Younger people really don’t seem to want to drink as much as my generation did.
Though back then – going out was really the main way to meet members of the opposite (or same) sex.
Now – there are multiple ways online and apps.
I’d be well up for more day raves. Then I could still be home in time for Foyle’s War.
The brits have a very unhealthy relationship with alcohol.
It’s just getting us ready for the caliphate!
That a joke but genuinely think that the next generation have been brainwashed into boring narcissists by their pocket black mirrors
People don’t have the time or money to go out and party.
Going ‘out out’ costs well over £100 now, even if you ignore the cost of living stuff, nobody is going to do that every weekend.
Back when I was late teens early twenties I withdrew £30 at the start of the night and that did me for everything including kebab and taxi.
These things come in waves. I can assure you as a 25M, there are plenty of us out here getting spannered and the mass drug use of ket/coke/MDMA is alive and well.
What is true, and happily so is all my friends and me (despite the drugs I know thats weird) are gym goers, track calories and generally want to be good looking etc.This does mean alcohol with its excess calories takes a back seat. We dont tend to drink on week nights at all and then when we do go out its a bag and shots etc. You also end up in the ironic situation of my mate Brad loudly explaining is macro targets for diet as he wracked up a massive line of coke… it is what it is.
But yes anyway we still get fucked up we just do it at home where drugs are easier to consume and the days of the “couple down the pub” after work are dying more. If I am gonna go I would rather go on Saturday eve all the way and be sober the rest.
Who can afford a big night out? It’s a side effect of the shitty economy
If people drink nowadays they’ll just get a big pack of cans from the shop rather than go to a pub where they’ll be ripped off.
I hope not. I’m planning on a mad one on Friday night.
I went to a small house party the other week, and everybody collectively put a tenner towards booze and food. We had 200 quid total. We went half and half fir booze and food.
That night, everyone went to bed or wmet home drunk and full.
200 quid on a night out with 20 people would get you maybe a pint each
It doesn’t help that nightspots are just grim and disgusting. Sticky floors, dirty tables, crappy stools to sit on, crowded and noisy. Who the f*ck wants to pay for a night out like that.
inb4 “gEt use’D too It wHen Caan iNtroDuce SheriEr lAw’s iNNit.”
Zone 3 South London. Took one of my children to a birthday party and I stood in the area for a pint. Zone 3 mind… Birra Moretti pint £7.39
wtf.
We need a new wave of illegal raves set up in fields by people who actually care about nightlife and not rinsing people for as much as possible.
Just don’t get why I’d want to go for a night out with friends where we have to stand crammed into a corner paying ridiculous prices for a drink and it’s so loud we can’t even hold a conversation… What’s the point?!
Edit* also staying out past the last train (because public transport is shocking) means ridiculous prices for a taxi home, even if I leave early enough for the train it’s still stupidly over priced.
Face it oldies you are the past, so quit your moaning and go and plant some tomatoes or something.
Kids of today don’t want to do what your wrinkle infected bodies did, grandma, you are not and were never cool.
And as an oldie myself I am OK with that, it is perfectly in keeping with the cycle of life.
I’ve been out twice in the last 6 months. Both times cost near enough £100. I’m only 35 now.
When I was 18, we could go out and have a big night and still have change from £30.
When I was In my late teens and early 20’s and night out was £50 max. That was in Expensive St. Albans.
£50 now? You’re joking. Even a pub lunch and a couple of pints starts to exceed that.
Obscene costs have killed it. I spent £80 at the football on Saturday. I already had my ticket.
It isn’t about the cost of drinks at all. It’s about dating. In the pre internet days, you went out to meet people. Now it’s on tinder and grinder. Lost that huge demographic.
This is good, we drink too much, now crime will start going down and hopefully Brits start finding healthier activities.
Off to Drumsheds for our first day rave of the year in a few weeks – got half of bottle of Stoli for the train up and then probably stay on the water once we get inside there.
Save ourselves a small mortgage probably.
I don’t wanna pay loads of money to consume empty calories, pay more money to ruin my hearing and have sweaty people spill sambuca on me and feel like shit the next couple of days from a hangover.
