[Closed] Is it socially acceptable....

Didn't this come up in some sort of Wetherspoons thread?

I think consensus is, unless you are of a certain voting demographic... no.😁

I would rather get undressed, slather myself in duck fat and enter the gorilla enclosure at ZSL than go to a spoons.

There must be a market for more cultured night shift alcoholics.

Not a fan then?Lol

Can't say as I disagree.

I seem to remember medic friends going for drinks at one at an old fish market in that there London post-night shift. But that was the late 90s early 00s, so things were a little hazy in general back then...

What social circles do you move in? Easiest way to tell is to phone up your mates and see if they want to join you for a drink. If nobody is keen, it's probably not socially acceptable, so you need to find a new social circle to move in. Just go down the pub and make some new friends. It will be socially acceptable to them, so problem solved.

On the train on Monday morning a middle aged lady sat next to me for a couple of stops and drank a can of Strongbow (the one with purple lettering, which I guess is the breakfast variety).

It was around 8am, so I justified it by figuring she could have just finished a night shift.

Most of our night shift guys drink AT work. You’ll be fine

Given the current state of the world, I really wouldn't worry about whether it's "socially acceptable" or not. If you are happy to do it then do it. Those that have the capacity to understand will understand and those that can't won't.

I seem to remember medic friends going for drinks at one at an old fish market

Read an article a while back about it. Near most of the wholesale markets there were several "Early Houses" set up to serve the staff there going off shift.
Most of them have apparently closed now along with the markets themselves but are a few left. So could see which of the old markets is closest and try there.

Wetherspoons on the Holloway road should be a crack. 🙂
There's a few towards Spitalfields/Farringdon but I can't remember their names. Sorry.

I thought the pubs at Smithfields Market opened at that time?

I was going to suggest a market pub. Do it!

s it socially acceptable to drink at 8am after night shift?

I did shift work for 20 years and sometimes felt like a drink after work. Probably not going to get many people not on shift joining you before they start working but having a pint after work is very normal which is all you are doing.

bunch of grapes or market porter in borough. I think an 8am snifter is very nice once in a while, enjoy!

May rather than places the open early theres ones that haven't shut yet. I've been working in Manchester this week and the club under my apartment was still doing a brisk trade when I was leaving for work in the morning.

A mate of mine inspected a property bat 9.30am the other morning, just as the tenant was opening a can. The guy said "I've just come off a night shift, it's evening as far as I'm concerned, and just one helps me sleep in the daytime"

Probably quite common

A couple of pubs near the old fruit and veg market in Nottingham used to open at 5am for the market workers as they finished then.

We used to go in for a late (early?) One after a proper night out BITD 🤩🍺

I was on my commute into London, it was 6:40am and a fella got on the train at Stratford. He had 4 cans of beer in one hand, an angle grinder in the other!

He fell, pretty much, into the only available seat and necked his first can!

But I didn't begrudge him this, firstly because he looked like a double ard barstool (he was a wiry skin head type and no doubt the grinder helped) but secondly and really far more importantly he looked as if he'd put a proper shift of work in.... he was covered head to toe in dust and looked shattered.

Now I may be a suit but I do kinda know what that feels like and sod doing it day in day out. Or for that fella, night in night out.

I had a sense of respect rather than revulsion.

So OP for me, if you've earned it .... enjoy it !

I used to work a night shift in a hotel to pay the bills when I was a student. I've had a drink at "breakfast time" when I've finished and before I go to bed. Like others have said, it's a beer after work. I never really enjoyed it as much as a beer at beer o'clock after a day at work though.

Having done shift work for 18 years, I did briefly consider it a few times, but it's not really for me. A colleague quite likes sitting in his garden in the summer morning warmth & waving good morning to his neighbours with a can of Stella Artois 👋

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

It's how I met my first wife! Needless to say, it didn't end well. Getting plastered after a night shift maybe not the greatest basis for a relationship. I'd say go for it. Used to drink in Smithfield regularly in the morning in the 90s when I was in the print.

It's quite common I've found. Some people I work with have a good drink after a night shift. Mainly cans in the garden though.

After a particularly long night shift a few months ago I had a bottle of Amstel in the garage while I put my bike away and I don't think I've ever slept better after nights.

I work shifts, in a previous role a colleague after a bad night shift would quite often get home, open up a bottle of red, put the deckchair in the garden and read the paper consuming the bottle before dozing off.    He thought it was hilarious as all his neighbours assummed he was some sort of stay at home derelict.

8am? That's practically closing time.

Having lived abroad for so long, people's customs and hangups around drinking seem strange when I'm there on a visit. Having a beer at 8am in a pub is frowned upon, but literally every other person guzzling a litre of purple strongbow on the train after work is normal. Makes me boak.

Yes. Or at least it certainly used to be when I was younger.

Spitalfields? Or is that all changed now?

The Market Porter is open from 6am to 8.30am. Great pub and there’s good coffee opposite at Monmouth. Pretty sure the Smithfields pubs no longer open at that time now the market has moved.

Get yersel, doon the Budgie....

I've had pint in here  before 9 a.m. a few times.

When I finish a night as far as I'm concerned that's my "evening" and don't go to bed until around midday so if I feel like having a drink to relax and unwind I will. After finishing a nightshift one morning I poured myself a large glass of red when I got home. A friend popped over for a cuppa and commented on me drinking Ribena out of a wine glass...

Given that a pint after work is a good idea, yes.

Claim German ancestry, get some Breakfast Korn down you:

https://www.amazon.de/Schwarze-Weizen-Fr%C3%BChst%C3%BCcks-Korn-Pack/dp/B07D4LG3MC

Theres a large courier company next to the Tesco near us. When I nip in in the morning, the lads who've come off night shift are all walking out with cases of Stella or Strongbow, so it certainly looks like the norm there.

Having a beer after work is always acceptable. What time of day it is is neither here nor there really

yes as shermer75 says, pubs around Smithfields Market are open in the mornings.

i used to work at Farringdon and the pubs were always busy on my way in in the morning, absolutely packed at dinner time, but then really quiet by teatime, and closed on weekends!!

Of course its acceptable, as we say in our house - its happy hour somewhere in the world!

There used to a pub in Edinburgh called the Penny Black that existed for this purpose. Mopping up posties and night shift workers after their shifts. It was adopted by clubbers in the nineties and noughties.

is it socially acceptable to drink at 8am after night shift? Any pubs in London that open at 8am? 😀

Yes, do as you wish. 😀

Back in the 90s I lived in Provence. Most mornings I'd cycle through the village square on my way to work and stop off at the bar/Lotto/PMU for an espresso and a Ricard and water. It was as normal as picking up a paper and a pint of milk is here.

I don't think I'd consider it now though.