Nightclubs.

Binomate · 01-10-2005 08:46PM #1

I don't go out to nightclubs that much at all. I've been out for some of the college nights out. For some reason I just don't feel comfortable there. Most people my age love going out to nightclubs every weekend or whatever. I can never usualy get talking to anyone so I sometimes even just end up just walking around the place in a big loop. It feels akward being there. I have absolutly no problem with pubs are bars. I don't know why but I can talk to anyone in any pub with ease, It's so strange. Does anyone else experience this?

Crucifix · 01-10-2005 08:48PM

Binomate wrote:

Does anyone else experience this?

Yes.

simu · 01-10-2005 09:09PM

Yup. You really have to be tipsy at least to enjoy them.

Endurance Man · 01-10-2005 09:10PM

The only way to really enjoy a club is to be good and proper drunk, that way you will go up to any1 and just start chatting away

, you will also be more willing to go crazy on the dancefloor

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Politakill · 01-10-2005 09:13PM

I hate nightclubs. Show a live band any time of the day though...

Too much imaturity and bouncer head's involved in clubbing. I do attend the odd techno night when friend's play though but that's not like going to chartmusic playing **** clubs.

Binomate · 01-10-2005 09:26PM

I'm usualy fairly drunk when I go out, I usualy get about 5 or 6 overpriced pints into me when I go out and I'd be just slightly past tippsy but still able to maintain myself respectably.

Riamfada · 01-10-2005 09:30PM

Yeah Clubs suck. Just avoid them. ugh

StupidLikeAFox · 01-10-2005 09:57PM

Only good if you're in a fairly big group of people who are drunk. Going with one or two doesnt do it for me.

Larianne · 01-10-2005 09:59PM

Ah I never go to niteclubs with the intention of chatting to guys anymore. Ya can't flipping hear them anyway. I just dance the night away!!

MikeTyson · 01-10-2005 10:00PM

i luv clubs because im good at dancing and i get no fun out of going to a pub ur just wasting ur money sitting down and drinking pints.. wheres the fun in that i prefer just to buy a nagin of vodka and hit the clubs with a fake id.. but all people are different like

stagolee · 01-10-2005 10:08PM

Like everyone else has said: nightclubs are for dancing.
Which means; if like me you cant dance, then all they are is a generally shit place to go for a drink.
It's like trying to have a pint and a chat in an aircraft engine; cramped, uncomfortable, much too hot, and ridiculously noisy.

Beau · 01-10-2005 10:30PM

Very few people actually like ngihtclubs, it bemuses me why the very people who say they hate them end up going there every weekend.

Sarky · 01-10-2005 10:37PM

stagolee wrote:

Like everyone else has said: nightclubs are for dancing.

The folks normally seen on the dancefloor will be surprised when they find out...

OfflerCrocGod · 01-10-2005 11:37PM

Hate them. I just go around in circles wasting time until it's time to go home.

Laguna · 02-10-2005 12:20AM

Binomate wrote:

I don't go out to nightclubs that much at all. I've been out for some of the college nights out. For some reason I just don't feel comfortable there. Most people my age love going out to nightclubs every weekend or whatever. I can never usualy get talking to anyone so I sometimes even just end up just walking around the place in a big loop. It feels akward being there. I have absolutly no problem with pubs are bars. I don't know why but I can talk to anyone in any pub with ease, It's so strange. Does anyone else experience this?

Yeah man. I'm just finished college and felt the same when we went on the "Nights out", they just don't do it for me. I regard myself as highly sociable, fun and easy going, people have often asked why I can be like this in normal life but act different when I go to pubs/clubs. The reason is simple, I feel the whole pub atmosphere is artificial and too loud/garish, the fact that I'm not a big drinker also factors into the equation.
Being a foreigner living/studying in a town other than Cork/Dublin/Galway/Limerick/Waterford poses its problems with the small town mentality of people regarding me as a "Stranger" even though I've been living here for 3+ years, in other words I'm not "Yer man, who's the cousin of my friends sisters uncle" who they could so easily relate to. My case is different to yours though but the striking similarity is, yes, there are other people out there who do not enjoy the pub/club scene.

Farls · 02-10-2005 12:24AM

It all depends on what club you goto, a few clubs I hit every so often has nice "quiet areas" where you can take that lucky girl to see if her conversational skills are as l33t as her tight ass on the floor

Most clubs though don't have these areas and its almost impossible to chat to anyone apart from the odd shouting match trying to find out where everyone is gone!

A lot of bars are going this way also though, with the music far too loud (i must be getting old :eek: ) to hear the person beside you talk. This can be used as an advantage though...ie get closer, put arm around...etc.

Worst of the whole thing I find though is having to go outside to the smokers areas to get some quiet for a conversation which is what is happening in a lot of places I go, the non smokers spend more time outside talking than the smokers because the music is too loud inside for a conversation and a bit of craic.

You don't need to be drunk to enjoy a night club...it just helps A LOT

Misticles · 02-10-2005 12:30AM

i love clubs! theyr great fun! nothin like a few drinks and a good old dancing session!!

Matamoros · 02-10-2005 12:46AM

Believe it or not, I met new friends in a nightclub. People who have been good and loyal to me for years. It was and is a cliche that people are being false when they are out, I have found this to be untrue. My advice is to bring the confident, happy you to the party and let everyone see your best side. Treat your night out as what it is, the one time when all bets are off and most things are possible. Please let me know if this idea has worked for you. Cheers.

