Yes and yes. You can make connections that might come in handy, happened to me plenty of times.

>Is real life like a shitcom made 50 years ago?
You’re an idiot.

>>218353014
No. It's just pretending to have friends whilst paying stupid prices for beer.

>>218353036
So it isn't?

>>218353014
Yes it’s fun. I lived above the neighborhood bar. Got comped plenty of drinks. Did blow with the bartender. Met lots of pretty girls there and brought them upstairs easy. (After getting them wasted obviously) Also it was cool because I could bring 19-20 year olds in there and nobody cared.
Then Covid happened and I moved out and got married blah blah blah
Haven’t been to a bar as a regular since…
Instead, I watch Cheers. Just got to season 3…

>>218353076
Why didn't any of the regulars at Cheers start drinking too much and become so annoying that the others stopped talking to them, forcing them to go to a different bar?

>>218353014
It's pretty comfy when the crew are cool with you, ya. It's also nice to know you always have a place to go where you are welcome and known and people are generally happy to see you. If you're a weird guy who can't talk to people though then no this won't cure you

>>218353014
right before covid i was loserly doing doordash and would stop at the same bar on the way home for a couple beers as a treat for my hard work.
within going there maybe 3 times the bartender treated me like a bro, and would pretty much hand me a beer as soon as i walked in without asking, he knew
the 2nd to last time went, some slag and her friend came in and sat next to me at the bar (it was crowded, and the only open spot)
something with her friend came up and she left, so i said fuck it and started yakking her up, and she seemed cool with it.
went outside for a smoke with her and asked about work and whatever. she had kids and a shitbag babydaddy who was currently in the picture, so she wouldn't let me get horizontal with her that night. she wasn't that hot, but at that point i was in a dry spell and a 6 would have become a Miller High Life 7
went one more time in the hopes slag would be back, but she wasn't, then covid happened.
but yeah go to the bar or whatever, i think i'm gonna go to the bar

>>218353076
why did you blow the bartender?

>>218353014
If you don't have a family or a steady group of friends, yeah, you can do this instead

>>218353186
I don't know. He was hot. I guess...

>>218353014
What this show doesn't tell you is how high or a churn the industry has. You'll have to meet and get to know new bartenders every 6 months or so. It doesn't sound like a big deal but essentially it means you don't form any long friendships with any of them

>>218353014
alcohol is so much cheaper if you buy it at the supermarket and drink it at home alone in your room in the dark

>>218353364
I'm an alchie but I very rarely drink at home and use the higher prices at a bar as a deterrent for drinking too much.

>>218353186
Just the tip
It's considered rude not to in America

>>218353102
Apparently a lot of people gave up and left because of Cliff

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>>218353014
I miss my bar days. It was a good way to spend weekends being social. I took care of the bar tenders and they took care of me. We talked when it was slow, and I listened to them vent when it was busy and customers were rude.
Went home with a few girls, one of them a server (which was a bad idea). Smoked cigarettes with the staff after hours while they settled the register.
That bar never really recovered after COVID and so I grew away while the other regulars and bar tenders I knew did the same. Now they're just faces that go by on Instagram occasionally.
I'm probably too old to behave like that now anyway, but I think fondly of that time in my life.

>>218354696
It is a comfy life, especially for terminally single men like myself.

>>218353014
Bars are for losers. Barfly is probably the most realistic film ever made.

>>218354696
So you just sit in the counter waiting for them to talk to you? Or do you sit at a table and make small talk to the waiters until they acknowledge you?

>>218354790
You sit at the bar

>>218354790
Sit at the bar. The only time I sat at a table was when the bar was full and I was desperate. Otherwise I'd come back an hour later or something.
Early on I just watched whatever was on TV, was polite and an easy customer (no complicated or weird cocktails). It's easier to chat up a bartender when it's slow obviously. Just make a remark about whatever is on TV and see how they react and go from there. Same with other regulars. Someone else alone would sit down next to me and we'd drink silently for a while then something would happen and someone would make a comment and it would spawn a conversation. Just take it slow and don't get too drunk or belligerent. Bartenders like a customer that can hold their liquor and isn't another problem for them to deal with, because eventually they'll view you as a positive to have around both for the bar as a business and for themselves.

>>218354790
*at the counter

If you can't socialise/be fun without the crutch of alcohol, you are both a shy wimp and a boring bastard

thats not even economically viable these days
a beer in a bar costs as much as 4pack in convenience store or 6 pack in supermarket

if you wanted to just sit in a bar like that you'd drink away everything you made at work that day, 1 beer = 1 hour of work minimum, you wouldnt even get a buzz before you're in the red for the month

>>218355002
You sound insecure.

>>218355024
You can get a beer for a couple bucks at most dive bars. The alcohol mark-up is usually much higher in restaurants and higher end establishments.

>>218355087
Yeah 1 beer = 1 hour of work min is an insane claim, one way or the other. Even in Chicago a normal lager is going to be $6-7, and there are almost always specials.

>>218355087
maybe in USA but in europe, especially city popular with tourists, you're not gonna be able to go outside more than once a year unless you're homeless or already had family living there to pay rent for you

>>218355051
>business closes
>"friends are now gone"

>>218353364
Cheaper, yet costs you more

>>218355257
Is it true that Scandis smuggle booze from the Baltics because of crazy liquor taxes?

>>218353014
Only if you have like a job and shit, if you go to a bar and someone asks you what you do for work and you're like "Oh I'm unemployed and post on 4chan all day" they'll just be like "oh..." and sit somewhere else

>>218353014
>who's that weird guy who doesn't talk to anyone
>don't know he keeps coming in everyday for a few weeks

My experience

I gave up alcohol for lent. I lost my gut and my wife is happier with me. Im so sick of boring nights where I do nothing and stressful workdays where I have nothing to take the edge off after. Its even worse to go out cause youll go to a nice bar to hang with friends and you order a pepsi.

>>218355408
Why not start some light conversation? That or at least bring a book if you aren't going to talk to anyone.

>>218355504
I sat in a pub in Ireland one time to do some video editing with my phone, a powerbank and a portable hard drive. I just needed somewhere to sit indoors out of the sun because it was so fucking hot outside and I was camping so tent was hot too.

Got a pint of Guiness, sat at a table, and just got to work editing, literally every person I could hear talking about me like i was some sort of weirdo, very strange.

>>218355889
Absolutely nothing wrong with getting some work done at a bar. They're the weirdos, not you :)

>>218355408
Did you actually hear that or just imagined?

>>218353014
Being s regular is pretty comfy. Especially mid-day mid-week with all the alckies and earthrockers

>>218356113
The regulars all say it every time I take my food in the bathroom to eat it.

>>218356337
It's true what they say: high school never really ends.