Drinking in public

Nordwind · 06-03-2009 11:55AM #1

Shame it's so frowned upon here. It'd be nice to hop on the Luas home/walk home and just have a nice cold beer.

Never going to happen though, is it?

jameshayes · 06-03-2009 11:57AM

Doesn't stop most people.

Mr Magnolia · 06-03-2009 11:57AM

No, thank god.

Wagon · 06-03-2009 11:58AM

Nah. I'm wiating for some wanker in the Dáil to suggest drinking should be banned in pubs. Sounds stupid? Well look at everything else they've done.

Corcaigh84 · 06-03-2009 11:58AM

My college days are sadly over, but I always liked walking downtown after a party with a cold beer in hand.

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And one in the back pocket

Nordwind · 06-03-2009 11:59AM

Mr Magnolia wrote: »

No, thank god.

Works well in other countries. Maybe I should replace other with better.

Puddleduck · 06-03-2009 11:59AM

Get yourself some drink, but be classy and put it in a brown paper bag, also grow a really long beard and wet yourself frequently.

See, for every problem there is a solution.

CountingCrows · 06-03-2009 12:00PM

Nordwind wrote: »

Shame it's so frowned upon here. It'd be nice to hop on the Luas home/walk home and just have a nice cold beer.

Never going to happen though, is it?

The 1st step is admitting you have a problem...

S.I.R · 06-03-2009 12:01PM

CountingCrows wrote: »

The 1st step is admitting you have a problem...

2nd is enjoying it till its frowned upon

Nordwind · 06-03-2009 12:04PM

CountingCrows wrote: »

The 1st step is admitting you have a problem...

Rarely drink. That's my problem.

stovelid · 06-03-2009 12:06PM

Nordwind wrote: »

Shame it's so frowned upon here. It'd be nice to hop on the Luas home/walk home and just have a nice cold beer.

Never going to happen though, is it?

Substitute Red Line Luas for Luas, and Dutch Gold for nice cold beer and your dream is out there, waiting for you.

Nordwind · 06-03-2009 12:08PM

This is what happens when you come back from Deutschland

stovelid · 06-03-2009 12:12PM

Nordwind wrote: »

This is what happens when you come back from Deutschland

Cheer up, Nordwind. We have to drink our beer in private, but at least our kids won't be conscripted into the Fourth Reich.

jim o doom · 06-03-2009 12:15PM

ah buses upstairs are grand for having a can on the way into town! Wouldn't probably bother on the Luas - journeys a bit too short, you would have to swallow the can fairly sharpish

matrim · 06-03-2009 12:18PM

In general it doesn't bother me but it is nice on the few sunny and warm days we have to head to a park and relax in the sun with a couple of beers

homerun_homer · 06-03-2009 12:24PM

I find it more intimidating in this country to see people on a bus/train/whatever drinking than in countries where it's allowed. Maybe because other countries I've been to don't have the reputation we have. Also, most of the time the people I see drinking on public transport are scumbags who would easily start on you.

Kintarō Hattori · 06-03-2009 12:26PM

Personally I think it's rather loutish and I can't help but think negatively about someone drinking in public.

You can drink in the pub, nightclub and at home. There's absolutely no need for you to drink in public. It looks bad and sets a bad example to our kids.

connundrum · 06-03-2009 12:28PM

If people drank responsibly in public then there'd be no problem.

Can't wait for the mayhem this Patrick's Day

Nordwind · 06-03-2009 12:50PM

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Personally I think it's rather loutish and I can't help but think negatively about someone drinking in public.

You can drink in the pub, nightclub and at home. There's absolutely no need for you to drink in public. It looks bad and sets a bad example to our kids.

Not quite sure how it sets a bad example to our kids. Think it'd be better for them to see people in suits drinking responsibly than some knackers with cans. I've seen it in other countries, countries ahead of us, and I think their kids are doing just fine.

kraggy · 06-03-2009 12:52PM

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Personally I think it's rather loutish and I can't help but think negatively about someone drinking in public.

You can drink in the pub, nightclub and at home. There's absolutely no need for you to drink in public. It looks bad and sets a bad example to our kids.

The reason it looks loutish is that the kids who are drinking in public places in this country are holding/carrying a lot of alcohol and are drinking in order to get pissed.

Whenever I'm in Berlin, I see 18/19 year olds on the U-bahn drinking, but they're only carrying one bottle. You stand in a supermarket and you see people go in to buy ONE beer to have for the walk to wherever they're going.

I firmly believe that because there are so many restrictions vis a vis opening hours and places to buy alcohol in this country, it brings out the child in us and makes us want it even more than if we had access to it all the time.

I also believe that if 24-hour off licences and pubs were introduced in this country that there would be mayhem for a while i.e. perhaps a few years, but that the next generation would be like "meh" and not be too bothered about going out and getting pissed.

