I would've thought it'd be done to death, but the thread search must be acting up.

Some background:

- Most of us are living in Ireland or London

- The stag is 28 and there won't be any old dudes (father, father-in-law, etc.)

- There'll be around 15/16 of us on the stag

- Budget is pretty flexible (1-2k/pp easily)

Ideas so far:

- Eastern Europe, Paris (Rugby Heineken Cup final 2010), or Barcelona (Spain)

- Vertically challenged lady handcuffed to the stag as soon as he gets off the plane (w/ various conditions and rules governing how soon - if it all - he can be detached!!) [apparently there are people in this business legitimately!!!]

- Blowing up defunct tanks, jets and cows (shady, not in favor of this one!) with rocket launchers in eastern bloc countries

- Hiring a yacht for during the day (we have a couple of qualified skippers on board!)

Trying to avoid:

- Cheesy stag crap like costumes, cheap t-shirts, etc. (we'll be getting RL polos and button downs with non-identifying short lines embroidered on the back of the collar, such as 'balls' [stag ref])

- Stereotypical European destinations: nowhere in Ireland (most of us are from there), not Amsterdam (done to death by most Europeans), but maybe somewhere like Berlin (was on a good stag there in 2006)

Anyone have unusual ideas please?

[Edited on August 17, 2009 at 4:45 PM. Reason : ]

8/17/2009 4:44:54 PM

Is this some sort of bachelor party or am I too assume you are going to hang with a deer?

8/17/2009 4:48:53 PM

where do you think you are, fucking Yale?

seriously... stop it

8/17/2009 5:02:34 PM

Riga, Talin, and if time permits, Vilnius.

Also, the women in Reyjkavik get down..

8/17/2009 5:05:38 PM

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH BRO!

8/17/2009 5:06:28 PM

^LOL

8/17/2009 5:06:55 PM

oktoberfest is coming up!

i like the yacht idea. maybe you guys could hire a sailboat to sail you around somewhere cool for 3-4 nights and you stay on the boat. or instead of hiring, you could just rent one.

8/17/2009 5:57:47 PM

go to prague where you pay $1.50 for a half liter of some of the best beer around. pub crawl. some great clubs there. like the 5 story one.

I was at a beer festival in berlin a couple of weeks ago and we saw like 3 different british stag parties. They seemed to be having fun. but it was at a three day beer festival.

Munich has the always fun hoffbrauhaus.

[Edited on August 17, 2009 at 6:31 PM. Reason : .]

8/17/2009 6:27:29 PM

Sorry, I forgot Americans call them bachelor parties!!

Ya, we're doing Oktoberfest too, sort of a pre-stag stag, but the main event is May/June next year. Did it last year as well with the same crew, highly recommend it!

I like the idea of sailing around to a few places over 3/4 days, and I haven't seen Prague, def be up for that.

Berlin is near top of my list, but I think I'd prefer eastern europe. Paris is cool, but a bit boring for a bachelor party.

8/18/2009 3:26:19 AM

Never mind the bollocks!

8/18/2009 8:01:06 AM

When did the Irish invade TWW?

And why would they ask our advice about stuff in their own backyard?

[Edited on August 18, 2009 at 9:23 AM. Reason : ??]

[Edited on August 18, 2009 at 9:26 AM. Reason : k]

8/18/2009 9:23:39 AM

to be pretentious

8/18/2009 9:36:35 AM

haha, harsh

i was on exchange at state for a while

we're just trying to organize a good bachelor party

jonny's the second guy in our extended group of friends to get married, all new to me

(first guy joined the US marines and married a girl he'd met 11 days prior -> no bachelor party)

[Edited on August 18, 2009 at 12:12 PM. Reason : ]

8/18/2009 12:11:41 PM

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"Budget is pretty flexible (1-2k/pp easily)"

I don't understand... how much? And why does it have to be unusual?

Don't do the little person thing, it won't be as fun as you're thinking. While I don't speak from experience, my friends (guys) tried something like this and said it was lame.

A yacht would be cool, but for a bachelor party you should definitely go somewhere where you can drink and chat with a bunch of total strangers. This is the last opportunity for the guy to (acceptably) flirt, so let him loose!

so, if money's not a problem... you should go to Las Vegas.

8/18/2009 12:33:28 PM

Thanks for the feedback on the little person, I'm on the fence about that suggestion, it does seem a bit cruel.

I'd love Vegas (never been!) but it has to be Europe for a few reasons:

- The budget probably wouldn't stretch that far -- flights would be around 700 from Ireland and maybe even more expensive in summer, then there's accommodation, food, drink, etc. A weekend in Europe will probably end up costing 2-3k, but Vegas could easily be 4-5k
- It's a very long way to go for a 3-4 day trip: we'd spend half the time traveling
- We have one friend living in Cali and he wants to come home for the bachelor party, he's one of Jonny's two closest friends (the guy in the Marines)

Good point about the yacht. We may end up doing that just during the day and heading into the city early in the evening. I think it's good to have maybe half the time with just the guys on the bachelor party (no homo) and the rest socializing with other people.

