mikeck
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Post by mikeck on May 8, 2024 14:25:55 GMT
The stag do I arranged was a meet for an activity (we were chased by zombies in a disused shopping centre in Reading) then onto food and drinks in London, ending in a casino. A good recipe for a stag; activity, then drinks seems to always work well. Other good activity based stag I've been on was white-water rafting which was awesome. My stag was similar (but paintballing instead of zombie activity), apart from my best man arranging a photoshoot for a "sexy" calendar for the wife to be (did it the day before with just five of us there, glad it wasn't the whole stag group in attendance). Turns out the photographer he used took pregnancy pictures for one of the supermodel shoots back in the day (my best mate begged him to do it, so must have cost a fair bit). Still have the calendar (not on display) and yes I did an obligatory "pregnancy pose", really managed to push out a nice rounded belly back then
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Post by rhaegyr on May 8, 2024 14:33:16 GMT
I think (or hope) they're just winding me up but it's obviously working.
As long as I don't get my eyebrows and/or head shaved I can deal with what they throw at me. I think.
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 8, 2024 15:16:52 GMT
I think they're winding you up. You'll be fine. Last one I went to was Barca and I could only stay for one night but it was pretty good and not obnoxious as I thought it could possibly be.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2024 15:58:46 GMT
I went on a bunch in my thirties of varying severity. Specifically 2 in Hamburg, 2 in Amsterdam and 1 in Benidorm (I was best man for that).
Some kind of tutu or cheerleading outfit was de riguer at about half of them.
At one of the Amsterdam ones there was a stripper/lap dance arranged for the top floor of a steak house we ate at. This involved having trousers pulled down (not boxers) and everybody laughing at the poor c*nt’s wee boner. There was also a lady little person dressed a Smurf handcuffed to the stag on one, who ended up knocked out cold by a toilet door being flung open.
As a previous poster suggested, have a word in the shell of the best man maybe that you won’t be impressed by that kind of sh*te. I’d be furious now in my 40s at any of that and anything like eyebrows that is going to last past the ‘do’ is bang out of order.
If you’re the average age on this forum and are 40 plus it may not be a problem by default now., you hope people have grown out of it. In fact a few of the same crowd I spotted on a stag on Facey last week going axe throwing and for a mild bar crawl/meal in the city centre and that was it. I think once people get to the age they have more responsibilities (possibly including families) setting away to The Solana or a sex tourist destination is less normalised.*
Either way, it’s your best man’s job to keep you alive and safe so the BM should be/stay the soberest of you all ideally. I literally had to put my stag in the recovery position and sleep back to back with him to prevent him rolling over and potentially dying of vomit inhalation. That was *after* I took one for the team on one of the ‘death pints’ our dickhead crowd had plied him with, so Christ knows what they managed to slip past me.
*If you’re under about 35 you’re probably f*cked.
Edited for terrible initial writing
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Post by simple on May 8, 2024 20:07:18 GMT
The one I’ve got coming up looks like pub crawl around Oxford. In the past I’ve done paintballing, golf, beer bike, more pub crawls, Octoberfest, renting a big farmhouse together and mine was just a big dinner for a load of friends (although I was a new dad at the time and too knackered to move)
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Post by robthehermit on May 9, 2024 12:55:29 GMT
The Heinz weather sponsorship on itv gets on my tits. They keep showing fish fingers and beans. Where's the fucking chips you monsters?
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Post by Dougs on May 9, 2024 13:04:29 GMT
Ewww, ITV?!
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Post by cubby on May 11, 2024 14:55:22 GMT
Other half asked what I fancied for dinner this week and I suggested chicken burgers, which is a staple in the cubby household. She replied that we can't have that as it's Ultra Processed Food. Me:
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2024 21:58:23 GMT
Just got a message from Reddit Care Resources that somebody has reported me as being a risk to myself.
I’m absolutely fine and my last couple of comments have been to suggest that Labour should have rejected Elphicke and that I cast doubt on the veracity of one of those ‘AITA’ type posts where a bloke is apparently devo’d that his wife had a threesome with his sister and sister-in-law.
Just pondering which of these will more likely have triggered the false report off somebody I’ve pissed off. If it’s the latter I guess this might mean it was true and that maybe I should feel bad!
Feel it’s a really bad taste move whatever it was.
