50 year olds making ejits if themselves in the pub

sh1tstirrer

I was out in the pub at the weekend and noticed a lot of people in their 50's acting the ejit after drink. The younger people even though they had as much drink acted in a more civilised manner anyone else notice this?












Awaits plenty stupid replies

super_furry

Drunk people generally make ejits of themselves.

Autonomous

How old are you op?

caustic 1

The cheek of them out enjoying themselves. Had they no soaps to watch or knitting to do. tsk.

sh1tstirrer

super_furry wrote: »

Drunk people generally make ejits of themselves.

How do you explain the younger people with the same amount of drink minus the ejiting?

sh1tstirrer

caustic 1 wrote: »

The cheek of them out enjoying themselves. Had they no soaps to watch or knitting to do. tsk.

Exactly you have to be stupid drunk to enjoy yourself.

RonanP77

I stopped going out when I hit 30, there were too many drunkards of all ages acting like idiots and I'm a lot happier putting my feet up and watching something good on the telly. I still have the odd beer at home, I don't mind people drinking, I just wish they knew their limits.

super_furry

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

How do you explain the younger people with the same amount of drink minus the ejiting?

Voodoo most likely.

The Backwards Man

Drink is the world's greatest leveller.

Pumpkinseeds

I haven't been in a pub in about a year, but I've got to go out next weekend and I'm dreading it. No doubt I'll bump into people I was at school with 20 years ago who are still going to the same bar with the same people talking more or less the same s8ite they were talking about 20 years ago. The sad thing is that they'll still be doing the same thing in 20 years.

whisky_galore

Idiots be idioting.

Older =/= wiser.

Egginacup

Must be Cavan thing

Fair play to them.

Sir Osis of Liver.

No fool like an old fool.

Carpenter

Half my mates are 50 year old ejits the rest are just your everyday ejits.

Lux23

RonanP77 wrote: »

I stopped going out when I hit 30, there were too many drunkards of all ages acting like idiots and I'm a lot happier putting my feet up and watching something good on the telly. I still have the odd beer at home, I don't mind people drinking, I just wish they knew their limits.

But that is your choice and fair play to you, if someone else chooses to make a tit of themselves every Saturday night in the pub surely that is their right. What harm are they doing?

the evasion_kid

I worked in a job a few years ago were I had to visit numerous bars daily,it put me off drinking for life was like looking at big children or monkeys at feeding time at the zoo

neil_hosey

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I haven't been in a pub in about a year, but I've got to go out next weekend and I'm dreading it. No doubt I'll bump into people I was at school with 20 years ago who are still going to the same bar with the same people talking more or less the same s8ite they were talking about 20 years ago. The sad thing is that they'll still be doing the same thing in 20 years.

You could say youll still be at home or doing what you've been doing for the past year while not in the pub in 20 years.

fineso.mom

In what way were they ' making eejits' of themselves?
Were they just being noisy and laughing a lot or were they giving each other piggy backs through the bar and annoying the ' younger' customers?
Define the eejitness.

GG66

fineso.mom wrote: »

In what way were they ' making eejits' of themselves?
Were they just being noisy and laughing a lot or were they giving each other piggy backs through the bar and annoying the ' younger' customers?
Define the eejitness.

I expect they were having races to see who could drink a bucket of beer the quickest, wet t-shirt competitions, falling out onto the streets, puking up over garden walls. You know, the kind of stuff that's exclusive to over 50's

Pumpkinseeds

neil_hosey wrote: »

You could say youll still be at home or doing what you've been doing for the past year while not in the pub in 20 years.

No, I grew up and moved on. I didn't feel the need to get stuck in a happy little rut that I got into at 18 and never want to move on from.

anncoates

They're pretending to be idiots to drive away the young judgmental fcukers that insist on drinking in their pub instead of going to places with people their own age.

Pumpkinseeds

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I haven't been in a pub in about a year, but I've got to go out next weekend and I'm dreading it. No doubt I'll bump into people I was at school with 20 years ago who are still going to the same bar with the same people talking more or less the same s8ite they were talking about 20 years ago. The sad thing is that they'll still be doing the same thing in 20 years.

Nothing sad about them. Not bring in a pub in a year...now that's sad.

Pumpkinseeds

Alejandro Stale Grocer wrote: »

Nothing sad about them. Not bring in a pub in a year...now that's sad.

