Adios Arthurs Day

JupiterKid

Well, according to the news, Diageo is to call time on Arthur's Day.

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/10/14/no-moore-arthur-just-waterboy-from-now-on/

Will anyone really miss it? I think it was OK for the first year to mark Guinness's 250th anniversary but having it as an annual event was really taking the proverbial...
As if us Irish needed an excuse to go and get hammered. :rolleyes:

Good riddance to Arthurs Day!

wp_rathead

this will solve Ireland's drinking problem

Everyone knows we only drink on designated drinking days

Jester252

A lot can happen in 11 months.

y0ssar1an22

What about Martha?
















Thank the sweet Lord I never have to hear (hopefully) drunken fools shouting that out every 5 fooking minutes.

nelly17

wprathead wrote: »

this will solve Ireland's drinking problem

Everyone knows we only drink on designated drinking days

Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday, Saturday & Sunday

RobbieTheRobber

I met my now Wife on Arthurs day.
So it was good for me.

Crooked Jack

I don't get the backlash over this. If you don't like it, then don't go to any of the places participating in it. That simple. I've never "celebrated" Arthur's Day but I wouldn't say no to a free gig and a free pint on a Thursday if the mood took me.

iDave

Agreed with the OP. Any company or brand that reached 250 years deserves to pat itself on the back. But bringing it back year on year was unnecessary. I remember the scramble for tickets in 2009 for some venues. Girls were desperate to be involved having never drank the black stuff ever.

AnonoBoy

I avoided town on it to be honest - too messy for an auld fogey like me.

I won't miss it.

Although the source for that is The Sun - hardly reliable.

4zn76tysfajdxp

wprathead wrote: »

this will solve Ireland's drinking problem

Everyone knows we only drink on designated drinking days

Yeah, Saturdays.

o1s1n

Fingers crossed this is true.

Lyaiera

nelly17 wrote: »

Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday, Saturday & Sunday

Yeah, only the days that end in day.

Turtyturd

Well done Christy Moore...I suggest we all buy his new CD as a way of saying thanks. :rolleyes:

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Hopefully we can get the Heineken Cup cancelled next.

Mr.McLovin

lets kill paddys day too while we're at...

iDave

Mr.McLovin wrote: »

lets kill paddys day too while we're at...

We'll keep that but Valentines Day can fcuk right off

Lollipops23

I'm pretty pissed off about this tbh- I went out the last 2 Arthur's Days and had a great time. There was a good atmosphere, some great live music and general craic.

I stayed for 3 drinks and then headed off home. Was in work the next day as normal and no hangover to be had.

What's the effin problem?

o1s1n

Lollipops23 wrote: »

What's the effin problem?

Not you, but the rest of the drunk eejits puking all over the streets midday, fighting and clogging up A&E :pac:

My name is URL

o1s1n wrote: »

Fingers crossed this is true.

Why? I never paid any notice of it myself, but I don't understand why people seem to hate it so much. It's a clever marketing ploy but nobody was holding a gun to your head and forcing you to go to the pub on the day.

I'd hardly call the success of a few Helen Lovejoy types a good thing.

danniemcq

Am I the only one who has never seen a problem on Arthurs, never seen a fight, never seen a scuffle never seen a thing.

I have been out every year from 5-? and its always been good craic with mates.

There are worse on student nights or wednesdays or weekends.

Lando Griffin

Yippee, but what will all these sober people do, if there was some kind of project or idea to grow would be great just to keep peoples mind off the gargle....
Google's : giving up Guinness starting a project

gramar

Did the guy from Diageo go to the A&E ward after like he said to see all of the drink related admissions?

Iang87

i for one will miss this and for those who complain about it, well some people simply have to complain about something

o1s1n

My name is URL wrote: »

Why? I never paid any notice of it myself, but I don't understand why people seem to hate it so much. It's a clever marketing ploy but nobody was holding a gun to your head and forcing you to go to the pub on the day.

I'd hardly call the success of a few Helen Lovejoy types a good thing.

Because I absolutely hate it. Hate everything about it. Hate having to commute home that day through the city centre every year, pushing my way through all the drunken fools, shouting inane phrases given to them by the marketing team of Diageo.

Hate the stupid bands that play at it. Hate the stupid TV ads that go with it. It just really feckin' winds me up. :pac:

Always had a great night Arthur's day and got a few free pints so it will be missed. Hopefully something will get organised around that time anyway just to to give two fingers to the begrudgers if nothing else.

