Ban laptops from pubs?

Dankoozy

alright so i was in this pub the other day and there was this beour sitting there in a corner with a huge fecker of a laptop on her table and a drink beside it. so when I went out the door I could see through the window that she was on freaking facebook. I couldn't freaking believe it

if you're going to go on some ****astic "social" networking site in a pub you are probably the same kind of person who goes to a nightclub to buy drinks to pour them all into a bottle & drink at home.

a while back i started to think this facebook fad would be the death of people actually socialising and if this **** with carrying laptops into pubs catches on i wouldn't have been too far wrong.

twouldnt be so bad if there were a couple of dedicated Hacker's pubs where nerds turn up with laptops to show off the cool **** they can do but people facebooking in a pub is freaking retarded. and if too many people start doing it then it becomes acceptable, you try to talk to someone in a pub and they reply with "No, go away I'm facebooking. I have a life"

pikachucheeks

But how would boardsies communicate at Beers if laptops were banned!?
:pac:

Dankoozy

pikachucheeks wrote: »

But how would boardsies communicate at Beers if laptops were banned!?
:pac:

Telepathy

fifth

I've never seen anyone on a laptop in any of my locals. Only in hotel bars and the like.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Oh goody. The social nazis police. Leave her alone and enjoy your pint. If you're worried about what other people are doing in a pub, you're not doing it right.

Fremen

Dankoozy wrote: »

twouldnt be so bad if there were a couple of dedicated Hacker's pubs where nerds turn up with laptops to show off the cool **** they can do

Just ask this guy where to find them.

Senna

Dankoozy wrote: »

they reply with "No, go away I'm facebooking. I have a life"

If its the kind of person to say that, would you really want to talk to them anyway?

Fajitas!

I hope this experience really interfered with your day.

Fremen

On the bright side, at least she wasn't playing World of Warcraft.

stovelid

Just ban people who can't concentrate on their own drinks and company and have to look around judging other people's behaviour.

Kalashnikov_Kid

Dankoozy wrote: »

alright so i was in this pub the other day and there was this beour sitting there in a corner with a huge fecker of a laptop on her table and a drink beside it. so when I went out the door I could see through the window that she was on freaking facebook. I couldn't freaking believe it

if you're going to go on some ****astic "social" networking site in a pub you are probably the same kind of person who goes to a nightclub to buy drinks to pour them all into a bottle & drink at home.

a while back i started to think this facebook fad would be the death of people actually socialising and if this **** with carrying laptops into pubs catches on i wouldn't have been too far wrong.

twouldnt be so bad if there were a couple of dedicated Hacker's pubs where nerds turn up with laptops to show off the cool **** they can do but people facebooking in a pub is freaking retarded. and if too many people start doing it then it becomes acceptable, you try to talk to someone in a pub and they reply with "No, go away I'm facebooking. I have a life"

Getting much lately?

G_R

maybe she was doing something important for work and was just checking her facebook to see who is online

she wasn't doing ya any harm.....leave her be

Frank my Boy

dannym08 wrote: »

maybe she was doing something important for work and was just checking her facebook to see who is online

she wasn't doing ya any harm.....leave her be

Yeah it's a normal enough thing to do when on the internet check email and facebook.
Idon't really understand where the problem.

vibrant

Last year I was without home internet access for a while, and I used to go to my local to use the wifi so I could check emails, update itunes podcasts, and yes, check social networking sites. I didn't realize that this was such a social faux pas! Thanks for pointing it out, OP.

Dankoozy wrote: »

if you're going to go on some ****astic "social" networking site in a pub you are probably the same kind of person who goes to a nightclub to buy drinks to pour them all into a bottle & drink at home.

That's a flawed theory. It is cheaper to just buy the drinks in Tesco. Plus, no cover charge

Jesus Wept

Ban loud obnoxious cúnts from pubs instead.

Wurly

They should also ban tv screens in pubs (besides when sport is on). Too f*cking distracting.

So many people standing around watching music videos all night.:mad:

G_R

Trí wrote: »

So many people standing around watching music videos all night.:mad:

tis cheaper than the juke box,

every little helps and all that

Dankoozy

stovelid wrote: »

Just ban people who can't concentrate on their own drinks and company and have to look around judging other people's behaviour.

but ya see if this ****e catches on (and it might with all the hype twitter+fb are getting) then pubs will be just like internet cafes. to me anyway someone with a laptop inside a pub especially when used for something as insipid as facebook just ruins the whole atmosphere for me.

