/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19334630]

are you a regular at your local dive bar?

[Anonymous No.19334663]

>>19334630
I’m a regular problem anywhere I go. You definitely wouldn’t want me around your family.

[Anonymous No.19334665]

>>19334630
used to be
I drink alone now
with nobody around

[Anonymous No.19334678]

>>19334663
Ever get banned from an establishment?

[Anonymous No.19334680]

I'm a regular at the philippines bar massage place and at the local pub. I could save so much money bros, but I'm an addict

[Anonymous No.19334681]

If I could find a dive bar that cooked all of their food in lard, I would practically live there.

[Anonymous No.19334692]

>>19334663
fuck year!

[Anonymous No.19334702]

>>19334692
>fuck year!
This needs to be a /ck/ meme. It sounds so much cooler than "based." I mean, think about how we could use it in a sentence:
"I marinated my steak, and then I fuck yeared it on a grill."

[Anonymous No.19334751]

>>19334630
i don't make enough money, don't like loud music, and don't like stools
but maybe baby if things change

[Anonymous No.19334757]

>>19334630
No. All the owners are cunts and also the bartender.

[Anonymous No.19334759]

>>19334702
no
bad woman

[Anonymous No.19334771]

>>19334630
Small town bar is filled with losers. I stopped drinking and quit hanging out with alcoholics.
It's important to choose the company you keep.

[Anonymous No.19334773]

>>19334702
>hownu.ru
That's a nearly 15-year-old /fit/-misc meme. Read up on zyzz, Chestbrah, JailbaitWarrior and their crews' various antics/rivalries.

[Anonymous No.19334777]

>>19334771
what if it's yourself and my cat (won't tell you its gender because you might be a furrycase and want to fuck it)

[Anonymous No.19334788]

>>19334777
I don't know, maybe? Is your cat cool?

[Anonymous No.19334789]

>>19334630
fuck no
I drink alone
like a real man

[Anonymous No.19334863]

>>19334630
i live in a tourist trap so no
beers start at $13 each here and everyone's a richfag tourist who's only here for 2 nights.

[Anonymous No.19334872]

I used to enjoy going there and watching the 50+ year olds hit on the young barmaids while passing it off as a joke that the barmaids are obliged to laugh off, but it grows less amusing as I get closer to 50 myself so I've stopped.

[Anonymous No.19334873]

>>19334789
So you're just a degenerate alcoholic

[Anonymous No.19334876]

>>19334872
>I used to enjoy going there and watching the 50+ year olds hit on the young barmaids while passing it off as a joke that the barmaids are obliged to laugh off, but it grows less amusing as I get closer to 50 myself so I've stopped.
I don't think you understand how the game works, son. The whole point is to harass and victimize a servant for your personal amusement.

[Anonymous No.19335607]

>>19334873
>just
Don't demean the lifestyle like this.

[Anonymous No.19335619]

>>19334630
Used to, it was great for a couple years
>Bar was half a block away from my apartment
>Brewed their own beer so it was all good local stuff
>Was friends with the bartenders outside of work so all pints were $3 and it was fun to just hang out
>Only ever got really busy on weekends, so otherwise no issues finding a spot at the bar
Ended up moving away after a shit breakup and getting a new job. Haven't been back in years. Happier overall now, but I do miss the place.

[Anonymous No.19335624]

>>19334630
yeah - however its gotten a lot more violent after covid. they routinely "overserve" people and you have a lot of undesirables or drunk retards from other places who blow in and start shit because this is the only place in a 10 or so mile radius that stays open till 2am

[Anonymous No.19335649]

>>19334630
No because I'm banned from there

[Anonymous No.19335651]

>>19334678
We call that 86ed

[Anonymous No.19335656]

I was, but some retard from Chicago bought it and is trying to make it hip. A tall yuengling was $3 and now they're $6.50.

[Anonymous No.19335658]

>>19334665
YEAAAAAAAAAH WITH NOBODYEEEELSE

[Anonymous No.19335683]

>>19335649
what did you do

[Anonymous No.19335687]

>>19334630
i dont understand how people can afford this. are bars really cheap in US? t:Finnfag.

[Anonymous No.19335692]

>>19335687
Don't know. Let's compare. What's the average cost of a pint of mid-tier beer there?

