The Octagon Bar: Back After a Seven-Hour Absence

[pax]

Give'r!

Welcome weary travelers!

We've been kicked around the corner, we've been known by different names but it's time to reopen the Octagon Bar!

...Stop in for a coffee or tea in the morning, bring your newspaper and sit in our soft leather couches. For lunch, come in and have a cocktail. Your boss will never know. When work is over, stop in for Happy Hour; you can be assured that your presence will not go unnoticed. Late nights are the best and the most wicked; the patrons are a frisky lot, but always friendly.

The Octagon Bar is located on the first floor of the Clarence Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. U2 are part owners of this magnificent watering hole and we seek to reproduce the camaraderie of a pub, complete with bar fights, dancing girls, and moderators who shut us down when the noise or the post count gets too high.

May I suggest that you order a drink, ask one of the lovelies or one of the gents for a , or perhaps you want to play a song on the jukebox. Share pictures of your kids and yourselves. Don’t be shy--by morning we’ll forget your face anyway.

This is a patron-run bar, so if the bartender is asleep in the back, or cuddled up on the couch with one of the patrons, go and pour a drink for your mate. The drink selection is only limited by your imagination. So dream out loud!

--Tim (starsforu2)

Check out, or add yourself to, the Octagon Map!

 

[pax]

I can't believe no one opened a new Bar last night! You all disgust me!

 

[Aardvark747]

Can I get a pint here? I'm feeling lonely and in need of some company!

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

I couldn't think of a good name.


Did you get my PM, Abby?

 

[pax]

 

[bonojr62]

:walks in:

I love that new bar smell!
Gets a cup of tea and heads for the patio.

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

*grabs a coffee with plenty of Bailey's, slinks off into corner with paper*

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

I've been at work two hours and I already want to go home.

Meetings suck.

 

[bonojr62]

Agreed even though i dont work.

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

Slacker

 

[bonojr62]

Yep!

 

[Diemen]

I get to spend 8 hours getting nice and dirty today.








And not that kind of dirty, either.

 

[U2@NYC]

Am I welcome here?

I guess the Octagon Bar really exists, right?

 

[U2democrat]

g'day all

i like this whole graduating from high school thing. it's nice.

and of course you're welcome, U2@NYC!

 

[u2bonogirl]

*runs in*

Oh thank God. The bar

Having days off in the middle of the week is not good for me I have too much nervous energy.
tim is in Richmond
So why not get totally pissed in the bar while he's gone?
*Grabs a bottle of wine out of the rack and sinks down into the couch to watch zoo tv*

 

[U2@NYC]

Ah, great... I also hate meetings... too long, nothing gets done.

I am happy to seat in the bar with you while looking at the "Hottest Chicks Around" thread

 

[U2democrat]

i enjoy the "sexiest men" thread myself.

 

[U2@NYC]

i enjoy the "sexiest men" thread myself.

Well, I am then counting on you on starting a "Hottest Guy Around" thread after the voting for the Hottest Chick is over...

 

[u2bonogirl]

i enjoy the "sexiest men" thread myself.

I havent been there in forever
Ive had enough sexy man walking around me in the house, I dont think I could handle any more

 

[U2@NYC]

I havent been there in forever
Ive had enough sexy man walking around me in the house, I dont think I could handle any more

Well... as a very good friend of mine stated... "the fact that you are on a diet does not prevent you from looking at the menu".

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

If there are any car salesmen in the bar right now, I'd get out right now if I were smart.


This joker I was dealing with last night just called to tell me he found the color I want - for $5 a month more and without some of the basics of the other package I was getting.

Um. NO.

 

[u2bonogirl]

Well... as a very good friend of mine stated... "the fact that you are on a diet does not prevent you from looking at the menu".

I cant be on a diet. It makes me want to eat more
Thankfully Tim doesnt mind my ghetto arse

 

[pax]

Well... as a very good friend of mine stated... "the fact that you are on a diet does not prevent you from looking at the menu".

Wow, I'm really glad that the Hot Chicks thread has filtered over to the Bar.

Because, you know, we didn't have enough of it in LS already.

Hint, hint, hint.

 

[U2@NYC]

Sorry (I was just advertising to get more people to vote).

I thought that the Bar was also part of the Lemonade Stand...

But I can talk about some other stuff... like the fact that, instead of working, I am hanging out here...

 

[pax]

That works.

 

[u2bonogirl]

I was actually feeling okay about myself and then I looked through the weigh in thread
Im terrified of getting weighed at the doctors office this month
But not as terrified as I am of getting my blood drawn
My blood doesnt ever want to come out...they have to send me to the hospital for a special thing (that is very painful! ) to make the blood come out....drop...by....drop

 

[U2@NYC]

I was actually feeling okay about myself and then I looked through the weigh in thread
Im terrified of getting weighed at the doctors office this month

Tara: you have a guy that loves you and does not care about your weight at all... and, even further, says that you are not fat.

I personally do not know you but, from your pictures, you do not look fat at all.

You are obviously sweet, pretty and good looking enough for someone to marry you in a couple of weeks.

That is all that matters.

 

[u2bonogirl]

Tara: you have a guy that loves you and does not care about your weight at all... and, even further, says that you are not fat.

I personally do not know you but, from your pictures, you do not look fat at all.

You are obviously sweet, pretty and good looking enough for someone to marry you in a couple of weeks.

That is all that matters.

I know that Im a very lucky girl to have Tim, and I freak out about nothing a lot of the time about my body.
I think the combined stress of it being summer and not liking to show skin, being in a new environment, and having to squeeze into my wedding dress soon is making me a little
And for the record, the last time I checked I was almost 5'6'' and 135 lbs

 

[U2@NYC]

I think the combined stress of it being summer and not liking to show skin, being in a new environment, and having to squeeze into my wedding dress soon is making me a little
And for the record, the last time I checked I was almost 5'6'' and 135 lbs

Those are impressive stats

And I will bet that your fiancee will be so dazzled by you showing up in a wedding dress that the last thing he will care is about your weight...

 

[pax]

having to squeeze into my wedding dress soon

The wedding industry works with the diet industry at sizing wedding dresses 1, 2, or even 3 sizes above "normal" size. If you wear a size 6 regularly, you can expect to have to buy your wedding dress in a 10 or bigger. Or if you buy your wedding dress true to size--i.e. you're a 6 and you buy a size 6 wedding dress--you'll have to diet to get yourself into it.

Sad but true.

Any coincidence that weight-loss campaigns targeted to brides are a multimillion-dollar industry? Not at all.