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Going to the pub during the day - magical.

JohnnyFlash

Is there much better than heading to the pub during the day? Now I don't mean every day, but rather those unplanned occasions where you end up going on the lash in early/mid afternoon. Meeting a few friends, and swearing you'll only have one or two, but deep down knowing that this will be a mini-session.

Day drinking is vastly underrated and unfairly scorned. Sinking a load of pints in a dark pub, and then walking out half-pissed a few hours later and getting blinded by sunlight as it's only 6 in the evening. Some people like to combine day drinking with regular visits to the bookies next door. I like it, but I know others who think it spoils the magic of daytime drinking.

My own ideal scenario is meeting around half 2. Put down 3 or 4 pints first to quench the thirst, then head up to the carvery for soakage - bacon and cabbage or roast lamb would be my preference. Then another 6-10 pints for dessert. Maybe do a Yankee or Lucky 15 in the bookies. Smoke a few cigarettes as well with the pints. Then out the door at around 7, and home for the tea and an early night.

Anyone else a fan?

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Uncharted

completedit wrote: »

Nah outside drinking is only day drinking ya should be doing.

Pffft.
Away with ye.

:rolleyes:

rgmmg

The beauty about nipping out while in work is you're having a great time and getting paid for it. "Working for The Man? I'm The effing Man".

jr86

tipptom wrote: »

Nothing like meeting someone on the street you know who is great craic and you know its going to get around to "will we go for one",and then phoning around convincing others to get involved with the scheme and actually taking offence to someone saying "I will be on after five".

Haha so true. Or you meet someone for genuinely two or three in the day and they are having one more before heading off, but at this stage you're mad to keep going yourself, so sending a chain whatsapp around to your contacts, and the buzz when the "on the way" responses come in

tipptom wrote: »

Usually we would have a tip for a horse and everyone would throw twenty in and if it won then its like we won the lotto,no one gets out alive.

Hahaha exact same!

tipptom wrote: »

Embarrassing outside a pub in the day/evening after a good few on your own and meeting someone very serious coming from work and wondering are you slurring your speech while talking to them at 6 pm.

The migration from one pub to the next is gas craic. You might be in a place for 2/3 hours and then decide to move on, and once ye all get out on to the street its hilarious! Usually always one clown going up to random women, singing, having the craic with a busker or whatever and it about 3pm in the day :pac: :pac:

This thread is making me want to seriously book a weekend piss up!

jr86

completedit wrote: »

Nah outside drinking is only day drinking ya should be doing.

Not for me!

Grab a stool up at the counter (if solo or with one or two people max, otherwise get a table but near the bar), leave the phone out, box of fags out, have the 10er lying on the bar regardless of when the next round is:p, and just talking absolute sh1te, while watching the racing/sport. That's heaven for me. Outside every so often for a smoke/phone call. Is it even a day session if you're not ringing someone for the updates of your local club in their GAA match? :pac:

Another great thing is when you start lovely and early and you meet an acquaintance, and ye both start texting your own respective friends as the day goes on to join. Gas when their friends start turning up and your half cut and instantly become besties with them

ShamNNspace

adox wrote: »

In my younger years me and my mates would maybe twice a year all ring in sick to work and arrange to meet in the local around midday and spend the afternoon/evening there.

There was no greater pleasure than sitting in a pub early afternoon with your mates, as the world went by outside, talking sh and sipping pints. Not a care in the world.

Till the pubs phone rang brrrr brrrr silence all round till the danger has passed

completedit

Uncharted wrote: »

Pffft.
Away with ye.

:rolleyes:

Why are so many Irish people obsessed with being miserable?

Pints, rain and football on TV of a cold October afternoon sounds like pure depression

Baron Kurtz

farmchoice wrote: »

ya, some of the greatest days of my life have begun with impromptu day drinking that morphed into something.. as the OP said.. magical..

i think its need to be proper boozers though. part time drinkers can make a bit of a mess of it.

There's a point in the bacchanalian endeavour where the boozy minds just align with a certain sureness in how the supping custom will develop. Perfectly in sync, thoughts align like a celestial phenomena. No word is spoken, each boozehound knows where this is going.

True that - lightweights can skew the pace and can potentially be a cause for concern. The do tend to flake away early, knowing what's inevitably going to happen. They just disappear.

padd b1975

Not too keen on daytime drinking in summer to be honest.

Give me a cold wet Irish Saturday afternoon, good company, an open fire and pints of really good Guinness (where you can count the swallows down the side of the glass) and I might as well be in heaven.

ShamNNspace

completedit wrote: »

Uncharted wrote: »

Pffft.
Away with ye.

:rolleyes:

Why are so many Irish people obsessed with being miserable?

Pints, rain and football on TV of a cold October afternoon sounds like pure depression

Au contraire my friend Au contraire who's miserable? certainly not the boys on the high stool who are escaping their troubles for one lousy day and just letting the day develop organically and beautifully. how many confidances were shared on days like these when tongues have loosened that have actually saved lives

SEPT 23 1989

completedit wrote: »

Pints, rain and football on TV of a cold October afternoon sounds like pure depression

What’s the alternative?

