<p>You could try an alcoholic food party. Cook nearly every dish with beer, wine or vodka. </p>
<p>Pork chops braised in a bottle of wine.
Curry vindaloo onion paste flamed with wine vinegar and vodka.
Beer can chicken.</p>
<p>And for the substance users, get certain “leaves” frozen and brew them into hot ethanol. (Then pour them “on the rocks”.)</p>
<p>I hated going to college parties because teenagers are generally stupid when it comes to alcohol consumption and it always turned me off to see someone vomiting on the floor, passing out, having sex in the bathroom and doing outrageous things that no normal adult would do. This is what turned me completely off to partying.</p>
<p>Partying is so much better after college.</p>
<p>I’m not in college yet but partying is going to be awesome.
You’re all weird for not liking partying.
I bet the cool kids rejected all of your asses in high school… if you were friends with the cool kids, you’d like partying a lot more.
What’s the problem with getting laid and having fun? They aren’t being stupid. They are having fun!!</p>
<p>I guess some of you are going to tell me… “I have a girlfriend/boyfriend”… yea, have fun watching chick flicks via Netflix and having a lot of cuddle time… NOT!!
You can’t possibly want to spend your Friday night doing that instead of partying.</p>
<p>As Ernest Hemingway said, “An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”</p>
<p>I’m also not that into partying as well. I’d rather hang out with a closer group of friends that are sober than a venue where there are a lot of people I don’t know and who are probably intoxicated. It’s really not that fun when you have to take care of drunk people and watch over them while they’re nearly puking themselves. I just feel that there are more ways to have fun rather than having alcohol around. I’ve drank a few times but it’s not really my cup of tea.</p>
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<li>The “cool” kids at my school were incredibly shallow, ended up at the local CC or local Burger King, or were pregnant by 16. So, while yes, I was not friends with the “cool kids” I certainly did not want to be their friend.</li>
<li>There’s nothing wrong with “getting laid and having fun” if thats your idea of fun. I don’t think being in a small area with a large group of people that are intoxicated to be fun. I don’t enjoy the taste of alcohol. I don’t want to consume the calories that come from alcohol. I don’t like doing things I’m unaware of.</li>
<li>Yes, I do have a boyfriend. Regardless of him, I still wouldn’t party. And we do far more than watch movies and cuddle. I actually get “laid” quite a bit. Probably more than you at your parties. And I assure you, its quite fun. We also take many trips, go to festivals, carnivals, bowl, golf, hike, play tennis, walk around, shop around, play video and board games, and sometimes (get ready for this) have really great sober conversations with each other and others. And sometimes, I even do these activities with other people who <em>gasp</em> also don’t like to party.</li>
<li>Though I never knew Ernest Hemingway, I can only imagine he would think today’s youth is pretty useless. He also accomplished more than the average college student could ever hope to. I’m sure his drunken fun time was done much more seldom than today’s college student who thinks writing a 10 page paper is super hard.</li>
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<p>Again, I don’t care if you party/have sex with 3 people in 1 night/whatever else it is you want to do, but to say others can’t have fun without partying (or to think they have less fun than you) is extraordinarily ignorant and rude.</p>
<p>I agree… I don’t want to drink enough to make the parties entertaining (I need to drink alot) and have weird drunk guys hit on me. I rather go to a cafe with my friend and talk for a long time lol. I don’t like drinking or dancing… or meeting people in general so I tend to stay away lol. I’m like in senioryear and I only went to like 5 parties in all because I don’t like the atmosphere.</p>
<p>If you have to drink to enjoy the company you need better company.</p>
<p>I dislike parties. I like small-knit groups and the biggest party I’ve been to is about 7 people sitting around a fire talking. I don’t see the appeal of large parties like the usual college one.</p>
<p>I like small parties where I know all the people. I hate frat parties because I don’t know the guys and I don’t care to know them. I just like the free beer. lmao. And most of the time I just get kicked out for getting beer. Guess it’s not free afterall. X_X</p>
<p>I agree, I never drank or partied in high school and had a lot of friends who were the same way. I’m hoping i’ll meet people at UMD who are the same. Like everyone else said, there is SO many other ways to have a good time with friends. Fires with 7 people sitting around talking, you can bet i’ll be there.</p>
<p>Alcohol= intoxication, vision impairment, liver disease, vomiting, hang-over, wasted, dui; which is exactly why i steer the hell away from it</p>
<p>Don’t associate those absolutes with alcohol. If you’re smart and skilled, you can avoid all the above. Just don’t be stupid.</p>
