Opening of "No-Food" pubs pushed out again

El_Duderino 09 · 14-09-2020 10:11AM

Hunky Monster wrote: »

The time limit and early closing is such a load of balls. Went for dinner last night, pint before the dinner, pint with dinner and time for one more before being kicked out. Back to a pretty large house party then. Pointless.

Complains about the rules. Admits they don't follow the rules anyway. Classic.

If you won't follow the rules anyway then why bother to complain about them? It's not affecting you as you still go to the "pretty large house party" anyway. Was the "pretty large house party" a high risk for spreading COVID, in your opinion?

hetuzozaho · 14-09-2020 11:22AM

Hunky Monster wrote: »

The time limit and early closing is such a load of balls. Went for dinner last night, pint before the dinner, pint with dinner and time for one more before being kicked out. Back to a pretty large house party then. Pointless.

Why are you going back to house parties? All they are asking is to keep contacts down and then we can get back to some normality. And a LARGE house party at that. Sigh.

It's this behaviour that will stop me getting a nice pint next Monday. :mad:

Tenzor07 · 14-09-2020 11:30AM

hetuzozaho wrote: »

Why are you going back to house parties? All they are asking is to keep contacts down and then we can get back to some normality. And a LARGE house party at that. Sigh.
It's this behaviour that will stop me getting a nice pint next Monday. :mad:

People have been going to House parties all summer, that hasn't changed.

Many will choose to have a house party as I saw this past weekend for Communion/Confirmations, people would rather have a gathering of friends and family in comfort rather than sit at tables of 4, 2m apart with time-limits etc.

14-09-2020 11:37AM

weldoninhio wrote: »

100%, witch hunts are the order of the day it seems. I was out Saturday night, 2 separate pubs. Dinner in one, no food in the second. I asked the barman if I needed to and his answer was “if your hungry I’ll put something on for you, if not you needn’t bother, I don’t think the virus is any different tonight than it will be the night of the 21st.” Now some would be demanding his license and his head on a stick, but he was completely correct in what he said. People were socially distant for the most part and he had to close at 11:00/11:30 anyway.

I went out on Saturday, we only got two drinks in and they billed about 12 tables in one go. Maybe they were trying to close for 10 but we were barely there even two hours.

Both of us had to go home while places were still open. Money kept in our pockets over some ridiculous restriction they decided to go with when every other country just used common sense.

The only saving grace was we had the 21st in sight otherwise it would have been far worse.

MrStuffins · 14-09-2020 11:40AM

hetuzozaho wrote: »

Why are you going back to house parties? All they are asking is to keep contacts down and then we can get back to some normality. And a LARGE house party at that. Sigh.

It's this behaviour that will stop me getting a nice pint next Monday. :mad:

That's exactly the thing. These people are causing the imposition of these restrictions on the rest of us and then pointing the finger at the Government or shadowy figures.

It's a self-fulfilling conspiracy!

14-09-2020 11:42AM

hetuzozaho wrote: »

Why are you going back to house parties? All they are asking is to keep contacts down and then we can get back to some normality. And a LARGE house party at that. Sigh.

It's this behaviour that will stop me getting a nice pint next Monday. :mad:

I thought pubs were opening next week

TheIrishGrover · 14-09-2020 11:43AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I thought pubs were opening next week

Doubtful at this stage

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 14-09-2020 11:45AM

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Complains about the rules. Admits they don't follow the rules anyway. Classic.

If you won't follow the rules anyway then why bother to complain about them? It's not affecting you as you still go to the "pretty large house party" anyway. Was the "pretty large house party" a high risk for spreading COVID, in your opinion?

Yeah it was a covid party. Shifted the face off each other and then I went around licking all the door handles in work this morning.

Sorry, it’s all my fault the pubs won’t open on the 21st.

hetuzozaho · 14-09-2020 11:46AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I thought pubs were opening next week

The more you hear on here what people are upto you start to think a pint in Dublin on Monday may be in doubt.

Fingers crossed!! Ha

14-09-2020 12:17PM

hetuzozaho wrote: »

Why are you going back to house parties? All they are asking is to keep contacts down and then we can get back to some normality. And a LARGE house party at that. Sigh.

It's this behaviour that will stop me getting a nice pint next Monday. :mad:

They aren't though. They are about to release a 6-9 month plan that has restrictions on household gatherings at every phase. The line of 'if you stopped breaking the guidelines they'd be removed quicker' simply doesn't run true. Once they're removed, cases go up and the restrictions come back. So if you tell people no houseparties for 9 months (lol), there's little incentive to wait 3 weeks til the virus is less prevelant.

hetuzozaho · 14-09-2020 12:20PM

AdamD wrote: »

They aren't though.

They aren't asking to keep our contacts down?

14-09-2020 12:24PM

hetuzozaho wrote: »

They aren't asking to keep our contacts down?

Its not going to bring back normality

hetuzozaho · 14-09-2020 12:26PM

AdamD wrote: »

Its not going to bring back normality

Ha I meant some normality. I even said it.

A pint without food on Monday is some normality for myself. I'm a simple man. But numbers in Dublin creeping up so we've been asked to reduce contacts to keep things in check.

HBC08 · 14-09-2020 12:32PM

Hunky Monster wrote: »

Yeah it was a covid party. Shifted the face off each other and then I went around licking all the door handles in work this morning.

