Am i the only 1 who doesn't go clubbing like most people under 25

[RMRoss10]

I think I have to agree with a bunch of posts here. The crowds put me off. (I'm 24, btw) My brother plays in a cover band and I hate going on days where there's a "good crowd". I know it's supposed to be the most fun, but I can help feeling completely uncomfortable. It's just not my scene. I do have friends who love it though,to each their own I suppose.

I do like going when it's completely dead. That's why I like dive bars. I would say just do what you enjoy. There's not really enough time to waste on anything else...

 

[LadyWench]

I don't go clubbing either. I find drunk people to be incredibly irritating. Plus, I don't drink. What would be the point? If I wanted to meet people to make friends, that would be the last place I'd go looking.

 

[Apotheosis]

When I went on an "educational" trip to Spain no one did anything but go to clubs so I was sucked in by proxy. I actually enjoyed the scene there, but the few clubs I've been to where I live (Florida) have been awful - it seems like everyone here just gets wasted and tries to fight.

I'm 18 so I can't legally drink in the U.S. but in Europe it definitely helped me deal with being around all the noise and people.

I don't know but I think peoples' opinions of Americans might be justified. ::

 

[Bustn Justin]

For the clubbing thing I have only started going cuz I want to see some local DJs mix and meet people who as well like to see a show. As well I do like to go on the floor and dance and escape for a little while.

I hate going to the clubs to pick up girls or be around superficial people.

 

[DeepBlueSea]

I wouldnt have if it werent for a good friend who made me go... I actually had fun

I like to go just to get out and dance. I have a good time when Im with them

Just gotta ignore the idiots and dont let them ruin your fun

 

[Snowbal]

I am 18 years old and i hate it. I don't drink and i don't like the music they often play in clubs so i don't see any point for me to go there!

 

[Falkor]

I'm not really into the clubbing thing, I'd rather visit a concert listen to music

 

[Kiwong]

I've been to a few RSL clubs to see live music, play keno, eat bistro meals and watch Fox sports. I don't think this qualifies as clubbing.

 

[theslowesthand]

I don't mind clubs, only been to a few. I prefer strip clubs! i can go everyday

I prefer neither, drunk or not. I've always felt "awkward" at clubs/pubs (esp if everyone dancing, and esp if there are any overly-attractive scandily-clad's there). And the one time i was talked into going to a strip club, i felt like a d*rty p*rvrt (i didn't know where to look due to embarasment!!)

 

[mmmm]

From an SA point of view, I love clubbing. I mean, it's loud, so I get to go out and be with people without actually having to speak at all. It doesn't matter if I do something stupid because the drunk people think it's hilarious and they won't remember it anyway. P.S. I don't drink at all. It's all about music and friends.

 

[bitingthepea]

Hey

I wouldnt worry about it. I also have a boyfriend and HATE clubbing mostly becuase of SP and all my anxiety issues now.

My friday night usually is being at home on my laptop gettin ready for work the next day or with my boyfriend walking the dogs and watching a film

Clubbing is too expensive plus i dont like the morning after

xx take care

 

[mikebird]

Point number one: not sure how to interpret 'clubbing'
I don't get the meaning of shopping - I see that as buying.
As I don't travel by carring - for me, it's driving. I guess training might be a double-entendre?

When people 'go clubbing' I'd assume that's collecting memorabilia, such as stamps or coins, trainspotting, or knitting? No idea why the universal term for this came from. I assume that's people getting together to listen to music? And that would be music created by Brittney Spears, Elton John, and Westlife, or Peter Andre?

Not sure if you were meant doing that when you're under 25 or older than that? I tended to go to parties less after being 30. It's about twice a year for me. I do like noise. I appreciate if you like a quiet chat sometimes, but it's nice to indulge in sound environments in warehouses, airport hangars with systems at least 50 kilowatts each. Shouting at each other becomes futile. You have to feel the rumble, and keep the mouth shut. Getting a set of cold beers and handing them out to friends is my favourite form of communication.

The one thing I gave up on when I was about 20 was to go to standard places of gathering, which might be known as a bar or club. In my town, swathes of people came there from the stadium after a football match, accompanied by police on horses, to keep things in check. I don't watch football, and I don't think football and music go well together, and it's noisy. I saw a lot of blood there - glass, etc.