AnonoBoy

I wish they'd ban talking in pubs myself. I was in my local there recently trying to post on boards and these f*ckers beside me kept nattering away. It really distracted me from my thanks whoring.

Dankoozy

Senna wrote: »

If its the kind of person to say that, would you really want to talk to them anyway?

no but life should be made as difficult as possible for those people in the hope that they'd **** off

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Op... So fcuking what???

jester77

What's the problem with laptops in pubs? Are pubs in Ireland just exclusively for going into and getting ****faced.

Where I am there are lots of people with laptops in the bars and cafes, free wi-fi is available and it gets extra customers in. Lots of people have mini meetings and presentations at their tables. If we are in the office and want a break we grab the laptop and off to the cafe or pub and discuss topics over a coffee.

seachto7

what's worse is people who are out with cameras taking loads of photos in pubs, probably for facebook. leave the cameras at home for f**k sake. It's click flash click flash all bloody night.

What is worse are f**kers having work meetings in pubs and cafes with their laptops. I don't want to hear bullsh1t buzzwords while I'm relaxing having a drink/coffee...f**k off out of it!!! :mad::mad::mad:

twitter is the scourge of humanity.

Long Onion

Ban Bebo

Mrmoe

aaah, no need to get in a hissy fit just because she wouldn't sleep with you OP.

Jim

When I lived in England I used to go to the pub near my University with my laptop after classes cause it had free Wifi. Had a few drinks and browsed. What's wrong with that? Just the same as going to a pub / cafe with a book.

/shrug

Ban TV's in pubs. Much worse imo.

mukki

you should have sat in beside her, loads of new chat up posibilities



hi, you have a nice pcmcia slot

i got a big hard disk

firefox is better it got tabs

do you browse the internet here often

fancy a shag

email your momma, you ain't coming home

DublinDes

It's all an image thing. Soccer shirts are banned in some pubs in England ( troble between rival supporters ). Maybe banning soccer shirts would be a better idea, though not ofcourse GAA ones as we are well behaved

Nodin

Dankoozy wrote: »

alright (............) ife"

No different than someone reading a paper. There's enough "banned" in this poxy country as it is - live and let live.

Bob_Harris

I think they should ban alcohol from pubs.

I mean, getting shitfaced, kicking the ****e out of each other outside, groping and taking advantage of shitfaced girls and getting them pregnant to bring another bastard unruly child into the world is hardly being social now is it.

Actually, drinking and getting drunk is not as sociable as people would like to think it is.

Maybe she was doing some work and had a look at facebook every so often to numb the monotony?

Orla K

I brought a laptop into a pub and actually worked on it rather than go on facebook/bebo or any other crap. I had time to spare with nothing to do so for about an hour I spent it in the warmth of the pub working with a good drink. It was brilliant, best way to do stuff you have to do on the laptop.

It sound to me like your complaining more about facebook than her on the laptop. Also, ye noisy little ____, why couldn't you mind your own and not look through the window at her when you were leaving?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

mukki wrote: »

you should have sat in beside her, loads of new chat up posibilities



hi, you have a nice pcmcia slot

i got a big hard disk

firefox is better it got tabs

do you browse the internet here often

fancy a shag

email your momma, you ain't coming home

make sure you have adequate virus protecion, though.

mukki

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

make sure you have adequate virus protecion, though.

oops

me-skywalker

Fremen wrote: »

On the bright side, at least she wasn't playing World of Warcraft.

Now THAT would be interesting a huge Pub of Warcraft! hmm... bank-rolling idea's...

Call of Drink: Modern Social Warfare

Mario: Advetnures if beerland!

Loft Raider: All the wines' gone missing!

eightyfish

Dankoozy wrote: »

you are probably the same kind of person who goes to a nightclub to buy drinks to pour them all into a bottle & drink at home.

when I used to work at the bar in a nightclub, on r'n'b night, we used to get lots of customers who'd buy a bottle of bud and fill it up with water in the toilets over and over again. only ever happenned on r'n'b night.

miss_shadow

...how's yer iphone getting on dan...:P

Boxfresh

OP, I can guarantee you that you will see alot more of this in the future with the availability of wi-fi access nearly in every pub, hotel and restaurant. I saw 2 guys in Mc Donalds sitting in the corner with there laptops on. It's no big deal in my eyes. Facebook rules BTW

My name is URL

Can we just ban them from coffee shops?

