'Partying'

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Does this word mean ANYTHING besides 'taking drugs'? If not, why even use it? Why don't people just come out and say "I'm looking forward to taking drugs all weekend" (or "Take Drugs 'Til You Puke" or "It's Time to Take Drugs")? There's too much stigma re taking drugs as it is, 'partying' should be an archaism like 'nervous condition' (ie wingnut) or 'dating' (ie 'fucking')

― dave q, Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I suppose it could mean 'drinking' too but I'm such a SNOB

― dave q, Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:09 (twenty-three years ago)

'partying' means any of taking drugs, drinking a shandy or two in the company of a few friends, going to an orgy, sitting in some squalid flat somewhere drinking cans of warm beer, etc.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

"Wanna party?" surely means "Wanna have sex?" or have I been watching the wrong films again?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

c'mon, wanna party means wanna sit in a squalid flat and drink warm beer WITH ME.

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

'Partying' = anything where I have to leave the house at night in nice clothes.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Given this lack of consensus, use of 'party' as a verb should clearly be encouraged. Oh what hilarity will ensue when Archel innocently ends up snorting coke off a virgin's breasts while gaz sits and drinks his warm beer.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:34 (twenty-three years ago)

You mean like 'to smurf', N?

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)

How I could do such a thing 'innocently' is not clear. But it's certainly not ruled out by my definition, hurrah.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going out partying with Archel next time!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I blame the cokeheads. Proper heroin users never call an evening's worth of use, or even a binge, "partying." They say "I got so God damned high on Friday." Or "on Saturday." Or "it's been a great week."

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Is it even possible to party on heroin? I suppose in a warm beer way.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:44 (twenty-three years ago)

haha I said "partying" on my year out of college thread didnt I? You're right Dave but society rules this one, also "drinking" is drug taking.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I think when people who are into drugs say "partying" they always mean taking drugs. It's always kind of annoyed me as well.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I tend to scream SPRING BREAK!!! whenever I'm in a partying mood.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely dancing to loud music with lots of other people = partying as well. With or without sex, drugs and alcohol.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:16 (twenty-three years ago)

That's true, but my point is that when someone into drugs uses the word, they ALWAYS mean one thing.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:18 (twenty-three years ago)

(God, I'm such a prude these days... "someone into drugs poo poo poo!")

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Partying = "I will debauch myself in whatever manner seems appropriate at the time."

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Or, preferably, get others to debauch me.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

As has been made evident, Partying can be used as an inclusive ‘umbrella’ term for, variously, any and all of the following: slurring; donning garments which you believe lend you the appearance a suave, sophisticated yet slightly edgy ladykilla though in fact act as a large flashing neon signpost blinking out that you are a no-taste desperado; dousing yourself in sweet smelling expensive alcohol; leering; directly experiencing the deterioration that begins with dancing and ends with staggering yet still possessing the unwavering conviction that you move and groove like love god; staying up ooohh past your normal bedtime; smoking more than your usual quota of cigarettes; diving fully clothed into a swimming pool; mounting a spirited attempt to persuade two fitties to accompany you as you retire to the bedroom; sporadically yelling mindlessly; systematically stealing your host’s entire CD collection stroke other any other commodity over the course of a soiree (although this also makes you a ‘fucking wanker’); stabbing a 15 inch kitchen knife through the wall of a residential property; clambering on to the roof of the venue and falling off into a tree; spontaneously developing the amazing attribute of being able to fall asleep in front of pounding bass bins and then upon being prodded awaken instantly with a possessed look and downing another vodka; breaking your leg on a trampoline; falling over; writing on walls; removing items of your clothing that go beyond what is deemed acceptable in polite company; developing an impressive resistance to dull chit-chat upon the instance of engaging that attractive young lady at the bar in conversation; laughing overly loud in the delusional hope that such behaviour translates as charisma; making one last desperate and likely as not humiliating bid to get those two fitties into your bed; getting drink poured over you stroke getting slapped; actually eating kebabs; making clinical, snapshot but nonetheless entirely inappropriate spur of the moment decisions such as pissing against a 24/7 till as you order cigarettes and then actually getting away with it by exclaiming to the wild-eyed store owner "oh no, me bag’s gone"; jumping on inappropriate objects, such as police car bonnets; falling unconscious in compromising positions; taking advantage of those who have fallen unconscious in compromising positions; laughing heartily at those who have been taken advantage of after falling unconscious in compromising positions; buying more beer for breakfast.

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)

All at once.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Partying is a rubbish term. Partying is what you do at a party, which is held at someone's house (never yours). Anything else is variously fucking, drinking, snorting, injecting etc. Call a spade a spade, esepcially when it comes to entertainment.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, but going to a sophisticated dinner party is not partying by any stretch of the imagination. I'm sure Andrew WK doesn't have the slightest idea which knife to use with the fish course.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Huh, Andrew WK talks the talk, but he plainly does not walk the walk. If he doesn't know which knife to use with the fish course.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Hence the name of his hit tune 'Party [=] Hard'

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

with most folks i know, to party means to "loudly drink".

then again, i know mostly alcoholics and not drug addicts(as far as i know), so perhaps its use is subjective.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick called me an alcoholic last night. I was flopped on the couch, drunkenly asking favors of him, but I was slurring my words so much it took him a long time to figure out what I was saying. Now, THAT's a party.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

partying with the bros
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― velko, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 03:24 (eighteen years ago)

cheers!
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― velko, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 03:24 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~plavchan/downloads/pics/summer05vacation/workshop/partying.jpg

― velko, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't partying sex with a prostitute?

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 03:29 (eighteen years ago)

apparently no
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― velko, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

partying

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― wilter, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 03:42 (eighteen years ago)

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― wilter, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 03:47 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's kind of funny how this word has come into non-ironic usage over the last several years.

― dell, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 03:47 (eighteen years ago)

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t&c surf design what happened?

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.sos.state.ne.us/gallery/norfolk_08/images/Students-helping-Sec.-Gale-(Cactus-Jack)-blow-out-birthday-cake-candles.jpg

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 04:15 (eighteen years ago)

Oh my god there is a male torso on this thred that I defs could have been happy not seeing.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

I'd like to hear the explanation behind (ahem) take it up the arse girl's sharpie tattoo!

― Finefinemusic, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

She takes it up the arse? Note another girl plainly labeled as "EASY." \

Silly!

― Abbott, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

I love the W.K. refs in the opening post btw.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's kind of funny how this word has come into non-ironic usage over the last several years.

-- dell, Monday, July 21, 2008 10:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

???????

― deej, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

wtf does that mean

― deej, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

maybe im weird but i always say 'partying' not-ironically

― deej, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

Like Mormons, when they have a party and play Disney Edition Scene-It and then Pictionary.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

I actually think that is pretty respectable and rad.

Tho Risk without beer: abandon all hope ye who enter here.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

hey deej & dell, u guys wanna 'party' tonight?

u know, drink beer & smoke weed with a buncha people

itll be hilarious, like when they used to do that unironically back in the 80s

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

i had some friends who when they went on a tour last year decided that if anyone said "do you guys want to party" they would do it no matter if that meant smoking pcp or gay sex, they were gonna do it.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

That is awesome.

― B.L.A.M., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

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