Instinct!

[admin]

Instinct!

Huh?

Well that's the name of Cork's newest Gay Pub, (aka what was "the oyster")

I was speaking ot the new manager at the Film Premiere last night and he told me that he hopes to open around Patricks Day Weekend.
(no exact dates yet).

Personally I can't wait!

[Mr.Intentional]

Jooooooyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

[joeohara]

bit of a silly name for a pub but at least its somewhere new so hope things work out well for the place

[NuMarvel]

And here was me hoping for the Meat Market Inn... [-))]

[redbulljunkie]

The original name was good enough, blue oyster and all. I guess they had to change it so the old clientele would know the old pub was no more.

[amnesiac]

It's fantastic that there is going to be a third gay venue in Cork, but are we as a community making enough effort to create alcohol free spaces and events (e.g. Rainbow Ramblers and the UCCLGB SOC events?)

[jc]

good point but why not go ahead and arrange stuff? i cant wait for the opening of this new pub either... the olf familiar ones are becoming dull, mondain and tiring... a new gay bar is just what the cork gay scene needs... something different!

[amnesiac]

Is it Instinct with an exclamtion mark?

I would have prefered !nst!nct

[Rec]

There's a certain paradox in contrasting the scale of "different" amnesiac and jc see.
a new gay bar is just what the cork gay scene needs... something different!

IMHO something different would be a gay cafe - something along the lines of gingerbread house - and it could be just passively gay ie "straight friendly" to keep custom up. I think all irish cities are sorely in need of a non-alcoholic meeting spot for gay people where people can meet in the evening/night as well as during the day. Something like a gay tribes.

[amnesiac]

Isn't the Other Place coffee shop open again?

[Rec]

Yes but for what times?

[101333]

Rec

IMHO something different would be a gay cafe - something along the lines of gingerbread house -

I agree!!! Something like LEmon Jelly in Temple Bar in Dublin.

[jc]

ya i guess a gay cafe would be a nice option to have... but couldnt u say these bars could also serve that purpose during the day? or are they even open at that time? then again, theres a whole differernt atmosphere in a bar to what there is in a cafe! isnt tribes kinda already gay anyway though?

[redbulljunkie]

I second that motion for a gay cafe [)].

Is the lemon jelly a gay cafe?

[Bootyzilla]

I don't think there's much of a market in Cork for a gay cafe right now. Even the Club's cafe closed and it's taken this long for three bars to appear... and the third one isn't even open yet. It would be great, don't get me wrong, but I don't think there's enough out gay men & women in cork to support one just now.

[Proud Mary 1980]

Instinct! I like it, its profound and catchy

[amnesiac]

I can't say the name is growing on me. The lack of a broad vowel bothers me.

[Bootyzilla]

LOL Do you use a tweezers and a magnifying glass to pick them nits, amnesiac?? -P

[chatelaine]

I think we should petition the new management to change the name to something like "The Treasure Trail" or "Glory Hole"..Instinct sounds like a deodorant.

If I'd ever open a gay bar, I'll call it "Gay Bar"...

[bo_selecta]

Originally posted by chatelaine
If I'd ever open a gay bar, I'll call it "Gay Bar"...

GAY BAR - It does exactly what it says on the tin!

[Rec]

Or the classic "the white swallow"

[jc]

Rec that is disgusting! loving it though! ha ha! witty and gay all in one!

[Bootyzilla]

I think I'd go more Yoko-Ono esque and not have a name, rather a symbol with Bernard Manning's face and one of those red line thingies going through it.

[Rec]

Instinct sounds like it's going to appeal to the more "taboo" side of the market.

[jc]

ya id agree with that! i reckon loafers isnt gonna be affected at all but taboo is really gonna lose a fortune... share holders get out while u can!

[Rec]

So we'll have two pubs down dodgy alleys off patrick street pumping out Kylie to the masses! Just one is bigger and roomier than the other. Yeah I can see what you mean JC

[amnesiac]

Taboo is a chav bar. Always has been, always will.

[TopLad]

A question is this the end of the club. Will people now go elsewhere & not support the club? I for one remember the days when the club was the only place & how we all packed into the place. Knowing the gay community, Id say loyalty wont come into it. As they say - a new brrom sweeps clean. I hope that this new place wont signal the death of the club - dingy and all as it is. Lets just remember the many gud nites had there by most. And I'm being serious here.

[Rec]

With competition they'll have to rise to the standard or sink by the wayside - that's the way it is!
- one thing they could do is improve the smell - it's the only nightclub that either smells of disinfectant or incense!
What's up with that?

[Tom RED]

I think the only way Taboo will survive when Instinct opens is to remarket itself and appeal to a new clientele. Maybe like the 'Out On the Liffey' in Dublin. It can be known as Cork's very own dodgy gay bar.

