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How much do you miss the pub?

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    #122
    never_mind
    Registered Users Posts: 915 ✭✭✭never_mind


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    If that’s the only way you can give them up then you’ll be back on them first time you’re back out. Biggest mistake people make when giving up is thinking they have it cracked too soon.

    What positivity! It’s exactly what the country needs xoxo


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    #123
    beerguts
    Registered Users Posts: 270 ✭✭beerguts


    What I wouldn't give for Two pints of Carlsberg and a packet of Bacon bites in my usual local. Most satisfying thing for me.


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    #124
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    snoopboggybog wrote: »
    A keg of Heineken costs pubs 224. Price of a pint of it now on average is 5euro

    5 by 88 pints -224 euro is 216 euro profit.

    I don't know how many stay open when Sky is a grand a month along with insurance, heating, electric etc. I know a lot of the country pubs have got rid of Sky.

    You would want to averaging 250 pints a week to make any sort of living if you own the pub which I think most do with the Friday, Saturday, Sunday trade.

    How did you come up with those numbers. A keg is far cheaper than that you're looking at the price you or I would pay not a pub.
    And they don't get €5 for a pint of larger as €0.55 goes is paid in duty and 23% VAT

    I'm sure it still works out as very low margin of profit but they pay far less and receive far less than you think.


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    #125
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    snoopboggybog wrote: »
    A keg of Heineken costs pubs 224. Price of a pint of it now on average is 5euro

    5 by 88 pints -224 euro is 216 euro profit.

    I don't know how many stay open when Sky is a grand a month along with insurance, heating, electric etc. I know a lot of the country pubs have got rid of Sky.

    You would want to averaging 250 pints a week to make any sort of living if you own the pub which I think most do with the Friday, Saturday, Sunday trade.

    Sky :):). One doesn't even have a telly.


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    #126
    [Deleted User]
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    Macdarack wrote: »
    Ill have good momentum built up by the time pubs open again and I'm hoping to cut my drinking as well as stopping smoking, this is working out quite well. There's a pub 30 seconds from my front door so that lure is gone. I know, I'm a kunt.

    You’re no kunt. If that’s what you want to do then hopefully this has been the help needed to start and that it all works out.


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    #127
    [Deleted User]
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    never_mind wrote: »
    What positivity! It’s exactly what the country needs xoxo

    It’s good advice. A lot of smokers who are of them years will tell you they still want one as much 10 years later as they did a week later. I’m just advising not to be thinking that its job done and to keep the guard up.


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    #128
    joeguevara
    Registered Users Posts: 8,041 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    This drinking at home instead of the pub is not good and can get very confusing. Nearly asked my wife for her number.


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    #129
    [Deleted User]
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    MrMusician18 wrote: »
    Cans can be just as good as the kegs.

    They can’t really though.


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    #130
    patnor1011
    Registered Users Posts: 2,964 ✭✭✭patnor1011


    Someone should invent some online pub :)
    Like those webcam sites.


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    #131
    [Deleted User]
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    patnor1011 wrote: »
    Someone should invent some online pub :)
    Like those webcam sites.

    I think a load of people are doing online nights among friends and family on that Zoom thing, though by the sounds of it you’d want to be nuts to use it. I had a few beers with the sister and her husband the other evening on Duo but you’d probably need a separate wide angle camera both ends to do it right.


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    #132
    Macdarack
    Registered Users Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Macdarack


    patnor1011 wrote: »
    Someone should invent some online pub :)
    Like those webcam sites.

    You could link in a PlayStation and play Tekken 2 in case you want to go fighting.


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    #133
    Leroy42
    Registered Users Posts: 15,498 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    It will be interesting what happens when the restrictions end. Many pubs were already in decline.

    I expect that the first few days will see all pubs jammed but afterwards? The weekly/daily habit of going to the pub will have been broken. Will people really just go back?

