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Should people over 40 be banned from nightclubs?

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  • #92
    yagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,326 ✭✭✭yagan


    I can't help feel that the Examiner is grooming her as rage bait. It's very exploitive.

    BTW, the last time I was at the EP I was in my thirties and there were a good contingent of much older folks which added to the chilled vibe.

    There's no way I'd camp now but we're planning on getting a campervan in the coming years and I'd definitely be on for something the EP and other festivals around the EU.



  • #93
    thehairygrape
    Registered Users Posts: 193 ✭✭thehairygrape


    can't help feel that the Examiner is grooming her as rage bait. It's very exploitive


    Think you’re right. But it’s a rock and a hard place. I know I shouldn’t react to it but by letting it go you’re almost condoning it. So you give them exactly what they want. Free clicks.



  • #94
    Luna84
    Registered Users Posts: 801 ✭✭✭Luna84


    Over 40 or 40 and above? 🤣 You don't make it clear. I'm 40 on the dot but I haven't been to a night club in a few years so that ugly young woman who wrote the article has nothing to worry about seeing me in a night club.



  • #95
    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,863 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    There's a facebook page called "raved in the 90's" This clown should look at it and see the videos of people in their 20's 30's 40's 50's 60's who were all able to enjoy a night out mixing together. Now we have the current crew her age who think every man over 40 is a sexual predator and if he smiles at her the Gards are called to have this deviant arrested.



  • #96
    Ezeoul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,205 ✭✭✭Ezeoul


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

    20 year old needs a lesson in ageism.

    Whomever in the Irish Examiner that approved this person's "pieces" for publication needs a kick in the arse (and also a lesson in ageism).



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  • #97
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,261 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    Just another Irish journalist stealing a living writing any garbage that might possibly spark some sort of controversy.

    "Old people are like, so old" said every generation in history.

    I genuinely feel human beings are getting dumber by the minute.



  • #98
    yagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,326 ✭✭✭yagan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513723#Comment_122513723

    I doubt anyone in her age bracket actually reads the examiner. I know when I was at that age I was too busy out socialising, which included going to lots of live music attended by people of all ages. Nightclubs obviously tended to have a younger cohort, but pubs weren't certainly not age segregated.

    It really is pitiful publishing.



  • #99
    yagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,326 ✭✭✭yagan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513754#Comment_122513754

    I think it's more than that. I don't think it's the writer stealing the living, but the publisher exploiting a naive person as a conduit to profit from the type of divisive clickbait that defines unregulated social media.

    It's a black card for the examiner.

    Edit to add that considering they are now part of the same group as the Irish Times they'd have learned from the fake tan cultural appropriation ragebait incident.



  • #100
    Bobson Dugnutt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,121 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    A light-hearted article written by a young woman seems to be getting under the skin of some men. Probably the sort that think Michael O’Leary would be a great Taoiseach; that Ian O’Doherty talks a lot of sense, that Kevin Myers was badly treated, and that any music released since 1998 is terrible.



  • #101
    Ezeoul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,205 ✭✭✭Ezeoul


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122512916#Comment_122512916

    And you can absolutely guarantee it will appear on any backgrund check ordered by a future employer.

    Good point.

    She probably thinks she is being witty and edgy. I blame the parents.



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  • #102
    thehairygrape
    Registered Users Posts: 193 ✭✭thehairygrape


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513861#Comment_122513861

    if it was written by a young man I’d have the same reaction. I think Michael O’Leary would make an awful Taoiseach. No idea who O’Doherty is. Haven’t heard of Myers for years and good riddance. Love lots of new music. The latest Daniel O’Donnell release was a belter.
    The old light hearted trope has been used by men for eons to harass women. “Get ‘em out love, sure it’s just light-hearted banter”.

    No, that article needs challenging.



  • #103
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,186 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


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

    Jaysus, the Examiner will print any auld shite.

    © 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd



  • #104
    DopeTech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭DopeTech


    Next we’ll need to get written approval from the president before passing wind. Get out the **** with people wanting to ban this that and the other. Let people live for Christ sake.

    I’m not 40 yet but have no intention of frequenting nightclubs when I turn 40 but I shouldn’t be banned from them. Let adults adult whatever way they want.



