Can't BELIEEEEVVVVVVEEE I can't buy a pint on Good Friday!!

DarkJager · 27-03-2013 02:16PM

CarrickMcJoe wrote: »

Here we go again, pubs are closing all over the country cause no one goes in and now, the one day they are closed, everyone wants to drink.
Go on Saturday.

Or cross the border.

Couldn't give a **** about the pubs, it's the off licences that bother me. I'm a taxpaying adult of this country and the fact that my option to buy drink if I choose too on this day, is being restricted by the traditions of a pedo cult really irritates the **** out of me.

HondaSami · 27-03-2013 02:17PM

Vex Willems wrote: »

NOOOOO! Not tomorrow as well???? :eek::eek:

It's Holy Thursday one more day will not kill us.

dlofnep · 27-03-2013 02:18PM

I'm in between two minds.

One - the people who feel that they "must" drink when it's banned. You'll live, seriously!

Two - the idea that religious superstition can dictate our laws.

Which irks me more?

Dave! · 27-03-2013 02:19PM

I do drink BTW, I just mod that forum due to historical happenstance...

anncoates · 27-03-2013 02:20PM

dlofnep wrote: »

Which irks me more?

Running out of beer Friday evening.

maddbollox · 27-03-2013 02:25PM

Get to your local greyhound stadium. According to the local paper there is some legal loophole so their bars are open.

Bipolar Joe · 27-03-2013 02:25PM

dlofnep wrote: »

I'm in between two minds.

One - the people who feel that they "must" drink when it's banned. You'll live, seriously!

Two - the idea that religious superstition can dictate our laws.

Which irks me more?

I think they "Must" drink partly out of rebellion, partly because why not? Personally, it pisses me off that a club I'm not a part of is allowed to tell me what I can and can't do. It's like Girl Scouts not letting me have biscuits on 25th of June, because something something. Letting a religious house dictate what happens in mine is aggravating, and then having that be a law is just outright wrong.

HondaSami · 27-03-2013 02:26PM

I don't drink and could not care less if the pubs are open or closed, people can stock up on beer but really how much will everyone drink on Friday?
It's not such a big deal is it?

anncoates · 27-03-2013 02:27PM

A lot of the time people are off work on the day; it's the first day of a four-day weekend and there's often a lot of parties so it actually often ends up being a day that people do need drink, in a weird way.

CarrickMcJoe · 27-03-2013 02:29PM

DarkJager wrote: »

Couldn't give a **** about the pubs, it's the off licences that bother me. I'm a taxpaying adult of this country and the fact that my option to buy drink if I choose too on this day, is being restricted by the traditions of a pedo cult really irritates the **** out of me.

Buy it on thursday then, problem solved.

DarkJager · 27-03-2013 02:30PM

CarrickMcJoe wrote: »

Buy it on thursday then, problem solved.

Why should I? If I want to buy drink on the Friday instead, what gives that disgusting cult any right to impose a ban on me doing so?

Yitzhak Rabin · 27-03-2013 02:30PM

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

I think they "Must" drink partly out of rebellion, partly because why not? Personally, it pisses me off that a club I'm not a part of is allowed to tell me what I can and can't do. It's like Girl Scouts not letting me have biscuits on 25th of June, because something something. Letting a religious house dictate what happens in mine is aggravating, and then having that be a law is just outright wrong.

Are 84% of people in the girl scouts? Has not eating biscuits on the 25th of June a cultural tradition in this country?

You're not being oppressed because you can't get ossified in public one day of the year.

invincibl3 · 27-03-2013 02:32PM

DarkJager wrote: »

Why should I? If I want to buy drink on the Friday instead, what gives that disgusting cult any right to impose a ban on me doing so?

Sadly, the disgusting, child-molesting, women-imprisoning, cult you mention stills holds great sway over this corrupt little statelet of ours.

"84%!!" is the stock answer from the let's put-innocent-women-and-children into concentration camps because the sky fairy told me so supporters when one questions them as to why this supposed republic of ours enforces their silly superstitions.

Bipolar Joe · 27-03-2013 02:33PM

On a side note, it also aggravates me that the usual response is "Buy it on Thursday." Why should I HAVE to? What any Church prefers has nothing to do with me, so forcing me to subscribe to it by law is fascist. It has nothing to do with wanting to drink, it's more the principal, and it depresses me that in my life time, we seem to have come so far from the Church run state we were to people who just roll over because we were told to by someone else. You've substituted the Church for Government, which makes laws based on what the Church wants, which is worse.

SunnyDub1 · 27-03-2013 02:34PM

While the Op is more than likely taking the pis*, this actually really bothers some people that the pubs/off licenses don't open :rolleyes:

It's ONE day of the whole year and you'll still have people, that will moan and give out about how ridiculous it is and they will be seen stocking up on beers the night before like there is gonna be an alcohol drought, so they can have their "much needed" beers at home, in a field, at a Friends, by the liffey :cool:

Yitzhak Rabin · 27-03-2013 02:34PM

invincibl3 wrote: »

Sadly, the disgusting, child-molesting, women-imprisoning, cult you mention stills holds great sway over this corrupt little statelet of ours.

