Whats the worst excuse...

Ph3n0m

you have ever been given for being refused entry to a pub/nightclub


... you're too drunk
... i threw you out last week (in a pub in galway, which was my first time :eek: )
... you're stoned
... you're not getting in here dressed like that
... we're shutting early
... we're full (and yet people walked in :rolleyes: )

SAXA

you and your friend were causing trouble last week.



1 we were not there last week

2 We had never been trown out of there

3 My friend got there after and was let in

That was a good few years ago but still sticks in my head

Lafortezza

"Its gay night tonight fellas" implying we didn't look 'gay enough'
we were only after some late pints anyway

SuperStudent

1. "Sorry not tonight, no culchies, yez keep bringing in muck on your wellies and
hitting the women" he though I was a cutchie because I had sunburn on my face and he though I had rosy red country folk cheeks. But that was cleared up quickish when I explained what it was.

Sarky

Told him it was just the effort of carrying such a heavy wallet, and that you were hoping to lighten it and quench your thirst in one go?

Sorry, that was rather cynical, wasn't it? But I strongly suspect bouncers are instructed to only allow excessively wealthy people in sometimes...

BKtje

regulars only tonight

gucci

"had a little too much wine tonite have we?"

"am no,i just finished work at 11+wouldnt mind a pint or two before i go to bed"

or

(after handing over my pasport to prove age-was refused for being underage)so i handed it to another bouncer and said "here buddy maybe you can do the maths better than your pal"

got in both times

rymus

Originally posted by B-K-DzR
regulars only tonight

ditto to that one. To which I enquired "well, if you won't let us in.. how the **** are we supposed to become regulars and get in?"

With a quite perplexed look on his face he turned and said "regulars only". Obviously a member of mensa.

alienhead

the monkey on boomerangs a few years back........

looked at my passport, at the date of issue, "hey your only..........." penny dropped before he said it, didn't get refused, but was v funny.

tman

Originally posted by lafortezza
"Its gay night tonight fellas" implying we didn't look 'gay enough'
we were only after some late pints anyway

heh, same here.

Exit

"You'll have to pull up your trousers if you wanna come in here"

"I just kicked you out about 10 minutes ago ye lout!"

pickarooney

"Yeh can't come in heeyor, yeh luke loike a bronx pimp wi' da' ha'!"

BabyEater

You've been through the much. My shoes had a small bit of dirt on the top of them.

Inf

Bouncer on the door of fireworks about 2 months ago:

"where are ya from?"

my mate:

"walkinstown"

Him:

"no your not getting in"


he should have said blackrock!

Kold

On my 18th went to a stripclub, bouncer looked at my passport n goes "Happy birthday mate, you're in for a HELL of a night "

Karoma

"no dogs allowed"

...i still feel sorry for that poor girl...

Red Alert

Here's a story from that esteemed establishment known as the palace (when it was still the full club n everything):

On our graduation night, me and my mate made it past the bouncer on the door, however, some other bouncer or manager or someone was manning the ticket desk, and he basically physically hustled us out of the lobby saying "No more graduations"

Töpher

"I told you no 20 minutes ago".

Granted I was completely whacked, but bleh!

ur mentor

"give us your number we'll call you when we need to get the place haunted"

Davey Devil

One night few years ago a friend of mine was asked for I.D. He produced his passport. The bouncer had a very confused look on his face. He says to my mate, " That's some face lift ya got there luv". My friend had handed over his Mum's passport that he took my mistake. We were all rolling around - the bouncers thought it was so funny they let him in.

ykt0di9url7bc3

One night...

"No way Ger, not a ****ing hope, go home ger.....seriously like, I'll call you a taxi...no Ger, you are not going to hit me...yes Ger...you're hammered...who do you want me to call?...Kevin?...gimme the number...infact gimme the phone...you ****ing plonker!...drinking since 10 this morning?...here's Kevin...now **** off!"

I got a lot of stick for that night...the bouncers kept going over the conversation wondering how the **** Peter understood anyword that came out of my mouth...

Guy:Incognito

Sorry lads, your a bit old for 2nite, its a student nite so lets leave the kids to it, eh? (i'm only 22!!!!!!!, granted my mate is 35 but still)

Sleepy

I got that recently too. I'm only 23 ffs!

Woden

either i'm making this up as i find it amusing or it happend can't remember but think a few years back people were refused from the budda bar in blanch when it was a classier joint

excuse: regulars only
problem: open less then a week

data

oneweb

Originally posted by Dataisgod
either i'm making this up as i find it amusing or it happend can't remember but think a few years back people were refused from the budda bar in blanch when it was a classier joint

excuse: regulars only
problem: open less then a week

data

Yep, I heard that alright. Muppets. Would ya bother goin' near it these days tho... :dunno:

The Beer Baron

I find people in general just see me as a big hairy lout and don't actually make an effort to remember what I look like- other than being a big hairy ****er.

For the longest time this bastard kept going into places and getting ****ed out. "We had trouble with you before", but I was never in there in my ****ing life!

