Social Science Children of the 90s

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DT2000 said:
You guys hooked up in high school?
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Just after.

Cruyff14 said:
Why would you want to bring them?

"Hi this is __________." "Hi, how are you?" etc etc. Next person, rinse, repeat.

They would be bored shitless and would know only you, stupid IMO.
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How many people are you going to talk to? You're gonna go back to your circle of friends only. The "popular" kids still won't talk to the "nerds" and so on.
 
You'd see a point for partners if yours is a 10.

No different reason to attend than what most people attend for – to 'brag.' School was about who had the most roots, who went to the most parties, who went on more "walks" with girls at those parties, and it's barely different now. Hurling s**t on where someone's parents lived? At your reunion, you can slightly more subtly hang s**t on someone for where they live.
 

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Would be good rooting ur first hookup at a reunion. Other than that, if you aren't in one of those groups where your parents and extended family attended the school, you lived across the road from school, went to the school since reception, you'd feel pretty out of place there
 
Got my 20yr reunion next year and will more than likely head along.

I went to my 10yr on and it was ok, everyone mixed pretty well, a lot better than high school. At that stage only a few people had kids and were married where I expect most will have them by now.

A good mate of mine who was quite popular with the ladies back in the high school had stacked on the weight and didn't show up to the 10yr reunion and he reckons he had another engagement which we all knew was crap and he was worried he was going to cop a ribbing about it.

I still regularly catch up with about 8-10 mates from school so it's not like I will be rocking up having not seen anyone for the last 10 years.
 
I never went to any outside of school social events for the school year group. They were always populated by deros, drop outs, older guys trying to pick up, boyfriends, girlfriends, brothers, sisters. I skipped my formal and my graduation after party. The first our group of mates had our own and it was awesome, the second my mates all went, so I thought nope, and went to hang out with the nerds from our year who rarely socialised and just play PC and PS2 games.
 
I didn't go to our school ball. My girlfriend of the time acted like she didn't care but I'm sure it was disappointing for her. Just seemed kinda boring and very lame: same lame-arse sycophantic snivelling turds getting rewarded, same blokes rocking up in red and lime suits (good on them though).

The after party was great though. So many kids on My First Smirnoff and many more on My First Heineken Outside Of When Dad Lets Me Have Two on Christmas. A bloke also 'came out' too, even though we all knew which way he bent. In the end, he got bent over a Ford and the big old oval logo was embossed into his waist for days (apparently). Stories like that swirling around at 2am are what 17 year olds live for.

That and when the ugly 4 who talks about saving orphans in philosophy class rocks up dressing like a barmaid at a Wagga Wagga snitz and ****. Classic.
 
Silent Alarm said:
I didn't go to our school ball. My girlfriend of the time acted like she didn't care but I'm sure it was disappointing for her. Just seemed kinda boring and very lame: same lame-arse sycophantic snivelling turds getting rewarded, same blokes rocking up in red and lime suits (good on them though).

The after party was great though. So many kids on My First Smirnoff and many more on My First Heineken Outside Of When Dad Lets Me Have Two on Christmas. A bloke also 'came out' too, even though we all knew which way he bent. In the end, he got bent over a Ford and the big old oval logo was embossed into his waist for days (apparently). Stories like that swirling around at 2am are what 17 year olds live for.

That and when the ugly 4 who talks about saving orphans in philosophy class rocks up dressing like a barmaid at a Wagga Wagga snitz and ****. Classic.
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For our school ball we were told they were going to breathalyse people at the door as the previous year people had turned up smashed from pre-ball drinks and made campaigners of themselves. As a result most people didn't drink before our ball and it was pretty boring, of course there were no breathalysers there it was just a rumour started by the staff to scare us into not drinking beforehand.

We sure made up for it at the after party though, that was back when funneling and shotgunning beers was a big thing and guys would end up power spewing everywhere. On top of getting hell drunk I also smoked cones with a mate of mine so I was all over the shop. My date from the ball was there and wasn't too impressed with my wasted state so she ended up hooking up with some other less wasted bloke there, I was too wasted to even care at the time although I felt pretty bad the next day. Good times.
 
Our deb after party had security that only let people that had proof they were at the deb to start with in. Eventually the loose morals of the hosts daughter, who hired the security, convinced them to let anybody she likes in.

Instantly overran with dickheads.

