Bringing your own alcohol to pubs!

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I have done previously - I have also brought crisps into the pub though.

Would you sneak into a movie without paying or bring your own flask of coffee into a coffee shop and order a sandwich?

I have in the past left one theatre and walked into a another so two for the price of one films.

I dont see how that affects the cinemas revenue i wasnt going to pay for the second film and the seat was empty anyway so they didnt lose revenue they just didnt make any extra!

When i was a youngster and attending school in a certain area close to the city centre we would often spend our lunches sitting in mcdonalds or cafes eating food we had not purchased there although one of my friedns would have!

I often bring my own drink out with me. Like a naggin in my bag or whatever. And this is coming from someone who's Father owns/runs a bar..meh!

Roselyn Hundreds Train wrote: »

I don't like drinking at home, I go out drink pints in a pub, go to a club pay in and buy mixers, then use my own drink a bit and then probably buy at least 2 drinks there. I'm happy enough with doing this and it means I can have a slightly cheaper night than by pay the crazy drink prices all night in a club.

It's not about what you're 'happy enough' about. You still haven't invited me round to cook in your gaff yet, I notice!

Roselyn Hundreds Train wrote: »

I doubt very much it is putting anybody out of a job as I may be bending the rules but I'm still putting as much money in the pocket of the owner as a non-drinker or someone who drinks very little.

There's a bigger mark-up on mixers, generally. Publicans would be delighted I'm sure to have a bar full of non-drinkers supping coffee and cola, and not have to deal with the vomit, the fights, the legal ramifications and all the other nonsense that comes with people who, like you, feel some compelling need to get smashed when they go out.

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Personally, I don't eat in cinemas at all. If I want food, I'll cook or go to a restaurant.
You're there to see the movie. That's why I go.
Few things more annoying than some gormless fattie mindlessly shovelling handfuls of sh!te down their neck throughout a film, rustling the packets and slurping like a toothless granny.
It's about as inconsiderate, ignorant and selfish as the tightarses who sneak gargle into pubs, in my opinion.

Well the cinema probably doesnt want you there then, as far as I know one of their main streams of revenue is drink and beverages as they get high profit margins fromt hese and less from ticket sales.

Before anyone says something like a cinemas main objective is to show films, I call shenanigans!

A cinema is a business and a business's main objective is turn a profit everything else is just there to help them turn a profit!

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Personally, I don't eat in cinemas at all. If I want food, I'll cook or go to a restaurant.
You're there to see the movie. That's why I go.
Few things more annoying than some gormless fattie mindlessly shovelling handfuls of sh!te down their neck throughout a film, rustling the packets and slurping like a toothless granny.
It's about as inconsiderate, ignorant and selfish as the tightarses who sneak gargle into pubs, in my opinion.

Your opinion is wrong though. If you weren't supposed to eat in the cinema then the cinema wouldn't sell food in their premises.

If you have a problem with other people perhaps you should invest in a home cinema system or only go to see films in the IFI.

Cavehill Red wrote: »

It's not like you don't have options. You could:
a) drink less - something most Irish people should usefully consider
b) drink before you go out
c) drink at home
You don't have to drink in a bar or nightclub. You don't even have to go to them. But when you cross their doors, you've agreed to abide by their rules, one of which is quite reasonably that you don't bring your own drink in.

Nice law-abiding people who aren't insistent on getting out of their minds pished? If only every bar was full of them! (And I bet most bar staff would agree with that too.)

Like I said, you have other options. Stay at home and drink your head off there, for example. But this intrigues me: explain to me how the bar should feck off when you're the one coming to them? Maybe you should be the one fecking off.

I don't like drinking at home and dont want to start the night drinking spirits I like to drink pints in a pub, go to a club pay in and buy mixers, then use my own drink a bit and then probably buy at least 2 drinks there. I'm happy enough with doing this and it means I can have a slightly cheaper night than by paying the crazy drink prices all night in a club.

I doubt very much it is putting anybody out of a job as I may be bending the rules but I'm still putting as much money in the pocket of the owner as a non-drinker or someone who drinks very little.

RobbieTheRobber wrote: »

Ok but you do bring food to the cinema when usually the specifically prohibit you doing so.

I have done previously - I have also brought crisps into the pub though.

Would you sneak into a movie without paying or bring your own flask of coffee into a coffee shop and order a sandwich?

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Personally, I don't eat in cinemas at all. If I want food, I'll cook or go to a restaurant.
You're there to see the movie. That's why I go.
Few things more annoying than some gormless fattie mindlessly shovelling handfuls of sh!te down their neck throughout a film, rustling the packets and slurping like a toothless granny.
It's about as inconsiderate, ignorant and selfish as the tightarses who sneak gargle into pubs, in my opinion.

Well dont you seem very friendly!

Personally, I don't eat in cinemas at all. If I want food, I'll cook or go to a restaurant.
You're there to see the movie. That's why I go.
Few things more annoying than some gormless fattie mindlessly shovelling handfuls of sh!te down their neck throughout a film, rustling the packets and slurping like a toothless granny.
It's about as inconsiderate, ignorant and selfish as the tightarses who sneak gargle into pubs, in my opinion.

AnonoBoy wrote: »

But I don't bring my own movies.

Ok but you do bring food to the cinema when usually the specifically prohibit you doing so.

RobbieTheRobber wrote: »

So thats a yes the is it?

But I don't bring my own movies.

AnonoBoy wrote: »

A pub's primary purpose is serving alcohol, a cinema's is showing movies.

They may make a killing on the popcorn but if they took away the movies nobody would be there, much like if a pub took away the booze, it'd just be a coffee shop.

So thats a yes the is it?

