Do you like clubbing?

Dislike clubbing, first time I went I went full throttle and had a pretty good time, never seemed to get anything out of it since. If I'm feeling happily tipsy, stepping into a club will sober me up and make me feel miserable, but you go because what you'd miss out on otherwise more than makes up for it.

I'm with the 'you need to go out' chaps.
 
I used to go a couple of times a week at Uni, now it's just rarely and no longer drink. We all love a crazy dance and just do it for fun, just ****es me off when people start shoving you around and then think you're trying to start something. Fed up with that really, too many people just looking to start trouble wherever you go.
 
flibbage0 said:
Never been, however just arrived at uni today and everyone else in my flat is going as we speak.

Really don't feel comfortable so will just stay in.
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I completely appreciate your point of view - it held little appeal to me too - but seriously, don't be the one who stays in. You've got to go - especially this early on. It becomes more about the people you are with than the places you go and if you mark yourself as an outsider this early on there won't be people to go with.
 
Ahleckz said:
Why are the vast majority of teatotallers self righteous so and so's? If you had just said "I'm a teetotaller, and don't have an interest in alcohol and clubbing" then there would be no problem. But no, you have to insult those of who use enjoy drinking and dancing and come across as a right moron.

Get over yourself.
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Why do the vast majority of drinkers think that drinking and enjoying alcohol means being out of their minds? I have no problem with people who drink at all, and will happily spend a night in a quiet pub with my old man who enjoys real ales. What I have a problem understanding is the wide spread idea that you have to get drunk and act like a fool to be considered normal. Drinking is fine if done responsibly, like the majority of activities out there, but when's the last time you saw a club that wasn't rammed with NHS resource killing morons?

I didn't insult anyone.

Get over yourself.
 
I stopped enjoying clubs when I was about 22, although that says more about me than the clubs. The witty banter in a busy friendly pub became more of a draw than the ear splitting music and the posturing you get in clubs. In clubs there was always an air of tension and that you had to be on your guard but in a pub you could just relax.

That was just my perception of clubs but I was obviously in the minority because most of the people I knew of my age loved clubbing.
 
Mr Gimp said:
Why do the vast majority of drinkers think that drinking and enjoying alcohol means being out of their minds? I have no problem with people who drink at all, and will happily spend a night in a quiet pub with my old man who enjoys real ales. What I have a problem understanding is the wide spread idea that you have to get drunk and act like a fool to be considered normal. Drinking is fine if done responsibly, like the majority of activities out there, but when's the last time you saw a club that wasn't rammed with NHS resource killing morons?

I didn't insult anyone.

Get over yourself.
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You associated clubs with getting off your face drunk, which isn't what everyone does. I'd suggest that it's the minority that do this. Nor do the majority of drinkers get "out of their minds". That's ridiculous.

Drinking is fine, responsible or not. If I want to go out and drink a bottle or two of vodka and then go home and feel terrible the next day then that's my business. If I want to go and dance "like a knob" then that's my business. I'm not harming anyone, nor am I costing anyone anything.
You say you can't think of anything worse than poisoning your body yet you state that you do exactly that with your father. Newsflash "real ale" (which is a hilariously laughable term anyway), is alcohol and also poison.
And, why exactly are people who go clubbing and drinking a lot doing so to fit in?
 
Ahleckz said:
You associated clubs with getting off your face drunk, which isn't what everyone does. I'd suggest that it's the minority that do this. Nor do the majority of drinkers get "out of their minds". That's ridiculous.

Drinking is fine, responsible or not. If I want to go out and drink a bottle or two of vodka and then go home and feel terrible the next day then that's my business. If I want to go and dance "like a knob" then that's my business. I'm not harming anyone, nor am I costing anyone anything.
You say you can't think of anything worse than poisoning your body yet you state that you do exactly that with your father. Newsflash "real ale" (which is a hilariously laughable term anyway), is alcohol and also poison.
And, why exactly are people who go clubbing and drinking a lot doing so to fit in?
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Beat me to it, very well said.
 
Hxc said:
First year is a critical qualifier to that. ;) First year is difficult to fail!

I'm not *bad* at the subject (geology, half of my first year of Envi. Geoscience), I just have absolutely zero enthusiasm for looking at rocks through a microscope and defining what they are by what minerals they are made up of, and the like.
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Ditto. Hated geology. In fact I ended up hating my degree altogether. Still not sure I ever passed, I was offshore for a resit. Never mind, 5 years on life is peachy, never had to show my certificate. There is a BSc Hons on my cv :)

I put on a party last year with some Cocoon djs. Spent a fortune on the night but we sold out the club and had a blast. Haven't been out since. Minimal techno nights outside of Shoreditch are pretty much the only nights I would go to now and they are fairly rare. Used to go to psytrance nights most weekends, the free parties in the summer. Good times. But I think my brain would struggle these days. Old at 28 oh dear :)
 
There's no right or wrong in this. People are doing whatever makes them happy and thankfully, everyone is different.
 
I've pretty much stopped tbh. Back in it's hay-day when you could go out and have a laugh was awesome.

Now it's just full of wannabe gangstas who can't handle their booze and just wanna fight, which just ruins the night for me.

Plus the girls have no class these days.
 
I guess no one can be forced.

I wish I could be out right now, unfortunately I am now in the real world.

Enjoy being able to have the choice to go out on a Sunday because it doesnt last forever :)

Just neck as much frosty jacks as possible and live the dream, that used to be my dream
 
I hope flibbage0 hasn't replied because he has decided to go out... freshers week is all about going out and socialising at every single opportunity. You don't necessarily have to drink, at least go sit or prop up the bar in the SU and chat to people. I ended up making a different group of friends every night in my freshers week, wish I could go back and do it all over again :D

As for clubbing - I still go, probably every other weekend or so (I'm 25). However, for it to be an enjoyable activity, the group needs to be in the mood for it.
 
flibbage0, you'll end up like that guy in the flat where he would stay in all day, sneak out at 2am to put a pizza in the oven when everyone's asleep.

People will be kind and invite you out the first couple of weeks, but if you keep saying no they will stop asking and you will be left out, totally.

GO OUT !
 
Rarely club myself, music is repetitive and boring and I got tired of having drinks spilled over me or being in close proximity with skanks. Saying that I rather sit in a quite pub myself!
 
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