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Is anybody else getting excited about Arthur's Day?!

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    #122
    Defiler Of The Coffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Defiler Of The Coffin


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Huzzah, a false holiday to celebrate a drink i don't drink, the day after which, fully half my staff will be useless for the first half of the day.

    Thanks Diageo, needed that.

    Why not take them out for a good meal beforehand? Will mitigate the effects somewhat. Plus they'll think you're awesome


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    #123
    lee_baby_simms
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    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Huzzah, a false holiday to celebrate a drink i don't drink, the day after which, fully half my staff will be useless for the first half of the day.

    Thanks Diageo, needed that.

    Leave packs of wet wipes in the toilets for Friday morning. For everybodys sake.


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    #124
    [Deleted User]
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    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Huzzah, a false holiday to celebrate a drink i don't drink, the day after which, fully half my staff will be useless for the first half of the day.

    Thanks Diageo, needed that.

    Why not lighten up a bit and go for a few yourself.


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    #125
    Tasden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,166 ✭✭✭Tasden


    Maybe some of the people commenting on this thread should look over their comments on the defence of hipsters thread!
    'i liked Guinness in my local pub before it was cool'
    'i'm not some sheep that follows the crowd just because of clever marketing'


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    #126
    Hurricane Carter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 607 ✭✭✭Hurricane Carter


    Lillie Wet Stockroom wrote: »
    Why not lighten up a bit and go for a few yourself.

    Yeah because if you're not gettin' p!ssed on Arthur's day you're uptight.

    Maybe he doesn't want to go out? Typical Irish attitude - 'ah sure have a few drinks, it'll be a bit of craic'.


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    #127
    Slattsy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    The amount of miserable bastards on this thread is unreal.

    You don't like it? Stay in, log into your internet machines, find a chat site and pretend to be a 17 yr old girl and chat to other girls who like you are probably obese lonely men :-)

    I for one, like a whole load of other people will enjoy the night and have fun with friends :-)


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    #128
    Hurricane Carter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 607 ✭✭✭Hurricane Carter


    Slattsy wrote: »
    The amount of miserable bastards on this thread is unreal.

    You don't like it? Stay in, log into your internet machines, find a chat site and pretend to be a 17 yr old girl and chat to other girls who like you are probably obese lonely men :-)

    I for one, like a whole load of other people will enjoy the night and have fun with friends :-)

    What are you doing Thursday week?

    Or have you not been told yet? :p


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    #129
    crusher000
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    No money for pints so answer no not the leaset bit


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    #130
    otto_26
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    Slattsy wrote: »
    The amount of miserable bastards on this thread is unreal.

    You don't like it? Stay in, log into your internet machines, find a chat site and pretend to be a 17 yr old girl and chat to other girls who like you are probably obese lonely men :-)

    I for one, like a whole load of other people will enjoy the night and have fun with friends :-)

    I think its the saddest thing Ive ever come across... talk about marketing a product to a bunch of monkeys!!! that will actually go out on purpose to a made up day by a corporation thats trying to make money....

    I'm not miserable ill be playing soccer thursday night with all my friends and then ill go home to my beautiful girlfriend.

    And might login to Boards during the night to laugh and chat to others about the monkeys out drinking Guinness!!!! who think they are great things altogether cause they are drinking beacuse its the only way to socialize in Ireland!!!!!


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    #131
    Slattsy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    I Am Kong! wrote: »
    Slattsy wrote: »
    The amount of miserable bastards on this thread is unreal.

    You don't like it? Stay in, log into your internet machines, find a chat site and pretend to be a 17 yr old girl and chat to other girls who like you are probably obese lonely men :-)

    I for one, like a whole load of other people will enjoy the night and have fun with friends :-)

    What are you doing Thursday week?

    Or have you not been told yet? :p

    Possibly drinking Guinness somewhere. I'll have to pay for the pints then though :-(


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    #132
    Slattsy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    otto_26 wrote: »
    Slattsy wrote: »
    The amount of miserable bastards on this thread is unreal.

    You don't like it? Stay in, log into your internet machines, find a chat site and pretend to be a 17 yr old girl and chat to other girls who like you are probably obese lonely men :-)

    I for one, like a whole load of other people will enjoy the night and have fun with friends :-)

    I think its the saddest thing Ive ever come across... talk about marketing a product to a bunch of monkeys that will actually go out on purpose to a made up day by a corporation thats trying to make money....

    I'm not miserable ill be playing soccer thursday night with all my friends and then ill go home to my beautiful girlfriend.

    And might login to Boards during the night to laugh and chat to others about the monkeys out drinking Guinness!!!! who think they are great things altogether cause they are drinking beacuse its the only way to socialize in Ireland!!!!!

    I generally play footie on a Thursday too but will give it a miss this week and go for a few scoops.

    Then I'll go home to my beautiful girlfriend too.

    Point?


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    #133
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    I Am Kong! wrote: »
    Typical Irish attitude - 'ah sure have a few drinks, it'll be a bit of craic'.

    Typical because its true.

    I Am Kong! wrote: »
    What are you doing Thursday week?

    Or have you not been told yet? :p

    Drinking Guinness on a thursday night is a regular occurrence for me but having a bit of an extra incentive is no harm, it will get more people out and also might result in a few free pints and a bit of free grub.


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    #134
    CruelCoin
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    Lillie Wet Stockroom wrote: »
    Why not lighten up a bit and go for a few yourself.

