What makes a great pub great.

G Shock

uluwatu wrote: »

What makes your favorite pub different from others? Why is it great?

The Staff.

Manach

A strong WiFi signal.

Omackeral

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

They’re not always black, J. “D2” has a lad from some foreign parts, not sure where, but he’s not black.

Just saying.

99.9% they're Black lads which is why they're professionally knows as "Blacks in the Jacks".

El_Duderino 09

Omackeral wrote: »

99.9% they're Black lads which is why they're professionally knows as "Blacks in the Jacks".

Absolutely no black in the jacks of any race, colour or creed.

I’d love to meet someone who thinks it ads to a pub and ask them; “why?” I have a theory why people like the idea but I’d love to hear from someone who actually likes it. Anyone in the thread?

branie2

Table quizzes

Franz Von Peppercorn II

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Absolutely no black in the jacks of any race, colour or creed.

I’d love to meet someone who thinks it ads to a pub and ask them; “why?” I have a theory why people like the idea but I’d love to hear from someone who actually likes it. Anyone in the thread?

What’s odd is that this started happening the minute there was one black guy in the country of appropriate age.

Possibly some barman saw it in America and decided it was necessary here.

Schwanz

No Wifi available in the middle of nowhere.

These clowns on their phones are a nuisance

El_Duderino 09

Schwanz wrote: »

No Wifi available in the middle of nowhere.

These clowns on their phones are a nuisance

In what way are they a nuisance? I'd imagine they don't really interfere with anyone.

Schwanz

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

In what way are they a nuisance? I'd imagine they don't really interfere with anyone.

You're obviously one of them.

Waste of time.

anacc

Schwanz wrote: »

No Wifi available in the middle of nowhere.

These clowns on their phones are a nuisance

Sometimes I just want to have a pint and do something on my phone. It’s the clowns who think I’m there for their entertainment and try to start a conversation with me when it’s clear that I don’t want to are the nuisance.

EmmetSpiceland

Omackeral wrote: »

99.9% they're Black lads which is why they're professionally knows as "Blacks in the Jacks".

There was a “satirical” magazine out back in the day known as “The Slate”. They did an issue about them. Was pretty funny at the time, the racism was kept fairly casual but they did get some backlash from it.

The magazine got shut down after doing a “paedo” issue that was deemed to have gone “too far”.

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Absolutely no black in the jacks of any race, colour or creed.

I’d love to meet someone who thinks it ads to a pub and ask them; “why?” I have a theory why people like the idea but I’d love to hear from someone who actually likes it. Anyone in the thread?

Pubs have them as it means they don’t have to employ cleaners.

Beechwoodspark

Do the jacks guys just set up shop with no permission of the management or do they have to get managements agreement

And do they also do women’s jacks and have female perfumes etc

El_Duderino 09

Schwanz wrote: »

You're obviously one of them.

Waste of time.

Ok. Whether or not I'm one of them, in what way are they a nuisance to you?

is reading a phone different level of nuisance to reading a paper?

El_Duderino 09

anacc wrote: »

Sometimes I just want to have a pint and do something on my phone. It’s the clowns who think I’m there for their entertainment and try to start a conversation with me when it’s clear that I don’t want to are the nuisance.

But they think it's their pub so obviously, if you're going to come into it, you need to entertain them.

Seriously though, some people hold that attitude but others know the pub is a place for recreation where you're free to do whatever you want - even egregious sins like reading the news on a phone or a newspaper (sharp inhale of breath).

El_Duderino 09

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Pubs have them as it means they don’t have to employ cleaners.

Jesus, is that it? Couldn't they just pay a cleaner instead of having someone cut the power to the hand dryer and hide the soap to make you feel pressure to pay a euro for the most basic of basic services?

I never use their service and never pay them. I don't blame the worker doing a job. It turns me right off a pub but i always blamed the customers for wanting the black in the jacks, rather than the pub.

IAMAMORON

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Do the jacks guys just set up shop with no permission of the management or do they have to get managements agreement

And do they also do women’s jacks and have female perfumes etc

They sell themselves to management that they are there to " keep an eye" on things in the jacks. They will loosely scrub the floor etc. They do not get paid, all their money is made on tips. It is lucrative enough.

I have often stood there like a chunt handing out € 2 to some dude for a few squirts of Fahrenheit down my jocks and around my face. If you give them any less they kind of sulk into the floor as if you have just ripped them off. Bastards.

Thank god they are predominantly in overpriced sausage factories in town. I can tolerate getting phucked if it only happens every so often, I can live with it. Toilet monsters.

Edgware

anacc wrote: »

Sometimes I just want to have a pint and do something on my phone. It’s the clowns who think I’m there for their entertainment and try to start a conversation with me when it’s clear that I don’t want to are the nuisance.

You mean you dont want to chat and entertain the local "character" i.e. the local spunker who no elses wants near them

MarkY91

Went to O'Sheas on Talbot Street for the first time last week and I love it.

The décor is really interesting, could sit there looking at the differi things on the wall for ages. And the smoking area is amazing, set up to look like a tiny, Irish village.

The staff however were crap terrible at their job.

Ubbquittious

Good selection of beers that are brewed by a fella just up the road
Thatched roof
Regular trad sessions
No telly or fruit machines
On an island
No mobile phone coverage or wifi
Good mix of regulars and passers through

Ipso

An outside toilet adds a bit of character.

Turquoise Hexagon Sun

Anyone ever walk in to a bar and the only thing blaring was Sky News? Really.. you think I want a bit of peace and enjoy a pint to listen to some English gowl talk about current affairs in the UK?

carq

Good lighting is essential - we tend to take it for granted but walk into an English pub or Wetherspoons and you will see the difference.
No fruit machine - see above
Good guinness
Good sound system - AKA they dont allow some gimp come in with a guitar and blow people out with 3 amps in a small pub. this still happens far too often in Ireland

Edgware

Turquoise Hexagon Sun wrote: »

Anyone ever walk in to a bar and the only thing blaring was Sky News? Really.. you think I want a bit of peace and enjoy a pint to listen to some English gowl talk about current affairs in the UK?

Just wait until the last 24 hours before the transfer window closes. Grown men coming in their trousers because Leicester have signed some 18 year old "star" from Dunstable Town

Edgware

MarkY91 wrote: »

Went to O'Sheas on Talbot Street for the first time last week and I love it.

The décor is really interesting, could sit there looking at the differi things on the wall for ages. And the smoking area is amazing, set up to look like a tiny, Irish village.

The staff however were crap terrible at their job.

City centres pubs are going that way with staff. That part of Dublin used have a nice few traditional pubs with good staff, often Tipp or Cavan/Monaghan lads. Molloys, Madigans, Clearys of Amiens St etc. No ****e about them, just grand pints, toasted sandwiches and managers who knew the local heads and had no problem barring the local troublemakers ( which the decent locals supported as they wanted to drink in peace).

Lewis_Benson

Edgware wrote: »

Just wait until the last 24 hours before the transfer window closes. Grown men coming in their trousers because Leicester have signed some 18 year old "star" from Dunstable Town

More likely some Italian lad who'se name they cant pronounce.

huddlejonny

Dahlia Deep Stratum wrote: »

Sally O'Brien and the way she might look at you

Sally Stinkfinger.... every good pub has one..