*Super exclusive nightclubs that only let “it” people in - What are they like inside?
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Packed full of assholes with more money than brains.
Why are they any more or less assholes than a bunch of meatheads with no money in a townie bar?
Not to hijack the hijack, but aren’t Iceland and Sweden expensive places to live in general, with the government taking an interest in alcohol sales in Sweden in particular driving up prices?
That goes for Norway as well. Our governments like to keep us from temptation by taxing all the goodies 
And yes, Iceland is generally an expensive country (Sweden much less so). Which kinda goes without saying since it’s a rocky island in the middle of the North Atlantic. We need to import pretty much everything.
Some do, at least. We splurged for bottle service in a VIP room at one of these clubs for a friend’s bachelor party here in the city. The answer to “Can I smoke in here?” was “This is a VIP area, you can smoke, do drugs, have sex… whatever you want.”
I asked if they had cigars, and although they didn’t, they sent someone out to a local shop to pick them up for us. Unfortunately, that’s as far as I tested our lack of limitations.
I don’t know about the U.S. but here in London there are lots of genuinely “super-exclusive” clubs.
e.g. “Bungalow 8” – this club is the darling of the tabloids, and I’ve no doubt that there are at least a dozen photographers outside every night. I went to their website just to see how hard it would be for a mortal to get in.
And, it’s only slightly easier than getting a camel through the eye of a needle – you need to be a member, and memberships are granted by a commitee which meets quarterly. The application form basically requires you to state how famous you are.
Deafeningly loud crappy music, pointlessly intrusive spotlighting, no room to scratch yer ass let alone turn around, nothing at all to eat and nothing but Red Bull and Cîroc to drink, and the women either aren’t available or aren’t women.
My ex-wife has been a bunch of times. She has friends who know people. I’ve always declined to go to those things because I hate bars/clubs of any stripe. Most of the time it’s been in L.A. If your name is on the list, you either have a separate entrance or jump to the front of the line in the main entrance. Then there will be a secondary VIP area which is a little less crowded but basically the same deal as the main area except that you are special. Finally, there will be a private room that’s more of a chill hangout area, usually with video cameras showing what’s going on in the rest of the club. The “private room” might actually be a very large room or a suite of rooms. She got into the super exclusive area of a club in London once and Paris Hilton was there too. Big whoop.
Other things being equal, the idiot paying $7/drink is less of an asshole than the one paying $25/drink.
The question becomes, do they have a Studio 54-style rule about the % of FreeBSD types that can get it?
[Cher Reference] "I know you’re Linus Torvalds, but you’re not getting in tonight! [End Cher Reference]
Hm. I can’t recall a situation in which I’ve thought “Wow, that guy’s an asshole” based on purchase price or amount of disposable income alone. Assholishness is behavior towards others, not really measured by disposable income. And, you know what, I’ve never been in one of those fancy clubs, but I’ve encountered a lot of assholes in country bars.
old fogey here asks what FreeBSD means, and context of Cher reference.
It sounds like bottle service in the U S is not the same thing as in Japan. Here it’s just for the night so you don’t have to wait in line at the bar or for a waitress to happen by. If you don’t drink it all they just toss it. I wish that my local hole in the wall had Japan style bottle service.
I believe it was a bit of punnery off of “IT” people. FreeBSD is a particularly computer-geeky operating system, and Linus Torvalds is a programmer who started the first work on Linux.
If you say so.