Good Friday

Chucken

You know yourself. No pubs open. We'll all die of the thirst.

Are the Banks open?

Are nightclubs open?

Do An Post deliver?

Why aren't the butchers closed?

There are no answers......

kfallon

Name should be done under The Trades Description Act imo

Mesrine65

Home brew & home grown, self sufficiency rules, fúck Good Friday

Fat Christy

I'm always abroad on Good Friday. I'll be chilling in a pub somewhere. Sucks to be the rest ye drowning in your hordes of alcomohols purchased from the night before.

Pumpkinseeds

It's ridiculously outdated. You can buy alcohol in Rome on Good Friday but not in Ireland. Why has this nonsense not been done away with? Judging by the amount of house parties every year I'm guessing more booze is consumed on that day than any other day of the year.

Antar Bolaeisk

I'll be tucking in to a nice bacon butty on Good Friday morning followed by a big lump of ham for dinner washed down with lashings of beer.

Oh, wait...

Dan Chipowski

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9SG-zYvPjk

cloud493

Good friday this year means the game I want is releasing a day early so :pac:

Pumpkinseeds

Fat Christy wrote: »

I'm always abroad on Good Friday. I'll be chilling in a pub somewhere. Sucks to be the rest ye drowning in your hordes of alcomohols purchased from the night before.

Don't forget Dunnes staff are picketing on Thursday so that'll be a hassle. I'll be getting the Easter booze on Wednesday this year.:D

fleet_admiral

I work in a pub and we are in on good friday....for 'Cleaning'

Kevin McCloud

The Pub, one of those places that AH posters won't visit because they are too expensive, but who seem to get mortally offended when they close for two days a year. Those places.

LDN_Irish

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

The Pub, one of those places that AH posters won't visit because they are too expensive, but who seem to get mortally offended when they close for two days a year. Those places.

Perhaps they buy their booze in the off licenses which are also closed. Maybe they just don't like having religious rules that they don't ascribe to dictating any aspects of their life. I certainly don't.

The Backwards Man

I abstain from alcohol that day to piss off the atheists and eat steak to piss off the Christians.

It always makes me proud to live in a country where the unavailability of alcohol for sale for a 24 hours causes so much outrage and consternation. I mean, if this what concerns us most, then we must have solved every other problem of modern life.

The_Valeyard

LDN_Irish wrote: »

Perhaps they buy their booze in the off licenses which are also closed. Maybe they just don't like having religious rules that they don't ascribe to dictating any aspects of their life. I certainly don't.

Maybe they just like to bitch and moan about every single thingy? Like my my post is doing!!

The Backwards Man

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

The Pub, one of those places that AH posters won't visit because they are too expensive, but who seem to get mortally offended when they close for two days a year. Those places.

Used to be a great day for getting work done in the pub in what would be an otherwise crappy Friday. Fridays of long weekends are always slow, I bet if they open up next year the pubs will be mad to close again the year after.

keeponhurling

LDN_Irish wrote: »

Maybe they just don't like having religious rules that they don't ascribe to dictating any aspects of their life. I certainly don't.

Me too.

I also boycott Easter, Christmas, Paddy's Day etc. and insist in turning up for work

LDN_Irish

keeponhurling wrote: »

Me too.

I also boycott Easter, Christmas, Paddy's Day etc. and insist in turning up for work

This is absolutely hashtagmadness, but there's a difference between religious holidays and religious legislation.

Guy:Incognito

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I bet if they open up next year the pubs will be mad to close again the year after.

Thats a large part of the issue though. They wont have to be "mad to close". They would be free to open or close if they chose. Just like all the other days in the year, the way it should be. Owner should be able to choose when to open (or stay closed)

What if the rule was no electricity on Good friday, would people be so dismissive then? Sure you have it the other 364 days.....

WoollyRedHat

Ebery Friday is TGIF.

Timberrrrrrrr

Hopefully the last year of it

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/politics/frances-fitzgerald-consider-lifting-good-5412887

Frances Fitzgerald will consider lifting the ban on drinking on Good Friday in time for the 1916 commemorations.

