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Hey folks, just thinking, is it normal for a 19 yr old to not want to go out clubbing etc, and rather go to the local working mens to play snooker or to the local pub? Also i dont mind drinking alone at home (sad i know but the g/f's in salford uni so only see her at weekends and not much else to do between snooker'ing) to add to that ive got a 5 dr focus (1.6, prob a nice family car, if i had a family) and not some chavved up boy racer mobile. + the bike for what must be my beginning-of-life crisis.
Just seems weird that most of my mates wanna go out on a weekend to the local night clubs and id rather have a few swift games of snooker or get hammered in a local pub (for a fraction of the price, im not tight tho :) )... hmmm
the_lone_wolf
03-02-11, 11:48 PM
No, and you have the added bonus that in five years time you won't be a heroin addict, car accident statistic of father to six children by six different thirteen year olds, all of them called wayne (no idea what the kids are named though)
Nope. Don't worry about it at all.
Just hang out with your mates that do enjoy pubbing and snooker then chill with your clubbing friends in the week when they are not being **** heads. :cool:
Hmm, suppose thats one way of looking at it, and apologies for the large writing, started it in normal font but then it dissapeired, then i made it a bit bigger.. and it dissapeired agen.. so i made it bigger still and there it is.. just downloaded new internet explorer so that might be to blame. suppose its a good thing/sad thing in a way :D, but what happens if 'on a comedy note' i go to an un-local pub one day, and theres a guy selling crack, who also sells cut and shut cars which happen to have 6 children to 6 different fathers (which they have no names) in the boot as part of the deal?
I'm 22 and have been the same as you since 19, I will go into clubs but only because my mates go in, but I'd rather keep to the pubs personally. Also I play snooker once a week and only go out on the **** about twice a month now. HTH :D
the_lone_wolf
04-02-11, 12:04 AM
Hmm, suppose thats one way of looking at it...
Perhaps that's a little extreme...;)
Point is, nothing wrong with not enjoying the clubs, I can't stand the places, pay a fortune to stand in a scrum of sweaty drug addicts and scream at the top of your lungs to your friends, the barman, or anybody else less than an inch away from you
Local pub + a decent cider + good company = infinitely better
Im pretty much the same and im 19, tbh its nice to go out clubbing 1 a month or so for me but id rather go to the pub or play pool as well, i like to drink but not get stupidly drunk, again got a bog standard 1.6 Seat Leon, as much as id love something with a bigger engine and a lot quicker i just plain cant afford that :(
Milky Bar Kid
04-02-11, 12:06 AM
Whilst I don't mind a club on the very odd occasion, I much prefer a good pub! I'm a 23 yr old lass and I love a good pub. I love being able to actually have a banter as opposed to not being able to hear each other
Mr lone wolf, thats a good point about having to pay to get in aplces ful of crack heads, just dont seem worth while, but as for getting decent cider round here, youd be lucky.. the only good stuff i ever had was when i went to exeter and called at sheppys cider farm in somerset on the way back.. THE BEST is all i can say. And mr holdup, wouldnt you prefer a bog standard / slow ish car? i see it as when you get on the bike then its just that bit more special.
Specialone
04-02-11, 12:13 AM
I did a lot of clubbing when I was your age, but I've always enjoyed the crack ( the laugh not drug) in a normal pub with mates where you can hear yourself.
I still go occassionally but don't enjoy it tbh, at 40 I feel like a grandad compared to most of them.
Tis nice admiring the young ladies though, especially in the summer :)
Do what you enjoy mate, not what others expect you to do, clubs ain't what they used to be these days, fecking expensive as well.
Yes ;)
I can do both, really enjoy a night in a boozer with my mates, can do BBQ's/parties and also enjoy hitting town...
A healthy mix of everything works well...
Oh and TLW, not everyone who goes into clubs are 'sweaty drug addicts'...
