Hen Psrties

[pat2604]

Something I've been thinking about after someone was talking about hen parties on the television this morning. I have never been to a hen party although I have been invited. The thought of being with a lot of women at a party, holiday, or to a a male strip event is just out of the question. It seems to have increased in popularity over the decades. There were never hen parties when I was young. Not a party goer these days, but I would prefer a stag party then a hen party to be honest.

Am I alone!

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[choux]

Oh deer oh deer, Lottie ;)

[Mamyalynne]

Never been to a Hen party either.

[pat2604]

Very clever choux☺️

[Bobbisox1]

I have just a couple of weeks back £28 for as much Prosecco as you wanted and some pizza, the place was full of scantily dressed ladies with sashes and coronets on, the sashes often bore rude messages ,the ond I was at had a tray of cupcakes with men’s bits decorating the top in icing, we , my daughter and me said we were just calling and had a soft drink each then left, all pretty crass actually

[barry1010]

I have had a couple of occasions ruined by other peoples hen parties. I wish restaurants and venues could warn customers when booking that a hen party was booked in at the same time

[Cloverjo]

Not really my thing, nowadays. The last one I went to 20+ years ago was a quiet thing where the bride was dressed up in L plates, rubber gloves and a tutu. I was basically just a drink with friends.

[Cloverjo]

*It* not I.

[pat2604]

Oh Bobbi that sounds awful !

[choux]

I have been to two, Lottie, but am now too old to be invited, thank God.The language and noise was unbelievable!!

Just so long as you don't get confused as the booked stripper I wish you success in going to a stag party... x

Actually, I reckon you would have a great time and so would the lads :)

[Sqad]

Great fun....loved them and that wonderful feeling standing in a room full sex crazed women, down to my budgies and the cry en masses of

OFF! OFF! OFF!

Wondrous and exhilarating.

[pat2604]

Back in the stone age, there were never such things and the blokes just met up in the pub and probably drank too much.

[Bobbisox1]

It was , I don’t like cupcakes anyway, they’re sickly sweet so the one I was given was last seen winding it’s way down the Tyne to South Shields and the black and gold sash went in the bin,it had on it HOT MOMMA, tsk, tsk

[choux]

For Sale:

One budgie + cage, one careful owner ...

[zebo]

No Pat you're not at all alone, the very thought of all-female company is awful.

[naomi24]

I’ve been to hen parties but never to those where girls dress up and get as drunk as possible - and never to one where there’s male strippers. I’d go home.

[pat2604]

I must admit I enjoy male company perhaps more than female company, unless the company is all about football. Highly silly women drive me mad. Ivalue my close female friends though.

[pat2604]

Unless the conversation !

[naomi24]

I agree with you wholeheartedly there, lottie.

[barry1010]

When they shouted 'off, off, off' they meant get off, Sqad. Then you woke up

[andy-hughes]

They tend to be both formulaic and ritualistic.

This makes for a standard evening.

Everyone has to wear the costumes, which is fine, but not everyone looks as good in the tee-shirt as everyone else.

The problems come with the ritual, because a large part of that means consuming copious amounts of alcohol, and then being loud and lairy in the same way that lads are on a night out.

The really big problem is when the party not only has to convince itself that is having a fabulous time, it also has to convince everyone else in the surrounding quarter of a square mile as well

This is achieved by being as loud and raucous as possible, and in the case of inebriated women trying to convince party members and strangers alike just how much of a really good time they are having, which is demonstrated by outdoing everyone else in the raucous behavior and industrial level laughing and shrieking, this becomes an issue for non-party people in the immediate and less immediate vicinity.

As I say, formulaic and ritualistic in equal measure.

No-one wants to appear not to be having a fabulous time, and risk being talked about in negative terms for the next twelve months, so everyone turns up and does what's expected.

One reason why I don't do hen party discos!!