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Is there anybody else who has not been to a "club" in the last ten years?

post #1 of 57
7/16/08 at 1:54pm
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In reading ET's thread about Vegas, I realized that I have not been to a club (not the private kind Manton likes so much) in at least 10 years, and I have never experienced table service or bottle service, or whatever. Any of you in the same boat?
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post #2 of 57
7/16/08 at 2:44pm
I have been to a club a few times in the last ten years. It has always been work related and the costs covered by my employer. If it were up to me I would never go again.
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post #3 of 57
7/16/08 at 2:47pm
Yes, but it was usually school-related functions or to meet with someone. I have no desire to ever step foot in a "club" again.
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post #4 of 57
7/16/08 at 2:49pm
Not a "club" fan. Not at all. That's why I don't go out with Mrs. Teacher's friends, who are in large part divorced or still-single women trying very desperately to cling to youth by going "clubbing." No matter what they promise at the beginning of the evening, we wind up at some loud, over-priced dance club. No thanks.
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post #5 of 57
7/16/08 at 2:51pm
I live in Las Vegas.

I went to check out a few and I honestly don't want to associate with those people.
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post #6 of 57
7/16/08 at 2:52pm
The concept of "clubbing" is relatively foreign to me. I prefer "drinking." I guess some of the places where I've been drinking could be categorized as a club, but I don't really think going out for a few drinks is the same as going clubbing.
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post #7 of 57
7/16/08 at 2:53pm
I have a retirement, two college educations and a clothing habit to fund. $300 for a $35 bottle of vodka is not on my radar.

Mrs. Mark from Plano and I do go out to live music places regularly, one of which does offer a bottle service/reserved table option, but we never do it...and we really haven't been to that place in a while...too douchey.
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post #8 of 57
7/16/08 at 3:07pm
I went to one earlier this year in Scottsdale while there for a football game. It was the first time I'd been to one in lots of years. Never again.
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post #9 of 57
7/16/08 at 3:09pm
What is this "club" thing? I may not have ever been to one.
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post #10 of 57
7/16/08 at 3:20pm
I'm more than willing to go to a bar with a band, but I have no desire to go to the types of clubs you're talking about (even though dance music is what I often listen to at home). Obnoxious drunks trying to impress each other are like nuclear material. When critical mass is reached, you don't want to be around.
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post #11 of 57
7/16/08 at 3:28pm
I may frequent establishments that could be called "nightclubs" in the looser sense of the term, where there may be light dancing (often to 80s music) and heavy drinking, but I do not go to "clubs". The men seem to all possess the most douchiest of dispositions, and the women, while often attractive, manage to combine all of the worst characteristics of the contemporary young American female.
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post #12 of 57
7/16/08 at 3:29pm
I really only go to clubs in Vegas. Its something I do a few times per year.

Here in LA, I keep it on the mellow tip going to upscale hotel bars, lounges, nice restaurants, etc. I like beach-type bars, etc. Sometimes I'll go in LA to a club, but its too far to cab it to hollywood for me + the night ends early in LA. Also, its a bit dirty/ghetto.

In Vegas, its pretty nice though...people get dressed up and its not too rough.
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post #13 of 57
7/16/08 at 3:41pm
Not my thing, especially since I'm married. But I did go to one (Tenjune) for Maria Sharapova's birthday party.
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post #14 of 57
7/16/08 at 3:41pm
I think a better question would be "does anybody actually go to clubs" on styleforum. I feel like every 3 months there is another club bashing thread, and there is never any resistance, so I'm not sure why they keep cropping up.

I've experienced clubs in Philly, NYC, and Rio, and i would say all stereotypes are spot on. That's not to say, however, that I don't enjoy them. In fact, many nights there's nothing I'd rather do than get a group of say, 8 friends -- guys and girls -- and head out to a club. The fact that there are so many douchebags makes it pretty easy to pick out the few in between that are not, and I feel like the experience is what you make of it.

If the other people around you are a problem, then yes, I can completely understand why people don't like it. But I guess I'm clearly in the minority in that I seem to happily ignore them.
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post #15 of 57
7/16/08 at 3:44pm
I despise going to clubs in the US but sometimes find myself there due to friends. Clubbing in Asia I find more appealing, yet I would never choose to go if my friends weren't there. I do remember enjoying clubbing when I was 14 and 15 years old.
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