It's called having a life. I don't need to go to a bar to socialise.:P

sh1tstirrer

fineso.mom wrote: »

In what way were they ' making eejits' of themselves?
Were they just being noisy and laughing a lot or were they giving each other piggy backs through the bar and annoying the ' younger' customers?
Define the eejitness.

They dressed up for Halloween in the most ridiculous outfits then when the drink kicks in they try their hand at dancing but are only jumping around the place like monkeys thinking that they are the life and soul of the party. Same every weekend really minus the costumes. The pub doesn't have a dance floor so it makes things even more awkward when people have to go to the toilet or move to another part if the pub.

darkpagandeath

GG66 wrote: »

I expect they were having races to see who could drink a bucket of beer the quickest, wet t-shirt competitions, falling out onto the streets, puking up over garden walls. You know, the kind of stuff that's exclusive to over 50's

Nah maybe it was something related to winning a holiday ? :pac:

For Forks Sake

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

How do you explain the younger people with the same amount of drink minus the ejiting?

Witchcraft, probably.

Chucken

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

They dressed up for Halloween in the most ridiculous outfits then when the drink kicks in they try their hand at dancing but are only jumping around the place like monkeys thinking that they are the life and soul of the party. Same every weekend really minus the costumes. The pub doesn't have a dance floor so it makes things even more awkward when people have to go to the toilet or move to another part if the pub.

OMG NO!!! Not dressing up for Halloween!! Thats it....THAT IS IT.

AND DANCING????!!!!!

I demand a law to be brought in RIGHT NOW to keep 50 year olds from going out having fun :mad:




:rolleyes:

Macavity.

I remember when I was a young teen, I'd go to our local pub with my friend to watch the Saturday/Sunday matches. There was one guy who was there that quite obviously had some sort of mental deficiency. Everyone there would make fun of him, grown men mocking somebody who clearly wasn't well. It was like school yard bullying, children looking for gratification from their peers, while the rest of the pub sat their afraid to say anything. The situation taught me that there really is very little difference between children and adults in some ways. It's something I'll always remember.

sh1tstirrer

Chucken wrote: »

OMG NO!!! Not dressing up for Halloween!! Thats it....THAT IS IT.

AND DANCING????!!!!!

I demand a law to be brought in RIGHT NOW to keep 50 year olds from going out having fun :mad:




:rolleyes:

So you're 50 and a drunk, we get it.

seamus

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

No, I grew up and moved on. I didn't feel the need to get stuck in a happy little rut that I got into at 18 and never want to move on from.

If someone can get themselves stuck into a happy little rut and stay there, I say fair play to them. Why should they be looked down upon for having a happy life?


It's people who get stuck in an unhappy rut and can't move on from that, who we should pity. Or people who spend their whole lives travelling the world and never settling down at anything because they're unable to be happy.

I suspect the OP is in his early 20s and being a 50-year-old "eejit" is along the lines of being loud and laughing, and "OMG, if that was my Dad I'd be loike soooo embarrassed".

You find that once you get into your thirties, and especially when you have kids, you stop giving a single stuttering fnck what other people think and just enjoy yourself.

It's hilarious that some people believe that anyone over fourty should just stay at home and watch the late late and being out in public enjoying yourself when you're older is distasteful.
Reminds of the old thread on PI where a teenager was refusing to speak to his mother because he found out she was still having sex in her fourties, and wanted all of boards to agree with him that people over 40 shouldn't have sex because it was disgusting.

For Forks Sake

seamus wrote: »

Reminds of the old thread on PI where a teenager was refusing to speak to his mother because he found out she was still having sex in her fourties, and wanted all of boards to agree with him that people over 40 shouldn't have sex because it was disgusting.

Got a link to that, I needs amusement of this wet Tuesday?

hatrickpatrick

The OP has failed to clarify what behavior specifically qualifies as eejitism in this case. Until such criteria has been established, reasonable discussion is impossible.

anncoates

seamus wrote: »

If someone can get themselves stuck into a happy little rut and stay there, I say fair play to them. Why should they be looked down upon for having a happy life?


It's people who get stuck in an unhappy rut and can't move on from that, who we should pity. Or people who spend their whole lives travelling the world and never settling down at anything because they're unable to be happy.

I suspect the OP is in his early 20s and being a 50-year-old "eejit" is along the lines of being loud and laughing, and "OMG, if that was my Dad I'd be loike soooo embarrassed".

