Who here hates nightclubs?

KERSPLAT! · 12-05-2013 10:58AM

I'm 26 and pretty much the exact same as above, though I still go the very odd time

ciano1 · 12-05-2013 11:17AM

So true!

awec · 12-05-2013 11:25AM

A pub and a nightclub are two distinctly different nights out and it will depend on your mood and what sort of night you want as to where you go.

You don't go to a nightclub if you want to chat or sit in the corner looking at everyone. That's not what nightclubs are for and more fool anyone who pays in to a club if that's all they want to do.

Shenshen · 12-05-2013 11:27AM

rox5 wrote: »

I dunno I feel like a boring auld one for hating nightclubs, is there anyone else my age who feels the same?

No, don't worry. I've always hated them, from the first time I set foot in one.

12-05-2013 11:33AM

I always liked clubs myself and still do, I end up going to a club regularly enough.

ToddyDoody · 12-05-2013 11:43AM

When drunk and not suffering a hangover, I can enjoy nightclubs. The peer pressure surrounding them can ruin it a bit.

fartman · 12-05-2013 11:50AM

90% of men go to nightclubs to get there hole ....

KERSPLAT! · 12-05-2013 11:52AM

fartman wrote: »

90% of men go to nightclubs to get there hole ....

73.6% of statistics are made up

lkionm · 12-05-2013 11:54AM

Princess Petulia Pissy Pants wrote: »

73.6% of statistics are made up

Not everything you read on the internet is true- Abe Lincoln

Plumpynutt · 12-05-2013 11:56AM

You're just going to the wrong sort of clubs is all OP. Chart clubs are pants

12-05-2013 12:02PM

Plumpynutt wrote: »

You're just going to the wrong sort of clubs is all OP. Chart clubs are pants

Unless you like chart music, then they are great!

Plumpynutt · 12-05-2013 12:07PM

Bronson Mysterious Pretzel wrote: »

Unless you like chart music, then they are great!

Yeah fair enough, but the OP appears not to :P

I could never enjoy a chart club, and I've been to loads. Still love clubbing though, I've had amazing nights in places like the TP or Kennedy's.

OP should branch out and try new clubbing experiences

Ave Sodalis · 12-05-2013 12:07PM

pone2012 wrote: »

dont drink OP, So i dont go to clubs or pubs.

Your logic here is questionable...

I don't drink and would quite happily go out several times a week. I enjoy it, the dancing, the socialising, the laughing at drunk people... especially the laughing at drunk people. Nobody knows you're not drunk (except your friends), so you can act exactly as you want to. It's a very cheap night for me too, couple euro for a taxi and a fiver (if not free) in. Sorted!

SilverScreen · 12-05-2013 12:12PM

Bronson Mysterious Pretzel wrote: »

Unless you like chart music, then they are great!

If a girl in a mini-skirt is grinding her ass against my crotch on the dancefloor I couldnt give a toss what music is playing.

Plumpynutt · 12-05-2013 12:16PM

Zero1986 wrote: »

If a girl in a mini-skirt is grinding her ass against my crotch on the dancefloor I couldnt give a toss what music is playing.

I disagree, it's a lot better when a girl grinds up on you to jungle/D&B or some grooving house or techno than it is with Drake or some sh1te tbh :pac:

SilverScreen · 12-05-2013 12:18PM

Plumpynutt wrote: »

I disagree, it's a lot better when a girl grinds up on you to jungle/D&B or some grooving house or techno than it is with Drake or some sh1te tbh :pac:

That's only an added bonus though. Besides my mind would be elsewhere

Czarcasm · 12-05-2013 02:39PM

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Chill out in a club???? are you for real.

There's no need to be rude about it. Of course I'm for real. Different people have different ways of relaxing is all, and I find being surrounded by the anonymity of the club atmosphere relaxes me. I don't normally like crowds, but something about the darkness and the ear bursting volume of the music tends to calm my mind and helps me to relax while I organise things in my head. My wife does meditation and yoga to chill out and relax, I go to the club; different strokes for different folks, yknow?

They are packed, too warm and too loud. It's one of the most stressful places I can think of going to. If I want to chill out I go to a pub.

Yeah see all the things you hate, are all the things I love, which is why when I've had an incredibly stressful week, I like to go out- not to get shìt faced or score, but just to take a break from having my mind racing at a thousand thoughts a minute. I sometimes go to the pub beforehand for one or two, but there's never a newspaper to read so I'll watch whatever's on tv, then head into the club.

Any time I go to a night club my voice is gone the next day from shouting trying to talk to people and my ears ringing from the stupid volume the music is up at.

I get that, I do, but in the 20 years I've been going to clubs, and even before the smoking ban was introduced (that's one upside of the ban- smoking areas allow for a quiet chat), I never felt the need to shout in the club, I just let people lean in closer to hear what they're saying (which would be abnormal for me as I'm normally very conscious of my personal space!).