Potential-Monke

I did it when I was younger, but always mouldy drunk by 6pm regardless of the time I started. Day drinking just messed with me. I much preferred 6am sessions, where we'd finish a week of nights at 6am, and have a sesh at someones house then.

It's crazy to see how many people are up for it, and very few demonising it. Change alcohol to cannabis and this thread wouldn't have got beyond the first page without people telling the OP, and those who agree, how much of a drug problem they'd have, compared to the 1 who multiple people then called out. Just an observation on the acceptance of one of the biggest killer drugs in Ireland/worldwide.

completedit

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

What’s the alternative?

Blazing sunshine, t shirt on, getting tanned with a can in hand along the royal canal

SEPT 23 1989

completedit wrote: »

Blazing sunshine, t shirt on, getting tanned with a can in hand along the royal canal

A two litre of Olde English was the style at the time

Uncharted

completedit wrote: »

Blazing sunshine, t shirt on, getting tanned with a can in hand along the royal canal

Ya havent a clue. :pac:

I pity ya,you'll never have that feeling of comradery with a few good mates,all on the beer,playing pool,chilling out,watching the game and making memories.

All the while on the solid lash.
Great times.

You go comb your hipster beard,drink your craft beer and top up your farmers tan by the canal. :rolleyes:

completedit

Uncharted wrote: »

Ya havent a clue. :pac:

I pity ya,you'll never have that feeling of comradery with a few good mates,all on the beer,playing pool,chilling out,watching the game and making memories.

All the while on the solid lash.
Great times.

You go comb your hipster beard,drink your craft beer and top up your farmers tan by the canal. :rolleyes:

I'm not some hipster twat ðŸ˜¬

wakka12

Buying 9-14 pints in a pub would be sooo expensive though

dark crystal

Potential-Monke wrote: »

It's crazy to see how many people are up for it, and very few demonising it. Change alcohol to cannabis and this thread wouldn't have got beyond the first page without people telling the OP, and those who agree, how much of a drug problem they'd have, compared to the 1 who multiple people then called out. Just an observation on the acceptance of one of the biggest killer drugs in Ireland/worldwide.

Ah, I'd say for most posters, it's a once every few months type deal. Not something you'd do every week, like!

Like someone else said earlier, there's something naughty about it. When you work all week, have family responsibilities etc., sometimes just being able to take the day as it comes, catching up with good friends and letting everyday worries out of your mind for a while can be a welcome little escape from the everyday grind.

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padd b1975 wrote: »

Not too keen on daytime drinking in summer to be honest.

Give me a cold wet Irish Saturday afternoon, good company, an open fire and pints of really good Guinness (where you can count the swallows down the side of the glass) and I might as well be in heaven.

I love day drinking regardless of the weather or time of year.

Summer out in the beer garden sipping away and having the craic for the afternoon and then get dug into the corner of the pub later in the day, usually not as much sport on during the day but the golf then might be on or evening Gaa.

A wet winter afternoon up at the bar or in the corner then is epic too, sport on all sides, enjoying great pints, fire blazing etc. Mighty.

Oasis1974

Lots of reminiscing from the council estate urchins nice....

Baron Kurtz

wakka12 wrote: »

Buying 9-14 pints in a pub would be sooo expensive though

Yep. Throw in a few shorts later on, friends who pop in for a while (adding to the group - some may drink WINE ffs :eek:)

Bigmac1euro

Myself and a mate will once every 2 or 3 months pop into a well known boozer in the north inner city for 3 pints of black magic on lunch, usually a Friday. We’ll head on back to the office and do nothing being slightly giddy for more action knowing we’re going back in 2 hours.
Clock off early and the weekend is yours. Barstool smack talk then from 4pm - 8pm
Home then sloshed. Pure heaven. Only once has this escalated to a late night sesh. And one another time we didn’t go back to the office at all though we did take a late lunch that day.
This boozing in pubs is expensive that’s my only problem and the fact I’m saving my tits off paying rent and trying to buy makes it harder.

Homelander

I like it the odd time alright, 7 or 8 pints and then a decent feed after, home then to watch crap on TV for a bit before heading to bed early and get a proper nights sleep to wake up hangover free for work the following day.

dmc17

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

My own ideal scenario is meeting around half 2. Put down 3 or 4 pints first to quench the thirst, then head up to the carvery for soakage - bacon and cabbage or roast lamb would be my preference. Then another 6-10 pints for dessert. Maybe do a Yankee or Lucky 15 in the bookies. Smoke a few cigarettes as well with the pints. Then out the door at around 7, and home for the tea and an early night.

So, in 4.5 hours you have 14 pints and a feed of bacon and cabbage? :eek:

dvdman1

Meeting @ 2 is too late..... get the large fry up in the pub then sinking the first pints @ 10.30, if your in weatherspoon you could opt for wine on tap with a fry

jr86

dvdman1 wrote: »

Meeting @ 2 is too late.....