You find that once you get into your thirties, and especially when you have kids, you stop giving a single stuttering fnck what other people think and just enjoy yourself.

It's hilarious that some people believe that anyone over fourty should just stay at home and watch the late late and being out in public enjoying yourself when you're older is distasteful.
Reminds of the old thread on PI where a teenager was refusing to speak to his mother because he found out she was still having sex in her fourties, and wanted all of boards to agree with him that people over 40 shouldn't have sex because it was disgusting.

Like, whatever, grandad :rolleyes:




:pac:

Chucken

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

So you're 50 and a drunk, we get it.

Ohhhh. I like to go out and have fun at 50, yes. That makes me a drunk? Tut tut.

hatrickpatrick

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

They dressed up for Halloween in the most ridiculous outfits

People taking the piss for Halloween? MADNESS!!!

then when the drink kicks in they try their hand at dancing but are only jumping around the place like monkeys thinking that they are the life and soul of the party

People not being good at dancing but giving it a shot anyway for the craic? MADNESS!!!

Same every weekend really minus the costumes.

No costumes when there's no occasion for costumes? MADNESS!!!

The pub doesn't have a dance floor so it makes things even more awkward when people have to go to the toilet or move to another part if the pub.

Having a bit of trouble moving around in a crowded pub at the weekend? MADNESS!!!

The OP has clearly described a scene of such outrageously scandalous debauchery that whatever pub he or she was in will go down in Irish history as a bastion of MADNESS!!!

Pumpkinseeds

seamus wrote: »

If someone can get themselves stuck into a happy little rut and stay there, I say fair play to them. Why should they be looked down upon for having a happy life?


It's people who get stuck in an unhappy rut and can't move on from that, who we should pity. Or people who spend their whole lives travelling the world and never settling down at anything because they're unable to be happy.

I suspect the OP is in his early 20s and being a 50-year-old "eejit" is along the lines of being loud and laughing, and "OMG, if that was my Dad I'd be loike soooo embarrassed".

You find that once you get into your thirties, and especially when you have kids, you stop giving a single stuttering fnck what other people think and just enjoy yourself.

It's hilarious that some people believe that anyone over fourty should just stay at home and watch the late late and being out in public enjoying yourself when you're older is distasteful.
Reminds of the old thread on PI where a teenager was refusing to speak to his mother because he found out she was still having sex in her fourties, and wanted all of boards to agree with him that people over 40 shouldn't have sex because it was disgusting.

I'm over 40 and a grown up, it really does look pathetic to see anyone over 50 making a tit of themselves in a pub. What makes you think that people who like to travel are unhappy? It does seem pitiful to see people who haven't moved past the same bars and the same group of people that they were at school with still doing more or less the same thing 20 years later. Nobody has an issue with older people enjoying themselves but making an ass of yourself in a bar in your 50's really is a bit sad.

Life is about maturing and experiencing new things, not still being down the pub drinking with your adult kids.

percy212

Sometimes on a bank holiday weekend, a 50 year old needs to forget about college fees and mortgages, and just act like an eejit.

lertsnim

People over 50 act like fools when drunk. It's nothing new. It's the same for all ages.

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

Awaits plenty stupid replies

And the replies will be stupid?

TopOfTheHill

anncoates wrote: »

Like, whatever, grandad :rolleyes:
:pac:

Where's grandad ?

Only for those over 50

hatrickpatrick

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I'm over 40 and a grown up, it really does look pathetic to see anyone over 50 making a tit of themselves in a pub.

Why discriminate by age here? Either having the craic on a night our is pathetic or it isn't, you don't have to stop enjoying partying as you age.

It does seem pitiful to see people who haven't moved past the same bars and the same group of people that they were at school with still doing more or less the same thing 20 years later.

So in other words, even if you have a bar you really enjoy hanging out in and a group of people you really enjoy hanging out with, you should dump both for no reason other than "it's pitiful"?
What a happy outlook on life you must have. :rolleyes:

Nobody has an issue with older people enjoying themselves but making an ass of yourself in a bar in your 50's really is a bit sad.

You have utterly failed to define "making an ass of yourself". You have also failed to explain why having the craic has an age limit, in your view.

Life is about maturing and experiencing new things, not still being down the pub drinking with your adult kids.

