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Where is the annual Good Friday thread?

  • 07-04-2014 11:32am
    #1
    logically
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭


    You know the one about whether or not it's a public holiday and whether the banks are open or not and the debate about pubs being closed and the panic buying of drink in the supermarkets on "Holy" Thursday...

    Where is the 2014 edition? I can't find it.


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  • #2
    everdead.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,153 ✭✭✭everdead.ie


    logically wrote: »
    You know the one about whether or not it's a public holiday and whether the banks are open or not and the debate about pubs being closed and the panic buying of drink in the supermarkets on "Holy" Thursday...

    Where is the 2014 edition? I can't find it.
    Don't forget that if you are a traveller you are entitled to a drink so buy a ticket to Galway and sit in Huestons bar if you are really stuck.

    Or on the other hand lets start a campaign to change it's name to "Lets all go to the cinema day!"


  • #3
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Here


  • #4
    CINCLANTFLT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭CINCLANTFLT


    logically wrote: »
    You know the one about whether or not it's a public holiday and whether the banks are open or not and the debate about pubs being closed and the panic buying of drink in the supermarkets on "Holy" Thursday...

    Where is the 2014 edition? I can't find it.

    Here it is:
    http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057184690/1/#post89819681


  • #5
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    everdead.ie wrote: »
    Don't forget that if you are a traveller you are entitled to a drink so buy a ticket to Galway and sit in Huestons bar if you are really stuck.
    Christ, it really is one law for them and another for the rest of us, isn't it?

    :pac:


  • #6
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    so is anyone buying a poppy in november?


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  • #7
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Them teachers have it easy don't they?


  • #8
    Davarus Walrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Davarus Walrus


    I get the day off work so long may this fine tradition continue.


  • #9
    Alf. A. Male
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Alf. A. Male


    Which town?


  • #10
    cson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,478 ✭✭✭✭cson


    [A] "Can ye not stay off it for one day of the year"

    "The State is supposed to be secular; its absolute bullshít this is still a rule"

    [C] "Sure just stock up on cans and have a house party"

    [D] "Atari Shaguar"

    **********************

    Every reply to this thread will invariably be a derivative of one of the above.

    Except this post; which is all of the above. :pac:

    Jinx.


  • #11
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    cson wrote: »
    [A] "Can ye not stay off it for one day of the year"

    "The State is supposed to be secular; its absolute bullshít this is still a rule"

    [C] "Sure just stock up on cans and have a house party"

    [D] "Atari Shaguar"
    /thread


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  • #12
    cson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,478 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Although, part of me thinks there'd be feck all about it if it was Good Monday or Good Tuesday. Just because its a Friday and the weekend and all that brings...

    Damn Jesus anyway for having the temerity to die on a Friday. :(


  • #13
    everdead.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,153 ✭✭✭everdead.ie


    cson wrote: »
    [A] "Can ye not stay off it for one day of the year"

    "The State is supposed to be secular; its absolute bullshít this is still a rule"

    [C] "Sure just stock up on cans and have a house party"

    [D] "Atari Shaguar"

    **********************

    Every reply to this thread will invariably be a derivative of one of the above.

    Except this post; which is all of the above. :pac:

    Jinx.

    Something something #YOLO .

    Jesus would have been a LAD.


  • #14
    Shiraz 4.99
    Site Banned Posts: 824 ✭✭✭Shiraz 4.99


    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .

    You can't beat a nice Angelus


  • #15
    Joe prim
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Joe prim


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Christ, it really is one law for them and another for the rest of us, isn't it?

    :pac:

    It's part of their kulchur:D


  • #16
    iDave
    Registered Users Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    So is fish really meat?


  • #17
    Talib Fiasco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    Most importantly the ethical issue of whether to eat the customary boiled beef for the Friday dinner or be religious and have the modern delight that is Lidl fishfingers....


  • #18
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,230 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    iDave wrote: »
    So is fish really meat?

    Sure there's enough trouble trying to decide what a fish is

    http://www.salon.com/2013/05/27/when_the_catholic_church_decided_beavers_were_fish_partner/

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #19
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    You're all right there Ted. It's a fair bit away yet.


  • #20
    sullivlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    Sure there's drink on sale in the RDS for the Leinster match that day!


  • #21
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    iDave wrote: »
    So is fish really meat?

    All steak is beef, but not all beef is steak.


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  • #22
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    cson wrote: »
    ...Every reply to this thread will invariably be a derivative of one of the above.

    Except this post; which is all of the above. :pac:

    Jinx.

    And this one, which consists of me saying that I don't usually drink on Fridays anyway! :D


  • #23
    keeponhurling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,344 ✭✭✭keeponhurling


    So pubs are not allowed to open (or is it just they cannot serve alcohol)? And yet it is not a national holiday that everybody gets off?

    Seems a little inconsistent


  • #24
    Davarus Walrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Davarus Walrus


    Always good to see posters who say they never visit pubs because the price of gargle is too expensive bemoan the fact that they cannot visit one on a Good Friday.


  • #25
    keeponhurling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,344 ✭✭✭keeponhurling


    cson wrote: »
    [A] "Can ye not stay off it for one day of the year"

    "The State is supposed to be secular; its absolute bullshít this is still a rule"

    [C] "Sure just stock up on cans and have a house party"

    [D] "Atari Shaguar"

    .

    Do we need a poll ?

