What do you think of bars, night clubs, and drinking?

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I go to bars and clubs to hang out with friends on occasion, nice to have a drink and dance. I figure most of the random people I won't see again and occasionally I meet someone interesting through friends. A lot of friends were club promoters so I would just go with them for the free entry n I'm a cheap date so I never really have to spend that much money to get buzzed lol

If a bar is quiet and uncrowded, I do alright. However I hate rowdy bars and nightclubs. It's so unnerving.

Bar+People+Loud Music=Lots of huh's and sitting around like a dead fly.

I find going to places like that incredibly boring.

I do not like to get drunk and am always flabbergasted to see the room fill with idiots who actually PAY to pour poision down their throats, embarrass themselves, and then feel dreadful the next day. The fact that they actually plan their intoxication in advance is even more flabbergasting. "What are you doing tonight? Oh, I'm going out drinking"



And then they brag about their own stupidity and boast about how much poison they were able to force down themselves before they threw up.

What's up with that?

Another reason I hate pubs and clubs is the noise. How on earth are you supposed to talk to anyone or hear what anyone's saying with that huge amount of noise going on? What's the point of people going out with their friends if they are not going to be able to talk to them?

I don't mind those nice empty pubs. Those ones that usually have pool and darts, and few people. Now that's something fun you can actually do. I like to play pool and darts, even though I am not much good at them!

I'm underage and can't legally enter a bar or a nightclub and I have no interest in going. I can't legally buy alcohol either, which I also have no interest in doing. I don't see the thrill in drinking. When I am legally allowed to drink, I will probably just say "no thanks" to alcoholic beverages even though I will be legally allowed to do so.

I may still go to the pub with friends when I'm older but only as a compromise and I will abstain from alcohol when at the pub. I will probably order a non-alcoholic drink such as a sprite or water.

I don't judge people who choose to drink. Sure, if a person is a heavy drinker, when may not be super close friends, but I may still be their friend, just not super close.

Everyone is like, "you're missing out, what's wrong with you?" What if alcohol makes me get sick after the first drink? What if I have alcohol intolerance? I already know that I don't like the taste. (I have had sips of my parents' drinks) What if I am one of those people who doesn't like getting drunk? People always complain when you say you don't like the taste "Oh, there has got to be SOMETHING you like", what if there isn't? Why do some people think that drinking is such a big deal? Some say "You can't go through adolescence without drinking". Well, actually, yes, you can! I haven't had enough alcohol (I have never had more than a sip) to know how it makes me feel, but I have a bad vibe about it.

I love going to pubs and clubs - and I AM A RESPECTABLE WOMAN!!

Firstly let me just point out that not everyone who goes out to bars or clubs will sleep with multiple guys/gals or have no substance thank you very much! Even if someone has multiple partners that doesn't mean they are worth less than anyone else, you may not agree with the lifestyle, slut-shaming and sexist double-standards aren't acceptable.

I'd go out a lot more if I had more cash, I miss all my friends. I don't really do bars because I'm not much of a drinker so only drink when out clubbing and even then not enough to get me so drunk I can't stand, just to relax enough to be able to dance and socialise with other people. As I'm a rock fan I go to rock clubs, so we go there not to get drunk out of our minds but to listen to music, meet friends, our local rock club also has burlesque shows, fire dancers, etc. so some entertainment other than watching drunk people vomit. Rock clubs and bars also often mean most of the people there have little quirks so no need to feel excluded. Bars aren't there to help people get relationships, although plenty of people that go to bars will be looking for relationships not just sex, but that's not what bars are for.

I'll point out that I do live in Newcastle England, a pretty well-known 'binge Britain' city - every Friday and Saturday night you go to certain parts of the city and even in mid winter you will see women in little more than a belt getting their breasts out, people having sex with anyone they can, getting so drunk they pass out, etc. etc. it's like being back in the stone age. In my street there is a pub well-known for such morons, there is rarely a night when there is not a fight. Our culture suffers for it, most places do accommodate these morons, but there are places where you don't have to put up with such people.

