Where is the annual Good Friday thread?

logically

You know the one about whether or not it's a public holiday and whether the banks are open or not and the debate about pubs being closed and the panic buying of drink in the supermarkets on "Holy" Thursday...

Where is the 2014 edition? I can't find it.

everdead.ie

logically wrote: »

You know the one about whether or not it's a public holiday and whether the banks are open or not and the debate about pubs being closed and the panic buying of drink in the supermarkets on "Holy" Thursday...

Where is the 2014 edition? I can't find it.

Don't forget that if you are a traveller you are entitled to a drink so buy a ticket to Galway and sit in Huestons bar if you are really stuck.

Or on the other hand lets start a campaign to change it's name to "Lets all go to the cinema day!"

wretcheddomain

Here

CINCLANTFLT

logically wrote: »

You know the one about whether or not it's a public holiday and whether the banks are open or not and the debate about pubs being closed and the panic buying of drink in the supermarkets on "Holy" Thursday...

Where is the 2014 edition? I can't find it.

Here it is:
http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057184690/1/#post89819681

El Weirdo

everdead.ie wrote: »

Don't forget that if you are a traveller you are entitled to a drink so buy a ticket to Galway and sit in Huestons bar if you are really stuck.

Christ, it really is one law for them and another for the rest of us, isn't it?

:pac:

ballsymchugh

so is anyone buying a poppy in november?

The Backwards Man

Them teachers have it easy don't they?

Davarus Walrus

I get the day off work so long may this fine tradition continue.

Alf. A. Male

Which town?

cson

[A] "Can ye not stay off it for one day of the year"

"The State is supposed to be secular; its absolute bullshít this is still a rule"

[C] "Sure just stock up on cans and have a house party"

[D] "Atari Shaguar"

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Every reply to this thread will invariably be a derivative of one of the above.

Except this post; which is all of the above. :pac:

Jinx.

El Weirdo

cson wrote: »

[A] "Can ye not stay off it for one day of the year"

"The State is supposed to be secular; its absolute bullshít this is still a rule"

[C] "Sure just stock up on cans and have a house party"

[D] "Atari Shaguar"

/thread

cson

Although, part of me thinks there'd be feck all about it if it was Good Monday or Good Tuesday. Just because its a Friday and the weekend and all that brings...

Damn Jesus anyway for having the temerity to die on a Friday.

everdead.ie

cson wrote: »

[A] "Can ye not stay off it for one day of the year"

"The State is supposed to be secular; its absolute bullshít this is still a rule"

[C] "Sure just stock up on cans and have a house party"

[D] "Atari Shaguar"

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Every reply to this thread will invariably be a derivative of one of the above.

Except this post; which is all of the above. :pac:

Jinx.

Something something #YOLO .

Jesus would have been a LAD.

Shiraz 4.99

Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .

You can't beat a nice Angelus

Joe prim

El Weirdo wrote: »

Christ, it really is one law for them and another for the rest of us, isn't it?

:pac:

It's part of their kulchur:D

iDave

So is fish really meat?

Talib Fiasco

Most importantly the ethical issue of whether to eat the customary boiled beef for the Friday dinner or be religious and have the modern delight that is Lidl fishfingers....

GLaDOS

iDave wrote: »

So is fish really meat?

Sure there's enough trouble trying to decide what a fish is

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/27/when_the_catholic_church_decided_beavers_were_fish_partner/

hatrickpatrick

You're all right there Ted. It's a fair bit away yet.

sullivlo

Sure there's drink on sale in the RDS for the Leinster match that day!

hatrickpatrick

iDave wrote: »

So is fish really meat?

All steak is beef, but not all beef is steak.

jimgoose

cson wrote: »

...Every reply to this thread will invariably be a derivative of one of the above.

Except this post; which is all of the above. :pac:

Jinx.

And this one, which consists of me saying that I don't usually drink on Fridays anyway!

keeponhurling

So pubs are not allowed to open (or is it just they cannot serve alcohol)? And yet it is not a national holiday that everybody gets off?

Seems a little inconsistent

Davarus Walrus

Always good to see posters who say they never visit pubs because the price of gargle is too expensive bemoan the fact that they cannot visit one on a Good Friday.

keeponhurling

cson wrote: »

[A] "Can ye not stay off it for one day of the year"

"The State is supposed to be secular; its absolute bullshít this is still a rule"

[C] "Sure just stock up on cans and have a house party"

[D] "Atari Shaguar"

.

Do we need a poll ?

I vote for B

lertsnim

Massive session on that day. Good man Jesus

Usually head across the border but that tradition has died off over the last few years. Don't think I'll bother if there's gonna be no craic.

