Pubs when/will they re-open - the Megathread

IAMAMORON

landofthetree wrote: »

You can let your pub go to ruin and not have decorated it since the 1950s and the public will love it.

Do the same with a restaurant and nobody would go near it.

the purple tin wrote: »

If you do up an old man pub, make it nice and modern looking most of your clientele will walk.

Very true.

I think the lesson to be learned here is that your average foodie should keep their noses and taste buds out of your average pub. They are only confusing themselves. It takes a certain type of Herman to prefer sitting around a glass table in a restaurant pretending to be important while tossing overpriced shight around their plates. Foodie types need to stay in the restaurant where they belong. They should not be interfering with drinking types, their introduction to the boozer has been detrimental.

These animals would spend 50 or 100 euro on an overpriced plate of pasta. Disgusting behaviour really. Squandering booze money on a nice shirt or trendy pair of jeans. Humming "mmmmm" to themselves and smiling to each other over the table and asking each other what their food tastes like. They should mind their own business.

I have often arrived for a few pints after cooking my own dinner. I don't stand in the middle of the pub boasting about what I have just eaten, how rude and uncouth is that? Some drinkers might be starving. Foodies are simply inconsiderate when it comes to respecting drinkers.

messin doorman

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Very true.

Humming "mmmmm" to themselves and smiling to each other over the table and asking each other what their food tastes like. They should mind their own business.

Not to mention taking photos of their grub and sending that on to their "trendy" friends

messin doorman

Also, really great use of the word uncouth

saintsaltynuts

IAMAMORON should become the new PubSpy.

IAMAMORON

messin doorman wrote: »

Not to mention taking photos of their grub and sending that on to their "trendy" friends

Never made any sense to me either. It is uncivil and the actions of a conceited passive aggressive bore. Their pals could be hungry or working hard. Who really needs to see a picture of a Greek salad, who is benefitting here?

If I want to communicate with a friend I give them a text or ask them for a pint. I don't send them a picture of a Baked Alaska with rare strawberry trimming infused with a gooseberry margarita paste with side portion of caramelised pecan and walnut fried oil parcels. I just wouldn't do my friends like that.

Inconsiderate show offs the lot of them.

SEPT 23 1989

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Very true.

I think the lesson to be learned here is that your average foodie should keep their noses and taste buds out of your average pub. They are only confusing themselves. It takes a certain type of Herman to prefer sitting around a glass table in a restaurant pretending to be important while tossing overpriced shight around their plates. Foodie types need to stay in the restaurant where they belong. They should not be interfering with drinking types, their introduction to the boozer has been detrimental.

These animals would spend 50 or 100 euro on an overpriced plate of pasta. Disgusting behaviour really. Squandering booze money on a nice shirt or trendy pair of jeans. Humming "mmmmm" to themselves and smiling to each other over the table and asking each other what their food tastes like. They should mind their own business.

I have often arrived for a few pints after cooking my own dinner. I don't stand in the middle of the pub boasting about what I have just eaten, how rude and uncouth is that? Some drinkers might be starving. Foodies are simply inconsiderate when it comes to respecting drinkers.

Food is an inconvenience to a serious drinker something that's needs to be done ballast if you will

messin doorman

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Never made any sense to me either. It is uncivil and the actions of a conceited passive aggressive bore. Their pals could be hungry or working hard. Who really needs to see a picture of a Greek salad, who is benefitting here?

If I want to communicate with a friend I give them a text or ask them for a pint. I don't send them a picture of a Baked Alaska with rare strawberry trimming infused with a gooseberry margarita paste with side portion of caramelised pecan and walnut fried oil parcels. I just wouldn't do my friends like that.

Inconsiderate show offs the lot of them.

Right. Exactly - pubs are the last great democracy. Text - pint - yes or no.

This silly carryon is an offshot of one of our current problems - everyone who is not an agnostic, feminist with designer stubble and tight jeans is not normal.

IAMAMORON

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Food is an inconvenience to a serious drinker something that's needs to be done ballast if you will

Eating is cheating. It wastes valuable drinking time.

Have a decent feed before midday and then cut loose. Treat yourself.

Never spoil that 7 pint feeling by eating, you will end up getting the hiccups and making a holy show of yourself. No one needs that.

IAMAMORON

messin doorman wrote: »

Right. Exactly - pubs are the last great democracy. Text - pint - yes or no.

This silly carryon is an offshot of one of our current problems - everyone who is not an agnostic, feminist with designer stubble and tight jeans is not normal.

Feminists are fine and should be tolerable but you should completely avoid tea totalling types. The only feminists you should be drinking with are deranged alcoholic ones... these are the only feminists that make any genuine sense. The rest of them are in the posh restaurant up the road, they think they are cultured that way, that is how they do.