If Instinct is a late bar/club as well hopefully the Other Place will survive. It will be great to have a choice in Cork for clubs as well as pubs. [)]

[Rec]

Yeah maybe the other place can remodel itself as the grungy studenty night out on weekends, that way they wouldn't have to redecorate.

Ugh "Out On The Liffey"! I heard from my sis who was on the scene three years before me up in dublin - that at one point OOTL was quite chilled and cool, but it just got dodgier and dodgier. I've been in it maybe twice and each time it's the whole "everyone turns around and stares right at you" thing and the clientele is a bizarre mix of scary trannies, rent boys, chicken hawks and scary diesels. Keep well away anyone who's going out in dublin.

[LeBaron]

I still think that there is room for three pubs, and parhaps with the opening of Instinct we will see - as happened when Taboo opened - a wave of new faces on the scene.

Just rememner all the new faces who were at de fillum who you would never see in either Loafers or Taboo... perhaps we will see them in Instinct

[Tom RED]

Sounds fab!

[Tom RED]

Thats weird Le Baron just posted before me. Sounds fab I mean replying to Recs post, the Out On The Liffey

[amnesiac]

I know a lot of English guys who love OOTL. It must have character and ambiance, which The G certainly does not have.

[LeBaron]

It was good a few years ago

[jc]

ya OOTL is a right scum bag joint! stay well clear of it if u have any dignity! i was horrified... i went up to dublin last year for a weekend... we went there, lasted one drink and we were out de gap! god like! we'd heard it from an untrustworthy source here in cork that twas brilliant! ya right like!

loved the front lounge! i hope the club will stay open but i also hope this Instinct place will have some sort of disco/nightclub facility too!
it would do the cork gay scene no harm!

[amnesiac]

It has a late license seven nights a week.

[jc]

nice one! bring it on... not too much longer to wait now... is there any huge opening party or anything planned?

[Bootyzilla]

Oh, I daresay there will be -)

[amnesiac]

And we sahll all be there with bells on.
Any addresses us barmen can send our CVs to?

[redbulljunkie]

late licence? That's very good news. I don't like clubs anymore, prefer late bars.

OOTL is a shithole btw

[Andor]

Late bar?! oh thank christ.

The Shoe can go take a walk.

*thump thump tish* [)]

[jc]

twil make a nice change from having to go to the other place... sometimes u just dont feel like going there but always end up doing so! as soon as this place opens... its bye bye taboo for me! it will be nice to go to a pub where the chances of getting a seat dont involve going there at about 6 o clock!

[Rec]

Yeah and you're not willing to sit on the lap of someone twice yuor size with a bad breath problem - and no I'm not talking about cramming into the backseat of a car!

[amnesiac]

I heard one of THE most explosive rumours about The Oyster today. But my lips are sealed. And I don't believe it anyway. But if it's true... [o]

[Rec]

C'mon out with it - you can't just post that and then not say anything! Up with it amnesiac what's the dirt?

[amnesiac]

*keeps schtum*

I'd be betraying a former colleague.

[Rec]

Fairy Nuf anyways there's only 2 weeks to wait till it opens...and counting!

[amnesiac]

Don't bet your house on it.

[NuMarvel]

Oh come on! One can't just drop lovely little smart bombs like those into conversations and not expect to back them up a bit! Spill all Amnesiac, we promise not to tell anyone!

[Tom RED]

There's no EXPLOSIVE rumour, it's just a publicity stunt..... or is it?[0]

[Proud Mary 1980]

Yeah a late bar would be fab moreso if there was a dj on the premises too

[TopLad]

I passed by the Oyster on sat night & I'd sweat the place was open. Is this Instinct thing all a scam?

[jc]

i reckon its a scam! there's be way more publicity about it if it were going ahead!

[admin]

Guys, Don't believe rumours, its all idle gossip,


Instinct! is opening, sure I was even speaking to the new manager last night at Mis Alt Cork..

[NuMarvel]

jc Posted - 01/03/2004 092651
i reckon its a scam! there's be way more publicity about it if it were going ahead!

I don't know JC, how much publicity was there when taboo opened? I wasn't long on the scene admittedly when it had opened, but if memory serves, one day it was just... there!

And I discovered the other day that the manager is a friend of a workmate of mine, so I'm gonna get all the goss!! (Nothing like 5th hand info for verification!)

[Rec]

Yeah and one day it was just.... closed. Sigh I was in Taboo all of once! Not that I'm sad to hear it's closed but it's kinda sudden!

[funkeymonkey]

miss the place

[Rec]

Hey welcome to GC funkey!

[LeBaron]

Lads.... Bad news..... I am informed that the whole instinct thing is just a laff.... sorry

[Rec]

Aroo??? Explain Lebaron?

