Walking through Dublin at 2am on a saturday night sober...

08-09-2013 09:10AM

TommiesTank wrote: »

Sums up the typical Irish attitude to alcohol, even if you are joking.

Ah sure be grand!

Considering I'm the designated driver today on a booze cruise I think I can make that joke :P

(No I don't get to drive the boat, boooooooo)

wp_rathead · 08-09-2013 09:21AM

Czarcasm wrote: »

I want to go drinking with you DLH because I've been drinking Guinness nigh on 17 years now (started off on bulmers cider, jesus that stuff rots you! I got sick of getting sick after it), and I've definitely noticed the quality of the Guinness where one time they used say there was eating and drinking in it, sure it was an acquired taste, but when you got a good pint with a good thick head on it, ohh I'm salivating as I type this, the taste was delicious... but now? Now, with all their fcuking about with the formula ever since Diageo took over, Guinness has become like just black budweiser, with an equally thin head on top.

It's rare you'll find a good pint nowadays with all their extra cold and mid strength nonsense to try and make Guinness appealing to a trendy youth. If they'd left it alone far more young people would be drinking it and we wouldn't need all this Martha's day marketing shìte!

Anyway, 2 o clock in the morning OP is not the time to be getting all philosophical about humanity when walking home after the club, you're naturally gonna notice you stick out like a sore thumb, you're sober for christ sake! It's classic "in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king".

come to Galway Czar
im very fussy with my Guinness and loads great pints here:
Neachtains
O'Connells
McSwiggans (only 3 euro aswell)

my local out in Connemara has the nicest, creamiest pint of Guinness you could wish for - should nearly come with a spoon!

...think i may have brought this thread offtopic ha

ButtersSuki · 08-09-2013 09:25AM

up for anything wrote: »

There isn't enough alcohol in Ireland to drink Irish men handsome. (lol)

We obviously haven't met then. Yet.

Seaneh · 08-09-2013 09:38AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

An acquired taste as they say. It you give it a chance you will develop a palate for it. It's a real drink imo, the smoothness and texture not piss water in a glass like a lot of the Lagers.

Guinness is a pretty mediocre beer in reality. Its one of the most tasteless stouts on the market. A step up from Bud and Heineken but not much more than than.

Boring, tasteless, nitrogen delivered, mass produced MEH.

Seaneh · 08-09-2013 09:39AM

MadsL wrote: »

Guinness Foreign Export.

No need to thank me.

Much better beer too.

wp_rathead · 08-09-2013 09:40AM

Seaneh wrote: »

Guinness is a pretty mediocre beer in reality. Its one of the most tasteless stouts on the market. A step up from Bud and Heineken but not much more than than.

Boring, tasteless, nitrogen delivered, mass produced MEH.

...you Irish passport has been revoked..

:pac:

MurdyWurdy · 08-09-2013 09:44AM

Technically 2am is Sunday morning not Saturday night

/buzz killington

I have been out sober a few times when pregnant and yes, it's very strange to see everyone else so ****ed up, even though I always left at 11ish. From the outside it does look like a monumental waste of time but when you're doing it it's a good laugh

Seaneh · 08-09-2013 09:45AM

wprathead wrote: »

...you Irish passport has been revoked..

:pac:

Because I Don't fawn over a British owned product produced by a company founded by a loyalist family who despised the Irish and didn't employ catholics beyond medial jobs until just a few decades ago and only started their "Oirish" marketing when it became "cool" in the UK and US to be Irish?

That's a bit silly really.

Czarcasm · 08-09-2013 10:01AM

Seaneh wrote: »

Because I Don't fawn over a British owned product produced by a company founded by a loyalist family who despised the Irish and didn't employ catholics beyond medial jobs until just a few decades ago and only started their "Oirish" marketing when it became "cool" in the UK and US to be Irish?

That's a bit silly really.

Take a seat there on that stool and I'll deal with you in a minute...

Are we right there people please, c'mon lads, take it outside, outside now lads, c'mon!

:pac:

wp_rathead · 08-09-2013 10:11AM

Seaneh wrote: »

Because I Don't fawn over a British owned product produced by a company founded by a loyalist family who despised the Irish and didn't employ catholics beyond medial jobs until just a few decades ago and only started their "Oirish" marketing when it became "cool" in the UK and US to be Irish?

That's a bit silly really.

chill, was joke
..you're not a morning person, are you?

silverharp · 08-09-2013 10:13AM

there are just too many people in this country that embrace bog trotting and skanger "culture"

whiskeyman · 08-09-2013 10:15AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

There's places still around the country who serve a good old fashioned pint of plain. If you're Dublin based I'd recommend Mulligans on Poolbeg St, McDaids just off Grafton and O'Neills on Suffolk.

wprathead wrote: »

come to Galway Czar
im very fussy with my Guinness and loads great pints here:
Neachtains
O'Connells
McSwiggans (only 3 euro aswell)

Only in Ireland would a thread started about the negative impact of alcohol on society include recommendations of good pubs...