Also, many people who are regulars are alcoholics that go to work to scrimp by enough to pay the mortgage enough to not have their house taken by the bank and spending a legitimate portion of their earnings at the bar is considered okay.

[Anonymous No.19335694]

>>19334630
No. There's a dive bar near me but I don't go near it, the place sucks ass and there's no reason to be near it.

[Anonymous No.19335698]

>>19335687
depending on where you go a low-tier bottle beer like corona or coors or bud light can be as low as 3 dollars
like the other anon said, most people who are bar regulars are alcoholics (like me). luckily my bartenders fuck with their POS system to give some of us better prices on mixed drinks and stuff

[Anonymous No.19335706]

>>19335698
I go for the Modelos negra myself

[Anonymous No.19335709]

>>19334630
Eagles Clubs and Vfw's cheapest place to go out now, 10$ burger n fries
$1.50 pool games .50 cent darts free if they still have steeltip

3$ merican beer $4.50 craft Draft 12$ pitchers an 20 oz pours,

forget about cocktails unless you are just trying to get hammerd on lowtier booze like philips

surrounded by retired boomers who usually will buy you a round and tell you cool stories

[Anonymous No.19335713]

Fuck no.
My local dive bar is infested with junkies and scumbags, most of the other bars are full of people who didn't get the memo that hipsters stopped being a thing, like, a decade ago and the restaurants near me that serve alcohol want me to order food, too, and I'm not always hungry.
If I go out to drink at all, I go to a sports bar.

[Anonymous No.19335718]

>>19335709
This describes my local dive extremely closely. They don't have pitchers, but pool is a buck and darts depend on the # of players/game. It's not a VFW, but we don't have one local so the regulars are almost exactly as you describe. Honestly the comfiest place to get a beer around, and the fried mushrooms are baby bells rather than button.

[Anonymous No.19335720]

>>19335713
sports bars that aren't packed 24/7 and aren't big chains are some of the better places to go and drink if you're new to an area

[Anonymous No.19335722]

>>19335713
That's harsh, dont forget to bring a sixgun into some divebar shithole like that, bring extra ammo too.

[Anonymous No.19335727]

>>19335709
The closest VFW is far af and while there're three cheap "members only" bars near me, one only allows people who are registered to vote as one particular political party, another is just for journos and people in food service (I used to be a baker and was a member but not anymore; not sure I can still go there) and the third allows anyone to become a member but most of the people there are greasy wop degos and I don't wanna be surrounded by Vinnies and Joeys who can't even properly pronounce their own surnames.

[Anonymous No.19335743]

>>19335720
Yeah, that's been my experience. The two I will go to are like that. There's also this bar full of Polish dudebros that's kinda nifty. I'll order a Tyskie or whatever, watch some Polish TV I don't understand, occasionally order some good-ass Polish food and they leave me the fuck alone until I'm low on my drink. Only issue there is that it's not walking distance so I can't get as close to drunk as possible without going over unless I wanna take the train home.
If I lived closer, that'd be my main spot but as it's not, sports bar it is.

[Anonymous No.19335967]

>>19335720
yeah, I used to do this when I travelled for work. Look up a distant but popular NFL team's "official watch location." Even if you don't care about sports, the place is always decent to good.

[Anonymous No.19336833]

>>19335687
Dives near me sell $2-3 beers

[Anonymous No.19337017]

>>19335683
Groped a bartender when I was drunk

[Anonymous No.19337049]

>>19334630
I wouldn't even know if there's a dive bar locally.

[Anonymous No.19337168]

No I'm not allowed there anymore because I kept getting in fights with black people. Wasn't being mean, but they'd always come in and put some gay rap music on the community juke box that mostly played old country and radio rock. Not my favorite but pretty comfy. I'd just ask, "Why did you come here and play this" and they'd get angry

[Anonymous No.19337172]

>>19334630
Billiard den and drinks saloon in Dallas.
The den isn’t much of a dive, it’s just a pool hall but I no longer pay for table time, only drinks.
At drinks I’ll ask for a shot and get a double
It’s mainly cause I tip from 80-100%

[Anonymous No.19337182]

>>19334630
no, save money and somethin bad almost always seems to happen

[Anonymous No.19337218]

>>19334630
Yep. It's actually the nicest bar in town but there are only 3 of them so by city standards it would be a dive bar. I'm on a first name basis with all of the bartenders and I even fucked one of them. They have my drink ready for me before I even ask and I have known the owner for years. I actually just got back from there, I controlled myself tonight and I'm only buzzed.
Pretty sad huh.