[Proud Mary 1980]

No its not I met Pat last night,

[thalia]

JC love which is it to be ? You either don't believe the bar is for real or you are saying in another thread about the Oyster that you'll be working with the management of the place ? Seems to me theres loads of people here now that have met the management and confirmed that it lives.

How about if you're wrong you buy us all a drink in there and if you're right we'll all buy you a drink in a bar of your choosing ? Why not put your money where your big gob is ?

[Bootyzilla]

Oh for the love of JESUS CHRIST ABOVE AND ALL HIS ANGELS, CHERUBIM AND SERAPHIM.

What the FUCK is wrong with you people?

Fact The Oyster is reopening as a gay bar, Instinct, very shortly.

Fact Taboo is relocating and has NOTHING to do with Instinct.

Fact I am right. So there. Unlike some other posters on here, I have the inside track.

Fact You people need fact-blinkers 24/7.

[thalia]

And that was post 777 , eeerie.

[Bootyzilla]

Imagine if it had been post 666? There'd be a smoking hole where my keyboard is right now.

[Proud Mary 1980]

Booty well said hun

[Rec]

CHeers Booty
~Rec gives rumour mogering Lebaron an evil stare!!!
~...and then hops off with fluffy abandon!

[amnesiac]

Fact. There is one gay bar open in Cork today which markets itself as being a gay bar. Loafers.

[chatelaine]

I haven't been there in ages but I will miss Doyle's ...I mean Taboo...

[amnesiac]

OMG, The Oyster just exploded! Burger King and the Vineyard are also on fire! the death toll stands at 17 and is set to rise. Patrick Street has been cordoned off. Well more cordoned off than before.

[redbulljunkie]

Calm down amnesiac, they just had to eradicate all the scum before we could move in.

[jc]

the oyster is indeed going ahead! the paper work and legal deals still have to be signed but in the next few weeks it will be here!

[Bootyzilla]

Shows what you know, dear.

[Tom RED]

This thread should now be locked by a moderator as Bootyzill had quashed all the rumours. Lets look forward to the opening of Instinct on or near Paddys day and no more negative rumours. Where are they coming from????

[LeBaron]

Dont know about that, looks like he restarted tham

[amnesiac]

This thread is fabulous Tom RED! Six pages of idle gossip, tantalising hints and exasperated frustration! Lock it and I walk!

[LeBaron]

Just like real life

[Tom RED]

This thread WAS fabulous. Its getting tired now

[Bootyzilla]

I agree. Gossip does tend to lose its sheen when the truth is readily available.

[amnesiac]

OH Booty, you do stir better than anybody!

[amnesiac]

This thread is going to reach 40 pages by the time the bar opens.

[Bootyzilla]

quoteOriginally posted by amnesiac
OH Booty, you do stir better than anybody!


Sigh. It's a gift, i don't question it.

[amnesiac]

Hehe. So anyway, you never got back to us on that request for a contact addie? Are barmens' CVs required or not?

[Proud Mary 1980]

Ok I take on board what Tom has suggestion of locking this topic and would just like to say if it continues to get out of hand, the topic shall be locked.

[LeBaron]

thank you. for changing your mind on locking the topic ... but I dont understand what you mean by out of hand... please clarify

[Proud Mary 1980]

Out of hand was perhaps the wrong phrase to use.

[Bootyzilla]

quoteOriginally posted by amnesiac
Hehe. So anyway, you never got back to us on that request for a contact addie? Are barmens' CVs required or not?


I do not know. I'm nowt to do with the hiring and firing, or anything else to do with the actual running of the shop. All I do know is People. Important People. People who need People. They're the luckiest people in the world.

On the other hand you could just ask Management when it does open...

[Rec]

Well I've always depended on the kindness of strangers

[LeBaron]

quoteOriginally posted by Proud Mary 1980
Out of hand was perhaps the wrong phrase to use.


You could be right.... Not only will this thread be 40 pages long before the pub opens, but at least 10 other establishments will have been concieved and indeed opened in secret locations all around Cork

Its all good fun 'tho

[D]

[amnesiac]

And it's great pre-launch advertising innit?

[LeBaron]

Yea.... but for which venue ?

O TabooTwo
O Instinct
O The Barnesiac G-A-Y night
O DodgeyDoyles Dive Bar
O A nightmare at Westhimers
O The Rovers Return to the Bendy Corner

To name but a few

[0]

[Tom RED]

Funnily enough after requesting for this topic to be locked I am going to revive this thread. As a friend said that two of his friends said the Oyster hasn't closed yet. They went there yesterday for a pint and supposedly the DJ was saying the Oyster is not changing. Drama!!!

[amnesiac]

The DJhas eben saying that for a few weeks alright, I heard it myself!