There's nothing more rage inducing than not being able to find a seat because of the many douchebags pretending to be working on something important

Tony Danza

Are you joking OP? Lets get this straight, somebody you don't know and has absolutely no impact on your life was using a laptop in a place that provided free wifi and you have an issue with this? Let some anger go and lighten up man and enjoy your drink. Nobody wants to talk to some angry stranger in pub that's moaning about laptops!

swingking

Op, Ranting and Raving

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Overheal

Or maybe we should ban the Pub from the Laptop!

If what you say is true then the time has come for a Starbucks invasion. /Alerts the mothership

JONJO THE MISER

Im with the O.P here, i cant bare this Facebook craze, look a pub is for drinking and meeting people its not a place to be anti social by being on a laptop:mad:

JONJO THE MISER

seachto7 wrote: »

what's worse is people who are out with cameras taking loads of photos in pubs, probably for facebook. leave the cameras at home for f**k sake. It's click flash click flash all bloody night.

What is worse are f**kers having work meetings in pubs and cafes with their laptops. I don't want to hear bullsh1t buzzwords while I'm relaxing having a drink/coffee...f**k off out of it!!! :mad::mad::mad:

twitter is the scourge of humanity.

I couldnt have said it better myself.

stoneroses

With the smoking ban, drink driving laws and the recession - publicans need to find ways of putting people on seats.

Why not compete with the local Coffee Shop -- Long Live competition -- Good for all of us at the end of the day.

eduro25

well , she is free to do whatever she wants , and she has not broke any law or others rights, so just let her be.

Its just my opinion.

Regards

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

swingking wrote: »

Op, Ranting and Raving

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Oh God no - then we can't make him his opinion look retarded!:pac:

BaconZombie

If I've a few hours to kill, I prefer to sit in a warm pub with a cold beer and surf the web then goto a fecking coffee.

Once there good beer, internet and power I'm happy.

Nodin

My name is URL wrote: »

Can we just ban them from coffee shops?

There's nothing more rage inducing than not being able to find a seat because of the many douchebags pretending to be working on something important

Just drape your lad on their shoulder. Works every time.

Dankoozy

miss_shadow wrote: »

...how's yer iphone getting on dan...:P

got the replacement there a few weeks back gonna sell it though, the e63 is so much better

mukki wrote: »

you should have sat in beside her, loads of new chat up posibilities



hi, you have a nice pcmcia slot

i got a big hard disk

firefox is better it got tabs

do you browse the internet here often

fancy a shag

email your momma, you ain't coming home

was going to, until i realised that she was on facebook.

and i prefer CompactFlash slots myself

jester77 wrote: »

What's the problem with laptops in pubs? Are pubs in Ireland just exclusively for going into and getting ****faced.

Lots of people have mini meetings and presentations at their tables. If we are in the office and want a break we grab the laptop and off to the cafe or pub and discuss topics over a coffee.

yes they are, and those people are sad'ohs who should just rent a cubicle

Orla K wrote: »

It sound to me like your complaining more about facebook than her on the laptop. Also, ye noisy little ____, why couldn't you mind your own and not look through the window at her when you were leaving?

thats true, I ****ing can't stand facebook and the people who spend a lot of time on there.

i didn't make any noise while walking past the window

seanybiker

I find it more worrying that went outside to get a look at her laptop. You cyber perv you

fcleere

Dankoozy wrote: »

alright so i was in this pub the other day and there was this beour sitting there in a corner with a huge fecker of a laptop on her table and a drink beside it. so when I went out the door I could see through the window that she was on freaking facebook. I couldn't freaking believe it

if you're going to go on some ****astic "social" networking site in a pub you are probably the same kind of person who goes to a nightclub to buy drinks to pour them all into a bottle & drink at home.

a while back i started to think this facebook fad would be the death of people actually socialising and if this **** with carrying laptops into pubs catches on i wouldn't have been too far wrong.

twouldnt be so bad if there were a couple of dedicated Hacker's pubs where nerds turn up with laptops to show off the cool **** they can do but people facebooking in a pub is freaking retarded. and if too many people start doing it then it becomes acceptable, you try to talk to someone in a pub and they reply with "No, go away I'm facebooking. I have a life"

what a gimp!
haha beour!