Prime time tonight

irishleedsfan

Did anybody just see the film about drinking on good friday?
What a load of tripe. Fellas going looking drink on boats and crap. We are not governed by the catholic church so stop talking about it. They are the first crowd to go on about how great multi cultural ireland is.
BTW i wont be going to the pub tomorrow but if somebody wants to then thats their choice:mad::mad::mad::mad:

Biggins

* sigh *

jimmyw

I was too busy concentrating on Miriams chest afterwards to take it in:D





Dirty perv!!!!!!

Fear Uladh

I wont drink on good friday if the priests stop fondling the kids.

Duggy747

I've no reason to drink tomorrow, it's just when everything is locked down then you're driven to drink to pass the time until Saturday comes.

I hate Good Friday...........should be called Shìt Friday cuz it feels like a goddamn Sunday!

We bend over backwards so as to not offend other religious beliefs but yet booze + Good Friday is such a taboo subject?

simu

There's always tea. lol

irishleedsfan

Chillaxe wrote: »

I wont drink on good friday if the priests stop fondling the kids.

some chance of that happening:D

ejmaztec

jimmyw wrote: »

I was too busy concentrating on Miriams chest afterwards to take it in:D





Dirty perv!!!!!!

Are you sure you weren't watching The Antiques Roadshow?

oppenheimer1

ejmaztec wrote: »

Are you sure you weren't watching The Antiques Roadshow?

Fiona Bruce does it for you?

ejmaztec

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

Fiona Bruce does it for you?

I understand she likes an old bit of wood with Queen Anne legs.:cool:

kraggy

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

Fiona Bruce does it for you?

Fiona Bruce is an absolute ride. Sexy as hell.

Seriously.

My name is URL

If you have a drink tomorrow, a priest isn't going to burst through the window and beat you with his tabernacle

Is it really that big of a deal if pubs are closed?

MonkeyTennis

yes it is that big of a deal.. If they called it 'Pub Closed Day' id be fine with it. But its not. Its some **** foist upon us relating to something no one believes in anymore. Good enough for you?

davyjose

My name is URL wrote: »

Is it really that big of a deal if pubs are closed?

I think it's the dogma, not the actual lack of booze, that people are pissed off at.

Maybe they feel the Catholic Church are a morally corrupt bunch of criminals, and drinking alcohol on an arbitrary day in April is not quite as big a crime as the rape of children, and so, being moralised to is a teeny weeny bit irksome.

Or maybe they like a drink on a friday. Who knows?

ejmaztec

The pubs are probably closed for an eternity in hell.:(

MonkeyTennis

amen bro

davyjose

ejmaztec wrote: »

The pubs are probably closed for an eternity in hell.:(

Apparently they only sell Heineken: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055872168

jap gt

the one day of not drinking doesnt bother me, but people have the right to decide themselves, do any of ye not eat meat for the day and stay to 3 meals, thats what people used to do

Fear Uladh

My name is URL wrote: »

tabernacle

That is one if the funniest words ever.

hinault

irishleedsfan wrote: »

Did anybody just see the film about drinking on good friday?
What a load of tripe. Fellas going looking drink on boats and crap. We are not governed by the catholic church so stop talking about it. They are the first crowd to go on about how great multi cultural ireland is.
BTW i wont be going to the pub tomorrow but if somebody wants to then thats their choice:mad::mad::mad::mad:

It was gob****tery of the highest order.

And as for that clown, Keane...........don't get me started.

Joey the lips

I have a few different views on this

Granted i agree that the pubs should close by choice and not be forced.

I am a catholic and a follower so I wont be drinking or eating meat.. Of course there is different types of eating and different types of meat.

However I am curious. I dont see why we are moaning about the hoilday. Eventually it will get that there will be no hoilday christmas easter or good friday and those in the trade will have to work all the time. This i dont think fair to them

So relax enjoy the day off the drink and live in the knowledge your giving someone in the pub trade a friday night off which is virtually unheard off.

Sonnenblumen

Why are so many public servants (most likely to be the ones not working tomorrow) complaining?

FO !!

Stinicker

I really couldn't care too much about Good Friday or the Catholic Church but is it really to much to ask that we close the pubs for just the two days in the year. I think it is sad that they are opening tomorrow and it is a reflection on what an alcoholic race we are, everything here seems to revolve around the pub and it is horrible.

