Are you a dry shyte if you don't dance?

Daveysil15 · 09-12-2013 06:45PM #1

So I was at the Christmas party over the weekend and when I arrived in work this morning, a few of my employees got a bit of a slagging because they didn't bother to venture onto the dance floor during the night. I've heard it so many times before and I've been on the receiving end of the slagging a few times myself.

I occasionally get up and dance on a night out if the mood strikes or if I'm drunk enough, but I'm just as happy to socialise with people or trying to chat up the new secretary.

For some people however, the night is not complete without the obligatory dance. Not everyone wants to dance. It seems a bit stupid to me as there is usually a point somewhere in the evening where everyone is looking towards the dance floor, but nobody wants to be the first person to walk onto it. Then when there's enough people out dancing the rest usually follow like sheep.

Anyway, you can have a great night without dancing... or can you?

DrumSteve · 09-12-2013 06:47PM

You can dance if you want to.

theblaqueguy · 09-12-2013 06:47PM

He who dances increases his chances!

NuckingFacker · 09-12-2013 06:50PM

"Dance like there's no-one watching".

Sadly, there usually is someone watching, especially if you're flailing around like a lad with a wasp up his vest. Or as yer man said, love is blind and marriage is an eye-opener.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 09-12-2013 06:51PM

I'm a useless dancer. I have no rhythm and usually don't enjoy it anyway. I am, however, liable to jump around like a tool on the dancefloor at 1am after too many jagerbombs on occasion. Most of the time though, at a wedding or christmas party, I'll just stay sitting at a table or up at the bar chatting. I used to spend half the night in the smoking area too but I gave up the fags since, although I'll occasionally venture out anyway if the craic is good. But the dancefloor is usually a me-free-zone. I don't consider myself dry because of this, much the same as I wouldn't consider someone who hates singing dry for not doing karaoke.

dmc17 · 09-12-2013 06:51PM

DrumSteve wrote: »

You can dance if you want to.

You can leave your friends behind

LOSTfan57 · 09-12-2013 06:52PM

DrumSteve wrote: »

You can dance if you want to.

You can leave your friends behind

lkionm · 09-12-2013 06:52PM

I absolutely despise dancing in clubs and pubs and that crap.

Its so stupid, a load of drunk people jumping around like a pack of gowls. I much rather prefer to get drunk at the bar or stand in the smoking area and breath in all that secondary smoke rather than stale knacker sweat.

BBDBB · 09-12-2013 06:52PM

but if your friends don't dance

Tombi! · 09-12-2013 06:53PM

No.
You'd be one if you weren't being social.

cantdecide · 09-12-2013 06:53PM

NuckingFacker wrote: »

"Dance like there's no-one watching".

I don't dance when no one's watching. I don't dance when people are watching either. You could say I just don't value dancing very much at all. When people try to cajole or slag, I always think if the Beck lyrics "I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me". I mean, who is someone else to take it personally if someone wants to abstain??

LOSTfan57 · 09-12-2013 06:53PM

dmc17 wrote: »

You can leave your friends behind

Damn you to hell

dmc17 · 09-12-2013 06:55PM

BBDBB wrote: »

but if your friends don't dance

then they're dry shytes and they ain't no friends of mine

Schwiiing · 09-12-2013 06:56PM

People who try to herd other people onto the dancefloor despite their protests are generally bellends.

lkionm · 09-12-2013 06:56PM

I also hate when people drag you out to dance. I just stand in middle and walk away after 10 seconds.

wretcheddomain · 09-12-2013 06:57PM

lkionm wrote: »

I absolutely despise dancing in clubs and pubs and that crap.

Its so stupid, a load of drunk people jumping around like a pack of gowls. I much rather prefer to get drunk at the bar or stand in the smoking area and breath in all that secondary smoke rather than stale knacker sweat.

Dry shyte

BlurstMonkey · 09-12-2013 06:57PM

lkionm wrote: »

I absolutely despise dancing in clubs and pubs and that crap.

Its so stupid, a load of drunk people jumping around like a pack of gowls. I much rather prefer to get drunk at the bar or stand in the smoking area and breath in all that secondary smoke rather than stale knacker sweat.

I don't dance but this post is still a load of ill thought out insulting crap. A lot of people can dance at least a little bit, even when they've had a few drinks. Everyone that goes on the dance floor isn't a smelly drunk knacker you obnoxious child. I'd love to be able to dance.

