Is Communion or Conformation even about The Kids anymore

17-05-2014 08:30PM #1

today it seems to be more about the parents than the children

I was invited to my cousins communion party and the invitation was for a party in a pub hardly where a kid wants to end up a special day

i stayed for about 20 minutes before leaving say it was only 1pm and half of my family were getting drunk :rolleyes:

great family my lot (not)

surely hiring out the local bowl alley/supermacs would be more fun for the kids or hiring some entertainment

the short time i was there was parents telling there kids to keep quiet or stop running around

its meant to be the child special day not yours

Wacker The Attacker · 17-05-2014 08:31PM

It was always like this.

Its just that nowadays kids have fakes tans, limousines and are dressed like strippers

Bubbaclaus · 17-05-2014 08:31PM

Whatever it is about, it certainly isn't about religion.

17-05-2014 08:35PM

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

Whatever it is about, it certainly isn't about religion.

the kids were so bored i felt bad there special day was been ruined

my family hired out my local bowl alleys and had a lot of food for the kids burgers chips ice cream coke etc

and the next day my parents took me to toy store to buy whatever i wanted from the money i received though a small amount went to buy new clothes and was told to remember to buy something in the toy store for my younger brother

mad muffin · 17-05-2014 08:37PM

Anyone having a party for kids at a pub really doesn't care about the child.

darkpagandeath · 17-05-2014 08:38PM

Yeah i love the wad of cash idea for choosing the right religion..

Hunchback · 17-05-2014 08:43PM

it's a sham, a pageant, but its cheapening of religion doesn't bother me.

its an ugly pantomime for the majority.

i 'made' 6 pounds for my BLOODY CONFIRMATION IN 1990

will always be proud/bitter 'til I die

Pumpkinseeds · 17-05-2014 08:45PM

There doesn't seem to be a lot of money for hiring venues in my neck of the woods. It was a confirmation/communion day in our town today and there were a lot of very dressed up parents in the supermarket buying slabs of booze. Made me wonder why they didn't get it yesterday tbh.

Colser · 17-05-2014 08:47PM

I hate seeing communion kids aound pubs its actually quite sad imo..If the parents/family want a drink so badly on the day at least go home and let the kids have a bit more freedom to play around.They are so excited coming up to the day that i feel it must be a disappointment for them to just end up in the pub.

darkpagandeath · 17-05-2014 08:49PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

There doesn't seem to be a lot of money for hiring venues in my neck of the woods. It was a confirmation/communion day in our town today and there were a lot of very dressed up parents in the supermarket buying slabs of booze. Made me wonder why they didn't get it yesterday tbh.

May have been constructing the limousine or hot air balloon or picking up the plane tickets :pac:

Pretzill · 17-05-2014 08:50PM

CKonetheonlyone wrote: »

it's a sham, a pageant, but its cheapening of religion doesn't bother me.

its an ugly pantomime for the majority.

i 'made' 6 pounds for my BLOODY CONFIRMATION IN 1990

will always be proud/bitter 'til I die

I made 5 pound and change in 1974 (you were robbed)

edit to add: that was for my communion ( you were really robbed!)

DEFTLEFTHAND · 17-05-2014 08:53PM

The afters wouldn't bother me in fairness, With Confirmation the good thing is that the young boys and girls are becoming full members of the CC.

Birroc · 17-05-2014 09:05PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The afters wouldn't bother me in fairness, With Confirmation the good thing is that the young boys and girls are becoming full members of the CC.

Yeah often whether they like it or not...and they can never ever leave...

quadrifoglio verde · 17-05-2014 09:10PM

Birroc wrote: »

Yeah often whether they like it or not...and they can never ever leave...

My very religious mother won't allow me to go to mass anymore for free that I'll interrupt the priest in the middle of his sermon and argue why he's wrong :pac:

That's better than being allowed to leave in my books

On the subject of it ever being about the kids. Yes they're the centre of attention, but take away the money and very few will want to do it.

poundapunnet · 17-05-2014 09:17PM

I think because of the time of the year they're on and stuff they're mostly just an excuse for family get togethers these days. They're no more actually about the kids than they are about the religious aspect any more.

I can't remember being too cut up about it back in the day, pumped full of coca cola and made about £200 each time, happy out. My most vivid memory of it is practically falling out of the car in my rush to get out of the fcuking communion dress and into my jeans so I could go mental with all my cousins in the garden.

