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30 something people still partying all night?

Wanderer2010

How common is it for 30 something men and women to still hit the town hard, going from pub to pub and ending on the dancefloor of a nightclub until 3am? I know its a broad question and probably applies more to single people but I was surprised at the amount of 35-40 year olds who still consider a hard night of drinking and dancing as their ideal night out. I stopped going to nightclubs after 25, I felt too old and for me, a nice night out is a few drinks in the one pub for some decent chat and home before 12 or 1.

Has anyone else experienced people in this age bracket partying just as hard as when they were younger?

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Franz Von Peppercorn

demanufactured wrote: »

Begorrah jaysus.
Should they not be sat in with the wife In their rural mcmansion watching RTE Saturday night telly, sipping cheap Lidl wine when the 2.5 childer are tucked up

Er, yes. Probably.

Anesthetize

PowerToWait wrote: »

Gimme bootcut and shoes over painted on to an inch above the ankle and no socks. Jesus.

Give me straight-leg jeans and Dr. Martens boots, over both bootcut and shoes, and painted on to an inch above the ankle and no socks. Both camps are equally bad.

Gimme A Pound

PowerToWait wrote: »

Gimme bootcut and shoes over painted on to an inch above the ankle and no socks. Jesus.

Bootcut jeans are literally just jeans. Someone said they look awful though, and thus the lemming bandwagon began chugging.

Bigbagofcans

Saige Chilly Transmission wrote: »

Bootcut jeans are literally just jeans. Someone said they look awful though, and thus the lemming bandwagon began chugging.

I remember seeing our dear friend Aongus Von Bismarck ridiculing Irish men who wear bootcut jeans.

suicide_circus

PowerToWait wrote: »

painted on to an inch above the ankle and no socks.

there are very few men who can successfully pull off that look.

i am not one of those men

paleoperson

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Nothing wrong with people going out and enjoying themselves but it’s just embarrassing when you’re out and someone brings their mate who’s only let out twice in six months so he tries to pack a few months worth of missed nights out into one.

All decked out in a checked shirt, bootcut jeans, beet red face and a pair of shiny shoes. The worst part is when he starts putting “the moves” on some unsuspecting and uninterested young one.

Says the guy who registered March 2019 and has five posts total, all on After Hours. :rolleyes:

JohnnyFlash

Saige Chilly Transmission wrote: »

Bootcut jeans are literally just jeans. Someone said they look awful though, and thus the lemming bandwagon began chugging.

Jesus, I’m an auld fella, and even I know they aren’t nice. There’s plenty of styles in between bootcut and painted on for lads of all shapes and sizes. Bootcut jeans are for lads going to Gareth Brooks tribute bands.

EmmetSpiceland

Saige Chilly Transmission wrote: »

Bootcut jeans are literally just jeans. Someone said they look awful though, and thus the lemming bandwagon began chugging.

Just jeans worn by a certain type of man, yes.

VeryTerry

Saige Chilly Transmission wrote: »

Bootcut jeans are literally just jeans. Someone said they look awful though, and thus the lemming bandwagon began chugging.

No they're not. Maybe in the "Man Shop" in Athy they are but Levi's 501s which are probably the most popular jean in the world are not boot cut!

WhiteMemento9

VeryTerry wrote: »

No they're not! Maybe in the "Man Shop" in Athy they are but Levi's 501s which are probably the most popular jeans in the world are not boot cut!

Boot cut jeans over not boot brown shoes are the funniest thing you can see stumbling out of Flannery's.

This is all just perception though. They would have been all the rage many years ago. Fashion changed towards the more tight cut jeans. So basically people are wearing what they perceive as fashionable because of a sheep mentality that causes us to fit in.

It is probably why the guy who goes out once a year on the tear is still wearing them. He hasn't been subjected to the social conditioning that his style of clothing is no longer the 'norm'.

I wouldn't though consider yourself some style icon just because you wear the same type of clothes that everyone else does that are now deemed the right look.

Qrt

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Jesus, I’m an auld fella, and even I know they aren’t nice. There’s plenty of styles in between bootcut and painted on for lads of all shapes and sizes. Bootcut jeans are for lads going to Gareth Brooks tribute bands.

Straight or slim are the best imo

paleoperson

WhiteMemento9 wrote: »

This is all just perception though. They would have been all the rage many years ago. Fashion changed towards the more tight cut jeans. So basically people are wearing what they perceive as fashionable because of a sheep mentality that causes us to fit in.

It is probably why the guy who goes out once a year on the tear is still wearing them. He hasn't been subjected to the social conditioning that his style of clothing is no longer the 'norm'.

I wouldn't though consider yourself some style icon just because you wear the same type of clothes that everyone else does that are now deemed the right look.

Exactly man. People always love to feel superior to others, to get up on their high horse. So this is a kind of thing where you have to be in the know, to be "informed". Then when you see someone with those jeans you can say "damn look at that clueless guy with the bootcut jeans, he doesn't even know they don't look good har har" and look down snobbily on him. It's all really a big joke. Skinny jeans, well they're not always going to look good on a man, but I can certainly see and have seen it being pulled off.

VeryTerry

WhiteMemento9 wrote: »

I wouldn't though consider yourself some style icon just because you wear the same type of clothes that everyone else does that are now deemed the right look.

