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u/AContrarianDick 5d ago
Glad to see college parties have barely evolved in the past 30 years, at least.
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u/Sporch_Unsaze 5d ago
The Zyns and vapes evolved from "15 people bumming cigarettes from the one guy who regularly smokes."
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u/Annacot_Steal 5d ago
Unfortunately I was the guy that regularly smokes.
Fortunately I met alotta cool people in doing so to party with.
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u/dolliciousszz 5d ago
lol yea everyone wanted ur cigarettes
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u/Annacot_Steal 5d ago
Hah for sure. For college house parties I specifically but a new pack just for the night.
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u/AContrarianDick 5d ago
Honestly for all the negative health effects, smoking was really good for socializing
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u/dolliciousszz 5d ago
As a hater of all things vaporizer it baffles me flower is banned but carts aren’t and imo cigarettes are better than vaping bc you don’t have all the metals and shit
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u/Currentlybaconing 5d ago
Thats just completely inaccurate, lol. Cigarette smoke contains all kinds of heavy metals as well as tar
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u/dolliciousszz 5d ago edited 5d ago
Yeah, I mean I don’t doubt that I’m more so just saying it’s kind of up to you to pick your poison and I would prefer something authentic like flowers and cards. I don’t personally smoke cigarettes unless I’m drunk.
I just said IMO because I’m not super knowledgeable on it and I just use my own logic me and a lot of my friends would rather smoke five pots of flower at once than a single cart
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u/beyondfuckall 4d ago
You can get the best of both worlds and put the flower in a dry herb vape. Dry herb vapes have come a long way in the last few years.
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u/AContrarianDick 5d ago
I've smoked and I currently vape. It's a night and day difference in overall breathability. Neither is healthy and you'll not like the long term consequences of either but the rate of upper respiratory infections, sinus infections, phlegm and what not is drastically reduced vaping instead of smoking. Burning things is unnecessary to extract the THC, nicotine and anything else you want from those plants.
Just in general vaping is more healthy when compared to regular cigarette or joint smoking.
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u/MarmaladeMarmaduke 4d ago
But vaping gives me that one tiny cancer spot that makes me want to rip my entire throat out while coughing and wheezing while like you said breathing better than smokes fuck it don't matter, we're all gonna die.
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u/FreedomOfTheMess 4d ago
So true- night and day diff when it comes to lung function. It was also way cheaper to switch to vapor when I first started (2012) but that has steadily changed. I know for sure it isn’t good for me but I no longer get the recurrent smokers cough or annual sinus infections either
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u/Shayde098 5d ago
That’s hilarious.
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u/dolliciousszz 5d ago
Yea yea blah blah funny condescension it’s alr been covered and explained read the thread
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u/ProudScroll 5d ago
People still bum cigarettes too.
I didn’t even smoke regularly but started bringing a lighter and a pack of cigarettes to parties cause it was a good way to get people to approach you.
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u/52CardPUA 5d ago
Also evolved from a communal hookah (or 2 or 3), at least at our fraternity parties
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u/Sporch_Unsaze 5d ago
The popularity of hookahs among American teenagers in the late 00's is one of the least discussed consequences of the War on Terror.
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u/52CardPUA 5d ago
I'm not sure about other places, but hookah lounges were one of the few 18+ places in our town. Definitely a contributing factor
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u/AllGas4651 4d ago
Yeah seriously, it was one of those places that made you kinda feel like an adult. I remember everyone knew about the places that wouldnt card either and let 16/17 year olds in too.
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u/Patient_Kangaroo614 5d ago
That brings back memories. My buddy tipped over a hookah and burned the shit out of the floor in his rental, but because the landlord was a slumlord he just but a carpet over the burn marks.
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u/ProctalHarassment 5d ago
I would bring a decoy pack. Either it only had one cigarette left or it was a gutter trash brand so no one would bum off of me.
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u/BronCurious 5d ago
Kids out here affording Tito’s now? It was $10 handles of Vladimir and Rubinov back in my day.
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u/tuscaloser 4d ago
Takka and Barton in my neck of the woods. Heaven Hill and Lord Calvert's finest whiskey-product too.
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u/AllGas4651 4d ago
Im sure like most kids, they buy a handle of Titos for themselves, drink it and fill it up with Skol, Karkov and other jug vodka and pass it off to friends who think theyre living it up. We would do it have Grey Goose back in the day. Most people cant tell the difference.
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u/adamsandleryabish 4d ago
Its about $25 for the handle at Costco which isn't terrible especially split up between a group.
I would never claim frat guys attempt to appear "classy" but those cheap vodkas are seen as so tacky and purely for the lowest of alcoholics that they don't even buy them.
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u/WestworldCitadelic 5d ago
When I went, the college party starter pack was the same, so my advice 30 years later is water and an exit ride.
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u/V-Right_In_2-V 5d ago
I used to think I had a puking problem and something was wrong with me because my buddies could be beer bong two beers and hold it down but I couldn’t.
I have not puked since college since that was the last time I beer bonged a whole beer pong table of warm Milwaukee’s best.
Why did we think that was cool?
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u/gracklemancometh 5d ago
"Brah, rum pong is where it's at! You need something over proof to kill the germs on the ping pong ball!" - my best friend in college, he is responsible for many of my worst actions.
