conchita Vecchio. I let her know about this site, which I know she’d appreciate…
“When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.” – Robert Evans
I can’t believe the audacity of these yupster pieces of shit. It’s even more disturbing when you consider how their kids will turn out. It also shows what kind of people raised these hipsters.
Here you see the results of the child-centered and “all about my wants” Park Slope society in a nutshell (or is that nut case?): I don’t want little Atticus and Morwenna to have ice cream so therefore no one else’s kid should be able to have ice cream either.
Well f#ck you, b!tch. You don’t want to have to worry about someone trying to make a living? Eat sh!t and die, OK?
Here’s a bulletin from the real world: NO ONE CARES what you want, OK?
I hear you. The pussification of America is in full-effect.
LOL Love this story. I started blogging about this nonsense too but saw this blog before I could finish. the parents would have zero complaints if the vendors looked like 18th century farmers (White of course) with cool beards selling Sustainable Artisanal Yeee Olde Breuklyyn fair trade Iced Creamme. God forbid their precious Ethan is exposed to Peruvians selling uncultured I-talian Icees.
Despicable.
This guy says, “White people, please beat your kids.” : )
Who are you to ban ice cream? Control your kids, any you won’t have to fight with them
Yup. Some families need to re-acquaint themselves and their kids with the verb “to spank”.
No shit! Those little brats need a few beatings.
Forget the kids. The parents need a few pops in the mouth first. (I regularly watch what I like to call the Helicopter Parent Clothesline, where Trophy Mom insists that all five of her little spawn hold hands and march across crowded parade grounds and mall spaces. If they end up blocking whole lanes, and people get caught during the Lemming March to the Sea, Trophy Mom starts screaming about “watching the children”. No, Trophy Mom, it’s all about watching you, as your kids are your one way of pretending that you’ll matter once your MBA husband finds a new 22-year-old and dumps your surgically-augmented ass.)
Seriously, who argues with a little kid? It’s not even worth getting angry at them over anything.
A 30-year-old little kid argues with a little kid.
Right! I’m sorry, for the $2 a day it costs my 2 kids to have an icee at the park, go for it! We eat super healthy year round and they work so hard with school and afterschool activities, summer is about sticky goodness. No arguments here.
When screaming little monsters of indulgent parents get near me, I ask indulgent parents, “don’t you have a freezer for that”?
I use “put them on a leash.”
Whats funny is that these are the same yuppie helicopter parents who wants little ethan and noah and skyler to drink babyccinos. they should go by ice cream from whole foods and just shut up.
The squirrel speaks the truth! (Okay the guy behind the character).
It’s not our responsibility to monitor their overdeveloped cum shot of a child…
Again, I have to point to George Carlin’s rant about child worship.
His reference to “those yuppie cocksuckers with their Baby on Board stickers.” CLASSIC!
I remember when those baby on board stickers came out in the early 80′s. Oh, your spawn is so precious that you have to tell us about it so we’ll drive real nice and safe around you, you arrogant fucks. How about maybe now that you’ve alerted us, we deliberately aim for you?
These are both awesome!
Park Slope – home of the 7th place trophy.
I swear, the whole fucking town would shut down if they discovered that their kids participated in a kickball game where they kept score, and the winning team was given a prize. Parents wouldn’t go to work, they’d hold emergency meetings the next day to find out how such a thing happened in their once safe community. Then they’d bring all the kids to the park and replay the game with no scoring, and every time a kid made an out, all the patents would swarm around him and smother him in praise.
Therapists would be on hand for any of the little Noahs that were scarred by the previous day – and of course therapists for the parents.
HAAHAHAHAAHAhahahahahaha!!!
Hilarious…. but brings sadness and anger knowing the truth behind it and how these yuppie interlopers destroyed our neighborhoods.
That was my life as a kid – if your youth baseball team won, the coach took you out for ice cream – whether you were a benchwarmer or the star.
Likewise, if you lost, you didn’t get ice cream unless your parents or you paid for it.
Competitiveness, team-building, *and* “unhealthy” treats? Three strikes on the helicopter parents…
Unrreal. I believe in free commerce for all as long as no one gets hurt. But come on?Really? Are we gonna force the kids to eat artisnal vegan organic ice cream & soy cultured yogurt?
I dont mind the fly overstate-suburban yup invaders bringing their zanniness and commerce9considering I am one of them) but this Maoist mentality is getting out of hand.
You’re just a self-loathing piece of shit – the reason you come to this site. Why would you want more and more and more out of state invaders to come? To make NY not NY? I don’t get it.
cause its funny!
Fuck you, asshat. Go home.
You find the fact that these fucking idiots overpay and overcharge for everything, freeload and do nothing for society or to even better themselves funny? You find the fact that they want everyone to bend to their rules funny? Do you not understand that the people of Brooklyn, of this entire city did not want your midwestern culture and did not ask for you to shove it down our throats? Aside from your fellow bearded fools, the only idiots that like you are Moneybags Bloomberg and the nutty bike commissioner. Zaniness and commerce? You kick out businesses that have been established for years because they aren’t “organic” enough for you or because they aren’t midwestern. Then you open up shops serving $10 chocolate bars and authentic condiments. Who the fuck but you idiots would buy that shit? You won’t shop at supermarkets because they don’t meet your ridiculously egotistic high standards. Now you fucking idiots can’t control your own brats because you spoil them rotten so now a long running standard that has been all over Brooklyn for years is in your crosshairs. DONT LIKE IT, PACK UP YOUR SHIT AND GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE. NOBODY ASKED YOU TO COME HERE. If your only rationale now for destroying our city is because it’s funny, go back to junior high school where you belong.
HERRO STEVIE!!!
Do you even know what Maoist is or who it is even named after?
That $160,000 is finally paying off! Keep up the amazing analysis Poseur!
my bad, meant to say that $160,000 lib arts degree is finally paying off!
A shame when you have parents like that in the near future their kids are going to think that they are better than people, next thing you know it its going to become an ethnic problem. Park slope is nothing but sugar coated up coming prejudice to others and the tradition to this city. The upper east side isn’t this stupid.
I suppose there is an opportunity here. What could you peddle, at an extraordinary markup, to these idiot parents? I’m sure if it was breast-milk Mast Brothers Chocolate Ice-Cream they would have to problem. Lets turn it around and get a Whole-Foods, Artisinal, locally-sustainable, gluten-free, Brooklyn Honey-Bee flavored unsweetened product out there! And they they will figure out it taste like crap. Fraid these parents are going to lose. These guys have permits and the permits generate income.
They have Mast Brother’s with Breat Milk?
