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Why do yobs always feel the need to get drunk before a flight?

  • 01-10-2013 10:59AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    You know the type, saw it when I went to the euros last year, also very common to see groups of them going on some holiday direct tour to Spain, just groups of men and women getting drunk then acting the clown on the flight.

    I myself don't see the fascination of getting drunk then having to sit in a seat for 3 to 4 hours.

    So do you drink before the flight?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,296 ✭✭✭✭gimmick


    Read that as FIGHT, not flight.

    I enjoy a few pints before a flight.

    Others just go into "holiday mode" a bit quicker than others. I use the term loosely mind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    It's thirsty work ya know!! Would you go to work hungry??


    EDIT: read that as fight also. oops!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 326 ✭✭Savoir.Faire


    If you fly with a better class of airline then you tend to avoid these sorts. You'd see them at the airport though. All white runners, tracksuits and neck tattoos.

    Must make the flight a misery for other passengers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    I don't get it either. I'll have a pint or two, but wouldn't be getting drunk.

    Odd behaviour.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,740 ✭✭✭whippet


    Flying and drinking has to be the most uncomfortable experience ever!!!

    People who get tanked on flights like this tend to be the same type of people who have christening parties in pubs and get trollied at these aswell ... along with sunday carvery in the pub with the children, heap of pints and roaring at United on the box while the children run wild loaded with Tayto and club orange.

    Unfortunately one of the by-products of cheap air fares is these types; before they just went to caravan parks in the sunny south east and trabolgon.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    I usually have a good bit to drink before i get on a plane to take the edge off my fearing of flying but i never cause problems for people around me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    If you fly with a better class of airline then you tend to avoid these sorts. You'd see them at the airport though. All white runners, tracksuits an neck tattoos.

    Must make the flight a misery for other passengers.

    I often fly airlines where the alcohol is complimentary but would get an orange juice or water, could only imagine the chaos it would cause if an Irish airline done the Same. 'Oh I must have a beer ' so lower class.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭ruthloss


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    You know the type, saw it when I went to the euros last year, also very common to see groups of them going on some holiday direct tour to Spain, just groups of men and women getting drunk then acting the clown on the flight.

    I myself don't see the fascination of getting drunk then having to sit in a seat for 3 to 4 hours.

    So do you drink before the flight?

    Suffered the same misery as yourself last year., Dublin to Izmir, never, ever again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Been at the airport loads of times for very early flights. You see groups of people in the airport bar at 6 or 7 am with pints. Don't understand why, maybe they feel its the Irish thing to do. Personally I'd prefer a fry and some tae a that time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Depends on the time of day and length of the flight. I might have a snifter or two of brandy around evening-time before the in-flight movie on a long-hauler. No interest in boozing just because I'm in an airport or on an aeroplane. There's people flying regularly nowadays that in a sane and just Universe would just be jettisoned somewhere over the ocean.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I never drink before a flight, just don't like to arrive half cut when I need to find my bag, make it through customs and then on to a hotel.
    Once I'm installed, unpacked and showered it's a different matter ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Why do yobs always feel the need to get drunk before a flight?......

    .......So do you drink before the flight?

    Well you're really asking two question there ol' Orangey.

    Yobs love drink. It makes them forget they're yobs and feel sophisticated like a high-class person such as yourself.

    Do I drink before a flight? Yes. Because it helps me forget I'm high-class and let go like one of those yobs I see around me in airports, drinking to pretend they're sophisticated like me.

    Oranage2 wrote: »
    I often fly airlines where the alcohol is complimentary but would get an orange juice or water, could only imagine the chaos it would cause if an Irish airline done the Same.

    Irish airlines used to give free booze on transatlantic flights. Chaos did not ensue.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    And then you see them all getting up to use the bathroom as soon as the seat belt sign turns off causing havoc in the aisles. Crazy crazy behaviour!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    I often fly airlines where the alcohol is complimentary but would get an orange juice or water, could only imagine the chaos it would cause if an Irish airline done the Same. 'Oh I must have a beer ' so lower class.

    What a bizarre assertion. Alcohol is complimentary in Club/Business/First class with most airlines, including Aer Lingus. You just get used to everyone drinking seventeen pints and then splitting off into "Red Will Danagher vs. the Yank" pairs for the obligatory riot.


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    I often fly airlines where the alcohol is complimentary but would get an orange juice or water, could only imagine the chaos it would cause if an Irish airline done the Same. 'Oh I must have a beer ' so lower class.

    You would want to seriously keep tabs on that trolling there Oranage ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    Why do yobs always feel the need to get drunk before a flight?


    clues in the question there OP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,139 ✭✭✭✭Mr. Manager


    I get completely and utterly shít faced before getting on a plane. Terrified of flying and it helps.

    Went to Madrid and Milan last year and couldn't tell you a single thing about the airport.

    Going to LV in January and plan on doing the exact same thing. Will hopefully just sleep through the whole flight.

    I'm never a messy drunk though. Just get sleepy and pass out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭returnNull


    I usually have a good bit to drink before i get on a plane to take the edge off my fearing of flying but i never cause problems for people around me

    me too , i also take 2 or 3 valium.Im well docile by the time I get on any plane :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Ill start drinking before a flight, then on a flight so as ill pass out and sleep.
    I hate flying, and if I don't have Xanax then ill get drunk. Drink beer = sleepy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,620 ✭✭✭Graham_B18C


    Why do yobs need to drink before a flight...?

    Why do snobs feel the need to judge them?

    While I'd usually have a pint or two before going away because I'm in "holiday mode", I don't judge people that like to have a few more than me. I've never seen trouble on a flight because of this tbf. Your attitude towards "lower classes" really sinks OP


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,139 ✭✭✭✭Mr. Manager


    Why do yobs need to drink before a flight...?

    Why do snobs feel the need to judge them?

    While I'd usually have a pint or two before going away because I'm in "holiday mode", I don't judge people that like to have a few more than me. I've never seen trouble on a flight because of this tbf. Your attitude towards "lower classes" really sinks OP

    +1 to this.

    I can barely remember 5 minutes of a flight I'm usually that bad but the missus always tells me I just blab shíte to her for a few minutes then doze off before we've left the ground.

    If it was a case that I was a messy, annoying, aggressive drunk then I wouldn't do it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    And lets not forget the good oul singsong that they subject everyone to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Got to take advantage of the free beer in the airport lounges.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    I was on a flight with free drink. Aer Lingus were going to stop using that particular type of plane, so they thought they'd give us a free ashtray (I was a smoker at the time, and hanging for one :mad:) and make an announcement that "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the last flight this plane will make". :eek::eek:

    Then the drink was flowing and I don't remember much after that. :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Okay lower class wasn't the right word, I myself am of a working class family, I meant to say yob class or classless


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Okay lower class wasn't the right word, I myself am of a working class family, I meant to say yob class or classless

    Why is it ok for middle class people to drink on a plane but not for a "yob class".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Why is it ok for middle class people to drink on a plane but not for a "yob class".

    I never said it was, I'm talking about people getting drunk


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 480 ✭✭saltyjack silverblade


    I thought it was illegal to be drunk on a plane :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 953 ✭✭✭donegal__road


    I usually have a good bit to drink before i get on a plane to take the edge off my fearing of flying but i never cause problems for people around me

    2 large glasses of red wine, and 2 Tylenol PM, that takes the edge off things.. (in the absence of Xanax of course)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    I never said it was, I'm talking about people getting drunk

    I get drunk on a plane because I'm scared of flying and I'm really claustrophobic. When I'm drunk I'm relaxed and sleepy. If I was sober, I'd be way more agitated and annoying.

    Am I still a yob?


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