hey guys. heres my situation: all my friends are out clubbing and drinking, but because of my financial situation i cant afford to go out and do the same. as a result of this all i have seen for the past 3 weeks has been my computer screen and fucking work. what i dont understand is, why do they go out and just drink? half of them arent single, and the single ones never bother to try and pick up and girls anyway. if they want to drink somewhere, why not do it at somebodies house instead of going out clubbing and spending more than twice as much for overpriced alcohol. it doesnt make sense.. ive heard the social aspect argument but as i said, they never talk to anyone new anyway. as a result of my logic i am deeming myself to a life of lonliness by staying at home. what the fuck should i do? should i go out anyway or fucking stay at home and keep listening to my repedative music whilst i push F5 on the fucking keyboard. such a fail my life has become. aaarghhh!
You aren't forced to drink anything (well, maybe a beer once or twice, for the thirst) in the club.
And you won't stay alone in front of your screen, which seems the most important point.
What >>2 said.
The following are advanced techniques from a professional:
Front loading. Take it seriously.
You only need enough money to buy the first couple of drinks and the door. After that, if you're charming (or a funny drunk), people will get buzzed and buy you drinks. They will also likely forget that you owe them money because they were drunk when they spent it on you.
Make no pretense of bringing money to the club. Tell people that you're "just there to hang out". Eventually some drunk friend will forget, ask you why you're not drinking and buy you a round.
Start arguments with non confrontational people. I have found that they will often buy your silence with a glass of lager.
Wait until a whole table of people go out on the dance floor, and then walk away with their pitchers. This works better than you'd think.
Talk about the good old times, working your way up to a "remember when" round of toasting. Someone will provide you a drink for form's sake.
Drink half your friend's glass when he gets up to use the restroom. Works best when they already have a buzz on.
Leave empty glasses all over the table so people forget whose glass belonged to who. Claim and drain as many half empty glasses as you can get away with.
Offer to take turns buying pitchers. Drink faster than them. For instance, if a pitcher has five glasses of beer, make sure you're drinking three of them. You get more beer for your money this way.
Simply learning the bartender's name and being casual with them will often gain you one or two free drinks a night, especially if you use what money you do have to tip them. Remember: tipping is worthless unless they see you doing it.
Use good looking female friends to your advantage. When strangers hit on them work it so they buy a round for you or a pitcher for the table (see "pitcher mathematics" above) to get in with her.
When it's close to your turn to buy a round, become interested in dancing, no matter what is playing. If you're desperate you can start an argument that disrupts the rotation (politics, religion, "your whore of a girlfriend").
With some people all you have to do is mention in passing that you are "trying to quit". Many people have an evil streak and will gleefully "tempt" you with free booze. Let a person think he's having one over on you and you can usually drink until you don't remember your own name.
Cultivate the notion in your friends' minds that you are an alcoholic who can't help themselves, but is fun to be around anyway.
Do this shit often enough and people will become accustomed to it. Eventually your friends will have you along and buy your drinks without comment.
Warning: unless you're a complete yob, you may end up feeling really bad about yourself someday.
>Warning: unless you're a complete yob, you may end up feeling really bad about yourself someday.
Haha, >>2 here. That day is today, when I read your advices and smirked, knowing I already applied them all at least once. The guilt quickly vanished, though, as I find it quite funny.
I'll add a great one, that works more than often, and (very strange) might work a lot of times with the same people.
Just brag you can't get drunk because of your metabolism, or whatever. As for the "I'm trying to quit", most people take that as a personnal challenge to get you drunk that night. Hehe.
But well, I think >>1 didn't just want advice on how to get free booze once in the club...
>>1 here. yeah i didnt exactly need to know that sort of stuff but i will definately try that next time i go out lol. my plan is to get wasted in a club with only 30 bucks (where i am that equates to about 3 drinks plus entry. yes, australia is a fail). does anyone else here get fucking pissed off about dress codes? is it just in australia that all the decent clubs have really strict dress codes? for example ive been rejected from one on the premise that my shoes had laces. another because i had a long sleeve shirt on with the sleeves rolled up and they didnt classify that as a short sleeved shirt. wtf!!!
I don't want to depress you, but often when they reject you while you don't have or do have laces to you shoes and this kind of shit, is that they want an excuse not to let you in. Or, that the club is strict enough to be dead boring.
Protip: walk in respecting the standard dress code (but don't obsess over it too much) with a reasonably cute girl. This is a sure way to enter.
If you plan on going with friends, try to have at least a 1/3 girl ratio. Have the girls act friendly with those the less susceptible to enter.
If you have no girls at hand, you might try to befriend some that are going to the same club ("hey, let us join in to pass by the door, we won't bother you afterwards"). Walk in with them, and heck, if you play it well they might even want you to "bother" them some more and hang out in the club.
In America, clubs with dress codes are either so high class and snobby that a guy like me couldn't get in through the front door anyway, much less afford to drink there, or they're the most dangerous places in the city (because the dress code is there to prevent people from flying gang colors). Either way, no place I'd want to go.
>>7 thats what i thought. australia is such a fucking fail when it comes to nightlife. i hate this shithole.
> Protip: walk in respecting the standard dress code (but don't obsess over it too much) with a reasonably cute girl. This is a sure way to enter.
I believe The Chaser explored this phenomenon to the fullest extent possible, proving that the dress code was ignored to a large extent if you had a couple of hot chicks with you.