Death of the Neighborhood Bar

Re:Death of the Neighborhood Bar by rexgallorum2 on Sunday August 11, 2019 @01:15PM (#20669175)

That is true, but those are all interest based activities, things you do at 7pm on a Tuesday night, between getting off work and passing out while watching netflix. They aren't places where one can go to simply 'be', or to mingle with strangers. In Ireland for example, people would do those things and then go to the pub afterwards.

Think of the Prancing Pony in the Lord of the Rings...a place where locals and travellers can mix and mingle and converse as much or as little as they please.

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Re:Death of the Neighborhood Bar by mushufasa on Sunday August 11, 2019 @04:01PM (#20670117)

This also sounds like the Ethiopian concept of coffee as a 'social house.' There's a place in the ethiopian neighborhood of DC that really practices this: https://www.kaldissocial.com/#new-page-1-section

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Re:Death of the Neighborhood Bar by criddell on Sunday August 11, 2019 @03:36PM (#20669967)

> In Ireland for example, people would do those things and then go to the pub afterwards.

I love the idea of a hot yoga session before heading to the pub for a couple of pints and some darts.

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Re:Death of the Neighborhood Bar by i386 on Sunday August 11, 2019 @05:00PM (#20670472)

Nothing as beautiful as cans with the lads and a couple of smokes too

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Re:Death of the Neighborhood Bar by rexgallorum2 on Sunday August 11, 2019 @07:34PM (#20671233)

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Re:Death of the Neighborhood Bar by tomlockwood on Sunday August 11, 2019 @10:42PM (#20671998)

There is a fair bit of social pressure to drink in a bar though, it isn't exactly a place to just "be" in that regard.

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