>>21418270 (OP)
Me? Quite often I'll read and drink a few pints.

>>21418270 (OP)
I was a regular at a hipster bar in my town, I just hung out to play pool all day and get free pizza.

Place fucking sucked once it got popular. He wouldn't let me open for him or go behind the bar anymore.

>>21418277
that sounds quite nice

>>21418270 (OP)
>basically a library

yeah it's basically like a library if you take everything about a library and only focus on the lack of noise and people.

>>21418270 (OP)
What does this homo think a library is?

>>21418290
Wait your library doesn't have ESPN and FS1 on Mute and a chatty librarian in a Tank-Top who likes Tarantino movies

>>21418270 (OP)
Me. It's pretty chill and you USUALLY have free reign on pull tabs

My library has sewing machines

Me. A day out drinking is better than a night out drinking and my friend redpilled me on this
>Much quieter and chill, no noise
>No tons of people in the way at the bar
>Usually cheaper
>Sometimes they'll even have happy hour on or something because the place is dead at that time
>Easily get home in a cab as you're coming home when everyone's coming in.
>Go to bed at a reasonable hour

>>21418270 (OP)
Alcoholics, shift workers, and people on vacation

>>21418322
I only see old people play those

>>21418384
Nobody is going to vacation in Wisconsin

>>21418387
Depends where you live. Wisconsin and Minnesota, damn near everyone plays em

>>21418270 (OP)
Mailmen

Back in the day anyway
Now with gps tracking they follow you around all the time

>>21418270 (OP)
I paid $13.50 AUD for a pint at the last pub I went to, Young & Jacksons across from Flinders Street Station in Melbourne Australia. I'll never go to a pub again.

>>21418444
Fucking what, 4 bucks where I live

>>21418432
>mailmen follow me around
Nobody suspects them. Watch your back.

>>21418270 (OP)
>A library that sells beer
Holy KINO. It's like a cafe but not gay.

>>21418348
This

>>21418444
Only worse place in Australia you could be is Canberra.

>>21418270 (OP)
me. happy hours are great. my local bar has free pool and beer for like. a dollar. it's great.

>>21418316
No, mine has homeless people washing their socks in the restroom sinks.

>>21418324
my library has zoomba twice a week

>>21418414
I've never been, and have have only lived in the southwest. But I find it hard to believe it's without any virtues. It at least has cheese and beer

>>21418277
Same, but I read /pol/ and mumble “fucking kikes” under my breath every so often.

>>21418517
I'm not from Sydney or Melbourne so I don't have the NPC city rivalry brain cancer. Y&J is historical Australian pub kino, Melbourne in general has good pubs. You're correct about Canberra but it's by accident. Beer prices are fucked because of government paternalism and greed causing us to have some of the most obscene sin taxes on alcohol in the western world.

>>21418811
It’s not a rivalry. Melbourne is objectively a pozzed city.

>>21418824
>It’s not a rivalry.
It is. Braindead retards like you post shit like
>Melbourne is objectively a pozzed city.
despite mardi gras and Sydney hosting "world pride". It's the boring east coast city rivalry faggotry everyone else is sick of, but repackaged for a 4chan audience.
Fucking useful idiot dipshit blaming beer prices on "muh Melbourne" rather than federal govt policy and culture.

>>21418270 (OP)
So there's homeless people and child predators watching porn on the computers?

>>21418290
Like a bar that doesn't serve beer

None of those chairs look like they'd be comfortable to sit in for very long. Need to make sure the bar has some comfy seating before using it that way.
>>21418290
A place for single moms to apply for "jobs".

>>21419077
>Children that age at the library
Nopenopenope

>>21418270 (OP)
No different from someone who goes into one at night: a degenerate, like anyone who abuses drugs.

>>21418270 (OP)
Me if im chillin with someone. Theres a real danger that Ill be there til close tho.

>>21419062
So a room with chairs and tables? Like a foyer or courtyard?

