the saturday night blues

spooiirt!! · 29-02-2004 08:27PM #1

Im gettin fairly sick of going out into town on the weekend, i get started on a fair bit, people are bent when theyre drunk! everyone stumbling around the streets locked going " here oid bate you!". and the drunken girls are equally agrressive and irritating. ive seen women threatening to punch fellas in the face! but what i hate most is the "LAGER LAGER LAGER!" types, the guys that stand in a huge group with their pints on the dance floor, trying to work up the balls to start dancing, and when they do, theyre fvckin knocking people over and generally being tossers. of course the prcik teaser girls add to the ****ness of the night out.
any thoughts.

Johnny Versace · 29-02-2004 09:01PM

What else is there to do in this country? There are only so many movies you can watch...

KlodaX · 29-02-2004 09:14PM

you are going to the wrong places ... sounds to me like you are visiting the white strip shirt and black dresses kind of places .... you know the ones ... all the guys are an ocean of white strip shirts, clean shavin, black shoes ... and the girls are all dressed like its their last day on earth as a woman .... *or for some of them their first :dunno: * ....

try to find yourself a nice hippy commune

Johnny Versace · 29-02-2004 09:19PM

Yeah... Q Bar in Dublin is good (my regular haunt.) There is never any trouble there/too much drunkeness/etc.

pclancy · 29-02-2004 11:44PM

If you dont go out in town try somewhere out of town a bit. I got sick of town and settled in ranalagh, Mcsorleys and Russells good spots, good student crowd, nice flange and seldom anger.

ferdi · 01-03-2004 12:01AM

i agree with spooiirt!!,

where is good to go if you dont want to be surrounded by drunken ****s despreratly trying to brush agains a girls asses, with really loud absolutly shyte music with arsehole bouncers?

places i've tryed which were bollix:

fireworks
coyote
sosume
anables
redbox
redz
club92

whats the alternative to going to these wannabe clubs without just sitting in an old man pub listening to trad for the rest of your life?

there has got to be something better??

(yes i go to small gigs as often as possible but very few of my friends want to go to these, plus u cant go to gigs all the time)

Michelangelo · 01-03-2004 01:09AM

Its a massive problem in this country. The emphasis on alcohol(hey even i get sucked into it) and then stop for a while and then go back to it because this country is so boring if you do not drink. Its getting worse and worse.

red_ice · 01-03-2004 01:29AM

i dont really go out much anymore, im sick of town and have been for the last year.

Reasons i hate going out?

I hate my gfs friends when they have drink on them. For the time they are drinking you would expect them to be able to handle their drink, but noooo, they get pissed on one pint. So im left to spend the guts of 100 quid to get anywhere near the state they are in.

I gave up smoking and i cant stand being in a smoky atmosphere.

Muppet DJs who think they are great and play utter tripe.

Not being able to get a taxi in the freezing cold.

Having no money the day after.

Drink is soooo much cheeper from the offlicence... + after you buy your alcohol you can get other stuff to make the night that lil bit more special!

Drinking in a friends house with all your mates is more social imo because you dont have to shout to make conversation + you can take a video camera/camera out and not have to worry if its gonna get stolen.

Playstation.

When at a friends house or what not you always have a bed less than a minute away.

Always having the couch that you want to sit in. The beauty of this is that you dont have to sit on a couch that some fat tramp is also sitting on taking up most of it and invading my - dont touch there your a fucking minger area.

Its warm in a house.

Theres food nearby in a house.

Playstation.

The beer is on hand when you want it.

You dont have to cue for the jacks

You dont have to cue to get into your mates house.

No worries about being hopped on.

No long walks with your gf moaning about her lil feet that just hurt so much because she got them new shoes that were on sale from Ms.Selfridge.

Playstation.

No fear of some bum comming up to you talking through his nose because hes scared of getting sick while asking you for change for that 'bus he just missed'... AKA HERION.

No 3 quid for the hash link... although it does have its perks...

No worries about gettin lucky with the ladies or gf... theres always a spair room.

you can play what music you want WHEN you want it.

Its always nice to have a pool table near by (my friend has one)

Playstation.

If you spill your drink, there usually is a change of cloths near by.

You never bump into the people that you like to pretend dont exist... usually...

ill stop moaning about saturday nights...

Cake Fiend · 01-03-2004 05:57AM

Originally posted by spooiirt!!
... load of depressing sh1t...

