Can't BELIEEEEVVVVVVEEE I can't buy a pint on Good Friday!!

Dave!

OMG

Agreed?

Death and Taxes

You have only discovered this now?

HondaSami

Is this a new thing in Ireland? no pubs open on Good Friday?

PinkFly

Ah stop would ya

BBDBB

WileyCoyote wrote: »

You have only discovered this now?

as the mod of the nondrinkers group its probably not first thing on his mind to be fair

Bipolar Joe

That you are a Mod in Non Drinkers makes this thread awesome.

EDIT: OK, so question, I can't go to the pub, but can I buy some cans at Tesco or where ever?

anncoates

Dave! wrote: »

OMG

Agreed?

You don't drink.

We get it.

G Power

try not being able to buy some unadulterated cannabis for either pain relief or recreational!!

ejmaztec

Some feckers with short arms and deep pockets get away with not buying a pint for the rest of the year as well.:(

Links234

Hmm, might get a couple of Hobgoblins in Aldi tomorrow and make some burgers too. mmmmmm, sacrelicious

Poxyshamrock

Buy a train or plane ticket and you can enjoy a pint in the station or airport!

Book into a hotel and use the residents bar or you can go to a greyhound stadium.

HondaSami

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

EDIT: OK, so question, I can't go to the pub, but can I buy some cans at Tesco or where ever?

No drink sold tomorrow anywhere.

invincibl3

Let's get our own back on the Catholic's by declaring Thursday to be 'Great Thursday' and forbid people from engaging in sodomising children.

That'll show 'em

rubadub

HondaSami wrote: »

Is this a new thing in Ireland? no pubs open on Good Friday?

The newer thing is pubs opening on good friday, and just not serving drink.

Das Kitty

Links234 wrote: »

Hmm, might get a couple of Hobgoblins in Aldi tomorrow and make some burgers too. mmmmmm, sacrelicious

My mouth is watering.

Last easter we had a barbecue, I'm just remembering now. You'd freeze your chipolatas off this year.

cloud493

I'm having fish on good friday, no meat :mad:

AtomicHorror

invincibl3 wrote: »

Let's get our own back on the Catholic's by declaring Thursday to be 'Great Thursday' and forbid people from engaging in sodomising children.

That'll show 'em

Wild idea: make every day Great Thursday?

antodeco

What I can never understand are the queues in the off licences on Thursday. Good Friday happens every year! Go in prepared a few weeks beforehand even!

Boombastic

Meh, I have presses full of drink here from christmas, might sell it for the right price on good friday

Vex Willems

HondaSami wrote: »

No drink sold tomorrow anywhere.

NOOOOO! Not tomorrow as well???? :eek::eek:

Mr Benevolent

Dave! wrote: »

OMG

Agreed?

A pint of what? You don't drink.

DarkJager

This debate comes up every year and it really is time the people had their say on if they want this to continue. It's frankly ****ing embarasing that Good Friday even exists in 2013.

Boskowski

I can't believe its that big a deal you can't buy a pint on Good Friday. Are you going to spontaneously combust or something?

Mr Whirly

DarkJager wrote: »

This debate comes up every year and it really is time the people had their say on if they want this to continue. It's frankly ****ing embarasing that Good Friday even exists in 2013.

That's true but it makes for great house parties.

DoesNotCompute

Dave! wrote: »

OMG

Agreed?

First world problem. Buy your booze on Thursday, drink it on Friday. Problem solved.

wijam

great heading home to Derry on Good Friday - pubs open at 5pm

then on to the Brandywell to watch Derry beat Shels, then back to the pub

Pierce_1991

Is it in the law that drink can't be sold or is it just something everyone has always done? If it's the former it would seem unfair that the state would force publicans to take a loss because of religious views that they may not share themselves.

rubadub

Boskowski wrote: »

I can't believe its that big a deal you can't buy a pint on Good Friday. Are you going to spontaneously combust or something?

Its the principal more than anything. And the reason they are closed is due to a bizarre myth, which is a hell of a lot more outlandish than proposing people will spontaneously combust.

sfwcork

dog track in cork has bar open with booze

CarrickMcJoe

Here we go again, pubs are closing all over the country cause no one goes in and now, the one day they are closed, everyone wants to drink.
Go on Saturday.

Or cross the border.

Clandestine

I'm sure this certain "law of the land" will disappear within a few years.

DarkJager

CarrickMcJoe wrote: »

Here we go again, pubs are closing all over the country cause no one goes in and now, the one day they are closed, everyone wants to drink.
Go on Saturday.

Or cross the border.

Couldn't give a **** about the pubs, it's the off licences that bother me. I'm a taxpaying adult of this country and the fact that my option to buy drink if I choose too on this day, is being restricted by the traditions of a pedo cult really irritates the **** out of me.

HondaSami

Vex Willems wrote: »

NOOOOO! Not tomorrow as well???? :eek::eek:

It's Holy Thursday one more day will not kill us.

dlofnep

I'm in between two minds.

One - the people who feel that they "must" drink when it's banned. You'll live, seriously!

Two - the idea that religious superstition can dictate our laws.

Which irks me more?

Dave!

I do drink BTW, I just mod that forum due to historical happenstance...

anncoates

dlofnep wrote: »

Which irks me more?

