Drinking in public

Nordwind

Shame it's so frowned upon here. It'd be nice to hop on the Luas home/walk home and just have a nice cold beer.

Never going to happen though, is it?

jameshayes

Doesn't stop most people.

Mr Magnolia

No, thank god.

Wagon

Nah. I'm wiating for some wanker in the Dáil to suggest drinking should be banned in pubs. Sounds stupid? Well look at everything else they've done.

Corcaigh84

My college days are sadly over, but I always liked walking downtown after a party with a cold beer in hand.

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And one in the back pocket

Nordwind

Mr Magnolia wrote: »

No, thank god.

Works well in other countries. Maybe I should replace other with better.

Puddleduck

Get yourself some drink, but be classy and put it in a brown paper bag, also grow a really long beard and wet yourself frequently.

See, for every problem there is a solution.

CountingCrows

Nordwind wrote: »

Shame it's so frowned upon here. It'd be nice to hop on the Luas home/walk home and just have a nice cold beer.

Never going to happen though, is it?

The 1st step is admitting you have a problem...

S.I.R

CountingCrows wrote: »

The 1st step is admitting you have a problem...

2nd is enjoying it till its frowned upon

Nordwind

CountingCrows wrote: »

The 1st step is admitting you have a problem...

Rarely drink. That's my problem.

stovelid

Nordwind wrote: »

Shame it's so frowned upon here. It'd be nice to hop on the Luas home/walk home and just have a nice cold beer.

Never going to happen though, is it?

Substitute Red Line Luas for Luas, and Dutch Gold for nice cold beer and your dream is out there, waiting for you.

Nordwind

This is what happens when you come back from Deutschland

stovelid

Nordwind wrote: »

This is what happens when you come back from Deutschland

Cheer up, Nordwind. We have to drink our beer in private, but at least our kids won't be conscripted into the Fourth Reich.

jim o doom

ah buses upstairs are grand for having a can on the way into town! Wouldn't probably bother on the Luas - journeys a bit too short, you would have to swallow the can fairly sharpish

matrim

In general it doesn't bother me but it is nice on the few sunny and warm days we have to head to a park and relax in the sun with a couple of beers

homerun_homer

I find it more intimidating in this country to see people on a bus/train/whatever drinking than in countries where it's allowed. Maybe because other countries I've been to don't have the reputation we have. Also, most of the time the people I see drinking on public transport are scumbags who would easily start on you.

Kintarō Hattori

Personally I think it's rather loutish and I can't help but think negatively about someone drinking in public.

You can drink in the pub, nightclub and at home. There's absolutely no need for you to drink in public. It looks bad and sets a bad example to our kids.

connundrum

If people drank responsibly in public then there'd be no problem.

Can't wait for the mayhem this Patrick's Day

Nordwind

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Personally I think it's rather loutish and I can't help but think negatively about someone drinking in public.

You can drink in the pub, nightclub and at home. There's absolutely no need for you to drink in public. It looks bad and sets a bad example to our kids.

Not quite sure how it sets a bad example to our kids. Think it'd be better for them to see people in suits drinking responsibly than some knackers with cans. I've seen it in other countries, countries ahead of us, and I think their kids are doing just fine.

kraggy

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Personally I think it's rather loutish and I can't help but think negatively about someone drinking in public.

You can drink in the pub, nightclub and at home. There's absolutely no need for you to drink in public. It looks bad and sets a bad example to our kids.

The reason it looks loutish is that the kids who are drinking in public places in this country are holding/carrying a lot of alcohol and are drinking in order to get pissed.

Whenever I'm in Berlin, I see 18/19 year olds on the U-bahn drinking, but they're only carrying one bottle. You stand in a supermarket and you see people go in to buy ONE beer to have for the walk to wherever they're going.

I firmly believe that because there are so many restrictions vis a vis opening hours and places to buy alcohol in this country, it brings out the child in us and makes us want it even more than if we had access to it all the time.

I also believe that if 24-hour off licences and pubs were introduced in this country that there would be mayhem for a while i.e. perhaps a few years, but that the next generation would be like "meh" and not be too bothered about going out and getting pissed.

Take the youth on the continent. You don't see them on the piss carrying cans and cans of cider around the streets. Even with hash in the Netherlands, very few young people smoke it.

It's because they're so readily available that teenagers there aren't bothered about making the offy in time to buy 6 bottles of buckfast.

Zangetsu

It would be great, many countries allow it but have VERY strict litter laws... Would only work if we introduced hefty fines for it...

