Drinkers in Spoons

I know then you unfortunately have to sit in an enclosed space with them whilst they talk too loudly and are usually very quick to cause trouble should someone look at them the wrong way. Booze should be banned pre flight and during flights imo.

Poster saying they might be on different body clocks I highly doubt 20 lads going to ibiza at 6am from Leeds have done so via Australia.

I did RTFT... the point is still relevant

Maybe you just are friends with people who only hold your judgemental views. You've been preaching through this thread about how it's unhealthy to drink at 8.30am bs pm..
With no backup aside from you don't do it 😂

Also, given lots of posters on this thread are actually telling you they do night shifts and often go for a drink straight after, I'll happily take your tenner.

Also don't forget large airports will have people on different body clocks and times. Not everyone is getting a 8am flight to Malaga. Heathrow is full of people doing onward connections, so for them 6am UK time might be their evening.

Or you know what - fuck it maybe they are getting the 8am to Malaga - they are going on holiday and maybe they want a pint to take the edge off flying. It's not a crime.

Why do you find people living life differently to you “odd”?

It's just like being at an airport!
Totally normal a pint and a fry up right 🤣

It's not odd that others aren't the same as you though as we're all different.
I could only tolerate a mug of tea and a breakfast at that time too, but in an airport before their holidays, why is it so bizarre to think that some people might be "starting early" and having a drink before the flight?! They're on their holidays.
So much judging going on, each to their own.

Whilst technically still morning, they don't serve alcohol in Wetherspoons in Belfast until 11:30, possibly later on Sundays. I work nearby and see groups (usually men) outside complaining about this if I nip out for a coffee (not in Wetherspoons).

I'm with you, OP.
I also find it odd that when catching a 6am flight, people are drinking so much in the departure lounge😆
I can face a coffee and a croissant, and that's it.

The point was purely that students are cheap (to employ)

Are 18-20 yr olds who are students paid less than 18-20 yr olds who are not students?

The point was purely that students are cheap (to employ), as are the sausages... it really wasn't a commentary on their work ethic 🙄

People drinking pints and eating greasy food at 5am at Luton Airport before sitting in a metal tube for 2-3 hours astounds me more

I used to spend hours drinking bottomless tea and doing crafts in my local Spoons.
I do happen to like the breakfasts too. Cheap and cheerful.

No, they don't, no dogs allowed - a plus in my opinion. As you say, lots of places are "doggy friendly" with their own doggy menus so makes a refreshing change they're not allowed for once.

Just as men can enjoy going to Spoons for a bit of company, a pint, a bit of community, women can enjoy going to Spoons for a bit of "me time", a bit of a chill, and enjoy a breakfast or shock horror, a lunchtime meal and a glass of wine (which I like doing every now and again) 😁

She went for breakfast as she was staying away from home before an oncology appointment.

So what are the women doing?

Why did you go to the spoons? I hope you took some pearls to clutch.

Don't they? That is unusual, everywhere seems to let them in nowadays.

Just for interest, it has been possible to get a pint early in the mornings around the big wholesale markets in London until quite recently.

Although things are changing now, I'm pretty sure that the porters at Smithfield can still get alcohol with breakfast at the Fox and Anchor, as the market hasn't closed yet.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jun/21/pints-dawn-last-call-london-market-pubs

God, I don't work nights. If you rtft you'll see I said many years ago. No one went to the pub then after a night shift and I'd bet a tenner that barring alkies they dont now.
We did often get toast from the canteen but no one stopped at the pub.

So that's a No then

People get so bloody snobby about spoons. It's one of the few places the majority of the population can afford to go. It's also a safe place for people to go on their own.

I was sat in my local spoons when a young couple came in with a toddler in a pushchair. They looked a step above homeless. Both had a takeaway cup. The manager obviously knew them, directed them to the coffee machines so they could get themselves a drink on the house.

Spoons breakfast gets widowers away from their lonely homes. Gives the day drinkers somewhere to socialise and for people like me, offers a cheap place to have breakfast when away from home.

I've done it before. I've met up with friends who worked nights in other care homes after our night shifts finished. We'd have a couple of drinks,catch up with each other, then go home and sleep the sleep of the dead!

Judge me/don't judge me, it doesn't matter to me! I know we'd all put in 12 hour night shifts and this was our "evening".

Now that IS a plus!

Another major plus about eating and drinking in Wetherspoons is they don't allow dogs, not even in outdoor areas. Cheap and no dogs. Brilliant.