A night out these days

[Noah]

Da1 stop looking at this thread at the same time as me, asshole.

Oh, and I've spent 175$ on drinking related things this weekend.
Ozzy tickets cost about 100$, and the rest is just insane Norwegian prices, i haven't been drinking that much either.

[Da1andonly]

Speaking of which, da1: When and where?

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Name the time and place; I've got nothing but time. Not next tuesday nor wednesday though!

[ZeUs!!]

A night out these days involves minimal change from £50, which means a night in

[Jeenyuss]

i enjoyed this thread.

[Jason]

our alcohol is cheaper as a means of reparations for prohibition

no really, it is

[Jeansi]

Speaking of which, da1: When and where?

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[Da1andonly]

And that, ladies & gentlemen, proves why a beer or twelve in a park is much better. Not to mention cheaper...

[freddie]

Beer 3,50-4€ usually 0,5l

drinks 5-7€

Yeah, I dont understand what was so expensive in it.

Oh, and special shots/drinks can be more expensive of course.

[Pressure Drop]

yea this really pisses me off this stuff and yet my friends love these nightclub places.

Its got to the point where a £5 note won't even buy you 2 pints of normal larger !!! (thats 568ml servings for over bout €7.5 & $10) THAT IS IN A NORMAL BAR!! then they go to these piss nightclubs where the music has no words - i can't tell when one 'song' ends and another begins. They are too trendy to sell pints and only sell 330ml bottles for even more expensive ????? ANd they charge like £10 just to get in??

the music is so loud ppl scream in your ear and i still can't make out what there saying and wake up the next morning and my ears still ringing

i prefer a normal bar

[Ewan]

$10 for 40oz works out at $5 = £2.50 for a (uk) pint... if that's expensive for you, then you must have really cheap drinks.

In a normal pub, you'd expect to pay £2 - £2.50 for a pint of lager, in a club you'd pay £3 ($6) for a 33cl (11oz) BOTTLE of lager.

It regularly costs me £30 - £40 ($60 - $80) for a drunk night out.

I did manage to have an awesome night last night on about $20, wasn't particularly drunk, but didn't need to be cause the music was great.

[NaiLed]

wish it was that cheap in England...

gonna say, sounds like a good deal to me

[Dabram]

the best part of a night out is usually the kebabstore around 4/5 am!

here beer is between 1.8-2 euros in most 'clubs' i go, but i never go to the real clubs, but just those who are kinda small and a mix between a bar and a club, so you're not forced to dance or sit-and-talk all the time.. in some bars between 12-1 beer is 1 euro, and on thursday some places have studentnights, and beer is 1 euro (while other drinks like sodas are the regular price, hehe).
but yeah i live in a relative small (student)city, so nothing is too big and far away like in a big city, which i kinda like.. takes about 10 minutes to get into town and to most places with my bicycle.
only thing strange is that people seem to go out later and later here, around 12 most places are still dead, only between 1-2 places suddenly get packed, which means you usually don't get home before 4-5..
but yeah i agree with seal, the worst thing about the euro is that prices pretty much doubled for all drinks. :/

[SEAL]

Try getting a nice bottle of wine in a restaurant, which you can find 1/4th price at the alco-store :crying: Then drink gin-t's and/or whiskeys at the bar after.

Especially with the introduction of the euro. (exchange rate was 2.2). A beer was 2.5 guilders, now i can easely find them in the city for 2.5 euros. But the salary didn't go up by 2.2. I always enjoy my hangovers, because it costs a fortune! Value for money.

[unrealistic]

it started out ok, but my first major complaint is that my beer costed me 10 fucking dollars. granted, it was in a 40 ounce mug, but christ almighty. give me a fucking case of beast please. that's a way better use of 10 dollars.

wish it was that cheap in England...

[Facetious]

I have a lot of the same complaints, but only if I arrive at a bar sober. I hate the music, I hate having to yell to hear over the music, I hate when other people don't yell loud enough and you know they are saying something kind of inane anyway so after the third time they repeat themself you say "yeah" and then it turns out they were asking you a question and are sitting there waiting for the answer, I hate having to pay 5 bucks for a drink, I especially hate having to wait 15 minutes in order to get my 5 dollar drink, I hate feeling like I should be dancing with my girlfriend. When I arrive drunker than all fuck, I always have a grand old time and none of that shit bothers me at all. Cheap bourbon is an ally for when being with chicks/your friends trying to score with new sluts forces you to some lame bar.

There ARE cool bars that I enjoy, but the reason I like them is because nobody is dancing, so there are a lot less stupids, and those rarely satisfy the need for girls to go to the worst bars ever, or the friends getting laid thing.

What I REALLY don't understand is people loving complete shithole dive bars that are laid out terribly and completely packed to the brim with people. Clubs, or club-like bars, I kind of understand, you're paying for the pseudo-swank atmosphere, but I hate paying 5 dollars a beer at a place with the atmosphere of a frat house.

I find the best value for drinks at places is to find a male bartender, and order something that doesn't have a mixer. They usually take it pretty damn easy on the ice if I order a Jack or Jameson on the rocks, especially if you tip well on the first one. Worst value is those stupid shots like lemon drops or red headed sluts, they water those down like fuck.