how about "party with dinner"?
getting yer knickers in a knot over what you call things I am too young to give a shit about.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 6 May 2009, 12:06, 1 reply)

????
Nope - I've checked. Knickers definately not in a knot. Just agreeing with Spanky that the term 'Dinner Party' isn't something I'd expect to hear in my circle of friends - but it is a term I hear my parents talk about in their circle.
(Lizard King, Wed 6 May 2009, 12:10, closed)

Yeah, I can dig that.
I think Spanky is suggesting not going to one though based on his age which is a shame as scoffing and boozing really do go very nicely hand in hand.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 6 May 2009, 12:35, closed)

I always call my parties ..... soirees.
Makes them sound more decandent and less middle class.
( girlinthehole, Wed 6 May 2009, 12:38, closed)

If you really want to be decadent,
just call them orgies and you will definitely be a bit decadent and slightly less middle class. :-0
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 6 May 2009, 12:48, closed)

I actually went to one once
I'm talking the formal-type dinner party things...

The tux and the ferrero roche jobbies.

Felt completely out of place: People just kept asking me: "What do you do?" It was fucking annoying. Eventually when someone said: "What do you do?", I pointed out my then girlfriend and said: "Her - that's why I'm here."

Didn't go down too well...

Don't get me wrong, having a bit of food and some booze round a mates house is fine; but just for the love of god don't call them 'dinner parties'.

Gives me the heebie-jeebies.
( SpankyHanky, Wed 6 May 2009, 12:54, closed)

Tux and ferrero roche?
Jaysus, lad, you move in very different circles to me.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 6 May 2009, 13:16, closed)

I thought I looked like James Bond
Apparently I resembled a shaved chimp with a drinking problem....

Steer clear of those posh events, mate. They're full of wankers and women who look like horses. Fucking awful. And they don't give you beer in a pint glass: cunts.
( SpankyHanky, Wed 6 May 2009, 13:35, closed)