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re: Alcohol for adults at kid's birthday party
Posted on 10/28/18 at 3:38 pm to PiscesTiger
Posted on 10/28/18 at 3:38 pm to PiscesTiger
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If a party (especially a house party) offers no alcohol, you can leave within the hour.
It's not just that you can, it's that it actually works out that way every time, anyway, naturally.
I don't think it's a coincidence that every uptight, kid's birthday party I've gone to that refuses, for some reason I have yet to figure out, to not have alcohol, ends up being a one or two-hour affair where basically everybody starts waiting to eat cake and open gifts as soon as they step foot through the front door. It's basically just a socially obligated and forced gift exchange with a snack.
The best parties always have alcohol and last into the night and the kids all end up on the floor passed out in front of cartoons while the adults spend the rest of the night on the porch arguing over who's going to DD
Kids birthday parties are basically an excuse for adults to hang out and get drunk with each other. That's the way it was for my parents and their parents before them and their parents before them.
This post was edited on 10/28/18 at 3:41 pm
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Posted on 10/28/18 at 3:43 pm to Jim Rockford
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Is this only appropriate for trashy south Louisiana?
FIFY
RA'd for Puritan in Louisiana.
frick off prude
Posted on 10/28/18 at 3:43 pm to notiger1997
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The people saying it’s trashy probably do live around trashy red necks. They associate alcohol with people getting shite faced and acting like assholes.
Meanwhile us normal people attend hundreds of social events a year where adults know how to have a few drinks and have fun without being drunks
Yep. You can tell a lot about people by their responses in this thread.
Posted on 10/28/18 at 3:45 pm to Brisketeer
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First time I ever saw the phenomenon was when I moved to Louisiana in 2008. I embraced the concept
As it should be. Even people from out of town like to have fun despite not growing up in that type of culture. They don't even realize it till they get here.
Life is about enjoyment and having fun. If you can't do that then why the frick are you having a party in the first place? Just have a kids seance or solemn event.
This post was edited on 10/28/18 at 3:46 pm
Posted on 10/28/18 at 3:45 pm to LuckySo-n-So
So you married trash. Good for you
Posted on 10/28/18 at 3:49 pm to TheMailman
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We have hired a bartender with a full bar for each of my sons parties
My kind of party.
This post was edited on 10/28/18 at 3:50 pm
Posted on 10/28/18 at 3:52 pm to LSU6262
quote:well yea. How else could you put up with all those little brats (most that you don't even know) running around?
Alcohol for adults at kid's birthday party
Posted on 10/28/18 at 3:52 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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Get some Mexican friends.
They don’t frick around.
No joke. My wife's family is Honduran.
Hispanics and people from South Louisiana and Southern Europe throw the best parties.
Posted on 10/28/18 at 3:53 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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You're wearing a name tag, aren't you. Working on a Sunday, posting during your cigarette break on your cracked-screen iPhone 3. I know life has you down man, but don't take it out on others. There's a reason the assistant manager keeps you away from working the register and interacting with the customers. Just take a breath.
Nah, just beseeching the Almighty to smite thy holier than thou arse during breaks from the beer, steak, and football games.
I'm basically praying for more entertainment on this holy day between breaks from all the fun I'm already having.
This post was edited on 10/28/18 at 3:55 pm
Posted on 10/28/18 at 3:53 pm to LuckySo-n-So
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My now ex-wife proceeded to get shitfaced on daiquiris at my goddaughter’s 4th or 5th birthday party once, so I’ve been against alcohol at kids’ parties for a while now.
Why, was she hitting on other men?
Posted on 10/28/18 at 3:55 pm to LSU6262
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Is this only appropriate for Louisiana?
It is required.