[Tom RED]

The Djs voice sounded very familiar to them but they couldnt really see the Dj, just a shadow. On further inspection. The DJ was actually Mary from taboo.

[Bootyzilla]

LOL

[amnesiac]

Mary from Taboo has bought Loafers from Hoggy. It wqill be knows as t2 from next Wednesday night. Fabula diBeaumarchais will play a gig to mark the occasion. Anna Nolan and Brian Dowling are rumoured to be showing up too!!!

[Tom RED]

Yeah Red FM is going to be there as well.

[Tom RED]

PRESS REALEASE RUMOUR JUST IN
Oyster locals were a bit bemused when they were offered handfulls of lube & condoms when leaving the pub.

------

Also I think it might be a coinciedence but the toilet door looked dangerously close to coming off

[LeBaron]

Tom.... That could not be true, everyone knows that the only reason she is changing bars is to avoid the expense of putting on a new bog door !

[amnesiac]

News Just In.

Mary has left Cork to head up the IMF (International Monetary Fund). Chancellor Gordon Brown, who had also expressed an interest in the post has conceded defeat and congratulated Mary. In a new twist, it will fall to poor old crippled Pauline to head up t2 on Douglas Street.

[Bootyzilla]

PRINCESS IN GAY BAR SHOCKER

In other news this morning, Princess Anne has declared her intention to open up a fourth gay bar in the city of Cork. It will be called 'The Horse's Face' and will begin operations out of the Flying Bottle in Holyhill. Starring Kelly Klitt, punters will be expected to adhere strictly to the dress code of white, pink or blue nylon and be requested to leave their wallets and handbags at the cloakroom.

[LeBaron]

Poor Pauline will never be able to handle the stairs in Loafers (t2)..... but wait.... she never ventured up the stairs in Taboo either

[LeBaron]

Far be it from me to add fuel to the fire but I ventured into the Coal Quay yesterday for my annual hot meal AND WAIT TILL I TELL YA

The place was WALL to WALL with former Taboo staff including Marvelous Mary herself.
They were there under the pretext of having lunch BUT there was very little food consumed and I noticed that they were taking stock of the place very carefully.
Most disconcerting was the fact that Mary was eyeballing the door to the gents pissary, no doubt with a view to working out how easy it would be to remove it !

Watch this space for more !

[amnesiac]

Baron, a hot meal just two months after Christmas?

I don't like the new Baron. The old Baron was so much fun, so full of life. I'm disappointed.

[Bootyzilla]

Hot food makes one sluggish.

[LeBaron]

I was doing it under duress.... doctors orders !

[Tom RED]

Bachelors on the Quay, which is closed now is going to reopen as a gay bar. Its a crowd from Dublin who own the Fire bar. Might be of the same name

[Bootyzilla]

Naw, the rent is astronomical on that place, that's why it was shut down in the first place. In the end they had to resort to fliers for student nights and everything.

It wasn't at all pretty.

[jc]

oh no.. i loved bachelors! it was so cosy like! twould be a nice venue for a gay bar! and like... isnt the rent on all bars around this city insane? if it turns gay they pull in a large crowd and be raking it in!

[jc]

ok... ive just heard this rumour and it needs serious clarification! is it indeed mary of taboo taking over the oyster?

[redbulljunkie]

From the looks of it, no.

[Bootyzilla]

Definitely not.

[amnesiac]

Dear God, ANYTHING that appears in print on this world wide web will eb taken as the truth.

I am a woman, I will be the landlady in !nst!nct, G and t2.

[Bootyzilla]

And I have a twenty-two inch waist and am opening a new gay bar in Merchant's Quay called 'Slut'. It will only cater to boys dressed by River Island and will only serve alcopops.

Oh, wait, hang on...

[redbulljunkie]

I plan to have a 22 inch waist, but unfortunately that would mean having to donate my kidneys to needy kids [p]

[Bootyzilla]

Yes, but by the time Needy Kid is 14 she will have two babies, a ruined figure, and a serious Linden Village habit to support anyway. Let her off, I hear Dialysis is much better these days....

[jc]

new super bar coming to cork to be located over roches store... turning that dome all glass so the gay people can be on top of cork! it will be men only and will be an all night venue! the party never ends!

[jc]

hope they dont do the same they did in limerick... that club they used have going downstairs from some hotel was actually really nice. was there once. then on the next visit to limerick they had this lame, sleezy, cheap place opened up and it was just streets behind the hotel place! hope this doesnt happen witht his instinct!

[Bootyzilla]

Surely you'd know, what with being involved with the management and all?