    Of course it will stay as an outing, but to the same extent? It's not an either or btw, but I do expect that many will consider whether spending every Friday and Saturday night at the pub is time well spent. Never mind the costs.

    People will have found other things to do, other interests or just simply stay at home.


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    #134
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 6,041 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    No I miss my protein shakes and posing in front of the mirror in the gym.


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    #135
    Pauliedragon
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    cdeb wrote: »
    I've seen bets offered on computerised football games (Greece) and computerised chariot racing (Australia). They even offered form guides. To help you decide which computer-generated team to bet on.

    Sounds utterly absurd, but there you go.
    Aussies are literally betting on the weather.


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    #136
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    I like a bet myself but only horses and dogs and the Lotto numbers. I know a few with on line accounts and I hear them talking of betting on Bolivian Div 2 matches and racing from Santa Anita. Thats only looking for trouble.
    I do miss the pints though, popping in with the missus for pub grub and hitting the G.A.A. club myself for Lotto night


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    #137
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,293 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Not really missing the pub.


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    #138
    Drifter50
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    Leroy42 wrote: »
    It will be interesting what happens when the restrictions end. Many pubs were already in decline.

    I expect that the first few days will see all pubs jammed but afterwards? The weekly/daily habit of going to the pub will have been broken. Will people really just go back?

    Of course it will stay as an outing, but to the same extent? It's not an either or btw, but I do expect that many will consider whether spending every Friday and Saturday night at the pub is time well spent. Never mind the costs.

    People will have found other things to do, other interests or just simply stay at home.

    Never ever, we need to get back out and support our local pubs when this is over more that ever or else they will be gone forever and that would be the pits


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    #139
    [Deleted User]
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    When it comes to the time of them reopening there’s going to be a big push from a certain brigade to try make them a thing of the past. Already seen a good few sentiments of it here. I don’t go that often these days but anyone that wants them around needs to get out there and spend if they can in them.


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    #140
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,336 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Always used to walk down to the local pub on a Sat evening which also served dinners, have a bit of grub and a few pints after so miss that a bit all right.


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    #141
    Leroy42
    Registered Users Posts: 15,498 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Drifter50 wrote: »
    Never ever, we need to get back out and support our local pubs when this is over more that ever or else they will be gone forever and that would be the pits

    Support your local pub? It's not a charity.

    Again, it's not an either or. People will continue to use pubs. My thinking is that there was already a fall off in total business (drink driving, healthy living etc) and this enforced absence my highlight to many that it really isn't the best use of their time. Particularly given the costs.

    So IMO you will see a reduction in pubs as few as needed. No need for 5 pubs in a locality when 2 will do.


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    #142
    LuasSimon
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    In rural ireland many pubs have been changed by cocaine , young lads or not so young lads into toilets and coming out off their heads talking rubbish or else looking at everyone for a scrap .
    This has led to a lot of non drug customers staying at home further deteriorating the local pubs chance of survival . If you open your mouth local dealers will be on your case . Sad to see how drug dealers have taken over rural Ireland .


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    #143
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    Drifter50 wrote: »
    Never ever, we need to get back out and support our local pubs when this is over more that ever or else they will be gone forever and that would be the pits

    Agreed,the first port of call for most sports clubs around the country is the local pubs. What comes around goes around.


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    #144
    MadYaker
    Registered Users Posts: 12,161 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    I miss it I won’t lie. The session when they reopen will be something else though.


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    #145
    BailMeOut
    Registered Users Posts: 2,966 ✭✭✭BailMeOut


    Leroy42 wrote: »
    I expect that the first few days will see all pubs jammed but afterwards?

    do you really think we will all immediately return to confined, close contact environments that quickly after restrictions are eventually relaxed? Until there is a vacine I believe most people will coninute to live life very cautiously.


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    #146
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    I miss Friday pints after work. Or going with the lads to watch a match.

    But I don't see urban pubs as a thing to be supported like a charity. There are plenty of pubs in built up areas. It's important to serve all the local needs and demographic. but in urban areas there is lots of duplication.