The Priest on Prime Time I reckon was drunk and was the type that would go along with anything to make the priests look good. Sean Kelly had the right view, irregardless of your religious persuasions Good Friday closing is a good thing and it is a sad reflection of our society if we cannot live without drink for two days in the year.

They then made the argument about sunday opening, they obviously must never have left that pub ever because on most of continental Europe (where Religion is laughed at) mass consumerism grinds to a halt on Sunday with the exception of restaurants, mini bakeries and pubs. In Germany they cherish Sunday closing as a day to spend with the "kindern" as "family day". I wish they would introduce it is here also.

For many the broken home of alcoholics in this country Good Friday and Christmas Day were the only time that kept alcoholic parents out of the bars. I think such a move is not liberal but represents the sort of gombeen mentality that is common in Ireland and then they try and make themselves look liberal and all modern when infact they are the epitome of what is rotten in our culture, if you could call it that.

ejmaztec

davyjose wrote: »

Apparently they only sell Heineken: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055872168

That's for hell on Earth - a.k.a. Oxegen.

hinault

Stinicker wrote: »

I really couldn't care too much about Good Friday or the Catholic Church but is it really to much to ask that we close the pubs for just the two days in the year. I think it is sad that they are opening tomorrow and it is a reflection on what an alcoholic race we are, everything here seems to revolve around the pub and it is horrible.

The Priest on Prime Time I reckon was drunk and was the type that would go along with anything to make the priests look good. Sean Kelly had the right view, irregardless of your religious persuasions Good Friday closing is a good thing and it is a sad reflection of our society if we cannot live without drink for two days in the year.

They then made the argument about sunday opening, they obviously must never have left that pub ever because on most of continental Europe (where Religion is laughed at) mass consumerism grinds to a halt on Sunday with the exception of restaurants, mini bakeries and pubs. In Germany they cherish Sunday closing as a day to spend with the "kindern" as "family day". I wish they would introduce it is here also.

For many the broken home of alcoholics in this country Good Friday and Christmas Day were the only time that kept alcoholic parents out of the bars. I think such a move is not liberal but represents the sort of gombeen mentality that is common in Ireland and then they try and make themselves look liberal and all modern when infact they are the epitome of what is rotten in our culture, if you could call it that.

Agree.

Although I am a practising RC.:)

i57dwun4yb1pt8

My name is URL wrote: »

If you have a drink tomorrow, a priest isn't going to burst through the window and beat you with his tabernacle
?

i take it tabernacle means 'penis' ?

profitius

Stinicker wrote: »

For many the broken home of alcoholics in this country Good Friday and Christmas Day were the only time that kept alcoholic parents out of the bars. I think such a move is not liberal but represents the sort of gombeen mentality that is common in Ireland and then they try and make themselves look liberal and all modern when infact they are the epitome of what is rotten in our culture, if you could call it that.

Agreed.

I occasionally enjoy a few drinks myself but to see people out all night making pigs of themselves, behaving aggressively, annoyingly, childishly and addicted to alcohol is it too much to ask for a few nights of peace.

I think the publicans being allowed to open tomorrow night in Limerick because of a match highlights how sick this country is.

orourkeda

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

Fiona Bruce does it for you?

She does it for me. I'd roast the crotch off her.

eddyc

Stinicker wrote: »

I really couldn't care too much about Good Friday or the Catholic Church but is it really to much to ask that we close the pubs for just the two days in the year. I think it is sad that they are opening tomorrow and it is a reflection on what an alcoholic race we are, everything here seems to revolve around the pub and it is horrible.

The Priest on Prime Time I reckon was drunk and was the type that would go along with anything to make the priests look good. Sean Kelly had the right view, irregardless of your religious persuasions Good Friday closing is a good thing and it is a sad reflection of our society if we cannot live without drink for two days in the year.

They then made the argument about sunday opening, they obviously must never have left that pub ever because on most of continental Europe (where Religion is laughed at) mass consumerism grinds to a halt on Sunday with the exception of restaurants, mini bakeries and pubs. In Germany they cherish Sunday closing as a day to spend with the "kindern" as "family day". I wish they would introduce it is here also.

For many the broken home of alcoholics in this country Good Friday and Christmas Day were the only time that kept alcoholic parents out of the bars. I think such a move is not liberal but represents the sort of gombeen mentality that is common in Ireland and then they try and make themselves look liberal and all modern when infact they are the epitome of what is rotten in our culture, if you could call it that.

I think you are missing the point completely, what about all the other crap other religions tell their people not to do? Should that be the law?

