Hirohito@fedinsfw.app to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoDo Americans actually use red plastic cups at parties or is that just a Hollywood trope?message-squaremessage-square157linkfedilinkarrow-up1232arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1229arrow-down1message-squareDo Americans actually use red plastic cups at parties or is that just a Hollywood trope?Hirohito@fedinsfw.app to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square157linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·1 day ago so to cover the booze costs, the hosts would sell cups at the door I … what?!
minus-squarenew_world_odor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32·1 day agoSelling the booze is a crime - selling the cups is not. Loophole!
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-214 hours agoAhahah… yep, helped plan and host a few such uh, ‘events’, where we employed this extremely legal tactic. That and ID checking. Still can’t legally serve a minor, even if the booze is free.
minus-squarearrow74@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·20 hours agoThese aren’t parties in the sense of house party thrown by friends. These are essentially large "open’ events hosted by a group.
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 hours agoI’m sorry that you haven’t known people with large houses and lots of friends of friends of friends. You absolutely can throw a house party where you know you’re gonna need to buy a couple hundred cups. And ideally, you’ll be playing Daft Punk Is Playing At My House at your house.
I … what?!
Selling the booze is a crime - selling the cups is not. Loophole!
Ahahah… yep, helped plan and host a few such uh, ‘events’, where we employed this extremely legal tactic.
That and ID checking. Still can’t legally serve a minor, even if the booze is free.
These aren’t parties in the sense of house party thrown by friends. These are essentially large "open’ events hosted by a group.
I’m sorry that you haven’t known people with large houses and lots of friends of friends of friends.
You absolutely can throw a house party where you know you’re gonna need to buy a couple hundred cups.
And ideally, you’ll be playing Daft Punk Is Playing At My House at your house.