Pubs Closed - The Poor Drunks

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Beer from a keg is nicer.

In a plastic glass?

I think the pubs are finished. Even if the thing is lifted and everything tries to go back to the way it was, the pubs are really going to be the ones dealing with "a new normal" that they can't actually deal with. Half of it is their own fault, the vintners in the past and up until now have point blank refused any sort of change that could have actual been beneficial to their business, their own lobby group was so intertwined with successive governments meant that they were so interconnected with these governments that they never thought they had to change. Never had to think outside the box, never had to think "what if". Too cosy, too set in their ways, too relaxed and now just like anything else that gets in that sort of mindset, they are about to be eaten alive. I hope they come back, don't like them myself but I've nothing against anyone that wants to get a living from a market that is surely there but they should have tried moved forward before this and not remain stagnant anyways.

All the aul lads in the pub at 11am

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

It's a business transaction. The sole purpose for a pubs existence is to make money. What you described - atmosphere the craic etc - is a reason why you go to a pub. To get entertained or what not. But it is a business transaction. It's not free. You walk into a pub with 8 cans you got from Lidl see what they say :pac:


But the point I was making about supporting them is don't. It's a business :pac:
It's like Netflix. I purchase it each month cause I want to watch things. What they offer. I don't subscribe because "ah I wanna show Netflix my support" - the second I think there's nothing on it any more I will cancel.

Ignoring the condescending tone of your first paragraph (businesses exist to make money? ya don't say), there is a massive difference between supporting small businesses in a locality, and one of the largest companies in the world in Netflix.

But we do seem to have a different outlook here. You're happy enough to get a few cans in Lidl which is grand, others like the social aspect of a few pints. If the pub has to close for a few months during Covid, and then can't afford to re-open, that social outlet is gone. Or replaced with some sh!thole like Wetherspoons. So if people decide to spend their own money supporting their own community, then I am fully behind this.

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

Ignoring the condescending tone of your first paragraph (businesses exist to make money? ya don't say), there is a massive difference between supporting small businesses in a locality, and one of the largest companies in the world in Netflix.

But we do seem to have a different outlook here. You're happy enough to get a few cans in Lidl which is grand, others like the social aspect of a few pints. If the pub has to close for a few months during Covid, and then can't afford to re-open, that social outlet is gone. Or replaced with some sh!thole like Wetherspoons. So if people decide to spend their own money supporting their own community, then I am fully behind this.

Actually it wasn't condescending. If you chose to read it that way then it's on you.

But it does feel like we are having two different conversations now. I mentioned cans from Lidl as a reference to try and bring them into a pub and drink them and to be told where to go (IE, it's a business)

You took that as "I love having Lidl cans than going the pub" then based a retort around it - so you're taking me up wrong or you're twisting. Which one is it?

Anyways I expect you will be ringing up your local to try and gets pints delivered at some point. Because if you don't then you're talking sh*te :pac: all hot air. My stance is f*ck supporting and I'm currently seeing that through by doing that as we speak :pac:

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Fu*king ejjits :pac:
As you say you can go to the off license and get 2-3 Cans of whatever for the same price as the so called mobile-pulled-pint sh*t.

You’d want to be fuçking soft in the head to pay some crowd to be delivering you your pints in this climate. The usual attention seekers no doubt. The ohhh look I can, cool, so I will, the whole story on Facebook...zzzzzzz brigade.

Cans, in the fridge, just get up and go grab one when you want. No interaction required with any fûcker, zero chance of transmission of a very serious disease.

I had heard rumors that my local was opening up this weekend so I drove past earlier and there was dozens of people drinking pints in the carpark. I wonder will the pub be allowed to continue this practice.

Im off the drink 4 months but looking forward to having a ramble around town and all my regular haunts on the 29 June. Just to see the lay of the land. See what pubs are open. Is their queue's? Or time slots inside. Is there people out celebrating early doors because of our new found 'freedom'?

I walked around Temple Bar the day or two before Lockdown and all pubs were closed and it was eerie. I walked across to Abbey St and with very few places open i resorted to having a coffee (which i never do) in Arnotts and pondered to myself what lay ahead? It was a very worrying time and you could feel the despondancy in the air. The city was dead and id never seen it like that.

I am looking forward to doing the same on the 29th and remembering how sad that day was and how great to see people buzzing around and shops and pubs open again. Its only 3/4 months but feels like an eternity. If thats not worth celebrating i dont know what is.