Of course we got nothing when we were nippers,
my brothers and I until our various duties around the home were done and even that wasnt lots - no commodore 64's, no BMX's (it was the eighties) and we all had jobs by the time we were 15.

We never got handouts from the folks. We all worked our way through our various forms of third level education; kitchen portering, cleaning, cooking, digging, lifting, scrubbing - basically you name a menial job, one or all of us did it for drinking money.

So was it the making of us?

Depends on your point of view.

We're all alcoholics - the functioning kind - we all hold down mid-level jobs, some of us have families - we're not abusive or criminals although we all see the law as a bendable thing for the most part. We're all more or less happy-go-lucky types.

Nature or nurture folks?
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 10:38, 4 replies)

Well
By the sounds of things, it might have something to do with the fact that your Irish?

*grins, ducks and covers*
(Bazongaloid, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 10:48, closed)

so 'nature' then?
One for the eugenicists.

Anyone else?
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 10:52, closed)

The Irish nature
specifically.

I would drink more if english pubs were more like irish pubs. And served Kilkenny.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 10:54, closed)

ah, we're a dying breed!
folk are going all caffe-latte-cappuccino and chardonnay-mojito these days. An awful lot of chrome and glass bars so people can be seen. The old pubs are struggling to cope.

Neds of Townsend street, in Dublin, one of the last great early houses recently installed a juke box big screen playing 'Bubble hits' day and night. I cant go there anymore. Shame, as the Guinness is nectar.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 11:02, closed)