-)

[amnesiac]

I chat to a lot of British gay guys online and expats living across the pond adn I always give them the www.gaycork.com/forums url if they are looking for information regarding the Cork scene. The poor lads muts be so confused with all our nonsense! About time Scene Queen got his ass into gear and gave us the 411!

[jc]

no im not involved with the managment anymore.... panic over! u can relax again.

[Proud Mary 1980]

Great suggestion but not relevent to the topic at hand, perhaps post this in the feedback section or indeed another thread in this section.quoteOriginally posted by amnesiac
I chat to a lot of British gay guys online and expats living across the pond adn I always give them the www.gaycork.com/forums url if they are looking for information regarding the Cork scene. The poor lads muts be so confused with all our nonsense! About time Scene Queen got his ass into gear and gave us the 411!

[Proud Mary 1980]

Has anyone heard of a date for the opening?

[Andor]

actually mary,

I've just heard the entire thing is just A BIG -LIE- !! [o]

can you comment on this bootyzilla ?

[Bootyzilla]

Why, yes I can!

There IS an official opening date, but as I am not management, far be it from me to reveal it here. Also Andor the 'big lie' story has been quashed many, many times before - it is itself, in fact, a big lie.

So now, so -)

[Missy_Pinky]

i heard the opening is paddy's night?anyone else hear that

[LeBaron]

hardly if they are still looking for staff

[Bootyzilla]

...ooh, is all a big mystery -)

Who can say?

Only the Booty knows for sure.

*cue maniacal laughter in attempt to look cool, then falls over.

[jc]

i heard twas all a big lie as well! and then i heard it was opening next weekend...! what the hell like! will they just open the god dam place and keep everyone happy! these rumours going around are spinning out of control! someones gonna get hurt!

[Bootyzilla]

Ahem.

Easter Sunday Night Launch Party.

There.

[amnesiac]

So all the new chickens can hatch with Jesus' blessing!
YAY )

[CorkBlueEyes]

So is this new bar aimed at the young, not so young or all?

[jc]

helo like... im so sick of this! when is this place gonna be open!

[Bootyzilla]

hello like!

f u read bak 3 posts from urs ull find mi post with de opening date like!!!

tink be4 u type like!!!

[jc]

ya.. but whens easter sunday? i heard twas meant to be last night... and i was asked by a few guys in loafers last night about it too... dispell the rumours! no more like!

[LittleTimmy]

And the award for contradicting themselves most times in any one thread goes to...... **drum roll** JC for his roll in Instinct!
Congrats JC!

quote ya.. but whens easter sunday?

2 days after good friday, and good calender will help you on that one.

[jc]

god we're very smart around here all of a sudden! *** rolling the eyes and yawning ' the humour isnt up to scratch at all!

[redbulljunkie]

april 11th is easter sunday

[jc]

april! what happened to the 2nd of march? what a joke! then twas paddys day... then paddys weekend! id say no-one knows anything! this place will never open! never i tells ya!

[NuMarvel]

Hi JC. This was your post on 2nd March 2004 -

quotePosted - 02/03/2004 121936
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the oyster is indeed going ahead! the paper work and legal deals still have to be signed but in the next few weeks it will be here!



And this is your quote from earlier on today....

quotejc Posted - 18/03/2004 150048
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april! what happened to the 2nd of march? what a joke! then twas paddys day... then paddys weekend! id say no-one knows anything! this place will never open! never i tells ya!

Notice any contradictions that you'd care to explain?

[Bootyzilla]

Oh, this ought to be good.

Well? I, for one, am waiting with baited breath...

[jc]

blah blah blah! originally i thought i was indeed gonna be someway involved, but then, even though its kinda hush hush, the former owner sold the bar, hence i no longer will have anything to do with it...

one of my friends told me the other night that he had originally heard the 2nd of march, the paddys day, then paddys weekend! now its easter...

so just cos this place isnt opening... and by the looks of it... AT ALL.... dont be taking ur frustrations out on me!

[sedna]

this jc - is he for real? it's big brother's jade but even louder as far as i can tell

[jc]

im for real alright........ and im staying! everyone loves me like! the boards wouldnt be the same without me!

[amnesiac]

If you thin JC is loud on the boards, you should see him when he's pissed in the Club.
*draaaaaw bloooooooooooooooooooood*

[jc]

oh my god! nooooooo! its not fair bringing my behaviour when drunk into the equations! as i have absolutely no memory of what happens! apparently i do get a bit mad though!

[jc]

and if u dont like seeing me drunk... dont come near me tomorrow! im planning on getting completely langers! havent really been locked in ages... properly anyway! tomorrow... im starting with a bottle of whiskey.. courtesy of my parents drinks cabinet!

[TopLad]

JC - going to the club tomorrow nite? I'd be intetested in knowing who you are. Remember I tend to agree with some of you comments when others on here dont. My partner & I will be there tomorrow night! How will I know u!!(this is NOT a pick-up - very happily in a relationship - just interested in putting a name to the face!).

