Ah we've all been there, you start with one lose count, start at zero so you have one then it's 11, soon you think you're back at zero or so you think, you have 4 or 5 and it's actually 45
In olden days (think my childhood 1950's/1960's) Guinness was prescribed for people with stomach complaints, nursing mothers and it was even on offer to blood donors. I gave my first 'pint' of blood aged 16 and received my first 'legal' alcoholic drink in the form of a bottle of Stout as a pick-me-up to replace the loss of blood! Slán agus saol agat/Here's to your health!
A long time ago, when I turned 16 my Nan told me I was too thin and advised drinking a bottle of stout a day as a “bone building tonic” that’d help put on a bit of weight. Half hoping she might act on it, I passed it onto me mum when I got home. She knocked it back point blank, saying it was a load of cobblers and she’d gotten the same advice when pregnant with me. When, on my next visit, I told Nan of the exchange, she fumed and retorted “And if she’d taken that advice, you might not be so fecking skinny” 🤣
Credit the author, the great Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan). This poem he titled "The Workman's Friend," and it appeared in O'Brien's antic novel "At Swim-two-birds." He wrote several other comic, satirical novels, and for years wrote a column in the Irish Times that contained some of the funniest writing ever committed in English (as well as Irish and Latin). James Joyce thought O'Brien/O'Nolan the funniest writer of his time.
(Ronnie) When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the dark of night - A pint of plain is your only man. (Barney) Well, when money is tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have left is a heap of debt - A pint of plain is your only man. (John) When health is bad and your heart feels strange, And your face is pale and wan, When doctors say that you need a change - A pint of plain is your only man. (Seán) When food is scarce and your larder bare And no rashers grease your pan, When hunger grows and your meals are rare - A pint of plain is your only man. (Ronnie) In time of trouble and lousey strife, You've still got a darlint plan You still can turn to a brighter life - A pint of plain is your only man.
@@jordanbabcock9349I'm no fan of smoking but I'd give anything to go back to them smelling of cigars and cigarettes over the god awful cleaning fluid most pubs stink of now. It's rank.
@@ens0246 cigars create ambiance... Cigarettes kill everything lol. I definitely miss many things, just specifically hate the smell of a cigarette. Cigars people enjoy...so they smoke nice, great aroma etc. Cigarettes is the smell of someone letting off desperation, hatred..etc
I wish I had a pint of plain, but Guinness is quite expensive. have to drink budweiser, which like the Pythons said "Is like making love in a canoe.... F**king close to water"
A pint of plain can be anything you want that's cheap and on tap. It translates to "whatever you usually drink". Though, Bud is probably a bit TOO plain, in all honesty.
Guinness is a "stout". Plain was a "porter". facebook.com/100865096953196/posts/1084591081913921/?sfnsn=scwspwa&d=w&vh=e&extid=QGhnmjNzvoeDlh3R&d=w&vh=e explains the difference
My auld fella knew an Oughterard man who drank 25 pints a day for 50 years and was the designated driver to the Galway Races, where he'd only have 10 pints before driving the mini bus and another 10 before driving everyone home
All that bullshit and no answer to where you can get your handson the money for a pint of plain..and correct me if I'm wrong something about hunger thrown in there aswell 🤣🤣
And for those that wonder, "plain" does not mean Guinness per se. It's your standard order. Which, to me, probably means London Pride, what with being the one most likely on tap.
What the hell does London Pride have to do with anything. I doubt anyone ever wondered really as they are all drinking pints of Guinness in the video...
@@IMC71no he's right, as u have to look at it from a Demographic, Statistical and Social point of view to really get how much Damage and uphevel it has done to our Psyche as people. I like a Pint myself and I've thought it's no harm until I tried to commit, well I'm still hear and it wasn't because of Alchohol!
45 pints of plain in about two hours
Cian Delaney hahahaha made my day this comment did 😂😂 and a packet a crisps
Ah we've all been there, you start with one lose count, start at zero so you have one then it's 11, soon you think you're back at zero or so you think, you have 4 or 5 and it's actually 45
beamerball666 Not sure you get it.
@@tubbyrainbow111 Crips
Ronnie goes at it often and very hard 😂
When virus is rife
And it fucks up life
A pint of plain
Is hard to obtain
But if we get the jab, now that sounds a plan, pretty soon, a pint of plain is your only man 🍺
When with masks
We were tasked
And no one knew the plan
Twas then that we learnt
The pint of plain is
Yer only man
lol this is brilliant
Flann o Brien and the Dubliners, great embassadors for Ireland, and I am not kidding.