Sweaty yes, but my pi$$ is as clean as a nun's... :)
the_lone_wolf
04-02-11, 12:41 AM
Oh and TLW, not everyone who goes into clubs are 'sweaty drug addicts'...
Well obviously not in scotland where it never gets warm enough to sweat, they're a bunch of ginger drug addicts in skirts...
;)
Well obviously not in scotland where it never gets warm enough to sweat, they're a bunch of ginger drug addicts in skirts...
;)
Nowt wrong with gingers in skirts. :queen:
Hey folks, just thinking, is it normal for a 19 yr old to not want to go out clubbing etc, and rather go to the local working mens to play snooker or to the local pub?
I'm 24* myself (with the mind of an 18yr old tbf) but at this point I was thinking, 'come on mate, sort it out'...
...but then I saw this
(sad i know but the g/f's in salford uni so only see her at weekends and not much else to do between snooker'ing)
so fair do's. Why bother even going to a club if you have a gf. Waste of money imo. Very few people go clubbing because they 'enjoy' the music, and the ones that do usually need some pilling supplies.
If I want to hear music I like I book a concert where a band I like is playing. Clubbing is a different matter.
Pubs/bars are alright before you're going out or if you're playing snooker/pool with the lads, otherwise I find them a bit depressing and get restless.
Or just be honest, ur gf has you whipped and you're not allowed to go clubbing ;-)
* = edit = sad times when you have to go back and edit your age cos you still think you're 23.
Whilst I don't mind a club on the very odd occasion, I much prefer a good pub!
I've met all sorts of people in clubs over the years. Never once a police man/woman though. You lot just don't seem to like clubs too much do ya?
Maybe it's like the equivalent of Dr's dr-patient relationships. You're not allowed to go to clubs where you've nicked people.
davepreston
04-02-11, 06:54 AM
mmm no you just find that coppers out clubbing in civiys dont have neon signs flashing plod above there heads, feck me lad ive been on proper missions with shedloads of police and tbh (most will agree) they are the biggest nutters going when out on the town,
as for being old before your time op, im old now (30) have a wife and done it too many time to count ,it just gets to the stage where you could just rewind to the weekend before and see the same faces in the same clubs ,drinking the same watered down carp, chatting up the same silly little girls not being able to tell your mate how **** it is so just getting mashed out of your mind for something to do, yay great the first 200 times but fecking boring afterwards, at least in the pub you can make it more interesting by changing conversation ,
and by the by i could even though married go clubbing every weekend (most know my wife on here) but whats the point at least in the pub the lads have a chance to talk to me and calm me down if some randomer bumps into me jumps in front at the bar and then gives me a funny look, before i introduce them to the floor at high speed
andrewsmith
04-02-11, 10:10 AM
nope nothing wrong with that.
Can think of a lot better things to do with me cash, than getting mashed every Friday and Saturday.
I'm 23 for the record and rather go to a ale pub or that type of bar (places where you'd find your parents)
yorkie_chris
04-02-11, 10:41 AM
Clubbing's sh*t. They play a load of music aimed at savages wearing baggy trousers and pilled up idiots trying to chat up 15 year old slappers.
Find a pub playing some decent music serving a half decent ale with some good folk to have a chat to. Preferably with a decent takeaway within staggering distance; lean on bar, tip head back, pour in ale, repeat until closing.
Car choice? Well it's just a box in't it, you can't afford anything with performance so you've got a motorbike. Car is just there when there is more crap to transport than you have bungie cords.
(I'm 22)
Edit:
So long as you counterbalance all the sensibility with riding bike how it is supposed to be ridden all is good. :-)
missyburd
04-02-11, 10:59 AM
Whilst I don't mind a club on the very odd occasion, I much prefer a good pub!
