Poll of the Day > Poll: How large were your average birthday parties as a child?

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Back then I had Chuck-E-Cheese parties where you would basically invite your whole class (and any other friends/family you had not in your class), so 20-30 sounds about right. Most of the birthday parties I went to I never even talked to the person who's birthday it was, I would just play games with one or two people I knew.

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Relevance, in case anybody was wondering:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/79415618

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/79415618/953042321

And it's rather telling that ROF's first SIX options range from a measly 0-10. That sounds like it should take up maybe three poll options at most, not six.

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Zeus posted...

Relevance, in case anybody was wondering:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/79415618

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/79415618/953042321

And it's rather telling that ROF's first SIX options range from a measly 0-10. That sounds like it should take up maybe three poll options at most, not six.

What'd you vote for? Let's have an honest discussion.

I'm just teasing bruv, but I find your claim completely outlandish :p

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I've never had a birthday party.

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ReturnOfFa posted...

What'd you vote for?

I haven't voted and probably won't vote because it's hard to come up with an aggregate. Even if I was to exclude parties I'd attended (which could be huge when I was in more urban settings or small when it was at something like a zoo or museum) and just look at parties for me, that number had a pretty wide range depending on the party.

ReturnOfFa posted...

I'm just teasing bruv

The topic kinda feels more like rustled jimmies bruv

ReturnOfFa posted...

but I find your claim completely outlandish :p

I guess if somebody had a sheltered upbringing, even 10 or 20 kids would seem huge. I've lived in urban areas before, it doesn't really strike me as being odd.

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It really depended on a lot of things. Im not sure if there is really an average, tbh... Some times I had sleepovers with close friends and family. Usually like 8-20 kids, depending. But then, I also sometimes had parties during the day that were like even more friends and family than usual that had like 50-100 people. But, we would also sometimes have double parties for me and my grandma, whose birthday is 6 days after mine. Then, we start holding triple parties because my sisters birthday is the day before mine. So, hard to say since we shared some of the guests...
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Family parties were ALWAYS huge

Friend parties were probably 8-10 most times

our family had to invite everyone in the classroom so nobody felt left out.

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Zeus posted...

I haven't voted and probably won't vote because it's hard to come up with an aggregate. Even if I was to exclude parties I'd attended (which could be huge when I was in more urban settings or small when it was at something like a zoo or museum) and just look at parties for me, that number had a pretty wide range depending on the party.

The topic kinda feels more like rustled jimmies bruv

I guess if somebody had a sheltered upbringing, even 10 or 20 kids would seem huge. I've lived in urban areas before, it doesn't really strike me as being odd.

Well, that's why I included 10-20. I guess my 20-50 range is the most obtuse. 30 doesn't seem odd at all, definitely went to a lot of big birthday parties like that in my younger years.

I would just fucking hate having a 60+ person party because my child had turned 12 XD. In my fam the only parties with like 70-100+ people were for 50th birthdays, 50th anniversaries, 80th birthdays...stuff like that where it makes sense.

I'm just further outing myself as an asshole lmao. Also just thought your claim that those sorts of things are defined by being "inner-city" or not to be an odd claim! My jimmies are always rustling.

*rustles jimmies about*

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Did anyone ever have a giant shoot-out? That's the big question.

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I don't remember. Most of mine probably just had family.
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I don't remember ever having one. My older sisters did, though.

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70+, ok?

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10-20, but a lot of my parties were with family and I have a lot of cousins so all of our parties were about that size when we were kids.

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ReggieTheReckless posted...

Family parties were ALWAYS huge

Friend parties were probably 8-10 most times

This.
Family parties were around 20-30.

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I didnt have any cause we were poor.

VioletMassacre posted...

I never had any because I despised the attention.

This, more or less.

My parents probably would have had parties for me if I'd wanted, but I never wanted to deal with the fuss. We'd usually just have a few close family members (mainly adults) over for cake and coffee, and I'd mostly just wait to get the presents and then slink off somewhere.

The idea of parties in general always kind of bothered me as a kid. By the time I actually started getting keen on parties (mainly as a teenager and older), it was at a point when I'd stopped caring about the concept of birthdays.
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Depended on whether my cousins and friends could make it or not. Sometimes we'd have a big group and have it at like, Chuck E. Cheese, sometimes it was just a few friends or cousins who spent the night swimming, eating pizza and playing video games.

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10-20 because on top of my regular friends, I would have a lot of my baseball team over