Night clubs

Greenmachine

Are they totally 90's? Serious question. Don't drink out as much as I did in my younger years. Don't think I have been in one in the past decade. Plenty of late bars without the need for a frankly ridiculous €15-€20 entry fees you find in clubs. Mad as it was in my teens and early to mid twenties, it was common enough to pay for an hour maybe an 1.5 hours extra you got in the club. If you go to Dublin city at all late bars are open just as late without half the hassle.

paulbok

Some are still 80's

ScumLord

I think the late bar is killing off some nightclubs. Outside of that I guess I'm just getting too old to even consider a nightclub. I went out for new years in Galway and was in a busy pub/nightclub. It was absolutely wedged, you literally couldn't get from one side of the pub to the other without getting wedged in an archway with 20 other people all trying to go in opposite directions. I just couldn't understand what was fun about it. It was a waste of time and money being in this popular pub, I couldn't get a drink, I couldn't go out for a fag and I couldn't hear anything anyone was saying. It was horrible.

Meathlass

Most rural towns don't have a late bar so you've no choice but to go to the only nightclub in town where the clientele will be from 16 to 70. Fun times

BMJD

It's spelled "NiteClub" goddamnit!

ScumLord

BMJD wrote: »

It's spelled "NiteClub" goddamnit!

I'm not into this hip youngster text speak, I spell things properly. Or at least try too.

Lando Griffin

I'm still a fan, try and go most weekends to our local one.
I just love routine in my life : Mass,Pub, Nightclub, Chipper, Lift home.

When I was a young wan, I used to go to niteclubs to dance. That's probably why I never got hangovers. Now if I end up in a niteclub it's because I'm absolutely pissed and not ready to end the night and I will most certainly be drinking more when I get there.

I don't do that too often but of an occasion

brummytom

No they're not 'totally 90s'. You're just old.


I hate clubs though, haven't been in one for nearly 2 months. Give me a pub any day.

Links234

Last time I was at a nightclub was a few years back. They had helium balloons around the place and we got booted out for taking them and sucking out the helium and doing our best Darth Vader lines. "No disintegrations" in high pitched squeaky voice :pac:

o1s1n

brummytom wrote: »

No they're not 'totally 90s'. You're just old.


I hate clubs though, haven't been in one for nearly 2 months. Give me a pub any day.

Two whole months? You big hermit :pac:

somesoldiers

not in years- last time I was the price of drinks went up by 75c at midnight, that's 75c every drink vodka & coke e1.50. total rip off, can usually find a pub with a lock in in our town, stay out til 4 if I want but seldom do nowadays

whisky_galore

Overpriced and overhyped cattle markets, can't hear what anyone is trying to say...so even defeats the purpose of a cattle mart.
Hope they die a death.

smash

whisky_galore wrote: »

Overpriced and overhyped cattle markets, can't hear what anyone is trying to say...so even defeats the purpose of a cattle mart.
Hope they die a death.

Looks like someone never scored at the niteclub...

irishejit

BMJD wrote: »

It's spelled "NiteClub" goddamnit!

ScumLord wrote: »

I'm not into this hip youngster text speak, I spell things properly. Or at least try too.

Are you sure you gents don't mean discotheque? :pac:

Birneybau

irishejit wrote: »

Are you sure you gents don't mean discotheque? :pac:

Or, Dance.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Meathlass wrote: »

Most rural towns don't have a late bar so you've no choice but to go to the only nightclub in town where the clientele will be from 16 to 70. Fun times

So true, you never know what you'll meet in these small country town joints.

minidazzler

What's killing nightclubs are the fees for special exemption orders at 410 for every single night they open and the surge in late bars which charge no entry fee but raise prices after a certain time.

I actually had to do an assignment in college on this exact thing. Essentially a nightclub that opens 361 nights a year, which is the maximum they can pays €148000 a year for that extension of hours... A late bar will be able to spread that cost over the whole day but a nightclub has 3 hours of sales time to work with a night.

keeponhurling

minidazzler wrote: »

What's killing nightclubs are the fees for special exemption orders at 410 for every single night they open and the surge in late bars which charge no entry fee but raise prices after a certain time.

I actually had to do an assignment in college on this exact thing. Essentially a nightclub that opens 361 nights a year, which is the maximum they can pays €148000 a year for that extension of hours... A late bar will be able to spread that cost over the whole day but a nightclub has 3 hours of sales time to work with a night.

but the additional cost of the late bar should be made back from the additional hours it's opened for ?

