Do you enjoy going out?

[Scallop Industry Thug]

I used to love it. I could go out, have a good time and drink way too much as I knew that I don't get violent or display any adverse tendencies.

In the past couple of years, on the time I do go out, Ive noticed that there is a more violent edge. Fights everywhere. ****wits marauding around.

Twice in the past month, Ive been walking in town at about 2am and noticed someone's T-shirt (the increasing number of w***ers have those t-shirts with messages on them, so its only natural that you will read some). Anyway both times, the jerkstains in white shoes and 4kgs of hair gel stopped me looking for a fight as i was reading his shirt. They took it as me eyeing them off for a fight. Both times I laughed them off. There just seem to be lots more blokes looking for fights.

is it just me or is there a higher proportion of w***ers at places these days? The guys who spend their every waking hour trying to impersonate Justin Timberlake. The girls whose mission appears to be obnoxious as possible with that incessant high pitched squeal everytime a song they know is played or they see one of their casual acquaintances.

I really just prefer to stay home these days. I don't really want to spend time with Timberlake impersonators anyway. And I no longer see the attraction in $7 beers and mind numbing 'music', or $60 taxi rides home or those shit nights where you have to stay out till 4am even though you wanted to go home at 10pm.

I'd much rather save my money, read a book, watch a doco, get trashed at home with friends.`

Im 24 and lots of people my age seem to be saying the same thing. They had fun going out the first few years, but now most places have been seen.

Your thoughts?

 

[Mattlowry]

I used to love it. I could go out, have a good time and drink way too much as I knew that I don't get violent or display any adverse tendencies.

In the past couple of years, on the time I do go out, Ive noticed that there is a more violent edge. Fights everywhere. ****wits marauding around.

Twice in the past month, Ive been walking in town at about 2am and noticed someone's T-shirt (the increasing number of w***ers have those t-shirts with messages on them, so its only natural that you will read some). Anyway both times, the jerkstains in white shoes and 4kgs of hair gel stopped me looking for a fight as i was reading his shirt. They took it as me eyeing them off for a fight. Both times I laughed them off. There just seem to be lots more blokes looking for fights.

is it just me or is there a higher proportion of w***ers at places these days? The guys who spend their every waking hour trying to impersonate Justin Timberlake. The girls whose mission appears to be obnoxious as possible with that incessant high pitched squeal everytime a song they know is played or they see one of their casual acquaintances.

I really just prefer to stay home these days. I don't really want to spend time with Timberlake impersonators anyway. And I no longer see the attraction in $7 beers and mind numbing 'music', or $60 taxi rides home or those shit nights where you have to stay out till 4am even though you wanted to go home at 10pm.

I'd much rather save my money, read a book, watch a doco, get trashed at home with friends.`

Im 24 and lots of people my age seem to be saying the same thing. They had fun going out the first few years, but now most places have been seen.

Your thoughts?

People get older and they start to have enough with it. I think its pretty new and fresh when your young and its great, but it wears off with most people by the time they are 19-20 really...

I am a clubber, i dont really go to pubs. I go to clubs cause i love the music, not jus tbecause i want to get drunk.. See i can't really re-create that at home. A pub on the other hand though is more just getting drunk with your mates, which i can do at home.

So im not that sick of it but its a shame most of my mates (alla rund 21) are getting tht way...

 

[ripitup27]

I used to love it. I could go out, have a good time and drink way too much as I knew that I don't get violent or display any adverse tendencies.

In the past couple of years, on the time I do go out, Ive noticed that there is a more violent edge. Fights everywhere. ****wits marauding around.

Twice in the past month, Ive been walking in town at about 2am and noticed someone's T-shirt (the increasing number of w***ers have those t-shirts with messages on them, so its only natural that you will read some). Anyway both times, the jerkstains in white shoes and 4kgs of hair gel stopped me looking for a fight as i was reading his shirt. They took it as me eyeing them off for a fight. Both times I laughed them off. There just seem to be lots more blokes looking for fights.

is it just me or is there a higher proportion of w***ers at places these days? The guys who spend their every waking hour trying to impersonate Justin Timberlake. The girls whose mission appears to be obnoxious as possible with that incessant high pitched squeal everytime a song they know is played or they see one of their casual acquaintances.

