agreed with char, 984 and, I can’t believe it either, ramza. <.<
I don’t get how people are retarded enough to think this. My problem isn’t the same friends I have fun with outside of bars. It’s not the lack of alcohol that I don’t need to drink to have fun outside of bars. It’s not the social anxiety that I don’t have. It’s not the money I don’t have to buy drinks I don’t want to have fun that I could have more of without them.
It’s the fucking core essence of bars. Get it through your head. They are (in general) for boring people who like pissing away their evenings to put on a pathetic fake front of being social while getting plastered and flailing around to shitty music to forget that they’re fuck-ups. This is why responses like DT’s bother me. I must be a boring person because I don’t have fun doing nothing with myself. Sorry, but I’m calling bullshit on that.
You’re right that some bars are quieter and more likely to accommodate real, legitimate social interaction (these are the ones I go to, when I have to), but there’s still almost nowhere else on earth that isn’t better at it.
984 has the most reasonable counter-argument in this thread, and he was most likely not serious at all.
And X-Wing too. It might just be that Canadian bars are fucking shitty. But I’m in Canada, so my point stands.
I was actually somewhat serious. I usually show up at 11:30 at the earliest at bars. By that time, my other friends that are there are wasted enough that they buy me shots and whatnot. Like last night, I didn’t pay for a single drink. Ended up with three beers, two mixed drinks, and multiple rounds of shots.
Funny, when I go to bars I usually end up buying for other people because I’m a sucker. 
Well you sound like you’re about 50 years old or something. There might be your problem. :suckah: I didn’t say you’re a boring person, but if others are having fun and you’re not, you’re obviously doing something wrong (or you simply don’t belong there). Or all bars in Canada (at least in your area) suck, which is also not that unlikely, apparently.
Bars act as a central hub where groups of friends can meet up for an evening together. Some have shitty music, and some are full of sexual predators, but others have wood paneling and are German themed. The key is finding the bar that is right for you. Chill out.
I envy you. Here, we have some strange bullshit bar culture where 1AM is opening time for most bars, because all the cool people are apparently nocturnal and being awake in the mornings is totally lame. It also creates an extremely weird in-between time if you have dinner and then hit a bar, because we eat at 9-10PM, which leaves most with at least an hour or so of time where they only “wait for bars to open”. It’s bizarre.
Irish pubs <3
DT, I don’t see anyone having fun in bars or clubs, ever. Unless you’re talking about the kind of forced, awkward “fun” that reeks of the fact that they’re more there to look like they’re having a good time than to actually have one. When I’m in a bar and I look around, I see a room full of people who wish they weren’t there, but feel like they have to be. And when I say bars, I mean bars and clubs of all kinds, at all levels of class, playing any genre of music. This isn’t a “the ones you go to suck” situation. I’ve been to them all and I’m not blind enough to think people who look like they’re having fun always are, especially when the expression on their face desperately says “WOOOOOOO LOOK AT ME! I TOTALLY GET BEING 19!”
Hades, face it. You’re fat and nobody likes you and that’s why you don’t like bars
Damn, Ramza wins.
I’ve been to bars where I had fun, I’d just rather pay less to drink with the same people, and not with a bunch of douchebags I will probably hate, elsewhere. I enjoy bars in other countries better, from my experience, in a direct correlation with how little I know of the language. That said, while I’m a cheap, anti-social misanthrope, I still manage to have fun when I go to bars. I just end up spending more money to have the same fun (unless I can pull off a the 984), with and added gamble that has meeting someone I like far behind meeting someone I really, really dislike in the odds.
i just turned 21 on monday and i am going to the bar for the first time tonight !!!
I don’t mind bars much, but the alcohol feels overpriced compared to what I can drink/mix myself with stuff bought from the store.
It’s just nicer to gather at a friend’s house for a few drinks and a card game or movie. But then excessively loud places just make me angry at everything and everyone that breathes through their worthless wastes of flesh they dare to call a deformed nose and a mouth no one but a two dollar hooker should have.
I’m cool with sports bars though to watch a game, even if I’m not that big a fan of hockey compared to most.
FEELS overpriced? Dude, it’s like 4x the cost. At least here it is.
I once paid like ten bucks for something with an elaborate name that I’m almost completely certain was orange juice with ice. There was supposedly alcohol somewhere in the mixture, but I’d need some lab equipment to determine that.
I dunno. My friends thought I was cheap because I kept ordering screwdrivers which were only a couple of bucks. If I’m going to get drunk, I have to make sure I don’t get scurvy!
I agree. I can make ten bucks at a liquor store get me wasted beyond measure. At a typical bar, it’ll get me 2 small glasses of coke that may or may not contain rum.
Hades, bars/clubs aren’t THAT bad.
Sure, there a lot of ~20 years old that find it uber cool and will act as if they’re having fun when they’re not, but that’s not true for everyone.
I like drinking, meeting with my friends and meeting new people (read: have sex). Where’s the best place to do all of them at once? I don’t go to bars to act “social”, it’s an easy way to meet people, you’re not gonna have house meetings or things like that all the time.
I admit that I used to find bars boring, specially before I started drinking (feel free to criticize me for that :P), but everytime me and my friends find one or another place boring, it always ends with “that” question: is there any other better place to go? We want to drink, talk and ummm “meet people”, is there any other decent options aside from bars?
Oh, and not ALL bars have loud music. I agree that loud music does not match well with socializing when you can’t fucking hear what people are saying, but not all places are like that. Loud music works for shows, imo.
Regards pricing, well that sucks really, I avoid as much as possible to drink at pricy bars. What we usually do is stop by stores or …cheaper bars? There are some of those here, no music at all, just small tables and chairs and cheap drinks, it works if you don’t want to spend too much.
You got to find the right bars that don’t skimp on liquor in mixed drinks. I know a few places in both Athens and W-S where I completely trust the mixed drinks. There are other places I know where I won’t order any mixed drinks whatsoever because of how little liquor is put in them. It’s about knowing which places do it right.