knacker drinking.

Omar187

So drinking outside or knacker drinking (as its called) lots of us done it, When growing up, but who called it knacker drinking, and why?
I sure had some great times out knacker drinking in the past,
With the bees and birds and all that.
Your thoughts please.

Axe Rake

Hope you get banned.

meoklmrk91

Have also heard it called Gattin and Bush Wacking, good auld craic but a bit sad when you look back on it.

lil'bug

it was called bush drinking in my day

sitting in a field surrounded by cow shtie in the drizzle, fun times

beano345

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

Have also heard it called Gattin and Bush Wacking, good auld craic but a bit sad when you look back on it.

no sadder than spending a fortune in a bar would rather go back to it!

SureYWouldntYa

its called knacker drinking because knackers do it a lot.............

anhedonia

Omar187 wrote: »

but who called it knacker drinking, and why?

Your thoughts please.

Its named after knackers, who tend to drink outside.

Also, hope you get banned.

Omar187

Axe Rake wrote: »

Hope you get banned.

Why?

Bushing in Galway

Omar187

anhedonia wrote: »

Its named after knackers, who tend to drink outside.

Also, hope you get banned.

Some nasty people in here.

beano345

Omar187 wrote: »

Why?

your not upper-class enough for them

Chucken

anhedonia wrote: »

Its named after knackers, who tend to drink outside.

Also, hope you get banned.

Oh the irony

dmc17

It's because you tend to be knackered(exhausted) after 12 cans

Banjo String

Axe Rake wrote: »

Hope you get banned.

Bit harsh.

Adhamh

It's a seasonal thing.

In winter, we drink around kitchen tables; this is termed 'middle class drinking'.

In summertime, we have a late outdoors lunch, or what is also referred to as a 'picnic au dutch'.

anhedonia

beano345 wrote: »

your not upper-class enough for them

bingo, theres a stench of poverty off this thread.

Hootanany

Axe Rake wrote: »

Hope you get banned.

:rolleyes:

suicide_circus

please, some respect

it's "member of the travelling community" drinking

Omar187

suicide_circus wrote: »

please, some respect

it's "member of the travelling community" drinking

How come.?
I'm not/never was a member of the travelling community,
And i went knacker drinking when growing up.

beano345

anhedonia wrote: »

bingo, theres a stench of poverty off this thread.

hey hard times sunshine....enjoy your spritzer!

SusieBlue

Knacker drinking..Those were the days

Legally buying and drinking alcohol just doesn't have the same thrill :pac:

jazz101

Did it when I was a bit younger. I actually really enjoyed it, there's something of a deeper personal bond formed in an abandoned house in the dark with your best friends in comparison to a dank pub. We had good laughs, good scares about imaginary Gardaí, and left that scene with nice memories of going through dark fields on the way with the delusion that we were big-time law breakers.

beano345

jazz101 wrote: »

Did it when I was a bit younger. I actually really enjoyed it, there's something of a deeper personal bond formed in an abandoned house in the dark with your best friends in comparison to a dank pub. We had good laughs, good scares about imaginary Gardaí, and left that scene with nice memories of going through dark fields on the way with the delusion that we were big-time law breakers.

did it in toronto before i left! in a park on lake ontario,couldnt have asked for a better night,rainbows over the lake ,red sky,were'nt throwing abuse to passers-by or acting unruly,well cheaper than a bar and what a view!

anhedonia

jazz101 wrote: »

there's something of a deeper personal bond formed in an abandoned house in the dark with your best friends

Did you have to eat the biscuit ?

gurramok

WhiteRoses wrote: »

Knacker drinking..Those were the days

Legally buying and drinking alcohol just doesn't have the same thrill :pac:

You drank in the pub called The Field yes?

Wanderer2010

I didnt actually know what it meant until I read this thread. I always presumed it was drinking cans in a field until late at night. Cant say I have ever done it, my only drinking was/is in a pub.

jazz101

anhedonia wrote: »

Did you have to eat the biscuit ?

Surprisingly patronizing for someone whose recent posts are focused on that famously highbrow dichotomy of drugs and condoms.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Axe Rake wrote: »

Hope you get banned.

anhedonia wrote: »

Its named after knackers, who tend to drink outside.

Also, hope you get banned.

Ban? My arse!

It's called knacker drinking. That's why the thread is called knacker drinking. He's not referring to the travelling community, he's referring to the activity. Nor, just to be clear, is he referring to the drinking of a member of the travelling community. Because around here, you never know sometimes.

