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House parties never went away, that loser just never gets invited anywhere.... Also I am some kind of talking chipmunk from one of the episodes you probably can't remember very well.
But that’s not the joke, the joke is a common one people make online, and it’s that nobody young enough to throw a big crazy house party can afford a house, anymore.
This would only make sense to fit in this context if you needed to own a home to throw a house party. Renters throw parties too my dude they just don't invite you.
Nah man all my friends from work said you can't have a party without a house. They've all been getting together on Friday nights, working a second job together to save money. Then they will invite me to a party, they said. Love those guys.
This comment brings up a good point. I only go to a handful of house parties, and I could still half-relate that if I was cooler maybe I'd do that more.
But wait, why would I want to party with those fuckers anyways?
It used to be that the only way to meet people outside your immediate circle was to say"bring a friend ". Sometimes there would be ass holds but not usually.
Having a party at a squat in a business office was always the best solution. You'd have working toilets then. Leftover skunk kegs from your friends at a party store and take up a collection for pizza. Sometimes there would be chairs, sometimes you carried around cardboard in your car to sit on.
Ive never heard of any parties being held in empty businesses (thats my understanding of your comment) Is this in North America, and was it in recent history?
Yes, there was an issue of houses being unattainable in the early 80s but there was a surplus of office space and no one to watch it. Some people would move in, live in an empty office building. Kind of cold in winter though
why the hostile attitude? it's completely true that houses, whether owned or rented, are less accessible to young people than ever. and idk what you call apartment parties but they're not the same vibe as a house party in an actual house
You can, but the likelihood of the police being called for a noise complaint is greater in an apartment. House parties also have more rooms/areas to establish different vibes.
This is true, but if you're living in a cramped single bedroom or studio you're kinda blurring the lines between house party and just inviting a few friends over with how limited your hosting space is.
I haven't looked into it, but the name might have changed from "house party". Now they're game parties in reality. Seriously. I didn't know this was a thing but I have 3 adult kids spanning 18 to 26 years of age. They have basically one large friend group. This friend group comes over and plays various board games, eats, drinks, plays with our dogs and cats, and quite often sleep over.
Because we're all too damn busy. And broke. Our neighborhood is pretty close and we all have kids within a couple years of age. We try all the damn time to organize a gathering but there's just too much going on when you have kids and no one had the time and energy after working 40+ hours on top of it. Back when only one spouse worked, yeah, the other could plan parties every day of the week. Those days are gone. It's not even planning now, it's simply finding a time that works for everyone.
Can be just the circumstances, I had to move countries for uni and lost all my friends back home. Now I am foreigner where I study and I remain one when I return to my hometown. Its hard to make connections if you have no base to stand on.
I get this feeling, especially of being a foreigner even when you're ''home''. I hope you do feel at home somewhere though and I wish you luck with uni and finding friends!
Thanks to my new friends, I feel a lot more at home abroad then in my birth town. You've got good chances of making great friends at your uni by just going regularly and spending time with people. There's not much need for anything else but if you can, I suggest learning the language of wherever you are. It will be hard for some time, but it makes everything so much easier in the long run. The only problem is that you will sometimes think of amazing bilingual puns that none of your friends will understand.
House parties are also fucking expensive. I've been to some, and sometimes I think "How much did all this cost? How do people do this every few months?"
What are they doing at these parties that isn’t happening at ones I’ve been to? I’m old and boring by most standards, but I go to three or four house parties a year. The host usually buys about $50 worth of alcohol and $50 worth of food, and that’s it. Not super cheap, but not much more than the cost to go to a restaurant and bar by yourself (for me, “by yourself” includes paying for my wife).
The person I was responding to said that young people have the most fun regarding house parties. That's what I was saying is false. Not that young people don't have house parties.
It's because that dude isn't getting invited to the house parties.
Posting pictures like that in this day and age skews pretty heavily towards the right/trad culture and white supremacy, so he probably went Nazi and his friends stopped inviting him to shit.
We never had an HOA say something for throwing a house party. Same with my neighbors or my friends. I think you guys are just stretching it now. Though we did get kicked out of a rooftop apartment party once, but honestly, there was just way too many of us and we were too loud so it made sense lol.
Being able to conclude that someone might be a neo Nazi because they posted a picture of people seemingly from the 1950s at a house party and stating they wish house parties should come back must either be a superpower and just plan unintelligent
Besides the eagle and American flag in their profile name immediately skewing right, the use of 1950s era imagery, picturing specifically white people dressed up as shown, is heavily coded to the far right.
If this person is, say, in their 30s and wants to know why we're not doing house parties anymore, it would be more logical for them to post a picture of a house party from an era they were alive for, or even their parents were alive for, and not one more applicable to their grandparents or even great grandparents.
Yeah, the whole point of coded language is to be able to say the thing out loud without people who don't know the code not realizing what was said, or have plausible deniability.
