People who always manage to feck up any event / party they go to

Somebody who starts arguments no matter what. Like 21st 30th 40th 50th birthday parties. Leave out kids parties, I'm feeling kind that incudes 18th.
Who had to be put in a taxi and sent home?
What stories do you have?

Wheety

What stories do you have?

John_Rambo

The UK tripping over a kids toy pram whilst drunkenly backing out of Europe shouting “you’re all a pack of k*nts"

seamus

People who offer to do something awesome (put a slideshow together, arrange a band/marquee, etc) and then completely phone it in 48 hours beforehand, making it worse than not doing it at all.
"My 16 year old nephew's been playing guitar for two years, don't worry he's awesome".
"I've brought the slideshow on my iPod. Does anyone have a USB cable, laptop and projector?"

Or people who offer to do something important, like bring food or music, and then turn up an hour late or not at all.

Wheety

Wheety wrote: »

What stories do you have?

21st in aalsa sports club years ago:

Hugh waste of food. Sloshed people.

Church on Tuesday

Anyone who can't hold their drink and those who brings and plays acoustic guitar.

Both are my cues to leave.

Wanderer78

Deleted User wrote: »

Somebody who starts arguments no matter what. Like 21st 30th 40th 50th birthday parties. Leave out kids parties, I'm feeling kind that incudes 18th.
Who had to be put in a taxi and sent home?
What stories do you have?

you mean the folks that have psychological issues, and actually require professional help and guidance to deal with them!

A colleague. Has gone viral online twice already with public blowouts and is a risk at any social thing. He knows it himself and has developed hobbies that are calming and is mostly fine the last couple of years.

amacca

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Anyone who can't hold their drink and those who brings and plays acoustic guitar.

Both are my cues to leave.

I've yet to hear anyone attending a party with an acoustic guitar that was worth listening to.

Disclaimer :1 perhaps I don't attend the correct parties
2 I can't play the guitar 3 I'm told I'm a bit of a cnut and in fairness if ed sheeran was playing at a party Wouldn't give two ****es so it could be hard to measure up to my completely unjustified standard.

Mike Murdock

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Anyone who can't hold their drink and those who brings and plays acoustic guitar.

Both are my cues to leave.

Unless it's a party with lots of musicians, I agree.

I play guitar to a decent standard, but ****ing hate it when someone either brings a guitar or starts playing one that is there. Never in another room either, always in the main room where the party is taking place.

Reminds me of this:

Will I Am Not

Wanderer78 wrote: »

you mean the folks that have psychological issues, and actually require professional help and guidance to deal with them!

Yeah, because there’s no such thing as a dickhead anymore. Everybody has to have a label now to excuse them of any behaviour at all.

NoLuckLarry

Any prick who picks up a guitar at 3am at a house party and forces the music to be turned off - **** off, nobody wants to hear you whining your way through some **** song.

Larbre34

My sister in law has a close friend since childhood who married a drop-kick like that. I've been to a few events where he was in attendance.

Early on in the day he is quiet and not interested in conversation, because he doesn't have any interests or worldly wisdom, but as soon as he can hit the bar (and I do mean as soon as) he quickly descends into ignorance and abuse. Doesn't matter who is there, no awareness of the fact he upsets kids or anything. At one wedding he got into a fist fight with a British guy who was very sober and well able to handle himself. He put our boy on his arse in about 3 seconds.

Whats a pity is that his wife is a lovely person and beautiful with it. I have often asked my SIL how her friends didn't persuade her over the years that she could do so much better than him. She replied that she just didn't have any self confidence, which is such a shame. I've seen the pain in her eyes when laddo gets messy, a mixture of hurt, betrayal and embarrassment. They just had a first baby recently too, hasn't changed him. A sad situation. If she was my own sister I'd have given him his marching orders donkey's years ago.

Wanderer78

Will I Am Not wrote: »

Yeah, because there’s no such thing as a dickhead anymore. Everybody has to have a label now to excuse them of any behaviour at all.

sorry now, but if you continually get tanked and cause hassle at such events, there really is something psychologically wrong with you, and a bit of therapy wouldnt go astray, as theres a few demons in there that require exercising

Lewis_Benson

Larbre34 wrote: »

My sister in law has a close friend since childhood who married a drop-kick like that. I've been to a few events where he was in attendance.

Early on in the day he is quiet and not interested in conversation, because he doesn't have any interests or worldly wisdom, but as soon as he can hit the bar (and I do mean as soon as) he quickly descends into ignorance and abuse. Doesn't matter who is there, no awareness of the fact he upsets kids or anything. At one wedding he got into a fist fight with a British guy who was very sober and well able to handle himself. He put our boy on his arse in about 3 seconds.