[Anonymous No.19337724]

>>19337218
Better than coming home wasted. Good on ya, anon

[Anonymous No.19337732]

>>19334630
my fucking local bars became land of drug dealers and there's usually drive-in shootings so I now drink exclusively at my house

[Anonymous No.19337758]

>>19334630
im in spokane and it's small as shit and boring as fuck

I stopped by a spot earlier to have a drink, but it was too early for the game. knew the heat would choke, yawn.

I might go out but it's usually a waste of time

[Anonymous No.19337805]

>>19337758
Bigfoot?

[Anonymous No.19338346]

>>19334630
no, too expensive. and my local bars either have a very old crowd, or are too loud and club like. I prefer to drink at home with friends or alone

[Anonymous No.19338517]

>>19337732
>drive-in shootings
I'd be more concerned about the automobile crashing into the establishment than the shooting that occurs thereafter.

[Anonymous No.19338659]

There's a boomer bar I started to haunt back during the tokyo olympics because I could stay late there and catch the games.
They let me connect to their spotify and play my music. It's a nice place

[Anonymous No.19338671]

>>19334630
No, I am no longer a slave to the liquid Jew. It was a massive headfuck to quit and not doing that again.

[Anonymous No.19338675]

>>19334630
I used to be, until covid. Now I'm a piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.19339690]

>>19334630
used to be a regular at a lot of spots
coziest was an english style pub in little haiti, miami called churchill's
open mic and jazz on mondays

[Anonymous No.19339826]

>was a regular at a dive bar
>in a college town that I grew up in
>college kids hate the place because it’s such a dive
>won’t even go there ironically
>every once in a while a couple will walk in, turn around and walk out like abesimpson.gif
>the regulars were a tight knit group and all very good friends
>start shooting pool there when I was 15 because it’s cheap
>became a regular pretty quick once I won the regulars/ bartenders over, worked the bar if things got busy
>we always lock the doors at close and continue to hang until the wee hours
>finally turn 21
>the place closes a couple months later
>I descend into crippling alcoholism pretty much exclusively drinking alone

I miss the old place, but I probably romanticize it because all of the late nights/ wild shit that happened and fact that the old crowd liked and adopted me as a young kid.

[Anonymous No.19339832]

i wouldn't mind being one if i was able to leave the house or talk to other people

[Anonymous No.19339837]

>>19334863
NYC or Toronto?

[Anonymous No.19340979]

>>19339837
ass-fuck nowhere New Zealand

[Anonymous No.19341460]

>>19339837
>>19340979
Yeah, those are pretty much normal places just about anywhere. Can expect $9- $18 pours of beer if it’s craft (and at a brewery/ alehouse) and $7-8 per bottle for regular stuff.
Shits fucked.
Even dumb sports bars will run a bucket promotion where you get a bucket of 5 shitty light beers and they’re still like $6
Bars/ sports bars/ the economy in general is fucked and I hate everything.

For what it’s worth, the $11.81 handle of vodka that was my drink of choice always stayed consistent, during the times I needed it the most, and the times I didn’t.
I’ve always been a straight to the point kinda guy, so efficiency rules.
Bars can be great for socializing and meeting women, shooting some pool, they can be wildly fun.
But the price could absolutely never be justified if you’re there just for the booze.

I’d you’re an alchie but are still lying to yourself about being too good for plastic handles 7am-?? Every day, drinking at a sports bar with large pours and two for ones with high abv during happy hour is your best bet.
Try not to get a DUI.

[Anonymous No.19341469]

>>19337182
cheer up bro, at least something good doesn't happen to you. Am I right fellow jocks? This guy is such a clown HAHAHAHAH that crowd laughs too

[Anonymous No.19341495]

it's the only place that hasn't banned me for drunken fistfights so there's that. also scottish dave is a legend and a good cook.

