Will the Rovers ever Return? Your pub megathread, Part 2 - threadbans in OP

Tenzor07

opinionated3 wrote: »

No time limit if the pub can keep the tables 2 MTRS apart, otherwise it's 1 hr 45 mins and you're kicked out. We truly are a shower of idiots in this country.

Exactly! Though if it's 1.8 apart you can stay for 2hrs5mins!

PTH2009

Guessing post gig pints are a thing of the past

11pm last orders

Necro

opinionated3 wrote: »

No time limit if the pub can keep the tables 2 MTRS apart, otherwise it's 1 hr 45 mins and you're kicked out. We truly are a shower of idiots in this country.

How's that going to be policed though, let's be honest. Are the Gardai really going to go into a pub with a measuring tape

*Oh, that's only 1.25 metres, get out*

It's essentially unenforceable and everyone knows it.

I hate this idea of guidelines with little ifs, ands or buts in certain circumstances, it's what we have always done throughout the pandemic.

You can't do this unless X - but you can do it if Y. The substantial meal was another example of this nonsense.

Same with the disastrous levels idea which became level 3.45670 by the end it was so broken.

stephenjmcd

PTH2009 wrote: »

Guessing post gig pints are a thing of the past

11pm last orders

Did you expect a full late bar in July when places reopened initially ?

Pretty sure the conversation on closing time was had on this thread recently.

Yet you've somehow come up with the above & what gigs do you plan on going to in July

KrustyUCC

Even expanding out to 12 would have made a big difference

Last order at 12 place cleared by 12.30

All the 11 o'clock last orders will do is encourage house parties

hynesie08

PTH2009 wrote: »

Guessing post gig pints are a thing of the past

11pm last orders

What gigs are you going to in the next 6 weeks.

stephenjmcd

KrustyUCC wrote: »

Even expanding out to 12 would have made a big difference

Last order at 12 place cleared by 12.30

All the 11 o'clock last orders will do is encourage house parties

And a 12:30 clearing wont ? If people are going to have a house party an hour isn't going to make a difference realistically, if your out for the night, 11.30 or 12.30 whats the difference. The off licence will be long closed so the house is stocked up regardless of the time

KrustyUCC

It would make a difference to some groups

12.30 was the traditional closing time for non late bars

unless you wanted to go to a late bar or a nightclub that was it

I can only speak for my peer group but many times we'd happily go home once our local closed

We didn't go out much last year but definitely 11.30 closing time would seem to be a waste of a night out

It will definitely encourage more house parties

hynesie08

KrustyUCC wrote: »

It would make a difference to some groups

12.30 was the traditional closing time for non late bars

unless you wanted to go to a late bar or a nightclub that was it

I can only speak for my peer group but many times we'd happily go home once our local closed

We didn't go out much last year but definitely 11.30 closing time would seem to be a waste of a night out

It will definitely encourage more house parties

Where you going to get the drink for the house party at half 11?

PTH2009

hynesie08 wrote: »

What gigs are you going to in the next 6 weeks.

It's quite possible the 11pm last orders will stay in place for the rest of the year and there might (very very big might) be gigs back by Autumn/Winter

hynesie08

PTH2009 wrote: »

It's quite possible the 11pm last orders will stay in place for the rest of the year and there might (very very big might) be gigs back by Autumn/Winter

So, they're going to allow 2-15,000 people cram into a sweatbox, but will still be insisting on restrictions in pub?

I'm going to swing towards a no on that one.

KrustyUCC

hynesie08 wrote: »

Where you going to get the drink for the house party at half 11?

Younger groups seem to order on dial a drink or similar just before 10 deadline

Or like Stephens said some houses will be stocked up anyway

By closing earlier they're encouraging people to go to lesser controlled environments afterwards

opinionated3

Very intelligent virus this covid .. knows how long you stay in the pub, becomes more virulent after 11pm..... Truly a marvel of Chinese engineering.....

Coillte_Bhoy

hynesie08 wrote: »

Where you going to get the drink for the house party at half 11?

Carry out from the pub you have been in?

dominatinMC

PTH2009 wrote: »

Guessing post gig pints are a thing of the past

11pm last orders

Ah come off it. Look, no body is overly happening with these restrictions but things are improving, and all this is temporary. When gigs are back, restrictions on pubs will be minimal/non-existent.

fin12

What’s the story up north ? Going to be in Derry in June . Do u have to order food if sitting inside and do they have the time limit like we will have here ?

stephenjmcd

dominatinMC wrote: »

Ah come off it. Look, no body is overly happening with these restrictions but things are improving, and all this is temporary. When gigs are back, restrictions on pubs will be minimal/non-existent.

