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Teenage Discos

  • 18-03-2013 05:50PM
    #1
    Gee_G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭


    I've had this conversation with two or three of my family/friends over the past few weeks and I would like to your opinions.

    What age do you think is appropriate for teenagers to start going to pioneer discos?
    Would you drop them there and collect them afterwards or would you let them get the bus that all their friends are going on?
    Do you ever feel ready to let them start going out?

    As I've said,this topic of conversation keeps coming up as my friends have kids who are now looking to start going to discos and also my nieces and nephews.

    I really don't know how I feel about them or what age I'd feel comfortable to let my kids go!(I don't have to worry for another 13/14years :))

    So I'm just curious as to AH's opinion on this.


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  • #2
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Teenage disco's are sh1te

    Salt & Vinegar Disco's are feckin' deadly!


  • #3
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Stinky finger central.I love them


  • #4
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    YYYYYYOOOOOKES


  • #5
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    Id send them on their way with a 6 pack of dutch and a naggin. None of this dropping and collecting business.


  • #6
    Spunge
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    considering the stuff that goes on in them id say not until they are married


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  • #7
    Rayne Wooney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,134 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    13 and 14 is fine.

    Ask them what they want to do, if they say they want to get the bus with their friends, make sure they have it all planned out.. times, which friends are going, what time they have to leave.


  • #8
    Mr. Wong
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 221 ✭✭Mr. Wong


    Ah those were the days. Always guaranteed at least a **** every week.


  • #9
    Gee_G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭Gee_G


    Spunge wrote: »
    considering the stuff that goes on in them id say not until they are married
    That is exactly my thoughts for my own kids ha ha. No outings until then!


  • #10
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,972 ✭✭✭amacca


    Depends on the child and their maturity level imo

    if they can be trusted (to a certain extent) its a learning experience for them...dont want to shelter them forever and hinder their development...dont want them going wild neglecting academic stuff and regretting not developing there either

    ah the joys of parenthood

    1st/2nd yr in secondary school would be early enough imo so about 13/14...maybe properly supervised ones before that as opposed to money making exercises in a place with questionable supervision where anything can go


  • #11
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    If only there was a forum where Parents could give advice to other Parents on Parenting....oh wait..


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  • #12
    krudler
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    There was one in the school down the road from where our estate is recently, sweet jesus it was like a hooker convention, 15 year olds wearing stuff a stripper would find too revealing. I mean we used to go to "non alcoholic" discos as teenagers but the stuff they get up to now is way more than we did.


  • #13
    Gee_G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭Gee_G


    MadsL wrote: »
    If only there was a forum where Parents could give advice to other Parents on Parenting....oh wait..
    General opinions I'm looking for, not just from parents! But thanks :)

    (Mods feel free to move :))


  • #14
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    krudler wrote: »
    There was one in the school down the road from where our estate is recently, sweet jesus it was like a hooker convention, 15 year olds wearing stuff a stripper would find too revealing. I mean we used to go to "non alcoholic" discos as teenagers but the stuff they get up to now is way more than we did.

    Orgies is all they are, Joe.


  • #15
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    krudler wrote: »
    I mean we used to go to "non alcoholic" discos as teenagers but the stuff they get up to now is way more than we did.

    It's exactly the same, but time has encrusted your memories with a patina of nostalgia and unwarranted innocence.

    I'd hate to be a parent leaving their daughter (s) at one of those... it'd be like pushing a hemophiliac into a shark tank.


  • #16
    anhedonia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭anhedonia


    Gee_G wrote: »
    What age do you think is appropriate for teenagers to start going to pioneer discos?

    What the hell is a 'pioneer' disco?


  • #17
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    anhedonia wrote: »
    What the hell is a 'pioneer' disco?

    Alcohol free.....not free alcohol


  • #18
    Gee_G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭Gee_G


    anhedonia wrote: »

    What the hell is a 'pioneer' disco?
    Really??
    Its a disco without alcohol!


