So just drinking with friends at home then?
No… wait! Charging strangers to drink at your home 😏🤑
Make them byob and pay a cover
Nice handle. I’m going to try that… I just fill up 50 syringes from 1-50 units, stick them all in and… no, no… I didn’t think this through either 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉
Going to go take a nap my friends, feel a little woozy 😌
Like some kind of public house?
I see what you did there…
Pretty sure I’d need to be a church or something first. California isn’t a fan of not collecting taxes.
Drinking in the basement with my friends (the various paraphernalia i use to do drugs).
That’s almost a haiku… no wait, I just sat on syringes 43 through 50… someone please call 911.*
*100% kidding… although I am diabetic 😌
There’s a town where there’s a trend of people building garage bars:
Pretty sure Family Guy did that first?
My personal conspiracy theory is that bars have bad acoustics so that you have to shout, so that you get a sore throat, so that you feel like you need to drink more.
That’s good, but it’s just so people dont linger too long and will leave after they’ve spent money. If bars and restaurants were comfortable people would hang out at them for hours and that’s bad for profits.
In my dreams I’d be running an unprofitable bar out of my other living room. (I don’t have another living room)
It’s interesting that the first pubs were just that – people’s homes where a certain room was open to guests.
Why is hanging out for a long time bad, as long as you continue drinking?
Good question. I don’t really know!
For singles bars, it’s so people can get close and talk in each other’s ears and have a private conversation.
it’ll go bankrupt quick. people drink less when they can have other stimulation
if the place has a dancefloor, it also has to have shit music in between so you return and buy a drink to pass time
Back in the late 90s, at a seedy bar with my tech-head buddies, we snagged a booth/table with a crappy half blown speaker that was pumping music so loud you couldn’t hear ANYTHING. My buddy whips out his multi tool and proceeds to stand up and snip the wire going to the speaker. An amazing idea that I’ve really never had the chance to replicate, but inspired me to carry a multi tool a lot more.
That is called a “pub”.
Remember kids:
Oak and brass, A touch of class. Pine and chrome, Get yourself a six pack and drink it in your garage.
Sound panels. They’re insanely effective. I put up a few at home, and now I complain about every place that doesn’t have them.
BILLION DOLLAR IDEA: A BAR, BUT YOU CAN HEAR THE PEOPLE YOU’RE WITH
WHAT!? TELL ME AFTER THE NOISE DIES DOWN.
meanwhile when the noise actually does die down: SO THAT’S WHY I NEED A NEW HEMROID CREAM.
WHAT?
WHAT?
I don’t have a cat, maybe next door?
WHAT?
HUH?
That’s called a “lounge”.
One of my personal gripes with TV and movies is when the main characters go to a dance club, or a strip club, and have a conversation at a normal volume level. You can always tell from the look of the places that they’re the kind where you have to shout into the ear of the person next to you to have a hope at being understood.
A pub?
I feel like pubs in Europe are different than they are in the US. If you go to a dive bar in the US there’s a real chance you might end up stabbed or shot.
You get those places in Europe too, but you also get places that are queer friendly, serve food and craft beer, have a good punk oriented jukebox, and the barman will start pouring your drink when you walk through the door because they know what you’re going to order.
What you’re describing makes me kinda miss being a regular at a pub.
Post-COVID and moving to Canada … I find that I stay at home all the time nowadays. The bars I go to here are more establishments and have less of the home feel I used to get in Europe.
If you happen to be in Ottawa, I have a couple suggestions via PM. Otherwise, stuff that fits the feel you’d probably like exists, but is generally overshadowed by more establishment spots. Takes a little digging (and even what’s there may not suit your tastes).
Not neccessarily a bad thing though, alcohol being a poison and whatnot (I just happen to like poison).
Caveat - I’ve never been in Europe long enough to know the exact feel of a good homey Euro pub, for comparison purposes.
Why, I don’t want to hear them complaining about the current state of the world, I’m already depressed because all of it, I just want to drink my beer in peace and overwhelming conversation-canceling noise, with my friends close to me, where just a glance at each other saying “I feel the same” is enough.
Totally get it. You wanna be where you can see your troubles are all the same. You wanna be where everybody knows your name.
And I want my friends to know:
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Weird, my friends and I may occasionally talk about the bad stuff, but there’s always something good going on. We can be excited for upcoming things too.
I like being able to have conversations at bars and restaurants. In my bachelor days when I was dating an amazing person she knew all the good bars and restaurants that you could actually have conversations in. We always knew going in to a social thing if it was gonna be a good conversation or just yelling and “what?”
Plus the ear damage from the loud shit is no joke. Tinnitus started for me by mid 30s and I never listen to loud music or do stupid stuff, beyond bars and parties.
I was joking, I can’t handle the large chaotic crowds of bars (autistic). I just meet with friends at home or go when it’s not busy.
I used to go to illegal techno parties, even organize them myself. Never protected my ears. Recent tests show my hearing is in perfect condition. Since I’m afraid of tennitus, I always wear ear protection now when there’s loud noise. At parties, at the metal workplace I go to, when people are javkhammering on the street, etc. I’m very lucky, several DJ friends of mine were too late and have tennitus now too.
I know a guy who removed his motorcycle’s muffler and rode around for a couple of days. He can’t really hear in his right ear much anymore (because that’s where the pipe was cut off, to the right of the bike.) I did ride for a time, but always wore earplugs even if I wasn’t going on the highway.
I don’t really like large crowds or bars either man. I like 1:1 conversations and interactions. My heavy bar scene and parties only lasted maybe a couple years and I was always a +1.
My wife took me to a wedding where her cousin was getting married and the volume was cranked to 11. I sat through a two hour catholic service before the party which was fine. We got to the party afterwards and I just wanted to go back to the room and sleep. We were traveling, I was sick from what I thought was the food or having some of the local water but it later turned out to be full blown covid… but I was trying to be supportive and there for her because her enormous extended family was just meeting me for the first time.
I was in line for food since we hadn’t eaten, and the speakers were to my right. The noise was so loud you couldn’t hear someone yelling “what” at point blank range. I only stood in that line for a minute before leaving and my wife gave me so much shit for leaving, even though it was after her own father left. I wouldn’t be surprised if some or even most of my tinnitis came from that one party. I’ve never told her about this suspicion though, but I still remember it as I notice my ears ringing, right now. The right is substantially worse than the left.
Anyway, fortunately the tinnitus is extremely mild and I generally don’t notice it. If I start thinking about it, it gets worse and very persistent until I manage to distract myself. It’s always there, pulsating to the beat of my heart, and will not go away until I die or go deaf.
So not a bar.
I’ve never been to a bar that plays music too loud. Did oop a club instead?
It’s not just about music. Like some bars and restaurants with modern interior have shitty acoustics, since they are open spaces with concrete walls and large windows. I went to a restaurant recently, wasn’t super crowded, music was played at low volume, still had a hard time hearing people. Since everyone in the room had to speak louder and louder to make themselves heard and overcome the reverb in the room.
Part of the reason why I hate going to bars. Another part is that the drinks are overpriced. I can get a decent handle and drink for a week for the same price as 3 drinks at a bar. No, the shitty music and oppressive atmosphere does not make the experience worth it.