My taste in that is definitely not paying for tickets or paying on the door. It involves non-standard venues outside of the law, across €urope, and these event are often accompanied by police in vans and helicopters. Fun. Nice people. No violence. Drunk people during football get headless and cause trouble. There's a lot of better ways to spend your time

It has been after my time enjoying massive parties, when it was the best time of my life. Now, things have got a bit more boring

 

[SJG74006]

I'm 35 and I've never been clubbing in my life and don't intend to. The thought of squeezing myself into a room of sweaty bodies, drinking overpriced beverages and becoming deafend by loud music which I have to shout over to make myself heard, strangely I've resisted the urge(!)

 

[mikebird]

I see what you mean by a room full of sweaty bodies, and overpriced booze.

This is when I ignored the standard, expensive, standard, boring, doing what everybody else does.....

We went to the Czech Republic (east €uro party central) in people's vans, stacked with monster sound systems, cables & kit, and several 15kW generators, or taking power supply from pylons in the countryside, via France and to Spain, eg. Barcelona, for years. Costs are 0. Parties are outside - on beaches, in forests, mountains, or in warehouses if the weather's bad. The difference in culture and paying for tickets, food and on & on are vast. It's life.

I miss it

 

[Luke1993]

My brother, who is much more sociable than me took me to a club for my 18th birthday, it was great. He said it was something I needed to do, and seeing as I have no friends he took me with him and his friends. I had a lot of fun, I got drunk before I went in so I didnt have to pay for the drinks. And I was kissed by a girl for the first time, though she was pretty drunk too lol. I really did enjoy it.

But yeah if you don't go clubbing there's nothing wrong with that! The only reason I probably enjoyed it so much was because I have so little social contact to begin with! Being drunk pretty much eliminated my anxiety!

 

[ntwoworlds]

1st i'm not single

2nd i hate loud places

3rd i find it pointless...im not single so why should i go? meet who? friends? um..why would i want drunk friends?

i just seriously don't get the point of it..
i only have 1 close friend and she's always clubbing with her bf..

like..

i couldn't do that..even my bf isn't into that..

i feel like i'm missing something in life

i'm 24 now and i feel like i've wasted my youthful years closed up...

so do you guys go clubbing? what is your age range and what do YOU do on a Friday night/weekend?

I'd have to admit that I'm 28 (soon) and have never been clubbing. I like the idea of the high-energy and forgetting yourself in the music, but I do not like the extreme volume, being around a lot of sleazy-dressing women, or seeing puffs of "smoke."

I've been to several rock concerts and it ends up being like that and it just ruins my experience because I rather just enjoy the music with whomever I am there with.... not the flashers, high people, or crowd surfers who kick you accidently or get dropped on you. Bad representation of the music crowd.

 

[Arthur_Dent]

I'm 22. I went once with some friends and I found it boring as hell, so I just stayed in a corner and got drunk like a fish. That didn' had any efect on my shynees or my personality (but of course it had effect on my motricity). I don't think I'll ever go back.

 

[Inigo]

I'm almost 20 and clubbing does not interest me at all....mostly because of my space issues haha! I really don't wan't anyone trying to get into my space. I have gone to bars but only to see bands play.

 

[theslowesthand]

"Clubbing", "pubbing", and everything that goes along with it ("drinking", "drugging", "watching", "smoking", "chatting" or "socialising", "dancing", "flirting", "sexing",..) is all about DOing ("action" of the major blotting-out kind), and all about NOT THINKing - thats the overall purpose of clubbing & such - to ESCAPE from thinking, by any way humanly possible. Of course in doing so via these methods, our consciousness goes only one way - DOWNWARDS. That is, our level of consciousness "sinks below" the level of consciousness that "conscious thinking" is at (but for some people the drop might be barely perceptible?!). We may FEEL that we're "high", but we are not "higher" or "better" but only temporarily free from the burdens of the (problematic) conscious mind & mind-made self, and because of that can maybe experience a tiny bit of the "joy of life" for a brief time. But the direction is downwards, towards unconsciousness - a regression to the realm of the vegetable, a stage we left behind eons ago. But i suspect most people might not be in the slightest concerned with that??

 

[P_Floyd]

I'm 19 and I went to a club one time, worst day ever. One "room" full of idiots and puntz puntz music? no thank's, that's not my style