Too old for Nightclubs

Mankyspuds · 31-05-2011 12:21PM #1

When are you/Do you get too old for nightclubs I am 31, is that too old?? Now I rarely go to them, tbh I would barely know which places are 'no go' spots for certain age groups. I would hit late bars instead (i.e flannerys).

Biggins · 31-05-2011 12:35PM

Your never too old for nightclubs.
I've been to many European nightspots and I can tell you, the clients there in a lot of them is totally age ranged.
Ireland sometimes is so backwards in thinking that only the young get to still enjoy themselves in all aspects of night-life.
That is an outdated mode of thinking and old!

Micky Dolenz · 31-05-2011 12:36PM

Biggins wrote: »

Your never too old for nightclubs.
I've been to many European nightspots and I can tell you, the clients there in a lot of them is totally age ranged.
Ireland sometimes is so backwards in thinking that only the young get to still enjoy themselves in all aspects of night-life.
That is an outdated mode of thinking and old!

Tell us more, grand Pa. :P

KeithM89_old · 31-05-2011 12:39PM

Youre never too old to go, just like youre never too young.. :pac:

enda1 · 31-05-2011 12:39PM

Nightclubs are shit when you're not single.
When you're single they're still shit, but there's the anticipation of maybe scoring.

Its not an age thing really.

Biggins · 31-05-2011 12:39PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Tell us more, grand Pa. :P

A gentleman never kisses and tells.

Dudess · 31-05-2011 12:40PM

The more pertinent question, I'd have thought, is "When are you too old to stop giving a sh1t about being seen as 'too old' to do certain stuff?" I'd have thought 25 tops...

Princess Peach · 31-05-2011 12:40PM

Only when the rythm leaves your heart (or you are physically unable to dance.)

Good news is I am nowhere near any of these categories

kfallon · 31-05-2011 12:40PM

Biggins wrote: »

A gentleman never kisses and tells.

He fingered some bird in the queue for the cloakroom at the end of the night :pac:

Sykk · 31-05-2011 12:44PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IFwWEBFWZk

Larianne · 31-05-2011 12:46PM

Just don't letch on the young ones and you're fine.

i.e. stay in that corner!

ScumLord · 31-05-2011 12:48PM

It's not a matter of getting too old it's a matter of getting sense. Irish nightclubs are nothing but cattle marts for people, I've yet to be in one that wasn't shamelessly abusing the drunks in their care. Crap music, crap music systems that have distorted sound, crap overpriced drink and crap surroundings.

Mint Sauce · 31-05-2011 12:48PM

Your never too old, its just some times some of the ones in there are not old enough.

Bloody Nipples · 31-05-2011 12:54PM

ScumLord wrote: »

It's not a matter of getting too old it's a matter of getting sense. Irish nightclubs are nothing but cattle marts for people, I've yet to be in one that wasn't shamelessly abusing the drunks in their care. Crap music, crap music systems that have distorted sound, crap overpriced drink and crap surroundings.

I don't go for drink or music. I go to get my leg over. The rest is incidental.

sbsquarepants · 31-05-2011 12:54PM

I'm 36, haven't been in a night club in about 5 years i'd say, and even at that stage i was starting to feel like a dirty old man!
When you think the place is full of kids - you're probably too old to be there. But........ about 20 years after that you're old enough to go back, ie when you're obviously too old to be on the pull!
People in their 30's out trying to pull teenagers is a bit sleazy in my opinion.

Nodin · 31-05-2011 12:55PM

Princess Peach wrote: »

Only when the rythm leaves your heart (or you are physically unable to dance.)

Good news is I am nowhere near any of these categories

I never had any rhythm, and was never able to dance. Therefore the charm of being deafened by music I didn't like was lost on me.

And the fucker whose idea it was to start playing music at the same volume in bars needs shooting, I might add.

stovelid · 31-05-2011 12:57PM

I hate to break it to any self-absorbed skinny orange teenagers reading, but I'm not interested in you when I (rarely) end up in a nightclub. I'd crawl over ten of you with your legs open for another pint.

old hippy · 31-05-2011 01:00PM

Don't much care for nightclubs these days. Having said that, me and a mate ended up in a gay & lesbian club the other night and it was alright.

K-9 · 31-05-2011 01:03PM

stovelid wrote: »

I hate to break it to any self-absorbed skinny orange teenagers reading, but I'm not interested in you when I (rarely) end up in a nightclub. I'd crawl over ten of you with your legs open for another pint.

Ewwwhhhhhh.

trad · 31-05-2011 01:08PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN69HnXny7c

Says it all.

jester77 · 31-05-2011 01:09PM

Ireland is backwards and have a totally fecked up sense of what a nightclub is. Most people only go there to drink, leer or try to pull and the music is generally of the sh*t variety that is currently in the charts.

