opinions on FIBBERS??!

irlirishkev · 10-02-2006 12:00AM

I live just up around the corner, and popped in one Sunday for a pre-dinner pint. It was quiet at that time, and quite pleasant.. that is untill some scumbag at the bar and some english bloke started fighting..

Entertaining, if a bit smelly.. Oh and the Guinness was puke.

K.

120_Minutes · 10-02-2006 12:06AM

Some facts about fibbers:

It stinks

The bouncers for the most part are fine, but can come down on you like a ton of bricks at a moments notice if you act the ****

Some of the regulars, because they're regulars think they own the place. they in fact do not. dont listen to them.

The DJ's for the most part try to introduce new music to the punters, however some punters (mostly ill educated morons) fold their arms and grunt if they deviate from the established "classics" playing top 90's dance tunes inbetween metal tunes is their way of thumbing their noses at closeminded idiots, and a right good laugh too esp when you see a leather clad longhair in a rage at having to listen to scatman john.

give the dj's a break, i know a few of them and some of the gems they are asked include:

can you play "i wanna **** you like an animal/**** you i wont do what you tell me/ when angels deserve to die?"

punter: "any old school metal?"
DJ: "what like metallica megadeth or slayer?"
punter: "no, slipknot"

asking for slayer, while a slayer song is playing.

a sweaty shirtless neanderathal waving his megadeth baseball cap at the dj and bellowing "MEGAGETTTTTTTTTHHH" to him at the top of his lungs (i actually witnessed this one)

fibbers is good fun if you dont take the place or yourself to seriously. The best nights to go are thursday and friday for the dj's downstairs and saturdays for the gigs upstairs....its one of the few non pay to play venues, and bands can make a few quid if they're smart.

10-02-2006 12:58AM

Not the classiest of establishments ..........

EOA_Mushy · 10-02-2006 11:15PM

Place to go if you just want to get drunk and jump about & act the idiot for the odd very night.... (smelly stress relief

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The Sweeper · 10-02-2006 11:27PM

Ah Fibbers... or Fibber Magees to give it its old, full title. In the interim it's been Baccus, and a whole dose of other names...

If you want to know what Fibbers is like, look at it this way.

When I was in University, I used to go to Fibbers a lot. Every Thursday night I'd go in, play pool, drink the best part of a bottle of Jack Daniels in slow shots, and walk the 75 mins back to my college digs in DCU at about 2am.

Fridays and Saturdays I'd go if I had money, drink Jack Daniels and talk to the strange people. I loved it.

The disclaimer?

...that was THIRTEEN YEARS AGO.

Jazzy · 14-02-2006 03:55PM

the name says it all....
the ppl there sit about and "fib"

to each other for 3 hours about how great they are and how they are REALLY intellegent its just everyone else & society & george bush that hold them back.
then on the sunday they dress up as elves & medieval warriors and they like and hit each other with 100 euro rubber swords.
not kidding.... its called LARP (Live Action Role Play). nothing wrong with having a hobby, its just that there is a line that shouldnt be crossed. Fibbers is light years away from that line.

newestUser · 14-02-2006 04:37PM

Is a guy whose sig invites people to beat his "clear time" on a videogame in a position to slag off what other people do to get their kicks?

No offence Jazzy!

Jazzy wrote:

the name says it all....
then on the sunday they dress up as elves & medieval warriors and they like and hit each other with 100 euro rubber swords.
not kidding.... its called LARP (Live Action Role Play). nothing wrong with having a hobby, its just that there is a line that shouldnt be crossed. Fibbers is light years away from that line.

stevenmu · 14-02-2006 05:46PM

I've never heard of this LARP thing, but the combination of alcohol and fake swords sounds quite ingenious to me.

amazingemmet · 14-02-2006 06:02PM

stevenmu wrote:

I've never heard of this LARP thing, but the combination of alcohol and fake swords sounds quite ingenious to me.

Sounds ingenious but you can't actually hit people you just wave your sword at them, think dungeons and dragons brought just too far

Sleepy · 14-02-2006 06:17PM

Ì don't get the hostility towards the place tbh.

Sure, it's a dive. But it's a friendly dive full of wonderfully weird people, the music is generally good and the pints aren't €6 a pop.

Give me a dive with character over the polished blandness of most Dublin pubs any day of the week.

stevenmu · 14-02-2006 06:18PM

Ah, that kinda spoils it.

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