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Q: Do you like going to KTV's?
Although I get in a few laughs and enjoy getting out, I find going to KTV's rather boring and have no interest to go again.
It is usually to loud to have conversation, which sucks, and having to listen to someone sing becomes dull after 3 songs. The different dice games seem so simple, it is hard to keep showing interested. Same with playing 'Rock,Paper, Scissors' for more than 5 minutes at 2 or 3 times throughout the night.
I admire the people that can enjoy activities like this, I think it is a good quality.
It just seems so restricted, you can only play simple little games or listen to someone sing.
I love music, but I prefer to hear it when it is sung by the original artist, and played lower so we can have interesting chats and joke around. And the beer offers not much help, because I think it just makes me full and only buzzed.
Do you guys also find these outings kind of boring, or am I just being a stick in the mud.
11 years 35 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment - China
KTV is one of the most boring forms of entertainment in China. If someone from work says "we are off to KTV" I quickly say no have something on that night.
the times I have gone seeing people as you said singing 3 or more times and the mainly annoying Chinese music drives me insane to a point I would rather punch a cat to listen to something better. The worst part is when someone puts on a English song that they expect you to know and demand you start singing it when you have no idea of the song or a song from the 70's.
JungleLife:
I agree. They never had any English songs that I knew very well, or liked. They were shocked when I said I never knew the words to Lada Gaga's songs.
You mean KTV doesn't always involve young girls groping you, lots of beer and the fun of discovering that your 'room' has a hidden bedroom attached?
i never been to a KTV with a hidden bedroom ............but seriously yesterday i went to KTV and the day before that..........less going to nightclubs these days..no idea why........both are full of alcohol and ladies.......so i have no preferences...........both do the do for me
You are missing out. When I go to "normal" KTV with friends I will often create a playlist of songs...change the settings and just listen for a while.
People singing all the time is annoying for me but there is a solution...it is not always about the singing but the company you are with and the good time.
Singing a few songs here and there...playing the drinking games and then talking and laughing and even dancing is far more enjoyable.
You rent a room and buy the booze and snacks...anything else that happens after that is up to you and your friends.
JungleLife:
That sounds a little funner. I have always been the only foreigner there so that may mek things less fun too.
depends on who you go with, and how often, it can be boring for a westerner, but if you go with good friend, and some of them are good a signing it can be entertaining.
just make sure you dont go often
apart from that you should just look at it as a night to spend with your friends
I've never really been to one. I didn't drink much in China, don't know why. I saw a place downtown that had a lobby full of hot girls standing in lines around the entrance. I went into a KTV next to my apartment and all I saw was chunky girls walking around so I didn't stay. I met a few girls that said they were dancers in KTVs but they didn't sleep with guys. I'd rather see Go Go bars like Thailand.
Xpat.John:
I am sure I don't know what you are talking about, but... Yes!
TedDBayer:
I never saw any strip clubs in China either. I don't go to them at home. I might go to a Go Go bar if they had them at home.
I like getting drunk and singing carefree like an idiot.
If it isn't a drinking session I'm not interested.
I've been in KTVs few times, with different people and different activities, but I don't really like any of those evenings. It was just a kind of "business dinner".
I prefer drinking slowly (if any), and better not singing... (better for my friends, and other people around), and I'm not looking for KTV-style girls.
Sure, like thedude said - it is possible to just listen to some songs and act like in normal bar or party in friends' house. But... why to go to KTV then? 
It is like to hire limo with chauffeur but drive by myself
I would like go there with my friends,if go with stranger will make me not comfortable,shy to sing hehe,never go nightclub,will try go there oneday
No KTV anymore for me. As for the same reasons, as WhiteBear or brisguy also mentioned. Nothing to enjoy, even I am drunk enough and "try" to sing for few seconds 
. I really liked the house parties, we made with friends , when i stay in Yiwu. own music, own drinks, ice, own girls , own time arrangement. This i still dint find here in Shanghai. Anyone wanna invite me for some evening ? I will be happy to die 
There appears to be a major cultural difference between KTV / Karaoke in UK and almost every other nation.
In UK the whole idea of Karaoke is to get drunk and then set up your 'mates' to sing the most impossible song that will make them sound awful. The singing usually will strip paint of the walls.
Other nations seem to want to sing, that is about as foreign to Brits as you can get.
Of course China has yet another slant on KTV (from what I've heard) i.e. the brothel KTV.
maybe UK karaoke is "strange" then?
off course You know, that karaoke was born in Asia, so maybe asians way should be taken as a standard?
Hugh.G.Rection:
Oh yes I know that Karaoke came from Asia (I heard Japan) and totally accept that it's the UK that's strange.
It's the same as the old adage, if everyone else is mad, it's you that's insane.
I used to, but marriage and the kind of debauchery that KTV means to me are not conducive to a successful home-life. I guess I could try and tone it down but then it would just be a guy with a light-beer singing to a tv screen. Might as well be wearing a dress when that day comes.
