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I'd rather...

How about "I'd rather come to your stag party" ?

or

"I'd rather push a frozen pea down every frozen canal in Holland with my nose, and fall through the ice at the end" ?
 
go on the stag do you miserable sod
NO. If anything's bound to turn me into a miserable sod it's a stag night with a bunch of Dutch manual labourers drinking lukewarm heineken from the bottle while being pressured into playing darts.
 
I'm looking for new ways of telling people I'd prefer to be doing something else, perhaps just thinking of Lady Tester's younger brother who's invited me to his stag night.
Many years ago, my Senior Programmer invited all his colleagues to go on his stag night. About 20 or so blokes he invited from work.

He was a born again Christian, did not permit swearing or profanity in the office and was generally not considered a party animal.

I went. Nobody else from work did.

It turned out he was the rebel in the family: the rest were hard drinking, hard partying, dirty-joke-telling great blokes. It was an excellent night; the best stag night I've ever been on.

When I turned up at work on the following Monday, just for a laugh I told everyone we just sat in his mum's parlour eating little cakes and drinking white wine with the minister - and everyone believed me.

Go to the stag night and if it's crap, make it better by being there. It's the pool little sod's last chance for a half-decent night out. And then tell Mrs Tester she owes you a 'favour' for making you go. :wink:
 

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