Clubbing

[Carnation]

I'm going clubbing for the first time. WOO! I'm going with a big group of friends and my boyfriend. I got all dolled up too.

I hope it's as fun as it seems.

Has anyone here had good/bad experiences clubbing?

[automorphism]

I've never been to a nightclub. I keep meaning to try it out but for some reason I never have enough motivation :S

[Rammstein39]

I HATE CLUBS. You are so lucky your bf will be going with you. All they are are stalking grounds for horny assholes to sneak up behind you and grind against you. Sure, you can bring all the friends in the world, but when those places get packed, groups of friends get squeezed out. You get singled out, and before you know if some creep is staring at you like you are a piece of meat.

If its a very urban hip hop type club this is especially true since everyone kinda piles onto the dance floor and goes crazy. At a place that is more of a bar setting its much better to find a way to escape, and there are a lot of people just standing around sipping drinks instead of molesting each other. I do suggest you keep your bf with you at allllllll times. Also, know where exits are... Im dead serious. If someone starts shit with you or your friends know how to get out Asap.

Be safe and have fun!

[PhoenixDown]

:: Stalks Rammstein39 ::

[Nurseman]

I hope you have a good time. Clubbings not really my thing. I don't drink and I like to be able to TALK to people.

Of course, I can remember when it was called a "Disco". Ah, those were the days.

[KevinStrickland]

I had a good friend (he commit suicide a few months ago, long story), who begged me to go clubbing with him (I'm not the social guy. Once I'm done with work , I go home and read, play guitar, or watch a movie, only hanging out with friends on weekends), so him getting me to go clubbing with him was HUGE for him. We went to The Vinyl down in Denver, Colorado. I knew what to expect, so I had a book with me. I read the book the entire time we were there. I know, loser me (probably a good reason I haven't been on a date in, like, 5 years, but I digress)

He was married with 2 kids at the time, so he wasn't going for tail, but all the other guys in our group (spare the two of us, he wasn't the cheating kind, and I don't believe in pre-marital sex) were.

Long story short, one of my friends was watching me read, and still bugs me about this story to this day. Apparently a (in his words) really bangin' chick came up to me to try to talk to me, but I never lost attention of the book, so the entire time she's trying to get my attention, I'm blowing her off. I finalized it when she made the comment "so, you're one of those intellectual types. I like those", and I just responded "yeah, and from the extent of the conversation, it seems you don't meet the minimum requirements for an intellectual conversation".

...as I sit alone in my room on a Saturday night... eh well. I'm happy with my life.

[Pepsiholic]

I actually went clubbing last Friday. It was ok, I guess. First time I did it in probably 2 years. But I'm not a big fan of it, lol. Only reason I went down really was to try and meet new people but I really should know better. From my experience of clubbing, going out and getting drunk is not the best way to meet new people, lol. I'll probably never do it again for a long time(I don't know about the rest of you, but I find it pretty damn expensive). But everyone has a different point of views on reasons to go clubbing. I never really been that type of guy to go out to a bar with the sole purpose of picking up girls. I'd like to think if I'm going to meet a girl, I would prefer it to be without alcohol so that no one can use the excuse "Oh, sorry, I was drunk then." It seems a little more real to me.

[Prism]

I'm a big fan, as long as I'm with girlfriends. I've been with guy friends before, and while it's fun, nothing beats a girls night out to a club. Sure, you get tons of creepy guys like Rammstein said - but you can avoid them, or tell them to leave you alone. I've never had a major problem with a guy at a club - if they start grinding behind me or something I usually just tell them to get lost and it works. Meh.

[dulcinea]

Only once have I ever been to a club without going there for a show/to see a band. It just doesn't really seem like my thing--I'm a little hearing-impaired, so being in a really loud place with lots of distracting noises where I can't hear what anyone is saying seems kinda pointless for me unless there's a band I want to see. I just get frustrated because I can't talk to anyone. Also, I am such a bad dancer that I actually throw off good dancers who are in my vicinity. It's awesome.

The one time I did go was pretty funny, though, because it was when I was living in another country and had exactly three pairs of pants and 5 shirts, none of which were appropriate for this nice place we were going, so one of my friends crammed me (the big-time tomboy, I'm the Doc Martens and work pants sort) and my big chest into one of her corsets and these tight pants and they put all this makeup on me. I looked hot, but absolutely nothing like myself, and I still like to look at those pictures when I need a laugh.

It always makes me think of that brilliant They Might Be Giants song, "Man, It's So Loud In Here."

