Nightclubs!

A19B1C12

Anybody else getting kinda tired of them? I can't make up my mind..

I'm a lad and it seems like all everyone wants to do is go out and get the shift. No regard for good old fashioned shenanigans. But seriously, there is far too much emphasis on the 'shift', not as if it's getting the ride or anything. Very few are just out to have a laugh.

I have to say that I'm partial to going out and doing the whole "pull all you can" the odd time, but I have to say I'd rather just have a girlfriend.

Hate people who can't have craic either. Won't dance, won't laugh, just stand there shuffling seriously and stare at you as if you have two heads when you go near a girl or just shift some 'fat' bird for the laugh. Like thats all they're trying to do anyway by acting like such a twat, get a girl.

Needless to say, I will be frequenting a nightclub regardless within the week I would imagine.

Want to meet girls outside of that setting that I can have a relationship with though, would be far better than trying to scream into some poor girls ear with music blaring the head off ya!

What do you guys and girls think?

Are you getting tired of them?

Davidius

Never been in a nightclub.

True story.

Rothmans

Yeah, not mad about nightclubs myself. I usually get pretty bored, with all that loud music you can't hardly talk to anyone. I'd prefer the quiter pub myself. At least there you can talk to people. On a night out I usually spend most of my time in the smoking area purely because you can actually hear what people are saying and have a proper conversation. Jaysus, I don't know what I'd do on a night out without my tobacco.

kev9100

It depends on the music they're playing. I love indie but I really can't stand dance or techno stuff.

SarahBeep!

I'm much more of a late bar/house party kinda girl! Since becoming the legal age to entre nightclubs, I seem to have grown out of them.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Few naggins of Kulov, then head to Club K. You'll have a right laugh.

Jamie Starr

Never been to one. I dislike the standard clientel of most nightclubs, the music they play, and just in general how utterly packed they always are. When I do go out I much prefer being in the smoking area of some pub, or just sitting down at a house party, having ridiculous conversations.

IHeartChemistry

Havent been to a nightclub since RAG week, that was two months ago. I waaaaaaay prefer the sitting down in the smoking area in a late night pub drinking, smoking and chillaxing listening to good choooons and be able to have a proper conversation.

Nightclubs are for one thing. Shiftin and driftin. Not my scene. How ironic that that is where me and my current boyfriend made the moves on each other :rolleyes:

and dancing in a pub is daycent...the Brog in Cork is one of those pubs where you can just have the craic and dance. Love pubs also as you dont have to dress up like a slut going into them. Clubbing is effort.

ohthebaby

I love nightclubs. I'm not into the whole 'shifting and drifting' thing tbh and I don't drink a whole lot either but that doesn't stop me. I just love going out with my friends to dance around the place to loads of fun songs. Haven't been out in ages...

jumpguy

Late bars are kinda the best of both worlds tbf, not too much nightclub, not too much...pub. I don't mind nightclubs *usually*, when they're good craic, they're really good, but when they're shít, they're really shít...

degausserxo

johnb03 wrote: »

it seems like all everyone wants to do is go out and get the shift.

Don't go to them often but when I do it's definitely not for that purpose. I believe my exact words to a guy last week were 'get out of my way, I wanna daaaaaaaaaance!'

red_red_wine

I love going out, I really do, I love letting loose but I don't go out with the sole purpose of 'getting the shift' and tbh, people annoy me when that's their only aim.

Firstly, I hate the phrase 'get the shift.' As far as I'm concerned, there's not much getting about it, there'll always be someone there who'll be willing to stick their tongue back your throat. I find that that sort of thing is only enjoyable when you actually know the person's first name.

Don't get me wrong, sometimes it's grand to do that, but it shouldn't be the great event of the night.

I'm guilty of this myself, but I don't enjoy having all of my friends smirking at me, one of them usually taking a picture, while you are meeting someone.

Some of the best nights I've had this year have just been my best friend and I, the only ones in our group of friends not yet 18. While everyone else is in Gorbys, shiftin' and driftin', we've just been having craic on our own in an old man's pub, where we obviously have no intention of shifting anyone. And you know what? It's so relieving to just go out for the fun, without any of that pressure.

I've only been let into Gorbys once and I was quite disapppointed that time, although to be fair, it was a quiet night.

johnb03 wrote: »

Hate people who can't have craic either. Won't dance, won't laugh, just stand there shuffling seriously and stare at you as if you have two heads when you go near a girl or just shift some 'fat' bird for the laugh. Like thats all they're trying to do anyway by acting like such a twat, get a girl.

