Pubs when/will they re-open - the Megathread

IAMAMORON · 03-12-2020 10:58pm

brisan wrote: »

I think you will find some will
The fear of being outed on social media ,the fear of being in the headlines for all the wrong reasons ,the fear of regular Gardaí inspections
These and other reasons will make sure a lot of restaurants enforce the rules
Look at the Berlin bar
its reputation ruined in 30 secs

Those days have passed now and in the past they shall remain.

The worm has turned, the anti drink brigades' time is burning like a candle at both ends.

It is going to be a great party.

BryanMartin21 · 03-12-2020 11:28pm

dodderangler wrote: »

Hotel it is so

We're contemplating getting rooms in a hotel, a night away from the wives and girlfriends. Then we'll see what they will allow us get up to at the residents bar but, if not a lot, we will just head up to the rooms. To be clear, just looking to have beers and a good laugh, nothing too sinister! Some good deals on hotels.

rubadub · 03-12-2020 11:30pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Apologies for being a killjoy.

IAMAMORON wrote: »

anti drink brigades' time is burning like a candle at both ends. .

I am not sure if you are taking the piss, or if your user name checks out and you have no idea what these phrases actually intend to mean, and what people mean in their posts...

PTH2009 · 03-12-2020 11:33pm

Might try and get in somewhere tomorrow but might be a little tricky been on my lonesome but never know, hopefully ill get in somewhere. Be mortified booking a table and more than likely they won't take a booking for 1

Think there will be xmas parties and no way they can police it. Farcical rules

El_Duderino 09 · 03-12-2020 11:46pm

PTH2009 wrote: »

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Think there will be xmas parties and no way they can police it. Farcical rules

It’s going to rely on people to be sensible and stick to the rules themselves. Like adults who can behave well in an emergency situation without someone standing over them, making them do the right thing.

It’s funny to see how posters swing between complaining about rules being imposed and not being trusted to behave responsibly, and then complaining that the rules can’t be policed and posters suggesting they have no intention to stick to the rules unless forced to do so.

Drifter50 · 03-12-2020 11:58pm

Mate of mine got a booking for 12 in the form of 2 tables of 6 for next weekend 12th Dec on the clear basis that the tables will not and cannot be together. Seems fair enough to me, looking forward to it

IAMAMORON · 04-12-2020 12:04am

rubadub wrote: »

I am not sure if you are taking the piss, or if your user name checks out and you have no idea what these phrases actually intend to mean, and what people mean in their posts...

Keep trying harder, you will eventually get more assurance in both your impression of what I am trying to say and hopefully what I am hoping you will perceive?

The ban is done. Long live the pub. It is going to be great.

bladespin · 04-12-2020 10:57am

Thats me wrote: »

They probably never heard Covid could damage fertility of up to 20% of male survivors, including those symptomless. Grandfather Darwin would be laughing seeing this.

Could be seen as a positive by some lol. Many of us have already made our contribution and aren't too keen on making more

Thats me · 04-12-2020 12:19pm

bladespin wrote: »

Could be seen as a positive by some lol. Many of us have already made our contribution and aren't too keen on making more

Ironically, people in that age are more often have enough wisdom, reason and responsibility to avoid visiting public places in mid of pandemic wave. :cool:

bladespin · 04-12-2020 12:28pm

Thats me wrote: »

Ironically, people in that age are more often have enough wisdom, reason and responsibility to avoid visiting public places in mid of pandemic wave. :cool:

Depends on how serious you believe it actually is, most of the 'non believers' I know are well into middle age, some even older. That said don't have many teenagers as company (yet - one of my 'contributions is close though) so can't speak for them.

drunkmonkey · 04-12-2020 12:35pm

25 minutes until kick off.

SB71 · 04-12-2020 1:14pm

Enjoy the gargle folks, booked in for tonight, no time limit nonsense, going on the gargle all weekend

dodderangler · 05-12-2020 12:28am

Stayed 2 hours and was kicked out.
In me own local. So they're all clamping g down no matter who ya are to them

Sultan of Bling · 05-12-2020 1:03am

dodderangler wrote:

Stayed 2 hours and was kicked out. In me own local. So they're all clamping g down no matter who ya are to them

Must have had loads of bookings I'd say, with it being the first day.

