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Night in the pub v night in

Ahhhh for forks sake!

The other day my OH and I decided to have a night in. We had six cans each (twelve in total).

The six pack of Stella Artois cost €9 each. So €18 in total. We bought a pizza which cost us €2 and some potato croquets, €1.

€21 in total for six beers and snacks in comfort.

If We has gone to the pub, the pints would be €5 or so, the food could be €10-€20. Overall in the pub it would have cost €80 in the pub compared to €22 at home.

The pub can **** off. From now on I’ll drink at home in comfort and bring friends around.

If minimum pricing comes in, then I’ll ramp up my homebrewing.

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McMurphy

€2 pizza and €1 croquettes.

Cornerstone of every nutritional meal.

And washed down with Stella.

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razorblunt

Did ya get the ride though?

theteal

wakka12 wrote: »

Pretty standard for people my age anyway(college age..)..OP sounds young

Brentley Petite Sparrow wrote: »

6 cans is a fairly easy night imo for a planned night in.

Hector Bellend wrote: »

sure youd drink that for breakfast

Completely going OT, but a night in with the missus isn't about swamping pints (12 cans of stella :eek:) no matter what age you are, surely. A bottle of wine followed by a bottle or three of some nice beer - most likely shared depending on how much of a goo the wine has given her :rolleyes: would be our lot. I'd love to blame the growing family as the cause of this "lightness of weight" but looking back, that would have been an average night-in a few years before any kids/mortgages came along.

Anyway, pubs obviously have their place but yeah, it's not a cheap hobby.

AllForIt

You can do both, drink every weekday monday to friday and have a couple of nights out at the weekend. Variety is the spice of life.

But seriously I prefer a thousand times going out socializing.

Purple Mountain

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Have barely been out in pubs at all in years. And when I am in one it is usually because there is a gig I want to see.

I throw a monthly house party now and friends come over. The one from this month on the 14th managed to go on until pretty much the Monday morning. Great fun.

I buy all the food and beer in for it but there is a box everyone can throw money in towards it if they feel like it. I have always at least broken even. Sometimes have profit to throw at the following month. So it is like a free night for me and the girls paid for by the mates who come over.

Can you post the next date here please?!

Bunny Colvin

Assetbacked wrote: »

There's only two nights of the week where it is fine to stay up late and therefore watching a few episodes of something or a movie can be done on these nights. Throw in some nice food, my girlfriend, a few drinks, the option to pause when going to smoke a joint or even just use the bathroom and a cosy couch and this, to me, is better than going out to a bar late at night.

I love the way you put nice food ahead of your girl in that list.

doolox

....pubs are down a lot on what used to be the state of trade in the 70's and 80's when I was a singleton going out 4 to 5 nights a week and twice weekly to nightclubs in my home town.

You wouldn't be able to do that now on the average industrial wage.

Banning smoking, stricter drink driving enforcement, way dearer drink compared to off licence sales ( non existent in 1970's or same price as pubs....) have made volume trade in pubs tiny compared to 40 yrs ago.

DEFTLEFTHAND

theteal wrote: »

Maybe I’m getting old but that’s a lot of cans for a night in

A six pack each?

Would be considered pre pub drinking for a lot of people.

RocketRaccoon

Queuing up for overpriced pints.
Queuing up for the toilet.
****e, loud music meaning you can't have a decent conversation.
Arseholes everywhere.
Queuing for food.
Queuing for a taxi.
Awful awful hangover.

Nah, you're grand. I had a few cans at home last night with the wife. We watched a movie, put on some music that we like afterwards and it cost us about €20.

allybhoy

razorblunt wrote: »

Did ya get the ride though?

He was going to, but after seeing the price of condoms he decided to use his hand instead

showpony1

allybhoy wrote: »

He was going to, but after seeing the price of condoms he decided to use his hand instead

he used the packaging from the croquettes with an elastic band

[Deleted User]

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

Queuing up for overpriced pints.
Queuing up for the toilet.
****e, loud music meaning you can't have a decent conversation.
Arseholes everywhere.
Queuing for food.
Queuing for a taxi.
Awful awful hangover.

Nah, you're grand. I had a few cans at home last night with the wife. We watched a movie, put on some music that we like afterwards and it cost us about €20.

I went out for breakfast/brunch yesterday - few pints with breakfast/brunch and stayed on watching the match. Few pints in another cosy pub after the match. Some nice food and then into another really nice cosy pub before heading home.

