Toxic Tuesday

tigerblob · 11-10-2011 11:51am #1

Just got the email from Ed Leamy about being good at Toxic Tuesday. I wasn't there last week, what actually happened? I think the separate queues for boys and girls thing is ridiculous, what if I go with my boyfriend? It's not practical to have to separate and try to find each other again when we go in and it's packed. What's next, separate queues for Irish and non-Irish?

XPS · 11-10-2011 12:31pm

tigerblob wrote: »

Just got the email from Ed Leamy about being good at Toxic Tuesday. I wasn't there last week, what actually happened? I think the separate queues for boys and girls thing is ridiculous, what if I go with my boyfriend? It's not practical to have to separate and try to find each other again when we go in and it's packed. What's next, separate queues for Irish and non-Irish?

Can you post it up...it wasn't sent to postgrads...

Wolfe Tone · 11-10-2011 1:16pm

DCUSU - Toxic Tuesday - Free in before 10 - Come EARLY to avoid a build up

There was a lot of complaints of misbehaviour outside from last weeks Toxic Tuesday. The University views such activity in the most serious of lights and should misbehaviour continue, Toxic Tuesday will be cancelled. Tonight, entry is via the bookshop side of the Hub. There will two queues. One for girls and one for guys.
We ask you please all to be aware of your own safety and the safety of others. There will be extra security employed tonight.
Please come early to avoid the build up.

Thats it there. Last week there was a mega line waiting outside, after 10 mins I bailed.

andyman · 11-10-2011 4:45pm

The Old Bar needs to be opened. It'd extract extra revenue for the bar, create more jobs and avoid the nonsensical queues at 10 o clock every week.

manlad · 11-10-2011 5:32pm

2 queues? I'm guessing this is because they check girls handbags while going in, guys also get a shakedown from one of the bouncers. Seems appropriate.

Someone mentioned above about opening the old bar to create more jobs?This wouldn't be feasible, there are already a lot of costs involves in running the student bar and there is not sufficient funds to open an extra part. You gotta remember its free in and the majority of students will have been drinking before hand so not alot of alcohol will be purchased inside.

Just my two cents.

cson · 12-10-2011 12:14am

From an outsider looking in [UL], you guys have one of the smallest bars going for an event like Toxic Tuesday. I'd estimate that something like 1000 persons want to get into a venue that's probably 300 capacity at a stretch.

tigerblob · 12-10-2011 8:26am

Well I got a reply on Facebook from one of the SU guys that says it's so stop people being crushed, but I don't understand why they have to split people up like this. Why don't they just have two queues and don't dictate who queues where? They will still be the same length because people will always try to choose the shorter queue. It's not reasonable to split people up because of who they are. What about transgender people, for example? How mortifying would it be to be standing in the 'wrong' queue and the bouncer to tell you to push off?

manlad · 12-10-2011 11:13am

tigerblob wrote: »

What about transgender people, for example? How mortifying would it be to be standing in the 'wrong' queue and the bouncer to tell you to push off?

This is a big issue, nearly every bar and clubs first priority is to make sure that the transgender people don't get humiliated.:rolleyes:

Put it this way, your lucky that the bar is as good as it is because it was a hell of a lot worse in the past. Even as it is the future is uncertain due to high costs from security hire, license fees etc. If your not happy with it well hop on a bus into town and I'm sure you will find some bar which meets your high standards.

tigerblob · 12-10-2011 11:38am

manlad wrote: »

This is a big issue, nearly every bar and clubs first priority is to make sure that the transgender people don't get humiliated.:rolleyes:

Put it this way, your lucky that the bar is as good as it is because it was a hell of a lot worse in the past. Even as it is the future is uncertain due to high costs from security hire, license fees etc. If your not happy with it well hop on a bus into town and I'm sure you will find some bar which meets your high standards.

Just because "nearly every" bar and club is ignorant doesn't mean that the DCU bar should adopt a similarly ignorant policy. And I didn't go there last night because I wasn't happy with it.

manlad · 12-10-2011 12:05pm

tigerblob wrote: »

Just because "nearly every" bar and club is ignorant doesn't mean that the DCU bar should adopt a similarly ignorant policy. And I didn't go there last night because I wasn't happy with it.

You didn't go, and from reports I've heard that last nights organisation was a lot better than previous weeks. Don't complain about the place if you don't go.

tigerblob · 12-10-2011 1:24pm

manlad wrote: »

You didn't go, and from reports I've heard that last nights organisation was a lot better than previous weeks. Don't complain about the place if you don't go.

I can't win, can I? "If you don't like it, don't go." So I didn't. I normally go but since I didn't like what was going on last night I didn't go. So then I get "You didn't go, don't complain about it." They could just have easily organised it into two un-labeled queues.

Bodie Broadus · 12-10-2011 2:01pm

they just just split it by knobs and fannys... then everyone would be happy! get it sorted for next week

GLaDOS · 13-10-2011 11:57pm

andyman wrote: »

The Old Bar needs to be opened. It'd extract extra revenue for the bar, create more jobs and avoid the nonsensical queues at 10 o clock every week.

Would also give access to another set of toilets, which is badly needed. Might stop the women coming into the mens...

ldxo15wus6fpgm · 14-10-2011 12:12pm

manlad wrote: »

Someone mentioned above about opening the old bar to create more jobs?This wouldn't be feasible, there are already a lot of costs involves in running the student bar and there is not sufficient funds to open an extra part. You gotta remember its free in and the majority of students will have been drinking before hand so not alot of alcohol will be purchased inside.

Just my two cents.

Dunno when you were last in there but it's typically 5 or 6 to the bar, so I'm sure they're generating plenty of cash, and they're charging in after 10pm now. I've been saying it since last year, the old bar should be opened!

Noodleworm · 14-10-2011 4:06pm

I would have thought theres a lot of pre drinking going on, as many people living on campus get accustomed to groups of people wandering around drinking, yelling and banging on windows before they head over on tuesdays.
Next person to start banging on my window is getting a bottle of water thrown at them

nikkaypandarr · 17-10-2011 11:21pm

Can people from other colleges go to Toxic Tuesday? Only the bouncers seem to change their minds an awful lot. One week they only accepted DCU student cards as a form of ID, and my boyfriend couldn't get in on his trinity ID, and then the next week any form of ID was accepted! Whats the story with that??

johnmcdnl · 18-10-2011 12:02pm

nikkaypandarr wrote: »

Can people from other colleges go to Toxic Tuesday? Only the bouncers seem to change their minds an awful lot. One week they only accepted DCU student cards as a form of ID, and my boyfriend couldn't get in on his trinity ID, and then the next week any form of ID was accepted! Whats the story with that??

I think it basically comes down to the crowd on a given night... if it's packed out your not getting anyone else in with you..

if it's a quieter night the bouncers might let a DCU student sign someone else in.. it's very hit and miss tbh and it's down to luck really..

if you really want to be sure to get someone from outside DCU in your gonna have to head over pretty early when it's still quiet... if you leave it til later it's just down to the bouncers really and what the crowds are like..

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