<p>I’m a rising senior in high school and a lot of my classmates drink/party/ A LOT. I’ve never been turned on by the thought of being intoxicated. I would like to remember what I did the night before. I’d rather have a small group of friends watch a movie or eat dinner with me, etc. </p>
<p>Just because some of us don’t like partying doesn’t mean we’re “weird”. Enough said.</p>
<p>I didn’t party in high school.</p>
<p>The key is not to drink too much. Drink slowly. Use alcohol in foods. </p>
<p>And then you totally remember what you did the night before. Party euphoria is a function of BAC, something to be optimised. </p>
<p>Try mixing an alcoholic beverage with vinegar over a hot frying pan. Then add meat and vegetables. =)</p>
<p>i don’t know, i don’t you should rule anything completely. i suggest going to lots of different events in the first few days to discover what you like. when i was in high school , i never drank, partied, anything like that. i also looked down on people who did go out and get smashed every weekend. then i got to college, discovered that i loved hanging out at frats (though i still hate nasty, stinky, sweaty dance parties [i did try it though]) and getting buzzed and playing games/watching movies with friends in their suite. i would have never figured myself one to like frats. so basically, i suggest you try everything and then decide what you like and what you don’t like. it is college. you have to hammered sometime or another.</p>
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<li><p>Stop saying cool people. There is no hierarchy of coolness unless you’re immature enough to believe so.</p></li>
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<li><p>Stop trying to reassure the readers of CC how often you get laid by your boyfriend and how amazing it is. You think by doing so that you are somehow conquering the people who like to party because they’re not getting laid as much as this non-partying/drinking girl (you). We don’t care it. And on another note, nor do we care about the list of activities you partake in with your sober friends - it’s useless, unnecessary information. Oh yeah, and your sarcastic tone is just plain annoying.</p></li>
<li><p>You do not know Ernest Hemingway so stop speculating his beliefs regarding modern youth. You’re ignorant.</p></li>
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<p>At galoisien - make mine a green dragon.</p>
<p>i think you are right, and im exactly the same way as you, brian. there is definitely something different between these two types of people. i usually see people like you and me that like to be active and play sports to have fun rather than drink as people who would never conform ourselves to anything so we can fit in somewhere. i am definitely not saying that people who drink are doing so; im just making a point for people who prefer other forms of entertainment. also, i think people like us usually learn quickly that caring about what everyone else does and thinks is definitely fruitless. ur comment made my day. im just about to enter college, and its good to know that there are people who share similar views with me out there.</p>
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<p>I only used the term cool, because the person I was responding to did. I don’t ever use the term cool myself. I simply thought that by cool, the poster meant popular.</p>
<p>I was again commenting to the person that posted that it is very much so possible to “get laid and have fun” while not at a party, and while not doing so with random people. Do not tell me what I think, because that is certainly not what I think. I do think “getting laid” however can be just as fun for people who don’t party, contrary to the popular belief of many partyers, and was addressing this. I was simply pointing out a number of ways people who don’t party can have fun, since again, many people think having fun only consists of getting drunk, and can’t imagine their weekend any other way. If you don’t care, you should have stopped reading. I’m sorry you find my tone annoying. I find your tone of superiority annoying.</p>
<p>I did actually state I never knew him. Perhaps I speculated ignorantly so, I will admit. The Hemingway quote being used in regards to typical college partying was just odd to me.</p>
<p>If one refers to everyone who does not get drunk every weekend “losers”, one is boring, ■■■■■■■■ as hell and not worth your time. Anyone who has an air of superiority because of crap like this needs to grow the **** up. If you have fun by getting drunk all the time, good for you, but not everyone is impressed or secretly envies you because of the stories about your drunken debauchery over the weekend.
BTW, if any of you think that people who don’t “party” all the time are just geeky basement dwellers, you are incredibly narrow minded. There are perfectly normal people on both sides of the spectrum, it’s just that it’s not as obvious. Think about this.</p>
<p>hmmm all of a sudden people who disagree with op have started a rival thread called “does anyone else like to party?”</p>