Yep. Add the 3% income tax rate into the mix and the pubs will be quiet enough in a few months when people start going over to the lad with the ooni and whoâs wife can mix balsamic vinegar and olive oil.
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Pubs are finished. This will be the last hurrah. Like the Catholic Church when JP2 visited.
For all the violin playing about the plight of the youngâŠ
Hate typing it but does seem inevitable doesnât it?
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Legalise cannabis and tax it. Stop increasingly burdeninh the working and middle ckasses with more taxes. Win win win
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You would think so but I was taking to a publican during the week who told me he sold as many takeaway pints last weekend as be would have at peak Xmas weekend in the pub normally. In Dublin.
Novelty factor maybe but people still want to socialise in groups with a chance of meeting others
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Aye. Fuckit. Sure I reckon I could philosophise away manys a tax if I was aÄșl toked up
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Itâs amazing Europe has ignored North America on this.
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They sort of have
Heâs one of very few pubs open.
Pre pandemic going out for a hape of pints in Dublin was becoming silly money. People will go mad for a few months and then realise itâs money better spent elsewhere
Itâs the sense of adventure that pubs bring is whatâs it all about.
You never know who youâll bump into on your merry way.
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Thatâs all grand, the brain boost and social warmth off a joint with good trusted company is marvellous - but occasions decline as you get older.
A pint or 3 at the right time around the right event or with the right person is something you take with you for longer I think from a gathering memory pov.
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FOGO will replace FOMO
Hold the front page
The answer more often than not is nobody youâd remember.
The best pints are the ones from 4pm to 8pm
December in any city you lived near when youâd run into someone was smashing.
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The pints between 4pm and 8pm are the best because there is a sense of the night being still pregnant with promise and thereâs a giddiness about where the night will take you.
Hence the importance of pubs and late bars.
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8pm is 1996 and youâll never hit the heights of Definitely Maybe. The moment you realise this youâll be a man my friend.
Thatâs maybe why we have to walk this getting old thing together, lads
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