The Backwards Man

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Thats a large part of the issue though. They wont have to be "mad to close". They would be free to open or close if they chose. Just like all the other days in the year, the way it should be. Owner should be able to choose when to open (or stay closed)

What if the rule was no electricity on Good friday, would people be so dismissive then? Sure you have it the other 364 days.....

Well, if every household in the country had a method of storing electricity for use at a later date there wouldn't be any problem.

Guy:Incognito

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Well, if every household in the country had a method of storing electricity for use at a later date there wouldn't be any problem.

Theres this up and coming company called Duracell, buy some shares




I suppose they could buy a generator to use once a year.

Or the ESB could realise its the 21st century and just leave the switch on ...............

Fat Christy

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Well, if every household in the country had a method of storing electricity for use at a later date there wouldn't be any problem.

TBH, you shouldn't HAVE TO do that. I'm not religious, I don't see why I shouldn't be able to go to a pub on Good Friday if I so please. I'm always in England for Good Friday and when I told them over there that the pubs don't open in Ireland, they were shocked. They actually thought I was a having a laugh.

tayto lover

What about a "Stay in bed Friday"?
Now that would delight me.
Might even do it tomorrow.

The Backwards Man

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

They could buy a generator to use once a year.

Or the ESB could realise its the 21st century and just leave the switch on ...............

Or it might be a stupid outdated law that would be worthwhile getting outraged about.

But that's the thing about stupid outdated laws, people usually get themselves all worked up in a tizzy about the wrong ones. It would be hilarious if it wasn't a bit lugubrious.

The Backwards Man

Fat Christy wrote: »

TBH, you shouldn't HAVE TO do that. I'm not religious, I don't see why I shouldn't be able to go to a pub on Good Friday if I so please. I'm always in England for Good Friday and when I told them over there that the pubs don't open in Ireland, they were shocked. They actually thought I was a having a laugh.

My local hardware stores closes two days a year for stocktaking. It's an outrage in this day and age. Why should I have to buy a sheet of 8x4 24 hours in advance of needing it, or drive into Derry for a tube of silicone.

I'm so enraged I could moan incessantly on the internet about it. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

mikom

Chucken wrote: »

Good Friday

You know yourself. No pubs open. We'll all die of the thirst.

Are the Banks open?

Are nightclubs open?

Do An Post deliver?

Why aren't the butchers closed?

Does pussy count as meat or fish?

So many questions.......

Fat Christy

The Backwards Man wrote: »

My local hardware stores closes two days a year for stocktaking. It's an outrage in this day and age. Why should I have to buy a sheet of 8x4 24 hours in advance of needing it, or drive into Derry for a tube of silicone.

I'm so enraged I could moan incessantly on the internet about it. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

That's one hardware store....

All pubs close on the same day.I'm not enraged, I just think it's backwards and stupid in this day and age.

Timberrrrrrrr

tayto lover wrote: »

What about a "Stay in bed Friday"?
Now that would delight me.
Might even do it tomorrow.

Tomorrow is Sunday

Kevin McCloud

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm so enraged I could moan incessantly on the internet about it. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

For the want of a nail..

RobertKK

That's the problem with alcohol, you have to buy it when you want to use it or it is gone past its best before date.
It's such a perishable item.The milk last longer, as does the bread. Alcohol should be made so it doesn't go off so quickly...
Isn't this the problem with off licenses being closed?

The outrage is so justified, given how perishable alcohol is... :P

Bench Press

none of that nonsense here in England thank God

Chucken

Fat Christy wrote: »

I'm always abroad on Good Friday. I'll be chilling in a pub somewhere. Sucks to be the rest ye drowning in your hordes of alcomohols purchased from the night before.

Do you leave the country on purpose just cos its good Friday?

The Backwards Man

Fat Christy wrote: »

That's one hardware store....

All pubs close on the same day.I'm not enraged, I just think it's backwards and stupid in this day and age.

If there's only one of something, how many are there when you take one away?:pac:

But that's not the point. Yeah, it's a stupid law that should be overturned.

Worth getting annoyed about? No.

galljga1

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Thats a large part of the issue though. They wont have to be "mad to close". They would be free to open or close if they chose. Just like all the other days in the year, the way it should be. Owner should be able to choose when to open (or stay closed)

What if the rule was no electricity on Good friday, would people be so dismissive then? Sure you have it the other 364 days.....