[jc]

just look for the one thats completely drunk! people are usually very surprised when they find out who i am! im not as bitchy as i seem here at all in reality.... and im definately no bully... how will u know me? god... i dunno... havent decided what ill be wearing yet so that wont help you

[Andor]

quotepeople are usually very surprised when they find out who i am!

G'AHHH!!!!


...just practising.

[jc]

whats that meant to mean... like u puking or something! well that hasnt happened anyway! amnesiac was the last person to find out who i was.... and the night i was in taboo and mary anounces vote jean elliott cos thats her cousin was a give away as well! mortification of it!

[jc]

so then... ive just read back over the 11 pages of this thread... looks to me like no-one has a clue what they're talking about ... me included!

according to this thread...

taboo is relocating to the coal quay
instinct is opening round easter
bachelors is going gay

if the coal quay is going gay that would be great... but i mean, isnt that place packed anyway? why would they want to sell it? and since when was it for sale?

lets face it people... too much speculation is going on for any of this mil-archy to be true! we're back to the primitive days of laofers and the club! bet ya.... ester comes... oh tis opening in may... oh no.. june... wait for halloween... nop christmas... for new years!

forget it!!!!!!

[jc]

statement withdrawn

[Bootyzilla]

quoteOriginally posted by jc
so then... ive just read back over the 11 pages of this thread... looks to me like no-one has a clue what they're talking about ... me included!

I beg to differ... I do.... If you had actually read back over the 11 pages, like you say, then you'd know that.


quoteOriginally posted by jc
according to this thread...

taboo is relocating to the coal quay

No basis in fact whasoever. Again, if you had actually read the 11 pages, you'd know that, too.

quoteOriginally posted by jc

instinct is opening round easter

That's true, because I posted it. The manager told me himself.

quoteOriginally posted by jc

bachelors is going gay
A suggestion I and some others made, as it's the only relatively high-profile, new bar that's lying empty at the moment.

quoteOriginally posted by jc


lets face it people... too much speculation is going on for any of this mil-archy to be true! we're back to the primitive days of laofers and the club! bet ya.... ester comes... oh tis opening in may... oh no.. june... wait for halloween... nop christmas... for new years!

forget it!!!!!!


And I bet you'd love that, wouldn't you. Something else for you to complain about. Well, while the rest of are enjoying a new scene, JC, we'll spare a thought for you, I'm sure, standing outside on Patrick St., explaining to anyone who'll listen why the pubs do not, in fact, exist at all.

[jc]

statement withdrawn!

[sedna]

jc i am a new user here but i have to come out and proclaim that most of your posts are verbal diarrhoea

booty, on the other hand is most entertaining and a pleasure to hear from

turn down your volume and exclamations jc please

[jc]

fine. i will.

[LeBaron]

JC - There WERE two exclamation marks in that post, before you edited them out.
Not like you to do a U-turn
!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sedna]

Baron, from what i've seen, it is impossible to reason or use logic with this jc.

[sedna]

but back on track - the HOT rumour appears to be that Cork gets a new gay bar on Easter Sunday - where is this rumoured bar located?

[jc]

can u guys please just leave me alone? u dont like me ok, im not bothered. im not asking you guys to agree with me or whatever. if u think everything i say here is actually me being serious.... take a joke.

[odyssey_scot]

I can see how ppl can get irritated by JC. sometimes it's just very trying to have someone going against everything on every topic (as JC does..)
but then, it's up to ppl to be mature and not give in to their temper about it.

all in all, JC is not a bad sort, maybe a bit of an over-poster, but not much else.

[amnesiac]

JC does grow on you sedna. In his own way he is as funny as Booty. Online communities are made up of all sorts and I do think his posts are a lot less offensive or inflammatory than they used to be. He's part of the furniture here at GC.com.

And we love him... alright, ok? And I mean that, ok? Alright?

[LeBaron]

Kinda like a big, soft, cuddly armchair but with a broken spring that can sometimes, only sometimes, irritate

[admin]

jc is as welcome here as anyone else is )

[capo]

Whoa ..... what happened there ??????

[amnesiac]

Oh you love the feel of a broken srping Baron.

[capo]

this is bullshit guys - Sedna and Tom have a go at JC. I reply - very reasonably I think - and I get deleted !! Whats happening ??

[Andor]

quotejc is as welcome here as anyone else is )
Here Here, like!!1!! [)]


but back on topic,


i've just heard this deadly rumour....

[amnesiac]

Capo maybe it was blown up by Islamic terrorists?

But back on topic...
Spill Andor spill! Has Mary bought City Hall and converting it to a Polo Lounge style gay night spot? Is the Oyster turning into a fetish bar? Is Loafers becoming a lesbian shoe shop?

