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Go to the pub or invite a few around?

  • 29-05-2008 10:20pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,715 ✭✭✭


    Just decided to start this in light of the ''Pub Trade'' thread.
    Would anyone here be more inclined to buy a crate of cheap beer in Aldi, invite a few around, listen to a few tunes and have the craic, as opposed to going out and really spending a lot of money? Nothing stopping one from going to the club after but I guess that defeats the purpose of staying in. I'm no tight arse either.

    What do you prefer? 47 votes

    Stay in, few mates, few cans, bitta telly?
    0% 0 votes
    Pub, rounds and so on
    100% 47 votes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭Pyr0


    Few mates around for sure ! Great laugh, no ques of the toilets, free food in the kitchen, beds/couches to crash on if needed, can actually hear the music and chat over it at the same time, few movies etc :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    beers, spliffs, mates, and youtube for those "you know what would be really cool to watch right now?"

    staying in FTW


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭anniehoo


    Sooo over the pub scene! Actually ..not totally true..i am over the 30 quid taxi to town, tenner/twenty into the "late" pub, 40 quid home (even though same distance as 5 hrs previous), the 5.10 beer that was 4.90 five minutes earlier,queuing for a manky bathroom...! The pub is actually the good part..but can have it all in my lovely apartment with the same people id have the craic with in the pub...and its only my fault if theres no toilet roll :D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    Staying in most certainly. So much more variation of entertainment available in someones house than in a pub.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Rhyme wrote: »
    Staying in most certainly. So much more variation of entertainment available in someones house than in a pub.
    +1

    Much prefer staying in these days, so much more to do whilst having a few cans/spliffs and it's much more cost effective.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Kavinsky


    I would rather have my friends around for a few drinks but it's impossible to drag them away from the pub. The same pub every week, every weekend, every match, every birthday, everything!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,715 ✭✭✭marco murphy


    A relative in Britain has a bar in the house, pretty neat stuff. You can also pretend to be a barman :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    It's the difference between €20 for a night and €100 for a night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,174 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    Go to the pub and then invite a few around! Makes for a very long drunken night!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭JC 2K3


    To socialise with friends, staying in is much better.

    The pub is only suitable for before heading to a club or with groups of people you're not that familiar with.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Cianos


    I prefer going out. Usually sitting in means everyone staring at the TV watching fcking South Park or Family Guy.:mad:

    Going out at least you get to meet new people, or meet people that you wouldn't usually see. If you go to a good club, there's good music and the chance to score :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,919 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    I like to stay in and have a few tins but once everyone starts gettin twisted it's time to head out. Luckily my local club is less than 5 minutes walk from my flat so no taxis or anything for me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    I like to stay in and have a few tins but once everyone starts gettin twisted it's time to head out.

    To avoid making a mess of your gaff?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,919 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Rb wrote: »
    To avoid making a mess of your gaff?

    Exactly. That's why I'd never have a proper house party.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There's nothing better than spending a Saturday night in front of a good film. Throw in some decent food, reasonably priced beverage and a few friends and you really can't ask for anything more.

    I'll often go months without venturing out on the town and then find that when I do go to the pub or club that I cannot wait to get home and just chill out with some friends. I think a major factor in many people heading out three and four nights a week is the notion that they have to get off with someone of the opposite sex at every opportunity. A friend of mine has to get with at least two different women every weekend or else he feels that it was a waste. He has only stayed in Friday night all year and that was Good Friday, though he did go into town at 12 in the hope that a oub or club would open.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 156 ✭✭reregholdsworth


    I've placed a thread about a possible home brew forum on the sys thingy.

    Those in favour, say aye

    please
    it could be useful

    unlike the ******* one for example


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,174 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    Don't dis the Mustard forum.....pet forum for one of the Admin's!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    problem is you can't meet chicks and get laid if you stay in. Simple as that.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    Cianos wrote: »
    I prefer going out. Usually sitting in means everyone staring at the TV watching fcking South Park or Family Guy.:mad:


    here's a mad idea, TURN THE IDIOT BOX OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Staying in ftw, i cannot be doing with the trying to get home at night, icky toilets, rude bar staff and drunken, vomit filled muppets


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    problem is you can't meet chicks and get laid if you stay in. Simple as that.

    Internet Escourts, they come around to your house


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Cianos


    irishbird wrote: »
    here's a mad idea, TURN THE IDIOT BOX OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I know, sounds so simple doesn't it? I think TV's should automatically detect when there are 3 or more people in a room and turn themselves off.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,715 ✭✭✭marco murphy


    Internet Escourts, they come around to your house
    What a fantastic idea :D Costs as much as going out though :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 243 ✭✭OrangeDaisy


    Staying in is definitely the new going out :D There's really little point in going out when you're in a relationship.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭Steve_o


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    problem is you can't meet chicks and get laid if you stay in. Simple as that.

    +1


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭Crann na Beatha


    This post has been deleted.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Living in Paris.

    Lots of my friends are bored these days with the 'drinking at home' lark. That's what we all did 10 years ago when we didn't have enough money to go out. Now that we do it's the pub pretty much all the time. Drink prices are mostly the same now for 5+ years, bars open all night, rare to find a lot of drunks, easy to find a bar/pub/cafe that suits your type of 'night-out'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 939 ✭✭✭Aurora Borealis


    Love having friends round. Means you don't have to put up with silly people annoying you in pubs. Much prefer pubs on a Sunday afternoon or something when it's quieter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    I'd prefer staying in with friends. The pub is overrated.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    My mates brother is having his 21st at his gaff tonight. Cue me and the lads heading up, scabbing a ton of free booze buying a half oz and going to play Smash Bros on his massive HD screen. If we get bored of that we may go join the party ^_^

    Rich friends' houses > Pub


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    I voted to stay in with mates and have a few ... But i don't think the question is asked fairly ... "Out having rounds" would be a turn-off straight-away for some people but if it was asked "out in the pub with mates" (omitting 'rounds') against "staying in with mates" as you'll have a laugh either-way, then i think the poll result would be different ...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Home, deffo, my main problem with going out is you literally cannot have a conversation with anyone the entire night, plus the price thing. But at the same time I go out at least twice a week, just coz if I was staying in with the same people the whole time (much as I enjoy the company of my closest friends and all), sitting around chatting to the same 6 or 7 people can get old.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,193 ✭✭✭[Jackass]


    When I have a girlfriend staying in with the lads / her and having a laugh.

    When single, pub all the way man, gotta go chattin!!


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