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12 pubs

  • 18-12-2017 10:12am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭


    Well I don't know about you, but I can't wait to have my nice pint, chat and catch up with my mates ruined by a parcel of loud obnoxious cnuts in stupid jumpers.

    I am really curious about this 'tradition'. Where did it originate? Is it Irish? Do the Brits do it?

    I'd never ever heard of it before about 2008. Who came up with it? Would it be possible to find them and strangle them slowly with a wacky christmas jumper?

    Curious to see if anyone in AH can shed any light.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭PeterParker957


    Sky King wrote: »
    Well I don't know about you, but I can't wait to have my nice pint, chat and catch up with my mates ruined by a parcel of loud obnoxious cnuts in stupid jumpers.

    I am really curious about this 'tradition'. Where did it originate? Is it Irish? Do the Brits do it?

    I'd never ever heard of it before about 2008. Who came up with it? Would it be possible to find them and strangle them slowly with a wacky christmas jumper?

    Curious to see if anyone in AH can shed any light.

    I love a nice pint after work and the two weeks before is utterly ruined by these imbeciles.

    I grew up in the North of England and there's "Mad Friday" but that's just the once a year drinkers getting wrecked on two beers and a shot.

    Nothing as organised as 12 pubs.


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


    Well I don't know about you, but I can't wait to get ****faced in several pubs, chatting and catching up with my mates ruined by various flat cap wearing bore bags supping pints of Guinness with a face scrooge would be proud of...

    Bah Humbug to you sir!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,632 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    It's only a bit of craic, bring sociable. It's a couple of weeks once a year. Get over yourself!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    Is that not an average Friday/Saturday night in a pub anyway?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,896 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Have done it in the past, not all that enamored with it. At the same time, don't understand the severe animosity some have to it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 684 ✭✭✭JazzyJ


    Showing my age here - I first did one in 1998. The lad who organised it had been doing them from the early 90s :eek::eek::eek: There was none of this jumpers shíte or smashing glasses when leaving each one - just a good old fashioned pub crawl.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    Have done it in the past, not all that enamored with it. At the same time, don't understand the severe animosity some have to it.

    I found it good crack, just one thing I didn't like about it was if you found a good spot and bit of crack you'd move on and then the next spot could be full of people like the OP, sitting there giving ye evil looks with the place as sad as a funeral.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 940 ✭✭✭Salvation Tambourine


    Have done it in the past, not all that enamored with it.  At the same time, don't understand the severe animosity some have to it.
    It's other people having fun, sometimes pretty loudly but that seems to be most people's issue with it.

    I've done it a couple of times and it was fun enough. One comment I do see frequently is "These people who only drink once a year", who are these people? Maybe they just stay local but feel that a Twelve Pubs is an occasion worth going into town for.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 940 ✭✭✭Salvation Tambourine


    JazzyJ wrote: »
    Showing my age here - I first did one in 1998.  The lad who organised it had been doing them from the early 90s :eek::eek::eek:  There was none of this jumpers shíte or smashing glasses when leaving each one - just a good old fashioned pub crawl.
    I've not heard of anyone smashing a glass before leaving as a rule.

    To be honest the Twelve Pubs is just a "good old fashioned pub crawl" it's just that there's a lot of groups doing it around the same few weeks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    The earliest I remember doing it is Christmas 2004. It was established then but not the same as now, nobody wore Christmas jumpers. But we did get wrecked.

    I just don't have the time for it anymore. You need the full day, and then book the toilets for a good half day following it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,599 ✭✭✭djemba djemba


    Maybe a sign of my stage in life and having enjoyed a few 12 pubs over the years but now I would prefer to have 12 pints in one pub than 1 pint in 12 pubs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    frag420 wrote: »
    Well I don't know about you, but I can't wait to get ****faced in several pubs, chatting and catching up with my mates ruined by various flat cap wearing bore bags supping pints of Guinness with a face scrooge would be proud of...

    Bah Humbug to you sir!!

    Ah feck off!
    Happy Christmas!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    I'm an old cynical alcoholic bastard but I was out on Friday and everywhere we went that was nice and calm to drink in would be infiltrated by these morons every now and again and it was a minor annoyance.
    I think it was something invented maybe 10 years ago or something? Seems to be mostly D4 types into it from what I've seen.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Probably depends which pub you're in when the groups arrive......