Tight Jeans are the most ironic clothes item on the planet, especially if worn by a bloke. What type of nonce actually thinks they are being cool by wearing jeans with less material on them than a proper straight or boot cut? Idiots. The only people who should be allowed wear tight jeans are fit birds.

Proper drinkers know that religion should never be discussed in a pub. You can say your prayers at mass or before you hit the sack on your knees at night. Leave it there. The only excuse for saying prayers in a pub is during a penalty shoot out .. or if you run out of money and are begging for a few scoops.

SEPT 23 1989

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Eating is cheating. It wastes valuable drinking time.

Have a decent feed before midday and then cut loose. Treat yourself.

Never spoil that 7 pint feeling by eating, you will end up getting the hiccups and making a holy show of yourself. No one needs that.

A bowl of soup is as far as I will go

Sultan of Bling

Only if it's a freebie of the leftovers from the lunch menu in the lounge

IAMAMORON

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

A bowl of soup is as far as I will go

Allowed , but I hope you are not one of these animals that tries to scoop the last bit out with your spoon?

Lift that bowl up with both hands and slurp it down like a good man. Scrape the rest off with a piece of bread. It is rude not to burp either. I got an awfull bollocking in Italy for not burping after my calzone. They didn't appreciate it one bit.

ChikiChiki

XsApollo wrote: »

Mid to late summer I’d say.

I think this but I also thing that once restrictions are relaxed there will be a resurgence of Covid 19 and they will be forced to close again fairly quickly.

Until we get a Vaccination, this thing is not going anywhere. I'd be expecting disruption well into next year.

Sultan of Bling

IAMAMORON wrote:

Lift that bowl up with both hands and slurp it down like a good man. Scrape the rest off with a piece of bread. It is rude not to burp either. I got an awfull bollocking in Italy for not burping after my calzone. They didn't appreciate it one bit.

I would scrape it off with my finger but only after I'm back from the jacks after not washing my hands.

IAMAMORON

Sultan of Bling wrote: »

I would scrape it off with my finger but only after I'm back from the jacks after not washing my hands.

Thanks for sharing. Keep well.

messin doorman

I’d like to give you all the benefit of my experience when I tell you that the level of conversation is ever so slightly lower than normal on this particular thread.

IAMAMORON

messin doorman wrote: »

I’d like to give you all the benefit of my experience when I tell you that the level of conversation is ever so slightly lower than normal on this particular thread.

This is only thread where any sense is being spoken.

You sound like a foodie.

I dare you to start a thread called

" restaurant closures , how are you coping guys ?"

Guaranteed snoozefest.

messin doorman

IAMAMORON wrote: »

This is only thread where any sense is being spoken.

You sound like a foodie.

I dare you to start a thread called

" restaurant closures , how are you coping guys ?"

Guaranteed snoozefest.

I’m no foodie. I prefer to refer to myself as (in the words of a clockwork orange) a “sophistocrat”

messin doorman

messin doorman wrote: »

I’m no foodie. I prefer to refer to myself as (in the words of a clockwork orange) a “sophistocrat”

You spelled sociopath wrong.

snoopboggybog

messin doorman wrote: »

I’m no foodie. I prefer to refer to myself as (in the words of a clockwork orange) a “sophistocrat”

messin doorman

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

You spelled sociopath wrong.

I do like to skull a rake of pints though now and again following by a good lively trad session. I mean jumping on top of a table and playing a bodhrán an all. Hup.

IAMAMORON

I like trying to ride birds when the music gets flowing.

Get them off their arses and onto the dance floor. You couldn't stop me.

pimpmyhat

Crisps and peanuts and maybe bacon fries are the only culinary delights that should be available in a pub😂

PTH2009

Feel trad music gets repetitive fairly quick but the Americans love it and must think every pub in the country is as lively as Hollywood makes them out to be

pimpmyhat

pimpmyhat wrote: »

Crisps and peanuts and maybe bacon fries are the only culinary delights that should be available in a pub��

A toastie.

IAMAMORON

I can see you letting rip with a bit of Pavrotti after a gallon or two?

Singing is a great thing to clear the head spins. Keeps you focussed.

pimpmyhat

IAMAMORON wrote: »

I can see you letting rip with a bit of Pavrotti after a gallon or two?

Singing is a great thing to clear the head spins. Keeps you focussed.

Nothing like a blast of nessun dorma to rejuvenate the soul

IAMAMORON

PTH2009 wrote: »

Feel trad music gets repetitive fairly quick but the Americans love it and must think every pub in the country is as lively as Hollywood makes them out to be

I prefer a bit of Eurythmics myself. Trad gets cheesy after 10 minutes. Too many crooney types.

