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Good Friday v's going for a pint
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I always keep a few ready in my wine cellar for days such as this.
Pffft. You lightweight.
Here's my little stash.
As for the law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Good Friday. Anyone who fails to see the sheer stupidity of this curltailment of freedom is living in the dark ages.
Nobody is forcing anyone to go to the pub. So let those who wish to follow their belief do so, but let those who enjoy a drink on a Friday evening in the company of friends do so as well.
The fact that the state still sanctions such a drachonian law clearly illustrates the interferance between church and state.
For those arguing that its only one day and gives us a chance to cut back on our alcohol consumption as a nation, who are they kidding?
The only people who benefit from this outdated piece of legislation are the off licences whose turnover is increased threefold on the day before Good Friday.0 -
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No, no, no, no!
A hambag is actually the ultimate Xmas accessory. It's the cloth bag that you soak in vinegar and water to keep your cooked ham fresh all the way into the new year so that you can have heaps of hang and turkey sangwiches with cheese 'n onion tayto.
My mam had never seen these before she came to visit me a few years ago and pissed herself laughing because it sounded like handbag if you're from Dublin.
I had to send one to each of my aunties the following Xmas. I bought a whole shop out of ones like the picture and had to buy a different, less cool one for myself.
On-topic: The pubs close here too. I haven't been in a pub yet this year and I still think it's stupid.
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Bah!
I'm visiting my parents for a couple of days, arrived this afternoon absolutely starving, no one home. I found a couple of chicken fillets in the fridge, had the pan heating to fry them, when my parents came in, and wouldn't let me have them!! Because of the Good Friday thing! I didn't argue - their house (and their chicken fillets!), so their rules. Pain in the ass though. I had to settle for Cornflakes instead.
So then I offered to make dinner. Was getting excited about it, I was going to make up some sort of delicious vegetarian dish involving mushrooms and spinach and asparagus and garlic and maybe quinoa made in a creamy peppercorn sauce ... but, no, "It's Good Friday, we have to have fish!"
I don't eat fish. And I wouldn't cook it for someone else either - fish is ick.
Whatever about not eating meat on Good Friday ... where the feck does this notion that you have to eat fish come from?!
I'm still going to make my mushroomy thing tomorrow. But with added chicken and bacon. And it's gonna be awesome!!! 0 -
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Ripped off. My local was selling them for a euro a pop yesterday.
WHERE!!?!!? (hopefully nearer to me than Glasnevin!)
Glass bottles are a feckin' PITA to recycle whereas cans just get flattened and tossed into the green bin
Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.
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I don't really give a damn that GF exists (I have small kids... what's a pub?) but this notion that just because (a) a prohibition already exists and (b) it's less important than the plight of the New Zealand Kakapo doesn't mean people can't complain and offer an opinion.
Hey! Leave the poor Kakapo out of this!
Although seeing 'god' created the Kakapo, I don't see any good reason why he can't save them himself!
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The kakapo, being a nocturnal parrot, should eminently fit in in most Irish pubs, more so on Good Friday or after hours.I feel for ya. I'll be playing this Holy Thursday and Easter Saturday. Easter football ftw.
I don't really give a damn that GF exists (I have small kids... what's a pub?) but this notion that just because (a) a prohibition already exists and (b) it's less important than the plight of the New Zealand Kakapo doesn't mean people can't complain and offer an opinion.0 -
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A friend came round and drank all my beer because he was a lazy bugger and hadn't an anticipatory bone in his body. I ate my fish and chips and glared.
As you sat there glaring and devouring the Donegal Catch, did you not anticipate the likelihood that 'all' your beer would eventually be gone as he continued drinking his way through the liquid contents of your fridge? 0 -
As you sat there glaring and devouring the Donegal Catch, did you not anticipate the likelihood that 'all' your beer would eventually be gone as he continued drinking his way through the liquid contents of your fridge?
"Fridge"? He even drank the warm beer. :eek: Poor bloke was in a bad way though - it's hard to find a hair of the dog on GF.0 -
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God endowed the Kakapo with natural beer goggles, because there are no pubs in New Zealand.The kakapo, being a nocturnal parrot, should eminently fit in in most Irish pubs, more so on Good Friday or after hours.
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