Yeah dude. Its like we're living in North Korea, except worse because its a church that has a complete stranglehold on every aspect of our life :mad:

ejmaztec · 27-03-2013 02:35PM

HondaSami wrote: »

I don't drink and could not care less if the pubs are open or closed, people can stock up on beer but really how much will everyone drink on Friday?
It's not such a big deal is it?

It's a big deal for church bashers, which was why this thread was started in the first place.

Cienciano · 27-03-2013 02:35PM

DarkJager wrote: »

Couldn't give a **** about the pubs, it's the off licences that bother me. I'm a taxpaying adult of this country and the fact that my option to buy drink if I choose too on this day, is being restricted by the traditions of a pedo cult really irritates the **** out of me.

It's really bizarre when you think about it. I was in Aldi last week and some woman was buying food for sunday dinner. Included a bottle of wine. It was 12:10 in the afternoon.
The woman behind the checkout said she wasn't allowed to buy the wine because it wasn't half 12 yet.

Neadine · 27-03-2013 02:35PM

HondaSami wrote: »

No drink sold tomorrow anywhere.

But tomorrow is Thursday, and not necessarily a good one.

Bipolar Joe · 27-03-2013 02:36PM

Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »

Are 84% of people in the girl scouts? Has not eating biscuits on the 25th of June a cultural tradition in this country?

You're not being oppressed because you can't get ossified in public one day of the year.

Way to deliberately misinterpret AND make assumptions all in one go. A+, no need to try harder.

I don't want to get "Ossified in public." I mightn't mind having a couple of cans at home. I used a Girl Scout example because it's something I'm clearly not a part of, and the concept of allowing them to dictate what I can and can't do is absurd, just as the Church does, only clearer for people to understand because there's no religious affiliation.

Boombastic · 27-03-2013 02:38PM

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

On a side note, it also aggravates me that the usual response is "Buy it on Thursday." Why should I HAVE to? What any Church prefers has nothing to do with me, so forcing me to subscribe to it by law is fascist. It has nothing to do with wanting to drink, it's more the principal, and it depresses me that in my life time, we seem to have come so far from the Church run state we were to people who just roll over because we were told to by someone else. You've substituted the Church for Government, which makes laws based on what the Church wants, which is worse.

I like a smoke of cannabis, but the fascist laws in this country supported by neo-fascists say I can't :mad:

:pac:

blackbird98 · 27-03-2013 02:38PM

HondaSami wrote: »

No drink sold tomorrow anywhere.

Buy as much drink as you like tomorrow!!! :-)

invincibl3 · 27-03-2013 02:39PM

Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »

Yeah dude. Its like we're living in North Korea, except worse because its a church that has a complete stranglehold on every aspect of our life :mad:

Nah we're worse then that:eek: you can buy rice wine in N Korea every day of the year!

Duggys Housemate · 27-03-2013 02:40PM

DarkJager wrote: »

Why should I? If I want to buy drink on the Friday instead, what gives that disgusting cult any right to impose a ban on me doing so?

Why are you off Friday and Monday again?

Cienciano · 27-03-2013 02:40PM

Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »

Are 84% of people in the girl scouts? Has not eating biscuits on the 25th of June a cultural tradition in this country?

You're not being oppressed because you can't get ossified in public one day of the year.

No one is saying they're being oppressed, and your 84% of people being catholic is búllshíte. If 51% of our population were muslim should we have sharia law? No. We live in a republic where religion shouldn't dictate law. If you're catholic and don't want to drink on good friday, don't drink. Simple as.

CarrickMcJoe · 27-03-2013 02:40PM

blackbird98 wrote: »

Buy as much drink as you like tomorrow!!! :-)

No, apparently there are some people who insist on wanting to buy it on friday.

Boombastic · 27-03-2013 02:42PM

CarrickMcJoe wrote: »

No, apparently there are some people who insist on wanting to buy it on friday.

It's an infringement on their human rights that they have to shop a different day

ejmaztec · 27-03-2013 02:43PM

CarrickMcJoe wrote: »

No, apparently there are some people who insist on wanting to buy it on friday.

They should save their money and put it towards a new liver.

Duggys Housemate · 27-03-2013 02:44PM

The Irish "radicals" who want to drink 356 days of the year are back again, looking forward to a 3 or 4 day weekend which caters to a "pedo cult" but annoyed beyond reason that they can't drink on one of those days because of a " pedo cult. "

Lads. You don't have to drink every Friday despite the Irish group think and if you do , buy Thursday.

humbert · 27-03-2013 02:45PM

The way the supermarkets are stocking up you'd think Christmas was approaching.

Can't BELIEEEEVVVVVVEEE I can't buy a pint on Good Friday!!

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