Take the youth on the continent. You don't see them on the piss carrying cans and cans of cider around the streets. Even with hash in the Netherlands, very few young people smoke it.

It's because they're so readily available that teenagers there aren't bothered about making the offy in time to buy 6 bottles of buckfast.

Zangetsu · 06-03-2009 12:58PM

It would be great, many countries allow it but have VERY strict litter laws... Would only work if we introduced hefty fines for it...

Problem 1: We would piss and moan about the fines.

Problem 2: We would dispute the fines clogging up an already ****ed court system.

Problem 3: I don't think the Irish public would be responsible enough for it to work...

Oh yes and lets not forget about the drinking in public fines already in place... Haha it would actually have made more sense (and be more productive) to introduce fines for littering instead.

Silly silly government!

Quint · 06-03-2009 01:06PM

What happens if you try and have a few beers in Stephens Green these days? Would you get kicked out? I remember doing it a few times about 10 years ago with a small group of people on a sunny day and there was no problem. Loads of people seemed to be doing it.

Zangetsu · 06-03-2009 01:07PM

Quint wrote: »

What happens if you try and have a few beers in Stephens Green these days? Would you get kicked out? I remember doing it a few times about 10 years ago with a small group of people on a sunny day and there was no problem. Loads of people seemed to be doing it.

100 euro fine and your drink taken off ya...

Quint · 06-03-2009 01:12PM

Zangetsu wrote: »

100 euro fine and your drink taken off ya...

:eek:
I bet it was McDowell and the anti-fun brigade that brought in that one. Thank god he's gone, he really would have banned drink in pubs as someone said before.

Mr.Lizard · 06-03-2009 01:18PM

A lot of other cities/countries are cool about it. You can easily walk around Paris or Berlin with a bottle in your hand and no one will think twice about it.

The problem as I see it is that when you give an Irish person an alcoholic beverage they invariably overdo it and as a result turn into an anti-social idiot. If Irish people could drink alcohol responibly eg without
a) puking b) pissing against walls c) shouting in an agressive manner or d) fighting then you would find there would suddenly be no problem with people walking around the street with a beer in their hand.

BaconZombie · 06-03-2009 01:22PM

Another reason I love Berlin.

kraggy wrote: »

The reason it looks loutish is that the kids who are drinking in public places in this country are holding/carrying a lot of alcohol and are drinking in order to get pissed.

Whenever I'm in Berlin, I see 18/19 year olds on the U-bahn drinking, but they're only carrying one bottle. You stand in a supermarket and you see people go in to buy ONE beer to have for the walk to wherever they're going.

I firmly believe that because there are so many restrictions vis a vis opening hours and places to buy alcohol in this country, it brings out the child in us and makes us want it even more than if we had access to it all the time.

I also believe that if 24-hour off licences and pubs were introduced in this country that there would be mayhem for a while i.e. perhaps a few years, but that the next generation would be like "meh" and not be too bothered about going out and getting pissed.

Take the youth on the continent. You don't see them on the piss carrying cans and cans of cider around the streets. Even with hash in the Netherlands, very few young people smoke it.

It's because they're so readily available that teenagers there aren't bothered about making the offy in time to buy 6 bottles of buckfast.

connundrum wrote: »

If people drank responsibly in public then there'd be no problem.

Can't wait for the mayhem this Patrick's Day

Only found out that it was legal to drink on the underground in London after fecking Boris banned a few months ago.

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

A lot of other cities/countries are cool about it. You can easily walk around Paris or Berlin with a bottle in your hand and no one will think twice about it.

The problem as I see it is that when you give an Irish person an alcoholic beverage they invariably overdo it and as a result turn into an anti-social idiot. If Irish people could drink alcohol responibly eg without
a) puking b) pissing against walls c) shouting in an agressive manner or d) fighting then you would find there would suddenly be no problem with people walking around the street with a beer in their hand.

jimmyneo1 · 06-03-2009 01:34PM

Yeah Boris banned it last Summer, people seem to be sticking to the law as well from what I've seen.
Was one hell of a party on the Circle line on the last night though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7430133.stm

Highsider · 06-03-2009 01:46PM

Anyone who drinks a can of beer on a luas/bus/train is a lout. End of

thebigcheese22 · 06-03-2009 01:49PM

Zangetsu wrote: »

100 euro fine and your drink taken off ya...

Yup happened to me once!

Needless to say I learnt my lesson

Mr.Lizard · 06-03-2009 01:51PM

Highsider wrote: »

Anyone who drinks a can of beer on a luas/bus/train is a lout. End of

Does that include the driver?

Kiith · 06-03-2009 01:54PM

I've had a few beers in Phoenix Park while playing football before. Didnt seem loutish or antisocial or whatever. It was a hot day, we were outside, and it was a few cold drinks. Sounds good to me.

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