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etalian posted:this my favorite local bar: I live near that bar, is it really any good? I've passed it a few times on my way to ramen dojo and was curious about it.
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Salem Saberhagen posted:I live near that bar, is it really any good? I've passed it a few times on my way to ramen dojo and was curious about it. Lets be honest. There are no good bars in San Mateo.
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Sep 24, 2015 08:33
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you should move to Wisconsin, OP. there are parts there where you have 3 bars for every grocery store
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Sep 24, 2015 08:39
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Y-Hat posted:you should move to Wisconsin, OP. there are parts there where you have 3 bars for every grocery store basically, the pubs from everywhere else in America mysteriously moved there for reasons as yet unexplained 
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Sep 24, 2015 08:40
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the terrible secret of Wisconsin
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Sep 24, 2015 08:45
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i walked by a bar where people were drinking and watching jurassic park on a big screen with the lights way down pretty cool imo
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Sep 24, 2015 09:14
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gary oldmans diary posted:i walked by a bar where people were drinking and watching jurassic park on a big screen with the lights way down i think you walked by that alamo theater place that throws you out if you talk to your friends or accidentally sneeze or whatever
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ANIME IS BLOOD posted:the terrible secret of Wisconsin that's the brandy old fashioned sweet with olives actually
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Sep 24, 2015 13:33
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There's a bar a block away from me where people like to hang out and drink, trouble is it's next to a mini mart where I can get six beers there for the price of one at the bar. I usually go to the mart, go home then drink by myself in the dark.
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Sep 24, 2015 13:38
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Nooner posted:Why so hostile I thought we were friends every bar in SF is expensive as sh1t
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Sep 24, 2015 13:40
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I'm just confused cause drinks aren't like that anywhere ive been other than clubs or hipster bars
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Serious answer: It's dying. There's not much a local bar can provide that can't be found elsewhere. It used to have exclusive things you couldn't find anywhere else: Large screen TV's, booze, and socializing with people who were watching the same game you were. Now everyone has a giant TV, many grocery stores have a liquor store inside them, and you can chat on the internet with people watching the same game around the world. I work in an industry that services bars. It's been a "slow year" for a couple years now. The only places that are going to survive long term are bars in lovely areas where people don't have cars, bars that are also something else - restaurant, arcade, pool hall, etc, and bars that are just fronts for illegal activity.
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Sep 24, 2015 13:54
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this is all Jon Taffer and Robert Irvine's fault like most of history you can blame the large, loud, obnoxious white men
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Sep 24, 2015 13:56
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Luvcow posted:this is all Jon Taffer and Robert Irvine's fault The majority of the bars they "save" shutter with in months, sometimes due to city officials seeing the show and realizing the renovations aren't up to code, investigate the place and shutting it down.
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Sep 24, 2015 13:59
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ashgromnies posted:every bar in SF is expensive as sh1t Hey man, just because the bars are expensive doesn't mean SF doesn't have super gross dives.
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Sep 24, 2015 13:59
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Domus posted:Serious answer: It's dying. There's not much a local bar can provide that can't be found elsewhere. It used to have exclusive things you couldn't find anywhere else: Large screen TV's, booze, and socializing with people who were watching the same game you were. Now everyone has a giant TV, many grocery stores have a liquor store inside them, and you can chat on the internet with people watching the same game around the world. People that weren't ever really cool with going to a bar no longer have much reason to. People that always enjoyed going to bars still go to them with gusto. The market may change a bit but I promise you, there will always be thousands of people drinking in bars.
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Sep 24, 2015 14:03
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Domus posted:Serious answer: It's dying. There's not much a local bar can provide that can't be found elsewhere. It used to have exclusive things you couldn't find anywhere else: Large screen TV's, booze, and socializing with people who were watching the same game you were. Now everyone has a giant TV, many grocery stores have a liquor store inside them, and you can chat on the internet with people watching the same game around the world. chatting on the internet with people watching the same game around the world is the most boring and sad thing ever in the world holy poo poo
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Sep 24, 2015 14:05
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Y-Hat posted:you should move to Wisconsin, OP. there are parts there where you have 3 bars for every grocery store Yeah as a Wisconsin resident I can confirm this. Tons of bars in small towns and I always see the same people come in. Of course I consider this to be a bad thing because I don't want to get recognized at a bar.
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Sep 24, 2015 14:07
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Go to a college town there are lots of pubs. The county I live in only has two mixed drink licenses, and one beer license, so EVERYONE goes to one of three venues. They did finally open a liqour store, inshallah
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Sep 24, 2015 14:07
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My local bar is the only bar that lets you smoke inside in like an hour's drive in any given direction so it's doing all right. Although it's usually just the same twenty or so chain smoking alcoholics. Never not knowing someone at your local place is pretty cool though.