Why are they always winking at each other? What is that about? What's the big secret anyways?

Give me a duke box and some Huey Lewis any day. Tears for Fears even. No Nirvana though, like is tough enough. Your only allowed play grunge on a Saturday night. I said so.

PTH2009

IAMAMORON wrote: »

I prefer a bit of Eurythmics myself. Trad gets cheesy after 10 minutes. Too many crooney types.

Why are they always winking at each other? What is that about? What's the big secret anyways?

Give me a duke box and some Huey Lewis any day. Tears for Fears even. No Nirvana though, like is tough enough. Your only allowed play grunge on a Saturday night. I said so.

Partial to a bit of 80s/party music. I do like live pub bands too but feel some play too much of the same stuff nowadays

Planning to have a few cans Saturday night

suicide_circus

is anyone else dying for a pint reading this thread?

drake70

PTH2009 wrote: »

Feel trad music gets repetitive fairly quick but the Americans love it and must think every pub in the country is as lively as Hollywood makes them out to be

They also think it's OK for four of them to sit around ONE glass of Guinness for two hours listening to said music.

Andrew00

A lovely cold pint of porter sitting in a sitting quiet pub with nobody hassling you.

IAMAMORON

PTH2009 wrote: »

Partial to a bit of 80s/party music. I do like live pub bands too but feel some play too much of the same stuff nowadays

Planning to have a few cans Saturday night

This place is open all night. We got an extension.

IAMAMORON

suicide_circus wrote: »

is anyone else dying for a pint reading this thread?

I am heading off to get a slab of Guinness.

Del Griffith

People must be off their rocker if they think pubs wont be open this summer. What about gyms? Cafes?

The whole economy won't stay shut, my prediction is it'll peak and start declining by May and in June things will start opening again on a phased basis, if not sooner.

The vast vast majority don't get any severe issues with this. It'll pass.

Has to be gone gone before anything can get going again.

Del Griffith

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Has to be gone gone before anything can get going again.

It doesn't, it's never going to be gone gone anyway either after vaccines, it'll be just another illness out there though.

Andrew00

I do always put the can'een of Guinness in the freezer for about 25 mins before pouring it. Cold cans of Guinness only job

Del Griffith

suicide_circus wrote: »

is anyone else dying for a pint reading this thread?

https://www.facebook.com/graingershanlonscorner/posts/889226378178739

Del Griffith

Del Griffith wrote: »

It doesn't, it's never going to be gone gone anyway either after vaccines, it'll be just another illness out there though.

It would be that now if that’s the case.

Del Griffith

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

It would be that now if that’s the case.

Not really, as it's brand new there's no immunity out there whatsoever, but the passing of time will fix that.

pawdee

pimpmyhat wrote: »

Crisps and peanuts and maybe bacon fries are the only culinary delights that should be available in a pub��

Crisps and peanuts yes. Bacon Fries no. What you want is a good bag of pork scratchings. Bristles and all. Hard to beat.

messin doorman

IAMAMORON wrote: »

I can see you letting rip with a bit of Pavrotti after a gallon or two?

Singing is a great thing to clear the head spins. Keeps you focussed.

I have been told I look like Pavarotti before, av no facial hair so not sure why.


I could give Nessum dorma a go next time on the tin whistle

pimpmyhat

pawdee wrote: »

Crisps and peanuts yes. Bacon Fries no. What you want is a good bag of pork scratchings. Bristles and all. Hard to beat.

I lost a tooth before on a bag of pork scratchings...
Never found it either

IAMAMORON

messin doorman wrote: »

I have been told I look like Pavarotti before, av no facial hair so not sure why.


I could give Nessum dorma a go next time on the tin whistle

Do, looking forward to it Luciano.

messin doorman

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Do, looking forward to it Luciano.

Hard to hit those high notes at the very end on the tin whistle:

“Bean churro. Bean churrrrrrrrro.... la looooo”

PTH2009

drake70 wrote: »

They also think it's OK for four of them to sit around ONE glass of Guinness for two hours listening to said music.

Some are a stingy bunch alright

IAMAMORON

messin doorman wrote: »

Hard to hit those high notes at the very end on the tin whistle:

“Bean churro. Bean churrrrrrrrro.... la looooo”

tu pure o Principessa.

Your all over it luce.

PTH2009

Are the pubs in the airports still open ??

Just curious

Heard stories of when the good Friday ban was in where fellas were booking low priced flights so they could have a few pints lol

IAMAMORON

PTH2009 wrote: »

Are the pubs in the airports still open ??

Just curious

Heard stories of when the good Friday ban was in where fellas were booking low priced flights so they could have a few pints lol

Hotels are open for residents?