How? Are you paying like $15+ a pint or something?
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Yup very common in here... designer drinks can be $25-$50 easily
...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.
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
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.
Genesee, Rolling Rock, Pilsner Urquell, Dos Equis, Harp, or Heineken?
Why drink your own alcohol when you can go to a disappointing bar and pay a 400-600% markup?
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?
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.
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 🙏🙏🙏
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.
Your lonely empty can, yeah.
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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For watered down shet :<
The bar fits many many more people, some of whom you don't already know!
Unlike groceries, you don't need to cook alcohol and clean the glasses when you're done.
that's like 3 drinks now
Look at moneybags over here