Opening of "No-Food" pubs pushed out again

El_Duderino 09 · 04-12-2020 01:16PM

SB71 wrote: »

you enjoy sitting at home reading over covid stats while the rest of us go out and enjoy the pints, you sound like your great craic, the life and soul of the party :rolleyes:

Ok

I’m not telling you what to do. I don’t need to watch the stats - the government is watching them and the more people act the maggot the higher the numbers will go and as the numbers go, so goes the chances of pubs closing again.

It’s up to pubs and pub patrons to put a good face on the pub opening. The responsibility is on those who go, you’ll choose how you behave.

Fitz* · 04-12-2020 01:18PM

Looking forward to a burger and a few pints tonight.

Ish66 · 04-12-2020 01:29PM

All I want is to go to my local on my own on Sunday lunchtime (With the papers under my arm) have a few pints, devour the papers, go home and have my dinner and chill for the rest of the day.
I don't want food, I don't need company, Just my 30 year Sunday tradition restored. I don't care about the rest of the week, just 2 hours...Please.

Tenzor07 · 04-12-2020 01:32PM

Anyone got access to the Indo?

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/dont-talk-wet-we-must-not-let-this-pandemic-be-used-as-an-excuse-to-kill-off-more-of-our-brilliant-traditional-pubs-39824786.html

After an abstemious November I walked around town yesterday, haunted by the pubs of Christmas past: Mulligan’s in Poolbeg Street, the Swan in Aungier Street, the Stag’s Head in Grattan’s Court, Slattery’s in Rathmines.

With their well-worn interiors, soft yellow light and creamy, dark pints, they’re the type of place where you go to catch up with old friends and the elusive spirit of the past.

But if you want to have a pint, you will have to patronise a pub masquerading as a restaurant and, along with it, an unwanted meal.

dominatinMC · 04-12-2020 02:04PM

Tenzor07 wrote: »

Anyone got access to the Indo?

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/dont-talk-wet-we-must-not-let-this-pandemic-be-used-as-an-excuse-to-kill-off-more-of-our-brilliant-traditional-pubs-39824786.html

Poetic.
But I think wet traditional pubs will be fine in the long run. Even going by the sentiment on this page, and other social media channels, there is demand for their services - a simple pint and a chat, none of the trimmings espoused by the gastropubs. However, for the moment, like many other aspects of life, we will have to compromise, so a few scoops and forced food will have to do for a while. Bring on 2021!

Tazz T · 04-12-2020 02:18PM

Fitz* wrote: »

Looking forward to a burger and a few pints tonight.

Have you got a booking?

brisan · 04-12-2020 02:23PM

SteM wrote: »

It's certainly what some people were asking but the past few pages it's morphed into some sort of weird thread about hating part time drinkers and people who wear jumpers to pubs.

I have no problem with people wearing jumpers properly in pubs
its the tossers who wander around the pub with their jumpers tied around their neck while they fondle a bottle of Heino that bother me

brisan · 04-12-2020 02:25PM

Tazz T wrote: »

Have you got a booking?

If its his local and not in town he will hardly need it

Fitz* · 04-12-2020 02:31PM

Tazz T wrote: »

Have you got a booking?

Yes. It's a local food pub.

Ish66 · 04-12-2020 02:37PM

Fitz* wrote: »

Looking forward to a burger and a few pints tonight.

Just bring your Passport, Friends phone no's, your mothers blood group ,Don't talk or look at anyone and we reserve the right to fcuk you out when we like.
Have a wonderful evening.....
''Just Eat'' myself and the remote. Cans chilling.....

stephenjmcd · 04-12-2020 02:38PM

brisan wrote: »

If its his local and not in town he will hardly need it

You'd be surprised. Vast majority are booked up this weekend and next.

brisan · 04-12-2020 02:49PM

stephenjmcd wrote: »

You'd be surprised. Vast majority are booked up this weekend and next.

I have bookings for my the next 3 Saturdays and 2 for Christmas eve
However they are not for my local, I will not need a booking for my local

weldoninhio · 04-12-2020 02:51PM

Ish66 wrote: »

Just bring your Passport, Friends phone no's, your mothers blood group ,Don't talk or look at anyone and we reserve the right to fcuk you out when we like.
Have a wonderful evening.....
''Just Eat'' myself and the remote. Cans chilling.....

One pub in my town is like that. The other one is grand. They take your phone number and thats it. Its like a normal pub/restaurant after that. No mask to the jacks nonsense.

Ish66 · 04-12-2020 02:52PM

brisan wrote: »

I have bookings for my the next 3 Saturdays and 2 for Christmas eve
However they are not for my local, I will not need a booking for my local

Flash Bastard !

stephenjmcd · 04-12-2020 02:54PM

brisan wrote: »

I have bookings for my the next 3 Saturdays and 2 for Christmas eve
However they are not for my local, I will not need a booking for my local

Good for you but know of plenty local pubs that do need bookings regardless with limited walk up availability.

So to say someone hardly needs one for a local isn't accurate. If someone doesn't want to be disappointed or left standing outside for a while then booking is the way to go.

Have my own local booked for 8pm a few nights

SB71 · 04-12-2020 03:02PM

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Ok

I’m not telling you what to do. I don’t need to watch the stats - the government is watching them and the more people act the maggot the higher the numbers will go and as the numbers go, so goes the chances of pubs closing again.

