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

PTH2009 · 09-06-2021 09:08PM

hynesie08 wrote: »

It's literally the same thing.......

Ah there not

PAYG is Less hassle esp when you're 3 shapes to the wind at the end of the night and you look at the receipt then start disputing the number of pints you had

hynesie08 · 09-06-2021 09:14PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

Ah there not

PAYG is Less hassle esp when you're 3 shapes to the wind at the end of the night and you look at the receipt then start disputing the number of pints you had

Oh, sorry.

It's the exact same if you're not an aggro drunk.

PTH2009 · 09-06-2021 09:28PM

hynesie08 wrote: »

Oh, sorry.

It's the exact same if you're not an aggro drunk.

Lighten up will ya

Meant it as a joke

Dickie10 · 09-06-2021 10:11PM

going friday evening for some dinner and drinks in local hotel, this will be the first drop since october 3rd. i mean zero alcohol, even over "Christmas " the christmas they cancelled on christmas eve! Should it take be long to get in on it? will i have to watch myself?

09-06-2021 10:15PM

Dickie10 wrote: »

going friday evening for some dinner and drinks in local hotel, this will be the first drop since october 3rd. i mean zero alcohol, even over "Christmas " the christmas they cancelled on christmas eve! Should it take be long to get in on it? will i have to watch myself?

Be like riding a bike.

MOH · 09-06-2021 10:19PM

hynesie08 wrote: »

It's literally the same thing.......

It's literally a completely different thing :rolleyes:

ShooterSF · 10-06-2021 01:31AM

PTH2009 wrote: »

Ah there not

PAYG is Less hassle esp when you're 3 shapes to the wind at the end of the night and you look at the receipt then start disputing the number of pints you had

Anywhere I've ever worked that ran tabs I used to just bring a current tab receipt and leave it in a shot glass at your table, swapping it out if you ordered more. That way if there was an issue it could be sorted at that time rather than end of the tab. And for sure people forget how many they've had.
Personally I kinda like the tab system as I end up with less coins in my pocket, I always forget to use them, and you're not forced into rounds so I can drink at my pace while Harry Hollowlegs beside me can rush ahead

hynesie08 · 10-06-2021 07:45AM

MOH wrote: »

It's literally a completely different thing :rolleyes:

It's exchanging money for drinks, no difference whatsoever.

PTH2009 · 10-06-2021 04:32PM

ShooterSF wrote: »

Anywhere I've ever worked that ran tabs I used to just bring a current tab receipt and leave it in a shot glass at your table, swapping it out if you ordered more. That way if there was an issue it could be sorted at that time rather than end of the tab. And for sure people forget how many they've had.
Personally I kinda like the tab system as I end up with less coins in my pocket, I always forget to use them, and you're not forced into rounds so I can drink at my pace while Harry Hollowlegs beside me can rush ahead

with the tab system its easy to forget you didn't pay and walk out of the pub

Coillte_Bhoy · 10-06-2021 05:52PM

hynesie08 wrote: »

It's exchanging money for drinks, no difference whatsoever.

There is a big difference in how and when that money is exchanged, are you taking the piss?

questionmark? · 10-06-2021 05:56PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

with the tab system its easy to forget you didn't pay and walk out of the pub

I rather pay as you go but people should be used to the concept considering that's how restaurants work not to mention so many bars across Europe that so many were used to when you could travel.

ShooterSF · 10-06-2021 06:28PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

with the tab system its easy to forget you didn't pay and walk out of the pub

Oh I've done it in Germany and had to come back the next day with the head hanging low

thankfully knew the staff. It shouldn't really be an issue at the moment here with everyone seated at tables and such, staff should spot you winding down and if they're properly staffed and trained should be checking you for another pint before you're finished your last one and can sort a bill then. Not so much to catch people before they'll leave but because an empty glass is an empty till...
If it came in here long term people would adopt, it is how north america and lots of europe do it and if they can manage it so can we. In the end though I don't see it happening here, it doesn't work with our lively weekend bars and I'd like to see them back eventually. And it costs more to have staff running back and forth from tables.

crooked cockney villain · 10-06-2021 09:48PM

Has anybody told Tony that it is now nearly two weeks since he warned us of impending Armageddon because on a Saturday night (or was it Friday) he saw town thronged with youngsters, and given the weather since that time and given that drinking and revelry isn't a Dublin only persuit, we can only assume it happened in dozens of towns, hundreds of villages, thousands of back gardens, involing five, six figure sums of people?