I go to get out of house and relax, comfortable in the knowledge that there won't be any people like this >>21419081 around

>>21419084
>>21419088
This I enjoy the night drinking alot more if I get nice and comfy before people stsrt showing up.

>>21419088
The feeling is mutual.

>>21419099
I didn't ask

>>21418852
I’m a different anon, anon. Melbourne “people” are just built differently i.e. super fucking mega gay across the board.

>>21419102
Neither did I, junkie.

>>21419137
>n-n-neither
Fuck off Karen, you can always go to momsnet or whatever it's called, you desperate creature

>>21419143
>Karen
I will never be a woman, groomer.

>>21419156
Get to sleep Karen, it'll soon be time for church. You've got so many people to bore

>>21419116
Doesn't change much. Same stupid shit, different stupid cunt.

I have 50% work from home. I used to spend 2-3 days of the week of my WFH weeks at the bar with my laptop but nowadays I need to cut back on spending so I just drink in my home office all day.

rickydicky

>>21419187
>Karen
Like I said, I will never be a woman, and neither will (You).
>church
Uh-huh. Those evil, evil institutions who want you to... not waste your life in hedonistic listlessness. Those bastards...

>>21419077
stuff of nightmares

>>21418324
I sew. Where is this?

>>21418324
Libraries are for productive activities, yes. As close to the opposite of an ethanol den ("bar") as one could get.

>>21419502
I wonder when social retards like this became popular. I'd probably guess 2016 or so.

>>21419680
>popular
Don't flatter your persecution complex. The failures of Prohibition have been propagandized to such a degree that no, I'm not popular, nor do I care to be.

>>21419694
But you are retarded, unwanted, loud, and consistent. Faggots like you never really existed in the old days, now it is absolutely popular discourse here. Any thread about liquor gets puritantical faggots like you in droves sayind dumbass shit like "ethanol den". Brother, if you cannot nurse a pint in a normal social situation, chances are you rarely have them and are never invited back. You dont even have to drink, but this level of faggotry is very telling of your personal proclivities.

>>21419727
>you are retarded, unwanted, loud, and consistent
I'll take the first three as you blowing off steam, as addicts are want to do when confronted on their vices. The last one I'll wear whole-heartedly: I am very much consistent with my stance on recreational drug use.
>Faggots like you never really existed in the old days
Where did the 18th amendment come from?
>Any thread about liquor gets puritantical [sic.] faggots like you in droves sayind [sic.] dumbass shit like "ethanol den"
No, that was probably just me.
>if you cannot nurse a pint in a normal social situation, chances are you rarely have them and are never invited back
There are people who don't feel a need to abuse drugs in social situations. I know it's hard to imagine, with how normalized it is, but it's true.
>You dont [sic.] even have to drink
No, you require water to stay alive for longer than half a week. Assuming you're referring to ethanol, as most people unfortunately mean when they say "drink," then you're correct; short of ethylene glycol poisoning, you do not need to intake ethanol for any reason.

>>21418348
100%. Also if you travel a lot, bartenders are bored and will talk to you so you end up getting better insight about the town.

>>21418348
Bingo. You can chat with the bartender, change the TV if you'd like, and even get things you otherwise couldn't like samples of drinks when the batender is bored feeling generous.

Plus on top of all that, I usually see them deep cleaning stuff at the good bars. When the bartenders are sitting around looking at their phone, it means they're lax on finding shit to do and improve so they don't care about the cleanliness for the customers.

I've never understood going to a bar at 8pm to drink $10 drinks for a few hours where its too loud to hear the person next to you.

>>21419745
You [sic]'d a missing apostrophe and wrote a giant diatribe about the common coloquial usage of a word. I'd slap the smug off you if you werent a repugnant tea-totaling charlatan, as milquetoast as you are mawkish and platitudinous. Tell me, oh moral arbiter of faggotry, what do you do for fun? What are you reading right now? And what have you acconplished in your life?

