dances with sheeple Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Many young people are routinely brainwashed into doing stupid things to belong to the tribe and/or look for a mate. But a ritual of moving the body like zombies to the sound of a simulated pneumatic drill was never going to last forever. I think, especially younger punters, are just brainwashed now to stand and look into their phones, not much there for a party atmosphere really? Posing of past decades has morphed into being totally unable/unwilling to acknowledge that others exist around you People need to want to mix a bit for the pub/club scene to thrive IMO, speaking to strangers, or god forbid partying with them, is a dying art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nnails Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Yep, I remember going to one club with a mate who recommended it. Long wait, tenner to get in. He took a minute to glance around the club to evaluate the talent and decided he wanted to leave. I've bought some right crap in the past - but that just about counts for the worst tenner ever spent. It was really like that. Not just me then. I also remember for some reason i had to go nightclub in the day time to pick up application form for job as student. It was dirty filthy place to. Girls would hate if if they seen the place with lights on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sPinwheel Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 I enjoyed clubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 So 'Hipsters' arent self obsessed, shallow and stupid ? Growing a beard because a fashion magazine tells you to ? Stupid. Standing in front of the mirror every morning to ensure your beard looks perfectly unkempt - when in reality its the opposite. Self obsessed. As for shallow - where to begin. They are just sheep, might as well dye the beard white and go for a dip. The jeans ripped at the knee trend is pissing me off just now, even if a girl looks quite hot she has to be filed under "sheep" if she is doing this. Same for the phone permanently attached to face brigade, it just screams mental disorder arrived or in the post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executive Sadman Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 They are just sheep, might as well dye the beard white and go for a dip. The jeans ripped at the knee trend is pissing me off just now, even if a girl looks quite hot she has to be filed under "sheep" if she is doing this. Same for the phone permanently attached to face brigade, it just screams mental disorder arrived or in the post. All reversible though...tattoos, especially the 'sleeve' ones that make you look like you fell asleep on a printing press, are not. Not 100% at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 All reversible though...tattoos, especially the 'sleeve' ones that make you look like you fell asleep on a printing press, are not. Not 100% at least. Yeah, with them you are branded a sheep for life, but plenty of others will be the same so it probably won`t be too much of a drama. Many people maybe had individual reasons for getting tattooed all over, many more just followed the trend Invasion of the Body Snatchers like, which I find quite disturbing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikhail Liebenstein Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 I've always found it amusing the way discos got turned into 'clubs' (how can it be a club if you don't have to be a member?) or even 'superclubs' with some t*t achieving god-like status because he could rummage through a box of records while holding one muff to his ear. They only became popular because you could get booze after 11 and might 'get lucky', or because people were drugged into thinking there was something more to them than listening to crap music while jigging about a bit. People do seem happy to spend £100 however to stand in a field and watch someone prance around on a stage 500 yards away while simulating sex and miming to some three-chord pop song so perhaps the money's just moved somewhere else. What is quite interesting is that £100 for a night out was quite common in the 1990s. I suspect now people are more careful and have less disposable income. A few pints of real ale or night spent reading in a coffee shop with a typewriter is quite cheap in comparison. Perhaps its a reaction to the economic bust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 What is quite interesting is that £100 for a night out was quite common in the 1990s. I suspect now people are more careful and have less disposable income. A few pints of real ale or night spent reading in a coffee shop with a typewriter is quite cheap in comparison. Perhaps its a reaction to the economic bust. Half that 100 quid was the entry fee to a "Super club" , just more farming of the sheeple, nothing in comparison to the masterstroke that was to follow with borrowing for houses of course. Sitting in a coffee shop surrounded by prats on their phones is still pretty boring in comparison though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikhail Liebenstein Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 I think, especially younger punters, are just brainwashed now to stand and look into their phones, not much there for a party atmosphere really? Posing of past decades has morphed into being totally unable/unwilling to acknowledge that others exist around you People need to want to mix a bit for the pub/club scene to thrive IMO, speaking to strangers, or god forbid partying with them, is a dying art. I love this thread. It's getting to sound a bit like stereotypical grandparents, "well its not like it was in the good old days". "When I were a lad, we'd score a couple Es and pre-load on Diamond White before heading off for a rave at Bagleys" "Youth of today, they just don't know how to get off their heads any more." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spunko2010 Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Oh lord not another rant against hipsters thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 It was really like that. Not just me then. I also remember for some reason i had to go nightclub in the day time to pick up application form for job as student. It was dirty filthy place to. Girls would hate if if they seen the place with lights on Known as the 'sticky carpet' smelt of stale beer and tobacco.....couldn't see what it looked like in the dark...