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I keep reading about the "dinner party circuit"Whats it all about?

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GabbyLoggon · 18/03/2011 14:22

Please dont say its just a dinner which is also a party.

I want the inside story...successes and disasters ...Is it a CLASS phrase?

Someone said it was a phrase created by young professionals....

Not Sloane Rangers? (does anyone on Mumsnet remember them.) It was all the rage . They said YA for yes. Then they seemed to fade away.

We all do eventually.

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Gooseberrybushes · 19/03/2011 18:03

Isn't it a bit childish to think it's funny for a managing director to meet an HR executive at a dinner party?

Yeah I really don't think that's that funny. Maybe my deficient sense of humour?

No, it's just not funny.

ninah · 19/03/2011 18:07

call me childish, but Bufty Tufton is funny

Gooseberrybushes · 19/03/2011 18:09

Is he a person in a comedy show rather than real life? That might be why.

Gooseberrybushes · 19/03/2011 18:11

Ninah I've just been told I was mean to you by someone looking over my shoulder. So sorry about that have a Wine and a Smile It was my teenager in a very non-teenager nice mood Grin where on earth can he get it from

onceamai · 19/03/2011 18:12

Have none of you ever been to a dinner party and realised you slept with all of the male guests in your younger days Wink and rather sweetly complimented all of the wives nouveau or otherwise.

onceamai · 19/03/2011 18:12

Once has had a glass too many in the sunshine this afternoon.

Bunbaker · 19/03/2011 18:47

"Have none of you ever been to a dinner party and realised you slept with all of the male guests in your younger days wink and rather sweetly complimented all of the wives nouveau or otherwise."

Erm, no.

altinkum · 19/03/2011 18:50

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PepsiPopcorn · 19/03/2011 18:55

Invite friends round for dinner, fine.
Have a party? Fine.
Dinner party? Why does having dinner with friends have to be called a "party"?
Circuit? Something to do with electronics.

UnquietDad · 19/03/2011 20:13

"Dinner party circuit" life is hilariously funny, not to mention pompous, and I'm glad many people on here realise this. beesimo: I wouldn't be so sure of my innocence if I were you...

beesimo · 19/03/2011 20:26

Oh Unquiet Dad are you the type to follow on into the kitchen and offer to load the dishwasher!

I am sorry to report Beesimo may advertise a bit but she never delivers is happily married older lady but their is nothing like making DH see the odd rival spark up a bit.

Salmotrutta · 19/03/2011 20:29

So are people who do the "Dinner Party Circuit" the same type of people who appear on Escape to The Country and need a big house for entertaining. Then always declare the kitchen and dining room "too small for all our entertaining"

I always imagine them juggling and fire-eating after the pudding.

I never do dinner parties - I have people round for supper, drinks and a really good laugh.

Jajas · 19/03/2011 23:09

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BaggedandTagged · 20/03/2011 00:14

Tbh I think "dinner party circuit" is a bit of a media invention, as in

"The hot topic on the dinner party circuit this year is house prices/school fees/the deficit/delete as applicable"

It's basically shorthand for "the main topic of discussion amongst the middle classes", who, as we all know, are a single homogenous mass who all agree with one another on everything.

UnquietDad · 20/03/2011 09:08

I'd only do it if it was like Come Dine With me and you get to mark them out of ten afterwards. I'd want a more complex marking system with categories, though, e.g.:

Food: 7
Drinks: 8
Witty Repartee: 8
'Connections' made: 7
Luscious Embonpoint of Hostess: 8

etc.

BaggedandTagged · 20/03/2011 10:55

ICDWM is like a car crash in slow motion. You want to look away- it's all just so horrible- but you can't

I especially liked the one when they had the brain-friend artist called John who had obviously taken far too many class A's in his life and was just off the wall. His cooking was terrible to the point of inedibility.

actresskat · 21/08/2011 15:52

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BleurghUna · 21/08/2011 19:22

I hear kitchen suppers are more the thing nowadays, never get invited to them either though Sad

IAmTheCookieMonster · 21/08/2011 19:29

I'd love to be part of a dinner party circuit, it sounds very glamorous!

I am part of a curry, cheap rose and a dvd circuit.

actresskat · 21/08/2011 21:52

Hi,

I just want to apologise for posting my 2 minute survey here. I was unaware of the rules - simply following guidance in a library business start-up book. Not sure if I can afford the £30 fee for posting a survey officially on mumsnet. Will have to think it over. Sorry again for any offence.

LineRunner · 21/08/2011 23:49

I'd love to see that library business start-up book advice.

"Go on MN AIBU.

Find a really, really old thread starring Gabby and Beesimo banging on about dinners and feet.

Post your irrelevant survey."

Something like that?

Al0uiseG · 22/08/2011 08:49

This was started in March and the poster who resurrected the thread has had their post deleted. What's going on?

Whatmeworry · 22/08/2011 08:56

Been to a few, can be good or dire depending on the mix of people, often a better description is "inviting my friends who don't know each other".

Whatmeworry · 22/08/2011 09:01

Re market research, I have a horrible feeling that MN is now in all the the "Marketeers Guide to Social Media" advice. Explains quite a few recent threads.

youpies · 22/08/2011 09:14

Baggedandtagged I lived next door to Jon the brainfried artist for 2 years, complete stoner but an absolutely lovely bloke, was sad to move away!

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