I heard this on the news last night, and knew you’d jump all over it. My comment to my wife was something along the lines of, “If their kids are getting all out of control over the ice cream man, it’s not his fault. It’s just bad parenting.” I’m glad so many others agree.
It is unreal – they are so afraid to shatter their precious Noah’s spirit by having to tell him no, so since they are so fucking weak as parents, they have to chase out the vendors. You know, cause everyone else who might like some Italian Ices in the park has to suffer because these fucking pussies don’t know how to act like an adult and tell their kid no.
How is it that children are now so fucking delicate? When I was a kid, if my parents told me no, then I and my brother and sister shut our mouths because we knew what would happen if we didn’t. We absolutely did not disobey, we did not argue. “No” was not in our vocabulary – that word was reserved for use by mom and dad. Nowadays, my dad would get locked up for child abuse for taking the belt to me if I misbehaved.
Oh, and we didn’t have bicycle helmets, there were no seatbelt laws and the dashboards were made of steel. Guess what, I somehow survived.
I think you make a good point about bicycle helmets – the fact that they are mandatory really sends the message now that kids are too delicate and special to leave the house without a protective bubble. The kids know nothing else, and so grow up feeling as if they are a delicate snowflake to be coddled and protected at all costs.
Bicycle helmets are mandatory?
where is this?
My kid won’t be wearing one, unless they are jumping from ramps or cliffs.
But why should parents take responsibility? It’s the big bad ice cream man that is responsible not bad parenting that let their spoiled brats have everything they want.
Oh, I don’t know. You’re right. They probably don’t take responsibility for much else either. They’re probably the same people who don’t get up for the pregnant or elderly on the subway because THEY are so tired from watching their own kids run around the bar Sunday afternoon…
What about mast brother chocolate?
I read about this last year. A lot of the moms were getting their hemp panties in a twist over the vendors. One complained about an ice cream truck blowing exhaust fumes on her precious little hellspawn. Well then – ummm…hgow about moving your stroller?
Something tells me that if the vendors populating Prospect park were douchey gelato vendors wearing 1930’s soda jerk uniforms and hawking bacon peanut butter brittle chai sorbet from a penny farhty cart instead of Mr. Softee licensees things would be altogether different.
Or maybe..just maybe…if they weren’t so anal about their kids’ diet and let them enjoy a bit of junkfood now and then they wouldn’t be screaming their lungs out every time they see or hear an ice cram truck.
What kind of fvcking idiot stands next to an exhaust pipe and complains about fumes? What country are these uptight harridians from?
Well, a bunch of friendly(white) retro artisans rolling reclaimed(stolen) shopping carts full of frozen treats(breastmilk popsicles) probably would put their minds at ease. After all, those regular Brooklyn vendors can be so (shudder) *ethnic*.
I know the yuppie hipster uterus is chock-full of granola and wisdom, but it needs to realize that vegan wheatgrass ice cream just doesn’t cut it as a ‘treat.’ Sometimes you just need a goddamn Fudgsicle.
“sometimes you just need a goddamn Fudgsicle.”
Quote of the friggin’ year!! Somebody needs to turn that into a bumper sticker, and start pasting it all over the double- and triple-wide strollers that these fucking helicopter parents use to roll their 5-year-old pwecious snowfwakes around in (“because Mirabella and Jasper can’t be expected to *walk* in the *sun*!!”)
I know, just give the kids a damn ice cream!
Or say NO.
There is no reason to ban ice cream, just because they cannot control their brats, and can’t stand the kids eating normal snacks.
I dunno. Maybe it’s parenting skills ingrained in me by immigrant parents and grandparents. Or maybe we’re lucky. But my kid is nine years old. He learned the meaning of the word “NO”
when he was an infant. No “time outs”. Just a simple “NO”. The difference is if we get a “why not?” in response we usually follow with an explanation – no money, we’re going home for lunch. etc.
My experience from dealing with the Adderall basted yard monkeys of other parents is:
THEY’RE KIDS. LET THEM BE KIDS. LET THEM GET SCRAPES AND BUMPS. LET THEM INDULGE/OVER INDULGE NOW AND THEN. The kids go apesh*t because every time they see or hear the ice cream vendor it’s their only shot at getting a treat – much like the frantic desperation of shipwrecked folks signalling to the only ship seen in months.So when they come over for playdates (oh I hate that term. They kids aren’t allowed carbs, processed foods, nuts, sweets. many times parents drop snacks off with their kids.
We have a huge pull out cabinet full of candy and cookies. Normally there are three kinds of ice cream in the freezer. My son NEVER helped himself. He always asks. If he had too much that day we offer fruit. No complaints.
Whatever happened to the days when your dad would come up to you a couple of times a week and say, “c’mon let’s go get a cone”. My dad STILL does that. My sisters are just as uptight as these Park Slope yups. But when my parents are babysitting, dad rules the roost and the kids now what to expect: Cheeseburgers,fries, soda and ice cream at Friendly’s. Followed by Hershey’s Kisses.
I sincerely believe that all the “allergies” that kids today have are due to anal retentive parents
who don’t give their kids a a full spectrum of different foods.
That’s right – SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED A GODD*MN FUDGSICLE.
That sums it up. People blame it on city life but a long time ago we didn’t have all this sterilization nonsense that kids are subjected to these days yet many grew up fine. Hypo allergenic, overuse of antibiotics and antibacterial stuff, keeping kids inside and away from the sun, etc. have made them weaker and even sickly once they get out into the world. Then there’s the damn psychologists pushing medication because a child is behaving as a child but instead the “doctor” says it’s defect of some sort. (I feel many if not most psychologists today are egotistical fuckwads).
Awesome post. Eloquently put! “…doing cartwheels, cash in hand.” LMFAO!
Here’s a list of songs I rattled off to the Beardo McTattoo at the local Hipster CD store:
“Dueling Cankles” by The Drunken Meghans
“Two pump Barista” by Post Modern Majorettes
“Brooklyn Oh Brooklyn” by The Transgendered Lebanese Choir
“My Dealer Takes Amex” by Reclaimed Lumber Barons
“99 P*ss Balloons” by Mustache Wax and The Centurions
“Homey Took My I-Phone – Again” by the Suburban Fluffers
“My Boyfriend Cries A lot” “by Uber Skank
“I Need More D-Cells” by Mutant Carrot
“Bike Lane To The Danger Zone by “ by ATM Riot
“The Giving Tree” A dramatic Reading by Larry Bud Melman
“My Asian Girlfriend” by Banana Seat Bromance
Haha. Fantastic…Was just rocking out to “I Asked for Lactose-Free” by The Steve Jobbers
Bike Lane to the Danger Zone
LOL! Genius.