We were due our kick in the arse from the revelry by now yet the last while there's been some staggeringly low daily figures outside of the usual circa 450 per day. I believe it was in the high 200s the other day.

Any comment from the commander?

crooked cockney villain · 10-06-2021 09:55PM

RTE tonight saying Indian variant is now 25% of N.I numbers (very low numbers at that mind) and they fear it could hit 1200 per day there by early July (why this matters when absolutely everyone who could be in any way killed by it will, or already is, fully vaccinated well before then, nobody cared to tell us)

I still wouldn't rule out the powers that be ruling that this somehow matters to us down here when it inevitably starts spreading here and therefore we can't open the pubs come July 5th.

Something RTE refused to mention- of 9427 Indian variant cases in the UK between Feb and May 31st, 2.8% were of people who had two jab doses.

267 people. That's not 267 people who got ill, or died, or whatever, that's 267 people who merely tested positive.

Funny how this little factoid isn't broadcast.

2ndcoming · 11-06-2021 02:50AM

crooked cockney villain wrote: »

RTE tonight saying Indian variant is now 25% of N.I numbers (very low numbers at that mind) and they fear it could hit 1200 per day there by early July (why this matters when absolutely everyone who could be in any way killed by it will, or already is, fully vaccinated well before then, nobody cared to tell us)

I still wouldn't rule out the powers that be ruling that this somehow matters to us down here when it inevitably starts spreading here and therefore we can't open the pubs come July 5th.

Something RTE refused to mention- of 9427 Indian variant cases in the UK between Feb and May 31st, 2.8% were of people who had two jab doses.

267 people. That's not 267 people who got ill, or died, or whatever, that's 267 people who merely tested positive.

Funny how this little factoid isn't broadcast.

It's only a factoid when you tell it your way. I'll leave you to google what factoid means. All 9427 cases tested positive, otherwise they wouldn't be cases. We've had over a year of this sh1t, so that shouldn't be news.

What the English media source you got that from were trying to get across was either that 97.2% were younger people who would not yet have had 2 jabs, or possibly they were having a pop at the lower rates of vaccine uptake in deprived / BAME communities. I'd need to know the source and context to decide which it was. I'd hazard a wild guess and say it was the Mail in which case it's a bit of both. It's written completely at white over 60s so what they mean there is - you don't need to worry Mail reader as you meet none of the criteria so you're fine.

11-06-2021 07:19AM

crooked cockney villain wrote: »

RTE tonight saying Indian variant is now 25% of N.I numbers (very low numbers at that mind) and they fear it could hit 1200 per day there by early July (why this matters when absolutely everyone who could be in any way killed by it will, or already is, fully vaccinated well before then, nobody cared to tell us)

I still wouldn't rule out the powers that be ruling that this somehow matters to us down here when it inevitably starts spreading here and therefore we can't open the pubs come July 5th.

Something RTE refused to mention- of 9427 Indian variant cases in the UK between Feb and May 31st, 2.8% were of people who had two jab doses.

267 people. That's not 267 people who got ill, or died, or whatever, that's 267 people who merely tested positive.

Funny how this little factoid isn't broadcast.

I know people who will die from it, myself included, who haven't even got a first appointment yet. Don't be so quick to listen to the success of the rollout, it's a shambles of who you know.

M_Murphy57 · 11-06-2021 10:15AM

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I know people who will die from it, myself included, who haven't even got a first appointment yet. Don't be so quick to listen to the success of the rollout, it's a shambles of who you know.

So all 3 million doses have been given out to people "in the know"?!

Also, mortality rates from covid outside of the very elderly are quite low. Unless you are in your 80s you probably wont die from it, and I'm sure your GP wouldve referred you already were you otherwise high risk.

speckle · 14-06-2021 07:25PM

Belated update...(and no I wasnt on the beer all week)

...All local pubs open...we will probably leave like last year the most well known for the tourists

Arrived in an low and behold.. all the local musicians there..lovely to sit down and catch up...some had been busking earlier in a nearby town... Had a couple of spirit teas...great to catch up on both sad and happy news..fingertips callus analysis..musicians lost..new songs written...spent part of the evening coming up with ideas for gigs..like rent a band on a lorry for your private garden party!!!

And regarding normal...all hugs and shaking of hands on leaving... sure no point not to...if you have all been sitting together...one step towards normality...roll on the gigs next.... in the meantime support us all and toss whatever coinage you can afford in a buskers hat when in town and forgive us all if we are a bit rusty..