>>21419745
you must be fun at parties

>>21418290
a place where you surf the web on your laptop and never look at any books

>>21419680
How's sitting in a bar alone at 1 PM "social"? You are actually retarded, sorry to say. Good news is you can probably get on some kind of welfare.

>>21419846
Nice reading comprehension sport. The implication was that calling bars "ethanol dens" is a signifier that one is socially retarded. Drinking at 1pm had nothing to do with.

>>21418348
Based. One thing I miss with my old job was having Mondays off, cause I'd go to my local bar after finishing my errands and just chill, since they had $2 pints special.
The bartender would just put some random movie on like Predator as background noise or I'd read a book for a couple hours as I people-watched. Was quiet and comfy as fuck.

>>21419854
So you went off on an autism melt down that is completely unrelated to the thread, AKA off topic posting? Thanks for making this an open and shut case.

>>21418270 (OP)
me

>>21419862
Seems like you need a beer. It's almost 1pm, go find yourself somewhere quiet to have a nice beverage and some fries.

>>21419841
Kek. I guess

>>21419745
wont*

>>21418428
Narth Dakoota too. And the slots. Seems like every bar in Fargo has slot machines.

>>21419777
*teetotal
The anon you're responding to definitely drinks and is probably drunk when replying

>>21419773
>I've never understood going to a bar at 8pm
Me neither. That's peak casual hours. I never go before midnight. By then all the casuals have gone home or passed out. After midnight is the real homie hours

>>21419777
>You [sic]'d a missing apostrophe and wrote a giant diatribe about the common coloquial [sic.] usage of a word
And?
>I'd slap the smug off you if
There was any to be found, yes. Don't confuse contempt for smugness.
>moral arbiter
Good one...
>>21419840
The parties you're thinking of aren't fun.
>>21420189
>The anon you're responding to definitely drinks and is probably drunk when replying
I can safely bet that's true of the anons I'm responding to right now, hence the projection...

>>21420189
Oh almost certainly. The entymology on that was neat; I thought it was tea like the beverage but apparently it's some 1837 slang. Learn something new.

>>21420335
Funny how you didnt list anything you've read or what you've done. I'm reading the Zhuangzi and I'm going to move on to the Analetics and the Mencius, but I hear they're not as lively.

>>21420382
>you didnt [sic.] list anything you've read or what you've done
Neither of those are pertinent to this discussion, similar to how threads about drug dens have nothing to do with food or cooking, even if they serve food on the side to maintain the veneer of a legitimate business. What, are we going to have threads about crack houses or opium lounges next?
>th-th-those are nothing like bars!
You're right, one is legally permitted ad culturally normalized, and the other two aren't. That's where the differences begin, and also where they end.

>>21420382
>you didnt [sic.] list anything you've read or what you've done
Neither of those are pertinent to this discussion, similar to how threads about drug dens have nothing to do with food or cooking, even if they serve food on the side to maintain the veneer of a legitimate business. What, are we going to have threads about crack houses or opium lounges next?
>th-th-those are nothing like bars!
You're right, one is legally permitted and culturally normalized, and the other two aren't. That's where the differences begin, and also where they end.

>>21420475
Sure they are, it's what I read at a bar in the daytime. Maybe if you read more books at the bar instead of lecturing people online youd stop playing pretend janny and relax.

>>21420482
>I read at a bar
>Maybe if you read more books at the bar
Yes, the ideal reading space: surrounded by morons whose brains are so pickled they can't even walk home, let alone drive, all breaking into their fifth off-key rendition of Come On Eileen or whatever Country love song about whiskey got released last week...

>>21420505
Not during the day, you know, the thing the thread is about. It's usually very quiet. No one is pickled drinking a pint or two; it's cost prohibitive and impractical.

>>21418348
Also you get served quicker because they're serving nobody else, and you never get into any drama or bullshit as nobody is drunk and belligerent and rowdy at that hour.
The regular bar I go to has discount prices on drinks from 4pm - 7pm on Monday - Friday to lure people in during those dead hours. So you save a lot of money.