[Edited on August 18, 2009 at 2:56 PM. Reason : ]

8/18/2009 2:55:45 PM

has a quick look

London to Talin a month from now starts at $335 USD

8/18/2009 3:23:23 PM

Thanks! I'll check it out, it's definitely on the list of possibilities now

8/18/2009 4:02:35 PM

Bweez, you in Germany now?

8/18/2009 4:11:59 PM

Nah, I came back Thursday.

I was in Prague for a little over a month, then Germany for about a week. Mostly Berlin. Loved it.

Are you?

8/19/2009 1:05:06 AM

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"- Blowing up defunct tanks, jets and cows (shady, not in favor of this one!) with rocket launchers in eastern bloc countries"

I vote for rocket launchers. When else will you have an excuse to do something like that? After stag parties, you won't get to justify that again for another 15 years when you and your friends start having midlife crises. Not cows, though; nothing living, please.

Prague would be great, I'll also add Budapest to the list if you've never been.

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"haha, harsh i was on exchange at state for a while"

I remember you from when you were at State.

8/19/2009 1:44:56 AM

I would think Budapest would be a great place. Kind of like a cheap Vegas.

8/19/2009 10:19:48 AM

so are you going to pop your collars?

8/19/2009 10:25:22 AM

you should all go to the dentist

[Edited on August 19, 2009 at 6:14 PM. Reason : .]

8/19/2009 6:14:03 PM

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"we'll be getting RL polos and button downs with non-identifying short lines embroidered on the back of the collar"

i fucking love white people

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"- Vertically challenged lady handcuffed to the stag as soon as he gets off the plane (w/ various conditions and rules governing how soon - if it all - he can be detached!!) [apparently there are people in this business legitimately!!!]"

why would any reasonable person think this is funny? i'm all for humiliating your friend, but not at the expense of someone you don't know because of their appearance. christ.

8/19/2009 6:55:49 PM

^ In my defense, we're not white in the American sense, but I see your point. I think we've decided to do Polos only now.

I didn't come up with the vertically challenged idea and I'm not particularly in favor of it, but from what I've heard, "midget tossing" was legal in the US until 1989!! It is definitely an affront to human dignity, but the vertically challenged people do it of their own free will. I'm playing devil's advocate here

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"you should all go to the dentist "

My teef are actually pretty good, though they could be a few shades whiter. Believe it or not, that part of US culture is catching on over here too. We have loads of whitening clinics even in Cork (an Irish city w/ a population of about 300k -- http://www.google.com/search?q=whitening+cork )

So we had a brainstorming session over pints on Wednesday. This is what we've come up with so far:



Apparently Iceland is an excellent spot and they drink like the Irish, which always helps!!

[Edited on August 21, 2009 at 5:45 AM. Reason : Not crazy about the TS stripper or the midget tossing ideas either ]

8/21/2009 5:35:04 AM

was kidding about the teeth...I used to live in London so I always bust chops

Iceland is awesome. the blue lagoon is sweet as shit...i remember a golf course between Reykjavik and Keflavík that was build on a lava flow...the out of bounds was all black ass lava rock. reykjavick is a good drinking town and the wilderness is awesome...like gulfoss and geyser. I highly recommend going there at some time in your life

8/21/2009 4:57:29 PM

"get nodge laid" ?? i hope hes not the one getting married

8/21/2009 5:53:32 PM

^ is why women are not welcome at Stag / Bachelor nights.

8/21/2009 7:15:41 PM

no one says we want to go

but the reason some girls force their guys into not having one, or having a lame one, is because of what i mentioned

sorry for thinking the groom shouldn't be having sex with someone else. call me old fashioned!

8/21/2009 9:13:01 PM

This thread is awesome.

8/21/2009 10:34:23 PM

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""get nodge laid" ?? i hope hes not the one getting married"

Hells no, of course not! Nodge is one of my nicknames and I'm single

[Edited on August 22, 2009 at 7:32 AM. Reason : it was a joke]

8/22/2009 7:31:28 AM

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"Iceland is awesome. the blue lagoon is sweet as shit...i remember a golf course between Reykjavik and Keflavík that was build on a lava flow...the out of bounds was all black ass lava rock. reykjavick is a good drinking town and the wilderness is awesome...like gulfoss and geyser. I highly recommend going there at some time in your life"

Holy shiz, that golf course sounds awesome! We'd heard about the blue lagoon alright, sweet as

[Edited on August 22, 2009 at 7:34 AM. Reason : thanks ronny! no you're awesome, etc. ]

8/22/2009 7:33:19 AM

well nodge, in that case... bang away!!

8/22/2009 11:38:07 AM

^

Berlin's looking most likely now, but Reykjavik's still on the cards.

I'll try to keep the thread open 'til the stag goes down and post a few photos if they're not too incriminating!!

[Edited on August 23, 2009 at 8:02 PM. Reason : ]

8/23/2009 7:54:47 PM