It was never-ending. Some other big hairy lout- who probably looked nothing like me, was giving me a bad name. And not just in pubs and clubs but in parties and in all these social situations. BASTARD! I called him my "evil twin" and whilst I have never met the guy, I knew I had to do something- so I decided to play him @ his own game.

So I started going out getting absolutly locked on whiskey, being loud, arrogant (the sort of arrogance one gets when they're skullin' pints of cider and dribbling whiskey) and abusive. Let's see him get in someplace now! Bwahahahah!

vibe666

good plan baron.

Woden

Originally posted by oneweb
Yep, I heard that alright. Muppets. Would ya bother goin' near it these days tho... :dunno:

ok it wasn't my imagination, no i'd kinda avoid it like the plague these days

dee8839

I know this thread had kind of been abandoned but had a very funny incident in Trinity Rooms in Limerick that I just had to share! All of my friends had gone in ahead except for me, a little worse for wear, female, and my male friend, who was completely sober as usual. I got in fine. My friend was stopped and told he was too drunk to get in. Being full of Dutch courage, I argued his case. Eventually the bouncer said that if my friend went and got a cup of coffee and brought him the receipt, he could go in.

I assume he was being sarcastic. But I didn't really register that at the time!! Cue frantic run up to Burger King for a coffee (and a drunken burger), made the friend sip some so that his breath would smell like coffee (like they were going to breathalyse him!!) and triumphantly produced the receipt to the bouncer.

He let us in.

Probably to shut me up!:o

marcsignal

Sorry, We're Closed :cool: when they're clearly still open :mad:

(A certain Establishment on Wexford St. is notorious for this, despite the fact that you can look right in the big f*ck off window at the front, and see the bar staff, still pulling pints away like there's no tomorrow)

matrim

B-K-DzR wrote: »

regulars only tonight

That happened to me before but the funny thing was it was about a week after the pub was opened.

They'd closed for rennovations for about 6 months, (we were regulars before they closed), when they reopened we went to go in and they refused us because it was regulars only.

chopperbyrne

I was told I was too drunk once when I'd only come just from work!

MysticalSoul

1. Blondes only tonight girls - we went back 20 mins later and got in no probs :rolleyes:

2. Him: How old are you?

Me: 30

Him: Do you have ID

*passes across passport, which I only had it as needed it for the bank earlier that day*

Him: Oh, you are.

Why on earth would I say I was 30, when the age limit there was 21 I have no idea

Keano

dee8839 wrote: »

I know this thread had kind of been abandoned but had a very funny incident in Trinity Rooms in Limerick that I just had to share! All of my friends had gone in ahead except for me, a little worse for wear, female, and my male friend, who was completely sober as usual. I got in fine. My friend was stopped and told he was too drunk to get in. Being full of Dutch courage, I argued his case. Eventually the bouncer said that if my friend went and got a cup of coffee and brought him the receipt, he could go in.

I assume he was being sarcastic. But I didn't really register that at the time!! Cue frantic run up to Burger King for a coffee (and a drunken burger), made the friend sip some so that his breath would smell like coffee (like they were going to breathalyse him!!) and triumphantly produced the receipt to the bouncer.

He let us in.

Probably to shut me up!:o

Urban Legend?

I thought you were going to say he said go get a coffee and back you come with a cup of coffee for him.

BeansMeansHynes

Your too drunk, go off for a walk, get a coffee and come back.

Dont really remember what happened but apparently I was too drunk to stand never mind go for a walk.

LadyE

Got refused from the George - I dont know why, (I was with obv gay friends) apparently they "dont want any trouble tongiht" As if I look like Im gonna start trouble. We tried to get into nearly every pub intown, couldnt get frickin in anywhere then, because my brother didnt have ID. Ended up in some bar on O'Connell street, then to Eddie Rockets. Worse night ever.

Another night trying to get into the George - there were 3 of us, all slightly drunk.

Bouncer: Where did ya come from?

Female Friend: Dun Laogahaire

Me: Not Capitol..we came from Capitol

Male friend and I: PMSL

Bouncer: Goodnight girls.

Male friend:

The where did ya come from question basically means: Not tongiht.

Jello

lafortezza wrote: »

"Its gay night tonight fellas" implying we didn't look 'gay enough'

Same for me, in Spy/Wax there a while ago.

Quality

Or what about the "Regulars Only". And then a few Spanish girls walk in past you.

Do they fly over every week to go dancing?

Ross_Mahon

"Sorry mate its 21s tonight"

A mate got turned away and the bouncer told him

"Sorry man, go get a coffee, not tonight"

He came back with a coffee for the bouncer and himself...gets in?

Suzywuzy

Went to a pub with my boyfriend which he goes to with his Dad and his Dad's friends every Friday. Got to the door and the bouncer said "Regulars only tonight" ... my boyfriend said "we are regulars, we come here every Friday !" ... to which the bouncer replied "Over 30's only !" ... whatever !!! He eventually let us in when he saw us standing on the phone a few yards away and waiting for a taxi !!!

dee8839

Keano A Legend wrote: »

Urban Legend?