There’s some paranoid idiot in the comments complaining that the ice cream trucks are “very aggressive” and come around every 5 minutes. Pretty soon the rumor mill will have it that the Mr. Softee truck operators are force-feeding the kids Bomb Pops, because Mr. Softee is sooooo scary and threatening.
It wouldn’t be an issue if it were Whole Foods vegan Mast Brothers breast milk chocolate lactose free ice cream at $20 each now, would it? With Kyle and Josh’s post modern emo jug band instead of the Mister Softee Pop Goes The Weasel theme.
Those hyper paranoid shit-faces are the same people who feed their kids kale chips. Ughhh
of course not! it’s an all out culture war with these people. the sad thing is they base their lives around cultural artifacts such as overpriced artisinal ice cream, when in fact for kids (and most sane adults) it’s just.fucking.ice cream on a hot day in a park! and yes they would love nothing more if the only vendors in the park were selling their overpriced artisinal shitcones because deep down inside they want to change the demographics of the neighborhoods they want to destroy, the same neighborhoods whose diversity they supposedly cherish. blatant, outright, 100% bullshit on their part. a 2 dollar ice cream cone on a hot day is just too low brow, so yeah let’s get rid of all of “those” vendors and let molly and ethan in with their brand new 200,000 food truck and ever so highly refined culinary tastes (even tho they were just mainlining sunny D a few years ago)
and you know what??!?! if you dont want those vendors in your precious parks, then i dont want your precious crotchfruit in my locals bars and restaurants. deal!?
*rob*
“if you dont want those vendors in your precious parks, then i dont want your precious crotchfruit in my locals bars and restaurants. deal!?”
YES. FUCK YES. Our bars are NOT Gymborees for yuppie baby crotch droppings. And NO I’m NOT going to censor my language for their precious unique individual snowflakes, so they’ll have to GET OVER IT or get a babysitter and leave the screaming brats at home.
Crotchfruit and crotch droppings – that’s what it is. Stop leaving your sex-mistakes… The planet has enough mishegas. Stop already!
Yea, what is up with this shitster habit of bringing Joshua, Seth and Zoe into a bar? If an African American or Hispanic did that they would be brought up on charges of child endangerment. Where is BCW when you need them?
These brats do grow up with a sense of entitlement. I have neighbors with kids that don’t even look your way when they pass you on the street (except when they want to retrieve a package that was delivered to your house-because you resemble a nanny, house cleaner and dog walker). In my day, my parents would have given me a real sense of entitlement if I did that…five fingers across the mouth!!!!!
maybe if these dumb fucks set limitations on their bratty fucking kids in the first place they wouldn’t have this problem. when i was a kid, if i threw a temper tantrum like i see kids nowadays do, my mother would end my life as i knew it.
Brooklyn, Park Slope included, used to be a nice friendly place. These people, their parents (my overeducated, overactivated, overmedicated 60s generation) AND these obnoxious children have ruined much of it. A gradual “generational / class cleansing” is probably underway even now. Grammy and Grampy or on their way to the local sustainable compost heap or Alzheimertorium. Their children might eventually decide the stress of ice cream vendors and other purveyors of poison is just not worth it anymore and start moving to quaint Hudson Valley towns taking their hell spawn with them. Rosemary’s Baby was not nearly as bad and he had the devil for a father. For further developments please monitor such blogs as Fuck Me For Asking in Park Slope and other gentified sites.
http://pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com/2012/02/real-reason-for-sweet-melissas-closing.html
The Real Reason for Sweet Melissa’s Closing. – Been in business since 1998 (that’s 14 years ago now) and seized by the landlord for non-payment of rent.
Plus, the comments make a big deal about the Italian names of the landlords – Italians = Greed. Italians don’t like hipsters. It’s all a big conspiracy.
Can’t wait to see what opens in it’s place. Whatever it is it will be yupster and over-priced. Already too many children’s bookstores, children’s toy stores and children’s food stores. Coffee and cupcakes have been done to death. Can’t imagine……..but I know I will be disapointed
MANDATORY birth control for all hip/yups. If that’s too much work for them, there’s always forced sterilization. After all, they don’t want to overpopulate Gaea (Gaia ??), right?
I’d love to see their reaction if a Baby Gap or Kids R Us opened up there. They claim to hate Corporate America, and corporate stores so much, but you know all those clueless hypocrites will shop there anyway.
I’d contribute to the diversity of the neighborhood open a methadone clinic. Then we’ll see how tolerant, loving and understanding these people are.
BTW- I keep forgettiong to order from D’Amicos.
You are absolutely right! Just like the unemployed Occupy Wall Street protesters that rail against greedy corporations and then jump on their iPhones, iPads, iPods an other assorted iShit while drinking frappashitoes, But making Apple and Starbucks richer doesn’t count, right? Oh, don’t forget that the idiot-electronics are made by little children in China! Where is Angelina Jolie when you need her?
If it is true that “Ignorance is bliss.”,then Katia and her Klown Kommenters are living in a state of Perpetual Ecstasy. The site reeks of phoniness and political correctness, two hallmarks of the gentry, who always deny that they are gentry, just like hipsters deny they are hipsters.It’s always those who come after they themselves arrived that are the gentrifiers and rent raisers. They are simply innocent lovers of Brownstone Brooklyn and Olde New York. (See Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York if you need confirmation.) I ususally avoid “Pardon” but sometimes it’s good to know what the enemy is up to. And make no mistake about it. This is WAR. The funny, or is it ironic, thing is that it is the gentry’s very success that will be their eventual undoing.
And I thought the ban on Happy Meal toys here in San Francisco was the dumbest thing I heard.
Also, local Occupy movement seems to be picking a fight with the Catholic Church: http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/3553/occupysf-occupies-vacant-building-owned-by-catholic-church/
http://sfist.com/2012/04/01/occupysf_takes_over_vacant_building.php
http://twitchy.com/2012/04/02/occupy-san-francisco-occupies-unoccupied-building-catholic-private-property-owners-provide-aid/
In my opinion, a real food bank doesn’t ask for beer
I wish to hell I could sit around and do nothing but prance around in asshat clothing all day…but I have TWO fucking jobs to make ends meet. Fucking wastes of oxygen.
I have noticed that many shitster cafes are tres crowded in the middle of the day. Nice to be a trust fund baby!
From another article – a-hole cyclist runs over and kills pedestrian…. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/05/BA9O1NVHMI.DTL
Everyone has already commented on my first thought — that maybe these parents should actually PARENT and teach their kids some disipline, manners, and respect, so I’ll move right along to my second thought:
I’m going to start circulating a petition banning all yups from using all parks. Anywhere. Anytime. It’s not the italian ice vendor’s fault that your kid is uncontrolable. I don’t want to listen to you argue with your kids anymore than you do. Grow a pair. Or give your kids up for adoption. Either way, leave the parks for the kids and parents who know how to use them.
