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Tipsy McStagger

  • 21-09-2012 2:44pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 837 ✭✭✭


    Hi Guys,

    I live in Germany and work in an office. After cracking open my third beer of the day, it got me
    thinking how forward thinking and dynamic Germany is compared to Ireland.

    Every Friday at 2pm we are offered beer. Most people only take one but being Irish I always
    have at least 4 and shove a few in my bag for later.


    I honestly feel that I'm at my most productive on a Friday afternoon and I know it's because I'm
    feeling more relaxed from alcohol.

    I think Ireland should stop being so backwards and should introduce the same policy?

    What's your opinion on getting tipsy at work? I think you become friendlier and happier and
    to top it off, your ugly co-workers become more attractive.

    Cheers!


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Have you actually met Mr. McStagger?

    What's he like?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 237 ✭✭Awesome-O


    I suppose it depneds on your work, wouldn't like bus drivers to adopt this policy! For an office job , sounds good.
    I'm quite often at my most productive the day after a night out (not a hangover day but when you're still a little bit tipsy)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    Is your company hiring.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Everyone you work with thinks you're a dipso. Not good.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 837 ✭✭✭Beetlebum


    They dont think I'm a dipso. i get really flirty when I drink so at worst they think I'm a slut.

    I can live with that.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    Am drinking becks at work here too, it's a Friday thing. It's quite common in Australia, nearly everywhere does it on Fridays.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Thinly veiled "I've got a good job" thread :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 837 ✭✭✭Beetlebum


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Have you actually met Mr. McStagger?

    What's he like?

    He's a real character...salt of the earth


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    kfallon wrote: »
    Thinly veiled "I've got a good job" thread :p

    When did this thinly veiled start and when will it end ffs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    It wouldn't work. We don't know when to stop.

    'Going for a pint' rarely ends with just 1 pint.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭DipStick McSwindler


    This post has been deleted.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,788 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Beetlebum wrote: »
    I honestly feel that I'm at my most productive on a Friday afternoon and I know it's because I'm
    feeling more relaxed from alcohol.
    Signs and symptoms of alcohol abuse
      Drinking as a way to relax or de-stress.

    Maybe slutyness isn't the worst of your problems with drink... :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,253 ✭✭✭Boscoirl


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    When did this thinly veiled start and when will it end ffs
    thinly veiled "i dont understand thinly veiled posts" post


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 837 ✭✭✭Beetlebum


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    Maybe slutyness isn't the worst of your problems with drink... :o

    Well why else would you drink? To feel more wound up and uptight?

    Even light drinkers would agree it relaxs you...

    Being a slut is not a problem either. It's a badge I wear with honour


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 967 ✭✭✭HeyThereDeliah


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    When did this thinly veiled start and when will it end ffs

    I don't get it tbh :confused: it's just stupid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Collaborating with the Germans are we?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 837 ✭✭✭Beetlebum


    Boscoirl wrote: »
    thinly veiled "i dont understand thinly veiled posts" post

    Are you a dipso?

    What dont you get?

    Have a drink maybe, everything becomes clearer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    When did this thinly veiled start and when will it end ffs

    As soon as it and 'three fiddy' become banned phrases. Soon, I'd wager.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 967 ✭✭✭HeyThereDeliah


    Beetlebum wrote: »
    Are you a dipso?

    What dont you get?

    Have a drink maybe, everything becomes clearer

    That's even more :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    When did this thinly veiled start and when will it end ffs

    Thinly veiled "I wish I'd started this Thinly Veiled thing" post :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,262 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    We have booze in our fridge, although having to drive home I wouldnt take the chance to have one or two.

    Some drink though and head straight to town after work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,229 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    When did this thinly veiled start and when will it end ffs

    ^^^^^^^^^^^
    A thinly veiled fuck off thinly veiled post post.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,070 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    Never heard of him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,708 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Beetlebum wrote: »
    I think Ireland should stop being so backwards and should introduce the same policy?
    Beetlebum wrote: »
    Most people only take one but being Irish I always have at least 4 and shove a few in my bag for later.
    You kinda answered yourself there


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Any relation to Tipsy McSwagger? Friend of Dick Whiskey?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    kfallon wrote: »
    Thinly veiled "I've got a good job" thread :p

    FYP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    kfallon wrote: »
    Thinly veiled "I've got a good job" thread :p
    It's not that good if he has to get drunk to enjoy it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 837 ✭✭✭Beetlebum


    Shryke wrote: »
    Any relation to Tipsy McSwagger? Friend of Dick Whiskey?

    I'm not sure...but him and Holden MaGroin go way back


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 837 ✭✭✭Beetlebum


    humanji wrote: »
    It's not that good if he has to get drunk to enjoy it.

    I'm a girl....and a slut


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Op says Ireland is backwards because of it's relationship with alcohol and then says that she enjoys Fridays most because the drink makes her feel more relaxed and that she takes 4 beers instead of 1. Am I the only one detecting a hint of irony in all of this?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 837 ✭✭✭Beetlebum


    How is me taking advantage of free beer backwards?

    Surely it shows that I'm a very clever opportunist with a thirst for beer?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    people can chill out in the park and have a few cans, not over here though

    no way.......you'd lose all your belongings at the end of a knife

    Move to Galway


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    Beetlebum wrote: »
    I'm a girl....and a slut
    We'll see what the lab has to say about that!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    c_man wrote: »
    Move to Galway

    But then you have to be indoors as it rains every day


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 837 ✭✭✭Beetlebum


    humanji wrote: »
    We'll see what the lab has to say about that!

    .....with sexy results!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 863 ✭✭✭GastroBoy


    kfallon wrote: »
    Thinly veiled "I've got a good job" thread :p

    Not so thinly veiled, "Im a smartass" comment


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    c_man wrote: »
    Move to Galway

    But then you have to be indoors as it rains every day

    Used to go for a pint most lunchtimes in London and on Friday we'd have 4 or 5 over a long lunch, it was great. I started a thread about it a while ago actually, it's a shame it'd never work here but I've found most Irish people feel they(or usually others...) couldn't be trusted to just have a couple.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    Beetlebum wrote: »
    I honestly feel that I'm at my most productive on a Friday afternoon and I know it's because I'm
    feeling more relaxed from alcohol.

    Alcohol does tend to make people overestimate their own abilities and performance.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 837 ✭✭✭Beetlebum


    Alcohol does tend to make people overestimate their own abilities and performance.

    Well all my work is recorded and I'm top of the table so that speaks for itself.

    I'm just happier when I'm drunk and work seems less tedious so I lash through it.

    I might take up drinking before work from Monday onwards


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    Out of interest how does work deal with the potential presence of employees trying to recover from alcohol abuse considering the high level of alcoholism in Germany, a recent study indicate 5-10% of the Austian and German workforce being either alcohol dependant or at risk of becoming so.

    Putting at-risk people in a room full of people consuming alcohol seems a bit backward and cruel to me so I assume they must have considered this, is there half day Friday or extended lunch option for employees?


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