How can you never have been to tarts??
Sure, its a bit shit, but everyone has to go once.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:24, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

that's a ridiculous statement

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:25, Reply)

This
is exactly why I never went. It's shit, and I don't willingly subject myself to shit places.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:26, Reply)

why would you?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:28, Reply)

YOU'RE HERE AREN'T YOU!??
fuck you that joke did deserve caps
(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:28, Reply)

Dammit

(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:29, Reply)

when my brother lived there
we used to go to a club called PSV which was in Hulme (where he lived).

It would routinely get teargas attacks but the music was excellent.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:29, Reply)

I think it was Enzyme
who was at a club (possibly even the Hacienda, or possibly not) when he got tear gassed, and it happened three times before they closed the club.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:30, Reply)

Yup. It was me.
It wasn't a famous club. It wasn't even a famous town. It was a place called The Cube in glamourous Newcastle-under-Lyme.

EDIT: Like you'd ever find me anywhere like the Hacienda. Or, frankly, any club at all for the last decade or so.
/old
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:41, Reply)

You have to go at least once to discover that it's shit
And also the novelty of a bar in a church.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:30, Reply)

I'm from Brighton
we already have one of those. It was called the Font and Firkin, I think it's just the Font now.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:30, Reply)

I like the font.
£2 cocktails.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:32, Reply)

I didn't know that
I just remember their own brewery beer called DogBolter, which was about 7.5%.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:35, Reply)

They should have a comedy night called "comic sans"
this one didn't deserve caps
(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:32, Reply)

Did you spend last night watching reruns of
Sunday Night at the London Palladium?
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:34, Reply)

Shut up I'm funny I'm just not appreciated in my own time.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:35, Reply)

You're the Jim Davidson of B3ta.

(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:35, Reply)

You're Brian Connelly

(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:36, Reply)

Ouch

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:42, Reply)

he might be shit
but he's not that shit
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:36, Reply)

shut it, Pasquale

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:39, Reply)

You can talk Des O'connor.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:41, Reply)

haha
I was going to call him Mike Reid, but I think you've nailed it there
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:44, Reply)

possibly the most offensive thing I've ever been called.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:57, Reply)

I try, I try.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:58, Reply)

oh it's that one,
I've been there, i thought it was ok.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:31, Reply)

but if it is a place that is widely recognised as shit
then why bother?

that'd be like stabbing yourself in the dick, to discover for yourself that it is a stupid thing to do, despite everyone knowing it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:34, Reply)

You don't get drunk by stabbing yourself in the dick

(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:34, Reply)

while that is true
it has no bearing on my point. You can get drunk places that aren't shit.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:35, Reply)

Yes but the shittest place you can get drunk in
you can still get drunk in, if you see what I mean.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:37, Reply)

I do see what you mean
but I'm of the opinion that if there is the option of a better place to get drunk then you should go there instead.

This is getting off the point though. What I was getting at is that there is no point going somewhere shit just to see for yourself how shit it is.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:38, Reply)

Can I take the opposite side of the argument,
you shouldn't totally avoid a place just because someone says it's shit.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:42, Reply)

what about if every one of your good mates
whose opinion you trust say it's shit?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:43, Reply)

Wouldn't stop me going to meet people there or if a group of people want to go.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:45, Reply)

nor me I suppose
but I would be suspicious of their motives
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:49, Reply)

Its cheap.
We're poor. End of.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:39, Reply)

The union is surely cheaper?
As is OP bar, and that is marginally less shit. Hell, even Robinskis is less shit. Is Robinskis still there?
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:40, Reply)

Robinski's is still there.
I'd say its more shit.
Never been to OP bar, because I live opposite Slems, and their bar is equally as cheap, so there's no point.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:42, Reply)

irrelevant

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:40, Reply)

When you're drunk enough it doesn't really matter how shit the place is.
IMHO
( girlinthehole, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:36, Reply)

I'm rarely so drunk that the fundamental shitness of a place won't affect my enjoyment of being drunk
I reiterate: why go somewhere shit and get drunk, when you can go somewhere good and get drunk?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:40, Reply)

Usually because the beer is cheap and so are the men.
In all honesty, I've had some of the best nights out in some real dives.
( girlinthehole, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:42, Reply)

if it's really cheap then it doesn't count as shit surely?
I was fortunate in Cardiff that two of the cheapest clubs were also the best ones.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:43, Reply)

I guess I just know how to enjoy myself wherever I am.

( girlinthehole, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:44, Reply)

what a delightfully subtle jibe

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:45, Reply)

It's not a jibe
she's just subtley pointing out that she's a dirty slut who will fuck anyone anywhere.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:46, Reply)

we all know that
there's no need for subtlety
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:48, Reply)

Sometimes I wish that was true.

( girlinthehole, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:50, Reply)

No-one who does what you did in those pub toilets
could be described as choosy in any way.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:52, Reply)

He said he could make me a star.
I was young and foolish.
( girlinthehole, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:53, Reply)

No, he said he could TAKE your chocolate STARfish.

