Cosmos Club? Private Clubs in DC?

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Anonymous wrote:What do people think of the Ned and the upcoming Executive Branch? Likely to displace the old guard?

Hahahahhahaa

I went to the NED the other day and I am also a member at another club and I won’t be joining the NED. Not my scene.

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Anonymous wrote:How do these work? I've spoken at a few events at the Cosmos Club, and found it super outdated and a bit grimey. How does this work for members? Like a country club restaurant?

Yeah, basically. The Cosmos Club hosts a lot of weddings. The Ned is attached to rentable event spaces and I think they share kitchen/staff resources.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been to them all many times, and I’ve been a temporary member of the University club after family pressure. Cosmos is great. Not quite my speed, but I’ve enjoyed every experience there. It is a great intellectual meeting place. University Club is filled with incompetent douches who believe they are experts at everything because they listen to the monthly watered down 45 minute talks. The type that get ahead (or stay where they are) because they wear suits when nobody else does in hopes that nobody will notice the incompetence.

What about the Met Club?

DP but I have been to the Met Club and it is something else. I can't believe it still exists. I saw Tucker Carlson there when I went for lunch with a member. A black woman attended the lunch with me and was very uncomfortable.

Can you share more about the Met Club? I’ve been courted to become a member. I grew up in Boston and we were members of Somerset Club. Met gives me the same ambiance.

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Anonymous wrote:A colleague is a member of the Cosmos Club. He is on the older side, yes, but he is extremely intelligent and highly regarded in our field so I don't imagine it being full of airheads who think life is about good plastic surgeons and St. John suits.

A friend is a member of City Tavern Club in Georgetown. Like University Club, its membership skews younger, but the members tend to be preppy/conservative, while University Club members are flashy. (Or douchey, as another poster eloquently said.) I have acquaintances at University Club; I have hung out at both and I prefer CTC.

The City Tavern Club closed Aug. 31 of last year.

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Anonymous wrote:Cosmos Club from what I’ve heard is for intellectuals. Army Navy for conservative, traditional types. And University club if you’re a massive new money douche.

This is ridiculous. The University Club is hardly "new money douche." The people that I know who are members (and I've considered it myself), are folks who want a consistent place to go that offers several dining rooms and workout facilities. I considered it b/c it was convenient.

The Cosmos Club is old! The building is kind of a dump.

its a beautiful building inside and out. recently renovated dining room too.

THe University Club has excellent food.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been to them all many times, and I’ve been a temporary member of the University club after family pressure. Cosmos is great. Not quite my speed, but I’ve enjoyed every experience there. It is a great intellectual meeting place. University Club is filled with incompetent douches who believe they are experts at everything because they listen to the monthly watered down 45 minute talks. The type that get ahead (or stay where they are) because they wear suits when nobody else does in hopes that nobody will notice the incompetence.

What about the Met Club?

DP but I have been to the Met Club and it is something else. I can't believe it still exists. I saw Tucker Carlson there when I went for lunch with a member. A black woman attended the lunch with me and was very uncomfortable.

Can you share more about the Met Club? I’ve been courted to become a member. I grew up in Boston and we were members of Somerset Club. Met gives me the same ambiance.

Here you go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Club_(Washington,_D.C.)

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been to them all many times, and I’ve been a temporary member of the University club after family pressure. Cosmos is great. Not quite my speed, but I’ve enjoyed every experience there. It is a great intellectual meeting place. University Club is filled with incompetent douches who believe they are experts at everything because they listen to the monthly watered down 45 minute talks. The type that get ahead (or stay where they are) because they wear suits when nobody else does in hopes that nobody will notice the incompetence.

What about the Met Club?

DP but I have been to the Met Club and it is something else. I can't believe it still exists. I saw Tucker Carlson there when I went for lunch with a member. A black woman attended the lunch with me and was very uncomfortable.

That's on her. The Met Club has been accepting blacks since 1972.

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Anonymous wrote:How much is it to join these clubs? How is it different from country clubs? No golf, but what does it have? Is it just for dining?

I don’t think it’s all that expensive but to join cosmos club you pretty much have to be a published scientist or Supreme Court justice.

No, lots of people like high up think tankers, high up government, chaired/tenured professors, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:The Cosmos Club is for people with brains, the Met Club is for people with money and the University Club is for people with neither.

Haaaaaa

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Anonymous wrote:The Cosmos Club is for people with brains, the Met Club is for people with money and the University Club is for people with neither.

Haaaaaa

It was funnier when Woody Harrelson said it in The Plumbers and it was already an old joke by then.

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Anonymous wrote:A colleague is a member of the Cosmos Club. He is on the older side, yes, but he is extremely intelligent and highly regarded in our field so I don't imagine it being full of airheads who think life is about good plastic surgeons and St. John suits.

A friend is a member of City Tavern Club in Georgetown. Like University Club, its membership skews younger, but the members tend to be preppy/conservative, while University Club members are flashy. (Or douchey, as another poster eloquently said.) I have acquaintances at University Club; I have hung out at both and I prefer CTC.

The City Tavern Club closed Aug. 31 of last year.

University Club is the home club of many local alum chapters so they have their events there so all UC members may join and attend those events as well for Harvard Club, Yale Club, et... plus many other events and speakers are there. Have been quite impressed with the events they have and also have been surprised how level people frequent the club. They like it because they are not bothered there by any other members and it is quite discreet and large.

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Have been to the U club and have been offered to join multiple times.

It's definitely the easiest club in DC to join and simultaneously the most striver with the weirdest groups of people.

It doesn't have the prestige of the Met, doesn't have inherent barriers like army navy and offers more than Georgetown so it attracts lot of late 20s to 30s people who want the "prestige" to be a member of a DC club but can't get into the Met and are really just transplants from Indiana who work for a trade association.

Don't believe me? Go there and spend a time by the bar and pool table and see the folks who come in and how they talk...

I say this with many friends and acquaintances who are members there...

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Anonymous wrote:Cosmos Club from what I’ve heard is for intellectuals. Army Navy for conservative, traditional types. And University club if you’re a massive new money douche.

No. It's simply for military officers, former or present. If you think they're all conservative and traditional, you don't know many.

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The Georgetown Club on Wisconsin Ave. NW made a concerted effort to attract some younger members. These clubs will die out if they don't get some younger members.

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Anonymous wrote:The Georgetown Club on Wisconsin Ave. NW made a concerted effort to attract some younger members. These clubs will die out if they don't get some younger members.

Are they really trying though? Most visual members for all city clubs still seem to be retirees