Same here, am nearly 23. I rarely go clubbing and if I go it's just because I like to get dressed up and have a good dance to mostly cheesy music with mates. The biggest chunk of the Yorkies' relationship has been throughout uni, at unis 170 miles apart. We both did our own socialising and clubbing was a bit more of the norm for me then and that was fine. Now I like to save my pennies and just go out on the rare occasion like MBK says, and as I find I don't go regularly enough now to keep up with most of the crap that is modern music it's not as fun as it could be which is why I like the cheesey stuff :-P
You're just mature and sensible for your age Cluffy, doesn't mean you're a stick-in-the-mud either, having your head screwed on properly is certainly nothing to be concerned about! If you can cope with a long distance r'ship while one or both of you is at uni then you're not doing badly at all :-)
Milky Bar Kid
04-02-11, 11:26 AM
I've met all sorts of people in clubs over the years. Never once a police man/woman though. You lot just don't seem to like clubs too much do ya?
Maybe it's like the equivalent of Dr's dr-patient relationships. You're not allowed to go to clubs where you've nicked people.
Erm....maybe just because we don't tell people what we do in a club as we'd be liable to get punched in the face!
mmm no you just find that coppers out clubbing in civiys dont have neon signs flashing plod above there heads, feck me lad ive been on proper missions with shedloads of police and tbh (most will agree) they are the biggest nutters going when out on the town,
You're not far wrong there Dave! Although normally nutters in a good way in my experience.
yorkie_chris
04-02-11, 11:28 AM
Could be worse, a guy I used to work in a pub with had a full time job working for the tax man, he NEVER told people out on the p*ss what his main occupation was :-P
beabert
04-02-11, 11:37 AM
Im a lot worse than you mate.
Im 26 and have never set foot in a club, dont drink either. I just cant see the appeal of a club at all, loud awful distorted music and packed mostly idiots.
Saying that i dont go in pubs either really, but i have been in one on the odd occasion, and its usually one in the middle of nowehere after a long walk/ride, but I'm happier at a petrol station lol.
I feel so sorry for you younguns, no wonder you don't like going clubbing they are all ****e these days.
Back in my day when there were proper clubs in every town playing decent trance/house/D&B. None of this so called R&B nonsence.
went to a club in birmingham with girlfriends work colleagues, ordered 2 drinks, a pint and a wkd blue thing.....£8.40!!!!! it felt like i had just been buggered with a nail board!
went to a club in birmingham with girlfriends work colleagues, ordered 2 drinks, a pint and a wkd blue thing.....£8.40!!!!! it felt like i had just been buggered with a nail board!
Thats cheap in Aberdeen... :\
jeeesus, glad i dont live up that way.
Aberdeen Average Club.
Pint - £3.00
vodka + Mixer - £2.50 (x2 = £5)
Some womanly blue thing - £3
= £11
And if it was a weekend, that would be a minimum!
If it was a weekday -
Vodka + Mixer = £0.69 (x2 = £1.38)
Pint - £2.00
Womanly Drink = £1.50
£4.88
Thats how badly clubs rip you off at weekends, boils me feck'in blood!
missyburd
04-02-11, 12:33 PM
Sally your prices sound abut right. Either way you look at it, it's p*ssing good money up a wall. Be alright if the music was worth it.
yorkie_chris
04-02-11, 12:33 PM
Pretty standard for clubs to rip your *rse out with the prices.
What I don't understand is there are perfectly good pubs entitled to serve until 3AM or later, serving beer at normal prices. Hell sometimes you can even have a stoppy back, and lets face it anyone who needs more than 8 or 9 hours drinking time has probably had more than their fair share. So why do you need a club, not like the pubs stop at 11 o clock these days?
DaveW_42
04-02-11, 12:36 PM
I met my missus in Fabric, and she's a copper. Funnily enough though, it was the first and last time she ever went!
What I don't understand is there are perfectly good pubs entitled to serve until 3AM or later, serving beer at normal prices. Hell sometimes you can even have a stoppy back, and lets face it anyone who needs more than 8 or 9 hours drinking time has probably had more than their fair share. So why do you need a club, not like the pubs stop at 11 o clock these days?