Sorry, it’s all my fault the pubs won’t open on the 21st.

Are you sure it wasnt the windows you were licking?

hetuzozaho · 14-09-2020 12:34PM

Hunky Monster wrote: »

Yeah it was a covid party. Shifted the face off each other and then I went around licking all the door handles in work this morning.

Yeah because licking door handles was how it spread. Unfortunately it's spreads a little easier than that. Haha

El_Duderino 09 · 14-09-2020 12:55PM

Hunky Monster wrote: »

Yeah it was a covid party. Shifted the face off each other and then I went around licking all the door handles in work this morning.

Sorry, it’s all my fault the pubs won’t open on the 21st.

OK. Now back to the question I asked which was about whether you thought the pretty large house party was a high risk for spreading COVID.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 14-09-2020 12:59PM

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

OK. Now back to the question I asked which was about whether you thought the pretty large house party was a high risk for spreading COVID.

About as high risk as the pub.

Taking a bunch of people from one place (the pub) and then bringing them home is no more riskier than staying in the pub.

El_Duderino 09 · 14-09-2020 01:11PM

Hunky Monster wrote: »

About as high risk as the pub.

Taking a bunch of people from one place (the pub) and then bringing them home is no more riskier than staying in the pub.

OK, thanks for that. Now just to remind you that the question was whether you thought it was high risk or not. Could you answer that question?

Allinall · 14-09-2020 01:15PM

Hunky Monster wrote: »

About as high risk as the pub.

Taking a bunch of people from one place (the pub) and then bringing them home is no more riskier than staying in the pub.

Were the people in the pub observing social distancing?

Were they at the house party?

US2 · 14-09-2020 01:16PM

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

OK, thanks for that. Now just to remind you that the question was whether you thought it was high risk or not. Could you answer that question?

You got your answer 3 times. He said he doesn't think it was any more risky than being in the pub!!

El_Duderino 09 · 14-09-2020 01:25PM

US2 wrote: »

You got your answer 3 times. He said he doesn't think it was any more risky than being in the pub!!

I got answers but none to the one simple question I asked. Which was whether they thought the party was high risk or not. First answer was about licking door knobs, second answer was risk relative to the pub. Not sure where you saw a third answer as all I saw were two answers to questions I didn't ask. All I asked was whether they thought it was high risk or not.

US2 · 14-09-2020 01:28PM

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

I got answers but none to the one simple question I asked. Which was whether they thought the party was high risk or not. First answer was about licking door knobs, second answer was risk relative to the pub. All I asked was whether they thought it was high risk or not.

Clearly not or he wouldn't of went? Clogging up the thread with the same stupid question over and over which was answered

El_Duderino 09 · 14-09-2020 01:34PM

US2 wrote: »

Clearly not or he wouldn't of went? Clogging up the thread with the same stupid question over and over which was answered

Well that's for them to say really, isn't it?

And if people are happy going to house parties and "pretty large" house parties are not high risk, then do we need to open pubs? Fact that they didn't answer the question is interesting enough.

MrStuffins · 14-09-2020 01:35PM

US2 wrote: »

Clearly not or he wouldn't of went? Clogging up the thread with the same stupid question over and over which was answered

The idea that people like him think that they can complain about pubs not being open but at the same time be the very reason that they are not open is mind-boggling.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 14-09-2020 01:37PM

MrStuffins wrote: »

The idea that people like him think that they can complain about pubs not being open but at the same time be the very reason that they are not open is mind-boggling.

7 months in you finally admit the pubs aren’t open.

rubadub · 14-09-2020 01:41PM

US2 wrote: »

You got your answer 3 times. He said he doesn't think it was any more risky than being in the pub!!

Yes, he is point blank refusing to answer, I'd just give up on him, seems the windowlicker comment was spot on!

setanta1984 · 14-09-2020 01:50PM

MrStuffins wrote: »

The idea that people like him think that they can complain about pubs not being open but at the same time be the very reason that they are not open is mind-boggling.

The blame and finger pointing culture that has developed is disgusting.

People are not the reason pubs are closed, the only reason the pubs are closed is because the government decided to keep it that way - they chose not to open them during the summer even though we had consistent daily cases in single figures, somehow deciding that it wasn't "safe", yet they plan on opening them now when nothing has changed except for higher case numbers.
Which proves how terrible and ridiculous the decision not to open them during the summer was.
Opening them now proves there was 0 justification to not opening at the same time as restaurants.

MrStuffins · 14-09-2020 01:51PM

rubadub wrote: »

Yes, he is point blank refusing to answer, I'd just give up on him, seems the windowlicker comment was spot on!

Because he knows, as all of us do, that the reason we have to have such restrictions in place is because of people like him. The Jim Corr cheerleaders of the world.

MrStuffins · 14-09-2020 01:52PM

setanta1984 wrote: »

People are not the reason pubs are closed

Wrong!

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 14-09-2020 02:05PM

Allinall wrote: »

Were the people in the pub observing social distancing?

Were they at the house party?

Yeah of course. In the pub we were all in 15 individual Perspex boxes and kept our masks on throughout the meal. We each took a bath in hand sanitizer on the way out.

Went back to the gaff then, got naked and just rubbed off each other.

Opening of "No-Food" pubs pushed out again

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