If he called it Barge Drinking would you want the same ban?

And yes, did it, but it's not proper knacker drinking unless it's warm, cider and you had to get an adult to buy it for you.

gurramok

Knacker drinking(nothing to do with Travellers) has been going on since the early 80s mostly in working class areas.

When I was growing up I do remember teenagers of those days going down the fields to drink, we used to call them ciderheads as they were off their heads all nights on cider. They drank Bulmers before it became mainstream. Like a modern equivalent Lindens Vilage or Dutch Gold.

Omar187

anhedonia wrote: »

Did you have to eat the biscuit ?

Somefolk in here think there sh*t don't stink.

Captain Slow IRL

Bushing or bush lushing when I was a lad (nothing to do with bushes despite the name, wouldn't want to offend anyone)

gurramok

Captain Slow IRL wrote: »

Bushing or bush lushing when I was a lad (nothing to do with bushes despite the name, wouldn't want to offend anyone)

Who would you be offending, the Bushes aka the George's?!

Tell us your stories in the bushes poster, don't have fear

Omar187

Captain Slow IRL wrote: »

Bushing or bush lushing when I was a lad (nothing to do with bushes despite the name, wouldn't want to offend anyone)

But you might offend them Australian inhabitants.;)

Captain Slow IRL

I don't really remember a lot, but I know great times were had! We did it no matter what the weather - I do remember many a night freezing my arse off in the name of cheap inebriation.

Larianne

rarnes1 wrote: »

Bushing in Galway

Bushing means something completely different in Dublin.

What do knackers call the activity that is knacker drinking?

Captain Slow IRL

Larianne wrote: »

Bushing means something completely different in Dublin.

What do knackers call the activity that is knacker drinking?

Drinking?!

Bushing means something different here as well (young wans in short skirts, or something!) but could have been used to describe the act of bush lushing.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Knacker sex is better.

..........iv heard

Larianne

Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »

Knacker sex is better.

..........iv heard

What's that?

Sex in a bush?

beano345

Larianne wrote: »

Bushing means something completely different in Dublin.

What do knackers call the activity that is knacker drinking?

on the knack?!?

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Larianne wrote: »

What's that?

Sex in a bush?

I'm not good at describing things, Id just have to show ya.

buzsywuzsy

Gattin' would be another term used too

hfallada

There was nothing quite like meeting anything for 100-200 people in a field all drinking in the dark. Making friends not quite sure what they looked like. The worst was when the guards arrived once and a guy cut his ball sac out on a razor wire fence running from the guards.

Herb Powell

I quite enjoy open-air drinking, and I can't wait til I move to Germany in a few months, where it is legal.

Tom_Cruise

I used love knacker drinking.

There was point when it was all i wanted to do in life, but i slowly realised that i would have to work do this. I tried the whole Monday to Friday work thing but i just couldn't do it. I luckily enough got a part time job in a barber shop sweeping the hair from the floor. The two barbers where very fast and the hair would always be amounting on the ground, i very rarely got a break during the summer months when all the boys wanted their head shaved.

One day i went knacker drinking and woke up hungover - really hungover. I was an hour late for work. I got up and ran down to the barbers shop. It was Saturday morning - the busiest time of the week. I turned the corner and i didn't believe what i could see. There was a young chap sweeping up the hair from the floor. My dream job -gone. All because i went knacker drinking.

BillyMitchel

anhedonia wrote: »

bingo, theres a stench of poverty off this thread.

bigger stench of idiocy

the_syco

Have done it in the past. Now just drink in one of the lads houses, but have gone drinking in fields. It's not really "knacker drinking" once you turn 18, though.

Captain Slow IRL

I have a feeling Tom Cruise went on to bigger and better things.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Captain Slow IRL wrote: »

I have a feeling Tom Cruise went on to bigger and better things.

Do you wish to be known as "Captain Slow Ireland" or "Captain Slow In Real Life"?

ElvisChrist6

I never went knacker drinking until after I turned 18, now it'd be my drinking method of choice. Unfortunately we haven't the weather for it!

kneemos

Omar187 wrote: »

Somefolk in here think there sh*t don't stink.

With a healthy diet and regular bowl movements you're ****e shouldn't stink much at all,at least mine doesn't.

Amronoc

kneemos wrote: »

With a healthy diet and regular bowl movements you're ****e shouldn't stink much at all,at least mine doesn't.

Yes I regularly move my bowl from the sink to the press