+1 What's the point of going out if you're going to take it so seriously? Likewise when I feel as if people are judging me. Not because I'm completely drunk or anything, just because I don't spend my time trying to dance 'sexily'. I'm not really into grinding random people, I can't dance and I know it, but that doesn't stop me from trying :P . It's great to just loose all inhibitions and dance maniacally with the craziest and worst actions imaginable. Then you have people who'll say to you the next day sardonically 'You should have seeen the way you were dancing last night.'

I know how I was dancing, I looked like a fool and I don't care. Just lighten up!

Namlub

red_red_wine wrote: »

Some of the best nights I've had this year have just been my best friend and I, the only ones in our group of friends not yet 18. While everyone else is in Gorbys, shiftin' and driftin', we've just been having craic on our own in an old man's pub, where we obviously have no intention of shifting anyone. And you know what? It's so relieving to just go out for the fun, without any of that pressure.

I've only been let into Gorbys once and I was quite disapppointed that time, although to be fair, it was a quiet night.

Gorbys bouncers -.-
Em the only place I've been to more than once is Mangans because they're not exactly fussy about letting 17 year olds in, and it's a shithole tbf but I still have a good time. So I like clubbing but not the clubs I go to and when I'm 18 I will hopefully go to better clubs. idk...

IHeartChemistry

Namlub wrote: »

Gorbys bouncers -.-
Em the only place I've been to more than once is Mangans because they're not exactly fussy about letting 17 year olds in, and it's a shithole tbf but I still have a good time. So I like clubbing but not the clubs I go to and when I'm 18 I will hopefully go to better clubs. idk...

I love the Gorbys/Brog bouncers Those dudes are sound out in terms of bouncers in Cork city. Wait till you hit places like Reardons and Havanas. Then the trouble begins :rolleyes:

red_red_wine

Sound out for those who are of legal age maybe :P To be fair, I think it's a good thing, it's annoying as hell right now, but when our time comes, we'll be glad that there are relatively few underagers in there...

The nicest bouncers in Cork have to be in The Old Oak. I really love that pub, sure it's not exactly the coolest place in town, but the atmosphere is lovely there

IHeartChemistry

red_red_wine wrote: »

Sound out for those who are of legal age maybe :P To be fair, I think it's a good thing, it's annoying as hell right now, but when our time comes, we'll be glad that there are relatively few underagers in there...

The nicest bouncers in Cork have to be in The Old Oak. I really love that pub, sure it's not exactly the coolest place in town, but the atmosphere is lovely there

Yea, being legal and in college helps Ha, you'll always have the places with underagers. They do become annoying at times (no offence to anybody here ) But they can and have put bouncers in realllllly bad moods. and a cranky bouncer aint fun. Suas is also class.

Screaminmidget

IHeartChemistry wrote: »

Yea, being legal and in college helps Ha, you'll always have the places with underagers. They do become annoying at times (no offence to anybody here ) But they can and have put bouncers in realllllly bad moods. and a cranky bouncer aint fun. Suas is also class.

Im underage and theres nothing worse than seeing all of my brothers friends (mostly 16 year olds) running around the place.. I cant even imagine what its like for older people then...

But ya, nightclubs are fairly shocking, prefer the bar/smoking area myself, or Beer gardens!! :P untill i inevitably get thrown out...

Carl Sagan

I absolutely hate clubs playing chart music. Unfortunately, that's where most of my friends like to go.

Haven't had much of a chance to go anywhere playing real music, but the few times were really good.

Lavattack

Agnostic Mantis wrote: »

Never been to one. I dislike the standard clientel of most nightclubs, the music they play, and just in general how utterly packed they always are. When I do go out I much prefer being in the smoking area of some pub, or just sitting down at a house party, having ridiculous conversations.

If you have never been to one.......

1) How do you know what the standard of clientel is in a night club?

2) How do you know what music they play?

3) How can you know how packed they are?

It may be just me but I am curious as to how you know these things if you have never been to a nightclub?

bobdole968

this song always reminds me of night clubs
never liked em

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F73wbA23odo

Namlub

Lavattack wrote: »

If you have never been to one.......

1) How do you know what the standard of clientel is in a night club?

2) How do you know what music they play?

3) How can you know how packed they are?

It may be just me but I am curious as to how you know these things if you have never been to a nightclub?

Clubs aren't some sort of secret society, you can get a pretty good idea of what a lot of them are like without regularly going.
Also, this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DcjL-89Yjk

Lavattack

Namlub wrote: »

Clubs aren't some sort of secret society, you can get a pretty good idea of what a lot of them are like without regularly going.
Also, this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DcjL-89Yjk

Ya fair enough but the fact remains he has and cannot have any clue about what actually goes on inside a nightclub. He may have an idea in his head but no more than a blind person as he has never seen it. I don't mean any disrespect to blind people btw.

