"Clubbing" or "Barhopping"

[skygazer]

Or something else? Personally, my friends and I just "went out." As in, "Are you going out tonight?" That usually involved going to several different places - any more than 4 or 5 could be considered "barhopping." What do you call it?

(to me, clubbing sounds like something you do to seals but to each his own)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. They're different terms.

Clubbing is if you go to clubs.
Barhopping is if you go to bars.

[KitchenWitch]

2. Pub Crawling

[trof]

16. That's what we always did.

;-)

[Call Me Wesley]

3. Sorry, but I always called it 'boring.'

And yes, I do remember the times when we went out trying to get the night away. From club to club, bar to bar, beacuse everyone knew of a better place to be and to be seen. The places might have varied, of course, but what always stroke me quite odd was that the same people always ordered the same drink, no matter where we would end up. It was quite a sign for me and I came to the conclusion that places are just 'places', no matter where they are or what they've been called. The individuals in them stayed the same. Boring, eh?

Yes, I recently ate my Wittgenstein. Sorry. :hi:

[skygazer]

5. No need to apologise

I'm not any kind of social butterfly, whether it's in bars or anywhere else. So you're not going to offend me by thinking it's superficial because I haven't set foot in a bar (unless it's a restaurant) for probably 20 years. Which is why I asked actually - I'd never heard the term "clubbing" until the last couple of years and wondered what the difference (if any) was between that and what my friends and I did back when I was about 19 (a long, long time ago ~sigh~).

We weren't doing it to "be and be seen", though. We did it to get drunk and forget about what a crappy dead-end life we had in our crappy, dead-end town. But the end result is the same, isn't it? :hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

8. Growing up in the major city of Switzerland,

I can't say we did it for 'escape.' It was fun, though, being with the right people. But I've grown out of it, and I think that's pretty good, because I once zapped through my tv-stations and watched a thing where Dieter Meier ('Yello') met Bryan Ferry ('Roxy Music') in Zurich and went with him (the guy was 1) totally bored and 2) totally apalled by Mr. Meier's ego) to all the cool clubs. Fun thing was that I saw the same people from 19 years ago still hanging out there, having their usual drinks, talking about the same stuff they were talking about years ago. What do you call vanity if the persons don't have realised yet that they're standing in front of a big wall, not moving anymore?

It was somewhat sad ...

I'm so deep tonight it hurts. :rofl:

Edit to add: Hey! I was around 20 then, too.

[skygazer]

10. Different worlds for sure

I grew up in a rural town in Vermont in the 70's. Economically depressed, high unemployment, the family farm which had been the mainstay of the economy was going down the tubes and nobody I knew had any real hopes for the future. Most of my friends were dead by the time I was 20, quite honestly - car accidents (usually fueled by alcohol), suicide and murder for the most part.

Yet some things are exactly the same. I used to see people in those bars who were in their 40's, 50's, 60's, sitting on the same stools they'd been sitting on for years. And I'm sure there are some of the same people I used to see out at night who are still there, my age, sitting on a barstool, getting older and going nowhere.

Yeah, it's very sad. Glad I got away.

[Call Me Wesley]

12. Exactly.

But I don't think these really are different worlds since the outcome is exactly the same. I'm glad I got away from the biggest city here and live now in the most rural town you can imagine. :)

[bigwillq]

4. To me, they're two different things!

If I'm going to a club to dance---I would say "I'm going clubbing"

But if I'm just going from bar to bar with no dancing involved---then I would I say "I'm going bar-hopping"

[LaraMN]

15. Exactly. Clubbing=dancing (& likely drinking,) bar hopping=just drinking.

:toast:

[skygazer]

18. Interesting

We always called it "going dancing." What a bunch of neanderthals we were!

[Burma Jones]

6. I Club Barhoppers

I bought a Camaro that way.....:silly:

[skygazer]

7. Wow, great idea

I love Camaros (old ones). :loveya:

[RetroLounge]

9. Clubbing is for Baby Seals

:hide:

RL

[we can do it]

11. Sippin' n Chippin'

When we go out for margaritas.

[madinmaryland]

13. I am opposed to clubbing

of seals.

:silly:

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. 'Clubbing' comes from GenXers' strange need

to turn nouns into verbs. :eyes:



"Verbing weirds language." ~ Hobbes

[skygazer]

17. Most sensible explanation yet

To use another annoying phrase, that should have been a no-brainer for me.

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. It might've been

if you'd brained it.



:hide:

[skygazer]

21. ..

:spank:

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. Spanking weirds buttocks

Not that this is necessarily a bad thing...

:evilgrin:

[Left Is Write]

19. It didn't start with the Gen X'ers...

Gen X is not responsible for "party" and "parent" becoming verbs! :P

The worst offenders are "office" and "gift." Those are nouns, dammit!

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. You're probably right

I remember "party" being verbed when I was 19. Dude wrote "partying" for an in-house PSA at the radio station where I jocked, and he pronounced it ve-ry dis-tinct-ly. I was like, "Whaa...?"

And I would've agreed with you about "gift" until recently, when the plethora of "gifting" around Christmas urked me to the point that I looked it up. "Gift" is indeed an accepted verb, according to Webster's and much to my chagrin.

But it still sounds stupid.

[Left Is Write]

28. Oh, I know.

"Gift" is accepted - just like "party" and "parent" and other previous noun-only words have become accepted. But I don't like it. WHY did "gift" need to become a verb when we already had a perfectly useful verb in the word "give"? Not only that, but its use frequently requires MORE words than if "give" had been used.

Why say "I gifted him with a book" when you could say "I gave him a book"?

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. Because — and this is just my hypothesis

people in certain positions that demand attention, i.e. marketing and PR, come up with "new" ways to express concepts they want the public to embrace. The public hears or reads these — with the help of a willing, avine media — and thinks, "Hey, that's a cool new word."

And the rest is histrionic. :eyes:

[Spider Jerusalem]

24. Not just Gen X'ers...

the baby boomers gave us "party" as a verb, after all (which I Personally find excruciatingly annoying...)

[Shine]

22. Since I don't really do either of those, I've got no opinion either way.

but thought I'd drop by, to say hello, nonetheless.

:hi:

It's been a while since I've done the bar scene...

[skygazer]

23. Same here

I'd feel completely out of place in a bar now and would probably be wondering what all these kids are doing out so late! :hi:

[Spider Jerusalem]

25. I just referred to it as "going out"...

haven't done it in years, or had any desire to...my 'lots of alcohol and drugs' phase has come and gone, and it's not something I'd do by choice while sober.