I really just prefer to stay home these days. I don't really want to spend time with Timberlake impersonators anyway. And I no longer see the attraction in $7 beers and mind numbing 'music', or $60 taxi rides home or those shit nights where you have to stay out till 4am even though you wanted to go home at 10pm.

I'd much rather save my money, read a book, watch a doco, get trashed at home with friends.`

Im 24 and lots of people my age seem to be saying the same thing. They had fun going out the first few years, but now most places have been seen.

Your thoughts?

I'm 21 and I could not agree with you more. If only there were chicks that shared the same opinion because I'm sick of finding seemingly nice chicks that turn out to be trashbags when they go out.

Agree with getting trashed at home. Sounds sad but it's safer, you've got your music and just close mates. Drinking at their place is fine too.

I still like a having a beer at the local occasionally, but that's it.

 

[Creasy]

I used to love it. I could go out, have a good time and drink way too much as I knew that I don't get violent or display any adverse tendencies.

In the past couple of years, on the time I do go out, Ive noticed that there is a more violent edge. Fights everywhere. ****wits marauding around.

Twice in the past month, Ive been walking in town at about 2am and noticed someone's T-shirt (the increasing number of w***ers have those t-shirts with messages on them, so its only natural that you will read some). Anyway both times, the jerkstains in white shoes and 4kgs of hair gel stopped me looking for a fight as i was reading his shirt. They took it as me eyeing them off for a fight. Both times I laughed them off. There just seem to be lots more blokes looking for fights.

is it just me or is there a higher proportion of w***ers at places these days? The guys who spend their every waking hour trying to impersonate Justin Timberlake. The girls whose mission appears to be obnoxious as possible with that incessant high pitched squeal everytime a song they know is played or they see one of their casual acquaintances.

I really just prefer to stay home these days. I don't really want to spend time with Timberlake impersonators anyway. And I no longer see the attraction in $7 beers and mind numbing 'music', or $60 taxi rides home or those shit nights where you have to stay out till 4am even though you wanted to go home at 10pm.

I'd much rather save my money, read a book, watch a doco, get trashed at home with friends.`

Im 24 and lots of people my age seem to be saying the same thing. They had fun going out the first few years, but now most places have been seen.

Your thoughts?

I'm only 18 (since May) but I already am sick of it, mind you living in a rural town wouldnt help. I do like going out and seeing people that I dont usually see but after a about 30 mins of catching up and moving on, it just gets boring.
I really miss going to parties and the random things that would happen there etc. I now prefer just to sit at home with all my mates and get smashed while playing xbox, drinking games etc. and trying to get some girls around when we are drunk and ho*ny, you know how it is

 

[Hooley McBoob]

I don't enjoy it as much as I used to. I'm getting soft in my old age! These days if I go out I much prefer to be drinking by 7 or 8pm and in bed by midnight, rather than leaving the house at like 9pm and getting home at 3am!

 

[Bosun]

Its definately petered out for me. I much prefer going to pubs for a few lagers in the afternoon and catching up with mates, watching the footy or cricket then going out for dinner. We still get fairly drunk but there is no fear of having 20+ guys beat you senseless for no apparent reason.

Going out at night seems to consist of going to pubs, bars in Richmond or a mates house, I havent been to a club in ages Im over them

 

[Macca19]

I think its normal, everyone goes through the same thing. You grow up, youve seen it all before and you get over it.

Cant comment on the violent side of things, but I used to go out 2 sometimes 3-4 nights a week, every week from when I was 17-22/23. Plenty of interstate trips. Got over it after that but still went out pretty regularly. Im 26 and now I go out clubbing maybe 3-4 times a year over the past two years. Couldnt stand it. Too many posers. Though im sure the generation before mine felt the same about us.

