They’re so mind-rapingly boring. And I could list a dozen reasons why, but there are other people out there who have already done it way better.
I’m not even talking specifically about birthdays either. Any Friday or Saturday night I spend at a bar, I consider mostly wasted.
WHYYYYYYYYYAHdfjasklghjkasdlg
Just count your lucky stars it isn’t a karaoke bar. There’s nothing more humiliating.
IT IS KARAOKE! EVERY FRIDAY-GODDAMNED-NIGHT
I never sing though, because it’s a country/oldies sports bar, and I only sing good music, and only to people who want to hear it.
That is pretty sad, then. I don’t like being around crowds, though, and so the few times I’ve been to a bar it has been (of course) karaoke night. I don’t really like bars in general though. I’m not a heavy drinker (I’ll drink maybe one or two beers, if it’s good beer), I hate idiots, and I’m nervous around strangers. So when someone says I should go someplace with drunken idiots I don’t know, I usually pass.
Oh- even worse. When you’re with guy friends and they’re like, “We’re gonna get you laid tonight! We’re gonna get you some hot diseased pussy!” Well, they don’t say diseased, but yeah. I like sex, but I’d like to know their name and not be vomited on, thanks. 
When I worked at the factory over the summer, I had a hard time connecting with my coworkers. Mostly because I didn’t drink, I don’t have kids, and I don;t blow most of my money up at the casino. And thus, I was boring as hell.
I spent my 21st birthday working, sleeping, and not getting a single damn present, by the way. Which was msotly fine with me.
I share the general consensus here that bars a pretty much stupid. My sister and mohter on the other had just consider it “going out”. But for several of the reasons alredy mentioned, I really don’t see point.
I can understand a lot of people wanting to get together at bars for their 21st, because they’ve been drinking in secrecy for so long, it’s just a nice feeling to be able to go out in public and get trashed (not that I did, mind you - I don’t drink at all). I can also see why other people like to go to bars - it’s an easy way to go out with your friends and hang out, drink, dance, and maybe people if you care to. You could say “Well, I don’t want to meet someone who would be hanging out at a bar”, but people that hang out at bars want to meet that type of person, so it’s not all that fruitless an endeavor to them.
I think bars are better at creating the illusion of being social than they are at actually being social. I find conversations there very limited because the music is usually so loud, and dancing doesn’t really do things for me. On top of that, the price of drinks is disproportionally high and the music is usually either oldies or house.
I have a nagging feeling people only do it because they feel like they’re supposed to 
The amount of fun I’ve had at bars, even when i was pretending to, was very low.
Yeah bars are boring. I’d rather spend a Friday/Saturday night with my friends than go to a noisy crowded place full of drunks. The only reason I really go to bars is to see live music, and in that case I do like being around drunk people in a noisy crowded place. It just adds to the atmosphere.
This is the main turnoff for me. Okay, so the fact that I don’t drink is also a big minus, but when I’m with friends, talking is going to be a major activity, and I don’t get the point of speciffically moving this activity to a place where I can’t even do it comfortably.
The best time I had at a bar was playing a game of pool with two of my friends when none of us had any fucking idea of what we were doing. For the most part, I bear with it until we get out and go… anywhere else.
People go to bars to get drunk and find someone to fuck. Most of the time.
I only read half of this, not because it’snot interesting, but because I’m still drunk as hell. I was at a bar yesterday night and it was wonderful. I guess that’s a good counter argument even if you’ll never get to see it;fg.
must get sleep now. neeeeed.
and y’all should stop being so boring. you’re all being boring and preachy. drink more. should solve the problem.
Ha ha! That was among the weirdest things I noticed in Montreal. Maybe it’s Canada in general? In New York, there’s mostly rap for dancing and standing bars and mostly rock for sitting bars. I prefer the latter since they’re a little quieter, there’s more room, and they’re just generally relaxing.
The whole bar environment is about deadening inhibitions. It takes the edge off of having to be sophisticated and restrained all week. I like it. But I guess if you’re going to a country and oldies karaoke bar, your experience is bound to be different.
I wish this thread had been titled “Hades walks into a bar and says ouch.”
I don’t like crowds and overpriced drinks, either. Bars aren’t so much my thing.
I can’t fucking wait to go to the bars
I think you don’t have any friends or any cuddy skills.
Hades.
Some are worse, but that doesn’t make the others good.
It sounds like you go to the bars with all the fat old people
Bars are great when you show up there late enough that everyone is wasted enough to buy you free drinks. For reals.
If you don’t have a fun time at a bar. Get some funnier friends. Me and my friend are both hilarious and have a great time when we go to a bar. You just go alone and are upset because nobody likes wilfredo martinez’s avatar with a mustache and coloured copies in the background.
There are so many different types of bars. The majority are not crowded and don’t play loud music. Pro hint: if you don’t like clubbing then don’t go to a club. And there are plenty of bars that serve cheap drinks. Getting to know a bartender also helps. A lot.
If you don’t like bars, you either don’t drink (so why would you even go) and / or you are anti-social and / or you have social anxiety and / or you have no money to buy drinks and / or you don’t have entertaining friends to go out with and / or you are going to the wrong places.