Off licenses closing at 10pm and nanny state

mikemac · 16-12-2010 04:22AM #1

I raised this before in Ranting & Raving forum but not a whole lot of reaction. Me, I could work a lot variable hours and may not finish until after 10pm. After a 15 hour shift I love a quiet pint or two on my own to chill but I can't do this in my own house, I'm irresponsible after all :rolleyes:

There have been nights after clearing a 15 hour shift I've had a few quiet pints on my own or chatting to the barman but again, after 10pm I cannot take drink at home as I cannot be trusted :rolleyes:

Well that's enough of the rolleyes, what say you? And neutral polling options added so don't anyone accuse me of bias

poisonated · 16-12-2010 04:31AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

I must say I would be interested to hear off Fuaranach. Why do some believe that it was a good decision?

I find it ridiculas that people can't buy a few cans after a hard days work. I know some might say that you can just stock up before hand but what if you wanted to go straight from work to a friends house for instance.

Jesus Wept · 16-12-2010 04:33AM

It gives Nannys a bad name, Nannys are great.

High energy · 16-12-2010 04:35AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

Get some drugs.

Drug dealers usually have more sociable hours.

Cook my sock · 16-12-2010 04:38AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

one of the more stupid laws ever passed.

Spunge · 16-12-2010 05:15AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

Was funny when you could buy basically class A drugs at a headshop legally until 4 in the morning but you couldn't get a can of beer after 10pm.

Mr Marston · 16-12-2010 05:24AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

You have to find yourself a decent local where they give you cans when you're leaving, regardless of time.

khmk · 16-12-2010 05:29AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

Its a joke.

Another short sighted, meaningless decision brought in by clowns trying to pander to the dicks who kept voting them in.

I mean what the fuuck is it going to solve by closing earlier?

What a load of shiite.

blah blah blah im sick of talking about it.

I can't wait for these ff supporting cuunts to die off,

I have 2 rifles and an itchy trigger finger.

can i bring these to the voting booth when the election is on?

or should i just bring a pen?

mikemac · 16-12-2010 05:36AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

khmk wrote: »

Another short sighted, meaningless decision brought in by clowns trying to pander to the dicks who kept voting them in.

Fianna Fáil, the publican party

khmk · 16-12-2010 05:40AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

ff,

cos everything feels good when you bury your head in the sand and just cling on.

Töpher · 16-12-2010 06:30AM

Stock up on booze when you're doing the shopping.

khmk · 16-12-2010 06:31AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

Töpher wrote: »

Stock up on booze when you're doing the shopping.

ok, but what if you finish work at 10pm and as an adult you want to have a drink?

jd007 · 16-12-2010 07:08AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

I do disagree with the ridiculous 10pm closing times of off licenses but if you know you're going to working a 15 hour shift and know you're going to want a drink than maybe get it before work or something?

wmpdd3 · 16-12-2010 07:15AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

stock up on thursday doing the shopping? It will be drank before saturday!

Rabies · 16-12-2010 08:35AM

khmk wrote: »

ok, but what if you finish work at 10pm and as an adult you want to have a drink?

pre plan.

Töpher · 16-12-2010 08:39AM

khmk wrote: »

ok, but what if you finish work at 10pm and as an adult you want to have a drink?

I often finish later than that, like many folks on here I do all sorts of ridiculous hours, but as a responsible adult I make sure that I keep the house well stocked.

I'm not supporting the notion of the after 10PM ban on sales of alcohol, I think it's over the top. However, so is the notion that people think you can't have a drink. You can if you either stock up when you're shopping, or if you don't trust yourself to have it lying around the house then buy it before starting your shift that finishes too late for the offie.

Cook my sock · 16-12-2010 08:42AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

Rabies wrote: »

pre plan.

why should we have to?

Caoimhín · 16-12-2010 08:52AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

Im not sure that it is the nanny as much as it is a political decision to help out the publicans. If you cant get a carry out then you have to go into a pub and pay for a extortionately priced pint.

Rabies · 16-12-2010 09:20AM

Cook my sock wrote: »

why should we have to?

because you currently can't currently buy alcohol at spur of the moment 24/7. So for now, pre plan because you have to.

