Goddamn stupid licensing laws.

The Mad Hatter

Does anyone know where I can join the (presumably long) queue to assassinate whatever idiot decided that ten o'clock is a good time to close off-licenses?

Edit: just noticed I have leet posts

dr.bollocko

No matter what county you are in I have figured out a foolproof way of getting booze at 11:15pm.

Go to the fecking pub.

Captain-America

It's there to stop scumbags from being scumbags.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I'm nipping down the garage in half an hour. How many do you want?

admiralofthefleet

dr.bollocko wrote: »

No matter what county you are in I have figured out a foolproof way of getting booze at 11:15pm.

Go to the fecking pub.

i have a foolproof way of getting cans at 11:15

get a job in a pub

Saibh

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

I'm nipping down the garage in half an hour. How many do you want?

Are you going to charge him extra for the airfare

The Mad Hatter

dr.bollocko wrote: »

No matter what county you are in I have figured out a foolproof way of getting booze at 11:15pm.

Go to the fecking pub.

a) Pub's too far to walk in this weather

b) I like my drinks to be served without **** music played at a volume that requires screaming at my friends to socialise

c) Drink in the pub's too damned expensive.

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

I'm nipping down the garage in half an hour. How many do you want?

A naggin of Jameson, cheers.

HarryPalmer

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Does anyone know where I can join the (presumably long) queue to assassinate whatever idiot decided that ten o'clock is a good time to close off-licenses?

Edit: just noticed I have leet posts

You need to speak with Fianna Fail, a great bunch of publicans. The killing queue is very, very, very f'ing long, though. Keep something handy for when they come looking for the vote, or "opportunity knocks". Build a stash of UK-purchased booze, run over to remove any photonic fleas and other trouble.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Saibh wrote: »

Are you going to charge him extra for the airfare

I assume he's coming over to help drink them...?

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

a) Pub's too far to walk in this weather

b) I like my drinks to be served without **** music played at a volume that requires screaming at my friends to socialise

c) Drink in the pub's too damned expensive.



A naggin of Jameson, cheers.

That, unfortunately, is about the one thing they don't sell. I'll have to get on the Metro for that one.

Saibh

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

I assume he's coming over to help drink them...?

No response from the op, either he has gone to the pub or the nearest airport

The Mad Hatter

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

I assume he's coming over to help drink them...?

Oh, I assumed you were joking...er...I live in Sligo?

Biggins

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Does anyone know where I can join the (presumably long) queue to assassinate whatever idiot decided that ten o'clock is a good time to close off-licenses?

Well seeing as a LOT of Fianna Failers are publicans, it should come as no surprise that... "O' look, if we close the off lecies at an earlier hour (using another excuse) we get to send them into pubs for more drink and maybe they will actually stay there..."

Sharpshooter

At those prices!
I do hope they are all holding their breath.

brianthebard

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Oh, I assumed you were joking...er...I live in Sligo?

Surely there's some sort of speakeasy establishment/blackmarket dealer in Sligo at this stage? I know of two places in Galway that sell booze after hours (not mentioning who or where in case they get shut down! :pac: ) just think about places where drunks congregate and try those businesses, you might be pleasantly surprised.*







*although you still probably won't get a naggin....

Sharpshooter

Not till he gets home anyway.

Gavin "shels"

Yup it's a pain in the arse all together. Although I do know a pub which illegaly sells cans after 10pm, but they're a feckin' rip off.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Oh, I assumed you were joking...er...I live in Sligo?

More rubbing it in :pac: and pointing out the fact that there are places that have more liberal licencing-laws combined with less alcohol-related crime might help your petition.

portomar

seriously its my biggest gripe with the government. sink the country into a debt spiral, make us a financial laughing stock all you want, just let me get alcohol at any hour of the day or night and ill not want to scith you in half...seriously, what is the story with our licensing laws?? damn fianna fail publican Ba*tards! they'll be glad if im out of the country before the next election, if im there whatever poor ba*tard knocks on my door is gettin an earfull. i love doing it to the fu*kers.

my fave was at my front door a few years ago, bout to head out, some chap posts a pd leaflet into my letterbox. i posted it straight back out. shoulda seen his face

Jamfan

I too thought that you could get a carry out from the pub if you're still there at closing at 11:30, but apparently that's not allowed. Was in a pub a while back and they said that was done away with too... and in case you think they were taking the p1ss, the (newly renovated at vast expense) pub was empty apart from us stragglers and they could well have done with all the extra income that God sent them.