Yes, and while we’re at it, a petition for kid-free zones for adults to hang out in. Oh wait, used to have them – they were called bars.
Ah, shit, that reminds me of a horrible time I had in a bar over on Vanderbilt Ave. Cheap beer, decent food, good friends… and then some rugrat comes running through like it’s the local playground. Suddenly, I’m being told to watch my language.
Well, excuse me, yuppie bitch, but this is an establishment for drinking, because some of us who have jobs needs to let some steam off. If you want to inflict your spawn on an unsuspecting world, there’s plenty of more acceptable places to do so. In fact, why don’t you tell your progeny to chase the pins at the local bowling alley? That’ll be fun for the whole family.
EXACTLY! they fucking move into the city and then get pissy cuz there’s chuck e. cheeses around. wtf? way to ruin for everyone.
*rob*
i mean they get pissy cuz there are NO chuck e. cheeses around.
*rob*
There is a Chuck E Cheese in the Flushing mall, FYI
OMG Thank You!!!
There’s a freaking beer garden near my job and EVERY TIME I pass it there’s a bunch of people including these assholes with kids with them. What the fuck kind of parent are you to go drinking at a bar with your kids in tow? And then you wonder why Zoey and Abner end up being alcoholics by the time they’re 14?
I remember one time I came home at 15 with beer on my breath from a hooky party and my older brother nearly choked me to death and my father slapped me.
We were disciplined, and we feared our parents and we were better off for it. We were taught to fend for ourselves and were forced to grow up fast. These parents don’t know what the fuck discipline is and these kids will NEVER fear their parents. And this is why you see this bullshit going on. (But according to them, our parents were barbaric, whatever!)
That’s the key, discipline and a healthy (emphasis on healthy) fear of the reprobation of parents and family. This country has come to believe that children are some sort of sacred being that should be treated like each one is the second coming, like some sort of sacred relic to be venerated and coddled in perpetuity.
These yupster fucks think that they have created some special, unique work of art by squirting a blob of protein into a world that has no use for it and/or their self indulgent, narcissistic parents. The old testament should be revised to say that, in the age of iron birds and horses with wheels, the lovers of self begat lovers of self and thus begat the end of mankind.
They need my grandmother. An old school, Puerto Rican woman who doesn’t take shit from anyone to discipline them. Hell, my grandmother would still slap me upside my head even now if I threw a tantrum or showed disrespect. And you would get an ass whopping with the nearest object, whether it was a fly swatter or a chancleta. (slipper to the non Spanish).
If you acted up in my family, any one of the adults would put you in your place, from my mother, my father, my aunt, uncle or grandparents. That’s how it was, you respected your elders.
While I realize the whole psychosis of trying to build a child’s self esteem, these people take it to another level. Kids need to know they’re not going to be good at everything. The main thing of trying different things is to find out what you are truly good at it and makes you happy and go with it. Instead, all of these sheeple go for the same degrees, work in the same jobs and fields, and then think they’re great at it but really they suck at it. Why? Because mommy and daddy don’t know how to tell them that maybe art isn’t your thing and you should pursue something else instead.
My dad and mom would take the belt to me and my brother and sister when we got ill. We hated to hear the sound of the kitchen junk drawer where the belt was stored. Back then it wasn’t child abuse, it was just how it was. Shit, there just has to be some limits. And these yuppy-ass parents don’t want to hear kids beg for ice cream? Yo, that’s what kids do. So now you are too afraid to tell a toddler no because you afraid you will damage it, so you want to ban ice cream vendors? How fucked up is that?
I think some fake-ass parents need to get the belt.
LMAO!
OMG and it needs to be put on You Tube!!
Actually I bet they would like to be spanked. Would probably turn them on in some twisted fucked up way.
That’s the problem: nowadays it would be twisted F’uped way. Best TV show about how the world used to was is “Mad Men” on AMC.
Seriously, why does IE9 take so long to execute JavaScript? The comment textbox is sclerotic.
Try Firefox.
Hysterical, “chancleta”…I love it. Yea, all those adults were disciplinarians but you forgot to add nosy neighbors. We thought they were nosy but they were our guardians as well. They taught us to behave when we were out of eye/ear shot of our family members! And guess what? We all turned out fine! I miss my Brooklyn of old. I can’t stand living here anymore!!!
I admit, I would take my kid to a bar if it was early enough, like 7 or 8pm at the latest. (DS is 19 months). He knows how to be quiet. IF he was naughty (ie, loud) I would remove him, asap, I would never let him be disruptive in public.
I wouldn’t do it because its trendy, but because we can’t afford a babysitter and sometimes want to go out for a drink. Unlike the rich yups that are just helicopter parents with bratty kids, who think the world revolves around them.
Oh, and I don’t expect people to censor themselves around my kid. He needs to learn that adults get to do and say things that kids cannot. Only assholes take their kids to an adult place and expect all adults to bow to them.
I admit I’ve come across kids in bars for quite some time, but most of the time the kid’s sitting quietly in the corner and more often than not simply listening in to the conversation his father’s having with whomever. But that’s just it: He’s looking to his father for guidance, and he’s being quiet in the meantime. That kid is doing a very good job at not being my problem, and it really is an understanding that “these are places for adults and these are adult conversations.”
Alas, you need to BE an adult to have an adult conversation, which is probably where these yuppies go wrong.
I am not sure if you are joking (Park Slope humor?) but somehow you are missing the point! Listen to yourself…taking a kid to a BAR! That is not acceptable under any circumstances, baby sitter problems or not. That clearly shows that you suffer from a sense of entitlement. If you can’t get out for a drink that’s too bad. It’s called sacrificing for your child!!! That is what good parenting is all about. You can always go some other time. Drinking even one still can make you impaired. So what you’re not driving. I have seen parents look a little tipsy and while walking home they were lacking a bit of judgement and put their stroller a little too far into the street putting little Abner in the way of an oncoming car. THAT IS NOT COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bring in the universal draft. EVERYBODY goes – NO exceptions. They’ll either be issued balls or die.
SHHHHHH!!!
Are secret is out.
Mast Brothers chocolate is baby turd from Park Slope children.
a while back i was in line at the supermarket (regular old associated, nothing fancy..) it WAS in park slope however. this kid had candy in his hand he picked up from near the register and was whining like a little bitch for it and his mom kept saying “but you know the kinds of people who eat that.” “you KNOW what kinds of people who eat those” more whining from the kid “but honey you are not the kind of person who eats that.” more whining “we’ve discussed the kind of people who eat that!” i was like wtf!? you cant just say NO and move on, instead your causing a scene and holding people up in line? i was so tempted to take the whole box of that candy and dump it on the conveyer belt and be like IM THE KIND OF PERSON WHO EATS THAT!!!!