If I wanna have enough drink to be tipsy (rare enough as it is) I want someplace that’s like lively-murmur atmosphere like a pub with booth tables. Fuck open mics too 😛
A night out used to be £30 for pre-drinks, club entry, a few more drinks, a kebab, and a split taxi home. It might not be the best night out but it you felt you got your moneys worth. Clubs that used to charge £2 now charge £5 but you get an experience not even worth £2. An over-saturation of generic Top 40 clubs is not helping things either, when that is all that is on offer in some towns, you cannot be too surprised when people do not want to go out anymore. We need more alternative venues offering something unique and worth going out for if we want to save nights out.
It’s almost as if there’s some sort of crisis relating to how much it costs to live or something.
I went to a nice pub near me the other day with a mate (we live in a town in South Wales).
2 pints cost me £13.
We had one and went home.
If alcohol didn’t cost so much and it didn’t cost me fucking £20 for a taxi, I might actually leave the house to drink
Glad I wasn’tt part of this younger boring generation. Had a good laugh on nights out in my late teens, 20s .
I promise you, pay people enough to afford it, people will do big nights out
I can get like a months worth of weed for the price or like 8 pints. Id be an idiot not to.
The younger generation are much more switched on with their own health and there’s much less pressure to drink. There’s still opportunity to adapt, instead of a cocktail bar maybe a late night coffee shop. Also the cost for a sesh is absurd now, I’m actually taking a hip flask out with me to save money.
People start production of Moonshine
Gov. – Surprise pikachu face
London doesn’t care about it’s nightlife. Too expensive and ngl the clubs are shit. Full of pretentious wankers who care more about their image than having fun. Well the “normie” places are expensive and closing down, but more niche and the scene is thriving.
Saying that, go up north, the night out is very alive. Mid week clubs are full with great music and people who are there for the music and not for “looking cool”. Manny, leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, all active
I would argue this is not true for raves and the underground music scene. However the ‘party favours’ mostly found in these sorts of events haven’t really gotten any more expensive.
Fucking death of the big night out about 10 years ago lol.
All the zoomers I know have house parties all the time where they take ket and valium and shit, they’re certainly not doing yoga and juice bars, even if they aren’t drinking and going out to clubs
It’s like the death of the cinemas, somewhat self inflicted – though atleast the cinemas had control over a lot of their resources, alcohol prices and rent somewhat less so for clubs / pubs.
A night out costs £200, there’s cameras everywhere and any shenanigans will be recorded and posted online for you and prospective employers to enjoy forever, and there’s multiple apps on your phone that enable you to meet potential mates without leaving the house. Hardly surprising nobody bothers going out out any more.
Whatever the youngsters are doing now, their own kids will rebel against it. I drank like a fish, my children don’t. I expect my grandchildren to run riot like me.
I don’t think I’d have bee out out as much if it would have all ended up photographed and on insta. I remember bouncers taking disposable cameras off people in clubs “sorry no photos in ere mate”
In the late 70’s we’d bunk the train to London.£1 to get in a club £2 on pills, a few pints at maybe 60p a pint maybe go to a party or bunk an early morning train home. All whilst speeding our tits off.
Be lucky to spend more than £7 or £8.
And great music as well.
Classic Reddit “nights out are wank” brigade.
Every pub in my town is busy on a Friday and Saturday night. Less than it used to be, but absolutely nowhere near the death of anything.
Going out 7-8 years was the Super Off Peak Railcard from Crawley to Victoria, on the tube for the party and night out you wanted, and back for the 4am train in the same ticket for £15.90
I could go out, get fucked and come home for 50 quid including tickets to the club
It’s my birthday soon. I have found that going out is statistically more improbable than spontaneously combusting, unless I stumble into a gold mine.
I live in a fairly substantial city (population 150,000) and after seeing a movie midweek I thought I’d pop onto the local “what’s on” pages and try to find some live music.
Nothing. Nada. Zilch. No open mic nights, no pub bands, nothing.
On Friday night this week there are three music gigs and one stand-up comedy show. With all the live music venues that have been closed down in the last few years, I think that might be near the maximum capacity for shows in the city. It’s pretty depressing.
I saw a happy hour in a pub near me that stated ‘*the happiest of hours with prices rolled back to 2003!*’to celebrate their business anniversary. It was depressing to see.
