To ask when did The Young stop going to DISCOS

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Lovely DD (16) is sat here beside us watching Netflix. When I was her age (in the 70s/80s) I would have either been at a disco or in the pub. Obviously, now young people have to produce id to get served, the latter is out but I think it's a bit sad the young don't go to discos.

Did you go? What do your teens do on a Saturday night?

From about age 12-14 it was teen discos. From about 15 up it was pubs and clubs. Met boyfriend at 17 and spent all my free time at his house or out with him.

My 16 yo spends every weekend in. Currently he is on the sofa watching the Big Bang theory with me on Netflix. Otherwise he is in his room gaming or raiding my fridge. Occasionally he will head out and meet a friend to get food. Sometimes he goes camping with scouts. That’s it. Sounds incredibly dull but at least I know where he is. Unlike my mother did

My 16 year old goes to parties, either on the beach or at friends' houses. Not every weekend though, he has a job in a pub so sometimes he works in the evenings.

I wonder why discos fell out of favour? I bloody loved em!

I lived for the weekend just so I could dance.

Outgrow by 12 id say....

Haven’t they just been renamed “clubs”? Some 16 year olds are definitely still going to them, maybe it depends on your area …

Sorry pressed send... outgrown by 12 now...think then to sleepovers and then to pubs when of age...no idea when this happened

My teen has tons of friends. And they all sit indoors talking to each other and gaming online. In different houses.

At least they aren’t out necking White Lightening and Pink Lady at 14, or blagging their way into nightclubs I guess. My teens seemed so much more fun, but considerably more dangerous, than today’s teens.

I was 16 in 2000 and "a disco" didn't exist. Nightclubs existed, for 18 year olds. Bars exist. A "disco" was something your school put on and played YMCA and Timewarp. There were very few places a 16 year old could really go - youth clubs had all closed.

One thing we did have in a nearby town was an age 13-16 night at a nightclub, so from about 6pm to 8pm, no alcohol served, and it was quite good really - kids got to feel grown up, dance, drink orange juice, meet friends and so on. I went a few times with my friends but I don't know how widespread the idea was, or if it still goes on.

I think it was a lot easier to get served alcohol underage as a teen in the 80,s,i m not sure pubs and discos would have been much fun drinking lemonade tbh

I’m 35 and I didn’t do much of what you’re describing. We did pubbing and clubbing a lot from 18, but couldn’t before as ID rules are so strict.

We’d mostly do house parties with friends. “Disco’s” were for First and Middle School !

I'm 51 - went clubbing from 15 and we went to raves in my 20's - only discos where school ones at the end of term!

My eldest 2 (19/17) tend to go to peoples houses and drink - older one has just started clubbing recently

No discos here!

A disco? About 1984, I should think.

It was clubs or raves (if you had a mate with his Mum's Metro for the night) by 1987.

I was 16 in 2007. No chance I would have been at a disco, I was working full time and going to proper clubs (albeit a local one which was renowned for letting in underagers).

Before that 'Discos' didn't exist outside of what school put on a couple of times a year. Even then a lot of schools weren't putting them on for whatever reasons.

The local ice rink used to do a sort of disco night for teens when I was 13ish, really popular as it was the only thing on for our age within a 30mile radius, but got shutdown because of so many accidents with kids sneaking drink in or arriving drunk,then heading out onto the ice with no clue how to skate

Went to discos in the 90s as a teen. But 'disco' was just another word for 'club'. Drinking, drugs, etc were all available. It's maybe a Northern Irish thing to use 'disco' like that.

I went to a few discos from around 13-16 years of age. This was early-mid 2000s and not in the UK. They never served alcohol but every single kid smuggled alcopops or similar and got drunk. It was still mostly about dancing though, and I always had a great time. I do remember adults supervising us and looking after the ones that were a bit worse for wear. Bless them. Then the discos suddenly stopped and I've not heard of anyone going for ages. I stopped going when I met new people and started getting drunk at house parties, followed by bars when I turned 18 (no one would let me in before I was 18 because of my baby face ).

If I wasn't getting drunk at parties or bars I was watching live music and getting drunk. My friends and I got drunk and awful lot because we didn't have anything else to do. And it was fun. It kind of stopped eventually, which is probably for the best.

I used to go on the piss every Friday and Saturday from around age 15 to 20.
Discos, pubs, the park, top of the BMX track. Cheap cider like white lightening or a bottle of 20/20.
I think Discos were a bit old fashioned by mid 90s though. Even school started doing proms.

My daughter is 8, if she does what I did, I'll be fuming. I'm a hypocrite I know. 😋

DS has been to a couple of silent discos this summer, do they count?

Disco's weren't a thing past the 80's really. For us it was a club as in nightclub.

Around that age I was walking round streets with my friends. We'd get strangers to buy cigarettes and we'd nick booze from parents stock. Nightmare. I hope my DC stays in and watches telly (still at primary so time will tell!)

I basically spent 15-18 in pubs and clubs with my tongue down the throats of various young men

Not sure if this is a thing elsewhere but round here we used to have “pre-formals”. In the run up to school formals (prom?) the formal committees would book a local bar and sell tickets for a tenner to raise money for their formal. Im not even sure if they were for under 18s and didn’t serve drink or for over 18s and did but I was there from around 14/15 and was always pissed.

anyone else got this priest's voice in their head now?

I came on here to say, roughly 1985
But I think I’ve missed the point