I have a drink about once a month so went for the atmosphere more than anything else.

Pumpkinseeds

I'm amazed that Good Friday licensing law still exists. It does seem a bit ridiculous in this day and age. We usually drink a fair bit that day to try to get some sleep as the neighbours either side of us seem to lose the run of themselves and panic at the thought of not getting into a bar that night, so they have house parties. Fcuking hate house parties.

Santa Cruz

everdead.ie wrote: »

Don't forget that if you are a traveller you are entitled to a drink so buy a ticket to Galway and sit in Huestons bar if you are really stuck.

Or on the other hand lets start a campaign to change it's name to "Lets all go to the cinema day!"

Boards.ie are waiting for the "Would you wear an Easter Lily" thread and will release both on Super Sunday

stefan idiot jones

Why, in films, when a sword is drawn from a scabbard is a metallic 'schring' sound made?

The majority of scabbards are made of materials like leather not metal as it would dull the blade.

Mods, feel free to move this to trivial questions inside halfwits heads thread.

Femme_Fatale

logically wrote: »

You know the one about whether or not it's a public holiday and whether the banks are open or not and the debate about pubs being closed and the panic buying of drink in the supermarkets on "Holy" Thursday...

Where is the 2014 edition? I can't find it.

It's only 7th April and good Friday this year is 18th April?

c_man

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

It's only 7th April and good Friday this year is 18th April?

Today is "Bankholiday minus 9 work days" in my head.

Not G.R

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

All steak is beef, but not all beef is steak.

Tuna steak...

shotsfired

Lapin

I blame the bankers.

El_Dangeroso

I get the day off because it's a privilage day in my cushy public service job!

\o/

bumper234

Can't wait for good Friday!

Have the day off and me and my son are going to rip up the town and have a mad one!!!!

Except for the hours of 12:00 - 1:30 as he will be having his nap then and gets cranky if he doesn't sleep. Two year olds, just can't hack the pace

Fred Swanson

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Holsten

4 Day weekend hell yeahhhhhhhhhhh!

GenieOz

Good Friday does wonders for the off licenses in fairness. I say keep it.

evolving_doors

Do ya know the secret knock?

orangesoda

Christ the mass schedule over Easter is hectic

catallus

Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »

Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .

You can't beat a nice Angelus

I note, with some disdain, that your version (and god help us in this day and age when individuals think it's all about themselves and try to mangle tradition to fit into their own deleteriously unimaginative dreams of themselves) has only 12 bongs.

You, sir, are a heathen.

The number of bongs is 18. 3 sets of 3 bongs, followed by a rapture of 9 bongs.

So it goes:

Bong........Bong.........Bong

Bong........Bong.........Bong

Bong........Bong.........Bong

And then BongBongBongBongBongBongBongBongBong.

Now, I'm all for re-mixes, but your 12 bong version sucks.

Martina82

I find extremely depressing to see people lining up to buy drink on Holy Thursday.

Shiraz 4.99

Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »

Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .

You can't beat a nice Angelus

Or a decent Bong

delw

catallus wrote: »

I note, with some disdain, that your version (and god help us in this day and age when individuals think it's all about themselves and try to mangle tradition to fit into their own deleteriously unimaginative dreams of themselves) has only 12 bongs.

You, sir, are a heathen.

The number of bongs is 18. 3 sets of 3 bongs, followed by a rapture of 9 bongs.

So it goes:

Bong........Bong.........Bong

Bong........Bong.........Bong

Bong........Bong.........Bong

And then BongBongBongBongBongBongBongBongBong.

Now, I'm all for re-mixes, but your 12 bong version sucks.

Excellent

Mammanabammana

I like to sit sipping a coffee in Temple Bar and watch all the bewildered tourists wandering around from pub to pub wondering what in the name of Thor is going on.

Bootsy.

This year we've organised a massive Pagan orgy in the woods, it'll be way more flippin' craic than the pub.

catallus

An orgy? In the woods? In April? You're a nutter. Having rotten branches and moss in one's ass-crack does not sound like "flippin' craic" to me. But I never did understand pagans.

Lapin

Martina82 wrote: »

I find extremely depressing to see people lining up to buy drink on Holy Thursday.

I know.

We should really spread it out over Holy Wednesday and maybe even Holy Tuesday too.

Lighten the load a bit like.

Every year we say we'll do that but we never do.

Super-Rush

I could never figure out which was was more pathetic.

The fact that the fcuking church still dictates what goes on in this country or people not being able to survive one day without alcohol.

Lapin

Super-Rush wrote: »

I could never figure out which was was more pathetic.

The fact that the fcuking church still dictates what goes on in this country or people not being able to survive one day without alcohol.

Thats easy.

It's the churchy bit.