• pyre@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    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.

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    2 days ago

    Why drink your own alcohol when you can go to a disappointing bar and pay a 400-600% markup?

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      2 days ago

      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.

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      2 days ago

      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.

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        2 days ago

        Oh my God such an incredible hassle to toss my empty can in the recycling. Thank God for bars for doing the clean up. God bless 🙏🙏🙏

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          2 days ago

          Your snark doesn’t really land when you obviously avoided my entire point of bars being a social thing. You wanna stay home and drink cheaper stuff by yourself, go nuts. I’m still gonna go out and make friends and memories.

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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.

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      2 days ago

      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.

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    2 days ago

    I only pay for my first drink usually 😎 bartab plus cover is like no more than 30 most nights. Groceries though you can easily blow 300 on just a weeks worth these days