Where? Haha
All pubs and bars close at 1am Friday Saturday, 12pm weekdays.
Its only nightclubs/strippers/casinos that are open after 1am at weekends!
If I am back in the sticks at my folks, the pubs do lock-ins though :)
£7.20 for 2 pints of Guinness in my sleepy local in West Kent...now that's taking the wee wee....
I don't get the pricing stratigies, in most clubs around here you're looking at £4 for a bottle of beer so I get bladdered in Spoons beforehand, get one drink in the club and nurse it all night. Total spend £4
If it was £2.50 for a bottle i'd go in the club earlier and buy 10, total spend £25
Doesn't make sense to me.
missyburd
04-02-11, 12:59 PM
I don't get the pricing stratigies, in most clubs around here you're looking at £4 for a bottle of beer so I get bladdered in Spoons beforehand, get one drink in the club and nurse it all night. Total spend £4
don't forget your entry fee before you've even got your £4 drink ;-)
Maaaan theres some old farts in here.....<runs>
Don't suppose this (https://www.sankeys.info/social/sankeys_shop/Garuda_Gareth_Emery_7_Hour_Set.html)takes anyones fancy then :mrgreen:
I'm 27, don't go out half as much as I used to but when I do I make sure its a good night. Too many hangovers from the night before ruined nice days when I could have been out on the bike. Oh and drugs are bad mmmmmkay
Ampersand in Manc a few years back, 2 single JD & cokes and 2 bottles of water....that'll be £14 please. Yeah you know where you can stick it!
Specialone
04-02-11, 01:08 PM
Dont ever buy bottles in clubs, pints are cheaper and you get more :)
£4 ish for a bottle of magners, pint strongbow, £3 ish.
The fecking restauraunts these days are just as expensive, i got me and the mrs 2 small bottles of dandelion and burdoch from the waterman pub in warwick area, we went on the bike, £2.80 each :smt104 wasnt even half a pint.
Nearly fecking died when i heard the price of them, fair to say we only had one.
Considering its a biker pub in the summer, the soft drinks are the same price as alcohol, where is the incentive not to drink there ?
Robbing cnuts.
At a mates wedding in 2007 it was in a hotel, £8.50 for a double JD and coke !!
Maaaan theres some old farts in here.....<runs>
Don't suppose this (https://www.sankeys.info/social/sankeys_shop/Garuda_Gareth_Emery_7_Hour_Set.html)takes anyones fancy then :mrgreen:
I'm 27, don't go out half as much as I used to but when I do I make sure its a good night. Too many hangovers from the night before ruined nice days when I could have been out on the bike. Oh and drugs are bad mmmmmkay
Ampersand in Manc a few years back, 2 single JD & cokes and 2 bottles of water....that'll be £14 please. Yeah you know where you can stick it!
Am keen. Definitely...
Everywhere closes at 3am in Aberdeen!
We did have Marco V up here on Sunday night!
Missed it because I got feck'in delayed on my filght back :(
I get drug tested at work, so my pi$$ has to stay clean!!
Dont ever buy bottles in clubs, pints are cheaper and you get more
Yer but it sloshes about when your on the dance floor. And when your moves are a sick as mine..........
Specialone
04-02-11, 01:20 PM
Yer but it sloshes about when your on the dance floor. And when your moves are a sick as mine..........
Ill take your word for that mate :)
Drink it before you go dancing, simple.
I dont do dancing anymore, at my age i look a right c0ck.
Am keen. Definitely...
Everywhere closes at 3am in Aberdeen!
We did have Marco V up here on Sunday night!
Missed it because I got feck'in delayed on my filght back :(
Gutted! Get yourself down son its going to be messy, theres always an after party on somewhere that runs til 10 or 11! you ever been out in manc/sankeys?