Problem 1: We would piss and moan about the fines.

Problem 2: We would dispute the fines clogging up an already ****ed court system.

Problem 3: I don't think the Irish public would be responsible enough for it to work...

Oh yes and lets not forget about the drinking in public fines already in place... Haha it would actually have made more sense (and be more productive) to introduce fines for littering instead.

Silly silly government!

Quint

What happens if you try and have a few beers in Stephens Green these days? Would you get kicked out? I remember doing it a few times about 10 years ago with a small group of people on a sunny day and there was no problem. Loads of people seemed to be doing it.

Zangetsu

Quint wrote: »

What happens if you try and have a few beers in Stephens Green these days? Would you get kicked out? I remember doing it a few times about 10 years ago with a small group of people on a sunny day and there was no problem. Loads of people seemed to be doing it.

100 euro fine and your drink taken off ya...

Quint

Zangetsu wrote: »

100 euro fine and your drink taken off ya...

:eek:
I bet it was McDowell and the anti-fun brigade that brought in that one. Thank god he's gone, he really would have banned drink in pubs as someone said before.

Mr.Lizard

A lot of other cities/countries are cool about it. You can easily walk around Paris or Berlin with a bottle in your hand and no one will think twice about it.

The problem as I see it is that when you give an Irish person an alcoholic beverage they invariably overdo it and as a result turn into an anti-social idiot. If Irish people could drink alcohol responibly eg without
a) puking b) pissing against walls c) shouting in an agressive manner or d) fighting then you would find there would suddenly be no problem with people walking around the street with a beer in their hand.

BaconZombie

Another reason I love Berlin.

kraggy wrote: »

The reason it looks loutish is that the kids who are drinking in public places in this country are holding/carrying a lot of alcohol and are drinking in order to get pissed.

Whenever I'm in Berlin, I see 18/19 year olds on the U-bahn drinking, but they're only carrying one bottle. You stand in a supermarket and you see people go in to buy ONE beer to have for the walk to wherever they're going.

I firmly believe that because there are so many restrictions vis a vis opening hours and places to buy alcohol in this country, it brings out the child in us and makes us want it even more than if we had access to it all the time.

I also believe that if 24-hour off licences and pubs were introduced in this country that there would be mayhem for a while i.e. perhaps a few years, but that the next generation would be like "meh" and not be too bothered about going out and getting pissed.

Take the youth on the continent. You don't see them on the piss carrying cans and cans of cider around the streets. Even with hash in the Netherlands, very few young people smoke it.

It's because they're so readily available that teenagers there aren't bothered about making the offy in time to buy 6 bottles of buckfast.

connundrum wrote: »

If people drank responsibly in public then there'd be no problem.

Can't wait for the mayhem this Patrick's Day

Only found out that it was legal to drink on the underground in London after fecking Boris banned a few months ago.

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

A lot of other cities/countries are cool about it. You can easily walk around Paris or Berlin with a bottle in your hand and no one will think twice about it.

The problem as I see it is that when you give an Irish person an alcoholic beverage they invariably overdo it and as a result turn into an anti-social idiot. If Irish people could drink alcohol responibly eg without
a) puking b) pissing against walls c) shouting in an agressive manner or d) fighting then you would find there would suddenly be no problem with people walking around the street with a beer in their hand.

jimmyneo1

Yeah Boris banned it last Summer, people seem to be sticking to the law as well from what I've seen.
Was one hell of a party on the Circle line on the last night though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7430133.stm

Highsider

Anyone who drinks a can of beer on a luas/bus/train is a lout. End of

thebigcheese22

Zangetsu wrote: »

100 euro fine and your drink taken off ya...

Yup happened to me once!


Needless to say I learnt my lesson

Mr.Lizard

Highsider wrote: »

Anyone who drinks a can of beer on a luas/bus/train is a lout. End of

Does that include the driver?

Kiith

I've had a few beers in Phoenix Park while playing football before. Didnt seem loutish or antisocial or whatever. It was a hot day, we were outside, and it was a few cold drinks. Sounds good to me.

stovelid

While on the Luas, I always find that a one-litre lucozade bottle filled with cider adequately quenches a chap's thirst without drawing misinformed lout comparisons from the Legion of Mary brigade. A sports bag with a sweaty towel peeking out may also be used as an additional accessory for the amateur.

