tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post8901139021890839678..comments2024-03-27T23:28:20.274-04:00Comments on Face to Face: College kids these days throw such boring partiesagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-45280630856703804622009-11-12T12:38:32.434-05:002009-11-12T12:38:32.434-05:00It might have been the party, but can't even c...It might have been the party, but can't even count the number of college parties I've been to that turned out like this. State schools, private schools - any party above 30 people has a majority of jocks (who don't want to do anything but drink) and frat girls (who don't want to do anything but drink and dance). There's the ubiquitous beer pong table (what are we, 12?), and god forbid we should get crazy and bust out the beer funnel.<br /><br />Back home it's a pretty rural area, so there's always a those kids with the no-parents-no-neighbors house. Those tend to be the fun ones - coke, girl fights, all the good stuff. Sure it's a little more risky, but I'd take that over polo shirts and ice luges any day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-36906204389062257762009-11-10T06:38:57.945-05:002009-11-10T06:38:57.945-05:00Perhaps video game consoles and internet pr0n have...Perhaps video game consoles and internet pr0n have allowed a sizeable chunk of ‘betas’ et. al. to completely drop out of the dating market. With the fewer young males at parties, clubs, and bars the remaining males are completely inundated with pussy that they can’t possibly find time to get in trouble. Being a part of this generation myself, I can’t say I have a control to go off of, but it always feels to me that dance clubs and trendy bars are disproportionately female even relative to the college enrollment ratios.<br /><br />The imbalanced sex-ratios of parties was extremely evident to me a couple of years ago I delivered pizzas near a third-tier ‘party school’ on weekend nights till 3am. It would always be interesting to go from a dark apartment filled with male FOBs on an all-night HALO binge to a sorority house where 20 or 30 hot chicks crowded around 8 or so hulky athletes. At least if GSS says those dudes aren’t pulling wild MFFF orgies, I feel a little less jealous.Levi Johnstonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-88792690947823561512009-11-09T00:44:50.334-05:002009-11-09T00:44:50.334-05:00"You will also note that this is the first de..."<i>You will also note that this is the first decade since the 1920's that has not produced a new genre of music at all. Since young people produce the new music, this should be considered further evidence of the passivity of modern-day young people.</i><br /><br />How dare you slander glitch hop!<br /><br />Seriously, though, I don't buy the above arguement. Inventing a genre isn't like inventing a more efficient battery or new drug. It is a much more fluid process. Music makers are constantly moving, never staying in the same place. Don't think that has changed.<br /><br />I've been really pleased with bands like Baroness and Mastadon pulling together prog and metal.RF Interferencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06824235785025755787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-27993427070010618182009-11-04T13:18:16.886-05:002009-11-04T13:18:16.886-05:00Of course it was a lame party. The point of the po...Of course it was a lame party. The point of the post is how representative was it? The data amassed on young people's behavior over the past couple of decades shows decidedly that this party was no fluke.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-47367597599822296752009-11-04T11:12:17.282-05:002009-11-04T11:12:17.282-05:00Yeah it sounds like you just went to a lame party....Yeah it sounds like you just went to a lame party. I'm a college student, and there are definitely parties every weekend on my campus (an elite campus too, full of people that could be considered 'nerds' due to their IQ) where people get shitfaced or high as balls (cocaine and meth also gets sold on my campus, and I know people who also do shrooms and lsd). There is much grinding on the dance floor, many dance floor make-outs, and quite a few hook-ups leaving the party together.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-69870778951095063512009-11-04T04:03:24.424-05:002009-11-04T04:03:24.424-05:00I wish someone would tell the Aus government the s...I wish someone would tell the Aus government the same thing. Everytime I am unfortunate enough to hear the news the headline is some bullshit about how young people's drinking is out of control. There is even idiot talk of raising the drinking age.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-84815383238903052762009-11-03T11:57:44.415-05:002009-11-03T11:57:44.415-05:00I came of age in the early 80's and lived in A...I came of age in the early 80's and lived in Asia during the 90's. I have very little contact with American young people these days. However, the few I have known seem to be very passive compared to my generation. The guys, more than the girls, seem very passive. <br /><br />You will also note that this is the first decade since the 1920's that has not produced a new genre of music at all. Since young people produce the new music, this should be considered further evidence of the passivity of modern-day young people.kurt9https://www.blogger.com/profile/02101147267959016924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-85473060413925916402009-11-03T10:13:24.339-05:002009-11-03T10:13:24.339-05:00According to Randall Collins, drunk people really ...According to Randall Collins, drunk people really aren't that violent. But they may make a big blustering show like they're going to fight, and you didn't see that either.TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-23291817783195595302009-11-03T08:19:14.731-05:002009-11-03T08:19:14.731-05:00Sounds like you just went to a lame party, I would...Sounds like you just went to a lame party, I wouldn't draw any grand sociological conclusions from it.<br /><br />The last time I went to an undergraduate party, there was a guy so blitzed out of his mind that he was throwing full beers cans across the room and hitting people in the chest (they hurt). He then picked about three different fights before swinging and missing so hard he messed up his hand hitting the wall. Another kid we talked to was giddy because he was about to get his first three-some, and then he left with two girls to go into his room.Cratinusnoreply@blogger.com