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Will the Rovers ever Return? Your pub megathread, Part 2 - threadbans in OP

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  • #1502
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,318 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    seeing everyone in and outside Hotel bars is ****ing irritating, jammy bastards

    Roll on next week and please god the rest of our existence. No more shutting and opening repeat repeat


  • #1503
    dodzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,280 ✭✭✭✭dodzy


    funnydoggy wrote: »
    Missing out on two pints worth of revenue... I'm working all week :(:(:(

    Don’t fret; I’ll make up for your lost contributions by 1pm...and continue my contributions way after that ;)


  • #1504
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,932 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    dominatinMC wrote: »
    The anticipation is palpable, can't wait for next week, and apparently, we have some fine weather on the way too. Tony et al. must be raging at the gods conspiring against them!

    On a more serious note, from looking on social media, it is clear the effort pubs are putting in to get back trading again. I know they have been helped by grants, etc. but some of the beer gardens and outdoor spaces I'm seeing are really impressive. Going forward, I think this will be one lasting legacy that will actually be a positive one - we will have a choice of indoor drinking (will always be my preference) or really decent outdoor space - instead of a few barrels up against a wall. It's not all bad lads ;)

    Ya i see a few nice new beer gardens around the place, like yourself im an inside sitting at the bar type but still be good to have the outdoors option in future.


  • #1505
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,251 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    seeing everyone in and outside Hotel bars is ****ing irritating, jammy bastards

    Roll on next week and please god the rest of our existence. No more shutting and opening repeat repeat

    Why are you complaining when you didn't book a room?


  • #1506
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,922 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    hynesie08 wrote: »
    Why are you complaining when you didn't book a room?

    Shur maybe hynesie just wants to sit down somewhere an have a pint or whatever


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  • #1507
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,318 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    ShamNNspace wrote: »
    Shur maybe hynesie just wants to sit down somewhere an have a pint or whatever

    Yep not everyone can afford to book a hotel room for the weekend just for a few scoops


  • #1508
    DessieJames
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 299 ✭✭DessieJames


    Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »
    Couple of mates up there last weekend, didnt get into one bar at all as they hadn't booked, no walk ins allowed anywhere

    thats quite the opposite to what im seeing, the only time we didnt get into a bar was the first weekend of outdoor drinking when there was long queues, the bouncer said you can wait if you want but you could waiting 2 hours or so so we found somewhere else, any other time absolutely no problems


  • #1509
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,932 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    Yep not everyone can afford to book a hotel room for the weekend just for a few scoops

    The way you have been going on for the last few months, surely all the money you saved from not drinking pints would have paid for a cheap aul night or two in a lively hotel, no?


  • #1510
    Dickie10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    havent drank a drop since october 3rd 2020. looking forward toit, although i will spend monday cruising around and seeing the set up of a few bars i visit, like i said i think i will stick to a few old man pubs , id say pints at the counter will be had in some of those next weekend if there empty no remarks passed.


  • #1511
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    mightyreds wrote: »
    Just seen a pub about 15 minutes for me has posted on facebook they are open for food and drinks Monday, 50% booking and 50% walk in.
    If you book you have 105 minutes time limit if you walk in theres no time limit.
    Rules the business are making up are crazy

    Makes some sense to me, theres no perfect system here so they are trying a mix. You can't guarantee people a table without time restrictions unless you're only giving the table away once a day just in case they stay all night. And some people won't go unless they know they have one. Then there are others who will chance their arm and its nice to have some tables for them too.
    Likely you won't be kicked out of your reserved table if there are still some walk ins empty but it gives them a release valve if the next people to use that table have arrived and the place is unexpectedly wedged. You can't argue as you agreed to the limit when booking, well you can argue and people being people will but at least the staff probably won't completely hate their life.

    (oh and by you I mean the universal you, not you personally)


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  • #1512
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,405 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Newstalk contributor just now "people are dying for the pubs to open on Monday"
    an unfortunate way to put it


  • #1513
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,318 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    If the pubs had opened from yesterday the country would be in rumble now

    Maybe that's the reason why we have to wait til Monday


  • #1514
    M_Murphy57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭M_Murphy57


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    If the pubs had opened from yesterday the country would be in rumble now

    Maybe that's the reason why we have to wait til Monday

    I'm guessing you haven't been on twitter today?


  • #1515
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,318 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    M_Murphy57 wrote: »
    I'm guessing you haven't been on twitter today?

    The riot police all over the streets in Dublin ?

    A lot of that could of been prevented If they opened up outdoor hospitality which is a controlled environment


  • #1516
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    The riot police all over the streets in Dublin ?

    A lot of that could of been prevented If they opened up outdoor hospitality which is a controlled environment

    Would you really want any of those people drinking in your pub, even in a beer garden, if their response to being moved on is to hurl bottles?
    There should be no excuses made for those peoples' actions. If pubs being closed leads to you being violent towards other human beings then that's a you problem.

    That said I'm looking forward to my first pint in months tomorrow and always loved bank holiday monday pints more than any other. I'm delighted to be coming to the other side of this. Hopefully get the vaccine soon and then really feel like I'm on the other side of it.


  • #1517
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,318 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=797724074465120

    Some punch


  • #1518
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,251 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=797724074465120

    Some punch

    Nothing to do with pubs though.


  • #1519
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    Has anyone stayed in a hotel since the reopening? If so was the 105 mins thing enforced?


  • #1520
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,922 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    Degag wrote: »
    Has anyone stayed in a hotel since the reopening? If so was the 105 mins thing enforced?

    Was in westport for a couple of nights, no mention of it at all, stay as long as we like


  • #1521
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,318 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    its Like Xmas eve hopefully ill get in somewhere after work tomorrow. 8pm would be prime time so it may be tough but ill give it a go anyway


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  • #1522
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,079 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    its Like Xmas eve hopefully ill get in somewhere after work tomorrow. 8pm would be prime time so it may be tough but ill give it a go anyway

    Make a reservation?


  • #1523
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,318 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Make a reservation?

    Not many places doing it

    A lot of walk ins only in Waterford City


  • #1524
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,251 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Make a reservation?

    But then what would he complain about?


  • #1525
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    Not many places doing it

    A lot of walk ins only in Waterford City

    Tully's are taking bookings afaik


  • #1526
    Orchids
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭Orchids


    I wonder will there be separate smoking areas? don't fancy outdoor dining if the smokers are sharing the space.......


  • #1527
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,212 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Setting off by foot at 10AM for my 5KM trek into town (will get my daily step count in as an added bonus). Have a place picked out to get myself a breakfast burrito. Pubs open at 12PM. Haven't been this excited in a long while :D


  • #1528
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,932 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    its Like Xmas eve hopefully ill get in somewhere after work tomorrow. 8pm would be prime time so it may be tough but ill give it a go anyway

    You've only had weeks to plan for this, why didnt you ring around and make a booking if you were so bothered?


  • #1529
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,318 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »
    You've only had weeks to plan for this, why didnt you ring around and make a booking if you were so bothered?

    Things can come up

    Way of life


  • #1530
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,251 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »
    You've only had weeks to plan for this, why didnt you ring around and make a booking if you were so bothered?

    For someone who seems obsessed with drinking, how does he not have a local taking care of him?

    Part time pinter I suspect.


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  • #1531
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Is it 10 o'clock the mayhem starts?


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