Anyone else never been to a nightclub?

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What I used to find even worse was high pitched noises (e.g. from tweeter speakers and some electrical equipment)

I used to have really insanely good hearing until the age of about 14 or 15 and could hear the slightest thing. It was quite annoying though as certain pieces of electrical equipment would really bother me. I had a bad ear infection when I was about 14 or 15 though and lost part of the hearing in my right ear so it isn't as bad anymore (apart from the fact that I am really bad at hearing direction and am bad at hearing people speak, especially when there is other noise around). Also, as you get past your teens the top end of your hearing range tends to drop off as well.

I disagree on your terms for disagreement, so that makes you the stupid idiotic bastard.

Kidding aside, I don't get the point of nightclubs. If someone likes dancing, being unable to hear the person two feet or less away from you, paying obscene cover charges, not being able to see due to the lighting, and eventually not being able to see due to the alcohol, go ahead, have fun at a nightclub. I'll take a dive bar over that any day. I'll take my couch over that because the alcohol's cheaper, and I don't have to deal with people, let alone people I don't want to deal with / associate with.

no...being humiliated in another place doesn't sound fun

The club I go to has free admission for those who get there early, so price is no problem. Also, I'd rather not have to hear/see the person next to me if I'm dancing--- if I wanted to talk to them I'd pull them aside and do so. I can keep to myself in a darkened club and not be bothered by people if I don't want to be, and there's plenty of space to do so. Also, i don't drink much anymore so that isn't much of an issue either. Most OTHER people seem to be easier to deal with when THEY've had a couple of drinks ( not alot)--- they loosen up and don't focus on why I'm "weird" ( alot of them think I'M drinking because I'll tend to talk about my "love", Oldsmobile. I've told people the history of Olds before and they'll actually listen to me.). Small bars and pubs don't have much escape for me--- if you sit alone people think you are lonely and so they feel compelled to talk to you. I feel weird talking to complete strangers about things like their kids/life, etc.

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See, over here, pretty much the only places still open after 11-12pm are nightclubs. Pubs/bars that stay open that late might as well be nightclubs as they play the same loud music and generally have dancefloors.
Not all not nightclubs (certainly the ones I used to go to) charge in and many of them are just as cheap (or cheaper) then pubs. But yeah, if we had normal pubs that didn't play music and were still open late and serving drink then I would prefer those.

Over here, unless you are particularly attractive or are a woman, nobody tends to talk to you in a pub if you are sitting down at a table. Even if you are standing up at the bar, I have found that people only occaisionally talk to you and it is usually to say something like 'Did you see the match?' to which my response is invariably 'no, I didn't' which kills the conversation.

Around here, bars are open until 2am, with alcohol served until around 1:30. I have seen an exception to this, one that made me rather confused. Drove two states over from here to the east coast for a bachelor party this past weekend, and while I was there I noticed a 24-hour bar. One of the guys that went there said they only served beer around the clock, with liquor being served until 2AM, but still, that's pretty crazy. I can't really give a description of the interior, never went inside, so I don't know if it would be any better than a nightclub.

My local opens until about 11pm on Monday evenings, 11:30pm-11:45pm Tuesdays-Thursdays. On Fridays and Saturdays they tend to stay open until there's no more customers or it's about 1am in the morning.

Nah it’s not my cup of tea, but I’m not even 21 yet so. . .

Believe me, I wish I'd never been to one. It's just a shame it took me four tries to realise that ending up by myself when everybody I knew had vanished onto the dance-floor was neither fun nor sensible.

That, and I got assaulted in one once, by some old school bullies who had decided that I shouldn't ever go to "their place" ever again, ever ever ever. You know, because it's so socially acceptable to shove somebody over and verbally harangue them for an entire evening.

I should have brought charges against them, I really should. Then they might have realised that we weren't in school any more...



Feeling music resonating in my sternum is one of my least favourite sensations.



Agreed. The only time I've ever enjoyed an atmosphere like that was when I was invited to an Alice In Chains concert last year, and that was only because my friend and I were sat on the second floor of the place. Had I not been there, my friend would have been in the mosh pit along with the majority of the other fans, so I thanked her for not subjecting me to that.

I personally do not mind nightclubs but there is some other venues near me that i absolute hate going too because the music is so loud it could be heard about an hour away and the people in them i think are always acting weird.
Thats my personal opinion.

I selected the "often go clubbing" choice, but I do not do that anymore. The choices left out "used to go, because people said it was supposed to be fun, found it disappointing, didn't have fun, and I haven't been to one in over 15 years, I guess".

I've been to one and totally freaked out so I never went to another. I'm okay (ish) at concerts with the loud noise but the mixture of noises at a club was unbearable. People kept bumping into me and I couldn't face trying to get a drink and the music was crap and everyone was wearing hideous clothes and looking happy and dancing like nobs. I hated every second of it and if my boyfriend hadn't have been there I think I would have run outside. Unfortunately, it was a friend's party and the pre-booked taxi wasn't due for 2 hours and it was about -10 degrees outside so we found a corner and i rocked gently until that time came.

Being a woman who considers herself at least somewhat attractive ( my boyfriend thinks I'm cute, but his opinion is clouded by love, I think) I end up with strange guys trying to talk to me. Most of them only want to talk because they think they might get lucky. even if I tell them I'm taken they still keep trying. I don't like it at all.
Also, I've had times when people have tried the "have you seen the match/game" routine where I said "no". This doesn't work either because their next response is " OOOOhhh! You missed the best one of the season. You shoulda seen it when..." and they verbally describe the whole game piece by piece. Saying "no" doesn't seem to work here. Feigning an upset stomach and heading to the bathroom does.

Is a nightclub that place where people "dance" (read: show off their bodies, grope one another, and thrash about the room in a vaguely rhythmic fashion) and get drunk? I went to one, once. I found it revolting. Loud music, gross videos projected on the wall, every guy pushing drinks at you, everybody trying to "score" and nobody taking any interest in anything that wasn't shallow. I can't even begin to imagine what would be remotely fun about any aspect of that activity.

I'd rather meet nerdy boys at the library.

A perfect description! I never got into it when I was at uni, whereas my friends would go 3/week.

I hated guys with breath reeking of alcohol trying to talk to me.

I married a nerd! I am a nerd myself.