    Rural pubs are a bit different. They are one of the few social focal points along with GAA, ICA and a few others. Rural pubs are social lifeline for a lot of people. I'd advocate to support rural pubs to prevent them closing and maintain the social focal point.

    But ultimately, the only good thing about pubs is the social focal point it provides. If there's a better alternative that people choose to use then I'd say the pub can happily die out.


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    #147
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 37,906 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Irish soccer commentator George Hamilton the voice of the pub for me

    Brady in the euros 2016 was immense and the glory days of the pub


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    #148
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Anyone pouring Guinness from a can and telling you it’s near like a pint should be checking their temperature, or they’ve been drinking in the wrong pubs.
    The key to a good guinness from a can is to have a spare can on the go, you pour about a half inch into the glass first, then crack a can and pour the rest nice and slow down the side creating as little head as possible. It will look like it is going to overflow but keep going (when I do it lads are screaming at me that its going to overflow). Do it on a sink counter or out the back if you are worried. You have to find the correct level for each glass, I have found most "pint glasses" are not exactly 568ml. If you get proper guinness glasses they are best and repeatable.

    The head will rise up over the brim giving the lovely domed effect. In nearly all videos of people pouring "perfect pints" you do not see the finished result, the settled pint, it looks crap if they do. The foam is able to grow too much too, its not as dense. When the head goes above the top of the glass it sort of holds on with surface tension and keeps it creamy underneath.

    Guinness spent thousands if not millions in developing the widgets and they work well if the glass size is matched correctly. I pictured the engineers toiling over it for years and going into a meeting with all the head people.

    Engineer -"we have it!, a decent pint at home, so you get a 568ml pint glass and get a can with exactly 539ml of guinness in it, and this gives you a perfect head".
    Marketing man -"but cans are 500ml"
    Engineer -"well 500ml will obviously not work, did you really think a pint in a pub has exactly 500ml of guinness poured in it? ye eejit, that would be some total fluke! we tested it, if the can has 500ml then the head is horrendous, total bishops collar, looks terrible and a terrible mouthfeel as its not compacted"
    Marketing man -"but cans are traditionally 500ml..."
    Engineer "the cans have to grow in size anyway! they have to grow to fit the widget, so any ideas about stacking them to the same pallet size etc goes out the window, 539ml gives a pretty perfect pint, 500ml would be handed back in a bar, a textbook shite pint"
    Marketing man "but they're all 500ml"

    It is so blatantly obvious that I wonder if they did it on purpose to stop you being able to have a perfect pint at home, and get you down the pub. If you are can get a 500ml glass you can just pour it and stop short at the end. I found some glasses a bit over and they are almost perfect, about 520-525ml is ideal.


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    #149
    Coollio
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭Coollio


    I don't drink but do miss the pub a bit for the social aspect. Darts on the Friday night, a few games of pool with the lads on a Sunday afternoon after the football and having the laugh with the older lads that would come in for a few pints and to get out of the house for some company. It's mostly those guys I feel sorry for, there do be three or four old guys that used to go to our local to socialise and must be rough for them now if they're stuck indoors on their own.


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    #150
    Downlinz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Downlinz


    I'm learning that I can live without the pub and the amount of money I'm saving from not going out on weekends is a bit eye opening.


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    #151
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Downlinz wrote: »
    I'm learning that I can live without the pub and the amount of money I'm saving from not going out on weekends is a bit eye opening.

    I think that will happen with loads of things. Once there is no more eastenders or corrie people will get out of the habit of watching them. I'd be very surprised if lots of people see them for the first time in a few months and realise it's nonsense and they were only watching it because they always watched it. I'd bet lots of people never go back to watching them.

    And the same with the pub. Once people have to find things they actually enjoy doing, I'd say lots of people will continue to to the things they find they enjoy instead of just going back to going to the pub be default.


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