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Why do young fellas going out drinking not bring coats anymore?

  • 15-02-2024 3:42pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭


    Why? It's so stupid. It was freezing on Monday night in Galway and loads of them were out with no coats. Are the drugs driving them mad?

    Post edited by Ten of Swords on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,101 ✭✭✭randd1


    Showing off the guns, baby, showing off the guns.

    Ah, it's no different to young wans wearing tiny dresses that barely cover anything, just showing off a bit for attention. And logically speaking, I'd say the 5 minutes cold would probably be worth it for the couple of hours in a warm to stiflingly hot pub/club and not having to take off and misplace/have robbed a nice jumper/jacket.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,295 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    It was Mayo Monday.

    If the girls don't need coats, why should the lads?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,755 ✭✭✭lbunnae


    I went through a phase of that, it’s so you don’t lose them. With drink taking and warm pubs they really aren’t that necessary. Especially in 8-10 degrees.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,928 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    People be robbin' jackets.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,368 ✭✭✭nachouser


    Ah sure, everything is in the cloud these days.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Sunny Disposition


    If they had work to be getting up for they wouldn't be going out without coats. In my day we wore coats.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    Cause less of them are smoking, so they're not outside in the cold.

    Easier to have a sneaky vape inside.



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,446 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Having to carry or check in jackets in clubs maybe. Or more often than not, forgetting to bring a jacket home.

    That would be my guess.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,223 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I always found bringing a coat on a night out a bit of a pain.

    One is you generally go from the taxi/bus directly into pub/club.

    Then you've to decide what to do with the jacket. Do you give it into a cloak room or mind it for the night and then possibly forget it.

    Then there's trying to pick what style of jacket to wear. You mightn't have one appreciate.

    Once your drinking and moving around you generally don't really feel the cold.



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,446 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Having to carry or check in jackets in clubs maybe. Or more often than not, forgetting to bring a jacket home.

    That would be my guess.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,908 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    A lot of people do, and a lot of jackets get left behind



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭enricoh


    Socks seem to be a no no also nowadays. Lad in front of me in the deli was wearing shorts n t shirt on a bitterly cold day last week.

    As they say - the customer is always right!



  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Global warming.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭brokenbad


    "Ankle Cleavage" as its known......popularised by hipsters and GAA analysts on the Sunday Game - think Jackie Tyrell, Philly McMahon, Aidan O'Mahony, TJ Reid and their like



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,842 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Same here. I don't drink so if I am going out I drive to wherever it is and go in, no need for a jacket, even if its a night out in Dublin. I can deal with a bit of rain and cold for a few minutes while I make my way from the carpark to wherever I am going.

    This has been going on for years in the UK. I remember when I moved over there in 2000 and was going out at the start I would bring a jacket and the lads would laugh at me coming into the pub with my jacket. Oh the shame. 😀



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,849 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,755 ✭✭✭lbunnae


    Lazy???? How on earth is that lazy hahah. It’s dumb but I fail to see how it’s lazy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    This is a drinking coat

    holds 24 cans

    fleece lined for those cold winter nights

    green In colour to blend in with bushes to evade the local gardai



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,238 ✭✭✭Patser


    Years of listening to the Sultans of Ping have them worried in case to go to the disco



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭thereiver


    I see young lads wearing shorts and trainers with no socks even on a cold day . It's a Gen z trend .



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭Strumms



    I imagine the percentage of people that have coats robbed or lost is minute…

    My own thoughts is they wish to appear hard, like the cold isn’t bothering them. And possibly to show off a physique…Which doesn’t make much sense… as any physique will be more on show and indeed accessible to people indoors.. where a coat is not required.

    if I was a girl and saw a fella in freezing conditions standing outside a pub or club in just a shirt or tshirt, I’d presume as I do now as a guy that that fella was a bit touched, and not in the way he’d probably like to be…same as I do any girl if she just had a skimpy dress and no coat / jacket… in the middle of winter… saps and oddballs every last one….

    that said I’ve got quite a collection of stylish jackets and coats especially winter and autumn ones and it’s from my perspective a comfy and practical joy to be wrapped up in them, when required.

