Nights Out!

3-4 average. Voted 4.

I voted 1.

Depends,
1st week after payday, 7
2nd week after payday, 5
3rd week after payday, 3
4th week after payday, 1

and so on...

Generally one, maybe two nights a week. Unless there's a rash of good gigs on or something. I tend to feel oversocialised and tense and cranky if I go out too much so I prefer to stay home more than I often get to.

2.5

about 4. it's usually friday and saturday, a weeknight gig, and drinks or something at least other night of the week.

is it a british thing to call shows that you are going to "gigs"? i just realized that i use that word when i'm talking about a performance that i'm giving, but never for a show i'm going to.

Well, 1) I am a musician so it might just be leakage. 2) actually, if someone said they were going to a "show" that could really mean anything from the theatre to a musical to a dinner-dance review. Gig is much more specific that I mean a rock band.

But I think it is common British usage? I'm probably the wrong person to ask.

I sometimes say concert. I don't like saying 'gig', mainly because I think it's an ugly sounding word.

Yeah, I was going to say that - "concert" would be much more common than "show".

I don't think gig is ugly, though, I think it's a pretty word. Reminds me of horses for some reason. And giggles, which are definitely pretty.

definitely much more commonly used in UK

pre-30's answer: 3-4; post: 1-2.

concert seems too stiff for something not in an auditorium of some kind.

3-4 nights out usually. 5 on a big week.

I'm not going mad. There is a link between gigs and horses.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cmtilbury/ttm/ttm_tilbury_inventory_gig_1839.gif

I don't have a problem with giggles, strangely.

Many is the time I've been at a concert wishing I had a seat, and hoping it would finish by half 10, or earlier.

Going out = a major failing in my life. Day time is fine though, if everything went on during the day, that'd be great for me.

One sure sign of getting older is that the presence of seats at a concert is reassuring, not annoying and restrictive.

Actually, that's where I'd draw the etymological difference between a gig and a concert. A gig is standing, a concert has seats.

One night every other week (lol last year of grad school)

e.g. I am pretty excited about this Saturday night already

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I go out every week or two, maybe. Ain't misbehavin'.

night on the town most fridays and saturdays, local pub at least once a week.

once a week, innit? maybe a little more on average, but i don't want to think about the damage that's doing to my already fucked-up bank balance.

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