When I
was a teenager/early 20's, I used to go to a place called "The PriiisieeeeN" (actually people used to pronounce it like that).

Loud, thumping, inane music with girls barely wearing dental floss flouncing about, usually very, very pissed and/or stoned.

I went there because everyone else did. It was 'cool' to go there after the pubs had shut; everyone called it 'clubbin'' init. I called it "getting a fucking stupidly expensive pint while having to repeat yourself 19 times to the twunt behind the bar more intent on ogling the aforementioned girls wearing dental floss."

Now, I'm nearly 40. I go for a few beers still with mates, and sometimes with people after work. My colleagues are in the main, older than me; yet, they still insist on going fucking 'clubbin'' when the pub shuts. They all pretend to like it.

There's nothing to fucking like! It's loud, usually filthy, full of tarts that couldn't spell their own names. You can't smoke in them, you can't even have a laugh in them for fear of losing your vocal chords. You have to pay around 10 quid for a pint, and around 8 quid for 12 fags.

How/Why are these places popular? Is it all the fear of not wanting to seem 'cool'?
(dchurch bah, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 18:49, 8 replies)

I'm with you there.
I love socialising, love meeting up with my mates, but spending a few hours screaming at the top of my voice and pointing my ears at the person who I wish to hear and closing my eyes in concentration to try and understand what they are saying is not my idea of a great time.
( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 18:52, closed)

Yep.
Why can't the pubs stay as late as these places. You can converse, have a laugh, even a game of pool. All I can do in clubs is get bored and watch my pockets rapidly empty.
(dchurch bah, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 18:54, closed)

*shrug*
some people like dancing and there aren't many other opportunities to dance. myself i've never understood people that go to a club, and then just stand watching for 4 hours.

i don't go 'clubbing' regularly anymore, but i enjoy it occasionally.
( Shiodome has realised numbers in names aren't cool., Thu 15 Oct 2009, 18:58, closed)

ahhh
I am the bloke standing watching for four hours. I couldn't/can't dance to save my life.
(dchurch bah, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 19:05, closed)

I love dancing - and dancing in clubs.
I go there and dance - I'm not really interested in the pathetic sub-human mating rituals that go on around me - just the music.
( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 19:14, closed)

Fair enough
I've always struggled to call it music. To me, music has instruments in it.
(dchurch bah, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 19:23, closed)

That's ok
For me, all music died in 1988 :D
( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 19:27, closed)

Oh
I'm with you there. I'd like to blame the Pet Shop Boys, but I think others were to blame as well.
(dchurch bah, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 19:37, closed)