100%

The earlier the start the better. Particularly if you’ve been on the razz the night before.

From 3 onwards places start getting busier with shoppers coming in for one drink, and the likes. I wouldn’t even consider anything from 5 onwards “day drinking”. That said you need to know the places to go. Any place that serves food is obviously a complete no-no (unless just small pub grub - but it must primarily be a drinking pub), or anywhere that has a bloody DJ on during the day time or loud music – forget it.

Funnily enough, I’m not a fan of ‘manufactured’ day sessions, like college events, or festivals or whatever. Even the likes of the big Tree/Quinns on a big match day is not my scene. Give me a nice quiet spot to talk sh1te with good company, and where you only need to nod at the barman from your table/the stool to get served. A crowded place with the bar heaving, and/or the likes of Ariana Grande songs pumping, and young wans snapchatting at the bar? Away with that sh1te!

On a big GAA match day an early house is extremely recommended. The craic is something else, cos its only the true proper drinkers, and proper fans that are there

They won't even allow young groups in a lot of the time, right job!

weldoninhio

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Is there much better than heading to the pub during the day? Now I don't mean every day, but rather those unplanned occasions where you end up going on the lash in early/mid afternoon. Meeting a few friends, and swearing you'll only have one or two, but deep down knowing that this will be a mini-session.

Day drinking is vastly underrated and unfairly scorned. Sinking a load of pints in a dark pub, and then walking out half-pissed a few hours later and getting blinded by sunlight as it's only 6 in the evening. Some people like to combine day drinking with regular visits to the bookies next door. I like it, but I know others who think it spoils the magic of daytime drinking.

My own ideal scenario is meeting around half 2. Put down 3 or 4 pints first to quench the thirst, then head up to the carvery for soakage - bacon and cabbage or roast lamb would be my preference. Then another 6-10 pints for dessert. Maybe do a Yankee or Lucky 15 in the bookies. Smoke a few cigarettes as well with the pints. Then out the door at around 7, and home for the tea and an early night.

Anyone else a fan?

WTF is this abomination!!! Drinking is drinking!! If you want a romantic meal, bring the bird out.

weldoninhio

IAMAMORON wrote: »

I was checking the kick off times for the upcoming Rugby World Cup. It looks like there is an awful lot of early morning drinking on its' merry way. Most kick offs' look to be at around 8.30 in the morning. People will be either "pushing through" or only getting started when the matches' get going.

A month of heavy self discipline awaits any rugby fan planning on saving his marriage or keeping his boss happy. With the last kick offs' before midday you can expect most boozers to be fully operational by lunchtime.

I can definitely see myself attempting at least one " push through" during the event.

It will be difficult thinking about heading home after the midday Angelus, I can maybe see myself self inflicting a 6 o'clock Angelus curfew, whereby upon hearing the bells ringing, I immediately complete my pint and leave the pub, for fear of darkening its's door further towards midnight and closing time.

I fear many drinkers will find them selves "doubling down" on their drunkenness. It will not be uncommon for drinkers to be getting pissed twice in the one day.

Good heads up!! I'm looking at fixtures now to book a few days off.

Hector Savage

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

On the clock? That's impressive, Harry.

I doubt there's very many jobs that allow you to hit the pub during working hours these days. Back when people bought newspapers there was a breed of old school journalist who did most of their best writing while sitting at the counter in Mulligan's of Poolbeg Street. The Semi-States were also open to some of their brightest and best holding 'offsites' in dark and dingy pubs. The old Protestant stockbroking firms were also known for doing most of their client business in some of Dublin city centres watering holes.

Now most of the youth seem to want jobs in IT firms where they will launder your clothes for you, provide you with free meals, and give you the money for a taxi home - in return for working 12 hour days. It's trying to get out of work you should be aiming for, not staying there.

Progress my hole. :mad:

Spot on, people think how cool it is that Google has free food , free BEn and Jerrys ice cream - free ****ing everything - yeah at the office!!

They don't want you to leave...

Uncharted

This thread has restored my faith in humanity.

There is a glimmer of hope for this country yet.

Last night,I called up 3 good solid drinking buddies.

Sesh is on for this Saturday.
Can't wait.

Fry up at 9 bells.
10.30am start lowering pints.

Few games of pool,maybe back a few horses early in play.

Well tanked up for the rugby and steaming for the Liverpool game.

Top shelf celebrations after the hammering Arsenal and Engerland will recieve respectively and in the horrors by 9 o clock.

Epic.

Thanks lads.

jimgoose

Uncharted wrote: »

This thread has restored my faith in humanity.

There is a glimmer of hope for this country yet.

Last night,I called up 3 good solid drinking buddies.

Sesh is on for this Saturday.
Can't wait.

Fry up at 9 bells.
10.30am start lowering pints.

Few games of pool,maybe back a few horses early in play.

Well tanked up for the rugby and steaming for the Liverpool game.

Top shelf celebrations after the hammering Arsenal and Engerland will recieve respectively and in the horrors by 9 o clock.

Epic.

Thanks lads.

A few good men.