Hangovers and exhaustion, apparently, out of vogue.
The United States government is officially shuttered after Republicans and Democrats failed to come to a funding agreement, overnight, leaving a nation lightly concerned. Amongst the most pressing questions, will courts still issue marriage certificates or will the betrothed have to put off wedding festivities?
On a related note, The New York Times has just revealed that those celebrating the last days of single-hood with bachelor or bachelorette parties are swapping shots for surfing, upending a vast tradition of drunken debauchery and generally bad behavior.
Apparently Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey is out and getting slotted is in as the Gray Lady hitched a ride down to Costa Rica where Gina Maruskin, 52, and her bachelorettes spent a week at a surf camp. Each had a personal surf coach who provided instruction then video review afterwards. “We were cheering and yelling for each other, seeing each other getting up on the surfboard. It was a beautiful bond,” Maruskin gloated.
Jolie Golub, who co-founded the bachelor and bachelorette party planning website BachBoss explained that now 40% of its events are activity related and shared pre-husbands and pre-wives are wanting to celebrate “in a way that doesn’t leave them hungover and exhausted at the end.”
It is unclear how a surf trip avoids those pitfalls but, I suppose, hope always springs during those heady days when an impending marriage is being celebrated.
It is unclear how the shift is affecting Fireball, as the brand is privately held, but Suntory Beverage and Food Limited, maker of Sauza tequila, is down 5% at market open.
In any case, did you celebrate a bachelor/bachelorette? Any highs or lows you wish to share?
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As long as you are for scuba, I am apee
Love the header pic, remember all those 1980,s american tit and bum movies ? Porkies, Batchelor Party , Animal house .
Different era , a good time for nice girls to earn money wearing bikinis and having fun without judgement from society . (possibly also good time for rich guys that might one day be president and their friends to have sex with underage women / girls…)
First Nicole Kidman v. Keith Urban, now this.
BBest part is the CS is actually on right now.
I know Andrew Kidman and Urban Surf Australia are affected but this is ridiculous.
Nicole finally had enough with the pegging thing and called it quits
Celebrated my bachelor party at Thunderbomb surfing the boom. Still engaged several years later so we now have an annual “bachelor party” surf trip all over Central America
hahaha, totally agree.
Did my buddy’s bach party in Costa Rica this past year and I can assure you there was equal amounts surfing and boozing. But fuck me are booze expensive down there
Which rivers did you surf?
How many times you gonna switch the ugly chick photos at the top of the sharticle?
Best bachelor party I went to was Hunter S. Thompson themed, where we all wore bucket hats, sunglasses, hawaiian shirts and shorts, white socks, and smoked cigs out of cigarette holders, making our way down starting in Encinitas and ending up in PB. I’ve been told there were both highs and lows, but I don’t remember any of them.
did it end with shotguns and golf balls???
ok, so it was Hunter S. Thompson lite. No firearms, and only a modest amount of hallucinogens were in play
it just means the bachelorettes and bride-to-be want to get piped down by a surf instructor before they have sex with one person for the rest of their lives
https://uploads.disquscdn.c… this one in my wheelhouse
No Blazin Apple? Sounds disgusting TBH.
an extremely versatile liquor, always good to have a few on hand for emergencies
Might be time to diversify Rocks https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
ha, nice , I’ve got some diversity, that was just the cabinet next to my desk lol
Hey can ya fire a .50 cal round through the hole in that circular one ?
Some say the shockwave will shatter the bottle, some say it won’t.
Can you give a us a definitive answer ?
Cheers
I rarely shoot these days, maybe once a year, but I know some serious gun guys who would likely take on this mission. That said, I looked up the shockwave myth and it appears to be a myth. Now, a .50 cal won’t slide through the gap in the bottle but I’m guessing a .223 or a 22 could pull it off without exploding the flower but those calibers dont offer the alleged potential shockwave of the .50 cal.
Let me see what I can come up with as this is indeed surf adjacent…not unlike the shockwave Mr Toledo generates while ripping down a Teahupo’o face.
Oh, I’d only glanced at it, but now on looking closer I see there’s not a fully open 2 inch wide hole through the middle for the bullet to freely travel at supersonic speed…
Bummer
Maybe talk to Derek about a fully open 2 inch wide hole.
Need someone with a better eye than Crooks
Quitters all of them! Jolie, having married into NY royalty, should be promoting drunken debauchery. I’ll make some calls…