Maybe I'm too tight, but doing that would be like singing the team song after winning the flag, and letting in the other team, the spectators, the umpires, the other team's spectators, your wife, your mistress, your brother, it just spoils an event having people there who aren't supposed to be and haven't earned the right to be.
 

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Isn't a deb ball like year 9 or 10?

I think most WA schools do it in year 12, but year 11s go.

It's a bit like graduation. It's a big deal in Victoria – your whole family go, get a table, get a meal, have beers and wines and it's something where the girls wear ball gowns and the blokes have suits. For our school, everyone got a certificate and you just wore your blazers and formal attire. Melbourne definitely does graduation heaps better.
 
Debs are usually much more formal and involve way more etiquette than your run of the mill school prom.

We had to do rehearsed ballroom dancing!

I lol at all the girls who were worked up over prom that didn't do a deb, its like bitch, you don't even have to quickstep, what's the fuss about?
 
Everyone who did it had to take ballroom dancing lessons every week after school. The girls had to wear ball gowns and long white gloves, and be 'presented' to the audience. It was much more involved and traditional than a formal, which was just a party really.
 
Hard Ball Get said:
I didn't even know mine were on until they were done. They were organised through Facebook and u dont have it. Wouldn't have gone anyway.
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This is me too except I have Facebook but a fake last name. Wouldn't have gone either.

Almost 11 years since I graduated and 10 years ago was probably the last time I saw any of them in person. Chatted to some online 5 years ago and did the "Hey, what are you up to these days?" conversation but eventually deleted them. Teenagerhood was a very ordinary time for me. When high school ended I dropped off the radar pretty quickly and moved away within a couple years.

Wouldn't mind going to the 20 years reunion though. Be interesting to see what people have become. Be a time machine from my perspective.
 
Silent Alarm said:
Isn't a deb ball like year 9 or 10?

I think most WA schools do it in year 12, but year 11s go.

It's a bit like graduation. It's a big deal in Victoria – your whole family go, get a table, get a meal, have beers and wines and it's something where the girls wear ball gowns and the blokes have suits. For our school, everyone got a certificate and you just wore your blazers and formal attire. Melbourne definitely does graduation heaps better.
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Yep. Year 11 and 12 go to the ball and our graduation was exactly the same turn up in blazer get certificate and go home. Most parents didn't even dress up just came in their work clothes or whatever.
 
Hard Ball Get said:
I didn't even know mine were on until they were done. They were organised through Facebook and u dont have it. Wouldn't have gone anyway.
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edgie said:
I never went to any outside of school social events for the school year group. I skipped my formal and my graduation after party. The first our group of mates had our own and it was awesome, the second my mates all went, so I thought nope, and went to hang out with the nerds from our year who rarely socialised and just play PC and PS2 games.
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Bomberboyokay said:
This is me too except I have Facebook but a fake last name. Wouldn't have gone either.

Almost 11 years since I graduated and 10 years ago was probably the last time I saw any of them in person. Chatted to some online 5 years ago and did the "Hey, what are you up to these days?" conversation but eventually deleted them. Teenagerhood was a very ordinary time for me. When high school ended I dropped off the radar pretty quickly and moved away within a couple years.

Wouldn't mind going to the 20 years reunion though. Be interesting to see what people have become. Be a time machine from my perspective.
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I stay away from facebook primarily so people from my past can't spy on elements of my life especially anyone from my school days.

I deliberately avoided the outside social commitments during my final yeaar purely so i would not have to associate with them. So I avoided the final school social, various other year 12 things (excursions, the graduation dinner). I didn't need to do all of that stuff so chose not to.

I avoided the first reunion (5 year), never heard about the next. Not clear on if that's because of me being off the grid (not entirely true I'm EASY to get in contact with, even without FB) or they assume I would say no.

I have kept in contact with few people from those days. There are others I have seen in passing
 
Are five year reunions common? Weirdly enough, it'll be five years since I graduated this time next year. I'll no doubt be getting some notification in about March, from one of the usual suspects (the girl who had to play guitar at every ceremony? Or the girl who cried to get her seat on the school-trip plane?). I barely feel like anyone is any different and most people are living the same lives they lived a year out and in first year uni. I don't think there's much lifestyle changes happening between 18-22.

You're better off hanging around the pubs of your local area and bumping into a kid you were friends with at 14 in the urinals. "Haven't seen you for a while mate!" That's surprising, refreshing, nice, and short. A night of those interactions, forced, seems a bit depressing.

"Yeah mate, I did sports science at Curtin."
 
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