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I’m in my thirties, and the closest thing I ever had to a party was when me and a bunch of the guys I worked with (total of like six people) would hang out together, drinking and playing Mario Kart
There was always the ad-hoc couple inspecting each other tonsils over in the corner.
Totally never did that myself, nuh-uh.
My parents left for one weekend during my college/highschool years. Threw the most massive party, we were over 80.
Fun times 😁
People over 80 don’t sound like they’d be the best partiers.
dude… you don’t know. they are UNHINGED because time’s almost up and between them they are a pharmacy.
Yeah all the time. Every Thanksgiving, Christmas and new years between the ages of 14 and like 25 with our friends, cousins, acquaintances. Always someone’s place, at least 20 teens +/- 3 years in my age, but the parties can get up to 100 people or more if they lined up. Our community of Slavic churches are huge tho. We’d take up the entire wedding hall on some events with 300+ teens your grade that we all knew fairly closely.
The only difference is that alcohol wasn’t involved, and relationships were built for dating into marriage, not sex flings like the teen movies.
What happened after 25? Also that’s a lot of people. My parties were like 10 people max and we were all on top of each other.
Groups just got smaller after people got married. The friend groups became more intimate, so mingling around with dozens of people stopped being the thing. We still get to see most people at events though. Mission conferences and other weddings and stuff. Now our gatherings are like 20-30 people for birthdays for kids and stuff.
Depends on how stereotypical of a portrayal is in question, but yes, I’ve been to what would definitely be my country’s equivalent.
Houses full of people. Around when people where 15-19 or smth, sometimes even older, but average was prolly 16-17. A couple of 15 year old moped boys for every 18 year driver, but for everyone 18 year driver, prolly 3-4 16-17 year friends with them.
Houses so full you’d strike up a chat with a random person every few meters. Always at the slightly less than responsible parents who allowed their kids to be alone for the weekend in the house.
But like, pretty similar as those depicted, but with our culture, not US, so slightly different.
Yeah, in my country too, we had parties at each other houses, drinks, dancing, chatting, some food. Parents of the organiser would come from time to time to check that all is ok. We would buy our own food, make some sandwiches, buy some drinks, parents would give us some beers or wine( we could have a drink or two even before being 18). It was lots of fun. Even at our Highschool, the school would organise a disco party on Saturdays, no alcohol, but lots of dancing. We did not of course really need cars, Europe is pretty walkable.
Parents of the organiser would come from time to time to check that all is ok.
Uhm yeah the parties I’m talking about didn’t have parents checking on horribly drunken teenagers.
We didn’t have “a drink or two”. I don’t think it’s just once that I’ve carried a person rolled up into a carpet filled with their own vomit out of the house because it was just the simplest solution.
Kinda like a horrible kebab roll, with the person as the meat, carpet as the bread and vomit as sauce.
I think alcoholism is a bit different here perhaps. If we weren’t at parties or driving around drinking in cars, there’d be a youth hangout for under under 18’s, so we’d hang out there. But you weren’t allowed in if you had had a drink. To make sure, my own mom was sometimes at the door with a breathalyser. (My mom was in charge of youth activities in the municipality, she didn’t just show up randomly.)
It wasn’t every weekend there’d be a party, exactly because of how destructive they usually were. Hell, if you had a party, sometimes you’d just get people from the next town over, completely randomly basically, because someone knew someone and so forth. So if you did have a party the hardest part was usually keeping it in check and not have everyone invite everyone they know.
We needed cars/mopeds because the distances in the countryside are a bit longer.
During the summer heats like this (oh god you made me nostalgic noo) we’d hang out all day drinking at the sandpits, dozen or two little lakes and ponds ~5km north from the town center. So someone usually needed to be able to drive. Although that wasn’t so much getting drunk as just having a refreshing drink in the heat and to rehydrate.
Many people lived as far away from the town centre as well, and usually in different directions, so it might be 12 kilometers from the house of one friend to another so mopeds and 125cc’s and cars were kinda essential. I do understand Americans in that aspect but now that I live in the city and don’t go there any more I just use a bike/bus. But in the country that isn’t a thing.
I don’t recognise the movie instantly so I read it with that with the voice of Werner Herzog from that Rick & Morty dick monologue
Laughed out loud though. Or exhaled forcefully, to be truthful. Thank you for that.
I used to throw massive house parties. Yes. It was a vibe. I did terrible things at those parties and I am sorry what I put my family through. Silly parties to be honest.
Let’s party on Roblox!
🎵 Party House is in Roblox tonight 🎵
Like a party with lots of people? Yes. But honestly they are way better in your 20’s when people have their own places and drinking is not really an issue.
We kind of had that as teens. Just without the fancy decorations. We made it ourselves. Every weekend when someones parents were over night.
This is the saddest comments thread I have ever read.
Yes, parties are real.
I (an older millenial) went to a prep school and big parties in huge, beautiful parties happened every few weeks when someone’s parents were out if town. Kegs, red cups, the host freaking out over the mess and people making out/banging in bedrooms were all standard. Because the prep school was small, we would end up getting all our friends from other schools together so they’d end up massive, loud and rowdy affairs. Cops usually got called, but were uninterested in a bunch of kids whose parents were likely lawyers, so no one got in trouble unless they tried to drive drunk. To be young, wealthy and white in America is a good time.
Don’t worry, I am broke now. Still white tho.
In the 90s teenage me was way too uncool for these and never got invited once either.
Yeah, I was going to say. Then existing, and never having been to one, are not mutually exclusive.
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those kinds of events were so fun. just open doors all over and find the group you want to vibe with for an hour. it felt so freeing just wandering through an entire building of fun
I never knew any parties like that (or at all, haha), but I’ve skimmed through the comments and am surprised people haven’t mentioned Covid.
Gen Z went through Covid lockdown during school ages. It’s possible such parties would have occurred for these people, but they got screwed out of opportunities for wild ragers because of a pandemic.