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Sep 24, 2015 14:10
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Moridin920 posted:idk where are you My response as well
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Sep 24, 2015 14:14
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a bar fact: third shift bars open at 6 am in some places so you can be an alcoholic all day long and still have a local
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Sep 24, 2015 14:16
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you dont live in any real city unless you live in nyc hth
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Sep 24, 2015 14:17
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The local dives here draw crowds of desperate rednecks but those people aren't fun to be around imo
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Sep 24, 2015 14:19
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Nonsense posted:you dont live in any real city unless you live in nyc hth Nothing says city like streets overflowing with garbage
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Sep 24, 2015 14:34
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lol if nyc is still using manual trash labor and didn't just make robot trucks like everywhere else has been using for 20 years.
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Sep 24, 2015 14:36
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What do you mean "if"?
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Sep 24, 2015 14:40
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Do people talk about how crack houses aren't as good as crack houses used to be?
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Sep 24, 2015 14:47
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One by one every "local pub" will be bought and transformed into a millennial den with lots of wood with sheet metal screwed onto it and super dim $8 light bulbs hanging prominently all over the place. Sorry
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Sep 24, 2015 14:52
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Nothing says city like streets overflowing with garbage Small price for literally everything else
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Sep 24, 2015 15:30
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Is it a wisconsin/upper midwest thing to have neighborhoods that are house/house/house/bar/house/factory/house going down the street?
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Skeleton Ape posted:One by one every "local pub" will be bought and transformed into a millennial den with lots of wood with sheet metal screwed onto it and super dim $8 light bulbs hanging prominently all over the place. Sorry good.
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Hector Beerlioz posted:The majority of the bars they "save" shutter with in months, sometimes due to city officials seeing the show and realizing the renovations aren't up to code, investigate the place and shutting it down. I always assumed basically all the bars they saved ended up closing just because without the cameras there the barely functional alcoholic owners and long pouring bartenders went right back to doing exactly what ruined the business in the first place
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Sep 24, 2015 15:45
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i'm from rural california but there's always at least 15 people in all 3 of the town's bars from opening to closing regardless of day. and its not usually old drunk hobos buying beer with their VA disability, either.
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Sep 24, 2015 15:48
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There's a local pub near me and it's loving garbage; its filled with 4 - 5 of the same old men every day, starting their drinking day at 11AM, if anyone they don't know gets too close to the bar they start snarling and foaming at the mouth. Its just a big good 'ol boys' club and it stinks, so please, local pubs, please die out.
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Sep 24, 2015 15:53
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a bone to pick posted:There's a local pub near me and it's loving garbage; its filled with 4 - 5 of the same old men every day, starting their drinking day at 11AM, if anyone they don't know gets too close to the bar they start snarling and foaming at the mouth. Its just a big good 'ol boys' club and it stinks, so please, local pubs, please die out. Stop being a pussy.
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notZaar posted:Yeah as a Wisconsin resident I can confirm this. Tons of bars in small towns and I always see the same people come in. Of course I consider this to be a bad thing because I don't want to get recognized at a bar. Yeah.... so at "my" local bar in Wisconsin I don't even have to order. They see me and start pouring a massive beer. Sometimes the owner will sit down at the bar and have dinner with me and my friend while we shoot the poo poo. I saw Lewis Black at Summerfest in Milwaukee years ago and he did that bit that was posted. For some reason it was very small tent and we were all just standing around him on tiny stage. I was maybe 10 feet from him and the crowd LOVED him calling us alcoholic fuckers. He did note how polite Wisconinites are though.  Also this. The statistics. Drinking deeply ingrained in Wisconsin's culture 
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Sep 24, 2015 17:09
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I have never heard an American speak the word "pub" out loud unless it was preceded by "Irish" or followed by "crawl".
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Sep 24, 2015 17:13
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If anything the trend on bars that I have noticed is that bars tend to fall into complacency after being around for a while. So, over the years certain things drop off, and in an effort to keep the regular customers coming back they stop changing anything. Eventually, it's mostly just the regular customers that are there every day. Case in point, the bar I go to, most evenings would be literally the same 6 people after 7, and showing up on a Wednesday night after 9, there was likely only one or two other people in there. New owners came in a few years ago, refreshed the menu, added craft beers, brought live music in on Wednesday nights, cleaned and repaired the place, and made a bunch of other changes, now it's packed most nights of the week.
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Sep 24, 2015 17:16
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Mine got shutdown by an unlicensed jukebox. Was thus purchased by a foreign group who are actually making repairs. Not the same.
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exmorte posted:My local bar is the only bar that lets you smoke inside in like an hour's drive in any given direction so it's doing all right. Although it's usually just the same twenty or so chain smoking alcoholics. Never not knowing someone at your local place is pretty cool though. The no smoking thing has really hurt locals too. The kind of people who would go to a local are often the kind of people who smoke or at least don't care if others do. The Applebee's and gastropub people are the non-smokers, so that kind of place wasn't hit as hard with all the bans.
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