Give me a bottle of red, some good scotch, some mates and my own music anyday.

 

[The Passenger]

i enjoy going out as much as i ever have but i can't take the violence that has just grown exponentially in Sydney.

I can't comment on other cities because i've spent limited time in them but going in Sydney - in particular George Street South, Kings Cross and Coogee - it's near impossible to go out in these areas and not see multiple fights.

I usually avoid Kings Cross like the plague, but i broke that rule last Friday night only cause i was playing poker around the corner.... it'll probably be the new year before i'm back. in saying that i actually had a good night there on friday. didn't see a blew, just a bunch of people having a good time which is pretty rare.

and there are increasing numbers of people going out looking for fights, which IMO is the big difference now to when i first started hitting the town around 2001ish.

You can call just a feel or a vibe that people give off - that they are just there to start something. you can't really describe these people. but whatever it is there just seem to be more of them about.

But yeah i still enjoy going out. In fact i love it every bit as much as when i was 18 but the increase in violence is certainly a turn off. i've never been one who enjoys it.

 

[And_ROOS]

I prefer having the "mates thing" at home then once a month or so having a big night out on the town. You appreciate it more as they dont happen often, and means you get social interaction with people outside your group of friends.

You make more friends, your "mates thing" at home grows, then it keeps going. By the time you are sick of going out, your little get togethers at home can average a stupid amount of people. Usually ever 2 weeks we go to a mates house who has about 60 people there and everyone knows each other pretty well.

 

[daddy_4_eyes]

Am very much over the club scene too. I still like going out for drinks with friends, but it tends to be Friday after work. A bunch of us will meet up at 6.30, have a few drinks & laughs & head off home by 10pm, before the party crowd hits the city. That said, I still enjoy the odd big night out, just not as often.

The whole punch on thing I find is confined to insecure fully sick hero's and under 21's. Unless you throw the first punch the aggression is easily diffused.
People in their mid-20's and above tend to be a lot more friendly, if you bump into them or read the print on their shirt they won't try & prove their manhood by getting aggressive.

 

[Embers]

People when they turn 18 go out every weekend for 6 months straight and it gets old fast. Moderation is what helps you enjoy going out. Im in my mid 20s and one big night a month is alright for me. Its also important to pick your favorite hangouts and stick with it.

 

[drew_j]

Being 30 I got over wanting to go out a long time ago. Now days going out consist of getting home by 11 after some drinks with mates somewhere in the city.

Even at that early hour though I've noticed what others have been talking about regarding violence and the general feel of menace. I'm immune to a lot of it because I'm not dressed in 21yo fashions, old enough not to act like a ******** whith a few beers under my belt and me and the guys I hang out with are on the large brutish looking side, but it's definitely in the air. Be stuffed going out and avoiding that bullshit. If it was like that 10 years ago I'd probably be at home by 11 then as well.

 

[Dime]

I'm with the majority and the OP here.

I'm pretty much over clubbing, I'm 20 and even in the last 2-3 years I've noticed a downward spiral in the whole thing. Every person dresses the same and tries so ****ing hard it drives me insane, so many messes just looking to pick up anything with a vagina and look all macho. A lot of clubs these days just seem do damn sleezy and dirty - I'd much rather hit up a pub for a few beers and conversation with good mates.

I agree on the fact that there are fight seeking heroes everywhere aswell. It doesn't help me that one or two of my close mates can be smartasses at times either. Its best to just leave these type of ********s alone, unfortunately a lot of people can't be the guy to walk away - or more particularly - the guy who doesn't let himself get in this situation in the first place.