I avoid clubs and haven't been to one now in 3 years and I'm 27. I never liked going to them and only did because you had to type of thing but now I don't care anymore.

Late bars all the way.

Different strokes for different folks is all.

Black Leather · 12-05-2013 02:48PM

I just love going out to nightclubs - just to see all those sexy scantily clad ladies shaking what they've got to the beat of the music. Beats the pub anytime!

Potentially Toxic · 12-05-2013 02:57PM

I won't generalise by saying I like or dislike clubs. Some I like and some I don't like. It depends on the specific club and atmosphere that night as to whether I will like that specific club.

The_Gatsby · 12-05-2013 03:05PM

Gatsby's parties are the finest in New York

Liam90 · 12-05-2013 03:23PM

I swear the hangover the next day isn't from the drink but from the damn nightclub!

keithclancy · 12-05-2013 03:24PM

Depends on the night club ... if its full of skangers then its sh1te ... if its a good crowd and the focus isn't on getting locked then its usually good.

There are some good night clubs in Berlin for example, although the majority of nightclubs in ireland are rubbish.

12-05-2013 04:13PM

rox5 wrote: »

I am 20 year old female and for some reason I have come to realise that I hate nightclubs. It breaks my heart having to pay an entrance fee of 10euros, and only able to afford two cheapest drinks available, not enough to get me drunk enough to enjoy the overly loud music and overcrowding. So I am sober and bored out of my mind, trying to get drunken geezers and creeps to keep away from me in a place that is meant to be "great craic" and I am only 20.
I started off going to pubs in my countryside but disliked them because was too many people I knew, too much gossip and drama because the countryside is where everyone knows everyone, and also I did a lot of my immature, drunken crap in those pubs, so that rep is pretty hard to shake off. So I couldn't wait to go to the nightclubs in town, but after two years of the nightclub scene I never thought I'd see the day where I want to go back to the pub scene and to those particular pubs, the people won't change but at least I wont be totally broke by the end of the night and it is not as crowded, even on a birthday party.

I dunno I feel like a boring auld one for hating nightclubs, is there anyone else my age who feels the same?

Id agree with you to be honest. I think Ireland needs to change its social habits. The nightclub scene is nothing more than a sleazy meat market. There needs to be more alternatives for people to actually interact with each other and treat each other as human beings and that doesn't use alcohol as a social crutch.

mfceiling · 12-05-2013 04:17PM

fartman wrote: »

90% of men go to nightclubs to get there hole ....

Princess Petulia Pissy Pants wrote: »

73.6% of statistics are made up

28% of people know this

Tugboats · 12-05-2013 04:17PM

Havent gone to a nightclub since i pulled a girl with a disco twat:(

somefeen · 12-05-2013 04:20PM

Tugboats wrote: »

Havent gone to a nightclub since i pulled a girl with a disco twat:(

Had to google that. Surely that means there's a bit of extra lube though?

Talib Fiasco · 12-05-2013 04:32PM

I only enjoy nightclubs anymore when I've had a good day, have loads of energy, people haven't pissed me off that day, am drunk but still can function and the pre nightclub experience was class...oh and I have to have at least two people with me for most of the night. Too often the people I'm out with get lost really quickly and for no actual real reason. But yeah I'm kinda OCD about this whole thing. If I'm not in the right way I'll have a crap night without fail and will get really angry and weird...and drunk. As far as nightclubs in general, I think they're grand but hey I'm 18. The music is too loud alright and it is so hard to have a proper conversation with anyone nevermind when trying to pull. I like the whole buzz there eventhough there are a breed of scummy lads in there with no manners who take up everywhere and get thick when you want to pass. Sad f*ckers don't do a thing in there except hit people with their wild limbs and drink pints.

rox5 · 12-05-2013 05:30PM

awec wrote: »

A pub and a nightclub are two distinctly different nights out and it will depend on your mood and what sort of night you want as to where you go.

You don't go to a nightclub if you want to chat or sit in the corner looking at everyone. That's not what nightclubs are for and more fool anyone who pays in to a club if that's all they want to do.

Try telling that to the people I know who keep trying to have a chat (or shout) about stuff while your in the club and you feel like saying "I CAN'T BLOODY WELL HEAR YOU! Why are we here if you wanna have a chat?"

EuskalHerria · 12-05-2013 05:39PM

This article for me perfectly sums up my opinion on nightclubs.

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/aug/13/fashion.comment

Remmy · 12-05-2013 05:41PM

To all those who have lamented on the shoddy quality of nightclubs in Dublin spare a thought for people down the country who have very little choice in where they go if they are cajoled into going out by their friends. I don't like going to nightclubs primarily because not only are you getting ripped off but it feels like groundhog day. The same music order, the same people standing in the same areas of the club, the same conversations, the same people starting rows etc.

Who here hates nightclubs?

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