Ah, Jaysus. Back when a pint didn't cost as much as a house.
In olden days (think my childhood 1950's/1960's) Guinness was prescribed for people with stomach complaints, nursing mothers and it was even on offer to blood donors. I gave my first 'pint' of blood aged 16 and received my first 'legal' alcoholic drink in the form of a bottle of Stout as a pick-me-up to replace the loss of blood! Slán agus saol agat/Here's to your health!
Only ended in 2010
Hahaha i love this country @@oscarosullivan4513
A long time ago, when I turned 16 my Nan told me I was too thin and advised drinking a bottle of stout a day as a “bone building tonic” that’d help put on a bit of weight.
Half hoping she might act on it, I passed it onto me mum when I got home. She knocked it back point blank, saying it was a load of cobblers and she’d gotten the same advice when pregnant with me.
When, on my next visit, I told Nan of the exchange, she fumed and retorted “And if she’d taken that advice, you might not be so fecking skinny” 🤣
Hear, Hear for the Wisdom of Gran! 😁👌@@helixator3975
Credit the author, the great Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan). This poem he titled "The Workman's Friend," and it appeared in O'Brien's antic novel "At Swim-two-birds." He wrote several other comic, satirical novels, and for years wrote a column in the Irish Times that contained some of the funniest writing ever committed in English (as well as Irish and Latin). James Joyce thought O'Brien/O'Nolan the funniest writer of his time.
Ronnie Drew the best Pintman of all time
LIke a "pintman" is an actual thing. FFS, cheesey beyond belief.
@@johnnyrocker7495 your nannys chewing muck
A Great pinting man of Ireland
@@johnnyrocker7495You've clearly never heard of Paddy Losty
(Ronnie)
When things go wrong and will not come right,
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the dark of night -
A pint of plain is your only man.
(Barney)
Well, when money is tight and is hard to get
And your horse has also ran,
When all you have left is a heap of debt -
A pint of plain is your only man.
(John)
When health is bad and your heart feels strange,
And your face is pale and wan,
When doctors say that you need a change -
A pint of plain is your only man.
(Seán)
When food is scarce and your larder bare
And no rashers grease your pan,
When hunger grows and your meals are rare -
A pint of plain is your only man.
(Ronnie)
In time of trouble and lousey strife,
You've still got a darlint plan
You still can turn to a brighter life -
A pint of plain is your only man.
Flann O'Brien interpreted by Dubliners! Manna from heaven!
You can smell the Guinness farts from here.
Awh the glory days when you could smoke in a pub. These days you're lucky to drink in a pub.🤣
Certainly not the glory days. It's amazing to be able to eat at a restaurant and not also be smoking the next table's cigarette.
@@AlexSpalding I don't know if that is an attempt at a joke or that you are not comprehending what I commented.
@@jordanbabcock9349I'm no fan of smoking but I'd give anything to go back to them smelling of cigars and cigarettes over the god awful cleaning fluid most pubs stink of now. It's rank.
@@ens0246 cigars create ambiance... Cigarettes kill everything lol. I definitely miss many things, just specifically hate the smell of a cigarette. Cigars people enjoy...so they smoke nice, great aroma etc. Cigarettes is the smell of someone letting off desperation, hatred..etc
Jesus I miss the pub and I not even a big drinker.
I love how Ronnie just runs around the bar twice so they could do the whole video in one take. They don't make em like that anymore biys 😁
1:05 I want this gif to play over and over...
Barney sounds like hes already had a bit more than a pint 😂
12 to 15 and I’m on my way, and a good fry come Sunday before Mass
There is no fucking way Barney wasn’t pregaming for this.
I just had two pints and a shot of Jameson’s...now off to bed
That's what I do in the morning when I wake up with a hangover.
@@erin-je9ok if you never get sober, you’ll never have a hangover 🥃🥃
I miss u guys, time spet on your gigs was unforgettable, even now I can hear u playing ..... Rocky road to Dublin one two three four five :P
Its sad that so many lives revolved around drinking like this.
Permenance!
We'll never get this back
And I’d have a packet of crips and an old packet of peanuts...
Back when a pint of plain didn’t cost 7 euro 😝
Back in the old days, the further away from Dublin you were the pint cost least! 😋
Always wondered where the dubliners where from .
I think Cork
South Armagh
I feel like this is unsound medical advice.
At the moment, it's spot on.
It is:)
You're right. If you're not feeling well it's a drop of the cure you need. One or two of them and you can ease your way back onto the pints.