(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:02, Reply)

Good isn't it : )

( girlinthehole, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:48, Reply)

I never did
I was at MMU for 2 years
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:27, Reply)

I used to go to the Met Union of a friday night sometimes
It was usually a good laugh, and then you could have Babylon Pizza on teh way home.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:28, Reply)

Ever go to 5th Av?
Or is that after your time?
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:31, Reply)

I'm not that fucking old!
I did go to 5th Ave, I went there last October, it was strange as I didn't know any of the music and of course it wasn't full of ciggarette smoke.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:32, Reply)

christ I'd forgotten about that
I haven't been in a club since the smoking ban.

They must be extra shit now.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:34, Reply)

The Venue
on Whitworth Street used to be pretty good. I used to go to The Roadhouse a fair bit as well.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:44, Reply)

when was that?
neither of those sound familiar

I used to go to Welsh Club (Clwb Ifor Bach) or Metros.

First time in Welsh club, I entered the top floor, they were playing Zeppelin, beer was £1 a bottle and they were projecting Roger Ramjet on the walls. Fucking awesome.

Metros used to be £1.50 for a pint of stella. £5 for a big jug of vodka and red bull and they did free toast after 1am

edit: it occurs to me that I thought you were responding to a different post
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:48, Reply)

I don't know these places
Cos my flatmates are mainstream and like to go to shitty places like Opus and the birdcage :(
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:49, Reply)

Well...........
I last went to the Venue about 10 years ago. The Roadhouse is still there www.theroadhouselive.co.uk/

EDIT: www.thevenuenightclub.co.uk. I'm sure it wasn't here when I was a lad :0)

I remembered another haunt: Muttz Nutz - that was quite 'grungey' and cheap!
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:10, Reply)

Ta very much :D

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:21, Reply)

The Roadhouse is fuckin ace!
it's like a large basement and is everything you'd expect from a decent live band type bar
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:29, Reply)

I'm still a horrible teenager.
You're all old to me. I bet they played Killing in the Name at least once
That's my favourite club. Closet to my sort of music as you can get in a club, and lots of fringe-sporting emo boys in check shirts for me to take my pick of.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:41, Reply)

The Ritz
Monday night :0)
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:44, Reply)

That's on my list!
I don't start til one on tuesdays this semester, so I shall definitely be visiting there.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:48, Reply)

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

( girlinthehole, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:51, Reply)

Whatever's the matter?

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:52, Reply)

I'm not sure about bgb but the term "semester" is pretty shit.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:54, Reply)

Its what they're called now.
We don't have terms cos there are only two.
Its shitty and american, I know.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:56, Reply)

Same when I was at uni but the head of the course refused to call them semesters
and called them "long terms".
(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:59, Reply)

It also doesn't make any sense
it means you have 12 straight weeks of teaching before christmas, which makes it hard to concentrate by the end, then you have exams straight after christmas, which is also shit, then you have more teaching, then you have to do as much revision for your second set of exams during easter, but you haven't actually been taught everything you need yet as the third "term" involves teaching the end of the second "semester" then you have your final exams with no break in between to revise the last stuff you have been taught.

On the plus side, you get a fantastically long summer holiday. I went to Croatia once.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:01, Reply)

I got round this problem by doing very little work or revision
that way it didn't matter at all.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:02, Reply)

Same here.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:09, Reply)

it still slightly galls my mrs
because we have the same degree.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:11, Reply)

A Desmond?

(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:19, Reply)

nope
an Attila
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:24, Reply)

Ha good one
I've not heard that slang before.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:28, Reply)

My sister got a 'Fred Durst'
but it was in Sports Science so she is shunned by the rest of the family.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:32, Reply)

And breathe.
Its worth it for the summer holiday.
I shall get round this in the same way I've gotten round the revision for every exam since my GCSEs.

Piss about on here.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:04, Reply)

a wise decision
don't let work get in the way of not doing anything meaningful. You'll be nicely set up for getting a job after uni.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:06, Reply)

It's true
it's not like her vagina is going to forget what it's for is it.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:08, Reply)

What?
I don't quite understand this.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:09, Reply)

I was being exceptionally crude and offensive
in suggesting that as an attractive woman it makes no difference what you learn at Uni as you will always have a career in prostitution if you want it.

No offence mind!
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:11, Reply)

None taken!
You have a point.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:14, Reply)

it seems unlikely
although there is precedent. TGB's vagina thinks it is this place:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/in_pictures_postcards_from_russia/html/10.stm
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:10, Reply)

Pffft!
Brilliant
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:12, Reply)

It's ok
I've just realised that Mondays isn't grab a granny night at the Ritz. Carry on.
( girlinthehole, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:55, Reply)

What day IS grab-a -granny night?

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:59, Reply)

Whatever night BGB turns up.

(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:01, Reply)

no, that's granny-grabs-everyone-else night

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:02, Reply)