I certainly don't consider myself any sort of style icon. I'm 35 and anyone wearing a shoe and a boot cut jean over it has always been treated with suspicion. The clue is in the name. Wear a boot if you're wearing boot cut jeans. Get your shoes on with your suit or chinos or whatever you're in to.

I wouldn't wear a skinny jean in a fit either.

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VeryTerry wrote: »

No they're not! Maybe in the "Man Shop" in Athy.

Brilliant

WhiteMemento9

VeryTerry wrote: »

I certainly don't consider myself any sort of style icon. I'm 35 and anyone wearing a shoe and a boot cut jean over it has always been treated with suspicion. The clue is in the name. Wear a boot if you're wearing boot cut jeans. Get your shoes on with your suit or chinos or whatever you're in to.

I wouldn't wear a skinny jean in a fit either.

In the early part of the 00's pretty much everyone wore bootcut stuff with everything. I think even heavily flared stuff was back in for a while around the same time

A quick google search from that period shows this trend. I actually think the complete opposite of you in those people who wore more tight fitting stuff were treated with suspicion and it was seen as more square look because back then it was more associated with office attire. I am looking at some pictures on google and laughing my head off at how awful some of the bootcut stuff looks on people. I do wonder though how much of that is my social conditioning towards it no longer considered normal. The psychology of how we perceive things is really interesting.

Gimme A Pound

VeryTerry wrote: »

If you're wearing any shoes with jeans you're a goon.

What?

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WhiteMemento9 wrote: »

In the early part of the 00's pretty much everyone wore bootcut stuff with everything. I think even heavily flared stuff was back in for a while around the same time A quick google search from that period shows this trend. I actually think the complete opposite of you in those people who wore more tight fitting stuff were treated with suspicion and it was seen as more square look because back then it was more associated office attire. I am looking at some pictures on google and laughing my head off at how awful some of the bootcut stuff looks on people. I do wonder though how much of that is my social conditioning towards it no longer considered normal. The psychology of how we perceive things is really interesting.

True. I had a pair of Levis flares back in the late 90s. Would buy em again if they were available.

I also remember discovering that bootcuts existed before that. Up until then it was all "comfort fit" cream coloured Wranglers with Kickers buckle shoes. Id say these rig-outs are still on display in The Man Shop in Athy.

It wont be long before bootcuts take back over from skinny yolks too. The skinny thing has had its time i think.

There's nothing wrong with any particular cut of jeans. When they come into fashion cheap versions are inevitably going to be churned out by Topman and the likes, and they will look ****. And then you'll get gob****es who think they're all the rage wearing this stuff in Flannerys and looking like a knob.

completedit

life can be boring a good night out can do wonders. I'll be drinking during summer for a long while yet.

TheValeyard

I wish I had the energy to be able to party all night and still function the following week. I just dont these days.

Gimme A Pound

Had too much to drink (by about a glass of wine and a very small glass of beer) Friday night and still feeling fairly crap.

Lorelli!

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

I wish I had the energy to be able to party all night and still function the following week. I just dont these days.

Murray you sound like my grandad!

Gimme A Pound

WhiteMemento9 wrote: »

In the early part of the 00's pretty much everyone wore bootcut stuff with everything. I think even heavily flared stuff was back in for a while around the same time A quick google search from that period shows this trend. I actually think the complete opposite of you in those people who wore more tight fitting stuff were treated with suspicion and it was seen as more square look because back then it was more associated with office attire. I am looking at some pictures on google and laughing my head off at how awful some of the bootcut stuff looks on people. I do wonder though how much of that is my social conditioning towards it no longer considered normal. The psychology of how we perceive things is really interesting.

Definitely conditioning. I'm a woman so obviously not a wearer of men's bootcut jeans; and the nonsense way people talk about what are literally just pairs of jeans... I find at best perplexing, at worst people really being conditioned what to think.

VeryTerry

There's a difference between boot cut jeans and Top Man skinny jeans. They're called normal jeans ffs.

VeryTerry

Saige Chilly Transmission wrote: »

What?

If you're wearing shoes don't wear them with a pair of jeans, any jeans.

TheValeyard

Lorelli! wrote: »

Murray you sound like my grandad!

Well, your grandad must be awesome so!

Gimme A Pound

VeryTerry wrote: »

If you're wearing shoes don't wear them with a pair of jeans, any jeans.

Because if you do, bizarrely nitpicky people would have a strange problem with people wearing footwear.

GinAndBitter

Flare jeans should be banished from history, serial killer attire.

Franz Von Peppercorn

VeryTerry wrote: »

If you're wearing shoes don't wear them with a pair of jeans, any jeans.

Sandals is it?

VeryTerry

Saige Chilly Transmission wrote: »

Because if you do, bizarrely nitpicky people would have a strange problem with people wearing footwear.

Look I don't think you're really getting the catastrophic problem of lads wearing boot cut jeans with shoes here. I have attached an image.

Boot cut jeans aren't "normal" jeans as you keep suggesting. They are designed for boots! I normally wouldn't feel as strongly about such a trivial topic on the internet but if a young rural lad was to see this and take you're advice they may never court outside their family

Exhibit 1 = don't do it.

Lorelli!

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Well, your grandad must be awesome so!

Actually he was

a great story teller and had nicknames for us all

Use to be very amusing when he was eating an apple with the one tooth he had left