El Weirdo · 17-05-2014 09:31PM

Next to the children's allowance; christenings, communions and confirmations were what stopped me from sending her over on the ferry.

Great days out.

suicide_circus · 17-05-2014 09:45PM

Vulgarity

Temptamperu · 17-05-2014 10:02PM

Kids have no place in a pub no matter the day or time. But celebrating your kids special days by getting locked seems to be an Irish past-time.

BeerWolf · 17-05-2014 10:04PM

I've not done either, where does that put me - on the heathen list?

Icepick · 17-05-2014 10:13PM

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

Whatever it is about, it certainly isn't about religion.

Not all bad then

Cupcake_Crisis · 19-05-2014 03:46PM

A friend of my folks is hiring out the upstairs of a pub for her sons confirmation. When did that start happening?! The best part of a confirmation, from what I remember, was getting all dolled up and being dragged from house to house getting cards. Then treating your poor parents to dinner. Now you're expected to go to the child?! Me arse.

lertsnim · 19-05-2014 03:53PM

I wandered into a pub on Saturday to watch the FA Cup and the place had unattended children screaming and running all over the place while the adults with them drank. I only stayed for one pint and the amount of people that walked in and saw the circus and left in that time was staggering. The bar manager wasn't happy.

Temptamperu wrote: »

Kids have no place in a pub no matter the day or time. But celebrating your kids special days by getting locked seems to be an Irish past-time.

It's an Irish only thing is it? Wake up and look at the real world. People get pissed the world over at events like confirmations and communions.

mikeym · 19-05-2014 03:54PM

There was no bouncy castles or Communion cake when I was making my Communion.

And I got the old green pound notes I feel so old

endacl · 19-05-2014 03:56PM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Yeah i love the wad of cash idea for choosing the right religion..

'Choosing', you say...?

Turtyturd · 19-05-2014 04:08PM

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

A friend of my folks is hiring out the upstairs of a pub for her sons confirmation. When did that start happening?! The best part of a confirmation, from what I remember, was getting all dolled up and being dragged from house to house getting cards. Then treating your poor parents to dinner. Now you're expected to go to the child?! Me arse.

There was research done a few years back which found that eating so many ham sandwiches in the course of one day while going from house to house had ill health effects in later life. Not to mention the immediate ill health effects caused by parents beating their kids after they got butter stains on their nice suit, so dragging the family to one spot was deemed the way forward.

Speaking from my own case it was all about the money, didn't have any interest in the religious aspect even at that age. Neither of my own sons are Christened or in a Catholic school so it won't be an issue for them. Although their school does offer the option of Communion classes outside school hours, so if there is much uptake amongst their classmates we will arrange alternative plans for them on the Communion day so they don't feel left out.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 19-05-2014 04:10PM

So the children get to abuse the church for a day and have some fun...

What ammoys ma is the (even intelligent) parents who go along with but claim not to be catholic.

jimgoose · 19-05-2014 04:12PM

mikeym wrote: »

There was no bouncy castles or Communion cake when I was making my Communion...

Me neither. If there was, I would've said "quit wasting money on all that nonsense and give it to me, fairly lively!!!"

Colser · 19-05-2014 04:15PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Me neither. If there was, I would've said "quit wasting money on all that nonsense and give it to me, fairly lively!!!"

You must have been a very smart 8yr old Jim...have you still got your communion money?:D

jimgoose · 19-05-2014 04:16PM

Colser wrote: »

You must have been a very smart 8yr old Jim...have you still got your communion money?:D

Hell no. But I'll tell you one thing, biy - I didn't spend it on communion cake (what the lanthering Cheeses is that, anyway??) or bouncy castles!

D1stant · 19-05-2014 04:17PM

Temptamperu wrote: »

Kids have no place in a pub no matter the day or time. But celebrating your kids special days by getting locked seems to be an Irish past-time.

I disagree. I love taking my six year old to the pub. Once every 6-8 weeks, just me and him. 1 pint and a chat. Its nice.

orangesoda · 19-05-2014 04:18PM

i have seen recently that the parents put fake tan on the wanes, it's a bundle of nonsense

Is Communion or Conformation even about The Kids anymore

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