[Anonymous No.19341569]

>>19341469
>cheer up
I'm fine? crackhead
>am i right fellow jocks
more crackhead shit
>more crackhead attempts at humor

okay nigger see you `

[Anonymous No.19341575]

>>19334678
A coffee shop by late millennials banned me for dodgy politics and stealing coffee

[Anonymous No.19341580]

>>19334630
I don't live that life anymore, but I was a regular at 3 different places in my life. The first was a popular karaoke bar, that was when I first started singin and had to get real drunk to get up and try. A lot of fun, but I fucked a few girls there and didn't wanna come back after that.
The second was one of those bars that's about 300 feet from 2 other bars, hung out with lots of old fucks and did hard drugs in the bathroom.
The third is around the corner from my apartment, a bar that used to be the most happening spot in town 30 years ago, now frequented by those same people 30 years later. All the old folks loved the music I would put on. I banged a lady there too, not great looking, pretty fat but not bad. I woke up in the morning with her there, realized what I'd done, and then said fuck it and went for round 2 because I was still nude. Don't go there much anymore either, sometimes though. Now I just drink beer at home, significantly less at that

[Anonymous No.19341705]

>>19341580
Fuck. Where’s the original of those bunnies

[Anonymous No.19342053]

>>19338675
anon you can make things better for yourself

[Anonymous No.19342179]

>>19341569
I'm sorry, I was high

[Anonymous No.19342488]

>>19342053
Where’s a good board to shitpost about life/feels?
>ex kitchen worker, all I’ve ever really known other than odd jobs that I was shit at
>really fucked my life up
>like really really, as bad as you can without any legal trouble (other than a DUI)
>going back to finish my AA at the local community college
>fucking hate everything and have lost faith in life
>it’alljustsotiresome
>living in a permenant state of anhedonia
>don’t enjoy vidya or any hobbies anymore

I never expected to live this long.
After a failed suicide attempt that I masked as an accidental OD I completely ruined my life and everything I’d worked for.
All of my character, resolve, discipline, and virtue have faded over the years and I am now just trudging on questioning the point of anything.
I’ll never own property, I don’t ever see myself getting a well paying job, plus I don’t want to work 40+ hours per week just to barely survive.
My anxiety turns every waking moment into a hellish chore and the only reason I haven’t an hero’d is because after the OD made my drug use a public thing, I spent six straight years being a drunk/pilled up very public dumpster fire.
If I end it now, that’s how people will remember me.
My only motivation to become successful is so that I can kill myself without people saying “oh that’s just so tragic obviously he was having such a hard time.”
It’s not these circumstances.
I have always felt like this.

[Anonymous No.19342498]

>>19334680
>philippines bar massage place
now we're talking

[Anonymous No.19342500]

>>19342488
Typing this out made me feel a little better even if nobody reads this.

When I think of an heroing it isn’t really some knee jerk reaction to something awful happening, it’s more of the thought that “I’ve been living with this pain for so long. Wouldn’t it be so much easier to just… Not do this?”

[Anonymous No.19342508]

>>19341580
this is the most normalfag shit ive ever read

[Anonymous No.19342525]

>>19342179
no excuse, loser

[Anonymous No.19342536]

Yes. I know the bartenders on a first name basis and would say I'm considered a regular along with my fiancee.

[Anonymous No.19342594]

>>19342525
Hey man, at least he apologized.
But, he must learn.
>>19342179
You can’t keep doing shitty things, even if you hate yourself for them that doesn’t excuse the mistakes.
Don’t be sorry, be better.

[Anonymous No.19342615]

>>19342488
Have you tried antidepressants? I know they're not the answer to everything, and most people are better off without them, but for some people who need them they genuinely do help.
Otherwise, I do feel we're all here for a reason, anon. Wishing you well

[Anonymous No.19342642]

>>19342615
Might also suggest meditation, and just good old fashioned therapy. I know, I know. Everyone would rather self destruct than admit they need help. But no one's meant to be unhappy. Take it from someone with pretty severe anhedonia themselves, who wasn't that way until about a year ago. I know what it's like on both sides of the track. You're not unhappy because you're fated to be, and you can someday feel better.

[Anonymous No.19342798]

>>19342594
my other posts were funnier. I only do weed 1/year and yesterday was that annual occurrence

[Anonymous No.19342840]

>>19334678
I used to beat my wife

[Anonymous No.19342859]

>>19342840
>used to
why did you stop?