ShooterSF · 15-06-2021 09:31AM

speckle wrote: »

Belated update...(and no I wasnt on the beer all week) ...All local pubs open...we will probably leave like last year the most well known for the tourists

Arrived in an low and behold.. all the local musicians there..lovely to sit down and catch up...some had been busking earlier in a nearby town... Had a couple of spirit teas...great to catch up on both sad and happy news..fingertips callus analysis..musicians lost..new songs written...spent part of the evening coming up with ideas for gigs..like rent a band on a lorry for your private garden party!!!

And regarding normal...all hugs and shaking of hands on leaving... sure no point not to...if you have all been sitting together...one step towards normality...roll on the gigs next.... in the meantime support us all and toss whatever coinage you can afford in a buskers hat when in town and forgive us all if we are a bit rusty..

Know plenty of musicians mad to get back to having dancing lunatics in the pub almost take their teeth out with their mic stand

Glad to hear you got to catch up, best of luck!
But... I was kinda hoping to carry the no hugging thing on as part of the new normal

Dickie10 · 15-06-2021 11:38AM

went for six pints sunday evening from 7-11 great evening, the two pubs i was in had background music. plenty of hugging and pulling and dragging going on , great to see.!

jakiah · 15-06-2021 04:17PM

Dickie10 wrote: »

plenty of hugging and pulling and dragging going on , great to see.!

That sounds a bit weird, is this a normal thing in your locals?

pottokblue · 15-06-2021 06:45PM

dragging??? I've only been having pints in the pubs so far sadly no music

Necro · 15-06-2021 08:08PM

hynesie08 wrote: »

Nah, you're just a moaner, you'll complain when indoor doesn't have bar seating, then when it doesn't have music, then when you can't cough on the barmaid, that's without them asking for you to do something ridiculous like run a tab.

Maybe drinking isn't for you.

PTH2009 wrote: »

**** off

Whats your ****ing problem with me

Both of you can take a days holidays from the forum

saabsaab · 15-06-2021 08:09PM

Why don't we get back to the topic?

DessieJames · 16-06-2021 04:10PM

Necro wrote: »

Both of you can take a days holidays from the forum

its not PTH2009 who should banned here its that other poster hynesie08, he trolls everyone myself included.

Beasty · 16-06-2021 05:47PM

DessieJames wrote: »

its not PTH2009 who should banned here its that other poster hynesie08, he trolls everyone myself included.

And you are now permanently banned from posting in this thread

TheDoctor · 16-06-2021 07:08PM

Seems harsh.

PTH2009 · 16-06-2021 08:33PM

With Electric Picnic possibly on now last weekend of September, i wonder is that an indication of the timeline for the return of Nightclubs/Discos etc

Maybe opening hours for pubs will get extended in August after the BH with Late bars reopening

speckle · 16-06-2021 08:59PM

ShooterSF wrote: »

Know plenty of musicians mad to get back to having dancing lunatics in the pub almost take their teeth out with their mic stand Glad to hear you got to catch up, best of luck!
But... I was kinda hoping to carry the no hugging thing on as part of the new normal

Thanks for that... been on both sides of that teeth/mic stand issue lol. Re hugging.. each to their own some will.. . some wont ...and some will or wont depending on the situation...

Actually worse still the mad dancing musician who manages to take their own teeth out on their own mic...funniest I ever managed was dancing onstage while not singing..whirling around I managed knock a drum mic out of place yet somehow replace back in situ on my next twirl and then twirl off back laughing to my instrument to play ..glad I have it on video...still dont know how I did it to this day..haha

crooked cockney villain · 16-06-2021 10:45PM

I feel I've nothing to look forward to. These bastards will be chomping at the bit to cancel the pubs re opening. While case numbers have collapsed you would assume they will start to rise soon enough with the Indian variant nonsense. I seriously don't think they will pass up the opportunity to turn the screw one last time, ideally for them as close to re opening as possible.

I've come to realise, there's only certain pubs the government wants to remain open. Temple Bar pubs. Rural pubs that do food and cater to tourists. Souless dumps and craft bars in the docklands.

What they want closed? Pubs on urban housing estates, "flat roof pubs" as the Brits call them. Small town rundown pubs that have pool tables, a poker machine and about a dozen customers on a weeknight. City centre Dublin pubs that fall outside the tourist trail.

Places where working class men gather, basically.

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