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Should people over 40 be banned from nightclubs?

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  • #32
    ledwithhedwith
    Registered Users Posts: 369 ✭✭ledwithhedwith


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058364703/should-people-over-40-be-banned-from-nightclubs

    I’d be too lazy for music festivals and nightclubs and I’m in my early 30s but don’t see why old people can’t go to them, lots go for the actual music. Glastonbury on bbc the crowd average looked 40.



  • #33
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,575 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    WHat about the Millenials?

    WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK ABOUT THE MILLENIALS...??

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #34
    fits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,584 ✭✭✭✭fits


    I was shopping for school stationary this afternoon and thinking of how my life has changed not wrestling with a tent in stradbally. Don’t feel like I’m missing out. Maybe I’ll go back when the lads are older and I’m disgraceful. Ban me away from the nightclubs.



  • #35
    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,863 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    **** your one in the Examiner. I'll see her ageism and raise her 40 year olds having the craic. And from experience over 40's are far less likely to start fighting and being dickheads in general.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/dance-ageing-adulthood-school-disco-generation-x-iranian-a9364866.html



  • #36
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,448 ✭✭✭Tork


    I assume The Examiner hired this young one to rile up anybody over the age of 25 and generate clicks? I heard her on Pat Kenny's show not too long ago going on about how "her generation" is too anxious to make or take phone calls. She wouldn't survive the ordeal of being in the nightclubs we frequented back in the day. She'd be whinging about the sugar content in the Blue WKD and weeping because someone moved their hand to somewhere she didn't like without her consent.



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  • #37
    Bobson Dugnutt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,121 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    Ah ya, the good old days of alcopops and sexual harassment.



  • #38
    mariaalice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Fado fado when I was you and going to night clubs the only over 40s tended to be alcos who couldn't get a drink anywhere else.

    The article has the bang of a cable of good-looking females in their early 20s who think they are as cool as ****, laughing at the aul lad in his 40s who is trying to chat them up and they cant believe he thinks someone like them would be interested in him.



  • #39
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭amacca


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511600#Comment_122511600

    I vaguely remember that thing about not making or taking phonecalls....such a waste of airtime



  • #40
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,436 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511473#Comment_122511473

    Funny to see someone from Gen Woke discriminating based on age.



  • #41
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,448 ✭✭✭Tork


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511612#Comment_122511612

    Those auld lads were a fixture in nightclubs when I was in my twenties. Me and my friends always gave them a wide berth and saw them as nothing more than pathetic letches who thought they still had it.



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  • #42
    Heroditas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,531 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    People still wear suits in offices? Yeah right...

    Maybe she should introduce herself the bouncers using her preferred pronouns and she might get in easier



  • #43
    nachouser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭nachouser


    It kinda reminds me of how we'd try to get into The Hairy Lemon when we were 17. Wait for the bouncer to have a smoke and get chatting to someone in the queue and then dodge your way in the door. She's doing it wrong.



  • #44
    Apothic_Red
    Registered Users Posts: 569 ✭✭✭Apothic_Red


    I'm 50 & I cringe when I hear people talking about the joys of Electric Picnic.

    Talking about an event area called the Salted Dog & Love Town etc. makes it sound like a liberal cult of wall to wall Paul Murphys in Pride t-shirts waving Palestinian flags. That's how I picture it anyway.

    I love it when it's a washout . . . I'm sick like that



  • #45
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,396 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511210#Comment_122511210

    And not a mobile phone in sight to record any carry on.



  • #46
    sprucemoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭sprucemoose


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511368#Comment_122511368

    better them actually playing than trying to drive the golf cart i guess



  • #47
    noodler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,433 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    God that is the stupidest article I've read in a mainstream Irish broadsheet.

    The self importance. I can't fathom it.



  • #48
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭amacca


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511792#Comment_122511792

    The people that are using her know that too...I bet it gets the hate clicks in spades!



  • #49
    mariaalice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511812#Comment_122511812

    That's very true she is being used but she might be aware and doesn't care after all she's getting the jump in to media ahead of everyone else.



  • #50
    taxAHcruel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭taxAHcruel


    night clubs and weddings are one of the places we actually shine in our old age. Dont take them away from us!



  • #51
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭amacca


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511844#Comment_122511844

    Tbh I think you are too young at that age to fully understand the possible consequences or how your feelings might change as you get a bit more mature/intelligence develops a bit.....that jump could have a price she might not want to have to pay as an older adult

    It is fairly inane forgettable moronic drivel though ...if you have a thick skin you'd probably not give it a second thought....although if you wanted to be regarded as a ...I don't know thinker/thought leader, respected commentator etc it might be a bit of an embarassment that's now permanently out there attributed to you.

    I'm glad some of the diahorrea I might have written (possibly still do) as a much younger person hopefully won't be attributed to me now!



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  • #52
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭amacca


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511849#Comment_122511849

    The Nightclubs are slowly disappearing anyway..... without gen z wanting you booted out!

    Hard for them to make sense financially the way things are going...

    Tbh it's the same with a lot of bricks&mortar businesses in towns/cities



  • #53
    BalcombeSt4
    Registered Users Posts: 1,799 ✭✭✭BalcombeSt4


    No, I personally don't go to raves or clubs anymore, the last time was a decade ago, I'm in my late 30's now, but when I was going out between 18 - 27/28 most of the DJ's headlining events, especially James Devlin's "Devotion" & Senan Shortt's "Energizer" promotions were usually all over 40, people like Mr. Spring, Mark Kavanagh, Warren K, Ed Case, Pressure, UFO, Thyme etc… they have the experience of running different clubs & know what works best better than people in their 20s.



  • #54
    hamburgham
    Registered Users Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭hamburgham


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511191#Comment_122511191

    Where?



  • #55
    Dick phelan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Dick phelan


    Journalist really is a dying profession. Imagine paying for university and writing that absolute shite.



  • #56
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,864 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Hold up...

    Some 20yo Zoomer who is precluded from over 21 premises,which most nightclubs are! is complaining that Gen X'ers are too old for night clubs🤨

    How the fúck can a Zoomer afford to go to a nightclub? If she isn't a trust fund baby or a sugar baby, who's buying her Smirnoff ice then?



  • #57
    dasdog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭dasdog


    There were a few hippy types in the 90's well in to their 40's that used to frequent the decent nightclubs in Dublin. Not only were they welcome, they were celebrated and some would be as off their chops as the rest of us at 3am. Free spirit types.

    I haven't been to a nightclub in years - I hate the controlled environment after being to raves where there are no bouncers/security/tickets/formal organisation - but I still go to lots of music events and you see all ages from all walks of life which is absolutely brilliant.

    Judgemental people are always going to be judgemental.



  • #58
    ledwithhedwith
    Registered Users Posts: 369 ✭✭ledwithhedwith


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511600#Comment_122511600

    jaysis



  • #59
    taxAHcruel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭taxAHcruel


    can anyone do the footsie anymore anyway? :)



  • #60
    Mister Baddog
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Mister Baddog


    Oh god yes they should be banned. (I'm 65 and know whereof I speak 😇)



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  • #61
    laoismanj
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭laoismanj


    Personally at 35 and a father of 3, the idea of a music festival or a nightclub is what I imagine the gates of hell to be, however when i was 18-21..did I give a fawk if there was over 40s in the noise chambers I was in? Nope! Did we judge them? Nope, I was too shitfaced to care, we all grow up, those who dont...well its a tragic sight



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