[Anonymous No.19342864]

>>19342859
>why did you stop?
She has that weird stare now, and she doesn't fight back when I hit her. It just isn't fun anymore.

[Anonymous No.19342951]

>>19342615
Yeah, unfortunately bipolar runs in my family and antidepressants fuck up my brain chemistry and trigger manic episodes.
If I take antidepressants I have audial and visual hallucinations and do insane things.
It’s really shitty, and honestly horrifying.
When you’re in a state of mania all of your actions seem 100% sane to you.
It gave me some empathetic insight towards those blighted with true insanity.
As a teen I had people to look out for me when that happened (docs kept trying to find “a combination that worked”) but now that I am on my own I would most certainly commit multiple felonies in a manic state and just dig a deeper hole for myself.
Plus, no health insurance.
I know it’s not a sure thing of a fix, but it sure would be nice to at least have that as an option.
>>19342642
Meditation, sort of.
I can’t actually reach a meditative state when I’m sitting/ doing nothing because my anxiety just eats me alive, but when I go on long walks I’m able to achieve a mental state where my thought process is a bit more linear and for a while I’m able to escape my anxiety and depression through train of tough.
Therapy, no health insurance.

I can be a very sociable person (but I am a shut in by choice), and I go out with friends every once in a while, and it feels good.
I talk to them about my problems.
I’ll feel okay for a few hours, but once I’m alone it all comes flooding back.
Sometimes I can convince myself I am okay by the end of the day, but every day when I wake anew I have to convince myself that life is worth living.
What kind of life is this?
I’m so miserable all the time, it makes me extremely curious how everyone I see in my day to day life WANTS to keep doing this.

[Anonymous No.19342956]

>>19342951
this isn't reddit jesus christ

[Anonymous No.19342958]

>>19342956
yes it is

[Anonymous No.19343036]

>>19342951
i've been diagnosed w/ bipolar 1 but have not had any episodes in a while
>When you’re in a state of mania all of your actions seem 100% sane to you.
yeah, i feel that. its the worst when you reflect and realize all the dumb shit you were doing was batshit crazy, aimlessly driving halfway across a continent off a series of whims is not exactly normal behavior

[Anonymous No.19343079]

>>19334630
Yes. They always have my vodka and club soda ready when I walk in

[Anonymous No.19343097]

>>19334678
I got banned from nearly every bar in my college town for the dumbest fucking reason lmao
>live in busy college town
>grew up here, not a student
>21 though so I’m not horribly out of place
>make friends with a bartender at of the places on the main strip
>we get along
>she likes to talk shit about the import kids so I indulge her
>become somewhat of a regular
>honestly mostly keep going back because she pours me doubles (bordering on triples) and charges me for singles
>girl I went to high school with works in the adjoined restaurant
>heard from my friend that worked BOH the restaurant that she’d been fucking the boss (he had told me about a year prior)
>bartender pal rolls her eyes when the girl I went to high school with asks her about an order
>mutters something about “annoying”
>I laughingly say “yeah, is she still fucking the boss?”
>turns out she was talking about the order
>shrug it off, we talk for another hour or two
>it’s all pleasant, business as usual
>the next time I walk into the establishment I have a friend with me
>the employees (more than one) say “we can serve you, but he needs to leave”
>I laugh and look at my buddy
>they’re all pointing at me
>wtf
>this happens at three other establishments
>they won’t explain why

It took me like a full month to figure out that I was banned because the “boss” in question was actually the owner of both establishments, and in the year since I’d heard the news, they’d gotten engaged.
She (the girl I went to high school with) didn’t like that cheeky quip I’d made, and once it found it’s way to her she was so mad that she had the guy put out a fucking burn notice with printed pictures telling every bar in the area that he could contact not to serve me.
Fucking lmao.

I had one of the printouts for a while because a different bartender thought the whole thing was hilarious and gave it to me, it lived on my fridge.

[Anonymous No.19343108]

>>19334630
Yeah the bouncer is my homie and one of battenders is my fwb so i can do dumbass shit and drink for free.