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Younger people really don’t seem to want to drink as much as my generation did.
Though back then – going out was really the main way to meet members of the opposite (or same) sex.
Now – there are multiple ways online and apps.
I’d be well up for more day raves. Then I could still be home in time for Foyle’s War.
The brits have a very unhealthy relationship with alcohol.
It’s just getting us ready for the caliphate!
That a joke but genuinely think that the next generation have been brainwashed into boring narcissists by their pocket black mirrors
People don’t have the time or money to go out and party.
Going ‘out out’ costs well over £100 now, even if you ignore the cost of living stuff, nobody is going to do that every weekend.
Back when I was late teens early twenties I withdrew £30 at the start of the night and that did me for everything including kebab and taxi.
These things come in waves. I can assure you as a 25M, there are plenty of us out here getting spannered and the mass drug use of ket/coke/MDMA is alive and well.
What is true, and happily so is all my friends and me (despite the drugs I know thats weird) are gym goers, track calories and generally want to be good looking etc.This does mean alcohol with its excess calories takes a back seat. We dont tend to drink on week nights at all and then when we do go out its a bag and shots etc. You also end up in the ironic situation of my mate Brad loudly explaining is macro targets for diet as he wracked up a massive line of coke… it is what it is.
But yes anyway we still get fucked up we just do it at home where drugs are easier to consume and the days of the “couple down the pub” after work are dying more. If I am gonna go I would rather go on Saturday eve all the way and be sober the rest.
Who can afford a big night out? It’s a side effect of the shitty economy
If people drink nowadays they’ll just get a big pack of cans from the shop rather than go to a pub where they’ll be ripped off.
I hope not. I’m planning on a mad one on Friday night.
I went to a small house party the other week, and everybody collectively put a tenner towards booze and food. We had 200 quid total. We went half and half fir booze and food.
That night, everyone went to bed or wmet home drunk and full.
200 quid on a night out with 20 people would get you maybe a pint each
It doesn’t help that nightspots are just grim and disgusting. Sticky floors, dirty tables, crappy stools to sit on, crowded and noisy. Who the f*ck wants to pay for a night out like that.
inb4 “gEt use’D too It wHen Caan iNtroDuce SheriEr lAw’s iNNit.”
Zone 3 South London. Took one of my children to a birthday party and I stood in the area for a pint. Zone 3 mind… Birra Moretti pint £7.39
wtf.
We need a new wave of illegal raves set up in fields by people who actually care about nightlife and not rinsing people for as much as possible.
Just don’t get why I’d want to go for a night out with friends where we have to stand crammed into a corner paying ridiculous prices for a drink and it’s so loud we can’t even hold a conversation… What’s the point?!
Edit* also staying out past the last train (because public transport is shocking) means ridiculous prices for a taxi home, even if I leave early enough for the train it’s still stupidly over priced.
Face it oldies you are the past, so quit your moaning and go and plant some tomatoes or something.
Kids of today don’t want to do what your wrinkle infected bodies did, grandma, you are not and were never cool.
And as an oldie myself I am OK with that, it is perfectly in keeping with the cycle of life.
I’ve been out twice in the last 6 months. Both times cost near enough £100. I’m only 35 now.
When I was 18, we could go out and have a big night and still have change from £30.
When I was In my late teens and early 20’s and night out was £50 max. That was in Expensive St. Albans.
£50 now? You’re joking. Even a pub lunch and a couple of pints starts to exceed that.
Obscene costs have killed it. I spent £80 at the football on Saturday. I already had my ticket.
It isn’t about the cost of drinks at all. It’s about dating. In the pre internet days, you went out to meet people. Now it’s on tinder and grinder. Lost that huge demographic.
This is good, we drink too much, now crime will start going down and hopefully Brits start finding healthier activities.
Off to Drumsheds for our first day rave of the year in a few weeks – got half of bottle of Stoli for the train up and then probably stay on the water once we get inside there.
Save ourselves a small mortgage probably.
I don’t wanna pay loads of money to consume empty calories, pay more money to ruin my hearing and have sweaty people spill sambuca on me and feel like shit the next couple of days from a hangover.
