12 pubs madness

yoyo · 19-11-2013 12:40PM

And pubs are supposed to be the "responsible" places to drink... No way I could hack drinking a pint in 30 mins, maybe 2 or 3 but there after no chance. I prefer to actually enjoy a pint, a pint would last me nearly an hour i'd say, certainly not less than 45 mins..

Nick

Larbre34 · 19-11-2013 12:40PM

After last years 'festivities', the first jumper and lights wearing gobsh1te that falls on top of me - as Im enjoying a pint with the friends I barely get to see but once a year, and that have made great efforts to get a free night and meet up early to get food and a seat in the city centre - is getting a broken nose.

Brendan Flowers · 19-11-2013 12:40PM

If I tried that one OP I'd be in a hoop by the end! Took part in the 12 pubs last year, but completed it Junior B style (bottles instead of pints).

This year a group of us are doing it and we're keeping it simple. 12 pubs. 12 hot whiskeys. Max 35 minutes per pub (allowing an extra 5 minutes for the making of the hot whiskeys)

lufties · 19-11-2013 12:46PM

Larbre34 wrote: »

After last years 'festivities', the first jumper and lights wearing gobsh1te that falls on top of me - as Im enjoying a pint with the friends I barely get to see but once a year, and that have made great efforts to get a free night and meet up early to get food and a seat in the city centre - is getting a broken nose.

Yea that silly jumper thing has only really started in recent years AFAIK.

gobnaitolunacy · 19-11-2013 12:48PM

lufties wrote: »

Yea that silly jumper thing has only really started in recent years AFAIK.

Staggering home in a puke-stained Late Late Toy Show jumper is not my idea of fun tbh.

minidazzler · 19-11-2013 12:49PM

The VAST majority of people cannot drink enough to do a 12 pubs. But come Xmas literally everyone on the 12 pubs seems to think they are big drinkers, they'll order doubles of everything because they believe they can drink like that, but in reality, they drink 5 or 6 times a year and are soupy at best.

I hate the very idea that people plan these things, calling it a pub crawl to go to a few different pubs and think they can drink more than anyone..... I just call that a night out.

Xmas brings people who don't drink/drink a bottle of wine at home to the pubs thinking they're the hardest cnuts in the place. They are really just twats with no tolerance.

OneArt · 19-11-2013 12:49PM

First time I did twelve pubs was here in Germany (honestly never heard of this happening in Ireland until I moved here!). In most pubs where I live it's pretty standard to get a 0.3 or 0.2 beer so I just stuck to those. Got drunk (also had a few shots) but I wasn't ossified or puking.

I wouldn't drink 12 pints in 6 hours anyway. I enjoy getting drink/high whatever, but not to the point where I'm sick or uncomfortable. Like others have said, I'm not going to punish myself. It does seem to be an Irish attitude of "get pissed as much as possible" to the point of where it's just no longer fun. F*ck that.

kupus · 19-11-2013 12:55PM

Fookin stoopid and yet the sterotype continues.... I wonder why?

AlanG · 19-11-2013 12:55PM

have done several with work and they usually have these rules but end up as:

- After 2 pubs people move on to bottles not pints
- most people leave or start skipping pubs by the 7th ot 8th pub
- Rules go out the window by pub 7
- Lots of people dont turn up until pub 3 or 4

Remember only the fools in the company will actually drink 12 pints in front of their work colleagues, its better to get a bit of a slagging for saying no on the the night than being the one people are talking about for weeks after you got sick or hammered.

lufties · 19-11-2013 12:57PM

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Staggering home in a puke-stained Late Late Toy Show jumper is not my idea of fun tbh.

I agree, Nowadays 4 drinks max does me, otherwise the following day is a write off pretty much. Recently read Allen Carr's book, 'No more hangovers', definately worth a read.

seamus · 19-11-2013 12:58PM

The "rules" rarely apply all the way around unless you're with someone who's a complete alcoholic and militant about his alcoholism.

What usually happens is that for the first four pubs things go as they're supposed to. Better than they're supposed to in fact, as a couple of people manage to squeeze in a second pint in a couple of the pubs. Now you're 3 hours in and everyone is well toasty or actually pissed. And the pubs are busy so it takes 15 minutes to just get a pint and you haven't a hope of downing it in 15 minutes. So time starts slipping and you start the timer from when the last person gets their pint.

By pub 6, all of the "I'll just go for a couple" people have slinked off and everyone's getting pretty hungry. Inebriated and pliable, everyone agrees that it's OK to eat. It's not rule-breaking if everyone agrees. At that stage you lose a couple of people who've decided with a full belly that they're too pissed or knackered and go home. Back on the road, you make it to pub 9, about 2 hours later than planned. People have been skipping pubs. At pub 7, someone said they'd meeting you later in pub 11. You're all fairly wankered and agree that you can't do any more pints so to get this whole thing out of the way, you'll do a shot in the next two pubs so you can get to the last pub and settle down.
For the small group of hammered stalwarts who make it to pub 12, it's ten hours after you started drinking and everyone has a bottle of corona in their hand which they don't really want to drink anyway.

kfallon · 19-11-2013 01:01PM

Christmas day/night out - arrange to meet the lads in a pub at a certain time. Order drinks and have a bit of craic. If banter is good and you have a decent spot don't move from that pub for a while. No juvenile rules, if I wanted to drink with kids I'd go knacker drinking.

Maximum pubs visited that night - 4 (at a push)

Job's a good 'un

12 pubs me bollix!

sasta le · 19-11-2013 01:05PM

Theye can be a pain for bar staff,its great to get business in but alot of these 12 pubs groups are messy and upset the whole pub

I Heart Internet · 19-11-2013 01:09PM

My response to those rules would be:

"Yeah, no. I'm a grown man. I'm not doing that."

