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Well I\'m off to my school prom in 3 hours and I\'m sitting here wondering if anyone here went to one and if they have any embarissing stories to tell. So here I am trying to resist the urge to bite my nails, fire away and if I don\'t get any replies by the time I go, I\'ll try hard to reply when I get back; at 3 in the morning.

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Posted: 25th Jun 2008 18:20 Edited at: 25th Jun 2008 18:26
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We don't have proms, but we have Balls, I went to our University's May Ball (I don't know why they call it a ball, it's more like a poshed up rave)

My embarrassing story is: before I even got drunk I had already seen the Sugababes. (who were playing)

I'd call that embarrassing, I mean I can't even blame alcohol for it.

Or the bouncer at the after party who wouldn't let me go in until quizzing me about my dreads, criticising me for wearing a bandana with a suit and asking the girls walking in if they would date a guy with dreadlocks.

Though it was a fun night and morning, after all it lasted about 10 hours (got home at 7 am)- I doubt your prom will be like that, being school after all, but nevertheless if you've got friends to have fun with, you can be a blast - just don't give in to nerves, everybody's there to have a fun time, you might do something embarrassing, but embarrassing things can be laughed off by joking about it - after all I have a friend that often embarrasses himself on nights out.

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Quote: "We don't have proms, but we have Balls, I went to our University's May Ball (I don't know why they call it a ball, it's more like a poshed up rave)"

Where I live we have proms.
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My embarrassing story is: before I even got drunk I had already seen the Sugababes. (who were playing)

I'd call the embarrassing, I mean I can't even blame alcohol for it.
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Wow very embarrassing.


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I take it your not exactly into the sugababes then? Could be worse, if you were drunk you might have tried to crowd-surf.

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I did get dunk after a while - with a long party you kind of stretch your drinking, but one guy did get on the stage and was owned by the bouncers. However, crowd surfing would have been a groovy idea, but some how I doubt the crowd would have cooperated.

Quote: "I take it your not exactly into the sugababes then?"


Could have been worse, East 17 were playing, glad I didn't watch them. In other words, no, I'm not into them.

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Quote: "but we have Balls"


aah yeah..

But in all seriousness, why is it called a ball?


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Because you get them in... Err

Okay, honestly I don't know.

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My prom, or grad or whatever, was boring. I was single at the time and ended up taking my best friend, one of those "one of the guys" type of girls. She was stressed because she thought she was pregnant at the time (not mine thank goodness), and she didn't like to dance at all. Booooring.


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Had a girlfriend, had a lot of friends, had fun.


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ive got my semi-formal coming up in november (a dress up version of formal/prom), the thing is i dont know what to go dressed as


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Umm, umm, get dressed as... I know! Get dressed as a copy of DBP! Best idea EVER!

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Quote: "My prom, or grad or whatever, was boring. I was single at the time and ended up taking my best friend, one of those "one of the guys" type of girls. She was stressed because she thought she was pregnant at the time (not mine thank goodness), and she didn't like to dance at all. Booooring."


I had a similiar experience lol. Minus the 'thought she was pregnant part' though.

Quote: "ive got my semi-formal coming up in november (a dress up version of formal/prom), the thing is i dont know what to go dressed as"


Proms ARE the most dressed up occasion where I come from.

@Seppuku - they allow drinking at your dances?

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Quote: "@Seppuku - they allow drinking at your dances?"


University, yes, because we're all 18+...mind you sixth form parties the teachers didn't mind us drinking despite being under the age - they probably realised that it's probably better to emphasise responsible drinking than not drinking underage, because people will drink under-the-age anyway - most of the talks we used to get were on not-doing drugs and responsible drinking, nothing on "wait until you're 18".

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Don't you mean school disco? Apparently the kids here have "proms" now. Probably something to do with High School Musical.

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Depends, at the end of GCSEs or your A Level, my school always had a ball, Universities always have balls (mine has 3 a year, 4 if you're graduating), and well I'm pretty sure American schools are fans on the whole Prom thing, hence High School Musical...it's American.

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Yeah, proms are pretty much sex on hardwood floor. We get all dressed up with expensive tuxedo's (renting for the win), and then halfway through the night we have half our clothes of anyway. At a high school two cities away from me, they combine three major high schools into one prom. The event was so big, there was actual intercourse going on in the middle of the dance floor, but the police couldn't get to them because the crowd was so dense.

I'm glad my prom was small, and that I went with a friend. I'm a guy who walks the straight and narrow, and I didn't really want to see, or participate in all the 'traditional' prom things. Drinking, after dance sex... yada yada.



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No prom, is more like dry humping in the center of the large crowds. My prom was interesting because I got yelled at for wearing sneakers and had a chain on my wallet showing and the prom i went to was extremly conservative so it was really lame.



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Beast E Gargoyle: My friend turned up in a leather tuxedo and bright red liberty spikes, the teachers really couldn't have cared less. All in all the night went well, nobody bothered trying to sneak booze in but that was probably for the better.

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Posted: 27th Jun 2008 01:08 Edited at: 27th Jun 2008 01:09
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We actually had alcohol at our high school prom because it is a high school/university hybrid campus with people of all ages.


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I go to louisville, ohio high school and it SUCKS. The teachers are terribly strict and care about what you dress like to the max. You can cuss at people though and not get in trouble but if you liberty spike your hair or wear sneakers they try to send you home. If they told me that I would be like pay me my wasted $50 to come here. All in all don't go to prepy small high schools that are strict, it's terrible. The after party was oddly strange right after girls getting dress checks at the prom they are wearing their girl boxers to the afterparty and are not getting in trouble for it. So the whole thing was odd to me.



