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Nightclubs Vs. Pubs

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  • #32
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Clubs can be good for a change but not every week. Your head would be wrecked.
    Pubs all the way. Even better if it has a late bar.


  • #33
    ChristinaIndigo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭ChristinaIndigo


    Was charged 7.80 for a Vodka redbull the last night I was out at a nightclub...

    I also hate the fact that you can't hear what people are saying... I'd much rather sit in a beer garden with a big group. That way, you get the enjoy the banter and, hopefully aren't diddled out of as much money.
    10euro in, 7.80 for the drinks... A pitcher amongst friends is starting to appeal more.


  • #34
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    The only clubs I want to frequent are the ones that dont exist in the real world...

    - Not over-crowded
    - gender balance is 80% female to 20 male
    - a counter which is overstaffed and never very busy
    - large plush sofa's to sit on, where a nice waiter brings you your reasonably priced drinks,
    - music which is played at a level which doesnt melt eardrums


    Yeah, pub for me thanks.


  • #35
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,456 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    there are no good clubs in ireland. need to go to prague, berlin or the shore yo!


  • #36
    UsernameInUse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 778 ✭✭✭UsernameInUse


    Need a recommendation tonight people. Any decent place around Dublin pub wise? I got family coming over and may want to go out...any place half decent you've been to recently?


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  • #37
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    If you are looking to have sex with a random drunkard or druggy then obviously a club is where you want to be heading. Other than that pubs should be your destination.

    Having said that I prefer a good house party to either by a country mile...


  • #38
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    UsernameInUse wrote: »
    Is it just me or has the nightlife become...well, boring?

    I was in Coppers

    Stopped reading there.
    Coppers?
    Coppers???
    Coppers????????

    If Dublin nightclubs were rooms in a hotel, Coppers would be the septic tank.


  • #39
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Agricola wrote: »
    The only clubs I want to frequent are the ones that dont exist in the real world...

    - Not over-crowded
    - gender balance is 80% female to 20 male
    - a counter which is overstaffed and never very busy
    - large plush sofa's to sit on, where a nice waiter brings you your reasonably priced drinks,
    - music which is played at a level which doesnt melt eardrums


    Yeah, pub for me thanks.

    Kobra / NV Nightclub, Leeson Street is your friend. :)


  • #40
    Buceph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭Buceph


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    Both are usually shyte but worst of all are those pubs with a late licence and DJ who invariably tend to combine the worst features of both

    Yeah. City centre pubs where come 10 o'clock they feel the need to emulate a night-club by turning the music up to 11, but just with more tables and chairs and no entry fee. It's ****e. If I'm in a pub, at most I want decent background music to kill the lulls in conversation. If I'm in a late bar it's because I've started to talk shíte and feel the need to talk more shíte while drinking pints. Not because I want my conversation with friends drowned out.

    To be honest, I'd love if the government brought in secondary alcohol licenses. A license based on the idea that your primary business isn't selling alcohol, but that it's an ancilliary aspect to it. Let tapas/pincho bars pop up, computer game bars with consoles and arcade machines*, feck it, even a bar that hosts chess or scrabble tournaments. I bet there's loads of people out there who would love to be able to spend their night practising a hobby while still getting a few scoops in. This is what clubs (private members clubs) are for, but they're really hard to get setup.

    *If any gamers' know Yahtzee from The Escapist he has a bar like this in Australia.


  • #41
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    Hate clubs myself, just see them as a drink fueled meat market.

    Pubs are much better, you can get a nice seat with a few people, chat without roaring your head off and generally nicer to chat to randomers in.

    Im 21


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  • #42
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    It's been mentioned ad nauseum in these sort of threads, but Coppers, Dicey's etc. are not the only clubs in the country, nor would they even give you a taste of what a decent club is like. I have no idea why this is so hard for people to wrap their heads around.


  • #43
    Nesie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭Nesie


    UsernameInUse wrote: »
    Need a recommendation tonight people. Any decent place around Dublin pub wise? I got family coming over and may want to go out...any place half decent you've been to recently?

    If you're in the city centre try against the grain on camden st. No telly no loud music but nice food, beers and board games...it's my new favourite place.


  • #44
    Camackaze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭Camackaze


    Pub definitely


  • #45
    Black Leather
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 203 ✭✭Black Leather


    There's nothing like getting out on the dance floor and strutting your stuff and of course watching all those sexy women shaking what they've got! For me its clubs everytime!


  • #46
    UsernameInUse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 778 ✭✭✭UsernameInUse


    Pace2008 wrote: »
    It's been mentioned ad nauseum in these sort of threads, but Coppers, Dicey's etc. are not the only clubs in the country, nor would they even give you a taste of what a decent club is like. I have no idea why this is so hard for people to wrap their heads around.

    Aren't nightclubs illegal in Ireland anyway?

    Every foreigner I've spoken to says that the atmosphere and vibration of our 'nightclubs' is totally different from that of abroad. In fact, they are just large, loud and refurbished dancehalls - nothing to do with the international nightclub scene. In reality, the owners work within the rules, nevertheless, Ireland has not made nightclubs a legal entity.


  • #47
    partyndbs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭partyndbs


    hate both drinkin down da beach is were its at


  • #48
    Vinta81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭Vinta81


    I like clubs, but lately I've found myself enjoying pubs a lot more.

    Nothing like grabbing your favourite booth, at your favourite bar with good music and being able to have a proper chat.


  • #49
    partyndbs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭partyndbs


    chat in ur ****in gaf when u go out u go out to get locked


  • #50
    Crann na Beatha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭Crann na Beatha


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  • #51
    partyndbs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭partyndbs


    ye both mad boring, but only thing most ppl do at nights now....ah bring me back to the days of hanging around estate at nite.....


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  • #52
    Ally Dick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    I'm too old for clubs.It was lovely when I was young but then I started to look old and pathetic


  • #53
    Azureus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭Azureus


    Love starting out in a pub then on to a club after..you just gotta go to the right ones!
    Ones that dont charge a fortune on admission is the first criterion, although to be honest pretty much every club in Dublin will throw you on the guestlist for free admission once you call a day in advance. Not that difficult :)


  • #54
    yupyup7up
    Closed Accounts Posts: 845 ✭✭✭yupyup7up


    i dont care where i am as long as im wrecked drunk and theres hot girls around


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