*rob*
Humans eat candy. These yups and their mutant spawn must not be human.
You can see how just how badly we are screwed by how differenty kids act in supermarkets these days. My grandmother would take me along to the Waldbaums on Ocean Ave., and she’d say “ok, you can pick out one goodie you want”. I would pick out something, and then I’d see something else, and I’d ask if I could get that too. The answer was always “decide which one you’d rather have and put it in the cart – go return the other one to the shelf”. If I kept it up, she’d say “if you bring it up again, you get neither one”. I gotta tell ya, it was pretty fucking effective.
These days, little Parker and Noah get anything they like, and can even make a tantrum filled scene in the supermarket, because ‘like yah, we wan’t him to feel free to express himself’.
“Parenting” I don’t even like the sound of the word. My mother and father told us what to do and we did it. Period. And we got candy or ice cream or soda rarely, as a treat. And we didn’t get it because we asked for it, we got it because they decided to give it to us. And God help us if we made a scene in public. The most feared phrase from my mother was, “wait ’til your father gets home.” There was no “parenting”, there was discipline and good behaviour. This country is becoming a nation of world-class pussies.
the funniest shit i EVER heard once was “parenting is a two was street” ummm :-/
*rob*
“parenting is a two way street”
*rob*
oh yeah ive seen the whole but i want this one AND this one wah wah wah. i mean definitely, most kids will pull that shit once or twice (who wouldnt), but i am sure this is an ongoing thing. these parents are more concerned about their 3 years old french language immersion class grades than basic concepts that kids are supposed to learn at that age, you know things that actually MEAN something for human development. but who cares right? talulah’s three and already knows over 100 french words! what does it matter if her basic impulses are not controlled early on! which will get her into the best pre school first!?
*rob*
Lol talulah
I WISH Cancer on the children of Park Slope.
That’s just wrong.
Maybe it’s a case of “We don’t want to attract the kind of people who like Mr. Softee” elitist yupster bullshit? Not just a case of food facism?
I hate this shit. Parents banning stuff instead of being A FUCKING PARENT.
Disgusting. The more I read articles like this, the more I’m glad I live in Queens.
Unfortunately they are slowly making their way to Queens. Mostly in hispanic and asian neighborhoods.
They’re slowly taking over flushing last time I was there.
When Corona and Elmhurst get invaded, it’s gonna be a sad fucking day
I’m a Texan who now lives in Elmhurst. I will shit twice and die if those idjuts come to this neighborhood. It’s bad enough they’ve infested Astoria, they can leave the rest of Queens well enough alone!!
I was looking into moving to Texas, but if I can’t land a job out there, I may end up moving to Jackson Heights. Lord knows that area is not getting gentrified anytime soon.
Avoid TX, it sucks.
Really. and the weather is brutal about 9 mo this a year.
Texas has brutal weather, huge flying roaches, and you have to drive. It’s also cheaper and no state income tax. Some people love it; I love to be from there, but was glad to leave. There are a few hipsters/yuppies in Jackson Heights – I call ‘em the Brooklyn overflow. They get priced out of Brooklyn, they come to Queens. They hang at Espresso 77 with their Macbooks, and you can also buy totebags there extolling the virtues of Queens – because God knows living there is not enough, you have to tell your fellow hip/yupsters it’s the new frontier. Shit, sometimes I’m ashamed to be white.
They’re cropping up in Sunnyside…
Long Island City is gone, too. I think Woodside is next.
Oh well, time to look into Jamaica!
Have you ever heard of a little hamlet named Astoria?
But artisanal zero fat cruelty-free soy icecream with sustainable dingleberries sourced from
Farmer Caleb’s butt…no problem.
That’s Mast Bros chocolate beans. Organically-sourced, all-natural, no additives, cruelty-free.
Now you know why it’s $10 a bar. Rare ingredients.
Mast Bros should market their own version of Ex-Lax. That was an original Brooklyn product. Their headquarters on Atlantic Avenue are condos now but the massive building was once painted a tasty shade of chocolate.
I’m all for making the world a better place, including in terms of what and how we eat. That being said, this is just ridiculous. A little ice cream never hurt anyone and if these people don’t want their kids eating it then they should simply not take part in it. I hate it when people act like no one elses opinion matters.
Is this the same area that wanted to ban Mister Softee trucks a couple years ago?
This is very deja vu.
yes. actually i think it was lower manhattan, but they are all cut from the same cloth.
*rob*
We have pockets of this redonkuliosness in Florida. Thankfully it’s separate, the ones with breedlings are meat and potatoes post-white trash yuppies. Our hipsters are young scooter-rocking waifs who are still worth a shit in a fight….in large numbers that is.
Once again, the kids aren’t the problem. It’s their fucking parents. I’m desperately sick and tired of yup and hipster parents who use their children as human shields so they can get what they want. If the proprietor of a glass shop asks if Dionea will please not try to bulldoze her stroller for twins down an aisle too narrow for it, Dionea loses her shit. Matt wants to take his kids to the bar because he’s too lazy and entitled to get a babysitter, but the moment anybody says or does anything that might offend his little sensibilities, he honks “There are CHILDREN here.” Muffy and Meghan can’t handle temptation, so it’s time to ban any ice cream trucks in the vicinity “for the children”. Bullshit. It’s all about them, and they hope to use their kids to protect them from getting their asses kicked for their foul behavior.
I’m at the point where I don’t bother to go to movie theaters any more, and it’s not because of the kids. The kids, almost exclusively, are lovely human beings, who are embarrassed as all hell at their parents’ behavior. Said parents are texting and calling through the movie, bellowing at the top of their lungs about what and who they did the night before, and the moment anybody asks them if they could knock it off, they start mooing “I can’t take MY CHILDREN to see a movie any more?” Since theater management won’t do a damn thing for fear that some Biff and Muffy might make noises about a lawsuit, the theater employees can’t do anything. Pop ‘em in the head, and they’ll squall and cry for a cop, and you still can’t watch the damn movie. Meanwhile, you watch their kids slither under the chairs, horrified over the whole thing. Why pay nearly $15 a ticket to put up with that sort of shit, and with no way to rectify it, when you can stay home and watch the movie three months later through NetFlix?
I’ve been looking for a grand theory to explain all this, but it’s most definitely a number of factors.
That said, here is my gross generalization:
Boomers were lousy parents.
Now their kids are grown and having kids of their own.
Generational FAIL.
You nailed it.
There is a grand theory. Let the master explain it.
this explains why they canceled the Easter Egg Hunt… the Parents!