Some people in this country really don't care about the Catholic church anymore.

starbelgrade

I love Good Friday - for me, it's a day of respect for the Big Man.

Not God, but my sorely missed dad, who, on every Good Friday, gave a two fingered salute to the tradition of not drinking, not eating meat & not gambling, by having an annual poker game with all his mates, downing crates of Guinness & soaking it all up with meat sandwiches.

God bless the man who's got his own.

I carry on the tradition to this day.

landsleaving

Stinicker wrote: »

I really couldn't care too much about Good Friday or the Catholic Church but is it really to much to ask that we close the pubs for just the two days in the year. I think it is sad that they are opening tomorrow and it is a reflection on what an alcoholic race we are, everything here seems to revolve around the pub and it is horrible.

The Priest on Prime Time I reckon was drunk and was the type that would go along with anything to make the priests look good. Sean Kelly had the right view, irregardless of your religious persuasions Good Friday closing is a good thing and it is a sad reflection of our society if we cannot live without drink for two days in the year.

They then made the argument about sunday opening, they obviously must never have left that pub ever because on most of continental Europe (where Religion is laughed at) mass consumerism grinds to a halt on Sunday with the exception of restaurants, mini bakeries and pubs. In Germany they cherish Sunday closing as a day to spend with the "kindern" as "family day". I wish they would introduce it is here also.

For many the broken home of alcoholics in this country Good Friday and Christmas Day were the only time that kept alcoholic parents out of the bars. I think such a move is not liberal but represents the sort of gombeen mentality that is common in Ireland and then they try and make themselves look liberal and all modern when infact they are the epitome of what is rotten in our culture, if you could call it that.

*Smashes head off wall in sheer frustration*

But thats not the point. I think a lot of people on here would agree with you on pretty much everything else. I do. But I don't like laws based on religion and I don't like that a choice that exists normally is removed because of religion. If it was alcohol awareness day I'd probably think it was absurd since it wouldn't achieve anyting other than annoying those of us who enjoy a couple of jars in moderation, but I suppose I could see the point to some extent and I wouldn't argue.

No one here is now, or has ever said that they can't go a day without drink, nor even that they don't want to, just that they don't like abstinence from not even alcohol, but gathering socially (since as you said, life revolves around the pub, theres nowhere else to go) because of a religion they don't believe in. It's about the principle of the matter and for some reason everyone arguing that the pubs should close always just says at some point 'can't you go without a drink for one day?' Which for me, makes any argument invalid because you fail to see the point of the people you disagree with.

I see your point, Irish culture does revolve around the pub and I have plenty of alcoholics in my family. Trust me, Good Friday didn't help them, it won't help anyone else either. A change in culture to something along the lines of late night cafes would help by allowing an alcohol free and socially accpetable place to spend an evening. This would also exist all year round. An archaic law which makes it no harder for anyone to drink, just harder to engage socially, is not going to make any difference in any way.

And it's not one out of 365 days. It's one out of 52 Friday nights. Which is for most, one fifth of the days they work. Why take that away from anyone? Alcoholics will go to the off licence. Nothing will be different and as I've said before, Catholics can abstain should they wish, without impacting the lives of anyone else.

*Cleans up bloody forehead and goes to bed.*

Stinicker

eddyc wrote: »

I think you are missing the point completely, what about all the other crap other religions tell their people not to do? Should that be the law?

Some people in this country really don't care about the Catholic church anymore.

Good Friday abstinence is a part of our culture now and whether or not we are still Catholic or not is not the point this is something we have always done and what would the reaction be if say the Government ruled instead of the Church, right all pubs can open on Good Friday but they must close instead the following Friday. It would be the exact same thing people are using the Catholic churches shame as a lightning rod to rebel against and the truth of the matter is that these people are alcoholics and cannot do without drink.

If the Government banned it then there would be the same consternations Irish people are a sick culture of alcoholics whose entire brain cannot think outside of the pub for leisure time and look at mess it has made of the entire dating and relationships scene.

My name is URL

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

yes it is that big of a deal.. If they called it 'Pub Closed Day' id be fine with it. But its not. Its some **** foist upon us relating to something no one believes in anymore. Good enough for you?

Do you get so worked up on Christmas too? That's also a bullshit day foisted upon us.