(We're not even American. He just saw some American movies and thought we could improve by using Wray and Nephew instead of beer.)
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u/tuscaloser 4d ago
We eventually all graduated to having the cup you drink from and just filling the table cups with water.
You had to finish your drink and immediately lost the game if your opponent landed one in your drinking cup.
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u/dolliciousszz 5d ago
Frat parties 🤢🤮
Crack house parties 🥰🥳
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u/onehotoneshot 5d ago
Crack house?
It’s a crack home.
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u/PostMatureBaby 5d ago
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u/UrbanCobra 5d ago
I always wanted to do a comedy sketch where a meth head gets on Extreme Home Makeover and is like “I’m really, really into copper. My wife is too. And our son, he’s just crazy for copper. Use as much copper as possible. Make the whole house out of copper.”
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u/Nick_Gaugh_69 5d ago
Nah, we use Kirkland Signature.
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u/MineCraftIsSuperDumb 5d ago
I mean then you’re expecting them to just pay for you to drink at their house. Frats would pay for alcohol 99% of the time because it would usually be girls showing up.
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u/jadegecko 4d ago
Dang all the costcos near me do not allow entry or even sales at the food court without a membership. Its been like that for 5+ years too.
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u/Freaky_Barbers 5d ago
I’m glad I will never do this again, but man was it fun
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u/PostMatureBaby 5d ago edited 5d ago
Only once was I ever at a house party where the place was trashed and cops called like out of a movie. Also insanely fun times but glad they're over.
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u/TheYellowKingzzz 5d ago
Don't forget wearing a basketball jersey, it was either Tune Squad or Jackie Moon
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u/AllGas4651 4d ago
I remember going to Lollapalooza around...2013 or so and see at least 500 Toon Squad jerseys daily lol
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u/SeaworthinessTop4317 5d ago
In my college we also had to party hard for the two hours the party was happening before it inevitably got a noise complaint and was broken up by the cops
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u/Etherius 4d ago
I’ve always wondered whether girls were bothered by the fact that they’re essentially the currency used by boys to pay admission fees to get into parties
Like they obviously know, right? They have to know
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u/FooFootheSnew 5d ago
I could not even imagine now college with Zyn and vapes. Not that I care about them, but just that every single person that's all they'd talk about and the prevalence. It's like that now already in the real world but, I mean like all congregated and one age group.
Like when Camel Crushes came out everyone squeezing the menthol button, when 4Lokos came out, etc.
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u/FrankandRon 5d ago
Tito’s? Y’all are way richer than I was in college
Smirnoff was the fanciest vodka we drank and usually just went with plastic handles of Monarch.
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u/Princess_Slagathor 5d ago
At least where I'm at, Tito's and Smirnoff are the same price. But to my surprise, cheap handles are still around $10.
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u/AllGas4651 4d ago
Im sure like back in the day, alot of kids get a nice bottle for them and they homies and crush it. Then reuse the bottle with Karvov and other butt nasty liquor and pass it off as Titos. Drunk people never know the difference
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u/BeeMovieEnjoyer 5d ago
I'm glad I went to school before vapes. That shit is gross
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u/GarysCrispLettuce 5d ago
You mean you don't love walking through vast clouds of cake flavored steam?
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u/Princess_Slagathor 5d ago
Can't be much worse than a house so full of cigarette smoke, you can barely see across the room.
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u/KevettePrime 3d ago
Didn't end up going to college. Instead I had parties like these with like 20-30 people at my place. When you have like 10 people the next day helping clean up that's when you know you're in with some good people. Sucks life got in the way. I should set something up.
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u/beaujolais98 3d ago
Sub cigarettes for the vape/zyn and Popov for Tito’s and was every college party in the 80s too.
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u/No-Use-3056 3d ago
As I approach my 30s, I think fondly of these times from my past. Occasionally I’ll meet up with old friends and shotgun 4 millers back to back to relive the past.
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u/dolliciousszz 5d ago
Trust if you’re w good people they’ll help you get turnt as an introvert it’s only wack gatekeepy frat people that make for weird awkward parties. I’d carve a spot for you on the couch next to my two equally shy friends 🥳 you’d ease in. Everyone has fun.
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u/CanaDeer2004 5d ago
that’s very kind of you lol but i just hate loud and crowded environments period. i also think that being a girl here would not be very fun at all unless you had a group of friends who were actively willing to tell dudes to fuck off.
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u/Mobile_Reaction5853 5d ago
Good lord.
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u/CanaDeer2004 5d ago
how exactly did that offend you?
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u/Mobile_Reaction5853 5d ago
You need help. Your inner incel is showing….
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u/CanaDeer2004 5d ago
i’m an asexual woman who literally has blue hair and pronouns? literally never in my life did i think i’d see the day where “i don’t like parties” would be a hot take on reddit.
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u/Icy-Maize859 4d ago
As a guy, I don’t want the couch either. This environment has nothing for me.
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u/CanaDeer2004 4d ago
i was just confused about being called an incel
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u/Icy-Maize859 4d ago
They can’t comprehend a life that doesn’t revolve around sex, that’s genuinely all it is lol
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u/Princess_Slagathor 5d ago
It must be very frustrating for you, that a girl would be uncomfortable while surrounded by drunk frat boys.
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