Guess it proves my point, could have gone to see Ferry in Leeds on 25th Feb but I decided on the trackday at Oulton on 26th instead. Mr Maturity now me :takeabow:
Its Above & beyond the weekend after @ Nation and then emery @ sankeys, liver won't know whats hit it :mrgreen:
davepreston
04-02-11, 01:59 PM
I dont do dancing anymore, at my age i look a right c0ck.
its nowt to do with your age mate ;)
andrewsmith
04-02-11, 02:36 PM
if we're talking extortionate prices, newcastle academy 3.40 for carlsberg and thats this time last yr.
Talking dirt cheap my ex employer, mirco brewery 3.50 for 2pints of real ale. Or the social i was at for the north east maidens last weekend 2.05 for stella 4%
Specialone
04-02-11, 02:36 PM
its nowt to do with your age mate ;)
Thanks Dave, I did wonder who would take that comment and insult me with it, you were top of the list along with Speedplay ;)
Anyone been clubbing in the USA? now there's a whole other ball game. They know how to do it right there, and the English accent works a treat :-)
Similar prices on the whole, though I was with my mates in Miami, and one of 'em bought a double vod red bull for £20..wtF??!
Although happy hour at our hotel didn't mean half price, it meant free...yep free, just show your room card and make the most of the hour. ;-)
Gutted! Get yourself down son its going to be messy, theres always an after party on somewhere that runs til 10 or 11! you ever been out in manc/sankeys?
Guess it proves my point, could have gone to see Ferry in Leeds on 25th Feb but I decided on the trackday at Oulton on 26th instead. Mr Maturity now me :takeabow:
Its Above & beyond the weekend after @ Nation and then emery @ sankeys, liver won't know whats hit it :mrgreen:
Never been to England mate, never mind being on the lash!
It's one of my things to do this year, so I think I am doing London for St. Paddy's day, met some nice Irish girls on holiday who live there... ;)
I would love to see Ferry, beats a track day for me. Would like to see Re-Order, Ferry Corsten, Marco V, Above & Beyond, etc :)
Never get anyone like that up here, Marco V was a one off really :(
I may venture down south more this year, problem is its full of English people ;) jokes haha
My liver is still recovering after a lads skiing holiday to Bulgaria, was out every night till 5/6am, up for skiing around 10... Even managed a cheeky night out in Edinburgh the day we flew back :)
More into drum and bass just now, and surprise surprise there's feck all clubs up here that play trance/D&B, odd few but are too expensive and full of to$$ers...
Although happy hour at our hotel didn't mean half price, it meant free...yep free, just show your room card and make the most of the hour. ;-)
Get a group of lads there, am sure they would put a stop to that...
Could do a savage amount of damage in an hour!! :drunken:
Specialone
04-02-11, 03:17 PM
Anyone been clubbing in the USA? now there's a whole other ball game. They know how to do it right there, and the English accent works a treat :-)
Similar prices on the whole, though I was with my mates in Miami, and one of 'em bought a double vod red bull for £20..wtF??!
Although happy hour at our hotel didn't mean half price, it meant free...yep free, just show your room card and make the most of the hour. ;-)
Yep I worked in texas for 2 months, drinks were hardly any different in price.
Used to go to this place in Houston where bottled beer was in huge ice bucket with women in the smallest of bikinis ( stars and stripes one as well) serving them, bottles of bud etc was $1.50 a bottle.
I was in a club once while a load of DEA officers raided, they were after particular peeps i think cos we was speaking to this huge black guy who turned out to be one of the DEA guys as well.
Police randomly walk around clubs over there, I didn't see any drug using in clubs at all.
A few of the strip joints didnt have drinks licenses so you paid $20 in and took your own cool box full of beer, how cools that?
Edit, i agree about the accent btw , hardly any tourists in the places I went so you stand out :)
Get a group of lads there, am sure they would put a stop to that...