[Tootsie Pop]

I love going to a relxed bar on the weekends.... but I have only been to one "club." The week after I went, I read in the paper that there was a "shooting" there. So... screw that. I never had any interest after that.

[Carnation]

Ok... it was interesting. Interesting in a bad way.

My ride ended up being two hours late because she wanted to get extra pretty with her sister and friend. My boyfriend was going to meet us there because he was DJing a party til 11PM. He ended up showing up first and we all piled into the club, oddly named Club Europe. It was five of us, and we had a great time. We had four really pretty girls, three of us black, one white and my boyfriend. The three girls kept getting hit on all night with guys coming up to them. One of our girls, Shay, met a very attractive Russian guy and ran off to go dance with him. I kept my boyfriend close and the guys stayed away.

We had fun, up to the part where our friend Shamika came up to us at a table we were resting at with a dead serious face, and a douche-looking white man coming up behind her. She grabbed an empty beer bottle and told the guy to back off. Like an idiot he wouldn't, so while my boyfriend got in between them to prevent any fights I grabbed the bottle out of her hand. Apparently the guy came up behind her and grabbed her butt, she asked him to back off and he just kept following her. We had him escorted out of the building.

We decided to forget what happened and have a good time.

Not five minutes later a very drunk black guy tried to lean in to give Shamika a kiss, but she pushed him away. He reached out and grabbed her face, but Shamika, her sister and Shay beat him down. Luckily it was infront of the bouncers, so they had that man escorted out too. We asked security if they could walk us out to our cars and left after that. It turns out the guy also scratched up her arm pretty bad.
My boyfriend (Who had alot of clubbing experience when he was younger) was surprised that all this went down in a techno club. He would have expected it more out of a hip-hop club than anything else.

I had fun on the dancing part, but the girls kept getting molested. All in all it was sort of a disaster. I don't expect to go again, and if I do it wont be for a long time.

[PipeDream]

Carnation maybe you should just try a different club? That nights sounds messed up though...

[Solstice]

Hmm club story...

Ok, for my GF's birthday a few months ago we went to a popular pop/hip-hop club around here, and splurged for the whole VIP treatment (private table w/ server, etc. That night set me back a little over $1000... but that is another story altogether!). We all had a blast but at one point me and my best friend almost started a big fight. My girl, his girl, and a friend of theirs (all three of them fairly drunk) climbed into a go-go cage and started dancing and grinding eachother. It was pretty hot and had a lot of people looking ;). Anyways this one jerk in a group of about 8 guys near the cage pulled his cell phone out and looked like he was talking on it... till he turned it sideways and slid it into the bottom of the cage because all 3 girls were wearing skirts. Me and my friend saw it, looked at eachother wide-eyed, and moved over towards the guy - luckilly for him one of the girls in the cage caught him too, stepped on his hand, closed his phone and wagged a finger at him. When me and my friend got to him he looked at us and said "Who the fuck are you?" and we replied "Those are our girls, would you mind not taking pictures up their fucking skirts?". He claimed "It's a free country I can do what I want" and we told him that "No, infact you can't fucking take pictures like that without their permission". A few moments later things turned into a heated 4 on 2 "discussion" and when our waitress saw me testing the weight of a barstool in my right hand, she got some bouncers. Long story short, all 8 of them left when their buddy was kicked out. They all promised that they "would be waiting" for me and my friend when we left, but of course they were no where to be found 3 hours later.

Other than that little incident though, the night was a huge blast. And I have the pictures to prove it. :D

[Exhausted]

My SO and I both love trance/techno, so when there's a good DJ in town, we'll go check it out. That's the extent of our clubbing.

[Sydney123456]

In my experience, clubs are for dumb whores and disgusting bastards. The collective IQ at any given point of the club is about 50.

[Nurseman]

Aww, don't hold back Syd. Tell us what you REALLY think.





lol.

[Carnation]

In my experience, clubs are for dumb whores and disgusting bastards. The collective IQ at any given point of the club is about 50.

Hahaha

I have to agree. While we were there the club had gogo cages for girls to dance in. A couple girls got in and started to grind and makeout. On top of that they had the SHORTEST skirts on that kept riding up. All the guys in there turned into zombies and just stared...

[meowkiss]

I went disco clubbing with friends and my officemates at Traffic Nightclub. The most amazing, exciting night..We just had a drinks, we danced, they played mixes of r&b, hiphop, and left the place at 2am !yep, 2am means party is over!.

But it was a great experience!