  • #19
    herisson
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    I was walking to the pub one night when one of those teenage discos were on. They all looked like prostitutes, tiny shorts and skirts stuck up their hole, plastered in makeup and fake tan, belly tops and extremely sheer blouses. You could clearly see their bras. They were 14 years old at the most?

    I feel so old saying this :(


  • #20
    Ava_e
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    I was 12/13 with my friends. We looked after each other, a bit of " getting off " or kissing went on. This was Wesley Disco and the bouncers were sharpe enough when anything else was going on.


  • #21
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    anhedonia wrote: »
    What the hell is a 'pioneer' disco?

    Involves straw bales, covered wagons, cowboy hats and six shooters in this part of the world! :D

    Yeee Haw!

    I think it is the same in Clare, no?


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  • #22
    Rayne Wooney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,134 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    Ava_e wrote: »
    I was 12/13 with my friends. We looked after each other, a bit of " getting off " or kissing went on. This was Wesley Disco and the bouncers were sharpe enough when anything else was going on.


    What now? :eek:


  • #23
    anhedonia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭anhedonia


    Gee_G wrote: »
    Really??
    Its a disco without alcohol!

    Yes, Really !!
    obviously teenage discos are non-alcoholic, but Ive never heard of a disco called a 'pioneer' disco.
    Are they organised by the pioneers or something?


  • #24
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Ava_e wrote: »
    I was 12/13 with my friends. We looked after each other, a bit of " getting off " or kissing went on. This was Wesley Disco and the bouncers were sharpe enough when anything else was going on.

    Heard that Wesley has moved on a bit since then, plenty of 'kissing' just not so much mouth to mouth. Never allowed my teenage daughter to attend Wes - anyhow she has better taste and has never asked.

    Wesley. Don't.


  • #25
    Tugboats
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    Pixie-Fairy wrote: »
    I was walking to the pub one night when one of those teenage discos were on. They all looked like prostitutes, tiny shorts and skirts stuck up their hole, plastered in makeup and fake tan, belly tops and extremely sheer blouses. You could clearly see their bras.

    Link?


  • #26
    Gee_G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭Gee_G


    Ava_e wrote: »
    I was 12/13 with my friends. We looked after each other, a bit of " getting off " or kissing went on. This was Wesley Disco and the bouncers were sharpe enough when anything else was going on.
    Yeah, sounds similar to when we used to go. Maybe a bottle of something(whatever one of us could sneak out of our houses) between about 10 of us, we were hammered :D


  • #27
    Czarcasm
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    At that age I'd hope my child would have the cop on to know how to have a laugh with their friends while at the same time being able to respect themselves and those they might meet at these discos.

    There would be no set age I'd say "OK it's your birthday, now you can do so and so", it really is a question of a person using their judgement to judge the child's maturity.


  • #28
    GRMA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭GRMA


    If I had a son... off you go lad.

    A daughter? I'd be more reluctant to let her go.


    Did the bar at one a few years ago... It was shocking what they were at tbh, far too young for that carry on you wouldnt see that type of stuff in a club for adults.


  • #29
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Tugboats wrote: »
    Link?

    Pete Townsend? That you?


  • #30
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Confab wrote: »
    It's exactly the same, but time has encrusted your memories with a patina of nostalgia and unwarranted innocence.

    I'd hate to be a parent leaving their daughter (s) at one of those... it'd be like pushing a hemophiliac into a shark tank.

    Especially since people seem to be more drunk at "non alchoholic" nights than actual nights out for grown ups. every time theres on one here you'd see kids hanging around the centra up the road asking people to buy them naggins of vodka. I'm no prude or anything but getting sh1tfaced at 13-14 isnt on.

    If I ever had kids I never want a daughter, I'd be one of those you can leave the house when you're 18 parents :pac:


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  • #31
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    GRMA wrote: »
    If I had a son... off you go lad.

    Teenage pregnancy doesn't just affect the girl.


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