AFAIK you can stay longer than the 105 mins if there isn't many bookings.

I suppose it will be busy though during the xmas season.

PTH2009 · 05-12-2020 1:38am

The tab system is a nightmare

when its time to settle the bill it can get messy

PAYG is the best

dotsman · 05-12-2020 2:24am

PTH2009 wrote: »

The tab system is a nightmare

when its time to settle the bill it can get messy

How so? there's only a max of 6 people and you are all sitting/ordering together. It's not like there is a surprise 100 extra drinks on the bill that nobody knows anything about.

SB71 · 05-12-2020 12:27pm

dodderangler wrote: »

Stayed 2 hours and was kicked out.
In me own local. So they're all clamping g down no matter who ya are to them

thats shocking, no time limit nonsnese where i was,in fact this is the first ive read where someone had to leave , most people posting stayed the night

hynesie08 · 05-12-2020 2:27pm

dotsman wrote: »

How so? there's only a max of 6 people and you are all sitting/ordering together. It's not like there is a surprise 100 extra drinks on the bill that nobody knows anything about.

You'll have idiots who couldn't hold their drink in a bucket arguing that they only had 6 pints, not 8.

Tab is a much better system than pay per round, hopefully it becomes the standard in future.

Risteard81 · 05-12-2020 7:13pm

I did half seven until a quarter to today. I don't give a damn what that tyrant Holohan or those Martin and Varadkar idiots or fellow travelers think either. If the VFI weren't so utterly spineless they would order all of their members to open immediately.

PTH2009 · 05-12-2020 7:23pm

Still places opening and getting food from takeaways

All pubs should be open

05-12-2020 9:46pm

PTH2009 wrote: »

Still places opening and getting food from takeaways

All pubs should be open

Walking around my home town this evening, a few pockets of activity but mostly lifeless. Stuck the head in the door of so-called gastro pubs, not a familiar face found among the booted and suited. Particularly the auld lads out for a quiet pour, who wouldn't dream of going near such phoniness. I kept going, past one bolted traditional pub after another. My blood began to boil, how on god's green earth have they been let go to the wall. A regulated environment where the custodian could look after his regulars and maintain order. Nah, the VFI threw them to the wolves at NPHET. Bunch of bootlickers who abandoned their brief and scarred rural Ireland.

Spanish Eyes · 05-12-2020 9:52pm

Carnage is coming lol, hopefully not, but going on the reports from those who ventured out last night, there was little observance of any rules apart from sitting at a table.

Ah well good luck to them. Will venture out ourselves during the week at 3pm and leave before the crowds arrive. We will enjoy ourselves, and leave a table for those who want one in the evening.

Xtrail14 · 05-12-2020 10:43pm

Till receipt for food being given to some customers to cover themselves in case the ****aloine invade.

Dickie10 · 05-12-2020 11:44pm

Am I correctin saying wet pubs were open for just 2 weeks since March 12?

05-12-2020 11:53pm

Dickie10 wrote: »

Am I correctin saying wet pubs were open for just 2 weeks since March 12?

"Wet pubs" is a cavalier epithet that belongs in Donnybrook, Ballsbridge and Killiney. I refuse to acknowledge it. Traditional pubs lasted for a month outside Dublin, from mid-September to mid-October. Sponsored my local as best I could, knowing what was looming on the horizon.

New2Dubs · 06-12-2020 12:00am

Out in Dublin city centre today for first time since August. Booked 2 gastro pubs in advance.
First bar insisted x2 meals were ordered - fair enough. Second bar, menu not offered, no mention of food, and very little to be seen throughout the entire packed bar. They did move us along after 2 hours, but witnessing the blatant lack of food served, I understand the frustration of wet bars.

Cork2021 · 06-12-2020 12:02am

Good article. I’d have to agree with the superiority complex he mentions

https://www.echolive.ie/corklives/John-Dolan-Keeping-pubs-shut-smacks-of-a-victory-for-snobbery-over-common-sense-48367939-f439-48dc-adfb-882d8ff07792-ds?fbclid=IwAR24aCyKEjVkgfSslHYFf1OE5s3g4bMeF0pkG5kmRwszALCw6LgbKoSmPD8

PommieBast · 06-12-2020 1:55am

This bit caught my eye:

During the week, it was even speculated by a Government insider that pubs will remain closed until October, when a vaccine finally begins to produce the herd effect necessary to negate Covid.

