why would you send your kids off to these teenage discos?

Ihatecuddles-old · 26-10-2013 12:37AM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

ur cool nd badass

Never understood the fingering obsession. It's sore for the teenage girl and just awkward and fumbly for the teenage guy. Fashionable to pretend to be really into it though.

I went to the laughter lounge a few months ago, the comedian was asking if there were any new couples in the audience, of course me and my boyfriend were together about 3 months. He started asking do guys still finger girls, is it still a thing! I don't get embarrassed easily when it comes to sex, but I just sat there blushing for 15 minutes.

ardinn · 26-10-2013 12:38AM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

ur cool nd badass

Never understood the fingering obsession. It's sore for the teenage girl and just awkward and fumbly for the teenage guy. Fashionable to pretend to be really into it though.

Your the cool one - outing me like that - oh my god i'm so morto!

never be able to show my face here again!!!

You sure showed me!!!

Owww - my pride!!!

Howard Juneau · 26-10-2013 12:39AM

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

I went to the laughter lounge a few months ago, the comedian was asking if there were any new couples in the audience, of course me and my boyfriend were together about 3 months. He started asking do guys still finger girls, is it still a thing! I don't get embarrassed easily when it comes to sex, but I just sat there blushing for 15 minutes.

Well, it was bad form of your boyfriend to be fingering you during his routine in fairness!
:P

TheHighest92 · 26-10-2013 12:39AM

Nodin wrote: »

It was the same when I was in my teens and I'm 44 now. The world didn't end.

Justin wasn't around then though

loveBBhate · 26-10-2013 12:40AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

It was very like this one, but there was no rubber duckies on it, it was just a few Daffys. I was one suave youngfella in those days.

Swit Swoo

XxOo wb

danniemcq · 26-10-2013 12:40AM

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

I went to the laughter lounge a few months ago, the comedian was asking if there were any new couples in the audience, of course me and my boyfriend were together about 3 months. He started asking do guys still finger girls, is it still a thing! I don't get embarrassed easily when it comes to sex, but I just sat there blushing for 15 minutes.

Its easier than toeing them

Gee Bag · 26-10-2013 12:46AM

danniemcq wrote: »

Its easier than toeing them

or fisting them

Cody Pomeray · 26-10-2013 12:47AM

EmptyTree wrote: »

You're more likely to damage your kids by locking them up and 'protecting' them from it.

Who says though?

I would say it is not 'protecting' your children to endorse their socializing in some notorious disco where 14 year olds are routinely getting drunk, fingered, or worse, and coming to the attention of the Gardaí, who clearly have to keep an eye on the place, while you go home and hope nothing bad happens.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 26-10-2013 12:47AM

Nodin wrote: »

It was the same when I was in my teens and I'm 44 now. The world didn't end.

That maybe the case where you're from but when I was going to the same type discos (and I'm only a few years younger than you) the guards didn't have to bring in extra manpower to police the streets before, during and after them. In fact I rarely seen guards anywhere near them. Nowadays there is a full police presence around the very same nightclubs I went to at that age, there is more trouble and more stupidly drunk teenagers falling about the place, fighting, causing trouble, vandalising and being arrested than ever before.

The Backwards Man · 26-10-2013 12:50AM

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

Who says though?

I would say it is not 'protecting' your children to endorse their socializing in some notorious disco where 14 year olds are routinely getting drunk, fingered, or worse, and coming to the attention of the Gardaí, who clearly have to keep an eye on the place, while you go home and hope nothing bad happens.

Teenagers are like bull-calves. You can train them, condition them, tether them, nurture them, mollycoddle them until the cows come home.

But the first time you let them into a field on their own, no matter what age they are, they are going to go fcuking mental.

Smidge · 26-10-2013 12:50AM

The Wezz, pffff :rolleyes:

Now, "The Apartments".....

Czarcasm · 26-10-2013 12:52AM

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

Who says though?

I would say it is not 'protecting' your children to endorse their socializing in some notorious disco where 14 year olds are routinely getting drunk, fingered, or worse, and coming to the attention of the Gardaí, who clearly have to keep an eye on the place, while you go home and wait for your kid to call you.

