Hen Parties and Stag Parties - the most embarrassing aspect of our culture

UK Boys: should we go to a strip club?
US Girls: you have to!!!

which was sort of funny since 3 of us had women's studies minors.

However, we did play a game on the Saturday night where the bride had to answer questions, and there were forfeits if she got the answers wrong. These forfeits were from a box of cards called Hen Night Forfeits, and they all said things like "use three condoms by the end of the night" and "drink three shots in three different bars" and so on. We were very pleased not to be one of those hen parties.

I went back to D and told him what the others wanted. He threw a hissy and the whole thing got cancelled. God bless him. We ended up just having quiet drinks somewhere a few days beforehand.

Better than what my brother did - he got arsefaced 2 days before his wedding and at one point very late decided he wanted to footy-tackle a bunch of trees. After about 3 trees, one fought back and he broke his arm. He ended up having a wedding, and a honeymoon, in a big plastic-coated cast.

LEARN YE WELL, LADS.

the underlying tone of "enjoy your final fleeting hours of liberty before you settle into the most boring, vanilla, lights-out, babymaking sex you could possibly imagine"

There are sound reasons for that tone.

Meaning what? That you're supposed to become boring after you get married? I fucking well hope not.

When they got on you could see everyone else on the train thinking "don't stand next to me don't stand next to me don't stand next to me".

Anyhow, I asked what the other side was like..

"We all get together for a Shower"
"Wow! Sounds great!"
"No, it's nothing like your mental picture."

it was nothing too heavy, just like a normal night out with friends. nice city btw.

i think hen/stag parties are not really different from other 'parties'.

And no one used to have whole weekends of it, I don't think. Getting pissed in the pub one night and being tied to a lamp-post used to be the high watermark of jinx.

i dread going to any stag night, or having my own. or rather, i resent the idea that i cant organise it. i lpan to organise, and tend to view it as an opportunity to do something really nice.

in my mind, this takes the shape of inviting a bunch of my friends (girls and boys) to a secluded beach somewhere and dancing to techno on the beach, whilst drinking Landlord or equivalent.

Cool. Can I come?

(OFF TOPIC) My friends and I have started a guerrila offshoot of CAMRA, called ACID. This stands for Assembly for Cask In Dance.

I have to co-organise a hen night. It's in a couple of connected cottages near Bath. So far I have done not much to contribute. My co-organiser has organised eating, spa, pole dancing, two women who have not spoken for 5 years but have agreed to put up with each other, and stupid t-shirts.

I have to come up with some stupid games and need something less run of the mill than what we have so far. Can be sex-obsessed, but don't have to be. So far my co-organiser has listed:

Mr & Mrs quiz pre dinner – Does P**** really know this man???
My perfect man – during dinner (I have no idea what this game is)
Truth/dare – after dinner
Space hopper racing

Know any games that are actually proper fun and won't be the 15th time for everyone?

Truth/dare after alcohol

works for some!!!

All of it will be after alcohol, except the spa in case anyone drowns.

we were doing one of these for a friend of ours. he *somehow* got control of the agenda and tricked us into ending up at a tranny bar/restaurant watching the waitstaff karaoke. best script flipping ever, tho some midwesterners were a bit unnerved.

Hmmm, tranny bar. The bride is a down-to-earth Northern lass. She may well get control of the agenda but is more likely to lead us to a club that was last refurbished in the 80s and boasts the pride of the West Country.

Need stuff for the evening in. Dice games, question games, physical games, sex-related games, etc etc etc etc. Bonus points if they don't set the ex-friends off again

I'm 36 for Christ's sakes

I am smiling warmly at the term "hen" being used for these. It seems so domestic and nice.

Someone who is good at posting images may want to dispel this notion of Euler's.

hah! I get that it's not domestic and nice, but the term "hen" makes it sound that way, in contrast to "bachelorette party". "Hen" sounds down-on-the-farm, sweet. Stag by contrast sounds rather nasty, and thus more in line with reality.

I have to attend a stag party in two weeks, and the best man seems to have no clue what to do. So I guess I'll have to step up. The last time I did this, I tried to hire a stripper dressed like a nurse, because the groom-to-be was marrying a nurse. When she arrived, the groom-to-be freaked out, and sent her away, along with our money. And this a month after graduation, during which, for four years, he bragged repeatedly about his sexual appetites.

Hen parties are more likely to involve sulks, people feeling left out, flouncing, and truly poor cocktails.

dressed like a nurse, because the groom-to-be was marrying a nurse.

whoa. a stripper that somehow invoked his mom wasnt available?

(it is funny tho)

Stupid games, stupid games, please, going to bed now, please to have inspired me in the morning

I dunno, charades? Wii? Rock Band?

"who can bring the most outlandish sex toy"

cribbage. with real cribs

OK, I'm gritting my teeth, but Louis, the 'most outlandish sex toy' actually does sound plausible.

None of us are kitted up with the requisite Wii gear.

Just uh google "Parlour games" and browse for a bit....

A lube tasting, with all the silly fruity ones.

that's disgusting.

Ian, yes it is, but Laurel, that would actually work. Thanks, officially added to the programme.

get all women to plaster-cast their man's erect pecker, and have a guessing-game

maybe photograph

isn't hen party simply another term for hen fap?

It's a hen fec (Fancy Eighteen Cocktails?)

bring a spiked leather dog lead and collar to proceedings and attempt to trap a man

then let bacchic instinct take over

is that how you english blokes like it, eh?

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