 

[fryingpan]

Used to go out every weekend but now it's moreso once every month. Usually just stick to staying in with mates or heading to parties or events we've been invited to. There's always gonna be the odd w***er when you head out, like a few months ago a mate of mine walked into a pub and this fat ugly sloth with his cap on backwards says "look at that tosser" .... it's just like .. what's the point of even saying that?? Not to mention when it comes from an obese ugly mother****er trying to look cool around girls.

Anyway, I've had footy related drinking events the last 3 weeks and got absolutely smashed - only went to town once in that 3 week period and had to leave early because one of my mates vomitted on the dancefloor.

Luckily this weekend I have nothing planned so will be staying in and drinking at a mates place and maybe even going out for dinner. Been looking forward to these quietish weekends (by quietish I mean staying in, but still getting pissed) because it'll save me $150 bucks and will also enable me to actually go out & do something on Sunday.

 

[HBF]

Used to go out every weekend. Taxi's covercharges, expensive drinks - the whole box and dice. Now, I couldn't think of anything worse. The crowds, noise, young guys who think they are bullet proof, and the giggly chicks.

 

[Ry009]

Totally concur.

Not worth spending a quarter of your pay check and literally pissing your money away.

Nothing wrong with once every 1-2 months which is what I try and do now. But TBH there are f-all decent places in Melbourne to go anyway.

AS FP said rather save the cash, rather than wake up with a prick of hangover and wasting your whole day in bed on Sunday.

 

[thegreenmachine]

It's so much safer I feel to have a few drinks at home and with a few mates. Even parties with a big group of people at someone's house or my own, 99.9% of the time nothing serious has ever happened.
It used to be the same when I went out, but not so anymore. On some occassions though I drink by myself and there is noone around. Maybe I'm an easy target, but I don't know. Perhaps they can't pick on anyone their own size.
All I simply want to do is to have a few drinks and enjoy myself. That is simply all.

 

[Roos4eva]

I'm totally over going out as well.

Unfortunately, I've gone out five times in the last three weeks, including last night, but that will seriously do me for a while. There are so many ****wits out, I really do wonder why I bother. I can't remember the last time I went out before these three weeks, but I am over it.

Few quiet beers at home or a mate's place>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Going out.

 

[DoubleA]

Well I did until I read this thread, kinda depressing.

 

[Power King]

Unfotunately, 99% of girls my age love getting trashed whilst going out, where all these male pricks are located, looking for fights, verbally starting shit etc.

Girls with class at my age do not exist.

 

[Suspense]

Find a new scene. The vapid nightclub circuit has been utterly ****ed for years...

No need to become a social hermit at a mere 24 years old...

 

[Copernicus]

What is going on in Melbourne? I keep reading about how nighttime scene is getting more violent. Normally I put that down to stodgy old news editors trying to stir up the Today Tonight crowd, but when it's people my age who are saying it then I have to wonder.

Before I moved 5 years ago I would go out often with my mates to clubs and never saw any trouble. The only fights I ever saw were in dodgy hangouts out in Scoresby/Ferntree Gully area. Never saw a fight in a club that I can remember. Are the kids just now turning 18 more aggressive or something?

 

[Rough_Edges]

Yep, I Love it.

Go out every weekend pretty much.

 

[The Dice Man]

I wonder of the increased taxes on alcohol are affecting this, or cultire is just at a stale point.

Maybe the youth need to get back to seeing real live music instead of a DJ spinninin someone elses music

 

[The Dice Man]

Yep I'm lovin' it at the moment probally cos I only turned 18 in April. I'd much prefer to go clubbing rather than spend a night on the piss at a mates house because you get the oppurtunity to share the moment with complete randoms, plus the factor of live music and an awesome atmosphere.
As for the increasing violence I'm in no position to comment but it doesent seem to bad here in Perth. Ive seen afew fights inside the clubs but none yet on the streets. I think if you stay to yourself and dont react you will be fine as long as your not a complete smartass. Maybe the one punch ad campaign has decreased violence here I dont know, but it doesent appear to be to bad.​

What is this live music you speak of? Can you explain to me how its LIVE?