Cody teenage discos are almost a rite of passage at this stage. If it wasn't a teenage disco they'd be up to some other silly shìt. Most teenagers outgrow the phenomenon unscathed, and those that don't would probably have been fcuked up anyway doing some other silly shìt.

EmptyTree · 26-10-2013 12:53AM

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

Who says though?

I would say it is not 'protecting' your children to endorse their socializing in some notorious disco where 14 year olds are routinely getting drunk, fingered, or worse, and coming to the attention of the Gardaí, who clearly have to keep an eye on the place, while you go home and hope nothing bad happens.

Because if you don't send them they'll turn into crystal swing or something equally wrong

Gee Bag · 26-10-2013 12:53AM

Sitec wrote: »

Is that Miley?

I presume you dont mean Miley Cyrus

Femme_Fatale · 26-10-2013 12:53AM

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

Who says though?

I would say it is not 'protecting' your children to endorse their socializing in some notorious disco where 14 year olds are routinely getting drunk, fingered, or worse, and coming to the attention of the Gardaí, who clearly have to keep an eye on the place, while you go home and hope nothing bad happens.

If all their pals are going, they'll resent not being allowed go. Plus, not all young teenagers are going to get really pissed and engage in sexual activity with randomers. I'd say most don't, despite the "We all" myths. So there should be some trust in them.
I can understand parents being concerned though - it's how any parent would feel, it's not "prudish" not to like the idea of your 13/14-year-old kid getting up to such stuff.

I was 16 when I was doing that stuff and some of it was totally to go along with the crowd, but I am unscathed.

Cody Pomeray · 26-10-2013 01:00AM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Cody teenage discos are almost a rite of passage at this stage. If it wasn't a teenage disco they'd be up to some other silly shìt. Most teenagers outgrow the phenomenon unscathed, and those that don't would probably have been fcuked up anyway doing some other silly shìt.

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

I was 16 when I was doing that stuff and some of it was totally to go along with the crowd, but I am unscathed.

fair points. I didn't do that stuff when I was 16 but I still think I was able to go off and enjoy pubs and even going on the lash when I got a few years older.

I'm all for letting kids have a few drinks at home, and it's a great credit to those kids who do manage to go out and not end up like the kids we all notice. But it's a big gamble to take. I've had friends who came from normal, stable homes and went off the rails when they fell in with the wrong people. I'm sure we all know people like that. Why would parents risk it?

P_1 · 26-10-2013 01:03AM

Teenagers will always go a little bit mad when they go to let their hair down, tis one of the facts of life like a mother going spare when you don't ring them after a few days

timthumbni · 26-10-2013 01:10AM

My children will be locked in until they are 21. Then they will be allowed to go to the local shop to buy milk each day. That is it. We won't be raising any harlotans around here.

This is a local town... For local people.

Czarcasm · 26-10-2013 01:11AM

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

fair points. I didn't do that stuff when I was 16 but I still think I was able to go off and enjoy pubs and even going on the lash when I got a few years older.

I'm all for letting kids have a few drinks at home, and it's a great credit to those kids who do manage to go out and not end up like the kids we all notice. But it's a big gamble to take. I've had friends who came from normal, stable homes and went off the rails when they fell in with the wrong people. I'm sure we all know people like that. Why would parents risk it?

Because Cody as FF points out - at some point you have to trust your children, or show them that you trust them, you've done your best to guide them this far in life and you have to let them off the leash a little, let them learn to make some mistakes and hope that you'll have instilled in them the tools to be able to cope with the consequences of their actions.

Of course we all know people who went a bit off the rails, but those people are a very small minority, magnified of course by the media, we've all heard those scaremongering stories too...

And then there are the parents who just don't give a shìte what their kids get up to!

P_1 · 26-10-2013 01:13AM

Also there is anecdotal evidence of people going completely bananas once they fly the nest after their parents keeping them under virtual lock and key in their teenage years.

Turtyturd · 26-10-2013 01:13AM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Because Cody as FF points out - at some point you have to trust your children, or show them that you trust them, you've done your best to guide them this far in life and you have to let them off the leash a little, let them learn to make some mistakes and hope that you'll have instilled in them the tools to be able to cope with the consequences of their actions.

Of course we all know people who went a bit off the rails, but those people are a very small minority, magnified of course by the media, we've all heard those scaremongering stories too...