Bright Smile · 02-10-2005 01:34AM

Laguna wrote:

Yeah man. I'm just finished college and felt the same when we went on the "Nights out", they just don't do it for me. I regard myself as highly sociable, fun and easy going, people have often asked why I can be like this in normal life but act different when I go to pubs/clubs. The reason is simple, I feel the whole pub atmosphere is artificial and too loud/garish, the fact that I'm not a big drinker also factors into the equation.
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At the moment thats exactly what I feel. Ive just started college and im not drinking at the moment. My best friens in a different college and although ive many aquaintences its not the same. I hate going out now....seeing everyone pissed , pissing on themselves, riding in alleys, falling over thinking its hilarious and generally acting the ass. I feel as though i "have" to go out, theres loads of pressure to be out ya know? im sociable nad friendly and ill talk to anyone, but these days i feel like theres no where for intelligent conversation, craic, bit of drinking and a warm atmosphere without the cattle-market effect.

NoDayBut2Day · 02-10-2005 01:36AM

I'm not much for clubs either. Even at school functions when there was dancing, I was hardly ever out there dancing. I wish I could rise above that; maybe one day.

Royale with Cheese · 02-10-2005 01:47AM

If i was totally sober I would not set foot in a night club... actually I did once and it was just boring and obviously far too loud to talk to anybody. However when drunk (when I drink I tend to drink alot) they're great.

Karl Hungus · 02-10-2005 01:51AM

I hate clubs. Give me a nice pub any day, but clubs? Oh no, no sir, not at all.

Shabadu · 02-10-2005 01:56AM

Oh I love a nice pub and a pint. Maybe a sit down. Comfy seats. Cosy lighting. Quiet enough music to have a good natter with friends, but loud enough that you can all sing along like lunatics when an excellent song appears. Friendly bar staff that remember your gang's drink order.

Nightclubs had their place in my life once, but my nights out are few and far between, and precious to me. As a result, I prefer to spend them in the company of good friends.

cjs19 · 05-10-2005 02:11PM

Night Clubs tend to be pretentious places where people act according to how they think they should act. It's too much like lamb to a slaughter trying to pull in a nightclub. Im relatively attractive but any time I have ever gone up to chat up a girl in a club I fall flat on my face, cus shes usually with her mates and gets a superiority complex because she "can" be a bitch in here without suffering the consequences. Mainly cus she cant hear me shouting "youre a jumped up slapper" and this is somehow cool? Screw that, Ive only ever pulled in a nightclub when Im smashed and couldnt tell you anybodys name, not even the ones I made it home with. Whats the point? As for dancing? You call that crap they do in clubs dancing? Jumping? Its the next thing you learn after walking. Pub, few of the lads, nice guinness, nice group of girls, good music, live preferably, not too loud = perfect night out. Take your night clubs back to Ibiza and set up a few more live music venues.

Tar.Aldarion · 05-10-2005 03:27PM

I quite enjoy clubs but it is usually necessary to have a few drinks to have a very good time. I know some people don't enjoy them and i can see why but when i'm with my friends or meeting somebody there for the first time it is excellent.
Some form of metal club in Galway would be nice but oh well...
Don't worry about it Binomate, there are plenty of people that are just like you.In first year of college and before, even more so.

Closing Doors · 05-10-2005 05:00PM

cjs19 wrote:

Pub, few of the lads, nice guinness, nice group of girls, good music, live preferably, not too loud = perfect night out. Take your night clubs back to Ibiza and set up a few more live music venues.

Amen!

I don't know about anyone else, but I've always felt you may as well be on your own in clubs half the time...you can't hear anybody, so you basically watch each other drink until the place closes

For every time I go to a club, in terms of ratio or whatever, I go to about 10 gigs...far more enjoyable

Pack3t3rroR · 05-10-2005 05:18PM

Well this is a post that i never thought i would see. I myself hate Nightclubs, even when drunk i just can't go to one. I mean they just drive me crazy. All of my mates love nightclubs and this always poses a problem for me. The thing is, i love pubs, a nice pub is the best way to relax and have a chat with mates. I just dont like Nightclubs. The only thing is as previous posters have stated, when u go out for pints on a fri or sat night, my mates always want to go from the pub to the nightclub at which point i bail.

So my night would be cut short and lets face it, when u are merry or drunk mates can be pushy and will never take no for an answer. You 80% of times find yourself in the nightclub and that is the night ruined in my eyes. To many people and to much shouting, grr hate it so much.

I think one of the only reasons people go to nightclubs is to meet someone. But i am a little old fashioned and dont like the idea of meeting someone when i am plastered.

Then again who am i to talk, out of all my mates i am still to only one single :P, serves me right.

Anyway, all in all pubs are great but i refuse to go to nightclubs.

ferdi · 05-10-2005 05:22PM

rave on yokes

DAEDULUS · 05-10-2005 05:30PM

hot girls go to nightclubs
girls are easier than usual at nightclubs
guys go to nightclubs and get easy girls
guys like nightclubs

getting girls is the only reason guys like clubs generally,and maybe that little bit of exitement when theres a good song on..
doesnt say much for the posters here does it

Jonny Arson · 05-10-2005 05:40PM

DAEDULUS wrote:

hot girls go to nightclubs
girls are easier than usual at nightclubs
guys go to nightclubs and get easy girls
guys like nightclubs

getting girls is the only reason guys like clubs generally,and maybe that little bit of exitement when theres a good song on..
doesnt say much for the posters here does it

I agree with your point of most blokes in clubs gagging for some for ''action'' but this thread proves that alot of people hate the effective sole purpose of nightclubs of getting ridiculously pissed, scoring, shagging etc. and would rather have a few pints and a bit of craic with the mates where you can actually hear each other talking..... and minus the chart sh!te that is played in clubs.

Long live pubs!

Red Alert · 05-10-2005 06:29PM

i actually enjoy a good nightclub especially with the people from college, probably go about once a week or so. wouldn't be my cup of tea every night out tho'.

Nightclubs.

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