Should people over 40 be banned from nightclubs?

Most people play golf because they like it not as a replacement for something they are too embarrassed to do or what some wannabe journalist embarrasses them out of doing.
P.S. that dinner is like the puréed stuff you’d get in a Home For The Elderly. 😁

I wouldnt give it to a dog.

Gen Z react to article by turning out in huge numbers to listen to 70 year olds at gig. 😁

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41458156.html

The Examiner publishes a rejoiner to the piece this thread is about.

Unfortunately while expressing what many, including myself have opined on the subject he failed to tackle the extremist nature of the piece, namely the agist call for a ban.

I cancelled my sub to the Irish Times when they waded into flaming gender wars with articles like "all boys are raised in a soup of misogyny", and thought the Examiner would be a less strident alternative. However if they progress down agist extremism for ragebait all they're doing is alienating the middle space.

Edit to add, grooming that young writer to produce rage bait doesn't win young readers. Even though I grew up that youth bulge of the 80s there was never talk of banning people over a certain age from any venue. A lot of night clubs were simply extensions of existing venues where all ages could have their space.

Ultimately the real loser in this saga is the young scribe, they're being rewarded for being socially divisive.

I'm sure there's other examples of agist extremism but the one that springs to mind is the political movement that Victor Orban was part of that banned anyone over the age of 35 from membership. Now he rails against younger generations for being too pro EU and not being Hungarian revanchist enough.

Yes thats her.

The thread title should be changed to "Should we give the opinion of a 20 year old snowflake the time of day".

Ageism already exists in the hospitality industry.

Over 21/23 is still allowed over the place despite the government making it illegal a few years back.

She looks like a librarian as well, I doubt she is any craic on a night out.

Old people going clubbing used to be admired

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/sir-jack-leslie-the-war-hero-who-had-one-foot-in-the-rave/34639404.html.

I wonder if her next diatribe will be "pensioners should just be euthanised, what good are they anyway?"

I'd imagine she's great fun around the family dinner table.

Its a badly written piss take designed to do exactly what its done here. But I'm sure there are people who think exactly this also.

51. Last nightclub visit lost in the mists of time.

Actually the last time I was at a disco was in Oz where my wife's work colleagues was celebrating his thirtieth while we were in our 40s. I found it really weird that nearly all the music in the nightclub I had heard first time around in nightclubs in the 80s/90s.

If anyone if going to ban over 40s then we'll be taking our music with us too.