And then there are the parents who just don't give a shìte what their kids get up to!

Or those who just want the kids out of the house so they can have sex.

johnb25 · 26-10-2013 01:13AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Teenagers are like bull-calves. You can train them, condition them, tether them, nurture them, mollycoddle them until the cows come home.

But the first time you let them into a field on their own, no matter what age they are, they are going to go fcuking mental.

Maybe....but they can handle it a bit better when they are older.

Muise... · 26-10-2013 01:18AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

At my first disco I drank a 3 litre bottle of cider under a bridge, puked on a girl's boobs on the dancefloor and fell asleep in a shuck on the way home and ruined my Daffy Duck tie.

That was more than twenty years ago, we were just as bad when we were kids. Worse maybe.

This is adorable, but what's a shuck?

gctest50 · 26-10-2013 01:19AM

timthumbni wrote: »

My children will be locked in until they are 21. Then they will be allowed to go to the local shop to buy milk each day. That is it. We won't be raising any harlotans around here.

This is a local town... For local people.

lol

loveBBhate · 26-10-2013 01:23AM

One of my very good friends was always very held back by his parents throughout secondary school. Soundest lad ever and a truly good friend but like I said held back. Anytime we'd be up too no good (nothing serious, usual teenage antics) or wanted to do something or go somewhere he was always help bank. Anyway, come Oxegen 2010 and he was 18 with the Leaving Cert finished and no parents around.

My God did we see a completely new person in him, worse than the lot of us combined. Nuts! It was hilarious

still cracked throughout the college years but ya, I see where people are coming from when they say the tiger will eventually be let out of the cage and all that.

Galwayguy35 · 26-10-2013 01:25AM

There was an article in the Sunday World a few years ago about the teenage discos, it mentioned that "snowballing" was a common event.

I never heard of it so looked it up........

I think most of us drank before we were supposed to but not to the same extent as these days because we hadn't the money, a fiver back then might have to last the night.

errlloyd · 26-10-2013 01:26AM

I actually think one of the reasons Wezz has survived so long is because its relatively tame.

Its all bull**** and exaggeration, the stories you hear of ridiculous stuff happening is a second hand story coming from the mother of the kid who's too cool for school friend made up a story about getting a blow job, when actually the girl reached into his trousers, but not his boxers, and snogged his face for about 20 seconds between the DJ playing Cotton Eye Joe and the National Anthem.

No one actually ever sneaks off to Herbert park to get the ride, and while a few kids vomit there is really no harm done. There are bouncers and guards all over the place and its a nice isolated suburb with no normal nite clubs meaning that the kids are relatively safe from sexual predators because any drunk 18+ men walking around will immediately raise the suspicions of the 40 overprotective parents sitting outside the gate, the guards, the bouncers or just the general public.

In summary, unless you're going to ban teenage discos and follow a path that roughly made up the story line in teen musical "footloose" you may as well accept that "The Wezz" in particular fills the requirement impressively well.

Femme_Fatale · 26-10-2013 01:28AM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

There was an article in the Sunday World a few years ago about the teenage discos, it mentioned that "snowballing" was a common event.

Wonder how true that is though.

I think most of us drank before we were supposed to but not to the same extent as these days because we hadn't the money

Yeh I reckon that too.

Galwayguy35 · 26-10-2013 01:35AM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Wonder how true that is though.

Yeh I reckon that too.

Yeah it could be a case of the SW reporting for shock value, wouldn't be the first time that paper tried that.

When I first started drinking it was a pint of beer, most of my age group were the same, now they are drinking a lot stronger stuff, a doctor was talking about it and reckons a 16 year old doing this week in week out will have fooked up their liver by the time they are our age.

cruais · 26-10-2013 01:37AM

I use to go to wezz when I was 16.... It was really a school year night out everytime you went.

That was 13/14 years ago and it was just the same back then as it is now.

My school put a ban on any pupil attending the disco, however I didn't see what they could do about it since it was held outside school hours, until one night while queuing, my P.E teacher and principle walked along the line taking names down in a black book.

Monday morning, the phone call to the parents were doing the rounds. Unbelievable!

why would you send your kids off to these teenage discos?

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