    I vote for B


  • #26
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,811 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Massive session on that day. Good man Jesus


  • #27
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Usually head across the border but that tradition has died off over the last few years. Don't think I'll bother if there's gonna be no craic.

    I have a drink about once a month so went for the atmosphere more than anything else.


  • #28
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I'm amazed that Good Friday licensing law still exists. It does seem a bit ridiculous in this day and age. We usually drink a fair bit that day to try to get some sleep as the neighbours either side of us seem to lose the run of themselves and panic at the thought of not getting into a bar that night, so they have house parties. Fcuking hate house parties.


  • #29
    Santa Cruz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    everdead.ie wrote: »
    Don't forget that if you are a traveller you are entitled to a drink so buy a ticket to Galway and sit in Huestons bar if you are really stuck.

    Or on the other hand lets start a campaign to change it's name to "Lets all go to the cinema day!"

    Boards.ie are waiting for the "Would you wear an Easter Lily" thread and will release both on Super Sunday


  • #30
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    Why, in films, when a sword is drawn from a scabbard is a metallic 'schring' sound made?

    The majority of scabbards are made of materials like leather not metal as it would dull the blade.

    Mods, feel free to move this to trivial questions inside halfwits heads thread.


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  • #31
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    logically wrote: »
    You know the one about whether or not it's a public holiday and whether the banks are open or not and the debate about pubs being closed and the panic buying of drink in the supermarkets on "Holy" Thursday...

    Where is the 2014 edition? I can't find it.
    It's only 7th April and good Friday this year is 18th April?


  • #32
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    It's only 7th April and good Friday this year is 18th April?

    Today is "Bankholiday minus 9 work days" in my head.


  • #33
    Not G.R
    Registered Users Posts: 509 ✭✭✭Not G.R


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    All steak is beef, but not all beef is steak.

    Tuna steak...

    shotsfired


  • #34
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    I blame the bankers.


  • #35
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    I get the day off because it's a privilage day in my cushy public service job!

    \o/


  • #36
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    Can't wait for good Friday!

    Have the day off and me and my son are going to rip up the town and have a mad one!!!!

    Except for the hours of 12:00 - 1:30 as he will be having his nap then and gets cranky if he doesn't sleep. Two year olds, just can't hack the pace :D


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  • #37
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


  • #38
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    4 Day weekend hell yeahhhhhhhhhhh!


  • #39
    GenieOz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭GenieOz


    Good Friday does wonders for the off licenses in fairness. I say keep it.


  • #40
    evolving_doors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    Do ya know the secret knock?


  • #41
    orangesoda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭orangesoda


    Christ the mass schedule over Easter is hectic


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  • #42
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .

    You can't beat a nice Angelus

    I note, with some disdain, that your version (and god help us in this day and age when individuals think it's all about themselves and try to mangle tradition to fit into their own deleteriously unimaginative dreams of themselves) has only 12 bongs.

    You, sir, are a heathen.

    The number of bongs is 18. 3 sets of 3 bongs, followed by a rapture of 9 bongs.

    So it goes:

    Bong........Bong.........Bong

    Bong........Bong.........Bong

    Bong........Bong.........Bong

    And then BongBongBongBongBongBongBongBongBong.

    Now, I'm all for re-mixes, but your 12 bong version sucks.


  • #43
    Martina82
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭Martina82


    I find extremely depressing to see people lining up to buy drink on Holy Thursday.


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .

    You can't beat a nice Angelus

    Or a decent Bong


  • #45
    delw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    catallus wrote: »
    I note, with some disdain, that your version (and god help us in this day and age when individuals think it's all about themselves and try to mangle tradition to fit into their own deleteriously unimaginative dreams of themselves) has only 12 bongs.

    You, sir, are a heathen.

    The number of bongs is 18. 3 sets of 3 bongs, followed by a rapture of 9 bongs.

    So it goes:

    Bong........Bong.........Bong

    Bong........Bong.........Bong

    Bong........Bong.........Bong

    And then BongBongBongBongBongBongBongBongBong.

    Now, I'm all for re-mixes, but your 12 bong version sucks.

    Excellent :)


  • #46
    Mammanabammana
    Registered Users Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Mammanabammana


    I like to sit sipping a coffee in Temple Bar and watch all the bewildered tourists wandering around from pub to pub wondering what in the name of Thor is going on.


  • #47
    Bootsy.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭Bootsy.


    This year we've organised a massive Pagan orgy in the woods, it'll be way more flippin' craic than the pub.


  • #48
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    An orgy? In the woods? In April? You're a nutter. Having rotten branches and moss in one's ass-crack does not sound like "flippin' craic" to me. But I never did understand pagans.


  • #49
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Martina82 wrote: »
    I find extremely depressing to see people lining up to buy drink on Holy Thursday.

    I know.

    We should really spread it out over Holy Wednesday and maybe even Holy Tuesday too.

    Lighten the load a bit like.

    Every year we say we'll do that but we never do.


  • #50
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    I could never figure out which was was more pathetic.

    The fact that the fcuking church still dictates what goes on in this country or people not being able to survive one day without alcohol.


  • #51
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Super-Rush wrote: »
    I could never figure out which was was more pathetic.

    The fact that the fcuking church still dictates what goes on in this country or people not being able to survive one day without alcohol.

    Thats easy.

    It's the churchy bit.


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