Even if trading hours for off licences were extended by 2hrs to suit those that work shifts, then some poor bastard would complain he can't get alcohol when his shift finished at 1am.

gurramok · 16-12-2010 09:23AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

You're trusted to get drunk in a pub and wander the streets trying to get a taxi home but yet not trusted to behave yourself at home.

Sooner the better the FF publican party are wiped out, we'll get our democracy back!

humanji · 16-12-2010 09:40AM

I'm all for the 10pm closing as it pisses off so many people, and I'm an asshole like that.

Caoimhín · 16-12-2010 09:47AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

gurramok wrote: »

You're trusted to get drunk in a pub and wander the streets trying to get a taxi home but yet not trusted to behave yourself at home!

It has nothing to do with trust, it was introduced at the behest of the publicans who were losing business to the off-licences as people were sick of pub drink prices and were drinking at home.

Fulton Crown · 16-12-2010 10:01AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

I see those those lazy fcuks of pub owners are still at it with their latest advt for the "Dublin Pub".

Setting it up as "a grand place entirely" where your friendly mine host enquires about your wellbeing and you conduct your social life in the company of friendly "salt of the earth" types..who are only too eager to do you a good turn.

The reality is that you are most likely to encounter a sour faced barman who slings your drink at at close on 5 eurons a pint...stiffs you with "pub sized" mixers all in the company of people who would make the Rock Apes of Gibralter seem like the height of sophistication..

Someone should tell these cnunts the game is up - the worm has turned - and that they have, in the time hounoured Irish tradition

Killed the Goose that laid the Golden Egg.

Minstrel27 · 16-12-2010 10:03AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

Töpher wrote: »

I often finish later than that, like many folks on here I do all sorts of ridiculous hours, but as a responsible adult I make sure that I keep the house well stocked.

Funnily enough I am also unable to purchase alcohol at this time of the day either.

AgileMyth · 16-12-2010 10:08AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

Its mental. It serves as nothing more than an inconvenience.

Run_to_da_hills · 16-12-2010 10:11AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

At first I was totally against it however now I am beginning to see the cash saving advantages of it.

Before it was imposed I would rush off get cans last minute in the offie and pay what ever they were charging.

Since its imposition I now get them during the day with the rest of my shopping taking my time and check out special offers

dan1895 · 16-12-2010 10:25AM

Töpher wrote: »

I often finish later than that, like many folks on here I do all sorts of ridiculous hours, but as a responsible adult I make sure that I keep the house well stocked.

I'm not supporting the notion of the after 10PM ban on sales of alcohol, I think it's over the top. However, so is the notion that people think you can't have a drink. You can if you either stock up when you're shopping, or if you don't trust yourself to have it lying around the house then buy it before starting your shift that finishes too late for the offie.

I don't know about you but I'm usually not in a drinking mood when i'm on the way into work. Its something that clicks half way through the day.

the_barfly1 · 16-12-2010 10:26AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

Its a ridiculous law. If I or anybody else wants to buy a few beers from any business whose willing to sell it to me, at any hour of the day, who elses business is that?
One things for sure, if they scrapped the time constraints on off-sales in this country literally thousands of new jobs would be created overnight. Oh, but wait, i forgot, our glorious leaders dont give a crap about getting this country back to work.

Charlie3dan · 16-12-2010 10:31AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

Typical of our government. Rather than dealing with the real issue (pub prices) they impose a stupid nanny law that solves nothing and is actually an insult to our rights and the rights of an off license owner.

Some of the people calling for the after 10pm ban claimed it was to clamp down on anti-social behaviour which makes no sense and if that was reallly the case the off licenses should have been closed altogether.

But it's not the case it's just a lazy useless government. And we see this shoite from them time and again.

Töpher · 16-12-2010 11:03AM

dan1895 wrote: »

I don't know about you but I'm usually not in a drinking mood when i'm on the way into work. Its something that clicks half way through the day.

Yeah, but I make sure I have something just in case as odds are I know from experience that the day at work will drive me to it. As I said, I don't support this law at all, but folk complaining that they're being prevented from drinking is just incorrect. It's just more inconvenient.

pickarooney · 16-12-2010 11:11AM

Don't realy know, neutral vote

Think that's bad? I can't buy beer after six o'clock in my local because they sell petrol. It requires a special brand of Sarkozian logic to come up with something as ludicrous as that.

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