I’m sure you’ve all heard about the fantastic Sunday promotion in Pantibar, but just in case you haven’t,  all drinks are half price (That’s right, HALF PRICE!!) which means that you can have an amazing night out and spend very little.

I went for one with a mate when the bar opened at 5pm, and I found myself still there at closing because I just couldn’t bring myself to leave as the atmosphere was so electric. The DJ was brilliant, the bar was packed to the rafters and with everyone so… merry shall we say, it felt like a Pride night out.  The only downside was that the girl’s bathrooms kept running out of toilet paper for obvious reasons, but apart from that I can’t find a bad thing to say about the evening.

As a non-drinker, I was especially impressed with the fact that the offer even extended to soft drinks, as these things rarely do.

Everyone was keeping their receipts, which were pronounced “beautiful” by many, with some taking pictures of them and uploading them to Facebook almost instantly (mobile internet is a wonderful thing). My flatmate got four glasses of wine over the course of the evening, and only spent just over a tenner. A pitcher of beer was a fiver, and three of my mates managed to get three pints of Guinness for about €6.75!

I would highly recommend that everyone checks this out next Sunday, but get there early if you want a seat. Thanks to this, Mondays will be wiped off the calendar for Dublin’s LGBT community, and people are going to have to start calling in gay to work every week.

We love you Panti!

Make and Do Do on Monday is always an excellent night out, but was especially brilliant this week with everyone still on a buzz from the previous night’s half-price endeavours. Everyone except for Panti that is, who didn’t get to bed till 9am…and was dying to say the least!  Yet she was still absolutely on fire during the judging.

Each week, Panti gives a theme, and you have to get your play dough/mála/plasticine (whatever you like to call it yourself) and make something inspired by that theme. Then you hand it up, and Panti proceeds to rip it out of your creations, makes you explain the story behind it, and then rips it out of you, and picks a winner. It’s awesome!

This week, the theme was “A Lesson I’ve Learned” which led to some very interesting entries. There was a play dough pot of Vaseline handed up, with the lesson being that one should always wash their hand thoroughly after applying it… One to remember apparently!

There were also interpretations of an Amsterdam sex show, a lesson on how to have sex in a wardrobe, a warning against meeting people on Gaydar, and a penis. EVERY week, no matter what the theme is, someone hands up a play dough penis. Every week!

After everything is handed up, Panti starts to go through them all. A tip, you should NEVER make a 2D model. You have a 3D medium to work with, so make a 3D model. Trust me on this. My other tip is that if you want to win, it’s all about the details. After everyone has to share their stories, Panti picks a top three or five, depending on the amount of entries. The prize is usually a bottle of Absolut vodka, and sometimes a second choice of a voucher for a back, sack and crack wax (I kid you not.) The winner is chosen by the crowd, so whoever gets the loudest roar is the winner. The lucky entry this week was a model of a chicken and an egg, the lesson being “It doesn’t matter who comes first…once everyone is happy!”

If you haven’t experienced the wonders of Panti’s Make and Do Do yet, go try it out. 9pm is usually a good time to go, as the making and doing starts at 10pm, with the judging at 11pm.

Pantibar -  7-9 Capel Street, Dublin 1.

Open 7days a week from 5pm.

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