The setup here in Germany is infinitely better, no such thing as too old. Those who just want to drink go to the bars and stay there for the night. And for those who want to listen to music, then there is an abundance of nightclubs with lots of different genres appealing to a wide variety of taste. You end up with a great club, good music and rarely see people puking in the corners or in the jacks and not many are off their heads drunk... they maybe high depending on the scene.

ScumLord · 31-05-2011 01:17PM

jester77 wrote: »

Ireland is backwards and have a totally fecked up sense of what a nightclub is. Most people only go there to drink, leer or try to pull and the music is generally of the sh*t variety that is currently in the charts.

The setup here in Germany is infinitely better, no such thing as too old. Those who just want to drink go to the bars and stay there for the night. And for those who want to listen to music, then there is an abundance of nightclubs with lots of different genres appealing to a wide variety of taste. You end up with a great club, good music and rarely see people puking in the corners or in the jacks and not many are off their heads drunk... they maybe high depending on the scene.

The clubs in Berlin are in a different league. I've been to some great ones all over Europe and even the smallest out of the way place in eastern Europe has infinitely better clubs than Ireland.

It may be just down to the music, in most clubs around the world they play dance music and create a good dancing atmosphere in Ireland they play crap from the charts mixed with the sawdoctors, then maybe some dance song from 10 years ago.

old hippy · 31-05-2011 01:20PM

ScumLord wrote: »

in Ireland they play crap from the charts mixed with the sawdoctors, then maybe some dance song from 10 years ago.

Sometimes when us expats return home, it's quite endearing to see nothing has changed

Solair · 31-05-2011 01:21PM

I agree with that. Irish nightclubs are pathetically bad in general and are only aimed at the 18-21 year old market. Even halfway through university, I felt most of them were just full of teenagers.

Very few of them are interested in music or socialising, it's all about mindless drinking and leery pick-ups.

Many of the night clubs on the continent and even in London tend to be more about the music, and are actually aimed at adults, not teenagers.

In general the night life in Ireland is a bit of a joke, you're better off sticking to decent late bars and stuff if you're over about 20!

hatrickpatrick · 31-05-2011 01:27PM

Dudess wrote: »

The more pertinent question, I'd have thought, is "When are you too old to stop giving a sh1t about being seen as 'too old' to do certain stuff?" I'd have thought 25 tops...

This. F*ck society, f*ck the haters, enjoy your life and remember the only reason people will bash you for it is because deep down, they're jealous.

SEPT 23 1989 · 31-05-2011 01:30PM

The music is the problem

emeraldstar · 31-05-2011 01:34PM

When you don't enjoy it anymore.

smokedeels · 31-05-2011 01:36PM

An 18 year old upon finding out my age outside a club last weekend, said "...and you're still out partying, fair play"

I'm 25

conorhal · 31-05-2011 01:36PM

I'm not too old for nightclubs, it's just that nightclubs are too young for me so I stay the hell away from them.
When this recession finally bites hard we just might see that there is an upside to massive university fees and high youth unemployment, if it shakes the shrieking umpa-lumpas, and barely able stand Ross O' Carroll-Kelly wannabies out of my bars so that I can enjoy a nice after hours pint in peace, listening to decent 90's tunes that people nod appreciatively to on the dance floor rather than flopping about like epileptics hookers to some shoite from Lady Ga-Ga.

hatrickpatrick · 31-05-2011 01:37PM

Could I just add that for all of you's who are saying there aren't any decent clubs in Ireland, I'd agree there are very few.
But I draw your attention to Dublin's best kept secret.

N V Nightclub, Leeson Street.
http://www.nvnightclub.ie/

It's below Kobra Bar for those who know that one. It stays open ridiculously late, they have one of the most varied and skilled DJs I've ever encountered, and every single weekend they give away bucketloads of free or cheap drink.

Here's the inside of the place:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2047457550331.123550.1361200795

I don't work there or anything, I just go there every single weekend and have been doing so pretty much since last summer, it is infinitely better than any other nightclub I know and one of the only ones in Dublin which gives you a true sense of "nightclub" (as opposed to most of them which are really just big pubs with makeshift dancefloors)

old hippy · 31-05-2011 01:38PM

smokedeels wrote: »

An 18 year old upon finding out my age outside a club last weekend, said "...and you're still out partying, fair play"

I'm 25

LOL! I suppose when I was 18 I thought if anyone was 7 years older than me, they were getting on. I cringe at that now

My wife's older than me. Makes no difference whatsoever.

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