• bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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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          1 day 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.