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Not the classical music festival but the shitey yank inspired rebranding of an end of year school disco.

What a lot of unnecessary faff for the same fecking thing. Prom car, prom dress, prom stress...ffs.

Load of shite.
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Its all a bit gypo
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The end of class.
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I bet your prom dress looks lovely.
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End of Secondary School “Dances” were Standard practice back home - the “Debs” being a Right of Passage for all 17 year olds...
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NotoriousREV wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 5:19 pm I bet your prom dress looks lovely.
Which one though Dave?. I've paid for several.
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And you have the nerve to accuse me of bendery Tim :lol:
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JLv3.0 wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 5:34 pm And you have the nerve to accuse me of bendery Tim :lol:
In what way does buying dresses render me a bender?

I thought that we adequately covered cross-dressing early on in the forums existence and came to the conclusion that it's all perfectly fine and manly.

Anything for a quiet life mate. Money is a small sacrifice in the great scheme of things.
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Never a truer word spoken.
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That's not to say that I wouldn't want to firebomb whichever nefarious bunch of cunts convinced our state educators that the normalisation of this crass americanism wouldn't only be a boon to the economy but would also make 16 year olds 'happy'.
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The thought of a Gloucestershire teenager ripping the needle out of his or her arm to put on a smart suit or frock to spend the night slow-dancing is very, very confusing to me. Who's looking after their kids? :lol:
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JLv3.0 wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:26 pm The thought of a Gloucestershire teenager ripping the needle out of his or her arm to put on a smart suit or frock to spend the night slow-dancing is very, very confusing to me. Who's looking after their kids? :lol:
You've a very jaded view of your home county James and all it does is prove my long standing suspicion that moving to a desert and then skewering a kraut does not necessarily make you a better person.
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*has certainly not made me a better person :lol:
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I just bought our oldest girl a pair of DMs for her prom. I think she has the right idea :)
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I rate "proms" right up there with Nursery "graduation" :roll:

I fondly remember school discos, most folk were drunk, we wore jeans and Joe Bloggs hoddies - male and female from memory. The more racy ladies wore shorts.
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Jumpers for goalposts etc
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There used to be a May ball at my school which was a black tie event, so not much different to a “Prom.” Some people would get a limo or flash car, but most of us would just go to a pub nearby before and flash our shitty fake IDs.
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Yep that’s jogged my memory, we had a final ball at a hired fancy manor just before the last year of school came to an end. Technically it was after the school year as the final year ended a few weeks earlier and the last 2 weeks were just sports activities and theatre so you could smoke cigarettes and drink booze freely. It was pretty interesting as the teachers joined in and I remember our very stern physics professor who was a complete arse for 5 years being a lovely person when drunk and handing out cigarettes.
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There were mutterings of the word “Prom” when I finished secondary school, back in 2002. Mostly I think it was referred to as a disco.
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I did driving duties last year in my mates Quattroporte (Ferrari V8 with straight pipes and quite obnoxiously loud) which was kind of OK and made me realise that I never wanted to own one! It's all a bit mental but my leaving year back in 1991 were the first year to have a 'Prom' at our school rather than an end of year disco, so it's a bit easier getting on board with it all having been through it myself.
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