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gamblore99
10-10-2005, 01:29 AM
After much arguing and driving, me and some friends agreed to go to a lounge/bar place. One of the girls in our group in the front goes ahead. When it comes time for my friend to show id, they won't let him in because he is wearing sandals and sandals are not allowed. My friend (mr. sandals), points out that the girl in our group who was just let in was wearing sandals. Doorman explains that they want to get as many girls as possible, and the girls want well dressed guys. SO no men with sandals. Sandals starts getting upset, bitching about how stupid and unfair this policy is. He is yelling and screaming. The doormen gets the bouncer to kick my friend out, and I go and collect the others. We all go the bar next door. Sandals complains for a good half hour about how stupid the doorman was.
Who is the douchebag here?
shant
10-10-2005, 01:30 AM
Sandals to a bar?
ThaSaltCracka
10-10-2005, 01:30 AM
both your friend and the bouncer were douchebags.
Sandals... no question. Policy is policy no matter how stupid it is.
TheMainEvent
10-10-2005, 01:32 AM
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Who is the douchebag here?
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Probably everybody
imported_anacardo
10-10-2005, 01:34 AM
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Policy is policy no matter how stupid it is.
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I've killed men for less.
tonypaladino
10-10-2005, 01:36 AM
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Sandals to a bar?
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Ulysses
10-10-2005, 01:36 AM
Your friend, of course.
nothumb
10-10-2005, 01:37 AM
Your friend played it pretty poorly. Yelling and screaming at the doorman will only convince him that he doesn't belong. The best play is to point out to the doorman that he's with a group of classy people that doesn't want to split up. That he has brought women with him. Etc. Or if necessary that he has brought some friends with green faces. Depends on how badly you guys want to go in this place. Staying cool and being reasonable are the only chance he has.
The fact that he got denied due to sandals, the fact that he was wearing sandals, and the fact that he handled it so poorly tells me that the guy was probably some shlub in scuffed-up carpenter pants wearing a Billabong t-shirt with ketchup stains on it, and that's why he got played.
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gamblore99
10-10-2005, 02:22 AM
ya, I thought he played it really badly. After he was escorted out I apoligized to the doormen and he apologized right back, and said we were welcome anytime with proper dress atire. But looking back I also think the doorman was a douchebag, because he really could have let him in.
mason55
10-10-2005, 02:24 AM
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Your friend, of course.
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Seriously. Unless I'm going to [censored] Damon's or something I would never even imagine wearing sandals to a bar. Who the [censored] wears sandals when they're not at the beach, anyways /images/graemlins/confused.gif
Do you people have any sense of style?
mason55
10-10-2005, 02:25 AM
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ya, I thought he played it really badly. After he was escorted out I apoligized to the doormen and he apologized right back, and said we were welcome anytime with proper dress atire. But looking back I also think the doorman was a douchebag, because he really could have let him in.
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If the bar's policy is no sandals then no, he couldn't have. That's the point of the policy. No sandals. If the bouncer lets a ton of people who violate dress code he loses his job. That simple.
I don't know what kind of bar this was but most bars I go to, I would be kind of pissed to run into douche bags wearing sandals on a saturday night.
Actually I'd laugh because I know the girls at the bars I go to would laugh at them for wearing sandals.
Voltron87
10-10-2005, 02:30 AM
no sandals means no sandals, not that unreasonable.
TeeJayORTj
10-10-2005, 02:41 AM
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Your friend, of course.
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Seriously. Unless I'm going to [censored] Damon's or something I would never even imagine wearing sandals to a bar. Who the [censored] wears sandals when they're not at the beach, anyways /images/graemlins/confused.gif
Do you people have any sense of style?
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My thoughts on sandals to the bar is that it can only be pulled off at campus dive bars mid week. But yeah generally on any thursday through saturday night its just plain pathetic.
imported_anacardo
10-10-2005, 02:44 AM
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I don't know what kind of bar this was but most bars I go to, I would be kind of pissed to run into douche bags wearing sandals on a saturday night.
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The very idea of giving a [censored] about something like this makes my head start to hurt.
My standards of dress exist solely to please other people, because sometimes they care, and I never do.
tonypaladino
10-10-2005, 02:44 AM
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no sandals means no sandals, not that unreasonable.
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Yeah, I've seen people thrown off the Webster Hall line for wearing shoes that kinda look like sneakers. A no sandle rule is not unreasonable.
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ya, I thought he played it really badly. After he was escorted out I apoligized to the doormen and he apologized right back, and said we were welcome anytime with proper dress atire. But looking back I also think the doorman was a douchebag, because he really could have let him in.
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No sandals are allowed. What's the big deal? Go somewhere else, or grease the doorman- it's really that simple. Arguing will get you nowhere… learn this early in life….
uw_madtown
10-10-2005, 03:09 AM
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My thoughts on sandals to the bar is that it can only be pulled off at campus dive bars
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Correct.
There are a select few places that I feel sandles are appropriate, and they're all campus dive bars. Which are fun places to go, don't get me wrong -- but given that you were going to a place with ANY kind of dress code, your friend shouldn't have been wearing sandles.
DasLeben
10-10-2005, 03:17 AM
I went to a bar in Scottsdale the other night with sandals on. Nobody said a damn thing. Really, who cares?
bernie
10-10-2005, 03:39 AM
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Sandals starts getting upset, bitching about how stupid and unfair this policy is. He is yelling and screaming.
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Of course, this always looks sexy and turns on all the women within earshot. Sounds like a whiny bitch. Why make a big scene that makes everyone he's with look kinda bad?