I think this is exactly what the government is going to do. :eek:

Mean Laqueefa · 06-12-2020 2:09am

y'know what does my head in ? this wet pub nonsense, a pubs a pub, yes there are boozers but its your choice

Choice is gone and wet pubs pubs is a term now pushed by media, make sure to pay the license fee lads, they give facts that suit there narrative :rolleyes:

Thats me · 06-12-2020 2:19am

Cork2021 wrote: »

Good article. I’d have to agree with the superiority complex he mentions

https://www.echolive.ie/corklives/John-Dolan-Keeping-pubs-shut-smacks-of-a-victory-for-snobbery-over-common-sense-48367939-f439-48dc-adfb-882d8ff07792-ds?fbclid=IwAR24aCyKEjVkgfSslHYFf1OE5s3g4bMeF0pkG5kmRwszALCw6LgbKoSmPD8

I want to go to the pub in mid of pandemic, but i cannot afford 9 euro meal, what a snobbery!

Thats me · 06-12-2020 2:21am

PommieBast wrote: »

This bit caught my eye:
I think this is exactly what the government is going to do. :eek:

This is exactly what they should to do!

IAMAMORON · 06-12-2020 10:05am

PommieBast wrote: »

This bit caught my eye:
I think this is exactly what the government is going to do. :eek:

I can see them open by Paddies day.

The vaccines will roll out quicker than you think. Once the gubbermint cop on that it is a lot cheaper to inoculate a nation than pay it Covid payments? I hope someone lets them know this.

Xtrail14 · 06-12-2020 11:10am

They are called wet pubs because the toilets are usually all urine and punters all over each other spitting COVID everywhere. Let’s face it they were super spreader places.

Gervais08 · 06-12-2020 11:20am

Xtrail14 wrote: »

They are called wet pubs because the toilets are usually all urine and punters all over each other spitting COVID everywhere. Let’s face it they were super spreader places.

You are Tony Holohan, mystery arsehole and I claim my five euro!!

Seriously I have never read so much drivel in my life.

ingo1984 · 06-12-2020 3:01pm

Don't think Tony is anti pubs, as he likes a drink himself. In his opinion, keeping the pubs closed was the best option. Regardless of whether you think that was right or not makes no difference. It was his calculated opinion of which the elected government also agreed with. Any resulting hardship caused by these decisions has been offset by wage subsidies, pup payments and business supports. People haven't lost money during the pandemic, they just haven't been able to spend it as they would like. Once we get through the pandemic and pubs reopen fully, people be throwing cash around the bar like the good auld celtic tiger days.

stephenjmcd · 06-12-2020 3:15pm

ingo1984 wrote: »

People haven't lost money during the pandemic, they just haven't been able to spend it as they would like.

Whatever about the rest of the post, the line above is absolute sh1te.

People haven't lost money....tell that to those out of work due to covid. Try supporting a family and everything that goes with it when your wages are cut to €350 on PUP. Utter drivel

Oh and as for the supports you listed, none of them are anywhere near what people who own a business would need to cover costs.

PommieBast · 06-12-2020 3:32pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

I can see them open by Paddies day.

The vaccines will roll out quicker than you think. Once the gubbermint cop on that it is a lot cheaper to inoculate a nation than pay it Covid payments? I hope someone lets them know this.

All I can say is that I hope you are right and I am wrong..

PommieBast · 06-12-2020 3:32pm

ingo1984 wrote: »

Any resulting hardship caused by these decisions has been offset by wage subsidies, pup payments and business supports.

Those grants/loans of upto €5,000? They are statistical noise compared to nine months of unpaid rent and bills.