>>21419857
It's why I miss university. For like a whole semester on a Monday my classes ended at like 2pm and I got to know some people from that class and we went to this specific cocktail bar that did 2 for 1 cocktails and just get hammered ever week.

>>21418270 (OP)
Alcoholics and gambling addicts playing keno. Great place to meet loose women. You could be someone’s now low!

>>21419846
Bars open that early will be full of regulars. If you can hold a conversation you might become one. Possibly for life

>>21418414
I live in Chicago; I go to Wisconsin for vacation all the time.

>>21420536
Reminder if you're a regular at a bar the bartenders fucking hates you and will shit talk you BOH unless you "regular"ly tip +20%. Then they'll just pretend not to hate you.

>>21420530
>Great place to meet loose women
So not a great place overall. I could tell you that.

>>21419745
>>21420475
>[sic.]
fucking lol, you're badly misusing this shit
firstly, you've picked up this poor habit from shit journalists, but any style guide worth its salt will coach against this trashy, low class behaviour
secondly, sic isn't an abbreviation you stupid pseud fuck
hahahaha eat shit you tryhard retard

>>21419841
So like /lit/ but with beer, got it

>>21418270 (OP)
what kind of person asks this question? Muslims? Hermits?

>>21420614
>like /lit/ but with beer
So a totally useless version of /lit/, got it.

>>21420714
>So a totally useless version of /lit/
yeah, /lit/

>>21418324
My library has a 3D printing station kek

>>21418758

>>21419079
Look around; it's the kids' section. My local library isn't anything to brag about but they know to keep it isolated from the main library.

>>21418270 (OP)
>Who goes to the Bar in the middle of the day?
Alcoholics, the unemployable, angry loners.

>>21421570
metoo.... i think it's retarded waste of my tax dollars.

>>21418324
aren't those loud? My mom's as a kid was noisy as hell

>>21418270 (OP)
People who work in marketing

>Drinking
>During the day
WHAT A LIFE

>>21418270 (OP)
>here's your food si- OH NO!!

>>21420567
Makes for good bar stories though. My local bar had the joke
>how do you get lucky at (shitty dive bar)
>go home alone.

>>21425030
Fatty fall in food

>>21425030
*banana_peel_slip.mp3*

>>21418270 (OP)
A few co-workers and I stop in the local pub across the street from the office every day for lunch M-F and have a pint. They serve food, but they don't care if we bring in our own lunches from home. It's been such clockwork for the last 2 years that by 12:05 the bartender will already start filling our glasses so they're ready by the time we come in the door.

>>21418444
dumb roo fuckers lose again lmao

>>21419773
>and even get things you otherwise couldn't like samples of drinks when the batender is bored feeling generous.
if you walk into any pub in the UK and ask to taste test a brew, they will let you, free of charge, 100% of the time. drinking in muttmerica sounds painful, especially with $2 tips per drink, your pints are tiny, etc

>>21425403
>if you walk into any pub in the UK and ask to taste test a brew, they will let you, free of charge, 100% of the time.
As with bars in the US hence why I pointed out
>otherwise couldn't
brittania pretending to be superior while serving warm beer is silly.

>>21418270 (OP)
I am not a big drinker, but I used to meet my buddy at a little dive bar at 11am in the middle of the week during summer and just sit, drink $1 frosted mugs of beer, enjoy the air conditioning, and chat up the redhead bartender with big fake tits. It was kino

Now the bar is long gone, torn down for high speed rail that no one is going to use.

Do most bars have outlets at the bar or near booths?

Its funny that some lonely antibeer faggot is here angling for attention in near exactly the same manner as a sad lonely drunk at the pub acting like an arsehole for attention.

Good to see that Loser is still Loser whether soused or sober.

>>21418270 (OP)
My friend who is a writer I think just liked seeming important so he would bring his laptop to the bar and "work"

>>21418270 (OP)
I'll have a beer if I'm alone in town waiting for somebody or just have a cigarette while reading a book or scrolling 4chan

Sometimes I'll meet someone open for small talk
Pretty based ngl