If I was driving, I'd have been tempted to let him walk home while I go in the bar.
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goofball
10-10-2005, 03:48 AM
I don't have any experience here but it sounds like the kind of thing that might be fixed by a $20 bill.
DarkForceRising
10-10-2005, 03:58 AM
Your friend. Sandals on guys are gay. Tell your douchebag pal that he is a total [censored] and did not get even close to what he deserved.
DasLeben
10-10-2005, 04:10 AM
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Sandals on guys are gay.
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Do you have ANY idea of just how many guys wear sandals?
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10-10-2005, 04:11 AM
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Sandals on guys are gay.
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Do you have ANY idea of just how many guys wear sandals?
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Roughly 10%?
DasLeben
10-10-2005, 04:13 AM
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Sandals on guys are gay.
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Do you have ANY idea of just how many guys wear sandals?
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Roughly 10%?
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It was a rhetorical question, but sure. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Cancuk
10-10-2005, 04:21 AM
Pretty much every club in Montreal doesn't allow sandals/hats.
Many don't allow 'baggy pants' or tennis shoes.
Sandals and jogging pants are for slobs
Bukem_
10-10-2005, 04:45 AM
YOur whole group is retarded for not making sure everyone fits the dress code for the place you are going.
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I don't know what kind of bar this was but most bars I go to, I would be kind of pissed to run into douche bags wearing sandals on a saturday night.
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The very idea of giving a [censored] about something like this makes my head start to hurt.
My standards of dress exist solely to please other people, because sometimes they care, and I never do.
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Thank you. Agreed fully. I can't believe the silly elitism of some of the people responding.
Granted, I don't nor will I ever wear sandals, but that's not the point. Also, it's certainly not the doorman's fault - I'm sure he's just doing what he's told - he doesn't implement the policies, I'm sure that he only enforces them. I suppose had you planned to go for a night on the town that might include such bars, your friend should have prepared - I know I've "dressed up" to accomodate for whatever vanity level the bar patrons need to have around them in order to feel like it's "worth their money".
The real problem here is that you and your friends haven't realized the irony that bars with dress codes always attract people whose definition of "partying" is just spreading their own vanity instead of being personable. Seriously, anytime I go to a bar, there's a distinct correlation - the more the cover and the stricter the dress code, the more "MTV JAMZ" the music is and the more retarded the average patron is. Well - I have been to some cool jazz clubs - so let me edit that to any bar with a dress code mostly populated by twenty-somethings. People who are looking to "be seen" go to these types of bars, people who are looking to have fun go to bars without a dress code. I have no problem with dressing up or having one's own style - I certainly have my own - but I don't like the idea that "your style must be X level" - if you can be stylish with sandals, go for it! I've seen many people rock chuck taylors and look far better than people in armani suits. The idea that you have to be some sort of "level" in order to do something as primal as get drunk and try and get laid is absurd.
So in summation, your friend should thank the bouncer for saving him the astronomical amounts of money that he would have paid for drinks at that bar in order to have less fun than a bar full of less shallow people. And if the girls went in without you guys, he should also thank the bouncer for exposing what twats the girls are.
You're welcome.
addendum - despite all that I said about the dress codes - if your friend really was "yelling and screaming", he definitely was at fault. that's pretty lame.
Dave G.
10-10-2005, 07:14 AM
Everyone should be aware that a lot of nightclubs have policies which allow the girls to wear and do pretty much whatever the hell they want while the guys have to abide by stricter rules. It's shitty but that's the way it is, deal with it. Whining like a brat at the door isn't going to change the doormans mind and is just going to make the whole lot of you look like rejects. You become a beta male by association.
But honestly, sandals to a bar? My sense of fashion is terrible but even I wouldn't try and pull this disaster off.
Your friend it's their bar , not your friends.
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HopeydaFish
10-10-2005, 02:27 PM
Ugh...I've always noticed that if I go out bar-hopping with a big enough group of people, there will always be some tard in the group wearing sandals, or ripped jeans, or who shows up totally wasted etc... that is bound to prevent him from being let into a bar at some point. I'm quite convinced that half the time peopel that do this are only doing it so that they can cause a scene outside the bar when they're not permitted entry. It's an attention-whore thing.
Army Eye
10-10-2005, 02:41 PM
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I don't know what kind of bar this was but most bars I go to, I would be kind of pissed to run into douche bags wearing sandals on a saturday night.
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Wow. I think you need help..
steelcmg
10-10-2005, 02:48 PM
I went to a bar about 2 years ago and the Eagles just got done playing a sat night game and won. So i had on my Mcnabb jersey and we went this bar. They told me i couldnt come in wearing the jersey because it had to do with gang stuff. I was like WTF do i look like im in a gang. So i had to take the jersey off and have it hang out of my pants which was ok. I think this was pretty crappy and the only reason we went to that bar is because of a girl my one friend wanted to get with. The place wasnt classy or anything just a college bar. Lets just say we never went back after this and the place has sence closed its doors.
canis582
10-10-2005, 02:54 PM
What the doormen will let you get away with wearing is very conditional. There is one place we used to go where you had to be nicely dressed to get in: no shorts, no sneakers, no sandals, your shirt cant have any words on it.
So my buddy rolls up in a hawaiian shirt, a leather jacket, shorts and birks. He got in because he's cool and looked and acted like he belonged there.
imported_The Vibesman
10-10-2005, 02:55 PM
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Doorman explains that they want to get as many girls as possible, and the girls want well dressed guys. SO no men with sandals...Who is the douchebag here?
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All of you. It's a bar for douchebags.
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