Screaminmidget

Why is it all these topical threads bring out the weirdo's/randomers...

Jamie Starr

Lavattack wrote: »

If you have never been to one.......

1) How do you know what the standard of clientel is in a night club?
I know a lot of the people who go, doesn't mean I have to like those people.

2) How do you know what music they play?
I know the type of the music those people usually listen to. I know and talk to people, despite what my non-attendance at a night club must insinuate.

3) How can you know how packed they are?
I have seen lines going out beyond the door of my local nightclub on a Saturday night. I'd say that's a fair indication of a pretty full place. Add to that the usual reports of 'the place was packed' when the night is through.

It may be just me but I am curious as to how you know these things if you have never been to a nightclub?
You don't necessarily have to have done something to know basic things about it. "How do you know sky-diving involves falling through the air if you've never done it?"

But you're right. It is the kind of religious experience that you can only really talk about once you've been. What really goes on there is one of the mysteries of life I am eternally damned to wrestle with, for when dusk falls each Saturday, and the expansive playlist of Spin South West towers above all my worldly senses, a terrible, unquenchable inferno of alien origin tears through my very soul. I realise I will never ascertain the innermost workings of this dimly-lit, alcohol powered large hydron collider which lies like a slumbering colossus, during the day, in the far reaches of my town. Thank you, thank you, for opening my eyes.

Grindylow

I looooove nightclubs! So much fun!

I frequently visit them in the hope of having the craic, not so bothered about as you so elegantly (;)) put it "getting the shift" off a "fat" girl..

PS SUX2NOTB18

TrustedApple

Not a big fan of nightclubs give me a late bar anyday of the weak. I have been to must nightclubs in cork and still enjoy

I hate Gorbys but i only like it on Wed nights for freakscene which really is a gay night but i find the girls are a lot better looking at it and easyer to chat up and dont think your gay for dressing like your in a band

But suas and An Brog are good late bars and great to have a chat in

I was out once in dublin in the the academy and that was the best night i have a had in club great music and a great crowd

But they done the indie night in cork and it falled so bad it is not even funny

bythewoods

Ah lads, ye're all negative banter. Bottle of wine, few choons, bit'a dancin', bit'a shiftin', couple of shots, chips. That's heaven, right there.

Although I've gotten really lazy about going to clubs... Not bothered with heels or tan or any of that extravagant crap. In fact, haven't even changed the clothes I've worn all day the last few times I've gone out. Whoops.

If ye don't have the craic out ye should arrange a night with myself and m'friends. We are banter panthers. Especially me, I'm a lege, yeah.

Namlub wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DcjL-89Yjk

I fucking love Coppers. The best bit is making up a fake persona depending on who you're talking to in the Smoking area. Best of times.

ohthebaby

bythewoods wrote: »

I fucking love Coppers. The best bit is making up a fake persona depending on who you're talking to in the Smoking area. Best of times.

Oh snap. Making up fake personas has become the new focal point of my nights out. It's just so much fun. Some nights you could be two or three different people. The danger. The excitement!

jefreywithonef

Prefer clubs tbh. In clubs my usual level of drunkenness isn't likely to stand out..

TrustedApple

ohthebaby wrote: »

Oh snap. Making up fake personas has become the new focal point of my nights out. It's just so much fun. Some nights you could be two or three different people. The danger. The excitement!

That's is the best thing on a night out to make up a person that your going to be for the night.
Some nights I might be a DJ then some nights a am a lead singer of a band and can play a guitar( Which I can't sing or play a guitar)

Because I don't drink (Waste of money) I alleys make up story's why I can't drink. Like one night a girl asked me to do shots with her and I said I can't because I gig tomorrow night and it will destroy my singing then 30 mins later I was going of with her (That was my birthday there two days ago)

bythewoods

jefreywithonef wrote: »

Prefer clubs tbh. In clubs my usual level of drunkenness isn't likely to stand out..

I used to think the same, until I recently broke my arm and lacerated my scalp in a nightclub. Somehow, don't remember any of the intricate (or broad) details.

Fad

I met bythewoods in d|two while wearing a black hoodie and a black dead kennedys tshirt, most night clubs just dont seem to give a shít about clothes!

I was also sober in d|two that night, and had one of the best nights I ever had in a club

Nights I enjoy the most are the random nights that you dont plan on going out, unless that involves the palace, which is a horrible place...... >_<

Grindylow

Bythewoods, you sound like some banter wagon.. I'm jealous.

The only times I ever get to go out are every couple of weeks because I've to pretend to study..

