Calvin Muscular Wreckage wrote: » You should lighten up, have a drink maybe.
The-Rigger wrote: » Enjoy bending over for the chocobot hour.
The-Rigger wrote: » +1 for a cynical forum. :rolleyes:
Superbus wrote: » I want a rollseyes forum.
Parsley wrote: » I remember last year in UCC's old bar - where they don't sell any diageo drinks at all - everyone having their beamish at 17:59. Good times. Beamish > Guinness.
aDeener wrote: » Beamish > Guinness >>> Murphy's
Cullen82 wrote: » I think it's an effing great idea and who gives a Mary Poppins why they're organising it?! It's a bit of craic with cheap/free pints:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D On that note here's a question: If the Germans can do, Why can't we? I'm talkin about.....................GUINNESSFEST
JaxxYChicK wrote: » I find it strange that the nation would want to celebrate a man who was so vocally anti-Catholic and pro-British rule.
BASHIR wrote: » Cheap free pints your havin a laugh, had 3 tickets last year and went to it in templebar. Now i'm no city slicker but the cnuts charged us 16.50 for three pints well he nearly got them back over his head. Sorry rantin a bit there but surely as it was aurthurs day they could of lowered the prices a bit. Other than that had a great time and surely something to attract tourists and other business cant be a bad idea.
johnn wrote: » It was a great day for a few after-work drinks last year so I'm obviously happy its back again this year, got tickets for one of the venues this year, 5er is grand to pay in. What confuses me though is if its on the date of the anniversary, how is it a thursday again this year if it was a thurs last year?? or are they changing around the dates to suit them?
John_Rambo wrote: » I don't know why people think its a scam, it's a very very obvious marketing push, just like the sponsorship of tents in Oktoberfest in Germany. There are no hidden messages, no subconscious brain fooks, no evil subtle hints at anything. It's a successful marketing stunt, it's a bit of fun, it's a good night out. People like myself that went out and enjoyed the night, availed of the cheap booze, the gigs, etc are actually aware that it's a marketing stunt. I think you are a bit naive if you think you have copped on to something that no one else has. Also. Why are the people who didn't go last year the ones who think they understand it most?
DeVore wrote: » Didn't diageo try to move Guinness production out of Ireland a while back??
starviewadams wrote: » It's a bit of a joke having it again,thought the whole point was just to celebrate the anniversary last year.All it does is give the scum a free pass to drink on the streets. Remember walking through temple bar on diageo day last year at about 7pm,whole place was filled with scumbags drinking cans(and not Guinness)and bottles of alcopops or whatever,were so many of the cnuts that Garda didn't even bother trying to stop them,they just made the centra in temple bar stop selling drink. Also remember a group of fairly young teenage girls puking most of the bus journey on my way home while a load of pissed 30-40yo lads were loudly trying to chat them up.
ogriofa wrote: » So thats it? We have a Guinness day? That's pretty impressive, or are we just pushovers?
ogriofa wrote: » A music festival is a good idea, but this isnt organised by music heads that want to set up a festival and make a few quid, this is set up the marketing guys at Guinness, and that just gets under my skin.
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humanji wrote: » Because the weekend is a steady income earner for the Vintners and so they wouldn't want to short themselves. They can make more money by keeping weekend drinking and a mid-week drinking day.
humanji wrote: » Marketing by it's very nature is a scam. It's telling people that it's to celebrate Arthur Guinness, but it's not. It's to make them more money. That sounds like a scam to me.
humanji wrote: » I was at it last year (although I don't drink Diageo stuff) and I had a great time
topper75 wrote: » This is why Finland has Nokia and Ireland has NAMA. Problems with reality? Financial difficulty? No worries. Just get drunk. You wouldn't be Irish if you didn't.
snuggles285 wrote: » To Authur!
