When kids were allowed in pubs...

nobodythere

Do you think that people behaved much better when kids were allowed in to pubs? After being at electric picnic where there's kids all over the place, I'm starting to think that people would be a bit more civilised if kids were in pubs.

I ponder this after a messy night of causing mayhem...

Honey-ec

Eh, kids are allowed in pubs. Where the hell do you drink?

nobodythere

After 9 phool!

DemocAnarchis

Absolutely, cheaper than a babysitter and after a few pints they'll be placid as you like.

chin_grin

grasshopa wrote: »

Do you think that people behaved much better when kids were allowed in to pubs? After being at electric picnic where there's kids all over the place, I'm starting to think that people would be a bit more civilised if kids were in pubs.

I ponder this after a messy night of causing mayhem...

I know a guy, who knows a guy who talks to Gary Glitter. He says he'd vote for you.......

whiskeyman

grasshopa wrote: »

I'm starting to think that people would be a bit more civilised if kids were in pubs.

Maybe the gardai should release van-loads of under 10 year olds around Dublin City around 2.30am each weekend night to quell the mayhem...

stovelid

Could work.

No babysitters, and bringing drinks up and down from the bar for their parents and friends all night would make a dent in childhood obesity figures.

Jet Black

Reminds me of the time I use to go the pub on a push bike with my dad Saturday when they opened til 5. Coming home he would crash so many times and just stop cycling until we fell off and said ' I forgot I was on a bike' or 'where you not cycling' Ah memories :-)

carlybabe1

Personally, I dont think kids should be in pubs. Sunday dinner is fine, but deffo not when the parents are guzzling. Nothin worse than seein the glazed look come into kids eyes when the ma & da are getting locked
Its boring for them, as well as unsafe

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

grasshopa wrote: »

Do you think that people behaved much better when kids were allowed in to pubs? After being at electric picnic where there's kids all over the place, I'm starting to think that people would be a bit more civilised if kids were in pubs.

I ponder this after a messy night of causing mayhem...

Depends. As long as the pub in question has facilities for kids. There's nothing worse than tired bored kids in a pub at 7 or 8pm.

kraggy

No thanks.

Imagine a load of kids off their tits on coke and tayto running around the place and crying cause they're tired/coming down.

Don't think so.

Bob the Builder

personally as a child(under 18 years of age), i would prefer to be in a pub having a quiet pint with my parents, rather than sitting at home trying to control my siblings or worse again, being under a tree, in a field, freezing my bollócks off drinking my 'Dutch'.

Tourism would also benefit, and going on holiday in ireland would be so much nicer, and then instead of dumping your children to a babysitter everynight, you can actually have an enjoyable "family holiday".

Another one of the government's great antics to pretend they're dealing with something when they're just making a situation worse.

Statistics have shown that pubs, suffered (1500 closed in the last seven years), and that ambulance calls for intoxicated teenagers increased significantly after the introduction of the '9pm laws'.

Doesn't matter, I'll just keeping paying people to go to the off-licence so I can get fúcked off my head on yokes and alcohol in a bush, while my parents worry fúckless about me, and i'll just waste my life when I could have actually been doing something productive while drinking - i.e "socialising" .

shenanigans1982

Or people could just realise that not everything has to revolve around drinking.

dr.bollocko

Nah the feckers are already ruining cosy coupley time in restaurants up and down the country with their constant nasal whinging. They can't take drinking time too.
With their tiny flailing fists always around crotch height.
Kids freak me out man.

magick

bringing kids in to pubs are you mad?

first off u pi$$ other pub goers off who want a chat not some toddler screaming and crying. Or crusie missle toddlers (u know the ones that u try and aviod and they still hit into you).

second what a wonderful childhood they would have growing up in a pub (yes yes i know the majority of the time they would be out of the pub) but still some the children would be bored $hitless and constantly complaining to the parents to go.

A pub is not a playground.

ejmaztec

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

Or people could just realise that not everything has to revolve around drinking.

It's after drinking that things start revolving.

dr.bollocko

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

Or people could just realise that not everything has to revolve around drinking.

Not everything has to revolve around snot-nosed sprogs feeding things to crocodiles all over the place either. Expecially not in pubs. Or restaurants. Or other public places of any sort.

