Ugh - What is "beer pong"?

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-16-2007
Ugh - What is "beer pong"?
9
Fri, 05-18-2007 - 10:51am
DD was invited to a party this weekend that I had to put the kaibosh on because the guy that invited her said it would be a "BBQ and beer pong" party. My flag went up with "beer", but what exactly is "beer pong"? Thanks.
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-18-2006
Fri, 05-18-2007 - 11:00am

I think you misheard. What was actually said was "beer bong", which according to Urban Dictionary, is an object:

"Funnel and tube used to consume large amounts of beer at one time. Used mostly by fraternities and lame people trying to get wasted REALLY fast."

Although beer does pong - that means it stinks! Beer is my most hated alcoholic substance. Why do men insist on drinking that stuff? It smells horrid and tastes even worse. There's a reason they call it "piss" where I'm from.

So basically, in sum, this party your daughter was invited to has one major theme: "let us get wasted, and then let us drink and get even MORE wasted". I wouldn't even go, and I'm 18!




Edited 5/18/2007 11:02 am ET by abbag1rl
iVillage Member
Registered: 02-14-2000
Fri, 05-18-2007 - 11:03am

I don't know the exact rules but yes, it's a rather popular drinking game among college students (and evidently some

Pam
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-18-2006
Fri, 05-18-2007 - 11:06am

Interesting. Urban Dictionary, in its user-edited wisdom, has the following knowledge to confer on us on the time-honoured, apparently noble sport of "beer pong":

Beer Pong, also known as "Pong", is a drinking game that involves propelling a table tennis ball across a table with the goal of making the ball hit or land in one of several cups of beer. It involves two, four, or sometimes more players using paddles to hit the ball towards the cups of their opponents with the goal of hitting a cup or sinking the ball in a cup.

It is common to find a variation of the game played without paddles, which is typically called "Beruit." The definition of beruit can be simply put as, beer pong with out paddles. It is a correct understanding that all forms of beruit are forms of beer pong, but all forms of beer pong are not forms of beruit. Therefore, it should be known that beer pong played without paddles is officially "Beruit Beer Pong" or simply "beruit" for short.

... I still hold that "pong" means "it stinks".

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-16-1999
Fri, 05-18-2007 - 12:16pm
Pong or bong - it would definitely be a party that my DD would NOT be attending! Ick!! Can't stand beer to begin with, but these games even sound nastier!
Rose
iVillage Member
Registered: 05-16-2007
Fri, 05-18-2007 - 1:38pm

Thanks to all of you. Wow - That sounds like a dangerous environment for girls, in particular, with guys (and maybe some girls, too) getting wasted like that.

We recently had an incident in our community involving a wild, alcohol-fueled party where baseball players from a local JC raped a girl.

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-24-2006
Fri, 05-18-2007 - 4:55pm

I needed that little education myself!

I thought maybe it was "beer bong", meaning a marijuana bong filled with beer instead of water. That's what we did in college and I still don't know why..

zz

Avatar for heartsandroses2002
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 05-18-2007 - 11:15pm
zz- that's what beer bong WAS back then! Haha~ Beer pong is when the kids line up large plastic cups in the shape of triange, each cup has a little more than a shot of beer and the other side tries to get his ping pong ball into a cup. When he/she does a member from the opposing team has to chug that cup and the cup is removed. The side with the most remaining cups wins that game.
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-24-2006
Fri, 05-18-2007 - 11:48pm

Ahhh... a new version of quarters.

Thanks for the info, lol!

zz

Avatar for heartsandroses2002
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Sun, 05-20-2007 - 11:08am
"quarters" - lol - that's what I always call it when I'm talking to dd19! I know she and her friends play it at college and when I call it quarters she gets annoyed with me and says, "mom, you sound old now"! Haha - It IS quarters, that's exactly what it is. They think they invented everything.