Drinkers in Spoons

[TheDaringOliveNewt]

I'm away and at spoons having breakfast.

Every single table apart from mine has pints going, at 8.30.

Aibu thinking it's weird?

er? What the fuck are you judging them for? Having an addiction? What has your judgement got to do with anything?

reading this thread it’s clear how completely naive mumsnetters are to how many people are alcohol dependant. Where do you think they get it from?!

(plus of course night shift workers, people going to sports games/ on holiday- I mean when I was a student I’d drink at any hour and wasn’t alcohol dependant)

@Gloriia not everyone but some will. I literally walk past a pub most days that opens at 6am to cater for shift workers.

It’s an alcoholics paradise. Not sure what you were expecting tbh.

What bottomless brunches start at 8:30? I've been on a few and they were all in the afternoon!

All I will say is that there was far less trouble when we had stricter alcohol licencing laws.
Yet another of Blairs "visions" that went arse over tit 😡

No, our bodies don't.

But as (presumably) adults, our responsibilities and duties change over the 24 hour period. So if you drink enough to experience intoxication, it rather does matter when you're intoxicated.

As a hypothetical scenario, if you rise at 7am and go to bed at 11pm, and you drive to work and back at 8.30am and 5.30pm, which one is most likely to have a negative impact on other people: an 8am alcoholic drink or an 8pm alcoholic drink?

There really are some avid members of Temperance Societies on MN.

But you're assuming everyone drinking at 8am has those responsibilities and are therefore being negatively affected.

Many people don't live the 9-5 lifestyle.

Spoons aren’t pleasant or relaxing places to be. They’re attractive because they’re cheap and available. They know their niche and they do it very well, but nobody goes to a Spoons for the ambience or great food.

I'm a fan of Wetherspoons. Our local is a beautiful building with nice staff.

I order eggs and mushrooms for breakfast. The eggs are free range. The coffee is lovely and if other people prefer a wine or beer with their breakfast, then good for them.

What about lonely women?

Is this the first time you’ve come across this op?

many people drink first thing in the morning. Alcoholics, night shift workers, insomniacs, those with issues causing it to be a rare thing, people going in a special day out, bit like holiday.

there used to be a little newsagent near me, who sold shots at 7am out the back. It had a queue if alkies outside it every morning.

You mean like how you were in a pub at 8am?

Many of them start in the morning.

https://cosyclub.co.uk/whats-on/bottomless-brunch

This one in Manchester starts at 10am, for example.

I mean it's a Saturday so I assume 8am drinkers in Spoons are not driving to the office after their pint.

I am not a day drinker and I think we can assume some of the Spons early crowd are problem drinkers, but seriously the hoiked bosoms of judgement on this thread are hillarious.

Having breakfast before my oncology appointment? I stayed in a cheap hotel and had no cooking facilities

Beer has been a breakfast beverage for centuries. Tea displaced it for most people by the end of the nineteenth century. It's no more weird than drinking tea or coffee or chocolate (also a breakfast beverage - like coffee it should be bitter). Fashion changes, but not everyone changes their fashion. Also, shift workers are in their 'evening' at 8 a.m. and want, perhaps, a quiet pint and a chat before going home to bed - they can do that at Wetherspoons (I do think the abbreviation 'Spoons' is a bit vulgar btw).
NB Wetherspoons also always do cask ale, and cheaply, which makes it a favourite of CAMRA members.

Same when at the airport at 6am people drinking lol I was happy with my coffee

I'm not assuming anything, because I typed the words As a hypothetical scenario at the start of the question.

A question you haven't answered, I note.

Drinking first thing in the morning is actually really bad for you.

Firstly, you are likely to be drinking on an empty stomach which makes you drunker quicker.

Secondly, having fasted liquid through the night most people are a little bit dehydrated in the morning and alcohol dehydrates you even more.

Thirdly, unlike evening drinking, which has a natural end, drinking earlier in the day often leads to higher total alcohol consumption, as the day is "open-ended". It also affects your circadian rhythms.

So morning drinking is actually quite different to evening drinking and not in a good way.

Yes it is.

I generally don't go to a pub for breakfast. These aren't shift workers.

Except lots of people do, as is evidenced on this thread.

I love a Spoons breakfast - cheap, cheerful, filling - you know what you're going to get, the service is quick and you get unlimited tea or coffee.

Well of course if you work 9-5 then drinking at 8am is a bad idea, but lots of people don't live that way so them drinking at 8am is no different to a 9-5 worker drinking at 8pm.

My point is, it's very easy to judge someone who doesn't fit your lifestyle and assume there must be something wrong with them.

drinking at 8am is no different to a 9-5 worker drinking at 8pm.

Yes it is, drinking in the morning has a worse effect on the body

I may get a breakfast wine on our French holiday this year and raise it to this thread.