Engagement Party

[mikey4444]

I went to a family engagement party last night. My niece has finally accepted her long-term boyfriends entreaties and said yes ! We are all very pleased, as we think the world of him. All well and good.

The Party was held in a local rugby club and was quite low key I suppose, in that everybody bought food and it was all fairly informal. But it was spoilt in exactly the same way that every other party of a similar type always is....the flipping Disco was too loud.

This was the first time that the two families have got together in the same room and it lovely to get to know his lot, and also to meet some of my own family what I don't see too often. There was lots of children there and also lots of quite old relatives....uncles, aunties, and grandparents. But instead of being able to chat, we all resorted to shouting at each other, because the music was too loud. Nobody was dancing and the music was that awful bass thumpy-thumpy stuff, which you could hear in the car park. I just can't understand why the music has to be so loud at events like this, and nobody was dancing !

I am 61 now and I have been to no end of these parties and its always the same. If it was up to me I would have taken a fire axe to his power cable !

[royfromaus]

Didn't you get up and boogie?

Play that funky music white boy!

[Tilly2]

Why didn't one of you ask for the music to be turned down?

[Svejk]

'oh god, its uncle mike, ask the dj to turn the music up'.

[mikey4444]

Roy...I am nearly 20 stone. If I had got up and boogied, it would have registered on the Richter Scale. I dance like a badly-loaded washing machine.

[mikey4444]

Tilly...I have done on previous occasions but its the equivalent of farting in Chapel. " Oh, but the music has to be loud Uncle Mike ! " is what I get. I can't have been the only one there that was struggling to hear and be heard.

Asking for the music to be turned down is a bit like this clip from the Royale Family :::::

[Daffy6543]

When my niece got married my mum nagged the DJ all night about the volume of the music at the reception, it wasn't even that loud. I just think older people are peed off by the type of music played :)

[mikey4444]

Daffy...it has nothing to do with the type of music played. There were people of all ages there but the music was just the same...that thumpety thumpety type, with the bass turned up. I think it is called Drum and Bass. The problem wasn't our age, which I consider to be tad of the insulting side....it because it was too loud. What is the point in having the music so loud that people were gathering in the entrance to the Club, just so that they could talk ?

I would have preferred Mozart but when music is too loud, it is never, ever Mozart ! But even it was Mozart, it would still have been too loud. That is the problem with pop music...its the lowest common denominator at all events and its always too loud.

[Daffy6543]

Drum and Base has to be played loud, it sounds better that way, so does most dance music.

[Daffy6543]

*bass*

[roopower]

Mikey4444, I' m afraid I have to agree with you. I' be been to parties and met up with friends and relatives I haven' t seen for years and not been able to catch up as I can' t lip read!m

[roopower]

Don't know what happened there, typing finger has a mind of its own today, but you'll get the gist!

[Daffy6543]

The party was for the engaged couple, it was their day and if they wanted loud music that is what they should have. If you want to catch up with long lost relatives to chat do it on your own time and expense. Don't expect to go to a party and have it be quiet.

[mikey4444]

Nonsense daffy !

[boxtops]

Mikey, you've made the initial contacts - there will be plenty of time for catching up with them again at the wedding :-)

[mikey4444]

I hope so as many of them looked quite interesting, although I have no idea what they were saying !

Pop music...the opium of the masses !

[agchristie]

It can be dangerous having to try and lip read due to this problem. I nodded in agreement to buy a round of drinks when I hadn't a clue what was asked!!

[Obiter]

" If it was up to me I would have taken a fire axe to his power cable !"

Had you done so there may well have been one fewer vote for Labour next year!