ButtersSuki · 08-09-2013 10:17AM

Recent Beer and Lager stats showed the Top 3 brands in Ireland (Heineken, Carlsberg and Budweiser) account for 87%+ of on trade sales. I'd imagine that nowhere else in the world would produce a similar figure? All three are very bland, generic, mass produced and heavily marketed lagers which offer little to the consumer. All three are circa 4.5% ABV.

Thrown in Coors Light with it's approx 6%+ share and that really doesn't speak well for consumer choice does it?

So basically 93%+ of the lager we consume in pubs and clubs is broadly the same average at best product (though heavily marketed).

The remaining 7%? Price fighters like Tuborg, Tennants, Carling, Molson Canadian etc. and World Beers that taste great but the average Irish person doesn't seen to be able to drink as the ABV goes over 5%.

The off trade is not hugely dis-similar but fluctuates depending on what's on offer at any time as it is hugely price driven.

And we think we're a nation of drinkers? In volume maybe,but certainly not knowledgable or discerning.

Crooked Jack · 08-09-2013 10:18AM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Nothing I love more than being stone cold sober in a crowd of drunken revellers I've perfected my drunk act over the years so no one ever realises I'm not actually one of them

Im sure youre a lovely person but i hate non drinkers on a night out. To be fair, i've tried it myself a few times and i dont know how you can stand it either. there should be a special room in a pub for designated drivers to stay in until its time to go home

Crooked Jack · 08-09-2013 10:21AM

silverharp wrote: »

there are just too many people in this country that embrace bog trotting and skanger "culture"

Could you define bog trotting and skabger culture because it sounds like youre just condemning everyone who isnt an upper middle class snob. any chance your father works at KPMG

Jhcx · 08-09-2013 10:24AM

As my Physics teacher used to say. Are you mad Man, What possessed you to do that?

red_bairn · 08-09-2013 10:24AM

mutley18 wrote: »

Did it once, never again, it is too intimidating, I would much rather just drink the poison and transform into one of them!

lol. Your comment reminded me of the scene in warm bodies where she pretended to be a zombie.

omahaid · 08-09-2013 10:45AM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

And we think we're a nation of drinkers? In volume maybe,but certainly not knowledgable or discerning.

Indeed, I drink only Närke Cask-Conditioned Stormaktsporter or Nøgne Ø AkuAku Lemongrass Ale. Now, I don't drink anything as uncouth as pints. I only drink it from 173ml Botanical Glasses and only once a year.

languagenerd · 08-09-2013 11:27AM

Crooked Jack wrote: »

Im sure youre a lovely person but i hate non drinkers on a night out. To be fair, i've tried it myself a few times and i dont know how you can stand it either. there should be a special room in a pub for designated drivers to stay in until its time to go home

Honestly, I think that says more about you than the non-drinkers. And it's attitudes like that that make non-drinkers feel like they constantly have to prove themselves and be almost apologetic for not drinking, which is pretty ridiculous when you think about it.

I don't drink because I, personally, just don't like it. I don't care what's in anyone else's glass, so why should they care what's in mine?

(*Now, if you're talking about people who constantly go on about not drinking, fine. But most of us are not like that. I go out as much as or more than some of my drinking friends, I try out new bars and clubs, I travel, I go to as many gigs a year as I can and I will get up and dance with everyone else. If I was judging drinkers or hated alcohol, why would I go to places where I know I'd be surrounded by it?)

silverharp · 08-09-2013 11:33AM

Crooked Jack wrote: »

Could you define bog trotting and skabger culture because it sounds like youre just condemning everyone who isnt an upper middle class snob. any chance your father works at KPMG

the type of people that if you dropped them in Tokyo theyd go around looking to buy a hang-sandwich. Im sorry but if you travelled a bit you would know there is a difference between a city in say Switzerland and Dublin or Cork. And you only have to follow the stories of how the Irish are a disgrace in Australia to know there is a strong knacker element in Irish society.

Dyr · 08-09-2013 12:12PM

silverharp wrote: »

the type of people that if you dropped them in Tokyo theyd go around looking to buy a hang-sandwich. Im sorry but if you travelled a bit you would know there is a difference between a city in say Switzerland and Dublin or Cork. And you only have to follow the stories of how the Irish are a disgrace in Australia to know there is a strong knacker element in Irish society.

