Nightclubs are hell. What's cool or fun about a thumping, sw

Page 4 of 5 [ 70 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5  Next

sarahstilettos
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 7 Sep 2007
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Posts: 847

21 Sep 2007, 2:30 pm

Space wrote:
sarahstilettos wrote:
Space wrote:
Aspie1 wrote:
Another reason why people go to clubs is to look for one-night stands. However, that only works for good-looking super-charming guys; the rest are typically left to rot in the dust, as far as picking up girls is concerned. For girls, it's different; pretty much any girl can go to a club and find sex. In other words, it's the mating season on Animal Planet (a TV channel) at its worst. But since clubs and bars are one of the few ways for people to find a sex partner, everybody just keeps going back there weekend after weekend, thinking they can pick up someone there.

I'm nothing like that when it comes to finding sex partners. I well aware of how repulsive I look, so I don't delude myself into thinking I can find someone at a club. I only to there to get drunk, dance, and release stress from the grueling work week. Not that the clubs are relaxing by any means, but the large amounts of alcohol and the loud music release the stress built up during the week. And on a rare occasion, I can find a girl to dance with, even if just for a few minutes. But when my goal is to find sex, I go to escorts, not clubs.

Aspie1 you hit the nail on the head.

I have talked to NT friends about this, and they tell me that women go to clubs because they want to have the best looking, most popular guys hit on them, and then they will have a 1 night stand with them. They don't want to sacrifice in any area, whether it is looks, or the guy's social status. It is shallow, but it is the way it is.



Girls aren't all the same! Girls aren't all shallow!! Arghghhhhh!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

Anyway, I do go to clubs, because I'm a DJ. Fortunately in London there are plenty of places that actually play great music and aren't all about having a drunken fumble against the wall to a song you don't actually like. I tend to pick one place and go week in, week out, until I know everyone from the promoter to the girl who does the door. If everything is nice and familiar I find I have a great time - also, I do find it easier if I'm DJing.

I have had anxiety fits/meltdowns in clubs. I remember when we did a whole week of gigs putting on bands that should have been in far bigger venues. I should have been having the time of my life, but I spent the whole time in tears. Nevermind, I've had some fantastic times too.

I was not trying to suggest that. But the majority of women who go looking for men in clubs aren't looking for an intellectual conversation, you must admit.


You say that, but the only set-in-stone criteria I have for potential boyfriends is that I won't date anyone I think is a bit dimwitted. Even if all I wanted was a one night stand, I'd have to talk to them at some point. Having to have a fifteen minute conversation with a pretty yet gormless male is awful enough to me to make the whole thing not worthwhile.

'Intellectual' might not be the word, but I'm at least after someone I could have a natter with about favourite records in a greasy caf the next morning.

My female friends all think about this the same way I do.



shadexiii
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 15 Dec 2006
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,545

21 Sep 2007, 2:34 pm

sarahstilettos wrote:
Having to have a fifteen minute conversation with a pretty yet gormless male is awful enough to me to make the whole thing not worthwhile.

I feel the same way about women that are like that. The couple of friends I had in college just couldn't understand it. If I feel like putting a gun to my temple after five minutes of talking with someone, it doesn't matter what they look like. I simply won't want to be around them, for any reason.

I tend to try and avoid one night stands to begin with, but this kind of thing is just further reason for it.



Deus_ex_machina
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 19 May 2006
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,342
Location: Australia

21 Sep 2007, 5:01 pm

shadexiii wrote:
sarahstilettos wrote:
Having to have a fifteen minute conversation with a pretty yet gormless male is awful enough to me to make the whole thing not worthwhile.

I feel the same way about women that are like that. The couple of friends I had in college just couldn't understand it. If I feel like putting a gun to my temple after five minutes of talking with someone, it doesn't matter what they look like. I simply won't want to be around them, for any reason.

I tend to try and avoid one night stands to begin with, but this kind of thing is just further reason for it.


rAmen! Halleluja!


_________________
"They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat." - Terry Bisson


ASPERGERSJOHN
Deinonychus
Deinonychus

User avatar

Joined: 22 May 2007
Age: 137
Gender: Male
Posts: 343

21 Sep 2007, 6:03 pm

I personally like clubbing



shadexiii
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 15 Dec 2006
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,545

21 Sep 2007, 6:16 pm

ASPERGERSJOHN wrote:
I personally like clubbing

What do you like about it?



sarahstilettos
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 7 Sep 2007
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Posts: 847

22 Sep 2007, 7:57 am

i am going to see my new bloke spin some tunes at a burlesque thing in soho tonight! it should be fun



WildMan
Sea Gull
Sea Gull

User avatar

Joined: 4 Nov 2006
Gender: Male
Posts: 241
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada

23 Sep 2007, 9:46 pm

I live in Las Vegas. The types of clubs the columnist disparages are taken to extremes here, and they're located inside the major resort-casinos. It's almost all for tourists from the boring parts of the U.S.A. The independent clubs that exist apart from the hotels, aside from the Empire Ballroom (big on house, I hear), are dangerous low-class dives that play only Top 40 hip hop and where fights, knifings, and shootouts happen.



rosered
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 9 May 2007
Age: 46
Gender: Female
Posts: 967

02 Oct 2007, 6:37 pm

Nightclubs are awful.

