#22

was a best man for my mate a few years ago. he’s a real control freak so I barely had any input into what we did. we went to Liverpool for fuck know’s what reason, and we finished the night in a strip club. because I’m woke as fuck I felt uncomfortable and shy. my mate got a dance. my gf and i were taking a break at the time so I was all blue about that, mostly remember being miserable for the entire weekend. my mate said the stripper was very nice. he and his wife got divorced earlier this year, but she was pretty awful and he’s mostly feeling liberated. dunno if she ever found out about the strip club.

#23

Trying to degrade you friends in the name of fun is pretty crap behaviour imo. I’m lucky that my friends are fairly relaxed and normally go for the converted barn in the country with lots of wine and some outdoors activities option.

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#24

100%. Seen this on a couple of stag dos ive been on - its almost always just 1 or 2 obnoxious ladz and they’ve always been shut down pretty sharpish.

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#25

“let’s get him super fucked up and ditch him somewhere inappropriate” is the height of wit for these people

#26

My girlfriend is from Blackpool and every stag and hen do we’ve seen there looks so unrelentingly grim

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#27

never been on one cuz none of my mates are married. Dunno what that says about me/my friends but there we are

#28

I didn’t have one at all. Many years of working in pubs and bars made the idea so unappealing and associated to so many awful memories of dickhead behaviour that I just didn’t bother. Myself, the tv and some close friends and family had a big dinner a couple of days before and that was much better in my view. Don’t get why people think that because their mate/relative is getting married they have license to act like a complete nipple for a day.

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#29

Currently have two stags coming up.

One is my brothers. It’s not his actual stag, because he’s having two - one for mates, one for family and family friends. I’m fine with this because a holiday with his mates would be hell, and the family one will just be a night out in Cardiff and I can sleep at my parents. Fine.

The other is for an old school friend who’s one of my favourite people but also a complete oddball and liability. He hasn’t even told me he’s getting married yet, but apparently a date is set in September, in Germany. I’m not planning on going at this rate, because call me traditional, but I kind of want an invite to an event before I start buying plane tickets for it.

Anyway, the stag is happening in Northamptonshire of all places, to take in a monster truck rally. Fine. BUT, it’s on a Sunday night, which means taking at least Monday off work, but half of them are planning to arrive on Friday. Fuck that, I don’t three nights of it.

The real hassle is the stag’s brother, who is pissing everyone off. He doesn’t drink, which is fine, but he’s rejecting every suggestion of an activity that doesn’t involve drinking either. His counter-suggestions have been wild camping and buying super expensive racing drones. Guaranteed I will throw him under a monster truck before the weekend is out.

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#30

Normally the ones I’ve been on have been okay, it’s usually go to a European city and find some decent pubs and go to a football match, or head up north in Scotland and climb a mountain or try some outdoor thing like canoeing (followed by going to pubs).

#31

I used to feel the same about all the stag and hen dos I see in Brighton, but I’m mellowing with age. They contribute a MASSIVE amount to the local economy and for the most part they’re absolutely harmless. Yes, there’ll be dickheads, but no more than in any other group of tourists I reckon. The town’s big enough that they can all go to Yates’ and the shit clubs and don’t get anywhere near the pubs I want to go to so live and let live I say.

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#32

I had my stag do back in 2003 and we hired out a narrow boat for a weekend on the Norfolk Broads. Some of my broke mates only stayed for one night, and we pottered around drinking on the boat and mooring up at pubs when we needed a meal. No massive drunken behaviour and no humiliation. I think this was largely in part due to my best man being completely rubbish at organising anything though.

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#33

Have one happening very soon and I only have to walk 5 minutes to the location.

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#35

Uncanny

#36

Which reminds me… you mentioned it to him?

#37

I’ll just fit in to anything other people have organised unless it’s too expensive. The nights not about me.

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#38

I had my stag last week. Luckily I managed to persuade the best man not to stitch me up with a stupid costume. Mainly because i’m arranging his stag and he is petrified i’d get him back. I can deal with most things but not being forced to walk round a quaint Polish town dressed like a twat.

#39

I don’t think i’d want a hen do as I don’t have enough friends so I think it will make me feel sad. I’d probably just want to go on a nice weekend away with one of my mates.

I’ve only been on one but it was very good. We stayed in a big house in the Lake District and we did a dance class which was great fun and went to The Loft in Keswick.

#40

I think there might be some small differences between Brighton and Blackpool

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#41

An important poll for a situation I may or may not be in.

If you invited someone to your stag / hen do would you expect them to invite you to theirs?

  • Yeah
  • Nah
  • Depends (please explain)

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