    .....if they're on pub #1, it's good craic - if you happen to be in pub #12 its feckin messy!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Chrongen


    Do what I do....go to a pub that bans the 12 pub ****.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭brainfreeze


    It's just a standard pub crawl organized around christmas time. You just notice it more with ones that wear silly xmas jumpers.

    Never seen anyone smashing glasses though, that's a new one to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 684 ✭✭✭JazzyJ


    Nokotan wrote: »
    I've not heard of anyone smashing a glass before leaving as a rule.

    Made the mistake of doing it on Baggot Street one year, the same day as a Leinster match. It was horror show. And more than one group were smashing glasses as they left.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Don't know how anyone does 12 pints in 12 pubs :pac:
    Don't get me wrong I like a drink. Quite fondly if I am to be honest. I could drink 12 cans at home. It would be pushing it and i'd be locked and in bits the next day. But 12 pub pints? :o

    There is just something about a pint that knocks you back more than a can. Maybe it's cause you drink quicker, maybe it's the fresh air. But you'd be gee eyed.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    Don't know how anyone does 12 pints in 12 pubs :pac:
    Don't get me wrong I like a drink. Quite fondly if I am to be honest. I could drink 12 cans at home. It would be pushing it and i'd be locked and in bits the next day. But 12 pub pints? :o

    There is just something about a pint that knocks you back more than a can. Maybe it's cause you drink quicker, maybe it's the fresh air. But you'd be gee eyed.

    Yes I'd be in blackout territory after 8 or so so I doubt I'd remember the last 4 pubs


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito



    There is just something about a pint that knocks you back more than a can. Maybe it's cause you drink quicker, maybe it's the fresh air. But you'd be gee eyed.

    Or maybe it's the extra 68ml?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,346 ✭✭✭King George VI


    Do people actually do the 12 pubs? We always said we were gonna do it, then we'd just end up staying in the first pub because we can't be arsed with that nonsense. Rules and all? Fuck you, don't tell me how to drink my beer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    First I'd heard of it was back around 2007/2008, folk would finish Xmas exams in UCC, head to the campus bar for one and head down Barrack Street stopping in 11 others on the way to town. Nothing "organised", no laminated route, jumpers, pub rules.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,329 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    The annual complain about the 12 pubs thread


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 940 ✭✭✭Salvation Tambourine


    razorblunt wrote: »
    First I'd heard of it was back around 2007/2008, folk would finish Xmas exams in UCC, head to the campus bar for one and head down Barrack Street stopping in 11 others on the way to town. Nothing "organised", no laminated route, jumpers, pub rules.
    Some of the rules are fun, usually harmless. 

    We had one that you'd to kiss one of the other lads in the group on the cheek before having a drink.

    Between pubs someone would shout "Shark" everyone would have to get their feet off of the ground (jumping on to a wall etc.).

    Using someone's first name instead of their nickname. The penalty was having to do a shot but for the most part it wasn't enforced particularly strongly. 

    Silly stuff but it was fun and sure what's wrong with fun?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,402 ✭✭✭keeponhurling


    It seems like the same arguments come out around alcohol itself.

    If people are drinking but not bothering other people, then fine (99.9% of cases)
    If people are drinking but acting the d!ck, then not fine. This applies when not drinking as well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I rang that Oxford Dictionary crowd.

    Someone has mixed up the definitions of 'fun' and 'hell'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭chrissb8


    The thought of having to move 12 times in a night gives me anxiety. I'm drunk and happy I haven't got the mental capacity to organise anything past that except greasy food and jumping in a taxi.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    A few years ago I picked up a guy who was walking on the white line in the middle of the road, full drunk. He was about 20/21 years old. I turned the car and drove back into town. He was just about able to tell me where his friends were, they had been doing the 12 pubs thing and I'd say he had been refused any more drink. I didn't want him in the car any longer in case he would throw up.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Not only a Dublin thing, it has now spread all over the country.

    A 12s pub reveler was floored one year in my local by an angry farmer.