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There's a louisville Ohio? Is that near kentucky? Girl boxers? I never went to my prom, hate them. I did go to my gf's junior prom (i was a senior). It was a typical prom. Pick up girl, take money from girl's grandparents, drive girl to party, get girl drunk, take girl home, .........., we dated for almost 2 years.


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No Louisville, Ohio is near Canton, Ohio.

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Everyone! Let's now go to Beast E Gargoyle's house and steal his stuff! Yaaay...

Nah I'm just kidding... or am I?... Well actually I am... or... am... I?

Mysterious ftw!

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The saddest part about prom to me is that people even go to them. "Yeah we can have tons of fun if we all get together at school monitored by teachers listening to music approved by the school board! Not to mention this is totally the most important day of our life because if we didn't go we may regret it because EVERYONE has prom experiences and we don't want to me left out. After this how else will we remember our high school experiences while we live out the rest of our mediocre lives!" I stayed home and watched and episode of Carl Sagan's cosmos then some friends came over and we played some SSBB.

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Congratulations.

Is there something wrong with having a bit of fun if it's something that you enjoy? I mean, sure dances aren't for everyone, but why such a negative opinion?

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Quote: "The saddest part about prom to me is that people even go to them. "Yeah we can have tons of fun if we all get together at school monitored by teachers listening to music approved by the school board! Not to mention this is totally the most important day of our life because if we didn't go we may regret it because EVERYONE has prom experiences and we don't want to me left out. After this how else will we remember our high school experiences while we live out the rest of our mediocre lives!" I stayed home and watched and episode of Carl Sagan's cosmos then some friends came over and we played some SSBB."


So you did something more useful?

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Not a fan of dancing or people so I stayed at home, doing very much like Antidote.

I did however go to the middle school "prom". That was nice.

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The year 11's are at the prom as I type this. I was gonna watch the limo's, tractors and golf buggies pull up at the gates but got distracted by GoW... again. Apparently, my brother and his mates pissed up my teacher's garage wall at the after party, so the image of her scrubbing away at that is all the prom memories I'll ever need. (Albeit stolen from another's brain.)

I am curious about something. Traditionally, you'd take a date to the prom. But from the looks of it, most people just hang out with their mates. Is this 'normal' or is our school just messed up?

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Prom at the end of GCSEs was great fun, mainly because we all got drunk outside (prior to) the prom and then spent the evening messing about dancing to crap music. Great fun, especially for saying goodbye to friends that weren't continuing into A levels etc.


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School board approved music? Obviously our school wasn't that strict, mind you we had teachers swear at us with a nice colourful vocabulary (only some), so I'm sure they weren't picky about lyrics, plus some teachers let us play CDs on the CD player, I took the opportunity to play Opeth's "Master's Apprentices" and Children of Bodom's cover of 'Hit Me Baby One more time', the latter got its laughs, the former portrayed me as a screaming mosher - though Opeth can be one of the more mellow bands out there.

Mind you, having passed the school recently and hearing tales of the new head mistress I doubt she's tolerate swearig or 'dodgy' music - or iPods, untucked shirts or anything like that. For a start she's had a tall metal fence built around the school, like a freaking prison, a madwoman. Mind you she started her job when I was at my last year of sixth form and she didn't mind me breaking the dress code - for a start if I did wear a bandana my dreads would have gotten in the way of my work.

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Quote: "Not a fan of dancing or people so I stayed at home, doing very much like Antidote."


Let me guess--- both you and Antidote didn't have a date.


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Probably.

I went to a spring formal earlier this year. It would have been a lot more fun if my date actually liked to dance. We still had fun but I dunno.

On the way home that night I was wondering why she was so enthusiastic to go to the dance with me when I asked her a month earlier, then later tell me when we're there that she doesn't like dancing much... Oh well. Girls.

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Quote: "Let me guess--- both you and Antidote didn't have a date."


I don't know about antidote, but yeah.

The girls at the school I went to were too shallow and close-minded. Going out with them would damage my honour, and reduce my self-worth.

They missed out, I did not.

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I went to the "prom", which was not actually a prom, and spent the whole time sitting down buried in Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam with the lid hanging off my DS/L. Got pretty far, too.


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Good choice in that case Grandma. But then. I think grandmas taking young girls out to a dance is enough reason to be close minded on their part anyhow

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You got me there. Perhaps next year.

I'll bring my stick and two-inch thick glasses, the kids love 'em.

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It's alright, rich old men do it, so why can't poor old Norwegian women too?

Unless you want to discrimate against women, Norwegians or those less fortunate?

If you do, I've got Grandma's back.

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Hey, I wasn't dissing old ladies. The girls who wouldn't go out with Grandma were! I was just saying.

I like grandmas




Lol, that sounds bad.

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I know you weren't dissing old ladies - frankly the age gap between old men and young women frightens me..though...don't mind if I set you and Grandma up for a date?

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Oh that would be lovely!

We could go feed the birds in the park toghether. And I could tell you all about my late cat and how old it was. Oh it got pretty old, it liked being petted on the stomach. You should have seen the nice fur on it. We called him peter. And blablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablabla
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I already have enough old ladies calling me up for landscaping, sorry Grandma. Enough is enough

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Proms...

I'm a sentimental kind of guy so I was expecting some rounds of Kissing A Fool by Michael Buble, True by Spandau Ballet, and what came out was PLEASE DON'T STOP THAT F***ING MUSIC BY RIHANNA. (Did I even spell it right?)

Oh, for Christ's sakes. We were wearing formal wear (yes, all that corporate coat and gowns, there's one dressed like Capone) and THEY were dancing in a club.

Maybe you might disagree about my perception, I wasn't even alcohol in my bloody head.

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Oh my grandma! ....

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I went to 7 proms in total. I guess that is probably ENOUGH of a story by itself.


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