FabSwingers.com forum: Prom vs school leavers dicos

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

How was yours?

I recall sneaking booze in, my mate tonging my hair to look like Capella's (I still sport a scar), and a 7ft Christmas tree falling on a group of folk, wearing a very shiny, short silver dress, and 6th former coping off with a teacher. Also the local DJ who was banging one of our mates.

Happy times!... How was yours?

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By *dam1971Man
over a year ago

Bedford

I don’t remember much about mine, it was probably disappointing as I was too shy.

Nowadays they’re very different - took my daughter to one and even the car park was like Beverly Hills

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

My school didn't do one. Probably for the best.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I dont think we had one either, they were too keen to just get rid of us back then. Eldest didnt get her prom as her school are gatekeeping sadistic wankers. But Im over that now

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By *929Man
over a year ago

newcastle

Proms didn’t exist here when I was at school and they never had a disco which I dont blame them we were horrible little bastards why would they voluntarily spend more time with us other than what they had to in a school day haha

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By *ansoffateMan
over a year ago

Sagittarius A

Think of a combination between Back to the Future and Carrie.

It was something along those lines.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

We didn't have a promotion. I'm totally against them the amount of money parents are expected to pay out.

We had a disco and I remember dancing to if I said you had a beautiful body with a lad who later turned out to be gay.

We also sneaked alcohol and drank it round the back of the disco

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By *ou only live onceMan
over a year ago

London

Ours was called the May Ball - yep, my school did a good line in pretension.

It was an all boys school so we had the extra challenge of making sure there was a good gender balance so we teamed up with a girls' school down the road. Ours was end of 6th form so most people were 18 so we were allowed booze - though the teachers tried and failed to police amounts consumed!

I remember taking a gorgeous friend (still not sure how I plucked up the courage to ask her - she was/is stunning); we dated a bit but never more than a kiss before becoming best mates. I'm good at that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never went to a prom or school leavers' disco. First time I attended such an event was at uni; it was called the summer/end of year ball.

Was fun back then in a rite-of-passage thing. But now if you asked me, I'd skip out on it as I no longer see the point of it. Everything's going to be overpriced, you dress up to the nines and end up having to jostle with every other attending student at uni, possibly ruining whatever you're wearing with spilt alcohol, and I never understood the logic of dancing to club music at such a ball dressed up in formal wear either.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I fell asleep at the after party and someone shaved my eyebrows off.

I looked surprised for the first month of college

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By *urhamlad2022Man
over a year ago

here&there

Proms didn’t exist when I left school (2003) we had a leavers do at a local hotel. Copious amounts of cider in the local park before getting on the bus and 20 lambert & butler was as good as ours got.

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By *r_PinkMan
over a year ago

london stratford

My school was so shit.

We had neither.

I got egged on my last day and was glad to see the end of my school days.

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By *os19Man
over a year ago

Edmonton

When I left school in 1984 it was called a leaving disco.I never attended as I left school in April and only went back on the days of my exams

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By *orphia2003Woman
over a year ago

Tonypandy.

Don't think we had one, or if we did, I didn't go.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't know if my school did one or not, but I certainly didn't go to one.

That was, of course, long before we 'imported' this american crap called 'Prom'.

Sorry, but 'prom' is short for 'promenade' and it's what we also call the 'seafront'

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

I never went to anyone them, why would I want to socialise with people who I detested.

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By *an de LyonMan
over a year ago

welling

"I never went to anyone them, why would I want to socialise with people who I detested."

This. Fuck socialising with them sociopaths

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago

Transsexual Transylvania

South African schools didn't do things like school discos in the 80s. Most would haveca Matric (final year) dance. I went to ours with the sister of a friend in a lower year. We had it at a rather nice hotel on Durban beachfront. All rather swish.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

We went to our 6th form prom together. We have a picture of us taken by the pro photographer and I still have the necklace he gave me. We booked ourselves a room in the Holiday Inn and bought fluffy handcuffs from Ann Summers to play with. We remember our mates hammering on our hotel room door in the morning while we were still having fun. We skipped breakfast......

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"Don't know if my school did one or not, but I certainly didn't go to one.

That was, of course, long before we 'imported' this american crap called 'Prom'.

Sorry, but 'prom' is short for 'promenade' and it's what we also call the 'seafront' "

To promenade is to walk in a leisurely fashion, in a public place. "The prom" is actually describing the motion and location of the walk, not the thing itself, at least originally. A promenade is also a particular dance move (a specific walk).

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By *ittlemiss1985Woman
over a year ago

Lansing

My senior prom was fun, our school had it in a local night club oddly enough. I went with a big group of friends, went to the after party and had breakfast at the 24 hour diner at 4am.

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

I never got one, they stop them because the school kept getting smashed up. But half of it getting burnt down was the final straw.

The mr

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

"How was yours?

Happy times!... How was yours? "
never had a prom or school leavers do

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Same with stag nights it used to be a pub crawl around town, throw up after a curry and the highlight was a night in a police cell. Now it’s an all inclusive week in Jamaica

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By *oubleswing2019Man
over a year ago

Colchester

Our school didn't do anything like that. The Head wore a proper gown and had a mortice board type hat. All very proper.

So no, no vulgar displays of that kind of thing. Whilst it was a very well moneyed school, we frowned on places like Eton with their vulgar displays of wealth. I guess we were similar in many ways, but the school was quietly wealthy and didn't do li_elight or show.

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Brilliant. I did go to an all girl's school so it wasn't exactly wild. But we dressed up, string quartet and then some awful cheesy disco. I didn't drink but we did go and meet a group from the boy's school after.

Oh and I kissed the hottest girl.

No idea how I managed that.

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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in Co. Down

We had one but I didn't get to go as I left school in my final year to start working.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"Our school didn't do anything like that. The Head wore a proper gown and had a mortice board type hat. All very proper.

Our head wore a gown etc too. It was a CofE state comprehensive though. We still had a prom. I'm not convinced that the head had anything to do with its planning, nor the head of 6th form who was a teacher of Latin.

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By *ittle Miss TinkerbellWoman
over a year ago

your head

We had a leavers disco. They made a specific point of telling us it wasn't a prom. We had fizzy drinks and Crisps and shite music. Was fun to spend with my friends, had a dance, took some pics etc. We didn't take it seriously. No alcohol, there was no need. We had a party later in the year where our parents bought us alcohol and let us celebrate how we wanted to.

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