Getting Refused from Bars and Nightclubs

Never been refused. Not that I go very often. One time I was dragged to a club without being dressed for it, and the conversation went something like this:
Bouncer: "Sorry, you're not dressed right, you can't go in."
Me: "No problem. OK, guys, I'll see you next week ... "
Bouncer: "Hang on a minute, you can come in ... "

markc1184 wrote: »

Not so bad now, but a few years ago there was one particular bouncer who worked different doors around Drogheda. Never had a run in with him or been kicked out of anywhere that he had been working before but all of a sudden he refused me entry no matter were he was working. Even tried kicking me out of the local shopping centre he worked security in, for drinking in public even though it was a can of Monster energy drink that I had. The pr1ck took a disliking to me for something and still have no clue what it was over.

I know exactly who you're talking about, he's a complete a*s to most people. They're so bored in that shopping centre they just spend their time moving groups of kids from one end to the other. I remember we were once sitting on a bench having a chat and one of the came up to us and goes, "Right, move along lads." When we refused he started threatening to "ban us for life" (honestly the most stupid threat I've ever heard in my life). So my friend (who happened to be pregnant at the time though not visibly) start giving out and asking why were there benches if nobody was allowed to sit on them?

I don't really get refused entry into most places unless its specifically fancy or so. You'd have to pay ME to go into most of the nightclubs in Dublin. Although a few weeks ago I got refused into a nightclub in Germany because I was told that, being "English" (I spoke German but he picked up on the accent) I had to have my passport which I don't carry around with me, ESPECIALLY when since I live in another country and the bloody embassy is all the way in Berlin.

FFS.

funny people mentioning gay bars, I actually am gay and cant even feckin get into them. been given the youre straight, dont take the piss general excuses.

spend my whole life terrified to come out, finally do few months ago and then im not gay ENOUGH.....hows that for a kick in the balls!

I was once refused from Coppers, thankfully.

Gavin Hollow Fog wrote: »

Why?.

And do you think he'd have let you?.

Eh because his facial expression was priceless when he saw a large group of people leave his pub and go somewhere else.

There was a lad a few years back got refused from Barcode cos he was pissed so he went around the back to the park and climbed over the fence. He slipped, fell and impaled himself under the jaw through his mouth. Moral, don't get Hung up on being refused!

do straights get refused from gay bars normally?
i've never tried to get into one but from what i read here it seems that they are discriminated against

x in the city wrote: »

in Cork, thanks to retarded bouncers, quite pandemic id say...

"how many had you? its friday night boss, come on had you one?

you had?, ok so off you go."

lol

Most of the bouncers working Cork City are apes on a power trip.
I have seen blokes working doors that could not add 2+2 when i was in school with them thirty odd years ago.

OK Retired doorman here ....
Never have a problem anywhere Dublin /Cork ..Pubs/Clubs , maybe its me ,my looks or my manner ..
Yes some doormen are pr**ks ,some are on power trips etc .. but sometimes the customers are just t*ts and just don't deserve to get in.

I've never once been refused from a pub since I was 20 years old, bar being turned away from one venue in London because I wasn't 21, even then he left me in the end. I've been out in London, Istanbul, Dublin, Cork, Galway, Belfast, Barcelona, Amsterdam etc; never have I been stopped from entering a gaff.

I also work the doors here in Cork City, both in-house for one late bar and also for a company catering for the biggest and most popular late bars in the city centre; I've done clubs in the past also. Some places in Cork, especially those owned by one particular publican, want a very specific clientele. These particular venues are selling a certain "scene" and the owner doesn't want anyone in the venue that will dilute that scene; to that effect he will instruct his door staff to admit his targeted demographic. The publican in turn is only reacting to the wishes of his clientele who may be turned off by large numbers of very young men or those with shaved-heads, gaudy jewellery, tattoos etc. In other words, the pub trade is a reflection of wider societal division and snobbery.

This is the process at work here, it's not a case of a doorman setting himself up as an amateur sociologist casting aspersion on people for the craic. We're the lowest link in the chain like, if you want to b*tch about dress codes or no large groups being admitted etc then ring the owner and tell him. Don't start roaring at us out on the street at 12:30am while you're full off drink, it's not our fault and as Makikomi said, we've heard it all before. To be honest there is a ridiculous culture of entitlement in this country where people think it's their God-given right to drink 10 pints and then enter a premises p*ssed off their face and then lecture you about how they're a solicitor and you're a nobody when they're politely refused entry. Or how people think they've a right to camp in the pub an hour after last call and then start screaming their heads off because you asked them to finish up and leave. Of course the next the day when they wake up hung-over they'll never acknowledge the fact that there was a conflict because they were ignorant drunk c*nts, nope, blame it on the "power tripper" bouncer.

Do bouncers make mistakes? Of course they do, and there are some clowns doing the job, no doubt about that. Similarly you'll find cowboy electricians, dodgy solicitors, assh*le cops, crap teachers, ignorant shopkeepers but somehow it's not ok to generalise these professions but perfectly acceptable to categorise all door-staff "power tripping gorillas."