Some awful dry sh*tes around lately.

carlmango11

o1s1n wrote: »

Because I absolutely hate it. Hate everything about it. Hate having to commute home that day through the city centre every year, pushing my way through all the drunken fools, shouting inane phrases given to them by the marketing team of Diageo.

Hate the stupid bands that play at it. Hate the stupid TV ads that go with it. It just really feckin' winds me up. :pac:

You could say that about any celebration.

All this means is one less special event per year for Ireland. Cities all around Europe have countless festivals and celebrations throughout the year and shock-horror, yes, they involve alcohol.

I actually can't believe it's being scrapped. The anti-fun brigade has won again.

Lollipops23

danniemcq wrote: »

Am I the only one who has never seen a problem on Arthurs, never seen a fight, never seen a scuffle never seen a thing.

I have been out every year from 5-? and its always been good craic with mates.

There are worse on student nights or wednesdays or weekends.

Exactly-I was out the Saturday night before Arthur's Day this year and saw way worse behaviour. Idiots are idiots, some people are too thick to learn how to handle their drink. Don't see why the rest of us have to suffer.

Typical pandering to the lowest denominator of society.

Duff

Hope it's not true. Always had good craic on Arthur's Day.

Stinicker

Mr.McLovin wrote: »

lets kill paddys day too while we're at...

Or at least move it to the middle of July so we can celebrate in summer instead of the typical raining dreary march days which sees everyone go on the beer instead. St. Patrick's day could be a family day like the 4th of July instead of an alcoholics day.

Rothko

carlmango11 wrote: »

You could say that about any celebration.

All this means is one less special event per year for Ireland. Cities all around Europe have countless festivals and celebrations throughout the year and shock-horror, yes, they involve alcohol.

I actually can't believe it's being scrapped. The anti-fun brigade has won again.

Are they any relation to the PC brigade?

Wompa1

If it is true but then nothing else happens, it's a farce.

If it is true and more is done to try and combat the negatives involved with having such a heavy drink culture, that's good. But I think it's more likely to be the former.

Who knows, maybe Diageo are pulling it because it's not worth the return, maybe they were hoping to turn non-consumers into new ongoing consumers and this isn't happening. They drink it the one night but go back to their regular poison afterwards. That would be more likely, money talks, bullsh1t walks...

For Forks Sake

Suas11 wrote: »

Are they any relation to the PC brigade?

Inbred cousins.

For Forks Sake

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Hopefully we can get the Heineken Cup cancelled next.

Fear not, the French are working on it.

Get Real

Stinicker wrote: »

Or at least move it to the middle of July so we can celebrate in summer instead of the typical raining dreary march days which sees everyone go on the beer instead. St. Patrick's day could be a family day like the 4th of July instead of an alcoholics day.

But then you'd have the good weather. The good weather always brings about public drinking, bbqs, having a few pints in the sun. And thats without any special day to celebrate :P

My name is URL

o1s1n wrote: »

Because I absolutely hate it. Hate everything about it. Hate having to commute home that day through the city centre every year, pushing my way through all the drunken fools, shouting inane phrases given to them by the marketing team of Diageo.

Hate the stupid bands that play at it. Hate the stupid TV ads that go with it. It just really feckin' winds me up. :pac:

Well if that's the criteria people used to decide whether or not stuff happens we'd be living in an awfully dull place.

'I don't like it therefore nobody else should be allowed to enjoy it'

The fact that Diageo have been pressurised into cancelling the thing is depressing. Absolute mongs on the radio for the last 5 months blaming the company for how people behave. It's a sad state of affairs. Instead of championing the idea of personal responsibility, groups instead decide to target the company providing a product, and the pubs providing a service. Wouldn't be so bad if it was just your usual type of bellyaching holy Joes.. but a few doctors and psychologists even had a go at Diageo for it.

Poor feeble minded Paddies need to be protected from themselves I guess, some things never change.. Who cares if only a very very small minority of people caused problems.. it's a classically Irish thing to blame and punish everyone but those responsible.

vektarman

o1s1n wrote: »

Because I absolutely hate it. Hate everything about it. Hate having to commute home that day through the city centre every year, pushing my way through all the drunken fools, shouting inane phrases given to them by the marketing team of Diageo.

Hate the stupid bands that play at it. Hate the stupid TV ads that go with it. It just really feckin' winds me up. :pac:

That's a lot of hate....:)

Zebra3

Maybe Diageo will now spend the money designated for marketing for Arthur's Day on making decent beer for a change.