Don't waste your time, forever creating hypothetical situations & getting worked up over them

Coillte_Bhoy

fin12 wrote: »

What’s the story up north ? Going to be in Derry in June . Do u have to order food if sitting inside and do they have the time limit like we will have here ?

Wondering this myself. Supposed to be heading up for June weekend

fin12

Time limits are a load of crap and are and will be only enforced in city centre pubs n restaurants where it’s just pure greed and want to ram food back ur throat. . If ur a resident in a hotel they will let u stay at bar all night and a lot of country pubs won’t give a shi$t either . Ur find plenty that will even allow u to walk up and order it drink from pub, all those situations happened to me last year so I’d take all these guidelines with a pinch of salt.

Tenzor07

dominatinMC wrote: »

Ah come off it. Look, no body is overly happening with these restrictions but things are improving, and all this is temporary. When gigs are back, restrictions on pubs will be minimal/non-existent.

When is live music due to be back? September? The Arts industry like Aviation/Hospitality/Tourism have been on their knees for over 1 year now..

stephenjmcd

As I expected, what was announced today for indoor pubs might last only a few short weeks or not even be in place at all come July.

"Government sources have confirmed to The Journal that there is a possibility of easing some of these rules come July or August when it is expected that indoor dining can resume.

“I don’t think these regulations are the final word for summer 2021,” said one source on the release of the guidelines today.

https://twitter.com/christinafinn8/status/1397575873843314690?s=19

Tenzor07

fin12 wrote: »

Time limits are a load of crap and are and will be only enforced in city centre pubs n restaurants where it’s just pure greed and want to ram food back ur throat..

The Infamous D2 Berlin Bar got nabbed by two undercover Customs officers for letting them stay over the 105min time limit by issuing a new till receipt, and have now been shutdown by the court... so don't think it's greed.

hynesie08

stephenjmcd wrote: »

As I expected, what was announced today for indoor pubs might last only a few short weeks or not even be in place at all come July.

"Government sources have confirmed to The Journal that there is a possibility of easing some of these rules come July or August when it is expected that indoor dining can resume.

“I don’t think these regulations are the final word for summer 2021,” said one source on the release of the guidelines today.

https://twitter.com/christinafinn8/status/1397575873843314690?s=19

But......but.......nphet.

Oh wait.

https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1397573958698995724?s=20

seamusk84

I assume we can’t sit at the bar even if every second seat is closed off?

saabsaab

seamusk84 wrote: »

I assume we can’t sit at the bar even if every second seat is closed off?

Hard to know. Should be ok if we're vaccinated..

saabsaab

Saw that a bar in Dublin lost its licence over Covid regulation breaches.

seamusk84

saabsaab wrote: »

Hard to know. Should be ok if we're vaccinated..

It’s been so long since I could sit in my spot at the bar....

PTH2009

Some indoor places can make use of the bar area for seating from the corners by putting up plastic screens facing the bar but those seats are like gold and are always taking

Lets hope places go the 2m table route and maybe have areas for 1/2 people instead of 1 person taking up a 6 seater table

crooked cockney villain

Here's a mad question.

Most pubs would be a mix even before this. Some parts 1 metre, a few booths with high glass partitions which all but separate you from the folks in the next one.

How does this one work out?

Then you have places like Wetherspoons where by and large tables were always 2 plus metres apart anyway.

crooked cockney villain

There is actually something that came across my mind there today.

NPHET have never, ever agreed strongly with pubs opening in any way shape or form.

Not in July, when we had them until, what, October. They dragged their heels, then put in the most idiotic of rules to try and dissuade people from going anyway (food, time limits).

If NPHET had their way, we would not have had a single draught pint in our hands for a single day since mid March 2020. By July that would be 16 months, and let's be honest they'd love to not open it in July either.

In April 2020 Simon Harris gave an interview, behind a bleedin paywall, to the Indo where he stated that he thought pubs wouldn't be able to operate until a vaccine was available.

If you recall that far back, the general consensus was that a vaccine, between development, testing and so on, was at best 3 to 4 years away. Some predicted there might never be one.

So just for clarity, our health minister stated that in his view the people of Ireland would probably not get to have a night out until some point in 2023 or 2024, and that was pretty much tough shyt as far as he was concerned, three years without a night out, just go with the flow, hold firm, we're all in this together.

Comments like that are a terrifying insight into the minds of these people. By my count, we have had 3.5 months, about 14 weekends, of some degree of indoor pub access since mid March last year. I would be fairly sure that it must rank among the lowest in the Western world, and that it had the most bizarre rules when it was allowed.