Dromed Advanced Member Posts:900  
| 4/16/2003 11:53 AM |
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I know this site is music related...but can I ask what you all make of the draconian drinking laws that our country have goin on when it comes to religous holidays? It's a joke. No gargle cos it's good friday, everyone goes out and panic buys and then proceeds to get scuttered all day friday with their off-licence carry out from the day before? I don't get it. I know we should be able to cope without being able to buy drink for one day but that's not really the point...the fact that we can't cos it's a christian holiday really bugs me....I'm not a christian and neither are many people in this country but cos of the church/state laws it applies to everyone...can christians not just not buy/sell/drink gargle on those days instead? If Ireland is supposed to progress in any kind of a modern society the laws have to change.
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flagman Basic Member Posts:150
| 4/16/2003 12:31 PM |
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If you asked a barman they'd probably be in favour of it as it's the only holiday besides Christmas Day that they know they don't have to work.
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dirtypropagandaBasic Member Posts:183
| 4/16/2003 1:13 PM |
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ah yes.. the barman...the administrator of the pint...the duteous nave that toils in the smoke and the smell and the overbaring sound of shyte talk in the back ground just to serve us in our quest to escape to a more bareable state of consiousness than the one that governs our predominantly miserable lives.
whoever stops to ponder what makes them tick...whose gonna drive THEM home...tonight?? barmen are real people too..not just the blurrey slaves that shovel poison our throats....the have real feelings...they deserve at least two days off a year dont they?
f**k THOSE BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OPEN THE PUS ON GOOD FRIDAY EVEN THE GOOD LORD HIMSELF DOES BE GUMMIN FOR A PINT! XMAS TOO..THE ONE DAY OF THE YEAR ID ACTUALLY HACK OF MY LEFT NUT TO ESCAPE FROM MY FAMILY TO WALLOW IN THE GLORY OF THE BOOZER...GET THE s**t TOGETHER..IT MAKES US LOOK BAD AS A NATION
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Vent My SpleenAdvanced Member Posts:500
| 4/16/2003 2:18 PM |
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Good friday sucks. The governments anti-binge drinking laws are draconian. Dublin is no more or less safe than when the pubs closed at 11:30 sharp. Do they really think people will drink less because the pubs colse earlier? In the dark old days, we drank more efficiently.
As a matter of interest, when was the last time anyone say a police presence on our main thoroughfares after dark?
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DromedAdvanced Member Posts:900
| 4/16/2003 2:42 PM |
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I'm not really bothered about whether the barmen do or don't get a day off...I'm more bothered about the fact that we can't go to the pub on this particular day cos the church says so.
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vandalaBasic Member Posts:267
| 4/16/2003 6:13 PM |
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It's got nothing to do with the church: there are no christian teachings whatsoever that demand abstaining from alcohol on Good Friday. It's a statutory thing, admittedly related to the "special relationship" enshrined between church and state, but that's it.
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DromedAdvanced Member Posts:900
| 4/17/2003 9:02 AM |
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It still smells of poo
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mickBasic Member Posts:411
| 4/17/2003 2:51 PM |
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when i'm not being a famous-between-my-close-friends-and-family rock star i work in an ol' offo and i wish we opened on good friday. its easily 3 times as busy tonight(holy thurs) then it should be and it just means i've to sweat my b****x off all evening when it could be spread nice and pretty like over two days
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