aziz wrote: » Oh yeah, talking of Geoff's I can't understand how one pub can employ so many arsehole bar staff. Even going back 35 years when I first went in there, in was the same. A couple of them were fine but then you had the ones that would bar on because you looked at them side ways or some other bull excuse
Murphy2020 wrote: » That tv show with Des Bishop brings back so many memories of crazy nights in town.
hardybuck wrote: » I also don't think that the current generation of 18-30 year olds drink as much as their predecessors from previous generations. Drink is more expensive, and contains more calories, than certain chemical alternatives.
PTH2009 wrote: » Tragically someone who appeared in that episode was killed in a car crash a few years after
Smell the glove wrote: » It aired very shortly after his funeral.
PTH2009 wrote: » Was it his house mate or the bouncer ?
road_high wrote: » I think the kids now are way more into image i.e. Physical appearances than we were in the early 2000s when i was starting "going out". Now it's all Instagram and gym culture whereas we didn't give a ****e really. Going to the gym was not mainstream like it is now. As result they don't drink as much as we did I reckon, more health conscious.
Flow Motion wrote: » I'd agree 100% on this point. I dont think anyone frequented a gym other than elite athletes back then. Probably only the Glass Leisure Centre and a handful of other small place dotted around town at that point. Whereas it is all gym culture/running/cycling these days for the younger generations. A game of 5 a side soccer was the limit of my exercise in my early 20's and the odd summer swim in Tramore. It was all about going out at the weekends. All the time. Looking back I had a ball and it did not do me any harm. There has been some huge changes since the year 2000. And not all for the better. Life was a lot more straightforward back then.
PTH2009 wrote: » I think the manager of Abra is still manager of one Apache today could be wrong?.
Oscar Madison wrote: » I can honestly say that I've NEVER experienced a negative or a bad attitude from ANY staff at Geoff's!
Quigs Snr wrote: » I was just saying to someone that when i moved back to waterford in 2000 i used to go out running around by ballgunner and i was usually the only person out there.. now you see people running all over the city.
kooga wrote: » Plus the old cinema on Patrick street it had three screens / the palace Pullman and the mini. Inside you had all the posters on the wall in the q area - was their two old ladies who rang the ticket office and shop. Fond memories.
PTH2009 wrote: » Where was the old rogue ? Had a few pints of Harp yesterday bloody hell its toxic Hard to believe we have 1 pub in our City Centre
aziz wrote: » The rogue is now the hub
PTH2009 wrote: » saw it in the des bishop episode but couldn't make out where the pub was. Revolution was only being build back then.
Flow Motion wrote: » There's been a huge increase in road running here in Waterford. Not a car journey passes without seeing individuals & groups of men & women on our roads. Fair play *but* it wouldnt be for me. In terms of the effect it has had on the local social scene if you are one of these runners than drinking & socialising would be very low on your list of priorities IMO. However even such a wholesome activity is not w/o its risks: the effect of pounding the roads results in many runners developing or needing hip/knee replacements in later life due to the impact. I'll raise a glass to them as they pass by the window of my local :pac:
great thread.
You only get get back what you give out & I have enough experience to last a lifetime & I'm still learning!
Entitlement is an awful chip to be carrying & I'm not suggesting that you are but there are quite a few out there
who do wear it as a 'my human right badge' Dealing with the public is a tough task! They are a toxic group!
I'm with you on this. I go to Geoff's probably twice a month at least and I always find the service and staff very good. If it wasn't I wouldn't bother going.
We were blessed with the old nightlife scene in Waterford, unfortunately what’s there now is depressing compared to the early and mid 2000s. Rubys, Muldoons, Oxegen and Harveys were the last real draws before things went bad and never recovered. Really when you look at what’s on offer now for a major city, it’s terrible.
For those who didn’t get to experience Rubys or Muldoons on a packed Saturday night when if you queued for less than 15 minutes you were thrilled, you won’t ever get how good those places were. For a certain age group Rubys will always be the pinnacle of social venues. I even met my wife there.
Harvey's was a great spot especially out the back. My main memory of Rubys is just messy. Oxegen was a kip.
I think we always look back and romanticise about what has gone. The Reg in my opinion is a top late night place to go to but you're right, we don't have many options nowadays.
Late bars have taken over from clubs not just in Waterford but all over the country.
Some of it sounds like older friends quoting from a recently published 1972 Waterford pub price list when a large stout was 20p which meant five fora quid!
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