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

Sunny Disposition

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?

randd1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058336303/why-do-young-fellas-going-out-drinking-not-bring-coats-anymore

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.

Mrs OBumble

It was Mayo Monday.

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

lbunnae

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058336303/why-do-young-fellas-going-out-drinking-not-bring-coats-anymore

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.

Panthro

People be robbin' jackets.

nachouser

Ah sure, everything is in the cloud these days.

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.

Padre_Pio

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

Easier to have a sneaky vape inside.

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.

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.

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.

BorneTobyWilde

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

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!

artanevilla

Global warming.

brokenbad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121771919#Comment_121771919

"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

Floppybits

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121771899#Comment_121771899

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. 😀

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121771849#Comment_121771849

So lazy basically.

lbunnae

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121772403#Comment_121772403

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

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

Patser

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

thereiver

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

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.

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.

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.

Overheal

Coat checks are for squares

whisky_galore

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

Tork

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

Packrat

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

Mr. CooL ICE

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121772544#Comment_121772544

It's a public health issue waiting to happen

Baba Yaga

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121772488#Comment_121772488

myself i call them gobshites but z-lister will do

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121772434#Comment_121772434

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

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)

freshpopcorn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121772488#Comment_121772488

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.

Ten of Swords

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

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$$.

dxhound2005

I always bring a cloak.

Archeron

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121772811#Comment_121772811

Im more of a mumu man meself

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

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121772811#Comment_121772811

Same, cloak and stagger

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.

lbunnae

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121773235#Comment_121773235

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

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121773235#Comment_121773235

What happened the passports that were never claimed?

corks finest

Hard chaws😊

Pauliedragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121773373#Comment_121773373

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

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

beachhead

shoplifters coat too

Hande hoche!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121772609#Comment_121772609

The Luftwaffe special. Great stuff in fairness.

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121772666#Comment_121772666

2 euro.

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