Why do young fellas going out drinking not bring coats anymore?

Showing off the guns, baby, showing off the guns.

Ah, it's no different to young wans wearing tiny dresses that barely cover anything, just showing off a bit for attention. And logically speaking, I'd say the 5 minutes cold would probably be worth it for the couple of hours in a warm to stiflingly hot pub/club and not having to take off and misplace/have robbed a nice jumper/jacket.

Ah sure, everything is in the cloud these days.

Cause less of them are smoking, so they're not outside in the cold.

Easier to have a sneaky vape inside.

I always found bringing a coat on a night out a bit of a pain.

One is you generally go from the taxi/bus directly into pub/club.

Then you've to decide what to do with the jacket. Do you give it into a cloak room or mind it for the night and then possibly forget it.

Then there's trying to pick what style of jacket to wear. You mightn't have one appreciate.

Once your drinking and moving around you generally don't really feel the cold.

A lot of people do, and a lot of jackets get left behind

Same here. I don't drink so if I am going out I drive to wherever it is and go in, no need for a jacket, even if its a night out in Dublin. I can deal with a bit of rain and cold for a few minutes while I make my way from the carpark to wherever I am going.

This has been going on for years in the UK. I remember when I moved over there in 2000 and was going out at the start I would bring a jacket and the lads would laugh at me coming into the pub with my jacket. Oh the shame. 😀

Years of listening to the Sultans of Ping have them worried in case to go to the disco

I imagine the percentage of people that have coats robbed or lost is minute…

My own thoughts is they wish to appear hard, like the cold isn’t bothering them. And possibly to show off a physique…Which doesn’t make much sense… as any physique will be more on show and indeed accessible to people indoors.. where a coat is not required.

if I was a girl and saw a fella in freezing conditions standing outside a pub or club in just a shirt or tshirt, I’d presume as I do now as a guy that that fella was a bit touched, and not in the way he’d probably like to be…same as I do any girl if she just had a skimpy dress and no coat / jacket… in the middle of winter… saps and oddballs every last one….

that said I’ve got quite a collection of stylish jackets and coats especially winter and autumn ones and it’s from my perspective a comfy and practical joy to be wrapped up in them, when required.

As for theft…. Just go into pub - find table - sit down - going to get a drink, bathroom break, smoke….a person remains watching drinks, coats and bags…. So that’s quite an easy, tried and tested and effective way to ensure nothing gets half inched… 🤪 and everyone leaves with their stuff….

vanity and a misplaced lofty ideal of oneself is the only logical explanation to the coatless cohort but that is partly the hipster gobshîte way…. AttentionAttentionAttention….. they crave it. No matter what the outcome, inconvenience or consequences….or ridiculousness.

I saw one in GAA shorts and GAA t shirt in the pissing rain one day, he wasn't even trying to take shelter, you could tell by the look of him he thought he was the bee knees. sad ejit.

You see guys in their 50s with the shorts in Feb look, trying to look youthful and hard.

Whatever about coats, the clowns wh won't wear socks deserve nothing but mockery and abuse.

myself i call them gobshites but z-lister will do

What’s the going rate per item to check it in to a club cloakroom these days? I remember it being 50p (back in the 90s)

I always bring a cloak.

I’m not really young anymore but there are 2 reasons for myself anyway, I’m rarely cold and I’ve lost every jacket I’ve ever taken out

I've never got the losing it concept. I know pubs and clubs can overdo the heat so it must be freezing the second you walk out the door.

As a side note I used to manage pubs and the amount of passports that were found at the end of the night always baffled me. Most of them were foreign and never claimed. How do you not ring the place you were in the next day to get it back or were you so messed up you can't remember being there.

What happened the passports that were never claimed?

They just sat in a drawer in the office. The embassys had no interest when we called them.

shoplifters coat too

2 euro.

was charged 8 euro a few years ago because they were running out of space. 😡