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Is anybody else getting excited about Arthur's Day?!

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    #92
    Dravokivich
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    fishy fishy wrote: »
    why would you have to pretend that it is someone's birthday to go out for a drink (unless you are a teenager that has to ask permission). Can't people just go out for a drink without having a "special day" marketed by a drinks company to tell them to do so. :D

    September is also JD's Birthday and plenty of events have been organised for it in the past. They do step up their advertising in September as well. A lot of spreads in newspapers a few weeks ago on it.


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    #93
    passremarkable
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    Arthurs day another mental idea that has caught on...sure lets have a day for irish stew and call it stewie's day!!any excuse...


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    #94
    BlimpyBoy
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    K3lso wrote: »
    Sounds like a cracking night, tbh.

    No!

    Enjoying a night out with few drinks and a bit of music can only be done when people aren't encouraging you to do it!

    If its marketed in any way you have to hate it!


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    #95
    Franticfrank
    Registered Users Posts: 260 ✭✭Franticfrank


    All this stuff about 'the Irish and an excuse for drinking'. Look around the place. The Germans are having Oktoberfest and nobody's batting an eyelid. I was in Hamburg recently and they had 'World Astra Day' to celebrate the terrible piss tasting beer they brew there. It isn't just the Irish and it isn't just Guinness. Calm down and partake if you want. Just avoid it if you're against it.


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    #96
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    fishy fishy wrote: »
    why would you have to pretend that it is someone's birthday to go out for a drink (unless you are a teenager that has to ask permission). Can't people just go out for a drink without having a "special day" marketed by a drinks company to tell them to do so. :D

    Ah it was just a running joke we had at work, there are 4 of us that regularly go out drinking together and for a few months we were pretending it was one of our birthdays every week, so it would be your birthday every 4th week :D. We would get other people out for it too saying it was a birthday drinks :pac:

    I don't need to be told it was stupid as it was just pure messing.

    On the Arthurs day thing, its good to have a "special day" as it will draw a big crowd into town meaning a better atmosphere, more craic etc than just a normal thursday night.


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    #97
    irish_goat
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    I'm working in the pub on Thursday, think I might crank the music up a notch at 5.55pm to drown out any idiots in the place.


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    #98
    Helix
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    bbam wrote: »
    I think the whole thing is stupid.
    It's a massive marketing stunt trying to turn some bloke into a hero.
    It stereotypes the Irish yet again, we already had a national holiday where we drink to excess, now we're developing a whole new "day" purely based on drink and nothing else.

    The sad thing is that the marketing is allowed to go ahead. It's repulsive, embarrassing and bad for our reputation.

    the actual idea is genuis, the embarrassing bit is that the irish have gobbled it up wholeheartedly. it should, by rights, have died very quickly


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    #99
    ghogie91
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    Should rename friday to ****ing tyres day then...


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    #100
    Seanchai
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    British company - that's Guinness, for those in denial - does test in Irish market to see just how thick the Paddies are by establishing a "feast day" to commemorate the Anglo-Irish maker of an English drink called porter who established a company with a rancid record of anti-Catholic discrimination well into the middle years of the 20th century.

    Paddies rise to the occasion, embrace this glorious feast day as being as Irish as Cú Chulainn and uisce beatha itself, and pass with flying colours. And to top this statement of Irish identity off, they'll probably watch British soccer on the tv.

    Ireland 2012: For what died the sons of Róisín?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54k-RmPcIDw


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    #101
    The King of Moo
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    Lillie Wet Stockroom wrote: »
    Ah it was just a running joke we had at work, there are 4 of us that regularly go out drinking together and for a few months we were pretending it was one of our birthdays every week, so it would be your birthday every 4th week :D. We would get other people out for it too saying it was a birthday drinks :pac:

    I don't need to be told it was stupid as it was just pure messing.

    On the Arthurs day thing, its good to have a "special day" as it will draw a big crowd into town meaning a better atmosphere, more craic etc than just a normal thursday night.

    You have a "You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here, but it Helps!" poster in your workplace, don't you?


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    #102
    Wee Willy Harris
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    Should be about stamping out this joke; that's on us tbh not adding to it.. the Irish! great bunch of drunken shreks

    Arthur sounded like a dapper character, tbh but they were more civilized times and there ain't no dudess around to try reason that one out of me.


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    #103
    vicwatson
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    I don't understand why you go to the pub to spend money on Arthurs day

    If there was free beer I'd go...but there isn't

    Piss off Arthur I say


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    #104
    Jelly 292
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    Im conflicted.
    I agree with all the observations re: Diageo /marketing and corporatism etc.

    BUT

    I like a Guinness and its €2 a pint in my local. I never have the cash to go to the pub really these days so its a nice opportunity to a have a few and not feel too ripped off.

    There will always be that lunatic element (temple bar vids on you tube) but Ill be avoiding that.


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    #105
    kincsem
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    We need to get behind these traditional festivals and roll it out to the market going forward.


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    #106
    yer man!
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    I like guinness and a lot of people I know will be around town that night so I kinda like that aspect, it's an excuse to gather a few friends together and have a bit a craic, it's a marketing stunt, I know, I don't really care..... I just like the atmosphere....


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    #107
    entropi
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    Am I excited? Am I fuck!

    Farce of a day, but a pure goldmine idea from Diageo. I'd say the person/team that came up with that idea probably got promoted with a nice payrise.


    Baaaaaaaaaaa! So many sheep!


