Morning/Daytime drunks...

flyton5 · 11-10-2010 2:28pm #1

In the last few weeks I've noticed a lot of people wandering about drunk fairly early the morning and it's really starting to bug me. I've got no problem with people having a few pints in the evening but staggering about Rathfarnham/Terenure at 11am on a Monday or Tuesday is a bit much. It's not just scumbag types either.

Anyone else noticed the sudden surge in early morning drunk types?

Canis Lupus · 11-10-2010 2:29pm

What else you gonna do on the dole?

Riamfada · 11-10-2010 2:31pm

Canis Lupus wrote: »

What else you gonna do on the dole?

these are up there with "yore ma" responses.

alwaysadub · 11-10-2010 2:31pm

It's debs season-are they young and dressed up?
How do you know its not people coming home from the night before?

WindSock · 11-10-2010 2:32pm

Why does it bug you? Is it because you pay your taxes....etc. And how dare they drink with your money...

Clearly they are really enjoying themselves with it.

chin_grin · 11-10-2010 2:32pm

Grimes wrote: »

these are up there with "yore ma" responses.

Yore dole.

Can't say I've noticed them as I'm working.

rossie1977 · 11-10-2010 2:33pm

when i lived in athlone this was a normal occurrence, i remember at approx 9am in tesco one morning the guy in front of him reeked of booze and had 6 cans in his hand, that was 2003

Gone Drinking · 11-10-2010 2:33pm

Could be people who work shift, getting pissed from 7am onwards, when they're finished work for the first time all weekend.

Then again, could be alcholics.

Why let it bug you? Unless they're doing something directly to you.

Riamfada · 11-10-2010 2:34pm

Do you know what really pisses me off. Homeless people.

The After Hours Troll · 11-10-2010 2:34pm

Gone Drinking wrote: »

Could be people who work shift, getting pissed from 7am onwards, when they're finished work for the first time all weekend.

Then again, could be alcholics.

Why let it bug you? Unless they're doing something directly to you.

Delicious username friend.

orourkeda · 11-10-2010 2:35pm

go on the few pints

Gone Drinking · 11-10-2010 2:35pm

Grimes wrote: »

Do you know what really pisses me off. Homeless people.

Yea! Who do they think they are, not having homes!

Lux23 · 11-10-2010 2:35pm

If its a Monday they may be pillheads who don't realise that it is already Monday.

jimthemental · 11-10-2010 2:35pm

I actually think the what else are they going to do on the dole comment is fairly on the money. Although it's probably just students.

flyton5 · 11-10-2010 2:39pm

WindSock wrote: »

Why does it bug you? Is it because you pay your taxes....etc. And how dare they drink with your money...

Clearly they are really enjoying themselves with it.

Nah nothing like that. I'm not sure why it bugs me tbh...it just does. If it's their dole money then they're free to spend it on whatever, but maybe keep it indoors?

One lad stopped me to ask the time and he was fairly well spoken but certainly not of debs going age. Probably mid to late 30's? I understand that maybe in certain cases they're going through a rough patch or whatever but getting rat arsed at 11am and falling about the place isn't gonna help the situation now is it?

Rented Mule · 11-10-2010 2:39pm

Not every works the traditional Monday to Friday 9:00am-5:00pm job.

Angron · 11-10-2010 2:40pm

There is one in the town where I live now who I've yet to have seen without something like Buckfast under his arm.

jimthemental · 11-10-2010 2:41pm

Denny M wrote: »

There is one in the town where I live now who I've yet to have seen without something like Buckfast under his arm.

If he stays drinking that stuff you mightn't be seeing him for long more!

Angron · 11-10-2010 2:42pm

jimthemental wrote: »

If he stays drinking that stuff you mightn't be seeing him for long more!

Aye, tis pretty awful stuff.

flyton5 · 11-10-2010 2:43pm

Rented Mule wrote: »

Not every works the traditional Monday to Friday 9:00am-5:00pm job.

I worked nights in a hospital a few years back and i used to have a beer or two in the morning when i'd get home but I wasn't staggering about the place locked out've my mind first thing in the morning...

Riamfada · 11-10-2010 2:44pm

I love how its grand when students on government funded education get drunk in the afternoon but when homeless people and alcoholics do it we automatically assume these people are dole wasters who couldnt be arsed getting work. A form of undermensch.

The After Hours Troll · 11-10-2010 2:44pm

Who is the OP to judge hard working people? Free country n all.

By the way always wanted to be a morning drunk. Putting it on my to do list.

jimthemental · 11-10-2010 2:45pm

In fairness I have been pissed like that one or two mornings at work. The kids on the bus don't seem to notice though.

WindSock · 11-10-2010 2:46pm

flyton5 wrote: »

I understand that maybe in certain cases they're going through a rough patch or whatever but getting rat arsed at 11am and falling about the place isn't gonna help the situation now is it?

Maybe tell them that and they'll stop and straighten themselves out.

Angron · 11-10-2010 2:47pm

Grimes wrote: »

I love how its grand when students on government funded education get drunk in the afternoon but when homeless people and alcoholics do it we automatically assume these people are dole wasters who couldnt be arsed getting work. A form of undermensch.

I'm a student, but I've never gone and gotten drunk in the morning/afternoon.

The After Hours Troll · 11-10-2010 2:49pm

Grimes wrote: »

I love how its grand when students on government funded education get drunk in the afternoon but when homeless people and alcoholics do it we automatically assume these people are dole wasters who couldnt be arsed getting work. A form of undermensch.