[LeBaron]

Yea, like, nice one, sham !!!!
Whats the dedly rumr like !!!!!

[LeBaron]

I thought Loafers WAS a Lesbian Shoe Shop, Like !!!!!!

[capo]

-) yeah...

seriously though, I hate when that happens - I was making a serious point in a controlled manner and some halfwit doesn't like it so he just deletes it. Like telling me to shut up - really pisses me off.

[amnesiac]

what?!?! just heard al qae'da are taregtting us! the cork gays like omg!!! we're dead!! we couldn't fight a fair!! might as well go out and get drunk anyway!!!

[LeBaron]

OMG, OMG, Lets not panic like !!!!!
We hav our secret weapons and can use them in a like pincer movement, like !!!!

We cud get Booty to attack from one side, kinda like heavy artillery like and sic JC on them from the back in a deadly attack with dodgey grammer of Mass Destruction Like !!!!!!

[amnesiac]

Then we can hold a peace summit at Capo's house and all go for a round of golf afterwards. Rather!

[LeBaron]

Or perhaps even a round of the 40 gay bars we will have after Easter Sunday !!!!!


Shag de coffee shit, like !!!!!

[Andor]

ah c'mon now like my sarcasm detector is going crazy like a sham....

[sedna]

It's the Kerry McFadden effect online. Have I made an icon out of this jc by pointing out the obvious?

[Andor]

Just having fun Sedna, its what the forums are about at the end of the day.

[LeBaron]

Very true !!!!!!!

[capo]

It wasn't you Sedna - Tom Red said something quite nasty and I reacted to it (very calmly). Both got deleted.

[sedna]

I thought your Life is an Odessey board was where threads were free to ramble so off topic. This is a bit ridiculous. This board could be a valuable guide to the Cork Scene. Instead it has descended into posters aping an idiot.

[LeBaron]

What do you mean DESCENDED ? , I thought I was quite good !

Its called parody !!!!!

[capo]

Really Sedna. Might be no harm to get past your 26th post before being quite so judgemental and offensive.

[sedna]

Capo, I would take your advice on board but seeing as you make posts which the management feels it has to remove, I might seek better counsel.

I had thought you exhibited a spark of intelligence and wit.

[LeBaron]

And hold on a minute, what gives you, or anyone, the right to call anyone an idiot ? Even after One Thousand and Twenty Eight posts ?

JC may be a little irritable at times, but he deserves his space as well as the rest of us.....

OK, like ?????

[sedna]

Agreed Baron, I am too harsh.

But as a new user, I find it incredibly frustrating to watch so many interesting topics taken completely off track. In fairness, I made a suggestion to him and he appeared to take it on board. It was not I who parodied him mercilessly.

[capo]

quoteI had thought you exhibited a spark of intelligence and wit.

Nope, thats booty, he does the jokes round here.

Why not take a few weeks to get to know us before turning on us all ?

[Tom RED]

Apologies to JC and other posters who are offended. I was out of order and didn't think before I posted. JCs postings does make this forum more interesting and diverse. It would be boring if we all agreed.

I didn't mean it to be a personal attack as I am sure JC's persona on these boards doesnt reflect the person he is entirely.

As posters who know me know that it is unlike Tom RED to be attacking other posters.

Also I have no power or influence over topics being deleted.

Regards
Tom RED

[sedna]

Again this is horribly off topic.

Am I correct in assuming the name of the bar rumoured to be opening on Easter Sunday is Instinct? Does anybody know who are the people behind this venture?

[capo]

Well done Tom Red !! Respect.

[LeBaron]

quoteOriginally posted by sedna
It was not I who parodied him mercilessly.


Mercilessly ?????

I have not even started LIKE !!!!!!!!

[Bootyzilla]

quoteOriginally posted by sedna
Again this is horribly off topic.

Am I correct in assuming the name of the bar rumoured to be opening on Easter Sunday is Instinct? Does anybody know who are the people behind this venture?


LOL Joining you horribly off-topic, yes, the bar is called Instinct, yes, the opening night is Easter Sunday, and the new manager's name is Pat, but the rest of the ownership is still, I believe, the same.

[Bootyzilla]

quoteOriginally posted by jc
i dont think the cork scene caters for enjoyment! just back stabbing, spite, and complete social crawlers!

Make up your mind about the scene, JC, I mean really - in so many posts you claim to hate it and then in more you say not. And in one particularly memorable post you claimed the Scene has made you more camp. (http//gaycork.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1614 in case of selective amnesia). Does that kind of repeated exposure, on top of repeated requests for information about Instinct, opinions on scene-based events etc., really sound like someone who hates the atmosphere of backstabbing social crawling? I have to wonder, if it's really all that bad, why you bother to go out at all.

quoteOriginally posted by jc
but yeah, u seem to fit right in... so if this is what u call 'enjoyment' ... u know what u can do with it!