    As for theft…. Just go into pub - find table - sit down - going to get a drink, bathroom break, smoke….a person remains watching drinks, coats and bags…. So that’s quite an easy, tried and tested and effective way to ensure nothing gets half inched… 🤪 and everyone leaves with their stuff….

    vanity and a misplaced lofty ideal of oneself is the only logical explanation to the coatless cohort but that is partly the hipster gobshîte way…. AttentionAttentionAttention….. they crave it. No matter what the outcome, inconvenience or consequences….or ridiculousness.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Not drinking related, but my 15 year old daughter will not wear a coat. Not to school, not to the teen disco, not to bring the dog for a walk. She has coats, she just won't wear one. She'll wear a hoodie. She'll even wear two hoodies. But asking her to wear a coat is like asking her to wrap herself in pineapple and crisp bags - as far as she's concerned, coats or jackets are just not items of clothing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,719 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    I saw one in GAA shorts and GAA t shirt in the pissing rain one day, he wasn't even trying to take shelter, you could tell by the look of him he thought he was the bee knees. sad ejit.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Coat checks are for squares



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,817 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    You see guys in their 50s with the shorts in Feb look, trying to look youthful and hard.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,517 ✭✭✭Tork


    Why is this in current affairs? Looks like an After Hours thread to me 🤔



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,403 ✭✭✭Packrat


    Whatever about coats, the clowns wh won't wear socks deserve nothing but mockery and abuse.

    “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command”



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,709 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga


    myself i call them gobshites but z-lister will do


    "They gave me an impossible task,one which they said I wouldnt return from...."

    ps wheres my free,fancy rte flip-flops...?

    pps wheres my wheres my rte macaroons,kevin?

    "You are him…the one they call the "Baba Yaga"…



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    If you’re feeling fancy , you could wear this one on a Sunday.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 884 ✭✭✭thejuggler


    What’s the going rate per item to check it in to a club cloakroom these days? I remember it being 50p (back in the 90s)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,223 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Funnily enough, all the young ones I know wear socks pulled up as far as they'll go with shorts now. Apparently it's in.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,381 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    Mod - Not a CA, moved to AH. Local charter applies



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,290 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Whatever about coats and socks, they really should be wearing helmets, given the number of head injuries that occur amongst people going out on the pi$$.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,877 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    I always bring a cloak.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,417 ✭✭✭Archeron




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭lmk123


    I’m not really young anymore but there are 2 reasons for myself anyway, I’m rarely cold and I’ve lost every jacket I’ve ever taken out



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭Strumms




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,167 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    I've never got the losing it concept. I know pubs and clubs can overdo the heat so it must be freezing the second you walk out the door.

    As a side note I used to manage pubs and the amount of passports that were found at the end of the night always baffled me. Most of them were foreign and never claimed. How do you not ring the place you were in the next day to get it back or were you so messed up you can't remember being there.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,755 ✭✭✭lbunnae


    when you’re tanked up , remembering the coat you brought in 4 hours previous just doesn’t happen for some people.

    Post edited by lbunnae on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,877 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    What happened the passports that were never claimed?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,749 ✭✭✭corks finest


    Hard chaws😊



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,167 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    They just sat in a drawer in the office. The embassys had no interest when we called them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,877 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Passports finishing up in the possession of alcohol sellers cause a bit of a kerfuffle on Liveline a while back.

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/longitude-festival-bar-defends-confiscating-ids-from-people-suspected-to-be-underage/41861901.html



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,987 ✭✭✭beachhead


    shoplifters coat too



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,904 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    The Luftwaffe special. Great stuff in fairness.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,719 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    2 euro.


    was charged 8 euro a few years ago because they were running out of space. 😡



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