  • #105
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,422 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513861#Comment_122513861

    I think a lot of the laughing is at the OP who is so desperate to be down with and agreeing with the yutes.

    Any birdies today?



  • #106
    Heroditas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,531 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513908#Comment_122513908

    My wife read the article and also the one where she said she feels that full stops in text messages are aggressive and said "yer wan needs a slap and get over herself"



  • #107
    Bobson Dugnutt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,121 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513949#Comment_122513949

    Water off a duck’s back, Francie. Wouldn’t be letting the opinions of random strangers on the internet get to me. I’d suggest getting hot under the collar about a puff piece in the Cork Examiner isn’t great either.

    4 birdies this morning. Playing very well at the moment. If I was able to putt then I’d be dangerous.



  • #108
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,422 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513985#Comment_122513985

    Maybe let the water exit the same way when you encounter bad click bait journalism.



  • #109
    eggy81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,093 ✭✭✭eggy81


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513861#Comment_122513861

    A great piece you described it as in your op. No need to back down to light hearted now that you see you’re pretty much on your own. Though I’d say you’re well used to that.



  • #110
    Deregos.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭Deregos.


    "Real men don't dance, they sit, sweat and curse" .

    Why wont GAA football fans these days admit Die Hard 5 is muck?



  • #111
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,261 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513861#Comment_122513861

    I doubt it's getting under anyone's skin.

    It's just the dullest sort of commentary imaginable.



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  • #112
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514121#Comment_122514121

    It's not going how he planned at all lol.



  • #113
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,268 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513861#Comment_122513861

    No, just another case of generation zzzzz thinking having access to a smart phone makes their opinion worth listening to.



  • #114
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,602 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    I don’t buy the examiner but if I did I’d just say after that, no more, blindingly brutal muppet journalism. 🤪 Trashy tabloidy, attention / reaction seeking BS…

    Last nightclub I was in was either coppers, a party I was invited to or around the same time Tamangos for a family thing….

    Both between 15-20 years ago….. didn’t like them then, haven’t changed my mind…. Places like that get hyped up beyond and then you go and are like, “ seriously, this is it like ? Errrr, after all the shouting and BS and paying X at the door and then X for drinks ..this is it…!?“. Before that one called (I think) the vaults ??? in the IFSC, work thing again.

    if one of my younger cousins has a 21st or whatever and I get invited to X nightclub, I’ll show a face for two hours, exercise hopefully a right as an adult to enter a licensed premises and spend time there with whomever, buying food, drinks, enjoying it / not enjoying it, whatever..



  • #115
    con___manx1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    THe young people of today missed all the proper days of nightclubs and underground raves. They have no idea how **** it is today. The pubs were full even on weekdays during the early 2000s celtic tiger era.



  • #116
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,076 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Jaysis, if anyone’s still wondering why young people have no interest in Boards, this thread may offer a clue 😂

    ‘Twas a light-hearted piece, made me laugh, because I totally see where she’s coming from. Not for a moment do I think she’s actually serious about seeing anyone, regardless of their age or anything else, being banned from nightclubs.



  • #117
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,365 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514685#Comment_122514685

    There are still good raves to go to but the woman who wrote that stupid article is too boring to go to them. She will have settled down by 30 and be living an even more boring life then with no friends.



  • #118
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,422 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514710#Comment_122514710

    if anyone’s still wondering why young people have no interest in Boards,

    Sssshhhh!!! Don't be giving her and the Examiner ideas for articles.
    Why do we have to be 'wondering' about who uses the site? Are ages in profiles?

    And who cares? If they don't wanna use it, so what?



  • #119
    PokeHerKing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,380 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514883#Comment_122514883

    Anyone saying " it was better in my day" is just old.

    Things start to look different as you age but the experiences are usually the same for the generations.

    Unless you had to go to war, then I guess you could legitimately tell the younger generation they have it easier than you did.



  • #120
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭screamer


    Couldnt give a rats if i never saw the inside of a nightclub again, but

    its truly amazing how the all accepting, anything goes Gen Zers want to ban people…. perhaps not as woke as they make out to be



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  • #121
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,365 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122515022#Comment_122515022

    who is saying it was better in my day?



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