Why don't you go to decent clubs/pubs then? There are no shortage if you're willing to look around. My personal choice is dance venues (I'm talking decent techno, house, drum and bass, not happy hardcore bollocks) of which there are tons of decent ones in Dublin (I'm assuming that's where you are). Check out Traffic, The Bar (Legal Eagle), Metropolitan, the Pod occasionally, Wax, Viva, Club Nassau or whatever they're calling themselves these days.

On the rock/alternative front, I find Whelans to be generally decent craic. I wouldn't be the expert on rock/alt venues though. Eamonn Doran's seems to be popular among the rock/alt crowd, not my kind of place though.

Trendy-bars like Q are definitely not my thing.

Pub-wise, there are some decent places to be found in Ranelagh, I'm also partial to the Porter House on Parliament St. (great house beers), I haven't been into what Handel's used to be, so I don't know if it lives up to its predecessor. I've found that in Dublin, the fuller a pub is, the worse it is for anyone with taste. The usual sh1tholes like Flannery's, Zanzibar, Coppers attract the masses because they are aimed at exactly that - the lowest common denominator. Use your head and you should be able to avoid places like these.

I am MAN · 01-03-2004 12:38PM

Viva yeah cos its so easy going, town is ****e otherwise full of fools.

bahairy · 03-03-2004 12:12PM

spppppppoooooooooooiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrt!!!!!!!! makes an excellent point, i think the age of the lager louts has destroyed what dublin is today. Drink is such a crrap drug for so many resons. The saddest thing is seeing a bunch of small scumbags wasted of their face, all blur eyed, all dressed the same in the fireworks uniform, dancing around fat mingers in fireworks, trying to get stuck into some. All they are is a big group of sad bastards trying to impart some of their sperm..... IF only they could see themselves.... They do the same thing every week. There is no intellegence in it at all. They are exactly like animals doing some bent sort of mating ritual in a big pack.

The girls arn't much better, getting all dressed up, creaming ****e loads of makeup on themselves in order to attract the best mate for coppulation.

A Gaff party is soooo much better, where you can wear what you want, hang out with your best mates, get stoned. play some decent music. you can talk to who you want,do what you want, abadoi abadoi.................. :dunno:

Nuttzz · 03-03-2004 12:34PM

What about the piss poor quality of drink, Lager than is almost flat when you buy it or tastes of dishwasher?

And Lads what is with the pissing on the seat eh? 5 seconds is all it takes to lift the goddamn thing

LIFT THEN PI$$

Samba · 03-03-2004 12:36PM

Don't you just love going to the bar and coming back minus half a pint

Same as myself here, are we all becoming old and grumpy already?!

Next we will be giving out about those young hooligans causing damage on buses etc....anyway

It's true, I don't really see going to Town as much of a pleasure these daya unless you are going to a good gig, or perhaps mid-week pints in Town can be fun.

The problem with Ireland is that there is so much control over alchohol that people feel that they have to drink as much as possible i.e in order to get another round in before the bar closes.

I say De-regulate Drink in Ireland at a very slow rate, allowing for Different Clubs and Pubs to open and close at different times.

It's almost reminiscent of a Child, take it away from it and it will want it even more and hence the result of Town on Fri/Sat night, which in the Past 3 Years has become quite a dreadful sight to see, groups of men/women walking....stumbling....on the ground......only to wake up the next morning not remembering a thing, WHAT A GREAT NIGHT THAT WAS!

spooiirt!! · 06-03-2004 05:19PM

all good points, but i dont know where any of the mentioned pubs and bars are, so tonight im headin out for a night on the "bangin" in reds. its gonna be the same as every other night. im not even gonna drink, and i wont notice f all difference cos ive done it so often. the only problem with not drinkin is that you notice the LAGER LAGER LAGER heads a lot more, and they really make me angry.

Red Alert · 06-03-2004 07:00PM

personally i sort of like the way you can make a total eejit of yourself for about 5 hrs a nice way to let out all that pent up energy!!!

i can't stand rowdy/dangerous places. I usually stick to Spirit, Coyote, Fireworks, Russells, Q-Bar etc. as well as RiRa's and Viva for the dance tunes.