Posted on 10/28/18 at 4:00 pm to SirSaintly
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It blew my mind when I first moved to Dallas. Went to the Balloon Festival cause we were looking for something to do one weekend. Wandered around for about 30mins looking for the beer booth. Finally I asked another vendor where the beer booth was and he looked at me like I was an alcoholic and told me that this was a family event and no alcohol was sold. I was disappointed to say the least
When I tell co-workers that every grade school fair in La has a beer booth and it wouldn't be uncommon to see a priest pouring beers from a keg, they look at me in disbelief.
Alcohol is banned in all public parks too, so no having a BBQ or picnic at a place like Audubon or City Park with an ice chest of beer either. It's insane. I don't have to be plastered, but I'm an adult and like having a beer or two on weekends at events
Yup.
It's absolutely cultural.
For generations those people lived in dry counties and in social environments where drinking was frowned upon and viewed the same way as crack and heroin.
I have two cousins from two different aunts and uncles that grew up in the Dallas area and moved here to New Orleans for a period of time. Both of them came here perfectly normal people with jobs and money. Both of them left unemployed, penniless, with an alcohol problem in a demolition derby car. As soon as they got back to Dallas their life straightened up again within a few months.
This is why people from those areas frown on drinking. Their people just can't handle their alcohol. It was never part of their culture and so it's a shock to their system when they're thrown into that fire. They just can't handle freedom the way we can.
This post was edited on 10/28/18 at 4:03 pm
Posted on 10/28/18 at 4:05 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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Dear baby Jesus,
Please make Fewer Kilometers' daughter come home from her first semester at college six months pregnant with no idea who the father is because she let six guys run train on her after she got drunk at a party because her dipshit father never taught her how to drink responsibly.
P.S.: If you could make it fraternal twins of two different races to maximize the shame factor when Fewer Kilometers has to explain to people that his twin grandkids have different fathers because everyone got a turn, that would be even better.
Amen.
Posted on 10/28/18 at 4:12 pm to martiallaw
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I serve some alcohol at our kids birthday party to be able to come down from all the coke
Posted on 10/28/18 at 4:20 pm to LSU6262
WTF? I don't think I ever been to a kid's birthday party in which people were not drinking.
There is always someone people it is assumed they are going to be drinking, whether it's available at the party or not. There are a lot of functioning alcoholics, people who can go to work and not drink and be fine or go to other places and not have to drink, but if they going to something like a kid's birthday party, they are going to have a koozie and beer in hand.
It's not like they are drinking to "party" and get fricked up.. Not sure what's the big deal?
There is always someone people it is assumed they are going to be drinking, whether it's available at the party or not. There are a lot of functioning alcoholics, people who can go to work and not drink and be fine or go to other places and not have to drink, but if they going to something like a kid's birthday party, they are going to have a koozie and beer in hand.
It's not like they are drinking to "party" and get fricked up.. Not sure what's the big deal?
Posted on 10/28/18 at 5:39 pm to LSU6262
Needed for sanity.
Posted on 10/28/18 at 5:51 pm to nola000
quote:but yet those areas economically are kicking our arse... when that happens, you can't ignore what the culture does and doesn't condone
This is why people from those areas frown on drinking. Their people just can't handle their alcohol. It was never part of their culture and so it's a shock to their system when they're thrown into that fire. They just can't handle freedom the way we can.
Posted on 10/28/18 at 6:12 pm to LSU6262
The majority of adults are capable of enjoying themselves at a social function for a few hours without drinking, and don't make decisions on whether alcohol will be served or not. If a person won't go to a kid's birthday party because there will be no alcohol, or leaves when they see there is no alcohol they have a drinking problem.
This post was edited on 10/28/18 at 6:14 pm
Posted on 10/28/18 at 6:32 pm to pioneerbasketball
Had more fun than I ever thought at my kid’s first and second birthday parties. Booze, pool, football, and in-laws keep her occupied all day. So yes, alcohol is definitely appropriate if you’re not a sloppy drunk.
Posted on 10/28/18 at 6:35 pm to LSU6262
Alcohol makes the screening, puking and piss/shite smell more bearable. Although, that's how I usually end the night so I'm not much different than a 1 year old.
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