It's a Fritzilating idea don't you think?

stovelid

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

Or people could just realise that not everything has to revolve around drinking.

It doesn't have to. I just want it to.

the_syco

People goto a pub to chill, talk to their mates, not to be screamed at by some kid.

The 9pm curfew is great.

Having worked in a pub, the parents thought nothing of bringing their kids in a buggy to the pub, and leave at 11pm, completely drunk.
And no, we couldn't deny them from entering the pub simply cos they had a kid or 6 with them at 9pm.

After the 9pm curfew, they'd bring the kids home, and come back. The place was then more relaxed to drink at.

Fajitas!

They're annoying little sh1ts.

What The Syco said - +1

Prof.Badass

I'm not saying i agree, but i think parents would drink less if their kids were with them.

It's not like parents will be bringing their kids with them on nights out, it'd just be that if they're in a pub for whatever reason they don't have to leave.

btw is it technically illegal for a kid to be at theaters, weddings, family occasions, certain restraunts, hotels after 9?

Many hotels (abroad) have family entertainment in the pub area at night, does anyone really have a problem with this?

R0ot

Speaking from someone who works in a pub, **** NO! Seriously I don't mind kids all that often its the parents that don't discipline them and tell them to stop running round the ****ing place. Irritating to say the least, because you know in about 5 minutes you'll hear *thump* then crying.... :mad:

DublinWriter

carlybabe1 wrote: »

Personally, I dont think kids should be in pubs. Sunday dinner is fine, but deffo not when the parents are guzzling. Nothin worse than seein the glazed look come into kids eyes when the ma & da are getting locked
Its boring for them, as well as unsafe

Ah...so now I know who to sue.

jdivision

vinylmesh wrote: »

I'm not saying i agree, but i think parents would drink less if their kids were with them.

It's not like parents will be bringing their kids with them on nights out, it'd just be that if they're in a pub for whatever reason they don't have to leave.

Yes they would and yes they did. I remember being about 12 and being in pubs and seeing other people's parent nearly passing out they were so hammered. My parents are virtually teetotal so they weren't like that but uncles and aunts certainly were

WooPeeA

In Germany you can buy alcohol when you're 16. That's the law. :rolleyes:

Tha Gopher

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

Or people could just realise that not everything has to revolve around drinking.

Christ I hate this attitude. Our social organiser on the team in work thinks similiar Organising film nights and Q-Zar sessions nobody bothers going to.

useful_contacts

grasshopa wrote: »

Do you think that people behaved much better when kids were allowed in to pubs? After being at electric picnic where there's kids all over the place, I'm starting to think that people would be a bit more civilised if kids were in pubs.

I ponder this after a messy night of causing mayhem...

ah i remember when i was likle my folks wuld bring me and my little sister 2 the pub on a sunday afternoon, give us a bottle of coke+packett of crisps each, and sit us in the corner.

i ****ing hated it!!!

TBH i hated it because id see people turning from happy people chatting about football to screaming people yelling "your team is ****"

Course when i hit 18 and was able 2 booze too i understood the transition- doesnt change the fact that when i have kids id NEVER let them c me in the state i saw my folks in every sunday night

Prob not what u ment but just my 2 cents

useful_contacts

dr.bollocko wrote: »

snot-nosed sprogs feeding things to crocodiles all over the place either

i see what u did there:D

ejmaztec

WooPeeA wrote: »

In Germany you can buy alcohol when you're 16. That's the law. :rolleyes:

That sounds as if it's compulsory. I like the Germans. Is there an opt-out clause when you need a liver transplant?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Tha Gopher wrote: »

Christ I hate this attitude. Our social organiser on the team in work thinks similiar Organising film nights and Q-Zar sessions nobody bothers going to.

Why bother havin a "social organiser" then? How hard can it be to jsut name a time and pub...?

DaveyGem

nevf wrote: »

rather than sitting at home trying to control my siblings or worse again, being under a tree, in a field, freezing my bollócks off drinking my 'Dutch'.

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Don't bring knacker drinking into this, it is an institution in this country...

Tar.Aldarion

kids in clubs better.