Life it about what you choose to make it about. Nothing more, nothing less.

eviltwin

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

They dressed up for Halloween in the most ridiculous outfits then when the drink kicks in they try their hand at dancing but are only jumping around the place like monkeys thinking that they are the life and soul of the party. Same every weekend really minus the costumes. The pub doesn't have a dance floor so it makes things even more awkward when people have to go to the toilet or move to another part if the pub.

Find another pub then. If its happening every week maybe you should take that as a sign its not really the kind of place you should drink in.

sh1tstirrer

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

The OP has failed to clarify what behavior specifically qualifies as eejitism in this case. Until such criteria has been established, reasonable discussion is impossible.

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I'm over 40 and a grown up, it really does look pathetic to see anyone over 50 making a tit of themselves in a pub. What makes you think that people who like to travel are unhappy? It does seem pitiful to see people who haven't moved past the same bars and the same group of people that they were at school with still doing more or less the same thing 20 years later. Nobody has an issue with older people enjoying themselves but making an ass of yourself in a bar in your 50's really is a bit sad.

Life is about maturing and experiencing new things, not still being down the pub drinking with your adult kids.

Well said, I know a few of these 50 year olds and they go on holiday to Spain every 2 years, guess where they spend most of their holiday? The pub.

tastyt

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I haven't been in a pub in about a year, but I've got to go out next weekend and I'm dreading it. No doubt I'll bump into people I was at school with 20 years ago who are still going to the same bar with the same people talking more or less the same s8ite they were talking about 20 years ago. The sad thing is that they'll still be doing the same thing in 20 years.

Smug and condescending?? They don't need your pity

Pumpkinseeds

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Why discriminate by age here? Either having the craic on a night our is pathetic or it isn't, you don't have to stop enjoying partying as you age.



So in other words, even if you have a bar you really enjoy hanging out in and a group of people you really enjoy hanging out with, you should dump both for no reason other than "it's pitiful"?
What a happy outlook on life you must have. :rolleyes:



You have utterly failed to define "making an ass of yourself". You have also failed to explain why having the craic has an age limit, in your view.



Life it about what you choose to make it about. Nothing more, nothing less.

Making an ass of yourself in a bar is something most people expect of the under 30's, it's just one of those things. By the time you reach your 40's you tend to have outgrown that and by your 50's it's taken as a given that you'll know how to handle your drink and not make an ass of yourself. I don't really think I need to define making an ass of yourself in a bar, it's fairly self-explanatory.

Pumpkinseeds

tastyt wrote: »

Smug and condescending?? They don't need your pity

oops, are you one of the stuck in a rut with my school pals group then?:D

tastyt

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

oops, are you one of the stuck in a rut with my school pals group then?:D

Wow and your funny!! Maybe nights in at home with you listening to your wisdom and wit is the way to go after all. I believe your arse may be of the very dry variety....

lostboy75

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I'm over 40 and a grown up, it really does look pathetic to see anyone over 50 making a tit of themselves in a pub. What makes you think that people who like to travel are unhappy? It does seem pitiful to see people who haven't moved past the same bars and the same group of people that they were at school with still doing more or less the same thing 20 years later. Nobody has an issue with older people enjoying themselves but making an ass of yourself in a bar in your 50's really is a bit sad.

Life is about maturing and experiencing new things, not still being down the pub drinking with your adult kids.

who but the OP would actually thank this. different strokes for different folks!
I have mates that if you go to my home town you will see out in the same pubs each week. the assumption you could/have made is they never left, and have a very un-fulfilling life. its 20 years since we left there, alot of them have moved abroad for a few years, moved to the cities, gotten married, had kids and moved back. the people they hang out with are the people whos company they enjoy now, most cases that's the same people that they socialised with years back. whats wrong with that? its actually enjoying your life as Seamus previously said.
it really buggs me when people go on about broadening your mind by travel etc. (i left home when i turned 18, and have never moved back, and have travelled quite a bit in the years since. that was my choice it might not have been others, doesn't make my life better or fulfilling than someone that stayed at home)

The Backwards Man

Apparently there is no age restriction on people making fools of themselves on online message boards.

HandsomeDan

OP sounds like a bit of a puff

kfallon

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

It does seem pitiful to see people who haven't moved past the same bars and the same group of people that they were at school with still doing more or less the same thing 20 years later.

Making friends for life.....real pitiful alright! :rolleyes:

Next you'll be telling us you take pity on people who get married to each other, imagine spending the rest of your life living with the same person