Catsmokinpot · 06-03-2004 07:10PM

yeah im sick of goin down to hick town (area in waterford - oxygen, rubys and the rest full of drunken egits!) and seeing lads starting on ya all the time, big drunken asswipes all over the place shouting mindless slogans like "what are you lookin at" and "ill break your fookin face"

ive stopped goin down that area - alot of you will disagree but the places best to go are notorious drug places, i go to em and theres virtually no fights maybe 1 or two but other than that its all good! people are on a different type of buzz even the scumbags are not up for fighting they all go out to get off their head and they dont cause any trouble. + theres good music too instead of poppy ****

the proof:
amount of cops round hick town on a night out - 10/12 maybe more
amount of cops round where i go on a night out - 0 maybe 2 on a massive night eg: band/dj

personally i take drugs, im not promoting them some of my friends take drugs some of em just drink and i respect that (its your choice) but my friends that just drink still go to the "drug scene" clubs, cause they can have a good time without the drunken dickhead element rearing its head ugly head

drink is very mood dependant you can get really violent and act a real dickhead or you can be a sobbing mess all night drowning your sorrows, or if your in a really good mood you'll have a deadly night, but if you go to the drinkin crowd area your garunteed to either see a drunken twit either starting on someone(making a massive scene that you dont want to be part of) or starting on you, which isn't supposed to happen you only want to go out for a good time.

Wolfie · 06-03-2004 07:26PM

Clearly someone needs to go to Bruxelles!!

Heheh, also the Australian bar that used to Major Toms is nice and relaxed (bit spartan on seats though). I also hate the lager lout crowd, and rowdiness in town, but its endemic of the way Irish society as a whole is going, I think we are fast losing our culture and laid-back lifestyle. Celtic tiger and all that rubbish... but wasnt life more fun years ago?

My main problem with drinking in town is the cost of the beer, which is ridiculous. The quality of the beer is also piss poor, flat, lifeless and watered down. Thats the biggest problem with town. None of the publicans give a ****, because people still drink the over inflated piss-water. Most bouncers are idiots too, but many seem to have calmed down a little, thankfully. Unfortunately, I have been told that I look rough (not in how I dress, but my physical characteristics apparently), and have problems getting into some places even without having a drink taken.

Deregulation would certainly help, as would proper law enforcement, but with deregulation there would need to be strict control exercised, as a plethora of shady backstreet pubs serving copious amounts of alcohol and possibly drugs (has happened in pubs) to all and sundry surely wouldnt help. I guess the root cause, as always, is what our culture has become unfortunately.. and its going to be pretty difficult to change the culture and mentality for the better.

bahairy · 08-03-2004 12:31PM

OK here was last saturday night, that me, ferdi and spoiirrt!! went out on, with our mates.

First of all we got nice and lagered, as me and my mate downed a bottle of bacardi between us, and we pre-rolled a few joints for the club. We hadn't decided where to go to so we just hopped on the bus into town, soon we had arrived outside the very reputable Koyote lounge,with the most fuicked up massive queue I have ever seen. I have no idea why we were arsed but we joined the queue, so anyway we stood there and were all mad rowdy with all the other lager louts and we noticed all the slappers in the q and stuff, so eventuallly about 40mins later we reached the front of the queue and the bouncer askes us for ID

"alriot lads, how are youze doin', can oi see some ID's there lads, ID's lads."

So oi says to him

" there ya go"

and he has a nice look at the picture (i was using both Passport and driving licence)

Then he goes:

" Whats your Starsign?"

and I was there "eh......... wha????" why the fook does he want to know that, maybe he wants to know if we would be compatable, so anyways i says

" piecies" - my correct starsign.

and he just stood there and looked at me and he says "eh.....wha????"

So then he goes around the back into the club to check if I am in fact correct in his question.

The muppet comes back out and he goes " eh... sorry lads not tonight"

Oi would have bait the head off him, anyways we the headed down to Q-bar cor some of liams mates were goin there, and I thought it would be all mad posh and ****, as it looks from the outside, but instead it is the same as anywhere else, simply a skanky wooden floored lager house........... And as we were gettin in the door I was clearly locked and the bouncer lookes at me and me mate and he goes, have you been drinkin' lads, and we were there

" ehhhh nowwww ", clearly stumbling alll over the shop.

so he says " head on in ther lads"

so we head down stairs and onto the mad dance floor and bang out some moves to such classy and talented artists as Peter Andre and Rachael Stephens, and every 5 minutes the " D.J. " screams out on the microphone

" Roysh, HOws it goinnnng!!!
England 13, ........... Ireland 19!!!!!!!!!!!! "

and for some reason, every time he screamed this defening shiite out the whole crowd would scream out loud as if they had just heard the score and not actually heard it just five minutes ago, and 5 minutes before that etc...................
There we loads of slappers with only belts on, slaggin' themselves all over the shop, and loads of lads in shirts drooling all over the mingin ho's, oi would have bait the head of all of them.