    I've never saw anyone go down in such a way before. I believe pollaxed (sp?) is the expression?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Nokotan wrote: »
    Some of the rules are fun, usually harmless. 

    We had one that you'd to kiss one of the other lads in the group on the cheek before having a drink.

    Between pubs someone would shout "Shark" everyone would have to get their feet off of the ground (jumping on to a wall etc.).

    Using someone's first name instead of their nickname. The penalty was having to do a shot but for the most part it wasn't enforced particularly strongly. 

    Silly stuff but it was fun and sure what's wrong with fun?

    There's fun and there's "organised fun" that's my issue with it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    Nokotan wrote: »

    Between pubs someone would shout "Shark" everyone would have to get their feet off of the ground (jumping on to a wall etc.).

    Oh God I'd sooner put my head in a deep fryer than go out drinking with ye.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Majority I attended were fine, but one year a lad took it on himself to print out a rule sheet... One of the rules that stands out "1 pi$$ per pub". Get to fuk! He wasn't long being told where to stick it!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    c_man wrote: »
    Majority I attended were fine, but one year a lad took it on himself to print out a rule sheet... One of the rules that stands out "1 pi$$ per pub". Get to fuk! He wasn't long being told where to stick it!

    F*ckin' rules on a sheet for an evening in the pub. What a shower of bellends. Honest to God when did people turn into such eejits.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭Yawns


    Used to wreck my head when they walked into a pub I was working in. The group is there for one round, but that doesn't stop a few of them coming up looking for free shots cos there's x amount of them and because they've brought x amount of people to the pub they should all be given a free shot. They tend to forget that they are only there for one drink usually before fecking off to the next pub.

    Guys if you're doing the 12 pubs this year just please don't bring fecking whistles and demand free drinks. Enjoy yourself tho. Most groups are fine and the groups that are not fine, it's usually a small minority that are loud and annoying as ****.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Yawns wrote: »
    Used to wreck my head when they walked into a pub I was working in. The group is there for one round, but that doesn't stop a few of them coming up looking for free shots cos there's x amount of them and because they've brought x amount of people to the pub they should all be given a free shot. They tend to forget that they are only there for one drink usually before fecking off to the next pub.

    Guys if you're doing the 12 pubs this year just please don't bring fecking whistles and demand free drinks. Enjoy yourself tho. Most groups are fine and the groups that are not fine, it's usually a small minority that are loud and annoying as ****.

    Yes please respect all the establishments that you visit and remember to be courteous to the local clientele as many of them don't want you there but are willing to put up with you for a brief period of time.

    Do not end up like the boy I referenced in my previous post.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭clairewithani


    12 units of alcohol is a lot for people to take and this knocking it back quickly doesn't help.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    12 units of alcohol is a lot for people to take and this knocking it back quickly doesn't help.

    It's about 26 units if you're having a pint in each pub. I did it once when I was 22 and I was battered beyond belief. I don't know is it the fresh air or what that does it but it starts to get pretty messy two-thirds of the way in.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Did this Saturday night, Made it to 7 and went home to watch MOTD


    I'm so old...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,516 ✭✭✭Outkast_IRE


    First did a 12 pubs in Cork in 2006, but there was none of this christmas jumpers or rules etc. It was simply 1 alcoholic drink in each pub and that was it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭clairewithani


    FTA69 wrote: »
    It's about 26 units if you're having a pint in each pub. I did it once when I was 22 and I was battered beyond belief. I don't know is it the fresh air or what that does it but it starts to get pretty messy two-thirds of the way in.

    26 units!!!! That couldn't be good mentally or physically.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    26 units!!!! That couldn't be good mentally or physically.

    Bloody lightweights..

    pintmen.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭Effects


    The state of Paddy Losty.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭clairewithani


    Patww79 wrote: »
    Mentally :D

    So long as you're not forcing it on anyone else and just drinking it yourself.

    Well it does affect people's mood and behaviour.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭clairewithani


    Bloody lightweights..

    pintmen.jpg

    Ain't nothing lightweight about me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,810 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Bloody lightweights..

    pintmen.jpg

    Pintbaby's Pintdaddy?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Pintbaby's Pintdaddy?

    Scienticians are still working on that.


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