Do People Still Get Refused From Pubs/Clubs

yeah, i do sometimes. i dont like wearing shoes so i normally get pulled on that.

I only remember ever being refused once myself for "being too drunk" when I had had around 6-7 pints, which for me is warming up before the game. I was just acting the plonker TBH.

I know I have been turned away when I can't even remember going out, but that doesn't count because I deserved to be. That said, I have one bar here, where no matter how drunk I am, I am always welcome. Simply because I go there often enough that all the staff know my face and know that no matter how drunk I am, I'm not angry ever, and always just have a laugh.

joe stodge wrote: »

yeah, i do sometimes. i dont like wearing shoes so i normally get pulled on that.

In fairness if you turned up barefoot at my pub i'd tell you to fcuk off....

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Is that not a bit risky?

I don't think it was ever just the shoes. Dress code is an excuse to refuse drunk people hopefully without confrontation or sometimes to filter out undesirables.

If you get refused on the basis of dress - you can be almost sure that you wouldn't get in wearing your finest three piece suit either.

I remember when my local boozer used to have people on the door :pac:

one of the lads gets refused everywhere in Dublin, without fail, its become a running joke. The last example was flannerys on a Sunday night about 4 weeks ago (yeah flannerys! on a Sunday!). It's just the head on him. He's 26, 6'1 and looks a bit like a student version of Morrissey. . .



. . .come to think of it, I'm not gonna let him into the gaf anymore

I hadn't been stopped for "inappropriate" footwear since the recession until a few months ago at the Baggot Inn. He let me in with a warning saying "it's dress shoes only here".

I'm sorry, do you not like business?

Was out a week last Friday with a few people from work, went into the Gasworks Pub, just at the end of Barrow Street.

Was about 12 of us, mix of male/female, and all well behaved.

The day previously i had shaved my hair into a mohawk, and that night was wearing a DeathClutch t-shirt.

Walked in at 8pm and bought a pint, had another one at 8.30, then the bouncer came up to me and said i had to leave due to me breaking the dress code.

The manager came over and said i was wearing a football/rugby shirt and had to go, i explained it wasn't a soccer shirt, 2 other guys in our party were wearing rugby shirts. Never bothered his arse with them.

IMO it was the size of me and my mohawk.

Tried talking them down but were having none of it, i know i shouldn;t have but i ended up lobbin a glass , then he offered free finger food and a couple of drinks to the people who were left, so long as i didn't come back.

They told him to fcuk off and all left.

So OP, yes, people still get refused. If they can let 12 people walk out, who all would have stayed there drinking all night then they're idiots

YFlyer wrote: »

Molly Malones in Limerick refused a few of us one night because they said it is a student bar. Have been there a number of times. They seem to ignore the people that live in Limerick during the summer time that keeps the place in business.

Molly's during college always ask to see student id aswell as agecard etc. It's a bit unfair tbh to the Limerick regulars.

scudzilla wrote: »

Was out a week last Friday with a few people from work, went into the Gasworks Pub, just at the end of Barrow Street.

Was about 12 of us, mix of male/female, and all well behaved.

The day previously i had shaved my hair into a mohawk, and that night was wearing a DeathClutch t-shirt.

Walked in at 8pm and bought a pint, had another one at 8.30, then the bouncer came up to me and said i had to leave due to me breaking the dress code.

The manager came over and said i was wearing a football/rugby shirt and had to go, i explained it wasn't a soccer shirt, 2 other guys in our party were wearing rugby shirts. Never bothered his arse with them.

IMO it was the size of me and my mohawk.

Tried talking them down but were having none of it, i know i shouldn;t have but i ended up lobbin a glass , then he offered free finger food and a couple of drinks to the people who were left, so long as i didn't come back.

They told him to fcuk off and all left.

So OP, yes, people still get refused. If they can let 12 people walk out, who all would have stayed there drinking all night then they're idiots

Serves ye right being thrown out if thats the way your going to react. Hope you were barred from there and any other premises. It's people like you that cause a minor confrontation to turn into something dangerous.

That was frustration, if i'd been left alone i wouldn't have done a thing and never have.

Balls. What if you ended up hitting someone who had nothing to do with the disagreement with the glass you threw in a hissy fit? If you're the type of person to start flinging glasses around because you had an argument with a stupid pub manager then they were probably right in asking you to leave in the first place. That's dangerous and to be honest, scummy behaviour; regardless of the idiocy of the manager in question.

LighterGuy,

bouncers are wa*kers.

They aren't though. Of course some lads doing that job are, the same way there are arseholes doing every other sort of job. The fact of the matter is that security is a necessary part of the pub trade. It's gas really, there are plenty of people who take this ridiculously pompous superior attitude toward door staff and yet you're the first person they come looking for when some drunk is trying to feel up their girlfriend or start a fight with them in the smoking area. If you have a venue where large amounts of people are sculling drink then security is a necessity, that's all there is to it.

Similarly, 90% of the time a bouncer's actions are dictated by the proprietor, after all it's his pub and therefore he decides the scene he wants in it. Some publicans will want an older or a younger crowd, a working class or an upper class crowd, professional types or heavy metal types and he'll instruct his door staff to keep it to that effect. He in turn is only reacting to what he perceives his customer base wants from the venue i.e. an older professional crowd won't react kindly to sharing their space with a group of 19 year old youngfellas etc etc etc.

That's the process at work like, it isn't a case of a doorman setting himself up as the be-all-and-end-all of who and what goes on at the pub.