is it true?

drunkenfool

is it true that the bar on campus in UL was shutdown?

kaimera

which bar?

rumour was the scholars was closing but haven't heard anything in months about it.

Mr. CooL ICE

Scholars is closed for the summer, stables was closed for the last few weeks, but that was due to renovation. Its open again.

Peteee

Rennovation?

kaimera

the jocks prolly did damage there pete after exams or summet

Peteee

kaimera wrote:

the jocks prolly did damage there pete after exams or summet

Translation: "The sports fans probably damaged the premises," He said to Peter "after their examinations or something"

Wait...whose pete?!?

kaimera

dumbass with teh double post!

if I'd been quick I'd have screenshot ya bai

whos this 'peter' that it is you speak of?

IceHawk

I was in the stables last night. They've revarnished the floors. Nothing else much has changed. Scholars is still closed.

GreenHell

Scholars has really gone down hill over the last two years. Food was **** inside there last year and the music is crap. They really need to do something about a smoking area as well.

Dave

The scholars has probably the best food on campus. Far nicer than the stables muck and the paddocks.

GreenHell

They got new catering people in after christmas, food was ****e after that.

Dave

Regardless it still beats the Stables and the Paddocks.

GreenHell

Eat at home/Sports bar/Csis/Rolls from the shop/The bins across from laundret beat the pants off stables, scholars and the paddock for food.

IceHawk

Paddock is ok if you get there early enough, about 12:00 is good. I think the sports bar is the best place for food on campus, although I fell in love with the sizzling sausage company for a while. Good value food there, and it's generally not bad.

PlasseyMinstrel

The chicken rolls in the SU are easily the greatest food on campus. And in the world in general.

Scholars does some fantastic breakfast, always has.

I'll miss those two while on coop!

gaf1983

All I eat is a €1.20 sausage baguette from the students union shop and either a pint of milk or a yop. The best value in Ireland. Most shops wouldn't spit on you for €1.20.

martyFarty

Garlic and Cheese "diced" potato from the paddocks. well dacent

Zapho

gaf1983 wrote:

All I eat is a €1.20 sausage baguette from the students union shop and either a pint of milk or a yop. The best value in Ireland. Most shops wouldn't spit on you for €1.20.

Remember when it used to cost €1.00?
Or when the wedge roll was only €1.70?
I used to eat that all the time until they hiked it up to €3.50. Ya see first, they get ya hooked, and then bam! Sorry for going off topic...

natter

Zapho wrote:

Ya see first, they get ya hooked, and then bam!

The hot chicken roll being a perfect example of this. It was €4 last year, I heard stories of €2 or €2.50 the year before I started. True it is the most wonderful food that can be got on campus, my personal favourite combination of mayonaize, cheese and stuffing, drooling at just the thought, but thats no reason to fleese us hungry students.

kodute

Scholars has closed down due to lack of money. it was the best food on campus...

kaimera

kodute wrote:

Scholars has closed down due to lack of money. it was the best food on campus...

wtf?
have you anything to back this up?

Mr. CooL ICE

I really find that hard to believe. The place was always packed at lunchtime! Noo!!!

RIP taco fries

Peteee

kodute wrote:

Scholars has closed down due to lack of money. it was the best food on campus...

You'd best be lying

kodute

i have rumours, hear-say and conjecture. but mostly a guy heard off a guy who worked there.

i love taco fries...

Mr. CooL ICE

Well that settles that, then. Purple monkey dishwasher.

Zapho

kodute wrote:

Scholars has closed down due to lack of money. it was the best food on campus...

I'm sorry, you're gonna have to repeat that

440Hz

Iv seen cleaning ppl going in and out of the scholars lately tho - looked like they were getting ready to re-open. i just presumed it was closed for the summer! - thats gotta be it

kodute

Maybe they were cleaning stuff out of the place, chairs, taps, etc. How do you know? Ive got hear-say (not the band) on my side.

440Hz

hmmmm - they would never close it. what are the choices then: poppy stables or preppy sports bar!! (oops, bet im in trouble now). but where do the anti-sheep go now?

GreenHell

Hurlers?

keevita

really?? but scholars is part of dolans, and the last time i checked dolans were doing very well for themselves

kodute

yes dolans is doing well, but if scholars isn't then why continue with it draining dolans money?

Zapho

If Dolans sold Scholars, it doesn't necessarily mean that its gonna stay closed. Somebody is bound to jump at the chance to run a bar on campus. Look how well the Stables is doing, that takes in some amount of cash!