Dickie10 · 06-12-2020 11:02pm

Christ can you just imagine the Galway Races 2021.......The last days of Sodom and Gommerah. I would think the government will use late summer and in particular the August Bank Holiday and those weeks of August as a christmas type push to support irish tourism. We should try to push for an an extra bank holiday in July as compensation for missing a whole year of holidays. Vaccine will be surely given to anyone who wants it by July. Deaths and Hospitalisations will be miniscule when all frontline, over 60s and vulnerable are vaccinated, roughly how many people is that about 1.5 million?

beggars_bush · 07-12-2020 12:06am

Few pints tonight plus burger and chips in the local

Nice to get out with the better half

Thats me · 07-12-2020 1:19am

beggars_bush wrote: »

Few pints tonight plus burger and chips in the local

Nice to get out with the better half

I do not expect you reporting your symptoms here a week later. This is private information, we should not expect it shared. :cool:

heffo500 · 07-12-2020 11:12am

I'm surprised most wet pubs have not started a limited food option to open, Would toasted sandwiches not cover the €9 substantial meal requirement?

Mongfinder General · 07-12-2020 11:17am

Xtrail14 wrote: »

They are called wet pubs because the toilets are usually all urine and punters all over each other spitting COVID everywhere. Let’s face it they were super spreader places.

After what I saw at the weekend, the general public are still a pack of Cnuts who think the rules don’t apply to them. Made absolute pigs of themselves. 4 or 5 pints was all it took for certain individuals to act like arseholes.

showpony1 · 07-12-2020 11:46am

Mongfinder General wrote: »

After what I saw at the weekend, the general public are still a pack of Cnuts who think the rules don’t apply to them. Made absolute pigs of themselves. 4 or 5 pints was all it took for certain individuals to act like arseholes.

what behavior did you see Mongfinder?

Mongfinder General · 07-12-2020 12:00pm

showpony1 wrote: »

what behavior did you see Mongfinder?

Only short of getting up on each other. Hugging, hand shakes, crowding into toilets, approaching the bar when repeatedly told not to, ignoring the one way system, moving between tables. The poor staff were run ragged. I won’t be out drinking until restrictions are lifted. Not enjoyable.

paw patrol · 07-12-2020 12:42pm

i was in the pub on sat and it was glorious. My previous posts have shown that I am against any restrictions regarding covid for a multitude of reasons.

But what struck me (tbh annoyed me a little) was I met some people who were rabid covid panic merchants there too.
The people who would be virtue signalling how dangerous covid is and we needed more lockdown , people who on social media were shaming teenagers, non mask wearers, conspiracy theorists or anybody with a view contrary to Nphet you know the type..

I fully respect people who are genuinely worried about covid and act accordingly so this isn't an attack on you.

But I really have a strong dislike now for people who follow "the rules" and shout about it - but think just cos the government said "open the pubs" that it is grand.

Covid is still there so i don't understand how it's any safer. So why are you out? Have you no critical thinking?

It just proves you are an easily led moron or a virtue signalling liar.

Thats me · 07-12-2020 1:17pm

paw patrol wrote: »

i was in the pub on sat and it was glorious. My previous posts have shown that I am against any restrictions regarding covid for a multitude of reasons.

But what struck me (tbh annoyed me a little) was I met some people who were rabid covid panic merchants there too.
The people who would be virtue signalling how dangerous covid is and we needed more lockdown , people who on social media were shaming teenagers, non mask wearers, conspiracy theorists or anybody with a view contrary to Nphet you know the type..

I fully respect people who are genuinely worried about covid and act accordingly so this isn't an attack on you.

But I really have a strong dislike now for people who follow "the rules" and shout about it - but think such cos the government said "open the pubs" that it is grand.

Covid is still there so i don't understand how it's any safer. So why are you out? Have you no critical thinking?

It just proves you are an easily led moron or a virtue signalling liar.

Just using extremely rare opportunity to say i'm completely agree with you

paw patrol · 07-12-2020 1:58pm

Thats me wrote: »

Just using extremely rare opportunity to say i'm completely agree with you

:D

PTH2009 · 07-12-2020 4:33pm

I wonder will many places open Xmas Eve and Stephens day

sasta le · 07-12-2020 4:39pm

PTH2009 wrote: »

I wonder will many places open Xmas Eve and Stephens day

The food novelty will wear off fast i was in a place at the weekend but the atmosphere at half 9 was dying fast
People will have so much food and drink stocked up at home for Christmas I can't see many going to the pub for a 9 euro meal

Pubs when/will they re-open - the Megathread

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