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybong Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Years back there seemed to be far less bonded groups so you didn't have to get through the group mentality. These days it's all things like hen parties and bonded work groups and such like - part of being the obligatory team player. Most people might as well go to the pub and take the party confetti stuff with them. Meeting people has become very financialised and corporate with having to pay for dating clubs etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assume The Opposite Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 The toilets are cleaned and free of nigerians witholding the toilet paper and blocking the sinks unless you hand them a quid Haha!! That took me back to back to days of 2006-2009, hearing "freshen up, freshen up". Liquid wasn't the best back then, are they still going? I've got a feeling that I was in the era just before smartphone addiction and facebook was starting to take off. £1 a pint in some places. Happy days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sPinwheel Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 So pubs and nightclubs closing, but loads more mosques. Hooray!Chain mosque. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpectrumFX Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Oh lord not another rant against hipsters thread. I was ranting against hipsters before it was popular Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 I love this thread. It's getting to sound a bit like stereotypical grandparents, "well its not like it was in the good old days". "When I were a lad, we'd score a couple Es and pre-load on Diamond White before heading off for a rave at Bagleys" "Youth of today, they just don't know how to get off their heads any more." Yep, I remember thinking to myself in my twenties, or maybe before "I am never going to be one of those older people who slag off the young and their music when I`m older" and here it is happening....on the internet FFS! But to be fair there is plenty to slag off nowadays the corporations have all but taken over, people seem scared to hold an opinion about anything that isn`t drip fed to them via social media, and the music is definitely shite, the mainstream stuff anyway. When even Noel Gallagher is saying that there hasn`t been a significant or even good guitar based rock band to come out of the UK in the last ten years you know you have done a somersault down the rabbit hole IMO. Watching a Frank Sinatra documentary recently it was striking how good he actually was, and his views on 60`s rock musicians.."goons who only know how to play loud" were typical grumpy old man stuff, but when you think of the musicians he played with he definitely had a point about some of the stuff anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 I used to work the club lights in the 1990's (lighting jock). Was paid £30 for a couple of hours work. Worked alongside Boy George and Tony De Vit a few times. Can't believe I was paid so much. Seems a fortune now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/13586767.Fall_in_number_of_nightclubs_in_Bournemouth/ Half of them gone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SillyBilly Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Still very occasionally go to clubs now (stag dos and other celebrations). I've always felt the most fun bit of the night was the "warming up" or pre-club drinks either at someone's house or in the pub. You could actually have a conversation and a laugh with your mates while tipsy. You could even chat up a bird at the bar without her mouthing "what?!" five times when you're screaming "hi" down her ear in a club. The night crosses the threshold to very expensive when you're in a club and I tend to feel the need to get rat arsed to even half enjoy myself. Not to mention, you're having to mix with a load of chavs who have less inhibitions than usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zugzwang Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Haha!! That took me back to back to days of 2006-2009, hearing "freshen up, freshen up". Liquid wasn't the best back then, are they still going? I've got a feeling that I was in the era just before smartphone addiction and facebook was starting to take off. £1 a pint in some places. Happy days Remember a time when people actually talked to each other rather than stared at their phones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frugal Git Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Never could get on with clubbing particularly - but went to sh1t loads of gigs in the mid 90s as a teenager, both A level time and whilst at university. I probably averaged 2 a week over a 5 year period - seeing anythung from John Peel show type unknowns to the Blur's/Massive Attacks of the time. Cost? A non issue. Shows with three smallish up and coming bands could be seen for under a fiver at the boat race - established NME cover type bands for 7 quid at the junction and bigger ones for 10-12 at the corn exchange. I was never one for drinking too much so saturday job money covered me (and still stuffed the PEP full for later!). Todays kids would be paying between 15-50 quid for similar tickets. I doubt their paper round money is much more either....that industry too must be close to pricing itself out surely. As for hipsters - theres a fine line between the freegan opt out sort (love em) and the iphone/skinny jeans/skinny latte bunch (horrendous). But we had both when i was growing up too in many ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybong Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Remember a time when people actually talked to each other rather than stared at their phones? People were happier then though These days they'd be wearing baseball hats back to front as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bomberbrown Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Happy days! Houses were cheap but you had f@&k all money! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longtomsilver Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Pubs have just lost a big chunk of their market to coffee houses. Times change. The smart money got out of pubs and into coffee bars many years ago. I could perhaps be more specific, and say got in to coffee bars in 1995, and out of pubs and bars in 2001. Costa Coffee is Whitbread so they already have diversified. Anecdotally in the Lloyds bar I work in trade has picked up massively in the last few months which is good for me keeping my easy street job that doesn't interfere with my life at all. Only a Friday/Saturday night and pays me the equivalent of dole (£110-120 a week without having to sign on), flip side is that tips have dried up to almost nothing. When I started in March this year it was common for girl staff to get £25 extra in tips a night and boy staff £12-15. Girls are lucky to get a fiver and I'm averaging about 40p-£1. I'm no longer tipping in restaurants myself, why should I??? At least I'm not working for the money, it's a little tedious now but I find spending my 45 minute break in a real ale pub listening to a live (regular) set the perfect opiate. As other posters have said it's mostly chavs out on the lash now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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