Last time I was out me and my friends pretended to be from France until some real French people came up and were all like "Ou habitez-vous en Francais?" and we were all like "eeeh.. JE M'APELLE CLARENCE" and ran away..

cheesefiend

I think a healthy balance of clubs, pubs and house partys is the way to go. Just going to clubs all of the time is depressing while never going to clubs leaves me with an itch that can only be scratched with some hardcore fist pumping and dodgy chat up lines.

jumpguy

Fad wrote: »

Nights I enjoy the most are the random nights that you dont plan on going out, unless that involves the palace, which is a horrible place...... >_<

Exactly! I always find the best nights out are nearly always the one where I'm really just kinda dragging myself to go out with the mentality "ahh, if this is crap, I'll go home early". :pac:

Excedion

I'll go out to a nightclub every now and then, all in all its not really my think and i always get started by some hard man that can hardly stand up. House parties are better craic to be honest especially if you know a lot of them but if im out for a few drinks there are plenty of students bars round here.

I've done the whole shift everything that moves routine as well as enjoying the bouts of tonsilitis afterwards, snaking a nice girl you really like is more fun tbh

flyswatter

I really don't like nightclubs to be honest. Packed ones anyway.

I suppose if there is good music and as long as it's not packed to the gills like a local one I know.

I prefer music venues and a good pub.

partyndbs

****in poxy rather just hang around my estate. goin 2 a club like wright venue is a gd laff every once in a while but do not know how some people go out 3 times a week!!!!!

flyswatter

bythewoods wrote: »

I used to think the same, until I recently broke my arm and lacerated my scalp in a nightclub. Somehow, don't remember any of the intricate (or broad) details.

How did you manage that?

Weirdly, I don't think I've ever managed to injure myself.

Not a fracture or anything. Some soreness maybe.

Kylo Ren

Nightclubs are fair sh1te most of the time. Cant beat a good house session for the craic!

SarahBeep!

flyswatter wrote: »

Weirdly, I don't think I've ever managed to injure myself.

I got spiked and I woke up with bruises eeeeeeeeeeeeverywhere... Like, only for the fact I know who was looking after me, I actually would have thought something serious had haappened me.

Wasn't able to drink for months afterwards.

IHeartChemistry

SarahBeep! wrote: »

I got spiked and I woke up with bruises eeeeeeeeeeeeverywhere... Like, only for the fact I know who was looking after me, I actually would have thought something serious had haappened me.

Wasn't able to drink for months afterwards.

You came out and drank two weeks later with me I remember those Kopperberg pints you had You were still bruised though.

ReacherCreature

I tend to shy away from them and stick to my local. The nightclub(s) - I use that term loosely, one is semi-permanently closed (why is beyond me, there's a market there), another's an 'old' crowd and the most popular is a cattle mart with pints installed. They're jam-packed, play music that I don't like and which is generally ****e, miserable bouncers, and serve overpriced beer. When we do go there we go to the smoking area which is an improvement and even then the night ends in an anti-climax.

I prefer to stay on in my local pub much more. Music's better somewhat, staff are friendlier, and I usually meet a few people I know. Most of all, it's much more comfortable in there. I've had vastly superior nights by far in pubs than nightclubs.

SarahBeep!

IHeartChemistry wrote: »

You came out and drank two weeks later with me I remember those Kopperberg pints you had You were still bruised though.

Didn't I only have like one or two?
Uuuuuugh.
Take note kids, watch your drinks! There are some things you should never see and the lining of your own stomach is one of them!

Screaminmidget

SarahBeep! wrote: »

Take note kids, watch your drinks! There are some things you should never see and the lining of your own stomach is one of them!

^^^^^^
Trufax.

Kev.OC

I was just thinking about this the other day actually. Did a bit of counting. Haven't been in a nightclub in nearly 16 months.

Jhax

Clubs attract idiots. Not a fan of them but all my friends go so theres nothing I can really do about it.

RHunce

I have a mixed opinion on nightclubs, like they can be really good but then they can be really boring too!

I was out the other night dancing with a bunch of friends and a mutual friend introduced me to a girl and we instantly hit it off chatting for hours. Those nights can be good but then the really crap nights are dreadful!

H'on the Lodge.

EdenHazard

I like the idea of them, meeting new people, having a laugh but they are actually boring because people just stick to their own groups.

Insect Overlord

EdenHazard wrote: »

I like the idea of them, meeting new people, having a laugh but they are actually boring because people just stick to their own groups.

Most places are too loud for a decent conversation, unless you smoke. Not my scene at all!

LoonyLovegood

I don't really like them. Ironic, really, it's going to a club that got me and the boy together. I'd much rather a late bar with some live music or something.