[Anonymous No.19343113]

>>19342956
In my first post I actually asked if there was a board to go shitpost about feels, ya dingus.
Looks like for right now, it’s this one :)
>>19343036
Tbqh the bipolar is pretty underlying. I’ve never actually been diagnosed, we only put two and two together when the same shit happened to my brother.
I’ve only ever had manic episodes as a reaction to antidepressants.

[Anonymous No.19343114]

>>19343113
shut the fuck up faggot

[Anonymous No.19343154]

>>19343114
no u

[Anonymous No.19343156]

>>19343154
i will if you suck my dick bitch

[Anonymous No.19343183]

>>19342500
When I’m depressed, that’s basically how it is whenever literally any slight annoyance arises
>Do the dishes? I’d rather just kill myself.

[Anonymous No.19343191]

>>19343183
>Do the dishes? I’d rather just kill myself.
i hate doing dishes. but i just do it anyways.

[Anonymous No.19343196]

>>19343183
>whenever literally any slight annoyance arises
doing dishes is at least once or twice a day...

[Anonymous No.19343203]

>>19343191
Well I’m still shitposting on 4chan so you may safely assume I got on with it. Normally I actually don’t mind doing it, the hot water is nice on my arthritic fingers.
>>19343196
That’s true

[Anonymous No.19343233]

>>19334630
Only because I'm the Wednesday-Sunday cook at one

[Anonymous No.19343250]

>>19343183
>>19343191
>>19343196
I’m the fag complaining about depression and I do my dishes as soon as I can, clean as I cook/ wash immediately after use.

Like I said, it’s not a knee jerk reaction, it’s just a constant thought. Existence itself is so much, wouldn’t it be a little easier to just… Not? I’m just tired of it all.

>inb4 someone tells me that washing so many dishes is probably causing my depression lmao

[Anonymous No.19343312]

Well, here I am

[Anonymous No.19343346]

>>19343250
so kill yourself and quit crying anonymously on the internet.

[Anonymous No.19343350]

I've only ever entered a bar twice. First time was to meet up with teammates in college, second was with boss on a business trip in another country.
I prefer driving at home.

[Anonymous No.19343355]

>>19343350
I hate phone posting

[Anonymous No.19343413]

Uhhhhhh, yeah. Well, not dive bar, it's a cocktail and cigar lounge. I used to go 2 or 3 times a week. That got expensive, so now it's like once a week with a friend or 2 instead of by myself and I experiment with drinks at home.

[Anonymous No.19343435]

>>19334630
Why would I go to a bar when I can just drink at home for cheaper?

[Anonymous No.19343487]

what is the point of bars, ive never gotten it. you cant get drunk because then you cant drive home and it's more expensive

[Anonymous No.19343503]

>>19343487
>you cant get drunk because then you cant drive home
lol what?

[Anonymous No.19343561]

>>19334630
Throughout my student years I was a regular at a couple of bars, lots of good memories. I don't go out to bars much anymore, but I've been going to the same city center generic irish/sports bar/club with two friends since high school for 15 years. Mainly cause they had one of the cheapest beers in town with 2.5€ for half a liter of pils on tap and same price for Belgian beers. Barmen/servers/bouncers have changed through the years but they all still call us "the philosophers" since all we've done in 15 years is sit on a table outside and drink, smoke and talk shit between ourselves till we're pissed and walk home.

[Anonymous No.19343587]

>>19341460
It's getting to the point where you pay $13 for someone to open a bottle of corona for you
Craft beer is creeping up to $18 a pint

[Anonymous No.19343597]

>>19343561
>they all still call us "the philosophers"

[Anonymous No.19343602]

>>19343097
post the burn notice anon

[Anonymous No.19343624]

>>19343597
We laugh at how cringe it is, since we aren't educated nor very high brow. As long as they know we like our beer served properly we don't care how they call us.

