When foreign travellers visiting our shores ruminate the national characteristics of Australia, drinking and partying is often featured towards the top of the list. This observation seems accurate as many of us enjoy the chaotic auditorium that is the nightlife scene and the boozing that goes along with it.
Being a guy, I shouldn’t be admitting I’ve even heard of the movie Mean Girls, which is one of the quintessential chick flick of the ’00s. But I bring it up because there’s a part where said girls are getting ready for a Halloween party and Lindsay Lohan comments that Halloween is the one time of the year a girl can dress like a total slut and other girls can’t say anything about it (something that Lohan took up 365 days of the year in real life!).
After having numerous DJs plug their music to the folks at Budweiser to try and become the biggest thing in DJing since David Guetta, now’s your chance to decide who’s the best of the best. We all had to vote for Kevin Rudd or Tony Abbott earlier this year, so why not vote for something you actually care about? The future of party music is at stake here!
Young Aussies who grew up on American movies and TV are already celebrating Halloween too, getting their friends to dress up and party like it’s the last night of their lives before they end up becoming the monsters they dressed up as. Though still nowhere near as big here as it is in the U.S., more Aussies are throwing parties at their houses or nightclubs to celebrate the day of witches, demons, ghosts and other ghouls. Everyone dresses up in wicked costumes, and it just simply kicks arse.
The toilet. Everyone has to go sometime, and many people have certain phobias and practices regarding going to the toilet. I’m not talking about the obvious like wiping your bum after giving birth to Mr Hankey, but I’ve heard so many people say how they don’t use public toilets or toilets at work and hold on until they get home (how do they hold it all in for that long?!). Imagine how these people feel about nightclub toilets!
Sometimes instead of going clubbing, I’m looking for a fun and varied Saturday night. Yes, I love dancing, but occasionally I get sick of sweaty strangers rubbing up against me all night. I still want to go to the city, but I want to do something fun instead of going clubbing or even before going clubbing. Seriously, why does no one want to do anything fun when they’re drunk anymore?! They’re all getting lazy!
1. Do not drink with people you don’t trust, or who you have had issues with previously.
Giving someone the opportunity to embarrass, harass or take advantage of you can be heightened when you’re intoxicated. This includes drinking with your ex-partner. Issues can arise from being drunk and in the same club as someone that you have previously had feelings for.
One article of ours that got heaps of attention earlier this year discussed whether nightclub photographers should consider the implications of taking raunchy photos of scantily clad girls making out and doing other provocative things (i.e. showing off their hot bods). Though that article was more so about how all this affected photographers, I’d like to take a stab at this issue from another angle; why are these bloody girls pashing each other to begin with?
Whether you have been to university or not, everybody knows that there’s a culture of boozing unlike any other surrounding student life. Even the university itself knows that a large part of the university experience is about enjoying borderline inappropriate nights out, using your special student superpower of finding the most lively places in any city by scent alone to get to the best and cheapest bars and clubs.
When planning a good night out, it is vital one always be aware of a certain nightlife nemesis that may strike at any given time. The trick in conquering your enemy is to know them. Here are a few common bad guys known for roaming the nights where liquor is flowing and fists are pumping.