If I wanna have enough drink to be tipsy (rare enough as it is) I want someplace that’s like lively-murmur atmosphere like a pub with booth tables. Fuck open mics too 😛
A night out used to be £30 for pre-drinks, club entry, a few more drinks, a kebab, and a split taxi home. It might not be the best night out but it you felt you got your moneys worth. Clubs that used to charge £2 now charge £5 but you get an experience not even worth £2. An over-saturation of generic Top 40 clubs is not helping things either, when that is all that is on offer in some towns, you cannot be too surprised when people do not want to go out anymore. We need more alternative venues offering something unique and worth going out for if we want to save nights out.
It’s almost as if there’s some sort of crisis relating to how much it costs to live or something.
I went to a nice pub near me the other day with a mate (we live in a town in South Wales).
2 pints cost me £13.
We had one and went home.
If alcohol didn’t cost so much and it didn’t cost me fucking £20 for a taxi, I might actually leave the house to drink
Glad I wasn’tt part of this younger boring generation. Had a good laugh on nights out in my late teens, 20s .
I promise you, pay people enough to afford it, people will do big nights out
I can get like a months worth of weed for the price or like 8 pints. Id be an idiot not to.
The younger generation are much more switched on with their own health and there’s much less pressure to drink. There’s still opportunity to adapt, instead of a cocktail bar maybe a late night coffee shop. Also the cost for a sesh is absurd now, I’m actually taking a hip flask out with me to save money.
People start production of Moonshine
Gov. – Surprise pikachu face
London doesn’t care about it’s nightlife. Too expensive and ngl the clubs are shit. Full of pretentious wankers who care more about their image than having fun. Well the “normie” places are expensive and closing down, but more niche and the scene is thriving.
Saying that, go up north, the night out is very alive. Mid week clubs are full with great music and people who are there for the music and not for “looking cool”. Manny, leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, all active
I would argue this is not true for raves and the underground music scene. However the ‘party favours’ mostly found in these sorts of events haven’t really gotten any more expensive.
Fucking death of the big night out about 10 years ago lol.
All the zoomers I know have house parties all the time where they take ket and valium and shit, they’re certainly not doing yoga and juice bars, even if they aren’t drinking and going out to clubs
It’s like the death of the cinemas, somewhat self inflicted – though atleast the cinemas had control over a lot of their resources, alcohol prices and rent somewhat less so for clubs / pubs.
A night out costs £200, there’s cameras everywhere and any shenanigans will be recorded and posted online for you and prospective employers to enjoy forever, and there’s multiple apps on your phone that enable you to meet potential mates without leaving the house. Hardly surprising nobody bothers going out out any more.
Whatever the youngsters are doing now, their own kids will rebel against it. I drank like a fish, my children don’t. I expect my grandchildren to run riot like me.
I don’t think I’d have bee out out as much if it would have all ended up photographed and on insta. I remember bouncers taking disposable cameras off people in clubs “sorry no photos in ere mate”
In the late 70’s we’d bunk the train to London.£1 to get in a club £2 on pills, a few pints at maybe 60p a pint maybe go to a party or bunk an early morning train home. All whilst speeding our tits off.
Be lucky to spend more than £7 or £8.
And great music as well.
Classic Reddit “nights out are wank” brigade.
Every pub in my town is busy on a Friday and Saturday night. Less than it used to be, but absolutely nowhere near the death of anything.
Going out 7-8 years was the Super Off Peak Railcard from Crawley to Victoria, on the tube for the party and night out you wanted, and back for the 4am train in the same ticket for £15.90
I could go out, get fucked and come home for 50 quid including tickets to the club
It’s my birthday soon. I have found that going out is statistically more improbable than spontaneously combusting, unless I stumble into a gold mine.
I live in a fairly substantial city (population 150,000) and after seeing a movie midweek I thought I’d pop onto the local “what’s on” pages and try to find some live music.
Nothing. Nada. Zilch. No open mic nights, no pub bands, nothing.
On Friday night this week there are three music gigs and one stand-up comedy show. With all the live music venues that have been closed down in the last few years, I think that might be near the maximum capacity for shows in the city. It’s pretty depressing.
I saw a happy hour in a pub near me that stated ‘*the happiest of hours with prices rolled back to 2003!*’to celebrate their business anniversary. It was depressing to see.