So eventually,at this stage I decide that i would call it a day and head out of there with liam at 2:20, we headed for the fightlink, and saw that it was fairly full and there were loads of ruggby boys having tiffs and throwing a few fisty cuffs. One lad in a fit of rage fecked a lighter at another and this lead to a big fight which I enjoyed watching, sitting on the railings outside Q bar.We were told that we couldn't get onto this nitelink as it was too lagered, so we hopped on the next one, we got upstairs where I realised that I had lost my hash, so liam whips out the skins and starts to craft one, and some skanky bird with a rose asks him can she roll one, Liam says no, and she tells us how bangin Koyote was. Later into the converstation she tells us that the rose was not actually given to her, but that she stole it. And her friend, who was sitting beside her actually had no teeth ,she was eating a supermacs, which was not a pleasent sight, she got half was through mauling a burger , decided that it wasn't for her and offered the remains of it to share between us, we politly declined.........

I woke up the next morning with the most horiffic hangover of my life. and when I went to go drop a load, it came out in spit and dribbles with strange lumps of blue tinged rasin like things , for 24 hrs......

hence, The term saturday night blues.

Lump · 08-03-2004 01:11PM

Such a wonderful piece of writing

John

Michelangelo · 08-03-2004 01:37PM

Oh. My. God.

ixoy · 08-03-2004 01:49PM

Lads and lassies, that piece was satire, right? Right?! :dunno:

TUTS · 08-03-2004 02:06PM

sounds like a typical night out, without the rain

spooiirt!! · 08-03-2004 02:51PM

i just hate the way everyone wears a white shirt. occasionaly you get someone really outgoing and crazy, who wears a beige shirt.( did i spell that right?) i tell you, irish people really dont know how to dress. its funny.

Sleipnir · 08-03-2004 03:02PM

Originally posted by spooiirt!!
irish people really dont know how to dress. its funny.

You try shopping for trousers with a 36 inch leg

You'll find youself with the choice of Dockers (from Arnott's only) or nothing at all

Don't even start me on shoes. :mad:

"Do you have these in a 12?"
"No, the only ones I have in a 12 are these with the little pink bunnie on the toe"
"I'll take 'em"
"130 euro please"

Lafortezza · 08-03-2004 03:10PM

Originally posted by bahairy
And her friend, who was sitting beside her actually had no teeth ,she was eating a supermacs, which was not a pleasent sight, she got half was through mauling a burger , decided that it wasn't for her and offered the remains of it to share between us, we politly declined.........

I woke up the next morning with the most horiffic hangover of my life. and when I went to go drop a load, it came out in spit and dribbles with strange lumps of blue tinged rasin like things , for 24 hrs......

Funneh!

Its nicely written but your man who does Ross O'Carroll-Kelly does it far far better.

BigO · 08-03-2004 04:51PM

i was also out with spoirt, bahairy and ferdi and agree that town is pure sheeit
full of trendy ruger bugers trying to be mad scumbags and a scumbags trying to be "upper Middle Class"!

Whatever happened to good ol' speakeasys where you can seshuin into the wee hours?

but all is not lost. word on the street is dillon has a free Gaf this week so there will be a house partae!

And We have 3 major mission's this week:

1) Operation Kill the Rabbit,it has to be done
2) Operation Dead Koyote, Nobody disrespects the stira crew!
3) Go to girls aloud on sunday morn! its Free! (is maith liom)

The first two missions will need to be planned in the field and we will need the bangin for number 2.

this is a picture os some scum crack hores outside fireworks!

Silent Grape · 08-03-2004 07:13PM

i like wheelans, the market bar, eamonn dorans and the issac butt. generally not full of retardeds in rugby shirts. and good music too. usually.

ferdi · 08-03-2004 10:55PM

Originally posted by BigO
word on the street is dillon has a free Gaf this week

nice. i need come r and r.

Barbie_666 · 08-03-2004 11:13PM

Originally posted by Sleipnir
You try shopping for trousers with a 36 inch leg

A friend of mine finds shopping impossible!!!
36-38" leg and 28-30" waist.....
can NEVER find trousers to fit him!!!:D

spooiirt!! · 09-03-2004 11:11AM

im 6ft4 and i have no probs gettin decent clothes.

BigO · 09-03-2004 11:37AM

I can confirm Spoirt is always dressed in exceedingly good fabrics!

the saturday night blues

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