Whats a pity is that his wife is a lovely person and beautiful with it. I have often asked my SIL how her friends didn't persuade her over the years that she could do so much better than him. She replied that she just didn't have any self confidence, which is such a shame. I've seen the pain in her eyes when laddo gets messy, a mixture of hurt, betrayal and embarrassment. They just had a first baby recently too, hasn't changed him. A sad situation. If she was my own sister I'd have given him his marching orders donkey's years ago.

People like him are a right pain in the hole.

topdecko

surely they are exercising their demons and hence the issue. will there not always be someone who fecks up the event to some degree. tends to happen when you get more than 2 people in a room and one of them is drinking... Part of the craic of these things to see someone making an arse of themselves.

Juza1973

Wanderer78 wrote: »

sorry now, but if you continually get tanked and cause hassle at such events, there really is something psychologically wrong with you, and a bit of therapy wouldnt go astray, as theres a few demons in there that require exercising

Yes, but there are people who are well happy to feed their psychological problems by messing with other innocent people, and believe that the world owes them that.

Tilden Katz

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Anyone who can't hold their drink and those who brings and plays acoustic guitar.

Both are my cues to leave.

Worse than the party Guitar Wanker are those who shush you whilst Guitar Wanker is playing. That's right, I've been shushed at parties and admonished for not giving Guitar Wanker the right amount of deference. It's a party, people are going to be chatting amongst themselves. It's not a concert.

Tilden Katz

NoLuckLarry wrote: »

Any prick who picks up a guitar at 3am at a house party and forces the music to be turned off - **** off, nobody wants to hear you whining your way through some **** song.

And they're only doing it in the hopes of getting the ride. Hoping that the party is populated with girls who want to go out with boys in bands.

Larbre34

Lewis_Benson wrote: »

People like him are a right pain in the hole.

Yeah unreal.

I'm in two minds about him. A) he's not mine, why should I care but I wish he was one of mine and I could put manners on him.

amacca

Larbre34 wrote: »

Yeah unreal.

I'm in two minds about him. A) he's not mine, why should I care but I wish he was one of mine and I could put manners on him.

Choose path A)

Path although tempting is a dark and dangerous road that ends up with you featuring in one of those documentaries on the crime channel

Larbre34

amacca wrote: »

Choose path A)

Path although tempting is a dark and dangerous road that ends up with you featuring in one of those documentaries on the crime channel

Of course. I'm not close to the girl in the question at all, but as I say I have asked her friends what they've done to intervene over the years.

hynesie08

Wanderer78 wrote: »

sorry now, but if you continually get tanked and cause hassle at such events, there really is something psychologically wrong with you, and a bit of therapy wouldnt go astray, as theres a few demons in there that require exercising

Nah, some people are just pure bred *****.

Feisar

Tilden Katz wrote: »

Worse than the party Guitar Wanker are those who shush you whilst Guitar Wanker is playing. That's right, I've been shushed at parties and admonished for not giving Guitar Wanker the right amount of deference. It's a party, people are going to be chatting amongst themselves. It's not a concert.

Or whisht in a pub because some tit wants to sing some god awful dirge about having no spuds. I'm not taking about a session in Matt Molloy's are anything, just some arsehole interrupting conversation being pandered to by groupies.

NoLuckLarry

Feisar wrote: »

Or whisht in a pub because some tit wants to sing some god awful dirge about having no spuds. I'm not taking about a session in Matt Molloy's are anything, just some arsehole interrupting conversation being pandered to by groupies.

Or Fields of Athenry where they repeat the first verse and chorus over and over because they don’t know the rest of the words. This will continue in awkward silence until somebody else starts roaring Sean South from another side of the pub or the singer is given a gently rising clap of hands to bring it to a halt.

Pawwed Rig

NoLuckLarry wrote: »

Any prick who picks up a guitar at 3am at a house party and forces the music to be turned off - **** off, nobody wants to hear you whining your way through some **** song.

It was Wonderwall wasn't it

Mike Murdock

Feisar wrote: »

Or whisht in a pub because some tit wants to sing some god awful dirge about having no spuds. I'm not taking about a session in Matt Molloy's are anything, just some arsehole interrupting conversation being pandered to by groupies.

Went to school with a clown like that. Not a note in his head either, but his retinue of groupies would guffaw and clap him on the back as he bellowed some rugby song from school/trad song, tunelessy.

Pure gob****e. And saw a video of him recently, same old story.

In his 40's doing it now.

****ing embarrasing.

Snails pace

NoLuckLarry wrote: »

Any prick who picks up a guitar at 3am at a house party and forces the music to be turned off - **** off, nobody wants to hear you whining your way through some **** song.