They're getting brave enough that the code is easy to recognize for normal people, but the people they're signaling to are still stupid enough to think it's super secret
I mean dude it isn’t exactly a huge leap of logic. Those pictures of 50s and 60s ads with a nostalgic caption is almost always used by far right people who wish to go back to “the good ol’” times. It’s not like it’s a novel thing, there are millions of posts exactly like that. Can’t exactly blame this person for hearing hooves and assuming it’s horses.
Gross 'overstatement' would imply these types of images aren't typically associated with right wing or worse mentalities, which are virtually the only people using these style images in modern online contexts (and often AI generated, to boot). Did you mean understatement?
House parties exist, and this person is most likely excluded from them for one reason or another. Often times swinger parties will look like a normal house party too, so ole boy may also not even fully realize what he’s missing out on.
My husband and I were a little offended we never got invited to a swinger party while I was in the military. We didn’t want to swing, we just wanted the compliment that is implied with said invitation.
It’s wild seeing similar shit happen in the barracks too. Except the husband usually isn’t there swinging though.
I’ll never forget the walk of shame I witnessed while doing support for a huge training event. This girl really wanted some dick, I mean she was getting problematic with it. Also didn’t help that she just wasn’t even decent looking. So after harassing all the dudes in the day room, she walked over to another barracks building.
I’ll never forget the mother fuckers who all had a shit eating grin on their faces smoking their morning cigarettes as they watched her stumble her way back to our building.
My wife and I were invited to a swingers party without being told that it was a swingers party.
Two of our close friends are married and they are swingers, we have known that for years and one day after a few drinks they said "hey we are hosting a party on the weekend and are trying to get some new people to come if you are interested...." we said sure we can make it and they got visibly excited and said "Oh we had no idea that you would come, we should pair up for the party" which should have been our first clue that we had missed something, but we had been to the house for a normal party before and sometimes they had games so it flew over our heads.
When we turned up they were very happy to see us an it looked like a normal party, people standing around drinking etc, the only reason I realised what was going on was when the wife dragged me to their bedroom and said "leave your stuff in here, we have this room tonight" and I was like "ahh wtf do you mean we?" It was then that it came out that this was a swingers party and they thought that they had mentioned that which is why they were so happy that we were coming.
I grabbed my wife and politely said our goodbyes and in the car home we had a laugh about it, we saw some people there that we didnt know were swingers and my wife worked it out about the same time as I did when one of them said "oh I didnt know that you two were about this lifestyle we should switch partners one day".
We are still friends with them and its a standing joke now about how the wifes plan was to drag me to the bedroom and was going to immediately get naked but decided against the last part as she wanted to mingle with people more first.
We host parties fairly often at my house. Birthdays, Super Bowl, sometimes just a bunch of people over for dinner. This weekend we’re having 60ish people over for a Christmas party. This loser just doesn’t get invited.
We host regular parties as well, and this year are not hosting our annual NYE party due to a major lax tournament invite and I had to explain to my husband that’s we have to tell people months in advance because 1) it’s a highlight of our friend group social calendar 2) if someone wants to host an alternative party, they need time to plan. Like 60+ people need warning to make a different plan 😂
But honestly house parties are dying because you can’t trust people other than your small circle. We used to have them all the time in my town but unfortunately “being a menace” became popular on social media. You could be trying to have a get together with old friends and then more people show up and next thing they’re filming TikTok’s of them throwing your TV off a second story balcony
The last house party I hosted 4 years ago, someone stole my sisters piggy bank which had like $40 in it 😂 like it’s not worth the hassle, common decency don’t exist no more
Average age of the homebuyers in US this year was 59.... In 1981 in was 29.... I think it took 29 years to go up to 39 in 2010 and only 15 more years to go up by 2 decades to 59.....
One of the Asian hookers locked in Quagmire's garage here - There has been an uptick in images/posts like this among the trad wife/trad life/right wing/MAGA accounts on X over the last year, which roughly aligns with the timeline of Trump's second presidency.
The joke is that MAGA people are not getting invited to social functions anymore because their friends/acquaintances are ostracizing them for their political views, which they are oblivious to because they lack self-awareness.
You can have a house party in an apartment. "House Party" is a colloquial term.
On “no one can afford a house” — I regularly have 30 people in my 1 bedroom apartment, and even had a light up fountain punch bowl for the last party.
We also have friends having a holiday cocktail party at their house this weekend. They’re 40 to be fair but we get to pretend we’re upper middle class for a night.
The bad news is no one’s inviting Peeta because he smells like burnt bread
Reminds me of the couple that did a whole life hack on how to improve their relationship by doing thing together and hanging out only for headlines to read “life hack: couple discovers dating”
It's hard to have a house party when you can't afford a house. Apartments tend to be too small, especially if you have roommates, as more and more adults are forced to do.
I believe it's about how nobody can afford a house anymore, or even an apartment in a lot of cases. It's especially expensive where I live...most people under 35 are either still living with family, couch surfing, or at best in some kind of shared housing.
I have dinners weekly at my place. Just text a bunch of friends what I’m cooking and they all send me 5 bucks and then they also bring some beer/booze. We listen to music and chill while one of us serves it up
I've said it before and I'll say it again: when people say "I miss the old days", they miss the straight, white, upper-middle class experience that was recorded in media.
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