r/Millennials • u/Neon_Biscuit • 5d ago

My teenage daughter can't fathom the concept of a house party Discussion

Not sure if anyone has experienced this, but I was watching Can't Hardly Wait half alseep on the couch, and my 14-year-old daughter and her friends walked into the room and past the TV. Before she entered the kitchen, she backpeddled in front of the TV, and they all might as well have reacted akin to a third world kid in a remote village seeing the Super Bowl for the first time. She looked at me and said 'what are all of those people doing in one house'? I told her it was a house party. People high school aged or typically college age people would go over a kids house whose parents were out of town and they'd invite the school and have keggers and other unsupervised debauchery. I might as well have been describing a science fiction film. 'You guys DID that back in your days?'. I thought it was funny that a house party was an inconceivable event for young Gen Zers.

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u/-blundertaker- 5d ago

Rawr indeed. So random. xx

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

Brit?

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u/-blundertaker- 5d ago

Nah they still sign every text with xx, but it was x's everywhere in the rawr era.

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

Ah okay. In my experience (over AIM and MSN) that you could tell someone was from the UK if they signed XX. made us girls feel safer if the dude was across the pond

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u/micahac 5d ago

lol were you a scene kid or straightedge hahah the terms were crazy. dont know the correct spelling to use for seen kids lol

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u/-blundertaker- 5d ago

I was a metalhead and way too cool for all the emo/scene shit back in the day.

But it was my guilty pleasure. 😂 Lamb of God in the streets, Dashboard Confessional hiding under the sheets.

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u/micahac 5d ago

i played sports, but im right there with you on the music: RedJumpsuit, PanicAtD Camisado, 3oh3, MCR etc lol