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Who invented the term "wet pubs" ?

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  • 15-09-2020 12:14am
    #1
    Double O Seven
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    Whoever it was should be jailed for life


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    Rodney Bathgate
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    Seems fair. Will be out in no time though.


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    #3
    [Deleted User]
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    "Cocooning" and "staycation" also need to be excised from everyday parlance.


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    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,794 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Shot at dawn, imho :mad:


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    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,234 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    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


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    GT89
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭GT89


    Why din't they just call them proper pubs because that's what they actually are


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    aziz
    Registered Users Posts: 723 ✭✭✭aziz


    Shot with balls of their own ****e


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    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,794 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Deleted User wrote: »
    "Cocooning" and "staycation" also need to be excised from everyday parlance.

    Along with "socially distanced" for every single event where 2 or more people might possibly come within an asses roar of one another


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    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,161 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    some dry sh¡te


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    NIMAN
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    NPHET methinks.

    Our new rulers.


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    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,881 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    Double O Seven wrote: »
    Whoever it was should be jailed for life

    Some Gobshyte in government no doubt...


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    BuboBubo
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    Should be changed to;

    Atin' pubs
    Drinkin' pubs.


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


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    WoollyRedHat
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    Someone in a wet lab.


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    Realt Dearg Sec
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    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.


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    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,066 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Double O Seven wrote: »
    Whoever it was should be jailed for life

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

    Wet-led pubs vs food-led pubs.


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    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Deleted User wrote: »
    "Cocooning" and "staycation" also need to be excised from everyday parlance.


    Staycation in particular, Bertie.



    Grinds my gears so it does.


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    An Ri rua
    Registered Users Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭An Ri rua


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Staycation in particular, Bertie.



    Grinds my gears so it does.


    You need to take a mindfulness retreat up to Knock Johnny. Oil your gears etc.

    #Praycation

    Or mebbe a seaside stroll on the promenade

    #Braycation


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    Akrasia
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    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


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    Realt Dearg Sec
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    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

    You should consider switching to a new local.


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    KathleenGrant
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    Wet pub...stupid term. Staycation boils my blood. People in ireland don't even vacation. Staycation a pack of American ****. We holiday, ya? But coccooning is ok surely.


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    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    bobbyy gee
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    who ever called it pub rather than bar should have to look at mggregors ding dong
    until they turn to stone


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    bobbyy gee
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭bobbyy gee


    bobbyy gee wrote: »
    who ever called it pub rather than bar should have to look at mggregors ding dong
    until they turn to stone

    bar vs pub
    https://www.diffen.com/difference/Bar_vs_Pub


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    bassy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,542 ✭✭✭bassy


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


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    Spleodar
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    It just makes me think of some weird bar with sticky, stout-soaked carpets and a bad smell wafting from the jacks.

    Awful, awful phrase to use.


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    Strumms
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    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 ?”


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    bassy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,542 ✭✭✭bassy


    Strumms wrote: »
    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 ?”

    throw it in to ya lad...............................................


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    AMKC
    Registered Users Posts: 15,556 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    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.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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    sabat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,896 ✭✭✭sabat


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


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    iLikeWaffles
    Registered Users Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭iLikeWaffles


    BuboBubo wrote: »
    Should be changed to;

    Atin' pubs
    Drinkin' pubs.

    I'll go with that!! 👍


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