In that swiss cities are like fkin morgues?

cloud493 · 08-09-2013 12:16PM

Welcome to the sober side. I get this every single time I go out. Everyones pissed, having the craic, and I'm standing to the side smoking a ciggarette thinking what a load of clowns they are.

Grayson · 08-09-2013 12:35PM

cloud493 wrote: »

Welcome to the sober side. I get this every single time I go out. Everyones pissed, having the craic, and I'm standing to the side smoking a ciggarette thinking what a load of clowns they are.

Anytime I've gone out sober I've gone home early. Even a couple of drinks can take the edge off your surroundings. But being in dublin (Or cork, or Tullamore or any place in ireland) at 2am on a saturday morning when your sober isn't a pleasant experience.

cloud493 · 08-09-2013 12:37PM

I don't want to drink. I don't have to drink. Therefore, I don't

not only does drinking stink, its expensive, makes you act like an eejit, can't see any advantages to it at all.

czx · 08-09-2013 12:47PM

cloud493 wrote: »

I don't want to drink. I don't have to drink. Therefore, I don't

OK OK

Caonima · 08-09-2013 12:51PM

silverharp wrote: »

there are just too many people in this country that embrace bog trotting and skanger "culture"

silverharp wrote: »

the type of people that if you dropped them in Tokyo theyd go around looking to buy a hang-sandwich. Im sorry but if you travelled a bit you would know there is a difference between a city in say Switzerland and Dublin or Cork. And you only have to follow the stories of how the Irish are a disgrace in Australia to know there is a strong knacker element in Irish society.

Well, I come from a bog-working background; lived near a bog and my Dad worked for Bord na Mona all his life. But I live in Shanghai but don't run around looking for the hang-sangwiches you mentioned. Climb back in your hole, ya spa. There is always an element from almost every culture (even those as anodyne as the Swiss) that people feel a little ashamed of in their respective country, but it's not nearly as clearly delineated as you think. Many a supposedly D4 hoighty toighty type can be an embarrassment when you meet them (reams of them in London and New York). I'm beginning to think you fall into this category.

whiskeyman wrote: »

Only in Ireland would a thread started about the negative impact of alcohol on society include recommendations of good pubs...

Your round, ya bollocks

:D

user040913 · 08-09-2013 01:11PM

whirlpool wrote: »

Zero judgement, because i've been the drunkest person in the world on many a saturday night. But i've just walked home sober, making my way through the drunk as fu.. crowds and i'm feeling like... well all this drinking is an astronomical waste of everyone's time and it's hindering everyone's improvement and everyone's world and ruining the world around us even more so.

I bet you've stopped shopping in places like River Island, Arnott's, etc and started to buy your clothes in Penny's as it great value/quality? It's just another sign you're getting old OP.

silverharp · 08-09-2013 01:11PM

Caonima wrote: »

Well, I come from a bog-working background; lived near a bog and my Dad worked for Bord na Mona all his life. But I live in Shanghai but don't run around looking for the hang-sangwiches you mentioned. Climb back in your hole, ya spa. There is always an element from almost every culture (even those as anodyne as the Swiss) that people feel a little ashamed of in their respective country, but it's not nearly as clearly delineated as you think. Many a supposedly D4 hoighty toighty type can be an embarrassment when you meet them (reams of them in London and New York). I'm beginning to think you fall into this category.

Sure but being a waste of space drunk is celebrated in Ireland, there is no shame. If you could analyse all the posts on After Hours for instance relating to booze, at least three quarters would be almost deferential to booze and full of insider/right of passage kinda comments instead of the realisation that its only a couple of steps up from a bunch of winos having a conversation.
Anything is better than the mindless herd behaviour which one sees in ireland

Czarcasm · 08-09-2013 01:24PM

silverharp wrote: »

Sure but being a waste of space drunk is celebrated in Ireland, there is no shame. If you could analyse all the posts on After Hours for instance relating to booze, at least three quarters would be almost deferential to booze and full of insider/right of passage kinda comments instead of the realisation that its only a couple of steps up from a bunch of winos having a conversation.
Anything is better than the mindless herd behaviour which one sees in ireland

Here, take off those rose colored specs and try on a pair of these beer goggles, you seem to think only the Irish get drunk. That macroscope you have isn't nearly powerful enough.

Elbaston · 08-09-2013 01:43PM

an·o·dyne
/ˈanəˌdīn/
Adjective
Not likely to provoke dissent or offense; uncontentious or inoffensive, often deliberately so: "anodyne New Age music".
Noun
A pain-killing drug or medicine.
Synonyms
adjective. sedative - analgesic
noun. painkiller - analgesic

there saved you the bother.

also - those attacking op - typical A.H sh1t stfu.

Walking through Dublin at 2am on a saturday night sober...

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