Why drink your own alcohol when you can go to a disappointing bar and pay a 400-600% markup?
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You’re not just paying for the alcohol. You’re paying for service, a place to hang out, and not having to kick drunk people out of your home.
All very valid - my one is paying to not have to clear up or load a dishwasher with a banging fucking headache the next morning.
It's an expensive luxury these days, though.
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That’s a wild take. Most people I know don’t go to bars for an efficient alcoholic experience. They go so they can dance and talk with people. Sure its like $7 a beer or $13 a drink, but that pays for clean up you don’t have to do, a place to hang out, and giving people willing to work late money to live. I don’t have any alcohol at home since it’s honestly too cheap and has already caused me problems.
Most people I know don’t go to bars for an efficient alcoholic experience.
To reinforce what you're saying, bartenders I know tend to only have stories about one-off degeneracy that happens over the course of one night. But liquor store cashiers have stories about their regulars destroying their own lives over the course of months or years.
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It's one of the few third places left, and one of the only third places open late when people are out of normal 9 to 5 work
Look how they massacred most coffee shops. 99% of them are for grabbing coffee togo, not for sitting down in.
Isn't the definiton of a third place that you can go there and just chill, without having to spend money?
The definition I always used is just a place separate from home and work
Given that coffee shops are (were) considered third places the expectations of not needing to spend money isn't really part of the definition I would say.
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The bar fits many many more people, some of whom you don't already know!
For watered down shet :<
I'm the opposite, I go to groceries and buy snacks and stuff and pay 100 without breaking a sweat but If I have a 100 bill in a bar I'm in deep depression for the next 3 weeks.
This is how it should be lol.
I dont get why its not more common to just buy a pack of beers and a bottle and sit in the parc with the lads.
like who wants to spend half a days worth of salary for some meh beer in an overcrowded bar with shitty music.
(I guess the problem is the US has puritan laws against drinking alcohol outside, thankfully we don’t tend to have the in europe).
I was about to say,
"Cause there is no free third space for you and the lads to hang out" but you seem to have figured it out.
In proper capitalism you have to pay for the privilege to exist anywhere
that's like 3 drinks now
Look at moneybags over here
I think people would rather pay more for entertainment things rather than things required to survive.
Not a bad idea to splurge a bit on something fun every now and then to help with your mental health. Just not too often that it becomes a problem.
Billionaires: fuck you I want gold plating on the 6th level of my new yatch
apart from the people saying this isn't even true... even if it were, one is a necessity and one is an indulgence. it's one thing to choose to blow some money for something fun and another to have to spend that much every week for mere sustenance.
To be fair... the bar is far more fun than the grocery store.
Such a boomer meme.
Fancy bars are optional extravagances. Groceries are fuckin not.
At my local bars, I tell them I'm (still) unemployed and then ask for the saddest, cheapest, beer. Usually it's High Life or a sad little green can I can't remember the name of. $4 or $5. One of them's a local enough bar that I know most of the bartenders now, at least.
5 dollars for a bad beer?? I pay 3 euros for a great beer!
Genesee, Rolling Rock, Pilsner Urquell, Dos Equis, Harp, or Heineken?
*Slaps Franzia box
You can fit so many drunk nights in this
Nobody with any sense is doing this
To be fair 100$ of groceries is like 2 things now.
How? Are you paying like $15+ a pint or something?
0.5l is over 5 euros these days, you can't even get 20 beers for a hundred.
Yup very common in here... designer drinks can be $25-$50 easily
What's a designer drink and why would I pay 25 dollars for it
It's what it sounds like, and you almost certainly wouldn't.
Oh wow, fuck that.
Australia no joke a pint is about $14 and a cocktail is about $20.
...yes? Is this not common?
Certainly not here anyway, £5 already feels expensive so if it's that much I will probably only have 1. Can usually find places that sell you a £2-3 pint.
Norwegians complaining/bragging about high alcohol prices is basically a meme. But it's true that prices have shaped the way we treat going out and partying. BYOB is fully expected at private parties unless anything else is announced. People rarely head out to nightclubs without being properly boozed up from a preparty at someones home. A store bought 0.5L beer could be as low as $2-$3, while a beer at a bar or a club is expected to be ~$12 at a very minimum, but typically slightly above $15.
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You drink something else than beer.
Normally drink cider
Some of us might be drinking more than 6 pints (6 UK pints is about 7.2 US pints). That's one way.
Another way is paying more than $15 per drink, yes, after including tax and tip in the US. That's somewhat common in some places, especially if cocktails are involved. Or higher end wine or spirits. Or even certain craft beers.
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Don't kink shame
Unlike groceries, you don't need to cook alcohol and clean the glasses when you're done.
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