In my home town there is a particular club called O'Neils and there are two bars. One downstairs and another upstairs with a dance floor.

As people(women) walk up the stairs all the men will line up against the bar and watch the women and decide who they want to have sex with and then procede to try and get her drunk as possible. If she isn't interested the man will just move on to the next women(literally) even if this means hitting on the previous womens friend.

The women will get so drunk they can barely walk and allow themselves to be touched up by any guy and then she complains when he calls her a slut/shank/b***h etc. At the end of the night it's possible to watch people getting more and more desperate for someone to take home and they will then take anyone.

Sad thing is, I think this is quite common up and down England. It's certainly one of the main reasons I don't go clubbing.



WildMonkey
Tufted Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse

User avatar

Joined: 24 Sep 2007
Gender: Male
Posts: 40
Location: England Plymouth

02 Oct 2007, 10:21 pm

Hate nghtclubs filled with drunken morons, music is always to loud cant hear myself think also cant dance to save my life just feel uncomfortable.
My girlfiend hates nightclubs to for the same reason also with both don't drink alcohol.


_________________
Life sucks where is the reset button.


Jcaps
Butterfly
Butterfly

User avatar

Joined: 30 Sep 2007
Gender: Male
Posts: 10

03 Oct 2007, 3:00 pm

The only nightclubs I go to are the ones at Pleasure Island at Walt Disney World. They have a club there called 8Trax that plays 70s and 80s music. It's awesome for dancing and also for learning social skills, although that part isn't always so awesome. I learned the hard way that people need their space...A concept which I didn't understand even after it had been said to me multiple times. I learned what to do and what not to do, and now I can understand things better.

I always impress people with my dancing. I don't believe in line-dancing. Freestyle dancing is where it's at for me. My dancing, my terms, my rules, Hell yeah!



Yellowriting
Hummingbird
Hummingbird

User avatar

Joined: 2 Oct 2007
Age: 60
Gender: Female
Posts: 23

04 Oct 2007, 1:12 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:
I have never been clubbin', so I wouldn't know.

Tim


Don't bother it's a complete waste of time. I can't believe anyone could both find it amusing and simultaneously retain the capacity for logical thought.



Adrie
Velociraptor
Velociraptor

User avatar

Joined: 12 Sep 2007
Age: 37
Gender: Female
Posts: 464
Location: California/England

04 Oct 2007, 4:52 pm

I have never been clubbing but I can already tell I would hate it. Even seeing it in movies, etc., makes me anxious. Mostly it looks like sensory overload!



skahthic
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 10 May 2007
Age: 51
Gender: Female
Posts: 837
Location: Florida

05 Oct 2007, 12:50 pm

Adrie wrote:
I have never been clubbing but I can already tell I would hate it. Even seeing it in movies, etc., makes me anxious. Mostly it looks like sensory overload!


It CAN be overloading if you look at the entire room or try to take it ALL in. Best thing is to find a space and just dance in it--- your own bubble. I can tune out the world and be in my own. I am an asteroid surrounded by many others, but none of them matter. Dancing is usually the appeal for me, even if I stink at it.



lonelyheart
Emu Egg
Emu Egg

User avatar

Joined: 19 Oct 2007
Gender: Male
Posts: 5

20 Oct 2007, 4:09 pm

Hey, this is my first post on WP,

There's a couple nightclubs here where I live.

I tend to avoid them, although I wouldn't mind being part of the bar scene.

But, I don't know HOW to initiate one-night stands and hook-ups, let alone talk to people.

Plus, I can't drink anyway 'cause I'm on Meds so I don't even try. I feel repressed alot of the time, though.

I can't drink alcohol (interferes with my meds) and I'm not good at social interaction to begin with when I'm sober so I tend to avoid crowds......although there's something in me that still wants to go out......



Hadron
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 7 Aug 2007
Gender: Male
Posts: 957
Location: IntensitySquared or Zomg

20 Oct 2007, 4:21 pm

Meh, I am going to try a club for the first time tonight. Hopefully it will be fun.



coolstertothecore
Toucan
Toucan

User avatar

Joined: 26 Jan 2007
Age: 39
Gender: Female
Posts: 287
Location: England

22 Oct 2007, 3:04 pm

I've only ever been to one real nightclub and I friggin hated it! It was doubly awful because it was a friend's birthday and she had played the "if you were a real friend you'd come to my birthday" card so I couldn't even leave. We started in a bar that had stupidly loud music, but I coped with this pretty well. I drank some alcopops that left my teeth furry and made me feel slightly less anxious. I was still bored out of my mind though as I couldn't hear a bleedin thing. Then we went out into the February cold to some hideous place in manchester. We had to queue up, be interrogated by a total dickhead bouncer, pay an extortionate fee to get in, then another one to store our coats. The moment i stepped inside my anxiety levels went through the roof and I started squirming to get out. In the end, I found a corner and just hid in it until it was time to go home. I actually sat rocking!! The music was awful, the people were awful, everything was awful.

My boyfriend assures me that it was merely the crap nature of this club that I disliked and that if I found one that played the kind of music I like I would like it. But it's the combination of loud music that you can't turn off, flashing lights, boiling heat, having to order drinks over all the noise and being surrounded by smelly drunken people.

It's making me shudder just thinking about it...