Wakes

[maggiebee]

This report in a local newspaper makes me very sad. Is alcohol such a big part of our lives that we will go to these lengths to drink with friends? Makes us sound like a nation of alcoholics.


"Tayside pub owners have been warned to be on their guard against desperate drinkers fabricating funerals in order to enjoy an indoor pint.

It is understood pub-goers missing their local have been going to extreme lengths to get back to propping up the bar amid the coronavirus clampdown, including hiring function halls for fake wakes.

It comes after the Scottish Government imposed severe new restrictions on bars and restaurants last week, including banning indoor alcohol sales for 16 days.

Exemptions include for significant “life events” including weddings and funerals, when up to 20 guests can be sold alcohol until 10pm."

[Zacs-Master]

Human ingenuity isn’t always used for good.

[lady-janine]

What sad people. Do they have no other life?

[teacake44]

Yes you're dead right, there's more fuss being kicked up about not being able to go to the pub than covid itself, more so in this country than any other. I'm sure some would rather see the supermarket close than the pub, pathetic really.

[gulliver1]

Why don't people drink at Home, as well as working from Home. Easy.

[Chinajan]

Sad to see the traditions so well documented by the esteemed McGonagall have all but disappeared:

'Take him for all in all, he was a very good man,
And during his Provostship he couldn’t be equalled in Great Britain,
Which I proclaim to the world without any dread,
Because while Provost he reduced the public-houses to three hundred.

Whereas at the time there were 620 public-houses in the town,
But being a friend of the temperance cause he did frown,
Because he saw the evils of intemperance every day
While sitting on the bench, so he resolved to sweep public-houses away.'

[rockyracoon]

Is it loneliness as much as the need for drink, maybe? Our local is full of people that live on their own, they meet in the pub 2-3 times a week, watch the sport and have a good natter. Now they are in the position of not being able to meet up at all (I know 2 of them can form a bubble, but that's not going to happen) and I worry for them to be honest. If I go round for a drink, Mr RR and I are the only ones that are from the same household.

[teacake44]

rocky, its not the older/ live alone people that are creating the problem, its the idiots that get half cut before they even go out at night, then create problems to the early hours, that have spoiled it for all.

[gulliver1]

11.55 Agree with you ,a lot of people use pubs for the company , there are a lot of lonely people out there who go into pubs and are not hiss astists as, is being suggested by some on this post.

[vulcan42]

gulliver, if you agree that people go to pubs for companionship, why do you suggest they should drink at home?

[gulliver1]

12.11 Vulcan 42 , because the Pubs are closed , think about it.

[retrocop]

I do not attend wakes. Period. I don't believe in them. I often attend ex-colleagues funerals these days and prefer to drink in my own company, in my own local and use my own money.

[Peter Pedant]

// I often attend ex-colleagues funerals these days and prefer to drink in my own company, in my own local and use my own money.//

hmm - I have missed the wakes of a few great and good - and thought they were so good and so great that if they resurrect I will go at them with a spade .....