Not being a late bar shouldn't impact their day time trade, I'd have thought

Call Me Jimmy

Not that I'm out much but late bars are great, they're like bars except later. Such a good idea

minidazzler

keeponhurling wrote: »

but the additional cost of the late bar should be made back from the additional hours it's opened for ?

Not being a late bar shouldn't impact their day time trade, I'd have thought

Depends on the night they are open really.... Bars that usually get exemptions are in general more expensive than bars which close at the normal operating hours. It's not always true, but it's a pretty well established thing.

That said the point was, a late bar can afford a slow night because the day trade will probably cover it somewhat. A nightclub with a slow night has made fcuk all,

The Peanut

ScumLord wrote: »

I think the late bar is killing off some nightclubs. Outside of that I guess I'm just getting too old to even consider a nightclub. I went out for new years in Galway and was in a busy pub/nightclub. It was absolutely wedged, you literally couldn't get from one side of the pub to the other without getting wedged in an archway with 20 other people all trying to go in opposite directions. I just couldn't understand what was fun about it. It was a waste of time and money being in this popular pub, I couldn't get a drink, I couldn't go out for a fag and I couldn't hear anything anyone was saying. It was horrible.

Pathetic! You call yourself The Zombie Survival Mod? Hand over your badge and leave the building.

The Backwards Man

When I was young, you went to the pub at half eight, drank pints until you were fcuked out before midnight, went to the disco and had a feed of sausage and chips and another couple of pints and then a few halfs. Then you were fcuked out at ten past two, went home and got up and went to your work the next day.

Nowadays young wans drink a hape of pish in the house, go to the pub at half eleven, drink a couple of vodka and red bull or similar rubbish, got the nightclub when they are fcuked out at half one, drink a couple of jugs of pish or the naggin his in their pants, fcuked out at half three, buy a hape of crap kebabs and taco chips from the Indian, go home at getting up time and they are good for fcuk all the next day.

ScumLord

The Peanut wrote: »

Pathetic! You call yourself The Zombie Survival Mod? Hand over your badge and leave the building.

A packed pub should be the last place you'd expect to find a zombie survival mod. Going into a built up highly populated area was already making my skin crawl.

hatrickpatrick

ScumLord wrote: »

I think the late bar is killing off some nightclubs. Outside of that I guess I'm just getting too old to even consider a nightclub. I went out for new years in Galway and was in a busy pub/nightclub. It was absolutely wedged, you literally couldn't get from one side of the pub to the other without getting wedged in an archway with 20 other people all trying to go in opposite directions. I just couldn't understand what was fun about it. It was a waste of time and money being in this popular pub, I couldn't get a drink, I couldn't go out for a fag and I couldn't hear anything anyone was saying. It was horrible.

To be fair, that's New Years for you. Even the most hardened clubbers I know swap nightclubs for house parties on New Years because of the well known mayhem and unpleasantness of actually going out on it.

The Peanut

ScumLord wrote: »

A packed pub should be the last place you'd expect to find a zombie survival mod. Going into a built up highly populated area was already making my skin crawl.

A friend of mine has a taxi. He calls 2-4am on Sat night/Sun morning as zombie time after the patrons fall out from the local club. Must be a mad sight for a sober person.

ScumLord

ScumLord wrote: »

A packed pub should be the last place you'd expect to find a zombie survival mod. Going into a built up highly populated area was already making my skin crawl.

You want to go to the Vatican on a Sunday morning. It's class. You get this little skip of excitement in your tummy of how deadly it would be if it happened right there right now.

You'd be fcuked like, but it's still a fun thought

ScumLord

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

To be fair, that's New Years for you. Even the most hardened clubbers I know swap nightclubs for house parties on New Years because of the well known mayhem and unpleasantness of actually going out on it.

Any pub with a lot of people and in it annoys me now.

ScumLord

Deleted User wrote: »

You want to go to the Vatican on a Sunday morning.

It's back into the concrete bunker in the back garden till next year for me.

AnonoBoy

ScumLord wrote: »

I'm not into this hip youngster text speak, I spell things properly. Or at least try too.

Ah now - Niteclub is a 90s spelling definitely. It pre-dates txtspk by a decade at least.

lazybones32

Greenmachine wrote: »

Are they totally 90's? Serious question

Like totally!!!!!