They've been totally showed up by micros.

rubadub

JupiterKid wrote: »

Will anyone really miss it? I think it was OK for the first year to mark Guinness's 250th anniversary but having it as an annual event was really taking the proverbial...
As if us Irish needed an excuse to go and get hammered. :rolleyes:

I will miss it just as much as I miss the Budrising festival, and the Heineken Green Energy festival. It was great to have heavily subsidised gigs.

There were 13 Green Energy festivals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heineken_Green_Energy
I didn't think that having 13 was "taking the proverbial", thought it was great. At the gigs I saw no more drunkeness at those 2 festivals than the arthurs day one.

Not sure how many budwesier ones there were, but it was more than the 5 arthurs day.

All these utter idiots were going around with really low opinons of others, as though they were the ignorant idiots didn't know it was marketing, and felt the need to point it out and moan. Of course it was a fucking marketing campaign. FFS I don't think its any secret that guinness, budweiser and heineken have marketing teams.

hatrickpatrick

As I said in the last thread, even if Guinness cancel it there's nothing to stop it happening informally anyway
Viva Arthur's Day!

Fred Swanson

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_Redzer_

Zebra3 wrote: »

Maybe Diageo will now spend the money designated for marketing for Arthur's Day on making decent beer for a change.

They've been totally showed up by micros.

Don't like it, don't drink it.

Be nice if the moaning, miserable bastards that could chose to partake or not were no more. Ah well, there's no more Arthur's day, but they'll always be miserable! Guess who really lost out.

humanji

I very much doubt it's being cancelled because people didn't like it. It's being cancelled because Diageo made a fraction of what they made the year before and are cutting their losses. And nobody will blame them, instead claiming it's the fault of the anti-fun brigade or the nanny state etc etc.

MadYaker

humanji wrote: »

I very much doubt it's being cancelled because people didn't like it. It's being cancelled because Diageo made a fraction of what they made the year before and are cutting their losses. And nobody will blame them, instead claiming it's the fault of the anti-fun brigade or the nanny state etc etc.

That article is just hearsay. Until Diageo confirm it I wouldn't believe anything.

And maybe they did only make a fraction this year of what they made in 2012, but id say it was a still an awful lot more than they made on any other Thursday.

So why cancel it? Diageo make alcohol. They don't give a f*ck about their public image, all they care about is money.

humanji

Because now they don't have to put a penny towards it and many people will go out drinking on that day, thinking they're sticking it to the man! Bars will still try and capitalise off of it.

Lyaiera

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

As I said in the last thread, even if Guinness cancel it there's nothing to stop it happening informally anyway
Viva Arthur's Day!

humanji wrote: »

Because now they don't have to put a penny towards it and many people will go out drinking on that day, thinking they're sticking it to the man! Bars will still try and capitalise off of it.

Pretty much this. I bet someone's done an analysis and they've realised it's embedded enough in the national psyche that they can cancel it and still get the benefit for another few years. They were just waiting for a point when the "anti-fun brigade" could get blamed for cancelling it so the rebels will champion it for a bit.

(Jaysus I'm grumpy today. I need a drink. )

BonkeyDonker

Shame if this happens - partook in one or two, and found them to be ok. I've seen much worse of a normal week (I live in Dublin) and the majority of the people behave themselves. The night of Dublin's All Ireland win was much much worse - perhaps we should ban that as well (Either Dublin winning or the All-Ireland)

Better still we can start work on getting Good Friday cancelled - seems to me to be the worst day for excess drinking around - it always amazes me in the days leading up-to it the amount of drink people buy, I mean Jesus, the pubs are closed for ONE day and people buy their own body weight in drink.

BunShopVoyeur.

I was never a big fan of it but...

I find it hard to badmouth it, got to see Primal Scream in my old local last year.

humanji

I'd be surprised if something doesn't take it's place. There's clearly a market for a proper national festival. I'm actually quite shocked that the lads in the Dáil haven't tried to hijack it and make it "The Gathering Day".

mikeym

So happy Arthurs Day is Never coming back.

Diageo dont give 2 hoots bout old Arthur Guinness just making loads of money from selling black swiss muck.

Cookie_Monster

boo.
Should be a national holiday. It's a better reason than some random religious guy.

Paz-CCFC

It'd be great if we had a day to celebrate the array of fantastic beer that's brewed in this country, instead of just a single type. Eight Degrees, Franciscan Well, Galway Bay, JW Sweetman's, Dingle - all examples of great Irish beer and varying types.