RobbieTheRobber wrote: »

To those who say you should never bring drink to a pub can i ask ye, have you ever brought food to a cinema?

A pub's primary purpose is serving alcohol, a cinema's is showing movies.

They may make a killing on the popcorn but if they took away the movies nobody would be there, much like if a pub took away the booze, it'd just be a coffee shop.

To those who say you should never bring drink to a pub can i ask ye, have you ever brought food to a cinema?

Roselyn Hundreds Train wrote: »

Ah come on if I spent 40euro in a night club instead of 80euro its hardly like Im only leaving crumbs.

It's not like you don't have options. You could:
a) drink less - something most Irish people should usefully consider
b) drink before you go out
c) drink at home
You don't have to drink in a bar or nightclub. You don't even have to go to them. But when you cross their doors, you've agreed to abide by their rules, one of which is quite reasonably that you don't bring your own drink in.

Roselyn Hundreds Train wrote: »

What about someone not drinking and only have a soft drink or two, they would spend less than someone who brings in their own drinks, buys the mixers and maybe has a few additional drinks. Should non-drinkers stay at home too?

Nice law-abiding people who aren't insistent on getting out of their minds pished? If only every bar was full of them! (And I bet most bar staff would agree with that too.)

Roselyn Hundreds Train wrote: »

There are also plenty of nights where I would not bring my own drink and leave large sums of cash behind the bar so they can feck off tbh, I will bring my own from time to time to make my night a bit cheaper.

Like I said, you have other options. Stay at home and drink your head off there, for example. But this intrigues me: explain to me how the bar should feck off when you're the one coming to them? Maybe you should be the one fecking off.

Cavehill Red wrote: »

I take it you wouldn't mind if I came around your gaff and used your kitchen then hung out in your living room all evening?
I'll leave you a wee bit of food. That way you're still better off than if I didn't come around at all.
Bottom line: it's scabby, poor form, and it does cost jobs. And as previously stated by another poster, the barstaff are liable for your pissed-up ass whether they served you the drink or whether you were hiding in the jacks supping Mundies out of your shoe like an alkie.

Ah come on if I spend 40euro in a night club instead of 80euro its hardly like Im only leaving crumbs.

What about someone not drinking and only have a soft drink or two, they would spend less than someone who brings in their own drinks, buys the mixers and maybe has a few additional drinks. Should non-drinkers stay at home too?

There are also plenty of nights where I would not bring my own drink and leave large sums of cash behind the bar so they can feck off tbh, I will bring my own from time to time to make my night a bit cheaper.

Roselyn Hundreds Train wrote: »

Thats rubbish in fairness, for a start this is most often done in night clubs which have a cover charge anyway, also 95% of people who bring their own drink staill buy the mixer and probably have a drink or two as well (at least) so the bar is still better off than if the person was at home.

I take it you wouldn't mind if I came around your gaff and used your kitchen then hung out in your living room all evening?
I'll leave you a wee bit of food. That way you're still better off than if I didn't come around at all.
Bottom line: it's scabby, poor form, and it does cost jobs. And as previously stated by another poster, the barstaff are liable for your pissed-up ass whether they served you the drink or whether you were hiding in the jacks supping Mundies out of your shoe like an alkie.

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Cannot understand people doing this.
They surely see the direct correlation between them using premises for free and costing other people their jobs, but are not only tight but also ignorant enough not to care about that.

Thats rubbish in fairness, for a start this is most often done in night clubs which have a cover charge anyway, also 95% of people who bring their own drink staill buy the mixer and probably have a drink or two as well (at least) so the bar is still better off than if the person was at home.

Cannot understand people doing this.
They surely see the direct correlation between them using premises for free and costing other people their jobs, but are not only tight but also ignorant enough not to care about that.
If you can afford the offie prices, then you can afford to drink in a bar, just less often. Or you could drink your offie drink at home. Socialise there, with your mates if you're all that tight-fisted.
I remember a hammered lad years ago in a bar on Dame Street going up to the barman and asking 'Do you serve Dutch Gold?'
The barman laughed and said of course not.
Hammered boy produces pint glass full of suds in one hand and can of Dutch Gold in the other and says 'You do now!'
Straight out the door, but even the bouncer was roaring laughing.

GavRedKing

What I generally do is drink at home, bring some in with me and spend some money in there, everyone is happy then, especially me

It's a really scabby student thing to do. I didn't even do it when I was a scabby student because I had a modicum of self-respect.

The auld self-respect is long gone now but at least I have a bit of cash to hide behind instead.

starbelgrade wrote: »

Did she also work as budgetary advisor in the public sector?

What?

Run_to_da_hills

Yawns wrote: »

@Paislee Obedient Venom

Usually it's the idiots that get caught. Generally they come to the bar and ask for a coke but can they have 2 glasses of ice with it? Or just ask for 2 glass with ice on their own. It's pretty obvious. If the bar is quiet a quick stroll by their table usually shows em with their naggin held low filling their glasses.

Que an embarrasing departure in front of their friends.

That would be too obvious, someone that tight not to buy the first two deserves to be caught, to do this game right you need to splash out some money.

Bring their glass into the jacks, have one of these in your pocket and it would be very difficult to detect.

Only a very observent bar manager could detect the continuity of the drink held in the suspects glass, ie the that the level of drink rises or stays the same through out the night, he could then fit a CCTV cam in the jacks to nab the culprit.

Yawns

@Paislee Obedient Venom

Usually it's the idiots that get caught. Generally they come to the bar and ask for a coke but can they have 2 glasses of ice with it? Or just ask for 2 glass with ice on their own. It's pretty obvious. If the bar is quiet a quick stroll by their table usually shows em with their naggin held low filling their glasses.

Que an embarrasing departure in front of their friends.