Monday club.

Banjo String

Between the ages of say 23-27 I was an avid attender of the 'Monday club'

Where I am fro, there is a bit of a Sunday drinking culture, and Sunday drinking would often lead to Monday early hours drinking, and getting in at 3am and attempting to get out of bed for 7am was rarely an easy task.

This led to a day spent in the local, from noon to around 11 or twelve that night, sometimes this meant Tuesday was also missed.

Now I'm not proud of the fact, but I spent many a Monday sat in the local pub basically
a bum.

The whole concept would be unthinkable to me nowadays. Though looking back there was some good days Craic to be recalled.


Does the Monday club culture still exist?

wazky

Yes alcoholism still exists.

The Backwards Man

As I work all the unsociable hours under the sun, I am a proud member of the Monday club. Hic!

frag420

Next weeks meeting has been changed to Saturday!!

Agricola

This is one of those time when a concept is given a name it doesnt really deserve! Yeah I think it falls under the alcoholism banner!

The Monday Club turned into the 188 club and moved to Wednesdays.

hatrickpatrick

I've always said if I ever end up running a company I'll open it later on Monday mornings to give people a chance to get their sleep patterns sorted after the weekend.
What's the sense in opening early when you know most people are going to be half asleep anyway? It's like 9AM Monday lectures in college, people might go to them but it's not as if they're going to do more than the absolute bare minimum whilst struggling to stay conscious. Complete waste of time.

BattleCorp

Back in the good old days when we had a building trade, if you were a block layer and didn't do "The Monday Club", you'd be blacklisted.

Not a block laid in the country "of a Monday".

Banjo String

wazky wrote: »

Yes alcoholism still exists.

Mondays.

The only day an alcoholic misses his work.

NoQuarter

SamHall wrote: »

Between the ages of say 23-27 I was an avid attender of the 'Monday club'

Where I am fro, there is a bit of a Sunday drinking culture, and Sunday drinking would often lead to Monday early hours drinking, and getting in at 3am and attempting to get out of bed for 7am was rarely an easy task.

This led to a day spent in the local, from noon to around 11 or twelve that night, sometimes this meant Tuesday was also missed.

Now I'm not proud of the fact, but I spent many a Monday sat in the local pub basically
a bum.

The whole concept would be unthinkable to me nowadays. Though looking back there was some good days Craic to be recalled.


Does the Monday club culture still exist?

Were you working or what?

wazky

SamHall wrote: »

Mondays.

The only day an alcoholic misses his work.

You were missing one or two days of work a week from the consumption of alcohol?

Did you bother turn up for the other three days out of interest?

Banjo String

wazky wrote: »

You were missing one or two days of work a week from the consumption of alcohol?

Did you bother turn up for the other three days out of interest?

No.

Of course not.

(should have made it clear in the OP)

It wasn't a weekly occurrence.

Ilik Urgee

T'was the Friday here. Wages in Thursday, pissed away Thursday, all day Friday, all day Saturday and usually emptying the ashtray looking for cigarette butts come Sunday afternoon.

Monday Club.... grand for some:P

Henlars67

The Monday club was great craic, though i didn't do it every week. I'd have been sacked if I did.

Some Mondays we'd knock off at lunch time and join up with the lads who'd been drinking from early morning.

I worked on the buildings and every so often a few of us would work a Saturday in order to be allowed take the following Monday off, and occasionally, though rarely, I'd just miss work. I never actually missed work because i couldn't get up due to drink, but there was a few times i missed it because I wanted to go drinking.

The best days I ever spent in a pub were on a Monday during the boom when the weather was so bad that we couldn't work. The pub was packed on days like that.

Dempsey

The Monday Club is the busiest day of the week in some places!

dk1345

round our way instead of calling it the Monday club we called it magic Mondays so we wouldn't feel as bad