And you can't say nobody believes in it any more.. maybe most people you know don't.. I know I don't, but lots of people obviously do still believe in it

We're not being barbarically oppressed ffs

PeterIanStaker

The point is that this morally backward, devious and corrupt organisation thinks it can still dictate to us how to live our lives.

I know that there are people, even young people, that still believe, and thats fine by me so long as they don't come near me with their beliefs.

You dont need to believe in a god to be a good person and live your life the way it should be lived - that is, treating others with respect and kindness.

This no alcohol on good friday stuff isn't about drink. I know we're a nation of alcoholics to begin with, its the RCC insinuating its way into every pore of Irish society, from its "special position" in the necrotic 1937 constitution, to controlling the indoctrination of the country's children. Its about power.
As the character of O'Brien in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four stated "God is Power"

The Davestator

landsleaving wrote: »

*Smashes head off wall in sheer frustration*

But thats not the point. I think a lot of people on here would agree with you on pretty much everything else. I do. But I don't like laws based on religion and I don't like that a choice that exists normally is removed because of religion. If it was alcohol awareness day I'd probably think it was absurd since it wouldn't achieve anyting other than annoying those of us who enjoy a couple of jars in moderation, but I suppose I could see the point to some extent and I wouldn't argue.

No one here is now, or has ever said that they can't go a day without drink, nor even that they don't want to, just that they don't like abstinence from not even alcohol, but gathering socially (since as you said, life revolves around the pub, theres nowhere else to go) because of a religion they don't believe in. It's about the principle of the matter and for some reason everyone arguing that the pubs should close always just says at some point 'can't you go without a drink for one day?' Which for me, makes any argument invalid because you fail to see the point of the people you disagree with.

I see your point, Irish culture does revolve around the pub and I have plenty of alcoholics in my family. Trust me, Good Friday didn't help them, it won't help anyone else either. A change in culture to something along the lines of late night cafes would help by allowing an alcohol free and socially accpetable place to spend an evening. This would also exist all year round. An archaic law which makes it no harder for anyone to drink, just harder to engage socially, is not going to make any difference in any way.

And it's not one out of 365 days. It's one out of 52 Friday nights. Which is for most, one fifth of the days they work. Why take that away from anyone? Alcoholics will go to the off licence. Nothing will be different and as I've said before, Catholics can abstain should they wish, without impacting the lives of anyone else.

*Cleans up bloody forehead and goes to bed.*

Oh how I laughed my ass off at this!!

my 2 cents worth -

1.The argument that people cant live without drink for one day does not wash, as the majority of people dont drink during the week.
2. I like it, because, its a great day for house parties
3. Businesses cannot afford to not open on a weekend night, match or no match
4. Its a silly catholic rule like the 'sunday dinner closing' that went bye bye a few years back
5. If you are religious - dont drink, if you're not, go to the pub as usual - how hard is that for everyone to understand?

Sonnenblumen

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

The point is that this morally backward, devious and corrupt organisation thinks it can still dictate to us how to live our lives.

I know that there are people, even young people, that still believe, and thats fine by me so long as they don't come near me with their beliefs.

You dont need to believe in a god to be a good person and live your life the way it should be lived - that is, treating others with respect and kindness.

This no alcohol on good friday stuff isn't about drink. I know we're a nation of alcoholics to begin with, its the RCC insinuating its way into every pore of Irish society, from its "special position" in the necrotic 1937 constitution, to controlling the indoctrination of the country's children. Its about power.
As the character of O'Brien in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four stated "God is Power"

How do you propose to respect the Moral majority? And before you convulse, it's nothing to do with "power" unless of course you are confusing Ireland with some fundamentalist state?

Every piss artist can have his/her day or right to drink, but IMO not at the expense of disgracing Ireland's core values (and yes I disagree we're not a nation of alcoholics).

Min

Looking at the reaction to closed pubs, its the best reason to keep them closed.

PeterIanStaker

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

How do you propose to respect the Moral majority? And before you convulse, it's nothing to do with "power" unless of course you are confusing Ireland with some fundamentalist state?

Every piss artist can have his/her day or right to drink, but IMO not at the expense of disgracing Ireland's core values (and yes I disagree we're not a nation of alcoholics).

Its not a fundamentalist state, but religion has far too much influence.

What are the core values? I'm not disagreeing with you about values, I'm saying people do not need religions or gods to do what is right and treat each other properly.

I know we have many flaws. I'll be the first to admit it, but I think many Irish people (excluding gombeens in the Dail and on the pulpit) are basically decent friendly and hardworking.