It’s up to pubs and pub patrons to put a good face on the pub opening. The responsibility is on those who go, you’ll choose how you behave.

My jaysus your such a ray of sunshine, how many hours a day do you spend on here talking about covid-19 :eek:

SB71 · 04-12-2020 03:04PM

Wetherspoons in town walk ins only no bookings taken, and more importantly no time limit i asked the girl on the door as you walk in, it looked busy even at 1pm, i also checked another 2 pubs in town, 70% bookings and 30% walk ins, again no time limit in either, so whoever suggested that most pubs in town especially have a time limit might want to think again.

brisan · 04-12-2020 03:06PM

SB71 wrote: »

Wetherspoons in town walk ins only no bookings taken, and more importantly no time limit i asked the girl on the door as you walk in, it looked busy even at 1pm, i also checked another 2 pubs in town, 70% bookings and 30% walk ins, again no time limit in either, so whoever suggested that most pubs in town especially have a time limit might want to think again.

Can you name the 2 pubs with no time limits
Weatherspoons is not my cup of tea

SB71 · 04-12-2020 03:06PM

brisan wrote: »

Can you name the 2 pubs with no time limits
Weatherspoons is not my cup of tea

not on here, message me if you want.

hynesie08 · 04-12-2020 03:10PM

SB71 wrote: »

not on here, message me if you want.

Do they have 2m between tables, because if not name them so we know to avoid them.....

SB71 · 04-12-2020 03:13PM

hynesie08 wrote: »

Do they have 2m between tables, because if not name them so we know to avoid them.....

i don't know i didn't ask and i wouldn't be asking that anyway.

Good luck!

drunkmonkey · 04-12-2020 03:13PM

hynesie08 wrote: »

Do they have 2m between tables, because if not name them so we know to avoid them.....

Seriously, you think a foot or two will really make any difference to a virus that's supposedly airborne and travels 30 meters.

SB71 · 04-12-2020 03:16PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Seriously, you think a foot or two will really make any difference to a virus that's supposedly airborne and travels 30 meters.

Anyone who is that concerned and worried should probably stay at home to be honest, the thought of something like this would never even enter my head, there's enough bleedin scaremongering from mainstream media and NPHET on a daily basis as it is, just go out and enjoy yourself without worrying about if tables are 2 metres apart, what next asking all the barman if they sanitized their hands :eek:

El_Duderino 09 · 04-12-2020 03:18PM

SB71 wrote: »

My jaysus your such a ray of sunshine, how many hours a day do you spend on here talking about covid-19 :eek:

It's just a fact of the situation. The pubs are open and we all know they're high on the list to close if the numbers go up again. You might not like to think about having responsibility but you have some personal responsibility over how it pans out. Whether patrons play by the rules or they act the maggot will have an influence on whether pubs are closed again.

If you give a shyte about the pubs staying open, you'll behave accordignly. If you only care about no.1 then you'll behave accordingly too. This is fairly basic stuff.

SB71 · 04-12-2020 03:20PM

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

It's just a fact of the situation. The pubs are open and we all know they're high on the list to close if the numbers go up again. You might not like to think about having responsibility but you have some personal responsibility over how it pans out. Whether patrons play by the rules or they act the maggot will have an influence on whether pubs are closed again.

If you give a shyte about the pubs staying open, you'll behave accordignly. If you only care about no.1 then you'll behave accordingly too. This is fairly basic stuff.

well I'm hardly going to be dancing on tables singing the fairytale of New York with my top off am i :eek::rolleyes: don't you worry about me mate ill enjoy my weekend im going out tonight, Saturday and Sunday, you enjoy sitting in!

Gervais08 · 04-12-2020 03:23PM

Hello from a responsible socially distanced pub in the Midlands!

Few nice pints on a day off from work - happy days.

Enjoy, similarly minded folk!!

Gervais08 · 04-12-2020 03:24PM

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

It's just a fact of the situation. The pubs are open and we all know they're high on the list to close if the numbers go up again. You might not like to think about having responsibility but you have some personal responsibility over how it pans out. Whether patrons play by the rules or they act the maggot will have an influence on whether pubs are closed again.

If you give a shyte about the pubs staying open, you'll behave accordignly. If you only care about no.1 then you'll behave accordingly too. This is fairly basic stuff.

Yes nanny!

stephenjmcd · 04-12-2020 03:24PM

SB71 wrote: »

Wetherspoons in town walk ins only no bookings taken, and more importantly no time limit i asked the girl on the door as you walk in, it looked busy even at 1pm, i also checked another 2 pubs in town, 70% bookings and 30% walk ins, again no time limit in either, so whoever suggested that most pubs in town especially have a time limit might want to think again.

If they've 2m between tables then there's no time limit. Same as last time. Its a business decsion then if they want to have one.

El_Duderino 09 · 04-12-2020 03:24PM

SB71 wrote: »

well I'm hardly going to be dancing on tables singing the fairytale of New York with my top off am i :eek::rolleyes: don't you worry about me mate ill enjoy my weekend im going out tonight, Saturday and Sunday, you enjoy sitting in!

I’m not telling you what to do. You’ll make your own decisions

hynesie08 · 04-12-2020 03:25PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Seriously, you think a foot or two will really make any difference to a virus that's supposedly airborne and travels 30 meters.

Probably not, but if a place isn't willing to do the absolute bare minimum asked of them, I don't want to give them my money.

Opening of "No-Food" pubs pushed out again

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