Bad analogy. Alcohol is a necessity, electricity is a luxury.

mikom

Bench Press wrote: »

none of that nonsense here in England thank God

http://www.inismagazine.ie/files/cache/36cb6fd3e891b6a78e979d7731d7307314d8cdb7.jpg

galljga1

Bench Press wrote: »

none of that nonsense here in England thank God

Thank who?

Fat Christy

Chucken wrote: »

Do you leave the country on purpose just cos its good Friday?

Yes, I am so outraged that I go abroad every year. That'll learn them. Fcuk the goberment.

The Backwards Man wrote: »

If there's only one of something, how many are there when you take one away?:pac:

But that's not the point. Yeah, it's a stupid law that should be overturned.

Worth getting annoyed about? No.

That's what you get for living in the bog! Fair enough.

Kevin McCloud

Bench Press wrote: »

none of that nonsense here in England thank God

Ye must have a great friday?

RobertKK

Good Friday should also be National alcoholics remembrance day, a day to remember people who drink too much, who obsess about alcohol too much and who died due to their addiction.

Not sponsored by Diageo or any other alcohol company.

The Backwards Man

Fat Christy wrote: »

Yes, I am so outraged that I go abroad every year. That'll learn them. Fcuk the goberment.



That's what you get for living in the bog! Fair enough.

If some of ye spent as much time in the bog as me it ye might see the world a wee bit differently.

kfallon

The Backwards Man wrote: »

If some of ye spent as much time in the bog as me it ye might see the world a wee bit differently.

Was on it for a half hour this morn, rusty water job

:P

Fat Christy

The Backwards Man wrote: »

If some of ye spent as much time in the bog as me it ye might see the world a wee bit differently.

Are you enraged over the turf cutting laws and them green b@stards in Europe imposing there mumbo jumbo 'save the environment' crap on us?

Well, are ya?

harry Bailey esq

Its only one day.If some people want to moan about drink on good Friday and don't have the wherewithal to purchase it in advance then those people probably shouldn't be drinking at all.That said,if you really want a drink on good Friday you'll get one.Train stations are an old favourite of the really thirsty but you must buy a ticket,and these are expensive.Greyhound tracks also serve on good Friday and you'll get into the dogs for a fraction of the price of a train ticket and I imagine its much more fun than sitting in Heuston.But the best,tried and tested way to ensure free flowing drink for the entire day at minimal cost is to befriend a barman.

The Backwards Man

Fat Christy wrote: »

Are you enraged over the turf cutting laws and them green b@stards in Europe imposing there mumbo jumbo 'save the environment' crap on us?

Well, are ya?

Na.

The type of bog we have is different to the type they want conserved, cutting turf has very little environmental impact on blanket bog. Illegal dumping and sheep farming are the biggest dangers. I'll just keep cutting until I'm told to stop. Maybe.:)

Kevin McCloud

The Backwards Man wrote: »

sheep farming are the biggest dangers.

Have ye any grass up there at all to say the sheep are eating turf?

The Backwards Man

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Have ye any grass up there at all to say the sheep are eating turf?

The sheep are eating grass, growing where the heather has been burned off, making the wee grouse and larks homeless.

kfallon

yeah this thread has taken an unexpected turn.....

Chucken

kfallon wrote: »

yeah this thread has taken an unexpected turn.....

Not really

Kevin McCloud

kfallon wrote: »

yeah this thread has taken an unexpected turn.....

Its all relevant to good friday.

Fat Christy

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Na.

The type of bog we have is different to the type they want conserved, cutting turf has very little environmental impact on blanket bog. Illegal dumping and sheep farming are the biggest dangers. I'll just keep cutting until I'm told to stop. Maybe.:)

Some blanket bogs are protected, it's not just raised bogs. Tbh, it's Bord Na Mona that is causing the most damage to bogs rather than Joe soap going and cutting his turf for the winter. Their argument is that the bogs they cut from cannot be salvaged and therefore there's no point in ceasing cutting.

Annnnnnyyyyway, back on topic. More drink!