Man, back in my day the parents didn’t even complain about the drug dealers in the park.
“Don’t play in the sandbox. There are needles in there!” Heard that one a lot when I was growing up in the 70′s.
Yup.Or in the 80′s not wanting to go in the sandbox because of the crack vials.
I remember being warned about the needles at the beach more than the sandbox.
I remember finding a needle at a park in NE Minneapolis when I was about 5 or 6. I grabbed it (on the plastic end) and brought it to my mom, who at first freaked out, but then realized that I wanted her to see it and throw it away. She prepared my brother and I for situations like that so that we were prepared for the world. (She never told me to pick up a random needle but she made sure we knew they were not toys and as so even at that young age I didn’t want my younger brother getting ahold of it.)
Nowadays parents won’t prepare their kids for an encounter with an ice cream cart? W T F-ing F???
Yeah, it seems drug addicts really liked sand back in the day. I’m not sure why.
Only stupid yuppies would want to impose such a thing. These are the parents who never tell their kids no.
THIS IS GREAT!!!! EVERYTHING I ALWAYS SAY ONLY BETTER!!! I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU!!!!
Carroll gardens is no better, these “people” do not know how to raise kids. They want to be so different from their parents that they don’t give their children any limits at all.
So many of these little snot nosed monsters my son has the unfortunate luck of going to school with are future therapist basket cases. They are completely out of control. The other day one of these yuppie larva told his mom “F**ck you” loudly in the park. All the mom did was ” ohh pilot, you need some rest”…..what?….if I did that to my mom I would not be able to sit down for a month.
Human beings need disciple and rules and boundaries set. Little people have to be taught that they live on this earth with other people and the world doesn’t revolve around them.
We lived in Carroll Gardens in the 70′s and 80′s where we were among the few non-Italians in the neighborhood. Old ladies leaned on their pillows out the brownstone windows and watched the neighborhood.
Now it’s Logan’s Run over there. If you see anyone who is over 30 you know they are “outsiders” or the few old “relics” left from the past. Everyone else has moved there from Des Moines in the last two years.
These yuppie assholes are trying to get the church around the corner from me (IHM) to stop ringing the bells because it wakes there napping kids!!! I want to punch them right in there face!
The church needs to tell these whiny fucks “HELL NO!” That’s the problem today. The reason these morons are so bold is because too many people capitulate to them. Not only should the church tell them “HELL NO!” but be prepared to fight it to the very end if the Yupsters want to bring the authorities into it. It shouldn’t be hard. Yupsters aren’t exactly known for their resolve.
There’s a small park in Harlem that has always had conga drummers doing their thing.
Bunch of yups moved into apartments across the street and have been driving the cops nuts
calling constantly complaining about it.
But it’s ok to have the great “GOOOOGAAAMOOOOGAAA!!!! Screw them!!!!!
Maybe, just maybe, they will fucking leave and move to New Jersey. Now the party is over for them nobody is allowed to be a child anymore? Guess the no-pants subway, idiotrod, pillow-fight childhood was good for them but not for their kids. They hate the city they made. Hope they all move
The assholes move to DC and Bawlmore, get gummint jobs, and spawn. SHIT!
C’mon man, have a heart. I live in New Jersey – AKA the hipster pod dispersal station.
Persoanlly I think before you breed you should be bale to prove you have the skills to raise a responsible, contributing member of society.
Don’t count on it!!!! They have it too good here once the rest of “those people” move out!
Kids cry tantrum and whine a parents job is to deal with it and move on. These yuppy hipster guppy parents want to be little Jona’s friend they don’t know how to manage behaviors. I grew up in Windsor Terrace and recently moved because I couldn’t stand being harassed by the yuppies in the co op building because I lived in a rent stabilized apartment…they complained every time my kids walked across the floor…they were two …apparently i should have taught them to levitate. My mom never let me wander the streets in a princess costume unless it was Halloween. They taught me to hold a door for the person walking behind me and to say thank you and please. The parents are self centered self indulgent creeps and unfortunately their children will be the same. I moved to Pennsylvania and live on a mountain with New Yorkers who chose to do the same. I still work in Brooklyn and have to be subjected to the mass gentrification every day…It saddens me to no end. Just an aside let’s not forget that these are ppl who are socially aware and politically correct…so they force out everyone who is not on their socio-economic level out of their homes and neighborhoods in the name of making things “Better”…
I agree. And these are the liberals that voted for Obama. I am sure that if he moved next door to them they would think it would bring property values down. Hypocrites!!!
God help me, I despise these people and I don’t even live in Park Slope.
I have to deal with these smug transplants everyday and their children are little brats
How very sad for the Park Slope people to have their neighborhood invaded by people who move in strickly to change the neighborhood. If they don’t like the area they move into, go back where they came from! It use to be people assimilated into a neighborhood…now they move in and try to change it to “their way”. Why should everyone else have to adapt to the way they live? It seems to me if we don’t like something, we don’t buy it! These people, if they don’t like something, they want to ban it…for everyone. The church bells have been chiming for generations…our kids adapted to the sound of the church bells ringing…so can theirs. Keep the faith Park Slopers…you come from strong stock…and you are the kind of people who like ice cream, candy and a beer in a great corner bar. Stand up and let the interlopers know this is your neighborhood too. It sounds like a horror movie from your posts but YOU and your families were there first. Wishing you well from a former Brooklynite from the greatest generation yet…strong, smart, loving people who raised their kids to respect their elders, mind their manners, be kind and polite and who gave them a pop on their fannies when they needed it!
“It use to be people assimilated into a neighborhood…”
This has NEVER been the case. New York City is constantly changing, and has been so since its beginnings. It is the nature of neighborhoods to change with generations as demographics change. No use getting mad about it, just live your life.
Here, here!!! They claim to be all accepting and all loving. I saw a sign in front of a new bar/ restaurant that read “come in and see what we are all about”. As soon as I stepped in the doorway all the employees heads popped up and I got a death stare. I must have had “native” written on my forehead. They make me feel like an outsider!!!!
Ho about this for a novel idea- CONTROL YOUR LITTLE SNOT NOSED KIDS, YOU YUPPIE TWUNTS
Anyone catch the hipsterized version of our National Anthem tonight before the NCAA championship basketball game? Warning, this will make you yak….
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger-college-basketball-blog/fray-dreadful-national-anthem-performance-ncaa-championship-video-023004688.html
What the what? Dishonorable discharge and life sentence busting rocks in Ft. Levenworth for this crime. Article 13 this civilian MoFo on GP until we can find grounds for more serious court martial and summary punishment. over?. I’m thinking this shit is a serious case of terrorism…
Here’s an easier link to the video…
Seriously, do you like raping my ears? Only USMC or USArmy bands should be allowed to perform our National Anthem. You’re killing me over here.