I thought you were going to say he said go get a coffee and back you come with a cup of coffee for him.

That would have been even better!!! No sadly not an urban legend, just a typical Friday night in Limerick!!!

Maybe this won't apply to many here, maybe it will, but you know what else grinds my gears about clubs and pubs, especially in Dublin and Cork?

Sorry luv, its 21 and over (I'm 20 and every friend I have is 21+)

Why?

Why is it 21s?

Or in some place in Cork a few weeks ago, 23s?

And Coppers (I'm ashamed to say I do frequent the place despite my best intentions) has only in the past few months increased its age from 20s to 21s - just after my 20th birthday.

Is this a mass conspiracy?? Or at the very least, is this annoying anyone else?? I mean, fair enough they don't want kids, but come on!! I'm a college graduate for gods sake!!:mad::rolleyes:

Ross_Mahon

dee8839 wrote: »

That would have been even better!!! No sadly not an urban legend, just a typical Friday night in Limerick!!!

Maybe this won't apply to many here, maybe it will, but you know what else grinds my gears about clubs and pubs, especially in Dublin and Cork?

Sorry luv, its 21 and over (I'm 20 and every friend I have is 21+)

Why?

Why is it 21s?

Or in some place in Cork a few weeks ago, 23s?

And Coppers (I'm ashamed to say I do frequent the place despite my best intentions) has only in the past few months increased its age from 20s to 21s - just after my 20th birthday.

Is this a mass conspiracy?? Or at the very least, is this annoying anyone else?? I mean, fair enough they don't want kids, but come on!! I'm a college graduate for gods sake!!:mad::rolleyes:

I'm 19, so that means i will have to get a fake ID to say I'm 21 to get into places....:( Is break for the border 21s? Because i asked a few people and they were saying "Yeah it is" or "The bouncer was only saying that"

Kimbot

For my christmas party in work last year we all went for a meal and then to a club afterwards.

The bouncer told me I was too drunk to get in, I had nothing to drink at this point.

I tried explaining to him that the reason I was staggering was I was playing a match earlier in the night and damaged my foot real bad, he was having none of it until the bouncer next to him said he was playing in the other team and saw me getting hurt.

Run_to_da_hills

I was up in Belfast in the mid 80ies at the height of the troubles, It was just after 11AM and a pub called the Roost was just opening for lunch time meals. Myself and a mate just wanted a sit down and a coffee, the bouncer at the door heard our free state accents and refused us entry and said, "sorry lads, you can't come in were full".

Miguel_Sanchez

Myself and my friend got turned away from the South William a while back because they were 'full' apparently. We were trying to meet people inside so we just gave them a call and said we couldn't get in and were standing around trying to figure out where to go. The same bouncer after a minute wanders over to us and asks were we waiting to get in, apologises, says he didn't realise and lets us in. Odd.

Saint_Mel

I remember once going in to a "cultchie friendly" venue in Dublin ... I was absolutely hammered and my mate was holding me up and pretty much carrying me up the road. As we approached the door, my mate tripped on the step leaving me to sail straight in the door while the bouncers stopped him thinking he had stumbled from being too drunk

They called me back and told me to bring him for a walk and make sure he got a cup of coffee and then they'd let him in. We did ... and they did!

Well before that, an old venue in Rathmines refused a mate and myself entry one night saying I had caused a fight in there the previous weekend and we were well known trouble makers most weekends there. Thing is, I had just moved to Dublin that week and was my first weekend out there ... and my friend had just come over from England for a weekend visit!

Got the "regulars only" before on the opening night of a Nite Club.

chickenhawk

Went up to the door of the q-bar a couple of months ago. No drink on us.
I'm around 5.11-6ft and 80kg. Nothing too intimidating about me.
I was in front.

Bouncer: Could you turn to face the camera.

So I did.

Bouncer: No, you are not allowed in here.

Me: why not?

Bouncer: Listen we don't want any trouble.

Two other bouncers appear at his side.

Bouncer: Walk away!

I just walk away wondering what that was all about.

Dragan

My funniest ever was showing up at a club in Limerick. I was walking in the door when one of the lads put his hand out and stopped me. "Not tonight mate." , i asked him why and he told me i was clearly drunk. I replied with, "I hope not, i'm working here tonight".

That was my first night as a doorman in that place.

Dragan

chickenhawk wrote: »

I just walk away wondering what that was all about.

There is a slight chance to you unfortunately resemble somebody who has recently caused a lot of trouble in the place. Asking you to face the camera is a way to have on record who showed up.

It is regretable but it happens.

Miguel_Sanchez

Dragan wrote: »

My funniest ever was showing up at a club in Limerick. I was walking in the door when one of the lads put his hand out and stopped me. "Not tonight mate." , i asked him why and he told me i was clearly drunk. I replied with, "I hope not, i'm working here tonight".

That was my first night as a doorman in that place.

That's a great one.