Dyr · 09-12-2013 06:58PM

tbh I just stand there checking everything is in place, you'd never know who was looking on like

Soft Falling Rain · 09-12-2013 07:00PM

As long as there's another dry shyte beside me to talk to then I couldn't give a bollox.

BBDBB · 09-12-2013 07:01PM

I wont dance, don't ask me

Ruu · 09-12-2013 07:01PM

I can't dance, I can't talk, only thing about me is the way I walk.

lkionm · 09-12-2013 07:03PM

BlurstMonkey wrote: »

I don't dance but this post is still a load of ill thought out insulting crap. A lot of people can dance at least a little bit, even when they've had a few drinks. Everyone that goes on the dance floor isn't a smelly drunk knacker you obnoxious child. I'd love to be able to dance.

Jesus, no.

This is all in my experience.

So jumping around like a gowl waving their hands in the air like they just dont care is dancing. We are talking about ballet now. We are talking about a smokey club dance floor.

Obnoxious child??? Im sorry that you feel that way about me dancing, but if I want to dance I do not need the alcohol to make the choice for me. I will go to a dancing class, I wont go to a dancing class to get drunk now will I.

Daveysil15 · 09-12-2013 07:04PM

lkionm wrote: »

I also hate when people drag you out to dance. I just stand in middle and walk away after 10 seconds.

God that reminds me of the first ever Christmas party I went to. There was one guy who was a bit shy and didn't drink. A few women dragged him onto the dance floor and he just stood there in the middle of the floor for what seemed like an eternity. It was painful to watch.

lkionm · 09-12-2013 07:06PM

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Dry shyte

Soft Falling Rain wrote: »

As long as there's another dry shyte beside me to talk to then I couldn't give a bollox.

We shall be dry shytes together.

BlurstMonkey · 09-12-2013 07:08PM

lkionm wrote: »

Jesus, no.

This is all in my experience.

So jumping around like a gowl waving their hands in the air like they just dont care is dancing. We are talking about ballet now. We are talking about a smokey club dance floor.

Obnoxious child??? Im sorry that you feel that way about me dancing, but if I want to dance I do not need the alcohol to make the choice for me. I will go to a dancing class, I wont go to a dancing class to get drunk now will I.

I don't feel any way about you dancing. You're having a conversation with someone else here I think, because you're certainly not addressing what I've said. Anyway, think what you like, it's still not right to insult anyone who dances or enjoys themselves, whether they've had a few or otherwise.

lkionm · 09-12-2013 07:08PM

Daveysil15 wrote: »

God that reminds me of the first ever Christmas party I went to. There was one guy who was a bit shy and didn't drink. A few women dragged him onto the dance floor and he just stood there in the middle of the floor for what seemed like an eternity. It was painful to watch.

Nah what I do is just tell them I dont dance and just stand there and say ill be at the bar. There is usually someone else in the group like me so its grand. we get drunk and have a better laugh.

lkionm · 09-12-2013 07:10PM

BlurstMonkey wrote: »

I don't feel any way about you dancing. You're having a conversation with someone else here I think, because you're certainly not addressing what I've said. Anyway, think what you like, it's still not right to insult anyone who dances or enjoys themselves, whether they've had a few or otherwise.

Im not insulting anyone for dancing when drunk. I just think it is a pointless endeavour, mostly its guys just creeping on the nearest girls to them and then moving through the crowd creeping.

Its easier to talk to girls when they are in the smoking area or sitting down and not dancing with the girlies.

bbam · 09-12-2013 07:15PM

Dance or don't dance. It's hardly a crime.
I can't dance much and only really venture onto the floor when I've been topped up enough not to care, which isn't a good thing really.

Some people (myself included) are more suited to having the crack and leaving the floor to those who have natural coordination.

thegreatgonzo · 09-12-2013 07:15PM

I love dancing when I like the music. I'm not much good but I don't care. If I don't like the song I won't dance. A night out dancing to songs that I like is the best, but a night sitting drinking is better than being dragged to most clubs where the music is chart and rnb and stuff I don't like.

preston johnny · 09-12-2013 07:16PM

Women jivers are the worst.......

Son Of A Vidic · 09-12-2013 07:19PM

BBDBB wrote: »

but if your friends don't dance

And if they don't dance, well they'd be no friends of mine.

Are you a dry shyte if you don't dance?

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