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In your opinion, is "a night on the town" good or crap?

  • 25-08-2012 02:25AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,232 ✭✭✭✭


    As you may have guessed it i wasnt out tonight :P and just heard a nightlink go by the house and it got me thinking ... Is a 'night on the town' really that good? Nothing wrong with going to a local pub or anything. Talking about going out in say dublin city centre for example.

    Like if you created pro's and con's

    Pro's:
    - socialise
    - have fun with your friends.

    Cons:

    - Get over charged on alcohol.
    - In some cases have to pay an entry fee to said place that will over charge you.
    - Trying to get food after pubs close is horrible.
    - Having to fork out €20+ on a taxi (of course, if you aint sharing with your mates) or take the crappy nightlink (Which lets be honest, alot of drunken assholes looking to start stuff)

    I used to always be drinking in town up till about 24. Now, kinda feel its a load of crap. Go the local or have a few cans in the mates house. But thats me :P you?

    A "Night on the town" - good or crap? 48 votes

    Good
    0% 0 votes
    Crapola.
    100% 48 votes


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    It's worth it when you're about 18 or 19.

    After that going to clubs to pay 10 bob in, 6 bob for a horrible poured pint and listening to the music that's too loud becomes a bit stale after that.

    Once in a while is good, too. But it still, usually not worth forking the money over for.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 361 ✭✭gara


    There is no definitive answer -it just depends what you're in the mood for! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭policarp


    A night on the Town is Expensive. . .
    Who's asking?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    It's almost always over rated. You think you're going to have a great time, but come 1am you're sitting in Charlies... alone... desperately trying to come up with reasons not to kill yourself.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    I went to the gym around half eight, finished around half nine, and went to meet my friends who were already out. I wanted a few beers but they were already about six beers ahead of me, and so the conversation was some what one sided. By that I mean, the conversation was dependent on their now limited attention span. One guy told me the same story twice. Also, with all the to-ing and fro-ing, and "yeah, we'll go soon", I didnt get to leave when I wanted to, so I didnt get the food I wanted on the way home.

    To sum up, I have had great nights out, and I have had sh1te nights out. Sometimes the ones that started sh1te ended up with me sat on a cliff in Co Clare with a few young ones, and the ones that started with me and a table full of drinks and girls ended up with me in the cheesey copy of abra kebabra with 5 drunks and a sad looking loser, who, turns out to be my own reflection.

    Few things are black and white.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    Haaaaaaaaaaate isn't even the word


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    It's almost always over rated. You think you're going to have a great time, but come 1am you're sitting in Charlies... alone... desperately trying to come up with reasons not to kill yourself.

    **** obviously came to your rescue.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭Phareon


    Depends on where you go, who you go with and how much you're willing to spend! You could easily have an awesome night for a tenner or less!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Phareon wrote: »
    Depends on where you go, who you go with and how much you're willing to spend! You could easily have an awesome night for a tenner or less!!

    Really? Unless you are teetotal, how?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Phareon wrote: »
    Depends on where you go, who you go with and how much you're willing to spend! You could easily have an awesome night for a tenner or less!!

    By using the €10 to snort coke?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    keith16 wrote: »
    By using the €10 to snort coke?

    Wouldn't get nearly enough..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭Phareon


    Phareon wrote: »
    Depends on where you go, who you go with and how much you're willing to spend! You could easily have an awesome night for a tenner or less!!

    Really? Unless you are teetotal, how?

    A lot of places will have you in for a fiver or free before a certain time, plus a naggin of vodka or a bottle of wine is only a fiver as well! Depending on where you live you can walk home!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    **** obviously came to your rescue.

    In the taxi, crying, all the way home. Felt grand after.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,252 ✭✭✭deisedevil


    **** obviously came to your rescue.

    I'd say it did the same for you too going by your username. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 350 ✭✭mickgotsick


    It depends. It's either good or crap depending on whether it's good or crap. If it's good, it's good but if it's crap then I can't really be bothered with it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭Napper Hawkins


    It depends. It's either good or crap depending on whether it's good or crap. If it's good, it's good but if it's crap then I can't really be bothered with it.

    You sir, are a sage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭mauzo


    I don't go out out very often. Normally just to the local.

    But when I go on the absolute batter I always have a great night.

    I'm always laughing so add a few drinks and the atmosphere is brilliant.

    Money wise its a bit sucky but because I don't do it often its not too bad.

    I'm 21 in a few weeks and I'm celebrating it over here, but when I'm back I plan to get absolutely beloobas :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭TAlderson


    I'll go to a concert or play long before I'll go to a pub. But part of that is because I don't drink... I can talk to my friends for free most of the week; if I'm going to pay to get in somewhere, there better be something good going on there.