Nice food (x2)
Lovely Guinnness
Nice atmosphere (for the match and then a relaxed one in the other pubs)
Great company with herself
Overall very nice day

Sitting at home can't really be compared imo. Sitting at home watching a movie is a nice way to spend an evening but its not to be compared with a day/night out they are totally different things.

Roger Hassenforder

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

Nah, you're grand. I had a few cans at home last night with the wife. We watched a movie, put on some music that we like afterwards and it cost us about €20.

I hope you gave her a can or two?

OldMrBrennan83

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Roger Hassenforder

Patww79 wrote: »

Maybe if you like wine and nice beer. Each to their own like, but I'd take the 6 Stella any day.

So you dont like nice beer?

RocketRaccoon

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

I hope you gave her a can or two?

Nah, she had some non alcoholic Heineken as she's in a delicate condition for the next few months.

RoboRat

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

Queuing up for overpriced pints.
Queuing up for the toilet.
****e, loud music meaning you can't have a decent conversation.
Arseholes everywhere.
Queuing for food.
Queuing for a taxi.
Awful awful hangover.

Nah, you're grand. I had a few cans at home last night with the wife. We watched a movie, put on some music that we like afterwards and it cost us about €20.

Not all pubs are loud music with huge queues. The local I go to has no TV, a nice fire during the winter and a very cosy and relaxed atmosphere. I have never queued for the toilet and a pint costs €4.80. 3 or 4 pints and then home, no hangover and a nice social night out.

OldMrBrennan83

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RocketRaccoon

RoboRat wrote: »

Not all pubs are loud music with huge queues. The local I go to has no TV, a nice fire during the winter and a very cosy and relaxed atmosphere. I have never queued for the toilet and a pint costs €4.80. 3 or 4 pints and then home, no hangover and a nice social night out.

I have one pub like that local to me and have no issue going there a few times a year. But the rest of the pubs local to me are exactly as I described.

Spanish Eyes

On one of the rare occasions I graced a pub in town with my presence I counted 8 TVs all showing some mind numbing horse racing from Doncaster or something. I left.

Saturday nights in our local pub were great at one time (OK I'm older), good bands and so on, but the noise of it all and the crowds and the general mayhem just did me in eventually.

So, if I could find a nice pub with NO tv's, no music and just nice and quiet I think I would frequent. Not happening anymore though it seems.

Staying in is obviously the new going out!

Pelvis

Drinking beer from a can, it doesn't seem right unless you're in a field.

theteal

Patww79 wrote: »

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I'm more partial to proper ale tbh but all beer types have their place depending on the mood and availability

kfallon

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Staying in is obviously the new going out!

It is in me dicky!

skylight1987

gifted wrote: »

Stella????........

I thought you were saying STELLAAAAA !!!!!!! as in A Street Car Named Desire .How witty I thought but then I realised your just questioning the type of beer:rolleyes:

Ahhhh for forks sake!

Stonedpilot wrote: »

Can I ask how old you are?. As want to know How many years it to took you to discover cans from off licence is cheaper than pints in the pub.

26 going on 27. I've been out in pubs in my short time since being legal and been drinking at home too the odd time.

It just dawned on me today that pubs are kips ripping people off.

Wanderer2010

Its taken me many years to get there but I'm at a stage of life where I happily prefer a cosy night in in front of Netflix and some chocolate over shouting until my voice is raw in some jam packed pub with loud music and fake shouting amongst groups of people competing to be the loudest. I get some odd looks when I say I don't drink but that's ok, I like being myself these days, and I don't think I'm missing much to be fair.

[Deleted User]

Stop, I'd get awful restless without a night out and good session at the end of the week. Looking forward to getting out the door on a Friday and into the pub asap would get you through the week.

OldMrBrennan83

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Pelvis

It must be a truly sad existence if the prospect of pints of a Friday night is what gets you through the week.

[Deleted User]

Patww79 wrote: »

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Id never go home if heading out after work , straight to the pub at 5 or before it even if possible! We work in causal clothes though so no different to what I'd wear going out anyway even if I wasn't coming from work.

Pelvis wrote: »

It must be a truly sad existence if the prospect of pints of a Friday night is what gets you through the week.

Why? Nothing better than a Friday session it's as good as anything to be looking forward to. Certainly a lot better than sitting on the couch at home.