Who invented the term "wet pubs" ?

If you have ever been in a 'wet pub' around closing time on a busy Saturday night, you'll know what it means. Every surface of the pub is soaked in some kind of fluid, some less mentonable than others

Shot with balls of their own ****e

some dry sh¡te

Double O Seven wrote: »

Whoever it was should be jailed for life

Some Gobshyte in government no doubt...

Double O Seven wrote: »

Whoever it was should be jailed for life

It's the logical extension of the effort, which was well underway long before covid, to transform traditional Irish pubs into more "civilised" food establishments. It is the kind of term dreamt up by people who think of a drinking only place as the deviation from the norm. And in turn it normalises the idea that places where eating is more or less expected are the ordinary thing. You get this in America a lot, where only dingy places are "bars" where's anywhere comfortable, even if it looks like a pub, they will start you off with a menu etc, and just coming in to drink is seen as strange.

The long term ambition has been to kill off proper pubs ever since Michael mcdowell was around. Covid has helped a lot.

Tldr: Wet pubs my hairy hole.

Errashareesh wrote: »

This is what I think of every time I read the expression - a pub soaked in piss. Awful term imo.

It's not all piss in fairness, some of it is vomit, lots of it is spilt heineken, and a small amount is semen

some gob****e in dail heriann getting paid a mint for doing fook all........................................................

DOP’s - drink only pubs.

FAD’s - food and drink pubs,

“Jeeez I’ve got a quare thirst on me horse I’ll be off down the DOP”

“I need to get a feed down the bleedin FAD wha ?”

Akrasia wrote: »

It's not all piss in fairness, some of it is vomit, lots of it is spilt heineken, and a small amount is semen

That's sounds like a horrible local bar you go to. Thankfully I do not go to bars or any wet pubs. I prefer to stay dry myself. We get enough rain in this country without getting wet in a pub too.

BuboBubo wrote: »

Should be changed to;

Atin' pubs
Drinkin' pubs.

I'll go with that!! 👍

Deleted User wrote: »

It is my second most hated term of the last few months. I have a top 5.
5 Cocooning
4 Staycation
3 New Normal
2 Wet pubs
And in at number 1 the mind bendingly dreadful basement dweller loving.......................................
..........................................
Socially Distant.

You forgot to put SO if front on the name, So wet pub, so staycation,

Wet pub. So called because a manky pint will have wet crap running out your arse instead of your p!sser.

Gastro pub. So called well because manky food will not only shoot out your arse as well as your mouth.

Staycation. Well it serves all you Fu¢kers right for wanting to talk like yanks.

And its always been a pub in my time, a bar to my was always something made of chocolate.

Its time we started to take back our sayings. Bars, staycation, serves you all right.

Conspiracy theory, maybe covid was invented so we could change our vocabulary!

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

It's the logical extension of the effort, which was well underway long before covid, to transform traditional Irish pubs into more "civilised" food establishments. It is the kind of term dreamt up by people who think of a drinking only place as the deviation from the norm. And in turn it normalises the idea that places where eating is more or less expected are the ordinary thing. You get this in America a lot, where only dingy places are "bars" where's anywhere comfortable, even if it looks like a pub, they will start you off with a menu etc, and just coming in to drink is seen as strange.

The long term ambition has been to kill off proper pubs ever since Michael mcdowell was around. Covid has helped a lot.

Tldr: Wet pubs my hairy hole.

Ah right. So its a big conspiracy to kill the pub.

Geuze wrote: »

I heard of it in the past, an industry term in the UK.

Wet-led pubs vs food-led pubs.

Oh, so it's an established industry term and not a conspiracy to kill off the pubs.

Lads, why the need for conspiracy theories? What's in it for the government and why have successive governments agreed on trying to kill off the pub in spite of the tax revenue it brings in through direct tax on alcohol, income tax and corporation tax?

NIMAN wrote: »

NPHET methinks.

Our new rulers.

No interest in what the people want. Nobody voted them in. They spout lies to create fear. Cherrypicking the science. Keep all their salaries no matter how badly things go to hell for others. White-knuckle grip on power.

They are the centrefold poster blutacked to Trump's and Putin's bedroom walls I'm sure.

sabat wrote: »

Pubs are pubs; places that do food too are inns.

I’d say the effort needed to amend that usage of words in our language would be futile.


“I say, Dorothy darling, it might be of a mutual benefit that we might pop towards the Inn this evening to partake of some beverages and a bite to eat and the atmosphere, what say you, darling ? darling ?”

“Jimmy luv, put yar bleedin shoes back on , the only place you are bleedin goin is out for a couple of bags o cans fir us, ring the bell and I’ll let you back Inn”

Just call them

Proper pubs and notions pubs