[Anonymous No.19343632]

>>19343587
Where do you live? I'm in CA and my local dive bar sells coronas for $4 and most of the IPAs are $8

[Anonymous No.19343636]

>3pm, St. Patty’s Day, be at local dive with buddy.
>empty bar, just us and one other group of dudes at the opposite end of the room
>notice racked and ready pool table, figure maybe pool is free today (often is). Buddy and I walk up and start to play.
>Bald guy in football jersey appears. “This is my table, you gotta beat me first if you wanna play here.”
>”fuck it, you can play with yourself”, we go sit by the jukebox.
>few minutes go by, dude comes our way and walks behind us, figure he’s playing a song
>He walks up behind us and knocks our heads together like some 3 stooges shit and walks off
>we both stand up shocked. Buddy looks at me “I’m about to run up outta here.”
>wtf does he mean?
>Buddy runs up and smashes his mug on the back of this guy’s skull, blood all over his jersey, buddy dashes out the door
>crew follows him, beats the shit out of him in parking lot
>still standing there in shock
>random girl to me: “they’re gonna come after you next!”
>slam beer, pay bill, walk outside, see buddy getting shit kicked out of him by 6 guys
>duck the other way and walk

I picked him up a few minutes later with a broken nose and orbital bone, took him to the hospital.

[Anonymous No.19343832]

>>19343636
pussy

[Anonymous No.19343835]

>>19343636
if the balls are already racked 9/10 times that means someone is about to play there. even in bars i've seen w/ free pool they're never pre-racked. just so you know for the future
and don't pick up cues that are obviously not house cues

[Anonymous No.19343985]

Yes. I'm here right now playing pool with this random guy who I've been chatting with

[Anonymous No.19343988]

>>19343985
Forgot pic

[Anonymous No.19344040]

>>19343487
Eh. Practice some self control, Firstly you should be able to limit yourself to 4 drinks over the course of about 90 minutes - 2 hours.
and be able to handle that amount without being drunk. When you finish you last drink you don't need to sit up and leave, order a water , sit around for another 20 minutes socializing, get up outside smoke a stogie, sit on a bench for a few, then go home, also eat a little food there when you drink. order a plate of fries or something.
You shouldn't want to be sitting at a bar for 3+ hours lol, that's degenerate asf

just relax man, a bar is supposed to just be a place to feel human and sit around with other people, not some competition to get hammered.

if you are going to get drunk, then walk, take bus, use uber, ask a sober friend to drive.

[Anonymous No.19344044]

>>19344040
i can drink the entire remaining bottle of liquor at the bar over the course of several hours and still be completely sober

[Anonymous No.19344050]

>>19344044
>i can drink the entire remaining bottle of liquor at the bar over the course of several hours and still be completely sober
So usually when you go to the bar, you drink EVERY bottle of liquor and there's typically only one left when you leave for the night?
That's fucking IMPRESSIVE, dude.
I'll bet you were a Navy SEAL, and you probably 360 noscoped a bunch of motherfuckers with a Ruger Mark 2.

[Anonymous No.19344129]

>>19334630
is this still a thing? a few years back i tried to go to some bars on my own, but it didnt really work. everyone else was always with there with friends and i felt weird and out of place.

[Anonymous No.19344472]

>>19344040
the michael jordan of drunk driving played his final game tonight
burdened by his loneliness he wanted to feel alive
his laziness built the pyramids and his solitude was a knife
the michael jordan of drunk driving played his final game tonight

[Anonymous No.19344477]

>>19344129
You’ve just gotta find the right place, they are few and far between.
A typical dive where people pal around is usually an obviously failing business that’s just been kept in the family and will eventually be sold because the property is worth an insane amount of money.
Once a bar starts taking itself/ it’s profit margins too seriously, hope of a comfy dive goes out the window.

[Anonymous No.19345590]

>>19344050
what the fuck are you talking about? my dive gives a free pour off the new bottle they have to open

[Anonymous No.19346058]

>>19345590
What the fuck are you talking about? A proper dive can’t even afford a liquor license lmao it’s always just beer.

[Anonymous No.19346071]

>>19346058
>proper dive
how much do you think a full liquor license costs?

[Anonymous No.19346086]

>>19346058
Huh? Every dive bar I've ever been to serves liquor

[Anonymous No.19346178]

>>19346058
Idk about you but in my city (US) it’s a college town and they have a limited number of them so they auction them off/ have arrangements for INSANE sums.
The building my old dive was attached to sold for more than 10mil (I only know because a gf’s roommate’s uncle owned stake in it, dude pocketed 6.7mil after sitting on the deal for YEARS. Fuck that guy for selling my bar lol) and they could never get a liquor license.
That guy had money money.
It probably varies state to state or even county to county as liquor laws do, though.
Beer and spirits are one and the same as far as taxes are concerned in some places.