A fella that was in our circle of friends years ago was like that. Insisted on turning down the music and play wonder wall on repeat, he was good on the guitar but brutal at singing. After 20 minutes or so people were getting fed up. We suggested that he give it a break but he was persistent. A friend of mine who is a fabricator went out to the back of his van and got a sledge. When the musician put down the guitar the other fella made shít of it. The morning after the fabricator realised what he did and gave the musician a few hundred for a new guitar. The musician never drank with us again and has moved to Instagram to sing.

Myself personally I gave up drinking whiskey as I turned into a walking cúnt. I didn't go looking for fights but full of snide comments.

NoLuckLarry

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

It was Wonderwall wasn't it

Worst I ever witnessed was at a house party of lads and girls off their skull on yokes, with another group snorting Coke most of the evening. Dutch Gabber and all sorts of banging music playing.

One of the girls decided to invite this innocent student type guy over to it - he waits until someone is changing the cds at bat**** o clock in the morning and picks a guitar up from the corner of the room. I think he got 2 lines in to Seven Nation Army before an ashtray flew across the room from the coke guys direction and nearly took his ****ing head off followed by a steak knife embedding itself in the wall behind him.

Needless to say he made a very quick exit from the party after that!

Strumms

Wanderer78 wrote: »

sorry now, but if you continually get tanked and cause hassle at such events, there really is something psychologically wrong with you, and a bit of therapy wouldnt go astray, as theres a few demons in there that require exercising

No... only persons who can qualify a person as having something ‘psychologically wrong’ with them is a psychologist/psychiatrist ...

Some people are just badly behaved dickheads...

Bobblehats

Lot of negative stuff here. Can we agree the life and soul is always the rotund boy with the furry lip, and the tin whistle?

jojofizzio

NoLuckLarry wrote: »

Worst I ever witnessed was at a house party of lads and girls off their skull on yokes, with another group snorting Coke most of the evening. Dutch Gabber and all sorts of banging music playing.

One of the girls decided to invite this innocent student type guy over to it - he waits until someone is changing the cds at bat**** o clock in the morning and picks a guitar up from the corner of the room. I think he got 2 lines in to Seven Nation Army before an ashtray flew across the room from the coke guys direction and nearly took his ****ing head off followed by a steak knife embedding itself in the wall behind him.

Needless to say he made a very quick exit from the party after that!

:D:D:D:D

For Forks Sake

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

It was Wonderwall wasn't it

It's always f*cking Wonderwall

Beechwoodspark

Neighbour is a right bollix for this

He would wear the ear off anyone talking - more accurately he actually lectures and expects ppl to just listen and nod agreement

Anyway I’ve witnessed him do his “guitar routine” at the afters of a wedding, the afters of a residents association evening, wakes, bbqs, birthday parties, opening of an envelope, you get the picture...

The big fat plonker seems to think he is the embodiment of Bono, John Lennon, and christy Moore rolled into one.

His routine consists of absolutely murdering the following songs:-

Bad moon rising
Free falling
Fields of athenry
With or without you
Boys are back in town
Various “rebel” songs

Between the songs he says stuff like “ha that wasn’t bad was it was it” begging for compliments from ppl

JustAThought

Someone I know through someone, just when the night is hotting up he’s more pissed than the rest of us and starts to roar out oirush songs & sing down his nose at people and gets really angry and aggressive shussishing people . Wouldn’t mind but he is a total bore and really dosn’t have either the voice or most of the words. Drives me mad AND monopolises the singsong if it gets going. Apparently its his free concert not a singsong. Tone deaf and a seasion drone & roaring bore.
LOOOOOOOOOOW Liiiiiiiiiiiie de Fields....

JustAThought

Loud monopolising family member who goes round the room asking totally inappropriate and hurtful questions and corners people into his shoutey monologues.

x: So Y have you had any more miscarriages - how many is than now - six - I know someone else who had 4, I’ve been rehearsing medieval choral speaking tomes did you know St Alouusuoys invented the ...

Sometimes I watch him entraping another poor victim and have an overwhelming urge to stab him to death with a cocktail fork.

Dosn’t drink of course. And monologues us to death with the same ‘ you din’t need to drink to be interesting or have a good time’ ... EVERY TIME.

The worst bores are the sober bores.

Shoelaces

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Neighbour is a right bollix for this

He would wear the ear off anyone talking - more accurately he actually lectures and expects ppl to just listen and nod agreement

Anyway I’ve witnessed him do his “guitar routine” at the afters of a wedding, the afters of a residents association evening, wakes, bbqs, birthday parties, opening of an envelope, you get the picture...

The big fat plonker seems to think he is the embodiment of Bono, John Lennon, and christy Moore rolled into one.

