Tales Of The Gurrier

(image by John Picken)

In the long forgotten depths of prehistory when the internet was run on steampipes and hand cranked babbage machines, there existed a site known and feared amongst publicans throughout the land. That place was BeerandLoathing. The men who laboured alone and unloved in that bleak place are now long dead. The Dublin they cast their rheumy, hate filled eyes upon consigned to the wrinkled pages of history.

But now a new generation rises. Fella’s with iPhones and bluetooth enabled beer goggles. Hairy faced code monkeys remotely pricemapping the filthy city’s sheebeens and dives via realtime googlemashups. Behold www.pintofplain.com. See how your local Dublin pub fares in the rip off stakes. See who’s charging €6.00 for a pint of Guinness. See which local publican deserves to be tarred, feathered and nailed to the back of a tractor-trailer. Take a gander at who is charging a fair price and calculate the damage from a round of drinks with the handy round’o'meter.

Good luck to you my friend, ’tis a noble, but thankless task you have taken up.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 5:29 pm and is filed under Dublin. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.