Here there are all sorts of little bars where there is a thriving acoustic scene where you can just go sit chilled out and listen to the music, quiet little back ally pubs where you can just sit next to a fire with either a beer or a coffee and chat with friends, or pubs just to go play pool and hang out with other people. Here there's also a great little bar that looks shut down but if you slide in the side door, walk past the bearded man surrounded by broken TV's who is always there amongst a pile of papers, and up some narrow dark stairs, you will find a bar with a round stage in the centre with poetry, burlesque and cabernet performers, comics, etc. These are all bars...none with loud music and lots of cool people to hang round with, and most cities have them if you go looking, the arty scene is normally the place to go if you can get in with a crowd.

I'm going out to pubs a lot, lot less than I used to now, for a number of reasons.

1: It requires walking out and that is often more than a mile away. In colder weather, it's a no go.

2: They're expensive.

3: They're often entirely devoid of people, and thus atmosphere. When they aren't they're often full of hooligans, ne'er-do-wells, morons and other wasters.

4: The beer they serve is frequently boring and unimaginative - the beers are almost interchangeable these days. I don't want to drink brown, malty, characterless real ales - I want a variety of different and engaging beers to taste and savour if I go out. The severe decline of pubs in the UK means that those that many, but not all that manage to survive (often by the skin of their teeth) become increasingly uninspiring and insular in their beer choices. The last couple of times I was in my local I was thinking to myself: "Why am I drinking this? I could be at home drinking something much more to my own taste."

5: I find most of the people there dull. I don't like gossiping about local people and spreading rumours about them or talking about the local football team. Many of them are insular.

6: I am mentally unwell so I'm much more likely to provoke a fight vis-a-vis my own paranoia. My safety is a big issue, plus I tend to have arguments with people about various things. An individualist who goes against the grain isn't generally well-liked, though my autism may have something to do with that - i.e. the way I present myself.

7: I sense that I am unwelcome.

8: The effects of the smoking ban, the failure of pubs to make smokers welcome or attempting to repeal these rules, and the chilling effects it has had on individualism.

I think that's it.

I have never been a big fan of the bar/nightclub scene. There just are too many people and the music and noise level are too loud. If I go to any type of drinking establishment, I prefer the Cheers type places over nightclubs. Also, I never understood why so many peoples' lives center around "going to the tavern" and getting intoxicated?

Another thing that I hate about drinking establishments is the herd mentality. I have never found them good places to meet anyone, due to the fact that everyone has their own little groups. I prefer one on one socialization much rather than being part of a group.

On the other hand, our church used to have something called the "Friday Night Get Together" where a person would open their house up for others from the church for a few hours for purposes of socialization. People would bring snacks and beverages. There was something that I enjoyed about these events, maybe it was their low key, intimate nature.

I prefer to just drink with a few people and listen to music.......though if I found a bar that played music I liked and had cool people I might enjoy that on occasion, thus far though I have not even drank at a bar yet. As for nightclubs they are probably too crowded, never been to one though.

Too much entropy, so I stay far away.

To do what

Drinking: forget that! Don't want to get drunk and end up sick and most alcohol tastes like horse piss anyway.
Bars: meh, take them or leave them.
But I do want to go to a club, I like the music and I like the strobe effects and I like how people just dance like loons and don't care. I really want to go to a club or a rave. I enjoyed discos at school so I'm guessing a rave would be like a disco on steroids.

I have been out to bars and clubs its not and eugh... not for me I was only doing it to try in fit in with my few friends the only part I like is dancing I love that but I would of loved it if there were only a few people on the floor not a packed out crowd and I am not even gonna mention the sleezy guys.

As for drinking I used to drink socially but now I don't drink at all partly for other physical health reasons and I just hate the feeling of being hung over so not worth it for me.