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"Arthur's Day" - historic celebration or cynical corporate opportunism by Diageo?

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  • #32
    aDeener
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭aDeener


    Biggins wrote: »
    Thats about it summed up nicely.
    It was mildly irritating the first time around - now its just a revenue pulling in tool.

    you say that as if the first one wasn't


  • #33
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    aDeener wrote: »
    you say that as if the first one wasn't
    True.
    At least then it was a new novel idea - now its just another more blatant, annoying, repetitive gimmick.

    Aaa... sure we are all sheep, we will all fall for it.


  • #34
    christina_x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭christina_x


    God some people are awful serious. If you want to go, have a bit of craic with your friends and shout "to martha" then do it. If its not your thing or you wouldnt enjoy it, dont go. No point complaining about those who will go/won't go.


  • #35
    samsemtex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 935 ✭✭✭samsemtex


    Biggins wrote: »
    True.
    At least then it was a new novel idea - now its just another more blatant, annoying, repetitive gimmick.

    Aaa... sure we are all sheep, we will all fall for it.

    Well dont go out if you are so against it. Of course its a marketing ploy. Its a very good one. Who cares though? At the end of the day its a very cheap night out and i will be able to drink my favourite beverage for a much lower price than normal. Its mainly going to be students out on a thursday anyway so I dont see the issue.

    Cynical marketing you say. I'm all for it.


  • #36
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Thankfully it seemed to be mainly be **** and posers who participated in this event last year. Hopefully that will mean a death to it within the next couple of years.


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  • #37
    Ledger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Ledger


    TO LLAMA'S!


    just kidding, i do think it's a bit ridiculous.

    But i have a funny story bout Arthur's day last year, i was in the college bar in WIT watching a hypnotist, it was the day before Arthur's Day, and one of the volunteer's on stage was named Arthur. . . . . . . . . . Bar full of pissed students. . . . . . .


    i think you know what happened.


  • #38
    karlog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭karlog


    weiland79 wrote: »
    YES YES THIS!!!

    What the hell is wrong with you people, who cares if it's a cynical marketing ploy on the part of Guinness. 2.50 per pint = bring 20 euros out and be half cut by 10 o'clock. Happy days.

    Ugh but then i'd have to drink guinness.


  • #39
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    What happens if you decide to drink the cheaper Beamish/Murphys instead as an up yours to Diageo for ripping us off? :)


  • #40
    EuskalHerria
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭EuskalHerria


    rarnes1 wrote: »
    €2.50 a pint in most pubs Galway this thursday.

    Can't go wrong :D
    Are pints not being advertised as €2.51? I seen this last night in Galway anyway.


  • #41
    karlog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭karlog


    EuskalHerria wrote: »
    Are pints not being advertised as €2.51? I seen this last night in Galway anyway.

    That's fookin typical. I don't want any fookin coppers as change when getting a pint. What happened to 2.50? Hand in 5 euro get a 2 euro coin and a 50cent coin back. Now i'm gonna get a fookin 2 euro coin, a 20c coin, another 20c coin, a 5c coin and two fookin 2c coins as change. That's best case scenario aswell. Fookin hell.


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  • #42
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,581 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    Stupid annoying advertising


  • #43
    James Forde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭James Forde


    pints for 2.50 is only on for a limited time only too, 5-7

    a big load of bollócks the whole thing


  • #44
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    gurramok wrote: »
    What happens if you decide to drink the cheaper Beamish/Murphys instead as an up yours to Diageo for ripping us off? :)

    You'll be taken out back and shot for being a party-pooper.


  • #45
    EuskalHerria
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭EuskalHerria


    karlog wrote: »
    That's fookin typical. I don't want any fookin coppers as change when getting a pint. What happened to 2.50? Hand in 5 euro get a 2 euro coin and a 50cent coin back. Now i'm gonna get a fookin 2 euro coin, a 20c coin, another 20c coin, a 5c coin and two fookin 2c coins as change. That's best case scenario aswell. Fookin hell.
    I'm not certain but I seen it in two places so assumed that it was the general case.


  • #46
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    €2.51 for a pint in Tipperary

    I'd imagine it's the same elsewhere


  • #47
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    I couldn't give a flying f*ck about Arthurs day, pints of stout or promotional live music....but the tight bastards in Diageo marketing could at least have shelled out for a new TV advert and dropped the "to Martha" sh*te...
    Guiness ads used to be the stuff of legend.


  • #48
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    The latter. And Guinness is muck.


  • #49
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Personally I think the add campaign is aimed at re-enforcing the fun and easy going relaxed social element of drinking. Which is why its set in a series of festivites...

    What about all those other ads out there for WKD for example which promotes it's drinkers as anoyying trouble making twats?


  • #50
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Dravokivich wrote: »

    What about all those other ads out there for WKD for example which promotes it's drinkers as anoyying trouble making twats?

    Telling it like it is?


  • #51
    me-skywalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭me-skywalker


    gurramok wrote: »
    What happens if you decide to drink the cheaper Beamish/Murphys instead as an up yours to Diageo for ripping us off? :)

    The same, you'll get drunk.

    Anyway I dont see why people are so bothered when im in the pub or clubs I sometimes look aroudn to see the Guinness drinkeres as I enjoy it my self the odd time. Mostly older people or the young hipsters who pretend to be in a band. At least when im drinking it, Im real man! Im real! I swear :p


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  • #52
    darragh16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭darragh16


    feelingstressed wrote: »
    €2.51 for a pint in Tipperary

    I'd imagine it's the same elsewhere

    The effort of that, could they not just leave it at 2.50?


  • #53
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Yay its nearly Arthurs Day.:D


  • #54
    alex73
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,729 ✭✭✭alex73


    Cress wrote: »
    And besides, wasn't there already an "Arthur's Day" earlier this year?

    All companies will do anything (legal) to make money..... are you honestly surprised..

    Personally I had guinness,, so could not care a less what they do.


  • #55
    blubloblu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭blubloblu


    I noticed Dublin city council have their logo on the arthurs day ads flying on the flags along the Liffey (usually reserved for DCC events). Why is the local government sponsoring an alcoholic company?


  • #56
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    We need another bank/national holiday, I think this would be a good one. why not sure?

    makes a change from backwards religious ones


  • #57
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    We need another bank holiday, I think this would be a good one. why not sure?

    makes a change from backwards religious ones

    Bank holidays have nothing to do with religion.


  • #58
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Bank holidays have nothing to do with religion.

    fixed;)


  • #59
    McDougal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 583 ✭✭✭McDougal


    Corporations control almost every aspect of our lives so it's only logical that they will also try to determine when and why we celebrate.


  • #60
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    McDougal wrote: »
    Corporations control almost every aspect of our lives so it's only logical that they will also try to determine when and why we celebrate.


    You might be exagerating there, just a teeny bit.


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  • #61
    McDougal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 583 ✭✭✭McDougal


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    You might be exagerating there, just a teeny bit.

    Not really

    They decide what products and services are produced, they decided how our labour is used, they decide what we learn in schools and universities, they decide what should be considered attractive or sexy, they decide what we should wear


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