Mr. CooL ICE

Yeah kodute, ive got the feeling that youre talking out of your ass.

kodute

you like feeling YOUR ass. Oooh yeah


nah seriously thats what i heard from someone in the (supposed) know.
Don't shoot the messenger.

440Hz

Scholars has def gotta be taking in loads of cash - think bout the food alone, that brings in a fair penny id say. maybe the question is not what they are taking in, but what they cld be pissing it away on?? im sure they have no probs making the cash... all the same tho, i wld be really surprised if it doesnt open soon

Zapho

Unless someone had the idea to open up a juice bar <.....pause for reaction.....> seen as
they were suggesting it for so long. Or maybe a snooker club! Now that wouldn't be
so bad!

Peteee

The scholars has gotta be raking in the cash, sure its not as popular as the stables, but it's plenty popular, to keep afloat at the very least.

kaimera

ehh... ^^^^ ditto.

*shrug*

keevita

good things about scholars
1)they do the decent end of lots of musical styles.
2)they dont serve wheatgerm juice of whatever it is these juice bars sell.
3)fine big hairy pint of fosters for only €3
4)the food, naturally
5)the drinking game u play with the straw to see how wasted u are.(i am aware it has a much nobler cause, but 'who's the drunkest' competitions are funny, and i defy anyone who tells me they're nay so.)
5)each to their own, but i far prefer scholars to stables, due to the lesser amounts of eejits peeing against doors on a thursday night.
6)the gravy.

kaimera

keevita wrote:

good things about scholars
5)the drinking game u play with the straw to see how wasted u are.(i am aware it has a much nobler cause, but 'who's the drunkest' competitions are funny, and i defy anyone who tells me they're nay so.)
5)each to their own, but i far prefer scholars to stables, due to the lesser amounts of eejits peeing against doors on a thursday night.

*chuckle*

teh drinking game is always a good reason to go

oh, and the lack of eejits is very true.

IceHawk

Ah, yes, I'd forgotten the gravy. The consistency of tar, and the taste of heaven. Scholars, we hardly knew thee.

Seriously*, The scholars only did good business five nights a week, for about eight months of the year, so it's quite possible that while it was making money over the term, it was losing money overall. Plus, how many pint glasses have 'disappeared' from there over the years? It must be thousands. That was probably the final crippling blow to the owners. Shame on you all who took glasses :mad:

I'm staying resolutely cynical about it closing though. Some would call it denial. I call it 'Pretending it won't happen in the hope that it might come true'.

*Actually, I don't want to imply that I don't take the gravy seriously, because I do.

Mr. CooL ICE

I know someone who stole a staplegun from scholars. Is that why theyre in financial difficulty? And is that someone going to go to hell?

Peteee

IceHawk wrote:

Plus, how many pint glasses have 'disappeared' from there over the years? It must be thousands. That was probably the final crippling blow to the owners. Shame on you all who took glasses :mad:

/me hangs head in shame

440Hz

well worst case scenario (it does close) then at least you got some memorabilia Petee. you could see whatever you've got on boards and give the money to the owners of scholars as penance!!
same goes for stapler boy/girl

kodute

ah i too must admit my part in the downfall of the scholars, we have one of those cloth Heineken railing banners adorning our sitting room. The financial burden of having to replace their queueing system might have been too much.

Peteee

440Hz wrote:

well worst case scenario (it does close) then at least you got some memorabilia Petee. you could see whatever you've got on boards and give the money to the owners of scholars as penance!!
same goes for stapler boy/girl

Dammned if I can remember which glass it was.

In fact it was probably smashed that night we broke all those glasses last year!

I took a crap load of beermats one night too! Or maybe it was the time I pillaged them for about 4 _free_ Coors lights one night.

Has anyone actually confirmed its closed properly or is it still all rumour and innuendo?

kaimera

dont worry about pint glasses.

I'll bring a case with me when I go down

Zapho

I nearly got one of those Erdinger glasses. I had the great idea to hide it in a bag belonging to a girl I didn't know when she wasn't looking. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

And whats this about the gravy? You're right IceHawk, it does have the consistancy of tar, and to me it also tasted like tar leaving me to believe that it was infact, tar! And then you get people ordering a plate of chips and gravy, thats what ketchup is for people!

440Hz

Zapho wrote:

I nearly got one of those Erdinger glasses.

ooohhh they are the job - i *borrowed* a whole load of em from the Star when I was in UCC - I remember walking out one tues afternoon around 3pm with one shoved up my top thinking that it was stealth op #1!! - hmmmmm, looking back im not so sure... perhaps i was spotted, but hey i still got the glasses

440Hz

well... insider info says yes, scholars is def closed for the forseeable future. pending interest...