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    #108
    yer man!
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    fishy fishy wrote: »
    just like Paddy's Day, Valentines Day, new Years' Day, I will be avoiding town like crazy on Arthurs Day. it's another "lunatic" day where everybody is "told" that its a great day and everybody should be out. its a marketing ploy. The end.

    I would rather go out when i feel like it to have a drink, not when some marketing company tells me to.

    Arthurs Day is a farce.
    So?


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    #109
    dodderangler
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    I'm off work thank god plan on headin t town at bout 3 ish
    Never been out on Arthur's day before I know shockin
    What's it gonna be like to get in places?
    Is everywhere in town tickets?


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    #110
    Heroditas
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    dodderangler wrote: »
    I'm off work thank god plan on headin t town at bout 3 ish
    Never been out on Arthur's day before I know shockin
    What's it gonna be like to get in places?
    Is everywhere in town tickets?


    You'll need a ticket to get into a large amount of pubs.
    I would regularly go to the Stag's Head for pints on a Thursday - AFAIK it's ticket only tomorrow.
    Would I buy a ticket to drink there? Would I fukk!!


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    #111
    kfallon
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    Heroditas wrote: »
    You'll need a ticket to get into a large amount of pubs.
    I would regularly go to the Stag's Head for pints on a Thursday - AFAIK it's ticket only tomorrow.
    Would I buy a ticket to drink there? Would I fukk!!

    Now this I have a problem with, regular drinkers in pubs being alienated by having to buy tickets to get into their local cos it's 'Arthurs Day'. That's not on, if it were me, I think I'd boycott the place for a while afterwards, take my custom elsewhere.


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    #112
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    Master of Nothing wrote: »

    Baaaaaaaaaaa! So many sheep!

    Whats so wrong with people using it as an exuse to meet up.

    Also I was talking to the owner of the spot where we usually drink and he said there would complementary Guinness stew and a free pint or two if we called before 6 on Thursday. It wouldn't be happening with out Arthur's day so its even a better idea than I already thought.


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    #113
    BlimpyBoy
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    Heroditas wrote: »
    You'll need a ticket to get into a large amount of pubs.
    I would regularly go to the Stag's Head for pints on a Thursday - AFAIK it's ticket only tomorrow.
    Would I buy a ticket to drink there? Would I fukk!!

    No tickets needed this year for any pubs.

    http://www.state.ie/news/primal-scream-mumford-sons-join-arthurs-day-bill


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    #114
    aidan24326
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    It was fine to have it as a 250 years celebration thing. That was a good idea. But carrying it on every year is just a marketing gimmick by Diageo and people should really just ignore it. If you want to go for a pint that night do so, but not because the marketing monkeys at Diageo told you to.


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    #115
    syklops
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    Seanchai wrote: »
    British company - that's Guinness, for those in denial - does test in Irish market to see just how thick the Paddies are by establishing a "feast day" to commemorate the Anglo-Irish maker of an English drink called porter who established a company with a rancid record of anti-Catholic discrimination well into the middle years of the 20th century.

    Paddies rise to the occasion, embrace this glorious feast day as being as Irish as Cú Chulainn and uisce beatha itself, and pass with flying colours. And to top this statement of Irish identity off, they'll probably watch British soccer on the tv.

    Ireland 2012: For what died the sons of Róisín?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54k-RmPcIDw

    Can i ask you. Where does this self hatred come from?


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    #116
    syklops
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    vicwatson wrote: »
    I don't understand why you go to the pub to spend money on Arthurs day

    If there was free beer I'd go...but there isn't

    Piss off Arthur I say

    Theres free beer in my local. Guiness donated an extra keg and the pub has passed the saving on to the clientele. Until the first keg is gone all guinness is free.
    some eejit wrote:
    Baaaaaaaaaaa! So many sheep!

    To be honest, there is me and about 1 other person on this thread who is in any way looking forward to Arthurs day. The rest is people who want to put it down. Us two aren't the sheep. People like you are.


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    #117
    Logical Fallacy
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    McBauer wrote: »
    Always a good night. I for one am looking forward it! Although I think one pint of the black stuff will be more than enough for me!!

    So you mean the one that existed was good. lol


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    #118
    Brendan Flowers
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    syklops wrote: »
    To be honest, there is me and about 1 other person on this thread who is in any way looking forward to Arthurs day. The rest is people who want to put it down. Us two aren't the sheep. People like you are.

    Well said.

    As I've said already in this thread, I (and thousands upon thousand more) are going out because we hope it'll be a good night, most of my mates will be out, there is gigs on around the city, money is raised for charities.

    Those people in this thread that have been moaning and b!tching about the marketing of Arthur's Day. I presume you don't use any products that are in any way advertised? You don't listen to any music by bands who have ever used an interview to promote an album/single? You only support sports teams that don't carry any form of sponsorship?

    Because if you do then I think that makes ye quite the hypocrites coming into this thread calling people (who are either going out tomorrow or worked on the Marketing at Dieago) all sorts of insulting names just because we enjoy Arthur's Day.


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    #119
    will1977
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    Anyone know where Mumford & Sons are playing tomorrow night ? :D;)


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    #120
    lee_baby_simms
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    I think Arthur's Day has become so commercialised in recent times. The true meaning of the day has been completely lost. Now it just feels like Diageo are exploiting binge drinking culture to make money and raise brand awareness.


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    #121
    CruelCoin
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    Huzzah, a false holiday to celebrate a drink i don't drink, the day after which, fully half my staff will be useless for the first half of the day.

    Thanks Diageo, needed that.


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