What blows my mind is the utter lack of GUTS in this version of the song. This is a song about courage and these skinny-jeans dudes remove any bit of GUTS from the song.
And they never had to hump a ruck and a M-16. IF you didn’t serve, S.T.F.U.! Shut up your sissy-ass, singing-ass. Seriously, why would you do this? Have you no fucking shame?
Ugh this will be stuck in my fucking ears now. Excuse me while I go barf.
NO! You fucking stand at the position of attention. This is not a fucking folk song. This is our fucking National Fucking Anthem! God damnit, you should have to get a permit to perform this.
Hipsters ruin everything they touch.
What’s worse, a whole stadium full of basketball players and military men not turning around and beating those shits to pulp right afterwards.
Next year it will be Pomplamoose.
Hey the fray is an awesome band. I am not a hipster but I have been listening to them for a while now. They were around before the hipster epidemic.
All three of them are filthy hipster douche rags.
Oops, sorry, all four of them!
and your point? Looks like they jumped on board!
I noticed a USMC firing party there – shame they don’t issue them ball ammo. That shit goes WAY beyond disrespect. Total BULLSHIT. And those millionaire basketball player fucks just hanging out like it was the hood instead of putting their hands over their hearts – they should be deported to Somalia. FUCK that makes me MAD.
That is an insult to our National Anthem. Those idiots should be ashamed of themselves. The guitars were completely out of tune!! If your hipster art band MUST play our national anthem like a bunch of preschoolers(please don’t), at least tune up beforehand!! The singing was completely soulless. The Playskool drum and tamborine was out of rhythm and I just wished he would stop and put the toys back in the toybox..
They can’t play this off as ironic or it’s-performance-art-you-don’t-get-it. It SUCKED, plain and simple.
Can’t they get put in front of a firing squad for treason?
You raped my fucking ear drums with this shit. Why did you do this? Warn us beforehand, ok…NSFA (Not Safe For Americans)
There is a standard for performing our National Anthem. There is a vocal range that is requred… If you aint got it,and you know you can’t deliver, then stand down, ok… Our sacred National Anthem should only be performed by professionals who have rehersed it; by orchestras that have studied classical performances. This is not a reality show contest. Leave this to the pros. Do not debase it by pretendending to be a contestant on American Idol.
This is why it is best left to Army or Marine Corps bands. They have discipline and training, unlike hypstrs and indulgent mommies who won’t let their toddlers eat fucking ice cream.
Thy can be as pathological, helicoptering, ultra paranoid, over protective, vegan lactose free, free range organic Gowanus slime grown locavore superfund site chicken farmed food, trying to keep them away “from the type of people who eat candy and Italian Ices” as much as they want, but it won’t stop some of their special hell spawn growing up to be these bunch of EDPs: crustypunks.blogspot.com I suspect a lot of those had helicopter parents in back in Cul De Sac Ville
The feces of park slope children is harvested for mast brother’s chocolate.
I love you! Can we print this article on a billboard or something…..?
These damn yups need to be put in there place! I am 28 years old and have witnessed
The most ridiculous shit from these people. I started babysitting around the neighborhood when I was 12, I had other jobs but always came back to child care when in need of some fast cash. after being a teachers assistant in park slope for four years. I had to leave the job those kids and parents are f****** aliens. I was starting to feel I didn’t want any children of my own because of their behavior. I can sit here and tell all the horror stories but do not want to torture myself any further. tell your kid NO n if they argur backhand that mouth,it works!
“tell your kid NO n if they argur backhand that mouth,it works!”
Yeah and if it doesn’t just go to the broom handle they will get the point sooner or later.
Not sure if that sarcastic but it does work,I was a punk ti my pops said YOU THINK YOUR TUFF,he squared off one on one and earned me a lesson
This will be the last straw…if they decide to end this part of Brooklyn that was loved by us as far back as i remember plus helps feed these hard workers in an economy that only Zoey and Linus can thrive in I will personally put an end to this Hipstet shit in brooklyn,take it as warning,not a joke…no ices in parks because your brat is crying hipsters will not feel welcome in this borough,trust me…and FUCK OFF AREADY
I’m not a fan of the anthem as a piece of music (I’d prefer “America the Beautiful”) but this is ridiculous. With all due respect, even Frank Drebin did a better job.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poIRktlowCM&w=420&h=315%5D
Ah, enlightenment … show us the way, young parents! Age and experience have nothing on your new found enlightenment! Have mercy on us, Molly and Heather!
These are the same people “BROWNSTONE BETTYS” that got dodge ball banned in the elementary schools because their little Max might get hurt. Instead of teaching him how to play,, oh wait daddy can’t because daddy was too much of a SISSY to play himself! These are the same people that call themselves “BROOKLYNITES” can you imagine! To this I saying, No way! Simply because they never played stickball in the street, know what chips on a spaldene are or had an eggcream with a Charlotteruse is. When it comes down to it, it’s not the kids fault. Its the big dopes that do not know what the word NO and its meaning . There’s a lot to be said for those of us who
attended the school of hard knocks that Brooklyn is known for, ex. Manual Training/ John Jay aka Jungle Jay right here in the heart of PARK SLOPE. That’s why we will survive the invasion of brownstone bettys and their beats who can’t have an ice cream or an Uncle Luigi’s Italian ice.
i hate to disagree with the general sentiment of this website, as a native new yorker, who grew up in bensonhurst and now lives in park slope, i remember when neighborhoods where so segregated that if you ventured beyond your “zone” you had to fear getting jumped or mugged, though i agree that these people should parent their fucking kids and that their fucking annoying, ill take them over the mamalukes one used to find aimlessly wandering the streets of brooklyn back in the day, at least now i can go for a jog around the park at 10 pm and not worry about getting into some shit over nothing with a bunch of bored belligerent teenagers
Well said. I remember those days as a native Brooklynite. And I’d rather deal with annoying hipsters than criminals and asshole teenagers — which are still in abundance, only more at random.
I have to call bullshit on this reasoning. I grew up in Bensonhurst, too. (Born in 1965.) I never feared getting jumped in Bensonhurst (or Bay Ridge or Borough Park). And I wasn’t a total “tough guy” either. So it’s not as if I intimidated anyone.
Yes, neighborhoods were more segregated in past, but that was mainly based on stupid ethnic/racial fear. Much of that is gone now (although there are still some neighborhoods in Brooklyn where you can still get jumped if your skin color doesn’t match). Replacing the mainly down-to-earth people with clueless, condescending hipsters and holier-than-thou yuppies is NOT a reasonable substitute.
