Lunchtime drinking

You air traffic controllers are a crazy bunch!

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That was me you little bastard

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Farking wuuses - I’m shitfaced on the way to work!

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Originally posted by @CB-Saint

Originally posted by @BTripz

When I worked for a company that had an office at Town Quay we popped next door to the Platform Tavern for a work colleagues birthday, this was at about lunchtime.

At 16:30 we got a call off of one of our bosses wondering where we were. When we explained, quite drunkely, they came down and joined us and even bought a round. I seem to remember getting the last train home to Poole, just…

We were all bollocked the next day though!!

That was me you little bastard

And may I say what a great boss you were!! What happened to your South African accent though??

Something’s got to make chasing rabbits down holes all day seem interesting…

The old saying No smoking 10 hours before a duty and no drinking within 100 yards of the Control Tower :cool:

That was me you little bliksem?

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More of a guideline than a rule

:lou_wink:

I did a stint in Crouch End, working for a bunch of 1st and 2nd generation Irish guys and they’d be on it most lunchtimes. I couldn’t keep up with them, they were a couple of leagues above me in the drinking stakes.

And they’d fuck off back home at the drop of a hat, for a couple of weeks, to go on the piss, often taking one of the labourers along with them to act as their driver. They’d never tell me either. I’d often turn up on a Monday morning for a client meeting on my own as Joe or Tommy had gone home for a “little rest”, along with the company credit card and a couple of fellas to drive them around.

These days, I can’t go back to work if i have taken a drink at lunchtime. I have to bin the rest of the day off or carry on in the pub.

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Originally posted by @Numptyboi

or carry on in the pub.

without wishing to sound like a seasoned boozehound, there is a certain exciting frisson about doing this. Problem nowadays is the hangover kicks in before bedtime…

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Generally frowned upon in the NHS, and even if we were allowed to drink at lunchtime I don’t think I would, as I need that half an hour to stuff my face with cake and crisps.

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Well, beer is a food group all of its own, fill of micro nutrients and stuff. It also makes me piss a lot which is a good aid to help weight loss…after all isn’t the NHS continually banging on about us losing weight and cutting down on alcohol…oh, wait…

:lou_facepalm_2:

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I should add they don’t sell alcohol in the canteen. They do sell cake and crisps. Cake is good for you and crisps have as much vitamin C as an orange.

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Isn’t beer a diuretic, at least it feels like it is after the 3rd pint.

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I used to work for a well known medical charity in central London. They had a snooker table and bar which was open lunchtimes and after work. They used to let us have a bar tab - paid off monthly. They also had weekly whole staff meetings followed by free beer for 2 hours - I used to sneak my mates in. I spent 5 years working there in my early 20s. It was fucking brilliant.

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Good to know our donations are being put to good use :lou_wink_2:

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Bladders lack self confidence and easily succumb to ‘pee-er pressure’.

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Forget Lunch Time Drinking.

How about anytime between 5am and 10am when going on holiday at an airport.

It’s brilliant. It seems to be perfectly normal behaviour, nobody bats an eyelid as you sink a couple of pre flight Pints at 7am

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I get rat arsed on the way to work and rat arsed on the way back

The 28 days between the two is stone cold sobriety though :lou_sad:

Have to admit to a pang of jealousy - Mrs C_S & kids frown on it if I suggest a brace before the flight. We’re going on holiday after all…

Worse is turning up at Aberdeen airport when the guys come off-rig and are waiting for flights home…very messy. There’s me in a suit going back down sarf to the office and they’re off their tits at stupid o’clock in the morning - jealous doesn’t even start to describe it…

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