His routine consists of absolutely murdering the following songs:-

Bad moon rising
Free falling
Fields of athenry
With or without you
Boys are back in town
Various “rebel” songs

Between the songs he says stuff like “ha that wasn’t bad was it was it” begging for compliments from ppl

Do you live in Beechwood Park Ranelagh??? If so I know the tosser. Another bint in that estate sing opera out of tune whenever she gets an audience

Quantum Erasure

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

It was Wonderwall wasn't it

I said maybe....,

Tilden Katz

Tilden Katz wrote: »

It's a party, people are going to be chatting amongst themselves. It's not a concert.

If anyone shushed me at a concert they'd get the same response. I'm hear to enjoy myself, chatting and singing along to the songs is part and parcel of that. If you don't want to hear other people having fun, then buy the CD. Classical music/Opera/Theatre are different, but if I got a shush at a pop/rock concert you'd be told where to shove it.

Rothko

Deleted User wrote: »

If anyone shushed me at a concert they'd get the same response. I'm hear to enjoy myself, chatting and singing along to the songs is part and parcel of that. If you don't want to hear other people having fun, then buy the CD. Classical music/Opera/Theatre are different, but if I got a shush at a pop/rock concert you'd be told where to shove it.

Singing along is fine and adds to the atmosphere but I will never ever understand people who go to a concert just to chat with their friends.

Too many times I've gone to a gig and there'll be some people closeby paying absolutely no attention to the stage and instead are just having some banal conversation with their pal. I just don't get the point.

chrissb8

Tilden Katz wrote: »

Worse than the party Guitar Wanker are those who shush you whilst Guitar Wanker is playing. That's right, I've been shushed at parties and admonished for not giving Guitar Wanker the right amount of deference. It's a party, people are going to be chatting amongst themselves. It's not a concert.

It's always some man who's looking to impress girls around him 9/10 times when he just picks it up out of his volition.

Always some maudlin "I'm so deep", let me help you understand how many feelings I have and the depth of these still waters.

Then they go and play Time Of Your Life by Greenday.

The only time it's acceptable to bring a guitar out is when everybody in the room at a party is pushing someone for it. And even then it's a request based thing with people all around asking for songs.

Capt'n Midnight

People who always manage to feck up any political party they go to

too many to chose from on this island

Mimon

Rothko wrote: »

Singing along is fine and adds to the atmosphere but I will never ever understand people who go to a concert just to chat with their friends.

Too many times I've gone to a gig and there'll be some people closeby paying absolutely no attention to the stage and instead are just having some banal conversation with their pal. I just don't get the point.

Fair enough if they are paying zero attention but there are times when you will want to chat with friends at gigs.

Tilden Katz

Deleted User wrote: »

If anyone shushed me at a concert they'd get the same response. I'm hear to enjoy myself, chatting and singing along to the songs is part and parcel of that. If you don't want to hear other people having fun, then buy the CD. Classical music/Opera/Theatre are different, but if I got a shush at a pop/rock concert you'd be told where to shove it.

I’ve never shushed anyone at a concert but sometimes it might be warranted. Like the way shushing in the cinema or library is socially acceptable.

Beechwoodspark

Shoelaces wrote: »

Do you live in Beechwood Park Ranelagh??? If so I know the tosser. Another bint in that estate sing opera out of tune whenever she gets an audience

Hahah no

My name is a reference to an indie band I like called beechwood sparks

I get the feeling plonkers like him are common though.

I forget to say during with or without you he launches into a speech about the power of love , I think he learned it off by heart from some speech Bono did back in the 80s.

He expects full respect and quiet when doing all this

Shoelaces

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Hahah no

My name is a reference to an indie band I like called beechwood sparks

I get the feeling plonkers like him are common though.

I forget to say during with or without you he launches into a speech about the power of love , I think he learned it off by heart from some speech Bono did back in the 80s.

He expects full respect and quiet when doing all this

Jesus that's horrific. The dude I'm thinking of has an 18 minute Eagles medley he likes to whip out, its obscene but nothing on that level of derangement.

ILoveYourVibes

You mean AIR SIGNS ??

dogbert27

For Forks Sake wrote: »

It's always f*cking Wonderwall

Or David Gray :mad:

The Mighty Quinn

seamus wrote: »

Or people who offer to do something important, like bring food or music, and then turn up an hour late or not at all.

My uncle (only a few years older than me fwiw) was supposed to be a groomsman at my wedding and as he's a professional photographer said he'd take photos for the day also.

I'm 3 years married. I haven't seen or heard a single word from him since 2 weeks before my wedding. ****ing asshole.

Dog day

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

I forget to say during with or without you he launches into a speech about the power of love , I think he learned it off by heart from some speech Bono did back in the 80s.

He expects full respect and quiet when doing all this

If he did anything akin to a mid-strumming ‘power of love speech’ around me I’d either die laughing or he’d die by my hand. What a grade A tool!