I'll bet they get quite the crowd for "Ladies' Night".

"Sometimes a bar is a place where people go when they're down," she said.

Ric would be so proud.

The Market Cross pub in Carlisle.

I'm strangely not surprised.

I guess they're trying to reconnect with us Irish folks.

//Surprised the HERO tag wasn't available for this one.

strangeguitar: I'll bet they get quite the crowd for "Ladies' Night".

Preach

Beer=truth

They have some decent house brews and their burgers are great.

I thought the bar was where all non-Catholics went for confession.

It calls to mind that scene from 'The Simpsons Movie', where, upon imminent disaster, the churchgoers run next door to the bar, and the bar drunks run into the church. An apt depiction, I think.

zeeman101: Beer=truth

I have always wondered why there was such an effort to create a 'truth drug'. Just get 'em drunk.

Oh good. the vicar won't be coming up to you and groping you. Just a ear to talk too.

/Keep out of the soup kitchen cause the preachers , for some reason, keep preaching to people who would rather eat than poke out their ear drums and eat than listen to the bible crud..

if you make a confession while drunk does it still count?

FF Mac: I guess they're trying to reconnect with us Irish folks.

A proper Irish Catholic makes time for both drinking and church.

/ So I put a button in th' plate
// An' spewed up in th' church

This is a win. Too many times I've run into people at bars drunk off their gourds, and thinking I'm some kind of confessional booth to spill all their problems on. I like that there will be someone designated for this role.

/Doesn't do bars anymore
//I'm a lush magnet
///Why does everyone think I'm a good person to tell about all their problems?
>>>>Broken slashies!

FF Mac: I guess they're trying to reconnect with us Irish folks.

//Surprised the HERO tag wasn't available for this one.

Agreed, should have got the hero tag.

damn does this mean i have to avoid bars now too?

i'm a girl so i guess this means i can't even get a grope while i'm pouring my heart out. forget it.

Ideal venue:

In NYC, I used to go to a place called the North Star Pub, down at the South Street Seaport. There was a guy who used to go there called "Father Mack". He was the drinkingest Irish Catholic priest I ever saw, always smoked a big briar pipe, and was a hell of a nice guy. On Boxing Day, he'd lay out the altar trappings on the bar, and invite anyone in who wanted to partake in Mass in the pub before the festivities began.

Man, I miss that place.

But that means we have to go back to the bar from the hotel.

That's awesome!

Beer is proof God wants you to be happy.

/or something like that.
//I am happy.

If God had wanted us to go to churches, they would have stripper poles and infinity pools with swim-up bars.

sweettits

*grope*

Cue Tim Wilson: "1st Baptist Bar & Grill"

Awesome, helping people, Awesome

Hmm, not so useful for me. Almost all my sins are committed shortly after LEAVING a bar.

Good idea even if it's just for the therapeutic purposes, just as long as they wait for someone to come to them rather than seeking someone out.

sweettits: damn does this mean i have to avoid bars now too?

i'm a girl so i guess this means i can't even get a grope while i'm pouring my heart out. forget it.

If you're ever in Austin look me up.

I'd confess that these have led me into temptation:

Sounds like a good cover to let the "chaplains" hang out in the bars.

Thats it farkers its time we were saved from the wrath of hell by getting shiat faced.

tkohl: Cue Tim Wilson: "1st Baptist Bar & Grill"

Exactly (new window)

The Market Cross is awesome. I used to be a regular there when I lived in Carlisle. Very cool place. My old minister used to play bagpipes there on open mic night.

buserror: Ideal venue:

In my perfect world, all the churches have been converted to pubs!

lenfromak: In my perfect world, all the churches have been converted to pubs!

I'd say that in my perfect world, most churches would be torn down as architectural blight, and those that remain would be mostly art museums and put to other useful purposes...

Eh. I came in to say something about "in vino veritas...

/guess I have now

Since one would have to be incredibly stupid and/or shiatfaced to believe in the zombie cult's cause, I'm not very surprised.

I thought that was what the bartender was for...

/DNRTFA

Well, given that the central ritual of the Christian church had its origins in a drunken party, I don't see what's so odd about this. Substitute beer & pretzels for the wine & wafers and you're there.

sweettits: damn does this mean i have to avoid bars now too?

i'm a girl so i guess this means i can't even get a grope while i'm pouring my heart out. forget it.

How YOU doin'?

What a delightful masterpiece of a photograph entitled "Draft beer being drawn into glass, June 12, 1998."

I don't think I would have recognized it otherwise.