Cheers, nearly forgot about my grant application.

Canis Lupus · 11-10-2010 2:52pm

Grimes wrote: »

these are up there with "yore ma" responses.

Noooooooo... don't dump me in with them.

flyton5 · 11-10-2010 2:58pm

The After Hours Troll wrote: »

Who is the OP to judge hard working people? Free country n all.

Yeah he seemed pretty hard working alright.

WindSock wrote: »

Maybe tell them that and they'll stop and straighten themselves out.

Sounds like a plan...but on second thoughts i'll just leave it at an observation...

Lando Griffin · 11-10-2010 3:05pm

Maybe they are looking for their cars after they got a Taxi home from the pub the previous night.

thebigbiffo · 11-10-2010 3:48pm

i've been drunk at 11am - and enjoyed it. nothing like waking up after a great party and immediately hitting the beer, it can be better craic the next day! go on, tell me i'm wrong...anybody?

dont judge me OP...just dont judge me

stovelid · 11-10-2010 3:51pm

Shift workers.

df1985 · 11-10-2010 4:02pm

Denny M wrote: »

I'm a student, but I've never gone and gotten drunk in the morning/afternoon.

you're being a student wrong.

In fairness though OP, why let it affect you, theyre adults, they can do as they please. whats the difference in being drunk at 12 in the day or 12 at night???

Tchaikovsky · 12-10-2010 2:11am

flyton5 wrote: »

getting rat arsed at 11am and falling about the place

That's a national sport in the Czech Republic, so they must be Czechs.

Sharkey 10 · 12-10-2010 2:24am

Does no one else think its great drinking all day ?
Those marathon sessions can be really brilliant usually have to get some stimulants going around eight .

Forest Master · 12-10-2010 7:20am

Look at this guy - falling around pissed during the day. Someone filmed him from their car. Found it the other day - quite funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBS6DhYQ4p4

Ush1 · 12-10-2010 8:07am

Any chance they could just be groggy and tired in the morning?

I'd say I look locked when I first leave the house.

fakearms123 · 12-10-2010 8:38am

Leave them at it, just because these drunks are happier than you!

Sharkey 10 · 12-10-2010 5:13pm

Forest Master wrote: »

Look at this guy - falling around pissed during the day. Someone filmed him from their car. Found it the other day - quite funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBS6DhYQ4p4

That is quite funny but that appears to be late evening on a summers day. He looks like he wasnt planning on drinking could of been spontanous

AnonoBoy · 12-10-2010 5:16pm

Jealousy is a bitter twisted mistress OP - be careful!

th3 s1aught3r · 12-10-2010 5:24pm

flyton5 wrote: »

In the last few weeks I've noticed a lot of people wandering about drunk fairly early the morning and it's really starting to bug me. I've got no problem with people having a few pints in the evening but staggering about Rathfarnham/Terenure at 11am on a Monday or Tuesday is a bit much. It's not just scumbag types either.

Anyone else noticed the sudden surge in early morning drunk types?

Why does it bother you so much, they arent doing anything to you are they ?

citizen_p · 12-10-2010 5:25pm

its odd, i kinda like them, especially on the luas, always a party, or misery somwhere. but it always perks me up and i have good chats with them.

was on the luas the other day, it was packed with one seat left and a lot of people standing afraid to sit, i sat down and met a lad with 200 euro of weed in his sock (couldnt tell how much ther was really no good with drugs but he certinaly was a bag of somthing in his sock), nice lad, he was 35, recently back from liverpool, where he told me he was claiming under 3 names and an interesting scam involving fake police IDs and prostitutes friend in order to scam men cheating on their wife. his friend however died of deep vein trambosis (?) and it touched him dearly. hi Tommy if your on boards.

Degsy · 12-10-2010 5:28pm

flyton5 wrote: »

but staggering about Rathfarnham/Terenure at 11am on a Monday or Tuesday is a bit much. It's not just scumbag types either.

I'm in Terenure quite a bit and i have to say you do see a shocking amount of drunks in the area but surprisingly none of them are scumbag types..most of them seem to be people in thier 50's and quite well-to-do looking.

There are two pubs in terenure that always seem to have drunk blokes outside in the daytime..again,fairly posh-looking sorts.

squeakyduck · 12-10-2010 6:58pm

I've noticed this, they are probably too scared to get out of their drunken stupor in case they realise how crap their life is.

I understand late bars if there is a session on, the same with lock ins. But early bars confuse me, I'd feel like utter crap drinking at like 8 in the morning. There is an early bar on the quays somewhere near the four courts and there is always dodgy looking characters having a smoke with their pint in hand when I'm heading into work in the morning!

Sofiztikated · 12-10-2010 7:06pm

I just got to about post 6 and replied, so pardon.

Why does it bother you? Because you're sober? Would it help if it was a Friday, and they were wankered at about 11pm?

But then again, what about the sober people on a Friday? Should they feel the same about you?

My "weekends" consist of usually Tuesday and Wednesday. If I'm working nights, why shouldn't I have a beverage or 2 at 8am on a Tuesday morning? And if I consume a little more than I should, and get a little tipsy, should I stay indoors in case I offend you?

Should drinking just be confined to the hours of 7pm Friday to 11pm Sunday night? D'you know its hard enough for people like myself to have a "life" outside work when I'm work ~50 odd hours, with erratic days off and shifts that change weekly because thats the nature of hospitality work.

Morning/Daytime drunks...

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