AnonoBoy · 19-11-2013 01:12PM

At weekends in December I try to drink in pubs that don't allow 12 Pubs crowds in.

19-11-2013 01:12PM

Sounds like 12 pubs for 12 years olds.

lufties · 19-11-2013 01:13PM

OneArt wrote: »

First time I did twelve pubs was here in Germany (honestly never heard of this happening in Ireland until I moved here!). In most pubs where I live it's pretty standard to get a 0.3 or 0.2 beer so I just stuck to those. Got drunk (also had a few shots) but I wasn't ossified or puking.

I wouldn't drink 12 pints in 6 hours anyway. I enjoy getting drink/high whatever, but not to the point where I'm sick or uncomfortable. Like others have said, I'm not going to punish myself. It does seem to be an Irish attitude of "get pissed as much as possible" to the point of where it's just no longer fun. F*ck that.

I lived in Dusseldolf for a bit, what a town..bolkerstrasse and altbier on a cold winters night:)

Pity about the smoking in pubs though

beakerjoe · 19-11-2013 01:15PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Sounds like 12 pubs for 12 years olds.

Ah i enjoy it, ill never grow up!

Dyr · 19-11-2013 01:17PM

drinking games are for poindexters, just drink ta ****

anncoates · 19-11-2013 01:20PM

Familiar sight at Christmas in Dublin pubs.

Usually twats in zany jumpers that all arrive, cram in and then leave the pub en-masse like they have sticks up their holes.

There's a joyless, clock-watching, metronomic, obligatory feel to the whole thing that completely negates the spirit of a leisurely Christmas session.

TwoShedsJackson · 19-11-2013 01:20PM

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

Did it last year. Everyone backed out at some point along the way except for me and one other guy. We both puked at some stage (maybe pub 9?) and were refused entry ti the last two pubs. Also my friend got in two separate fights. I was hungover for two days after it. I really wouldn't recommend it. Its on again this year but I'm just going to talk to my mates and will not be drinking stupid amounts of booze again.

This would be many fools idea of 'TEH MOST AMZING NIGHT EVER!!!!!'

19-11-2013 01:23PM

beakerjoe wrote: »

Ah i enjoy it, ill never grow up!

I enjoy it too, but those rules are just stupid.

connundrum · 19-11-2013 01:27PM

Live and let live.

I prefer the idea of SantaCon tbh

http://santacon.info/About.html

lufties · 19-11-2013 01:27PM

anncoates wrote: »

Familiar sight at Christmas in Dublin pubs.

Usually twats in zany jumpers that all arrive, cram in and then leave the pub en-masse like they have sticks up their holes.

There's a joyless, clock-watching, metronomic, obligatory feel to the whole thing that completely negates the spirit of a leisurely Christmas session.

Its the attention they get from their mates wearing the zany jumper I'd say.

Did ya Johnny last night with the jumper, jase he's some crack altogether int-hee

:rolleyes:

anncoates · 19-11-2013 01:31PM

connundrum wrote: »

Live and let live.

Nah

hardCopy · 19-11-2013 01:37PM

seamus wrote: »

The "rules" rarely apply all the way around unless you're with someone who's a complete alcoholic and militant about his alcoholism.

What usually happens is that for the first four pubs things go as they're supposed to. Better than they're supposed to in fact, as a couple of people manage to squeeze in a second pint in a couple of the pubs. Now you're 3 hours in and everyone is well toasty or actually pissed. And the pubs are busy so it takes 15 minutes to just get a pint and you haven't a hope of downing it in 15 minutes. So time starts slipping and you start the timer from when the last person gets their pint.

By pub 6, all of the "I'll just go for a couple" people have slinked off and everyone's getting pretty hungry. Inebriated and pliable, everyone agrees that it's OK to eat. It's not rule-breaking if everyone agrees. At that stage you lose a couple of people who've decided with a full belly that they're too pissed or knackered and go home. Back on the road, you make it to pub 9, about 2 hours later than planned. People have been skipping pubs. At pub 7, someone said they'd meeting you later in pub 11. You're all fairly wankered and agree that you can't do any more pints so to get this whole thing out of the way, you'll do a shot in the next two pubs so you can get to the last pub and settle down.
For the small group of hammered stalwarts who make it to pub 12, it's ten hours after you started drinking and everyone has a bottle of corona in their hand which they don't really want to drink anyway.

This all over, nobody ever sticks to the rules all night. Half the people who make it to Pub 12 leave as soon as they've checked in on Facebook, the other half are the ones who arrived late and only did 8 altogether.

Last year I ended up going to Eddie Rockets instead of pub 11, then proceeded to fall asleep on the jacks in pub 12.

Ah Christmas!

megaten · 19-11-2013 01:38PM

I did it with spirits last year and I was fine. It's probably a good bit harder with pints though if only because of the sheer volume of liquid.

19-11-2013 01:39PM

Have done it a few times. The first ones were a good laugh, starting at about 3pm, having dinner in the middle, nobody rushing too much, and no rules.

If anyone wanted to skip a drink no one cared. No one wore any jumpers with lights on them and everyone had a laugh.

Bringing rules in and forced 'zaniness' have really taken the fun out of it, for me. Plus now you have so many groups cramming into the same bars that it becomes difficult to really enjoy the day.

Haven't done a 12 pubs the last couple of years and I don't think I'll be doing one this year.

AnonoBoy · 19-11-2013 01:42PM

connundrum wrote: »

Live and let live.

NO!

DO AS I SAY!!!!

April O Neill II · 19-11-2013 01:47PM

I can't think of anything worse than doing a 12 pubs, not least because I fúcking HATE downing drinks. Imagine the expense too! :eek: Luckily I've escaped them thus far, and intend to avoid them in future if possible, even if invited.

12 pubs madness

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