I'm so going to regret saying this...
But there are people out there that don't need to drink to enjoy themselves. And before you say anything, they're not boring - they just know how to have a good time without the need for alcohol to reduce their inhibitions. When out in a group, I'm initially asked why I don't drink. After an hour or so they generally agree I don't need to.

As for nightclubs in general, it's a bit hard to say if you don't like them you're boring and unable to enjoy yourself. From the general tone of the posts here, most people's experiences have been of shitty, vomit strewn sweat-boxes fully of ugly fat women.
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Wed 15 Apr 2009, 13:14, 3 replies)

Nah
they're just the times when you have a good story to tell...
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Wed 15 Apr 2009, 13:20, closed)

^this
no one wants to hear a story where the main protaganist went out, had a thoroughly jolly time, met some charming people, enjoyed some good music and went merrily home to bed without incident.

I've had plenty of good times in clubs. more good than bad. but these days I'd rather hang out with mates somewhere quieter, where we get to choose the music, and crucially, we can smoke.

I've not been in a club since the smoking ban. I bet they are fucking horrible now.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 15 Apr 2009, 13:27, closed)

I suspect age comes into it
The old addage of "When you're young, you're broad of mind and narrow of waist, as you get older you become broad of waist and narrow of mind" comes into play.

I think I just hate enjoyment facists. You know, the "If you don't like my music, your taste is crap" or "If you don't drink, how can you enjoy yourself?" people. They can't see other people can enjoy themselves without doing things THEIR way.
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Wed 15 Apr 2009, 13:45, closed)

I've never heard that saying
I like it though.

and I agree with what you are saying, although if you don't like my music, your taste really is crap ;-D
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 15 Apr 2009, 14:02, closed)

Nah, it's horses for courses mate.
Thing is, this guy came over as a condescending little prick- hence the flaming. Personally I don't much like nightclubs either (not counting Corporation in Sheffield), but you don't hear me harping on about how much I dislike them.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Wed 15 Apr 2009, 13:43, closed)

Nightclubs bad, all fours good!
I do not now frequent nightclubs save for stags and other high days and holidays. That is because I like to be able to "have a chat". With my mates, without filling their ears with drool or rupturing their tympanic membranes.

But I must agree condescending prick=flaming.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 15 Apr 2009, 13:56, closed)

Tympanic membranes
I like that
(McChinaman banned, Wed 15 Apr 2009, 15:20, closed)

Thanks
Acceptance from your peers is such a fragile thing.
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Wed 15 Apr 2009, 14:24, closed)

Fragile, fleeting, and something else beginning with "f".
So it goes.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Wed 15 Apr 2009, 16:51, closed)

Find a decent club and you can have fun there sober on one condition
You have to not be annoyed by the conversation
"what are you drinking"
"cola"
"What!!! Why!?!?!!1"
(teebie jeebie, Wed 15 Apr 2009, 15:37, closed)

It has it's advantages
The number of parties I went to in my youth, where I was sober, with a camera...

Unless I developed them myself, most pictures I could have taken would never have gotten through Boots. :-O

The real reason for not drinking was because I was generally training for another Karate competition, and keeping my weight in the middle band was a real incentive. The ~13st and upwards band had a LOT of 18st giants in it.
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Wed 15 Apr 2009, 15:45, closed)

Why
not just say that you're driving?
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Wed 15 Apr 2009, 15:45, closed)

These are people who know me
The concept of me being in charge of sailing a car terrifies them for some reason.
(teebie jeebie, Wed 15 Apr 2009, 15:55, closed)