Assuming you're not addressing this directly to me, and mean it in a more general sense, have you ever stopped for a second to think that any scene is purely what you make it? If, like you say, you're the recipient of such a torrent of emotional bullying each and every night you go out, try to stop and consider why everyone is so awful to you. Nobody is awful to me. Or to my friends. As a matter of fact, the cork scene's social interaction is neither more nor less friendly than anywhere else I've ever been. Do you get bad reactions from people on the scene becuase you give them a bad impression of yourself?

Just a thought... ...but the last person to insist 'They're all marching wrong except my Johnny' was fictional.

[admin]

FYI - I deleted theose replies as I don't tolerate personal attacks, and capo, your looked outta place, so I deleted that too.

This topic is about Instinct and please try to keep on topic.

Booty is to be trusted with info on "Instinct!", so you best discount all rumours you have heard.

See you all there on Easter Sunday night!

[capo]

FYI. I don't tolerate personal attacks either Admin. My post was clearly in defence of the attack - if you had read it then it would have been obvious. If you made a mistake then thats ok, throw your hands in the air and we'll move on. In the meantime I deeply resent being associated with personal attacks and 'outta place' comments. My history speaks for itself here.

[LeBaron]

TOTALLY off topic

Has anyone noticed that yer wan Joan Bruton has an uncanny resemblance to Gail in Corrrie ?

[Proud Mary 1980]

I think we should try and have a meet up for the opening of instinct.

[LeBaron]

its a date

[redbulljunkie]

sounds good, start a thread in upcoming events I'd say.

[odyssey_scot]

quoteOriginally posted by capo
FYI. I don't tolerate personal attacks either Admin. My post was clearly in defence of the attack - if you had read it then it would have been obvious. If you made a mistake then thats ok, throw your hands in the air and we'll move on. In the meantime I deeply resent being associated with personal attacks and 'outta place' comments. My history speaks for itself here.



capo, i think thats what admin meant. in your defense of JC in your post, once he removed the other posts, yours didnt fit in or make sense, so he had to remove that too..

[capo]

Ahh ok....that makes sense. I read that wrongly. Sorry about that Admin - I was kinda pulling on my cape of self-rightousness last night.

[odyssey_scot]

quoteOriginally posted by capo
Ahh ok....that makes sense. I read that wrongly. Sorry about that Admin - I was kinda pulling on my cape of self-rightousness last night.


lol.
Capo, SuperRighteousHero...

dude, you need a comic book, SUPERCAPO..

[redbulljunkie]

ah the self-righteousness cape, free with every copy of the King James Bible this weekend only!!

Remeber a comedy show before when a guy was about to play a prank onn a group of people and announced it with "Who wants to see what self-righteous indignation looks like?"

[sedna]

i might get to meet you all easter sunday then

[redbulljunkie]

hope to see you there. pm one of us if you want a contact mobile number or something.

[Bootyzilla]

All of Gay Cork will be there, anyway, so maybe it's best for newcomers to meet up beforehand so nobody has to run about like a spare prick asking who's who on the night?

[draytek]

Instinct at the Oyster is opening Easter Sunday, the lane is getting new lighting plus new paving. The owners have closed the old Oyster bar to renovate the toilets and rearrange the seating. Instinct at the Oyster will also have a late night bar licence. The web site for instinct at the Oyster is www.instinctcork.com. The web site is still under construction but comments and suggestions are welcome.

[NuMarvel]

Saw a guy (I think he's the manager) and two girls in the Other Place last night wearing T shirts that had Instinct on the front and 11.04.04 on the back. Shameless, I tell you, shameless!

Looking forward to it, I'll have the customary bells on (just so you can all tell it's me) provided the place ain't packed out or anything like that. I hate pubs that are packed to the rafters, but I'm sure the owners love them [-)]

[jc]

I saw them too. I was talking to one of the girls. She was really nice actually, Dublin crowd, and they're really geared up and motivated for Instinct. It was hilarious outside the club (on one of the smoking breaks), she was looking for dancers. Dont think she had too much success though. Is it this weekend coming that its opening or is it the weekend after?

[Bootyzilla]

Can't you read?? Sunday night, Helen Keller, Sunday Night.

[amnesiac]

Booty, you're approaching 1K posts...

[jc]

Sorry Booty. I havent been logging on here lately so I only just saw the post about Instinct Launch there a few minutes ago. Hope it will be a success. That bar is a lovely place.

[Bootyzilla]

*Booty clasps bosom in abject shock*

Th-th... Thank you...