House Parties Going Away in America
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@Carnival-Boy said:
American house parties look awesome (if everything I watch in movies is more or less the truth!). They're a bit less wild here in Europe, not least due to the fact that we can drink in bars from about the age of 16.
They were awesome in the 1960s and 1970s. We still held them in Texas until two years ago. We had a full bar in the house and once a week we'd have friends, mostly in their 20s, over and we'd do full cocktail making and snacks and everything. Lacked the fancy dress of the 1960s, but the same basics.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Entering without permission means you're home, and should be aware that someone is entering your property.
The other indicates that you're away and is a B&E. Completely different cases.
Nope, B&E doesn't suggest that you are not home. People can sneak in and steal with or without you home. That implication is not there at all.
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And proving that you were or were not home would be a completely separate thing. How would either party necessarily even know?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@DustinB3403 said:
Entering without permission means you're home, and should be aware that someone is entering your property.
The other indicates that you're away and is a B&E. Completely different cases.
Nope, B&E doesn't suggest that you are not home. People can sneak in and steal with or without you home. That implication is not there at all.
This is definitely true. We had our house burglarized during a major rain storm while we were home. The storm covered up the noise they made breaking in.
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I had friends who were home when someone broke in and they got tied up. So they were not able to stop the people taking the alcohol. They knew everything was being taken, but there wasn't anything that they could do about it.
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@scottalanmiller That's a case of wrongful imprisonment, b&e, theft and likely a few other charges.
Were they hurt or left to be? Hopefully they're ok.
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Saturday night will be one of the grandest, most amazing house parties of the year at my neighbor's house... which is perfect, because I can easily get home whenever I want. No kids allowed, lots of booze, finger food, and a bonfire.
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Does having a weekly poker game count toward this?
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@Dashrender Yes.
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@Dashrender said:
Does having a weekly poker game count toward this?
Definitely! Any gathering for the sole purpose of having fun counts. 8-)
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Sweet, than I'm in the game! We had a weekly game for 10 years, then took 6 years off and just restarted it 6 weeks ago.
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@Dashrender similar, but monthly board game nights. I'll make food, guests bring booze and cigars.
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In my group of friends my house is the place to gather, at least once a week we get together, eat some food, etc. Once a month we have a bigger game night.
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@jenuinecase said:
In my group of friends my house is the place to gather, at least once a week we get together, eat some food, etc. Once a month we have a bigger game night.
I did not read the linked article. is it talking about this kind of thing or larger house parties?
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The gist I took from the article was that social gatherings at people's homes are on the decline.
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@Dashrender said:
The gist I took from the article was that social gatherings at people's homes are on the decline.
Well until I moved to Chicago, one circle of friends would get together every other Friday for D&D night at one guys house. On the opposite Friday a different circle of friends would gather at his house for a different RPG game.
So if that counts, we have been social without changing for years.
I run a D&D game every other Tuesday but it is online (with voice/video via Google Hangouts, not in person.
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@JaredBusch said:
I run a D&D game every other Tuesday but it is online (with voice/video via Google Hangouts, not in person.
This online is a large part of the blame for the lack of house parties, according to the article.
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@JaredBusch said:
I run a D&D game every other Tuesday but it is online (with voice/video via Google Hangouts, not in person.
@Dashrender said:
This online is a large part of the blame for the lack of house parties, according to the article.
Okay, I can see it from one perspective, but from another, it is keeping friends together who would normally be separated by distance. Specific to my example, the people playing in the online game were friends locally that spread out over time. We have added a few new people over the years, but the core have been friends since childhood.
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I think that @JaredBusch has a point. Maybe the bigger issue was that previous generations didn't move around and knew their neighbours and could associate with people for much of their lives. Now we tend to move around other people that we know do. So the ability to have house parties with our long time friends is nearly impossible like it was with previous generations.
Maybe online communications isn't making the house party go away, maybe it is filling a gap that has already been left. The house party went away before we had Internet access.
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@scottalanmiller You have a good point about being in the same place a long time. The main part of my family has been located in central georgia for 4 or 5 generations. It's rare that one of us goes to a Walmart and we don't run into a family friend or three, or perhaps another branch of the family tree.