RaverRo808

Theres small cans of jim beam and coke for sale in the off licenses,they look like just normal cans of coke,the odd day the way home from work,Id buy two and have a swig,nobodies the wiser

BaconZombie

I've been stopped a few time over the last week or two by a rent-a-cop security "person" while drinking a can of Monster energy because they thought it was a can of guinness

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Zangetsu wrote: »

Problem 3: I don't think the Irish public would be responsible enough for it to work...

Bingo.

Highsider wrote: »

Anyone who drinks a can of beer on a luas/bus/train is a lout. End of

What about the U-bahn?

The difference between the continent and Ireland is where you're drinking it, versus why you're drinking it.

Katniss everMean

Drinking on public transport and on streets drives me mad, mostly for the fact that its usually very drink teenagers, that end up getting sick down the back of the bus, and causing trouble. Outside on the canal on a warm day would be nice

Zangetsu

Angelkat7 wrote: »

Drinking on public transport and on streets drives me made, mostly for the fact that its usually very drink teenagers, that end up getting sick down the back of the bus, and causing trouble. Outside on the canal on a warm would be nice

Have you been drinking?

Thomas_S_Hunterson

RaverRo808 wrote: »

Theres small cans of jim beam and coke for sale in the off licenses,they look like just normal cans of coke,the odd day the way home from work,Id buy two and have a swig,nobodies the wiser

They're something ridiculous like 3 quid though aren't they?

Katniss everMean

Zangetsu wrote: »

Have you been drinking?

Extremely groggy kat is extremely groggy!

Quint

Sean_K wrote: »

They're something ridiculous like 3 quid though aren't they?

Yeah, the naggen of JD and bottle of coke is much better value. Those cans are pricey. Do they even use real coca-cola?

ScumLord

You'd just get alco's begging at bus/tram stops looking for the double whammy of drink and/or money.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

So, we've gone from trying to convince people we're not alcoholics to sharing methods of hiding booze on public transport...

Zangetsu

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

So, we've gone from trying to convince people we're not alcoholics to sharing methods of hiding booze on public transport...

People are starting to open up in this thread :P

So how about it, those of you that think people are loats for drinking in public, ya's actually have an emergency nagan in you pocket for work dont yas? Don't lie!

jester77

Quint wrote: »

Yeah, the naggen of JD and bottle of coke is much better value. Those cans are pricey. Do they even use real coca-cola?

You should have asked if they use real whisky!

BaconZombie

I'm currently looking for a Geek or Zombie related hip-flask

Zangetsu wrote: »

People are starting to open up in this thread :P

So how about it, those of you that think people are loats for drinking in public, ya's actually have an emergency nagan in you pocket for work dont yas? Don't lie!

Degsy

Quint wrote: »

What happens if you try and have a few beers in Stephens Green these days? Would you get kicked out? I remember doing it a few times about 10 years ago with a small group of people on a sunny day and there was no problem. Loads of people seemed to be doing it.

I did that for years.
Technically you werent supposed to do it but as long as you werent raising merry hell the keepers didnt mind too much.
Some days i feel like doing it now just to see what would happen.

Hazys

They section off a part of Shop Street during the Galway Races and allow people to wonder from pub to pub with their drink (as long as its not glass), its a great laugh. Although if they serve u a pint of Guinness in a glass and u want to leave the pub u gotta pour it into a plastic glass...its rough.

Its pretty cool but i guess it should never become the norm as we drink too much anyway and we'd literally take the piss out of the situation. Imagine if you were allowed to drink on the streets then after the night club is closed youd have droves upon droves of people drinking till 4 or 5 in the morning on the streets causing all sorts of havoc.

We are not a mature enough nation when it comes to drinking, it never should become easier for us to drink because we drink too much already.

KTRIC

Its allowed here in Germany. A decent bottle of beer will set you back the princely sum of 65c , whereas a bottle of Coke is just over double that.

I know what I'd choose.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Hazys wrote: »

We are not a mature enough nation when it comes to drinking, it never should become easier for us to drink because we drink too much already.

Seems to me that things get worse every time the rules get stricter.

Maybe the government should try something new. Clearly the present tactic is ridiculous.

RKDus

Puddleduck wrote: »

Get yourself some drink, but be classy and put it in a brown paper bag, also grow a really long beard and wet yourself frequently.

See, for every problem there is a solution.

Well three out of four isn't bad, and I'll have the beard in no time.

Tchaikovsky

Nordwind wrote: »

This is what happens when you come back from Deutschland

For you, ze drinking in public is over