Yes, but we still learned a valuable lesson…It’s called respect. It made us who we are. We grew up to be respectful adults. If you told me No, it was No, period. These kids can’t cope with that word.
And don’t fool yourself, the more gentrified a neighborhood gets the more crime. So hold onto your Rolex!
I think anyone who wants to ban ice cream ought to be buried alive in Rocky Road. But, in fairness, if you actually read the Post article this story amounts to:
1) Someone said something stupid on the internet;
2) A few people agreed with that person;
3) Others told her she was dumb;
4) Then nothing happened
I know Park Slope is an easy target, but there are better things to get on the neighborhood for. Like anything involving the retards at the coop.
Amen to that.
Or hyping the use of bikes to save Mother Earth then abandoning them in piles!!!!
OK. Someone posted this on Facebook, so I decided to read it since I have very strong feelings about the changes in Park Slope and who is here now. I have never heard of this blog prior to this article and I regret that I haven’t because I’ve been missing out. I say shit like this daily and have many discussions with my family about it. I’ve lived here for 27 years and I miss everything about the neighborhood I grew up in and despise everything it is turning into. This blog is amazing. Thank you.
I think the word on this blog is starting to get out in a big way…
The word must be getting out. This is almost like part of my evening entertainment while I watch the NetFlix. Dude that owns this site needs to monetize and get paid off all of the hipster hate.
Agreed. Maybe run some ads on the site. Although it might be tough to find sponsors for something called “Die Hipster”!!! LOL.
oogle adSense. And given the content of this site, I can only imagine what kinds of ads would get served up. That would be real interesting. But you have to admit, it would be pretty cool to get paid not from doing business with hipsters but for hating on them. How’s that for fucking irony?
Google adSense
A little toooo ironic, yeah I really do think…
So, what do you do for a living?
I hate on hipsters.
There’s money in that?
Yep.
How’s the joke go? “What makes you a hipster? You say things are ‘hipster’.” Readers of this site consume many of the same goods as the people it makes fun of.
I breathe air and drink water. Am I a hipster?
No, just a virgin.
That’s deck
Yes, we consume it, shit it out and that’s that! We don’t go around expounding on the benefits of latte vegan mahi mahi aeoli free range sustainable crap.
But only if it’s artisanal hate.
we true new yorkers grew up on marino’s and ralphs italian iceys. cmoon yuppies if u moved to nyc, is because you wanted to b part of this culture. did any of u yuppies ever look at documentary’s from old NEW YORK?
Also, any bagel they eat is “absolutely the best bagel in Brooklyn, guaranteed!”.says they. You could give them cat litter and shape it like a bagel and they would swear by it. Those icees were the best. A close second was the piragua man on the corner. Viva Puerto Rico!!!!
I was born and raised in Brooklyn. I am originally from East New York but I was raised in Mill Basin yes I am a minority. The times when I would go to Brownsville or East New York I can only claim someone tried to rob or jump me once. Yes it was by a minority but I do remember one day I was going to school and I was jumped but luckily a teacher had seen me trying to fend off the people and justice was served. It does not matter what skin you have it matters on how educated and self positive you are as a person. For people saying they rather have hipsters or yuppies around rather than hoodlums. The people on here and me as well aren’t saying that we rather a bad neighborhood but why should you take things from a neighborhood or a childs life because you feel that they are too good for so called an ice cream. Its the whole fact that people who are coming from other parts of the country are moving in and not taking the traditional urban city life to use or appreciating it. a lot of us on here are finding the small and postive things that made our childhoods worthwhile in an amazing city if not borough but sadly it is slowly changing into a dulled down place only to make look interesting for people of the hipster and yuppie groups.
Bravo!
Self expression my behind. Had i allowed my children to express themselves in the manner in which these tykes ‘express’ themselves i would have been sporting a few blackeyes, possible infected bites, etc… Where have they learned that behavior? Are mommy and daddy knocking themselves around behind closed doors? Where do they pick up the language and the mean spirited way they speak to other children not to mention aduilts? I taught in a P.S. primary school and was drained by the daily nonsense from both parents and children. Bottom line, they are assholes in every sense of the word. They spew nothing but shit and hot foul smelling air- You move into MY neighborhood and end up looking at the long time residents, like myself, my children and grand children as if we dont belong. Go away! I love the ice cream and icee trucks in our parks! Why should those of us who enjoy a treat while in the park be deprived because you are a lousy parent??? GO AWAY!!!
and go away NOW. We don’t your kind here!
Sup there, credit for writing this blog site. It gifted me something insightful to look over whilst i wasn’t busy at work. I book-marked so i’ll in all probability be back again to read other well written articles and releases in the future. Take care,
I was born and raised in the LES, moved my family to the Bronx The commute is not as convenient but thank god I did. Italian ice? Arguing with child? Give the lil guy/gal a treat. They are kids. Thank god I will most likely never associate my family with park slope nazis. Kids at bars? When did that become cool and a cool treat at the park isn’t?
What happened to Brooklyn? It was once a tuff town where men were men and women were women. Now it’s a place where it’s almost illegal to walk the street without a cup of coffee and your graying shelter dog. It’s easier to find a parking spot than to find an ounce of testosterone. All these androgynous interlopers destroying the fabric of Brooklyn with thousands of condo buildings. They all dress and act alike. They come from small towns and reinvent themselves. They don’t realize they look like drones wearing used jeans. What a bunch of posers.
Yes, great description. They claim to be individuals but they are fooling themselves!
Love those useless anecdotes reported by the New York post…What is next, an article about parents wanting to ban those 3 minute horsey rides that cost a quarter in front of convenience stores?
I love it when these people get mugged and robbed, they deserve it.
Yes, they are so predictable. They don’t feel that they must be careful when walking around because the neighborhood belongs to them, silly!
“I should not have to fight with my children every warm day on the playground just so someone can make a living!”
BS. Fight? Are you serious? If you do not learn to say no to your children now, It will only get harder to do it later. You are not preparing your children for future rejection and when they don’t get the job they want, or their bf/gf breaks up with them or they don’t live the dream life you are ill preparing them for, they will become seriously and psychologically depressed and not be able to address emotional issues. They could become negatively introverted. All because you can’t say no. Say no and say it once. Stay out of the playground, you are not ready for it.
Yes, they will turn around and commit patricide. Parents beware, you had better build yourselves a bunker to protect yourself from Clarice!
PS… I love this site. Glad I found it. Thanks for the amusement! Now it is beddy bye time. Hopefully to sleep, perchance to dream… that my beloved Brooklyn is still just that. Nighty night. Don’t let the bedbugs…oh never mind.
PS…notice the bedbug explosion coincides with the hipster explosion!!!!!
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