For years in Ireland after giving blood you were given a pint of Guinness to bring you iron back up. As well as after giving birth 😂
That's the 🥃SPIRIT! Traditionally, ppl would have a 🍺Pint, followed by a Whiskey 'Chaser' to get going!@@eldricgrubbidge6465
I wish I had a pint of plain, but Guinness is quite expensive. have to drink budweiser, which like the Pythons said "Is like making love in a canoe.... F**king close to water"
deathbinder if you live in the states there's so many other options on the market
A pint of plain can be anything you want that's cheap and on tap. It translates to "whatever you usually drink". Though, Bud is probably a bit TOO plain, in all honesty.
Guinness is a "stout". Plain was a "porter". facebook.com/100865096953196/posts/1084591081913921/?sfnsn=scwspwa&d=w&vh=e&extid=QGhnmjNzvoeDlh3R&d=w&vh=e explains the difference
A pint of plain is a Guinness, nothing else.
@@djcheckmate1 Pint of plain is porter or single stout
well done the only REAL trifecta YA EVER DID realiee HIT;;
When ur pants are on fire and you got no water, a pint of plain is your only man
A pint of plain is all I drink, sad do few Irish pubs here
❤
AAAHHH!😂😂😂😂
Had 14 pints of plain in a single sitting. Lovely night
Fake accounts
@@subswithoutavideo-ne5zc feck off
My auld fella knew an Oughterard man who drank 25 pints a day for 50 years and was the designated driver to the Galway Races, where he'd only have 10 pints before driving the mini bus and another 10 before driving everyone home
Please explain the end result I'm doing a study on Irish drinking and it's benifits
@@TheBenzer9 best memories youll ever have
That's right
0:23 what on gods green earth did he say?
When all you have is a heap of debt...
😆😆😆😆
Auld Flan O’Brien God rest his soul
Ace
Classic😂😂😂🇮🇪
At Swim to Birds!
@deathbinder I never heard that one before. That's great. But you must have a better alternative than Budweiser!
Can you still get a pint of plain in Ireland?
Sorry to ask, but why is it called "plain"?
Because it's unembellished. And poetically, Stout, or the word "stout" also means to "be girded against troubles", as well as what they're drinkin'.
To differentiate from the less popular and shorter-lived Strawberry Guinness
The second gentleman sounds drunk 🥴
Barney mckenna 😂
Class, which pub was this is in? does anyone know?
O'Donoghues on Baggot Street I would say, was the Dubliners usual haunt. www.odonoghues.ie/music.htm
The George in Dublin
@@GNARWALLS Yep, window says O'Donoghues if you look carefully.
@@stephenc8 Jaysus wrong pub lads.
0:28 John Sheehan is actually teetotal
Also the last one left
30 pints of plain or more in a day
Maureen get the breakfast on
ah jaysus
My chest hair is growing
I love what Billy Connolly says about them. Four pullovers singing The Wild Rover.
A pint of plain in Australia.... like $12... ozzies are taxed to DEATH!
I can't tell if it's the Irish accents or if they've already had a few pints of plain.
When money is tight and hard to get... well get it... and spend it on a pint of plain because... you've still got a darlin' plan!
If money doesn't grow on trees then why do banks have branches
So where's the porter?
McKenna started early.
And if you're an acloholic you'll find any excuse...
All that bullshit and no answer to where you can get your handson the money for a pint of plain..and correct me if I'm wrong something about hunger thrown in there aswell 🤣🤣
And for those that wonder, "plain" does not mean Guinness per se. It's your standard order. Which, to me, probably means London Pride, what with being the one most likely on tap.
MoonEyes2k what the hell are you talking about?
Try reading the post, watching the video, and then applying some brainpower.
noooope, still doesn't make any sense.....
Did you remember the last step?
What the hell does London Pride have to do with anything. I doubt anyone ever wondered really as they are all drinking pints of Guinness in the video...
How good is being a drug addict!
Ireland before multiculturalism
a half a pint of that shit made me barf!
relimes man's drink.
relimes Queer
WEEKLEEEENNNNEEE
your a girl
You must be english
Shame McGowans fake ‘ oirish ‘ accent really grates against Ronnie’s in The Pogues.
Disgusting to see alcohol promoted this way. No wonder we're a nation of alcoholics
You sound like great craic altogether
Oh piss off you soft woke snow flake
@@IMC71no he's right, as u have to look at it from a Demographic, Statistical and Social point of view to really get how much Damage and uphevel it has done to our Psyche as people. I like a Pint myself and I've thought it's no harm until I tried to commit, well I'm still hear and it wasn't because of Alchohol!
This isn’t good advice