    Cool, will do. But only if you agree to tell the staff that anyone coming in with a hangover will be sent home absent pay.

    oh wait, that'll be happening anyway.

    It'd be fine if they went for a few, but this being Ireland, and fun absent drink being an alien concept here, thats not going to happen.


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    #135
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    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Cool, will do. But only if you agree to tell the staff that anyone coming in with a hangover will be sent home absent pay.

    oh wait, that'll be happening anyway.

    You live up to the "creul" in your username anyway, I'd be at home half the fridays in the year if I was sent home everyone that I was hungover along with with plenty more around the office :D


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    #136
    Hardonraging
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    I booked thursday and Friday off work !!

    Why ? So i can prep thursday during the day, then hit town, in what will no doubt be a Jack daniels fuelled rampage, all the while flicking around the phrase "Drink responsibly" to any bit of fluff that gets within ear shot of me.. of course i'll be directing them to my groin during said conversation ..

    Friday's the recovery, and subsequent waiting for the horror's to set in .. also checking of my fone FB, and twitter to see if i sexually abused any other ladies during the night ....

    All in all it should be a stormer !!


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    #137
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Lillie Wet Stockroom wrote: »
    You live up to the "creul" in your username anyway, I'd be at home half the fridays in the year if I was sent home everyone that I was hungover along with with plenty more around the office :D

    Ah yes, expecting people now to honour the age old adage "honest days work, honest days pay", is being an asshole.

    Wow, must be getting old or something.


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    #138
    Iwannahurl
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    otto_26 wrote: »
    I think its the saddest thing Ive ever come across... talk about marketing a product to a bunch of monkeys!!! that will actually go out on purpose to a made up day by a corporation thats trying to make money....

    I'm not miserable ill be playing soccer thursday night with all my friends and then ill go home to my beautiful girlfriend.

    And might login to Boards during the night to laugh and chat to others about the monkeys out drinking Guinness!!!! who think they are great things altogether cause they are drinking beacuse its the only way to socialize in Ireland!!!!!


    Ireland's (and Arthur's) finest:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUTXZ-V9OHc



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-ICDmSWU-k



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDXAL6o8qzE


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    #139
    otto_26
    Registered Users Posts: 518 ✭✭✭otto_26


    Slattsy wrote: »
    I generally play footie on a Thursday too but will give it a miss this week and go for a few scoops.

    Then I'll go home to my beautiful girlfriend too.

    Point?

    You suggested in earlier posts that people complaining about how stupid and sad the whole Arthur's day was as being miserable loners.

    I making the point that I find Arthur's day as just a big corporation marketing to monkeys...

    Monkeys who will gladly change their plans on a Thursday night because a big corporation told them it's Arthur's day

    I'm not miserable or a loner even though I find the whole think just pure sad! that's my point


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    #140
    [Deleted User]
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    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    Youtube videos
    It's only a great bunch of lads.


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    #141
    Doctor_Socks
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭Doctor_Socks


    A complete joke of a day, Diageo whoring a drink for money, they don't even have it on the same date every year ffs! Put it on the Thursday so people might go out on the Friday and Saturday to spend even more money on diageo piss water! I went out last year for it in Galway and while it was great craic at 6, the evening quickly went to complete crap when everybody on Shop Street was hammered by 8.

    It wouldn't be so bad if people didn't insist on getting as pissed as humanly possible so early in the evening. Try to go to a pub that night for a few and everyone is absolutely locked to the point where ya con't converse, everyone is falling over themselves and the toilets in the pub are covered in vomit!

    For those of you in Galway the beer house has an anti Arthurs day where their pints are €3, they had that offer for the last two years anyway.


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    #142
    marco_polo
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    otto_26 wrote: »
    You suggested in earlier posts that people complaining about how stupid and sad the whole Arthur's day was as being miserable loners.

    I making the point that I find Arthur's day as just a big corporation marketing to monkeys...

    Monkeys who will gladly change their plans on a Thursday night because a big corporation told them it's Arthur's day

    I'm not miserable or a loner even though I find the whole think just pure sad! that's my point

    If you don't like people making sweeping generalisations about you then perhaps you shouldn't make them about others?


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    #143
    Slattsy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    otto_26 wrote: »
    Slattsy wrote: »
    I generally play footie on a Thursday too but will give it a miss this week and go for a few scoops.

    Then I'll go home to my beautiful girlfriend too.

    Point?

    You suggested in earlier posts that people complaining about how stupid and sad the whole Arthur's day was as being miserable loners.

    I making the point that I find Arthur's day as just a big corporation marketing to monkeys...

    Monkeys who will gladly change their plans on a Thursday night because a big corporation told them it's Arthur's day

    I'm not miserable or a loner even though I find the whole think just pure sad! that's my point

    Anti craic.


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    #144
    Thora
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭Thora


    Lads, does anyone know where Example is playing on Arthur's Day tomorrow? His twitter page says he's playing 2 venues anyone know anything?


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    #145
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Me m8 Deco's gaff be dedlee buzzzzz


    I don't actually know who Example is


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    #146
    Where To
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    Example I or Example II?


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    #147
    GoldFour4
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 4,960 Mod ✭✭✭✭GoldFour4


    Here you go op :)

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=where+is+example+playing+on+arthurs+day+%3F+


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    #148
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Finches Neilstown


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    #149
    Dravokivich
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Finches Neilstown

    Classy place that!


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    #150
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Finches Neilstown
    Regulars only bud


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    #151
    kfallon
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    Noctors


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