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 13, 2024 23:56:24 GMT
Just got a message from Reddit Care Resources that somebody has reported me as being a risk to myself. I’m absolutely fine and my last couple of comments have been to suggest that Labour should have rejected Elphicke and that I cast doubt on the veracity of one of those ‘AITA’ type posts where a bloke is apparently devo’d that his wife had a threesome with his sister and sister-in-law. Just pondering which of these will more likely have triggered the false report off somebody I’ve pissed off. If it’s the latter I guess this might mean it was true and that maybe I should feel bad! Feel it’s a really bad taste move whatever it was. It's a common tactic employed by Reddit dickheads. Just ignore it and remember that a good percentage of the people on there don't ever leave their homes nor do they interact with people in real life in the outside world. This is the only level of power/control they'll ever have in their lives.
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Post by grey_matters on May 14, 2024 1:18:08 GMT
Random musing: It may well be strange that I don't know what devo'd means.
Edit: devastated?
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Post by Lizard on May 14, 2024 1:55:54 GMT
I guess something to do with a whip?
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Post by ekz on May 14, 2024 2:13:53 GMT
Nah that's domme'd
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Post by dmukgr on May 14, 2024 3:49:03 GMT
discombobulated, because I like that word.
It is probably devastated though.
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Post by ekz on May 14, 2024 4:58:55 GMT
In Australia devo = devastated, but I'm hesitant to equate general slang with the wider world.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 14, 2024 5:08:45 GMT
It's also an awful american 80s band who I still blame for interstate '82. Possibly unfairly.
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Post by dfunked on May 14, 2024 5:43:56 GMT
'Uncontrollable urge' is a pretty great song of theirs in fairness. 'Mongoloid' is just plain awkward. Even at the time it must've been a bit of a wtf song.
The recent Ratchet & Clank game had a fantastic score by one of the Devo guys.
And yeah, just ignore the self harm thing on Reddit. Sad fucks who think they're being funny abusing a system that's there to help people.
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Post by cubby on May 14, 2024 6:57:18 GMT
It's also used by a lot of pro Russia and pro Israel trolls at the moment.
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Post by Syrette on May 14, 2024 8:56:21 GMT
Other half asked what I fancied for dinner this week and I suggested chicken burgers, which is a staple in the cubby household. She replied that we can't have that as it's Ultra Processed Food. Me: Grounds for divorce.
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Post by dmukgr on May 14, 2024 13:08:27 GMT
It's also used by a lot of pro Russia and pro Israel trolls at the moment. I knew @drakesmoke was dodgy
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2024 14:08:10 GMT
I guess it’s one of those funny things you don’t realise might be geographically unique.
To my patch of the NW, not to Moscow let me clarify.
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 14, 2024 20:23:21 GMT
Curious. I just got a Reddit Cares notice. I haven't written in any political groups or anything. I guess it's just cunts being cunts. Good ol' Reddit.
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 14, 2024 20:37:03 GMT
Actually has it happened to anyone else on here because it then feels less like coincidence and more like some 'hilarious' person on here doing it.
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Post by JuniorFE on May 14, 2024 20:46:03 GMT
To @drakesmoke just above, yeah. It's kind of a rite of passage at this point, if you've pissed off the kind of person that would send a troll RedditCare you're doing something right (can't remember if I've had one myself, but then again the communities I'm in typically don't suffer such fools gladly, so...)
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Post by robthehermit on May 14, 2024 22:17:14 GMT
One of these days I'm going to try and annoy some reddit trolls, sounds like it might be a fun way to spend 20 minutes.
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Post by Danno on May 14, 2024 22:28:11 GMT
Actually has it happened to anyone else on here because it then feels less like coincidence and more like some 'hilarious' person on here doing it. The only reason reddit isn't the worst place on the internet is because of one Musk. E., and they probably view that role as active competition, so I wouldn't read too much into it.
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Post by Nanocrystal on May 14, 2024 22:44:57 GMT
Huh, I find reddit threads to be generally fairly decent and positive. Might just be the subreddits it shows me (I avoid politics on there like the plague).
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Post by JuniorFE on May 14, 2024 23:05:10 GMT
You just gotta know where to be, except it's usually easier to do that on there than it is on Twitter
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Post by drhickman1983 on May 14, 2024 23:16:30 GMT
Reddit is fairly unique in that subreddits filter create a lot of distinct echo chambers. Some corners are very awful, and absolutely there are some very awful right wing subreddits, but there are also some very good subs.
As I avoid following any subreddits full of shit I largely avoid trolls. I mostly look at pictures of dogs, follow some music subs, and a few left leaning gently political subs, and a few popular science subs. Turn of the recommended posts option and you'll never see anything you aren't subscribed too.
I like it, and I've enjoyed it far less disagreeable than twitter (back when I briefly signed up long before Musk took over. Cancelled my twitter entierly once he did)
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Post by otto on May 15, 2024 8:56:59 GMT
It's also an awful american 80s band who I still blame for interstate '82. Possibly unfairly. Fuck off, Devo were great
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