Running out of beer Friday evening.

maddbollox

Get to your local greyhound stadium. According to the local paper there is some legal loophole so their bars are open.

Bipolar Joe

dlofnep wrote: »

I'm in between two minds.

One - the people who feel that they "must" drink when it's banned. You'll live, seriously!

Two - the idea that religious superstition can dictate our laws.

Which irks me more?

I think they "Must" drink partly out of rebellion, partly because why not? Personally, it pisses me off that a club I'm not a part of is allowed to tell me what I can and can't do. It's like Girl Scouts not letting me have biscuits on 25th of June, because something something. Letting a religious house dictate what happens in mine is aggravating, and then having that be a law is just outright wrong.

HondaSami

I don't drink and could not care less if the pubs are open or closed, people can stock up on beer but really how much will everyone drink on Friday?
It's not such a big deal is it?

anncoates

A lot of the time people are off work on the day; it's the first day of a four-day weekend and there's often a lot of parties so it actually often ends up being a day that people do need drink, in a weird way.

CarrickMcJoe

DarkJager wrote: »

Couldn't give a **** about the pubs, it's the off licences that bother me. I'm a taxpaying adult of this country and the fact that my option to buy drink if I choose too on this day, is being restricted by the traditions of a pedo cult really irritates the **** out of me.

Buy it on thursday then, problem solved.

DarkJager

CarrickMcJoe wrote: »

Buy it on thursday then, problem solved.

Why should I? If I want to buy drink on the Friday instead, what gives that disgusting cult any right to impose a ban on me doing so?

Yitzhak Rabin

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

I think they "Must" drink partly out of rebellion, partly because why not? Personally, it pisses me off that a club I'm not a part of is allowed to tell me what I can and can't do. It's like Girl Scouts not letting me have biscuits on 25th of June, because something something. Letting a religious house dictate what happens in mine is aggravating, and then having that be a law is just outright wrong.

Are 84% of people in the girl scouts? Has not eating biscuits on the 25th of June a cultural tradition in this country?

You're not being oppressed because you can't get ossified in public one day of the year.

invincibl3

DarkJager wrote: »

Why should I? If I want to buy drink on the Friday instead, what gives that disgusting cult any right to impose a ban on me doing so?

Sadly, the disgusting, child-molesting, women-imprisoning, cult you mention stills holds great sway over this corrupt little statelet of ours.

"84%!!" is the stock answer from the let's put-innocent-women-and-children into concentration camps because the sky fairy told me so supporters when one questions them as to why this supposed republic of ours enforces their silly superstitions.

Bipolar Joe

On a side note, it also aggravates me that the usual response is "Buy it on Thursday." Why should I HAVE to? What any Church prefers has nothing to do with me, so forcing me to subscribe to it by law is fascist. It has nothing to do with wanting to drink, it's more the principal, and it depresses me that in my life time, we seem to have come so far from the Church run state we were to people who just roll over because we were told to by someone else. You've substituted the Church for Government, which makes laws based on what the Church wants, which is worse.

SunnyDub1

While the Op is more than likely taking the pis*, this actually really bothers some people that the pubs/off licenses don't open :rolleyes:

It's ONE day of the whole year and you'll still have people, that will moan and give out about how ridiculous it is and they will be seen stocking up on beers the night before like there is gonna be an alcohol drought, so they can have their "much needed" beers at home, in a field, at a Friends, by the liffey :cool:

Yitzhak Rabin

invincibl3 wrote: »

Sadly, the disgusting, child-molesting, women-imprisoning, cult you mention stills holds great sway over this corrupt little statelet of ours.

Yeah dude. Its like we're living in North Korea, except worse because its a church that has a complete stranglehold on every aspect of our life :mad:

ejmaztec

HondaSami wrote: »

I don't drink and could not care less if the pubs are open or closed, people can stock up on beer but really how much will everyone drink on Friday?
It's not such a big deal is it?

It's a big deal for church bashers, which was why this thread was started in the first place.

Cienciano

DarkJager wrote: »

Couldn't give a **** about the pubs, it's the off licences that bother me. I'm a taxpaying adult of this country and the fact that my option to buy drink if I choose too on this day, is being restricted by the traditions of a pedo cult really irritates the **** out of me.

It's really bizarre when you think about it. I was in Aldi last week and some woman was buying food for sunday dinner. Included a bottle of wine. It was 12:10 in the afternoon.
The woman behind the checkout said she wasn't allowed to buy the wine because it wasn't half 12 yet.

Neadine

HondaSami wrote: »

No drink sold tomorrow anywhere.

But tomorrow is Thursday, and not necessarily a good one.

Bipolar Joe

Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »

Are 84% of people in the girl scouts? Has not eating biscuits on the 25th of June a cultural tradition in this country?

You're not being oppressed because you can't get ossified in public one day of the year.

Way to deliberately misinterpret AND make assumptions all in one go. A+, no need to try harder.

I don't want to get "Ossified in public." I mightn't mind having a couple of cans at home. I used a Girl Scout example because it's something I'm clearly not a part of, and the concept of allowing them to dictate what I can and can't do is absurd, just as the Church does, only clearer for people to understand because there's no religious affiliation.