Could do a savage amount of damage in an hour!! :drunken:
+1 they obv don't get may scots stopping there.
Was like when I went to California and they had a free wine tasting session in the hotel. 2 Bottled later:drink:
+1 they obv don't get may scots stopping there.
Was like when I went to California and they had a free wine tasting session in the hotel. 2 Bottled later:drink:
Agreed, or Dave Preston's...
Get a group of lads there, am sure they would put a stop to that...
Could do a savage amount of damage in an hour!! :drunken:
there were 7 of us and a savage amount was done. Americans are pathetic when it comes to how we chugg 'em down over here.
bottled beer was in huge ice bucket with women in the smallest of bikinis ( stars and stripes one as well) serving them, bottles of bud etc was $1.50 a bottle.
it's exactly the little things like that. You know in London how we now have those men from abroad who cycle tourist around in rickshaws whilst the tourists freeze to death - in San Diego there's 10 times more but the cyclists are 18-24yr old girls in hot pants and tight tops. Me and a mate got ripped £20 quid to get cycled no further than 50 yards around the block just cos we thought we had a shot with one of 'em. Wot were we thinking:smt104
davepreston
04-02-11, 03:41 PM
ok it seems like im getting a bit of a reputation here, so master plan is to be nice to people on here for and bit and stop drinking with orgers
well after i kill tim wilky electro and sv4me this weekend obviously
I think that post should be in the comedy thread... ;)
davepreston
04-02-11, 03:47 PM
there were 7 of us and a savage amount was done. Americans are pathetic when it comes to how we chugg 'em down over here.
very true ,when at elgin airforce base 4 yank marines were ordered to secure my safety and make sure i got home by there oc (the wifes uncle) while out on the pop, 7 hours later 3 marines out for the count and the last one (t total) was sitting in fear, i ended up sending them home and staying out drinking with there gunney for a while longer :)
well after i kill tim wilky electro and sv4me this weekend obviously
http://yesteryears.samsbiz.com/content/00/01/43/70/40/userimages/wwf%20the%20rock%20just%20bring%20it.jpg
7 hours later 3 marines out for the count and the last one (t total) was sitting in fear
bet that was after drinking naff all.
They'd always tell me over there that our standard 500ml of spirits (each)as our 'session' to get us merry before we even head out to the first bar/club was a bit much. They like their livers too much.
Altho almost 90 days on the trot of doing that daily (save maybe 3days) and eating junk food - must have shaved a good few years off my final few for sure.
I would love to see Ferry, beats a track day for me. Would like to see Re-Order, Ferry Corsten, Marco V, Above & Beyond, etc :)
Ive seen Ferry 2x already mate :) so decided on the cheap(er) trackday instead. I must have seen Eddie Halliwell about 10x, was getting sick of him when I went to Marmaris a few years back with my ex. I get to the hotel and lo and behold whos playing at the bar 3 down from us....Eddie feckin Halliwell!
Maybe come down for 1 of the festivals? Went creamfields last august, great weekend. sat was just immense, the sundays always a bit of a weird 1 with it finishing early but swedish house mafia were on, nuff said :cool:
davepreston
04-02-11, 04:16 PM
you more this my friend
http://0.tqn.com/d/kidstvmovies/1/0/t/X/TF004.jpg
:smt082 funnily enough I was planning on wearing something like that tonight!
davepreston
04-02-11, 04:35 PM
i tried to find a pic of him in Be Cool ,the bit in the cowboy shop but to no avail
Many years ago as a student in Manchester I used to go to the Hac but not been anywhere since. And I pay about 35p per pint. Yes, 35p. The Edski micro-brewery, see:cool:
davepreston
04-02-11, 04:45 PM
Many years ago as a student in Manchesterville I used to go to the Hac but not been anywhere since king arthur died, And I pay about 1 egg per flagen. Yes, 1 egg. The Edski micro-brewery, see:cool:
:)
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