This law was passed by Government ministers who are detached from any semblance of reality. They can drink themselves into oblivion at subsidised rates at the Dail Bar and have there drunken, jowelly arses chauffeured home.

I'll tell you one thing that's for certain, if a Fianna Fail minister is at home and decides he wants booze after 10 o'clock, he will get his booze. He will dispatch his (Garda) chauffeur (if he's not busy collecting his niece or sister or whoever from the nightclub) to the nearest hotel and I guarantee you that booze will be provided.

By the way, this IS a Fianna Fail law, for sure... but from a different aspect of Fianna Fail. It is not coming from the Haughey-Lawlor-Flynn-Burke-et al golden circle sleazy end of things - anything but, this one is from the curmudgeon 1950s De Valera school of thought

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

portomar wrote: »

seriously its my biggest gripe with the government. sink the country into a debt spiral, make us a financial laughing stock all you want, just let me get alcohol at any hour of the day or night and ill not want to scith you in half...seriously, what is the story with our licensing laws?? damn fianna fail publican Ba*tards! they'll be glad if im out of the country before the next election, if im there whatever poor ba*tard knocks on my door is gettin an earfull. i love doing it to the fu*kers.

my fave was at my front door a few years ago, bout to head out, some chap posts a pd leaflet into my letterbox. i posted it straight back out. shoulda seen his face

Some politcian came to my doorstep with the mantra of tougher sentences against rapists and child molesters. For the sheer hell of it, I told him I was a registered sex offender. End of conversation.

portomar

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Some politcian came to my doorstep with the mantra of tougher sentences against rapists and child molesters. For the sheer hell of it, I told him I was a registered sex offender. End of conversation.

i lol'd :pac: remember some auld lad comin to my door campaignin for FF. poor chap couldnt answer any of my questions about the national development plan, had to call over the candidate. dumb f*cks

Rented Mule

The fact that you can't buy drink at an off license (after hours)is just another feather in the cap of the 'nanny state' telling you what is best for you.

FlutterinBantam

The fact that you can't get a carry out after 2200 is testament to the whankers and morons who cannot hold their booze, and who after a few beers make a determined attempt to wreck everything around them,assault their peers and innocent members of the public.

Why can we as Irish people not get it into our thick skulls that walloping back copious quantities of drink with no food is a recipe for disaster.

Very other countries I have been to have such a neanderthal view of alcohol and it's use.

That coupled with a plentiful supply of money for todays teens is the reason you can't get a drink in the offie after 2200.

biko

Rented Mule wrote: »

The fact that you can't buy drink at an off license (after hours)is just another feather in the cap of the 'nanny state' telling you what is best for you.

Unfortunately the numbers show the state is right. People can't handle their drink here. In Spain and France you can buy wine/beer at any time in corner shops. And hardly anyone gets drunk.

Hello, hello. my names Terry and Im a law abider
Theres nothing I like more than getting fired up on beer
And when the weekends here I to exercise my right to get paralytic and fight
Good bloke fairly
But I get well leery when geezers look at me funny
Bounce em round like bunnies
Im likely to cause mischief
Good clean grief you must believe and I aint no thief.
Law abiding and all, all legal.
And who cares about my liver when it feels good
Wwhat you need is some real manhood.
Rasher rasher barney and kasha putting peoples backs up.
Public disorder, Ill give you public disorder.
I down eight pints and run all over the place
Spit in the face of an officer
See if that bothers you cause I never broke a law in my life
Someday Im gonna settle down with a wife
Come on lads lets have another fight

Rented Mule

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

That coupled with a plentiful supply of money for todays teens is the reason you can't get a drink in the offie after 2200.

Thankfully Fianna Fail has a recipe to solve this part of the equation as well.

Parents out of work = no money for their spawn