    -Tyler


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    TAlderson wrote: »
    I'll go to a concert or play long before I'll go to a pub. But part of that is because I don't drink... I can talk to my friends for free most of the week; if I'm going to pay to get in somewhere, there better be something good going on there.

    -Tyler

    Pubs don't charge entry or water:P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭TAlderson


    Eathrin wrote: »
    Pubs don't charge entry or water:P

    Yeah, but if I'm in a pub, I sort of feel obligated to get a Coke or something. Feels weird just sitting there for hours not paying at all.

    -Tyler


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭Mysteriouschic


    It's alright I usually go to the same club most times. I'd love to try other ones for a change my friends like going to the same one though. I always go with the same group, I've been with other people and always had a bad night out. It depends on who you go with really as it's the people who really make the night. I usually always only go out with €30 and that gets, drinks , taxi , cloakroom etc.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I'm thirty-bleh and bejaysus I still love a good night out on the piss with a bunch of lads.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭desertcircus


    Depends hugely on what you do on a night out. Drink weird beers and chat with friends I haven't seen in a while? Absolutely. Pay into a nightclub where pints are six quid and chat is impossible? No way.

    I'm the wrong person to ask, though: thanks to being in a band and having some really good female friends, I didn't actually go out "on the piss with the lads" until I took up rugby at 28...


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Definitely loses its appeal as the years go on but I still like it where I live now. We all meet for food first, lay into the beers and vodka and then onto a few pubs or a club where me and the gf get as much free drink as we want. Then more food and beer after.

    I think the food thing is what I'm likin these days and we never did it back home. I never house drink here either and I like that.. If we drink in the house, its cause we want to. We generally meet up round 7 or 8.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,825 ✭✭✭Fart


    When I was younger, yeh.

    I'm twenty four now and would prefer to spend less than half the amount I'd spend out on a night in town by spending it on some great beers from the off licence or perhaps a few quiet ones in the local.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    Definitely good. It's a laugh and much better to be out with your mates enjoying yourself than sitting at home all the time. It doesn't have to be a such a hard night that you end up being sick, broke and generally fucked the wrong way. You can take it handy and have an easy night so I have no problems with them.

    Even if the night doesn't turn out as great, I still think it's time spent trying to have some fun so it's no harm in the long run.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Sometimes, sometimes not. When it becomes almost a routine, going to the same place all the time, especially when it's a club, then it can get stale and boring. It all depends on the spontaneity of the night. That was much more common when you were in your teens and everything was new, and the concept of going into "town" wherever that was, was much more exciting then it actually turned out to be.


    On a wider note, I really wish we got in a government who would come in and fix our nightlife regulation laws, (which the morons in Fianna Fail brought in), and extend closing times once more along with providing an adequate transport system of some sort that doesn't make people reliant on 20 euro taxis, and gives people much more time to go out and have fun and not have to rush somewhere, just because the place will be closed by 2.


    We should try and aspire to have cities which offer a vibrant and more varied nightlife, and considered worthy to compete with other cities with great nightlife in Europe. Cork, Galway and Dublin etc, there's load of potential and it can be great, but it will always be lacking until hours are extended and that includes the 10 O clock rule in place for selling alcohol. Also some people don't have a clue what a nightclub should be like, and awful places like 21s are allowed to exist. I really wish that place was accidentally demolished with no one in it and a proper place built there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭ruthloss


    Fart wrote: »
    When I was younger, yeh.

    I'm twenty four now and would prefer to spend less than half the amount I'd spend out on a night in town by spending it on some great beers from the off licence or perhaps a few quiet ones in the local.





    Back in the day eh?:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭jimthemental


    All depends on the craic you have with your friends and your luck with women on the night.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    We should try and aspire to have cities which offer a vibrant and more varied nightlife, and considered worthy to compete with other cities with great nightlife in Europe. Cork, Galway and Dublin etc, there's load of potential and it can be great, but it will always be lacking until hours are extended and that includes the 10 O clock rule in place for selling alcohol. Also some people don't have a clue what a nightclub should be like, and awful places like 21s are allowed to exist. I really wish that place was accidentally demolished with no one in it and a proper place built there.[/Quote]



    Been on nights on in many cities in Europe and have to say as far as having a laugh is concerned you cant do much better than Ireland.Italy,France and Switzerland in particular are crap for nights out,far to many posers just sitting around saying nothing.

    America , bar NYC and Vegas are crap too. Boston was a massive let down for nights out any time i've been.Everything seems to shut at like 1 just as things feel lile they're about to take off.


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