[Anonymous No.19346195]

>>19346178
You will never be American esl. We can see your ip.

[Anonymous No.19346200]

>>19346071
At least a few million in my city.
Shit is crooked as key teeth, though.
I accidentally replied to the wrong post but see>>19346178
How much do you think one costs?

[Anonymous No.19346207]

>>19346195
My guy I am a fucking honkey but keep it up with the xenophobia, I’m sure it’ll get you super duper far.

[Anonymous No.19346219]

>>19346200
i've also never been in a dive that didn't serve liquor. it's usually those tiny hipster restaurants barely an upgrade from a food truck that serve only wine and beer

[Anonymous No.19346228]

>>19346207
You will never be white either esl. No one calls it "US". It's always just America. And we can still see your ip.

[Anonymous No.19346248]

I was when I used to live in Dublin. Loved it. So many great conversations.

We don't really have dive bars in Poland. I blame communism.

[Anonymous No.19346252]

>>19346219
My dive was so shitty that we had so sneak liquor IN to the place. The bartender was always happy to see a lil’ pint of something strong.
If i close my eyes I can picture the small dry storage room behind the bar that was “VIP.”
God, sometimes I think about all the shit I got up to as a vagrant youth and how the adults around me had NO EXCUSE to be doing that shit.
Sometimes when I’m considering offing myself I check up on how some of the old heads are doing to remind myself that I still have time to change.

[Anonymous No.19346279]

>>19346248
How is it over there? I’m of Polish descent but have never visited the motherland/ fatherland/ whatever I’m supposed to call it.
Like a true pole I can just drink a fuck ton of vodka and ice water, that’s my jam.
When I look at pictures the place makes me sad, but then again, everything kinda does.

[Anonymous No.19346284]

>>19346248
Lmao I wanna see some state run dive bars it’s a human right

[Anonymous No.19346339]

>>19346279
We call it "ojczyzna", so fatherland. I personally don't like vodka. I can drink a lot of it, but I don't enjoy it, aside from of course the social aspect of it. I'd rather do shots of tequila.
Poland is lovely to live in, compared to anywhere I've been - and I've traveled a bit. But it terrifies me that it might be destroyed by mass migration like UK or Ireland is being destroyed right now. Or just war...

>>19346284
During communism we didn't really have bars, except maybe in hotels/airports. But we did have "kioski", which were these tiny road-side shops where you could always buy beer or vodka.

[Anonymous No.19346353]

>>19346248
>when I used to live in Dublin
Plucking turkeys or retiling bathrooms?

[Anonymous No.19346357]

>>19346195
What's her IP? Mine is 867.5309

[Anonymous No.19346364]

>>19346357
>Mine is 867.5309
It's ringing. Kek.

[Anonymous No.19346365]

>>19346353
I was a TechOps engineer for AWS. Kind of a NOC/SOC thing, but for all world-wide infra AWS has.

[Anonymous No.19346424]

>>19335692
>>19335698
True addicts drink cheap spirts at home to save money, plenty of people just go to the bar to socialize and hang out with friends. I used to go with one with free pool so I could get 2 drinks and get a evenings entertainment for 10 bucks or so.

The people keeping the lights on were racking up 100 tabs though, once drunk was crying at her tab since she had a ton of cocktails, I told her to switch to steel reserves and she said they taste like ass

[Anonymous No.19346432]

>>19342488
R9k, Pol.

Good luck with school Anon I. Didn't get my aa till I was 26 due to some

[Anonymous No.19346450]

ya its a pretty ok place, bring a family size bag of chips for everyone

[Anonymous No.19346480]

i had been dating a girl for a few months. we walked into a bar i literally hadn't been to in almost a year because i had moved.

when i sat down the bartender set my regular order down in front of me and asked what she'd be drinking. she kinda looked at me funny.

[Anonymous No.19346493]

>>19346432
God, r9k is such a shitfest, I’ll see a screencap of that board and think “well there’s somewhere to go complains” and then get there and there isn’t a single coherent thought to be found in ten pages of posting.
Kinda just don’t want to be associated with /pol/ at all either, they’re likely all schitoposters like this mouthbreathing troglodyte >>19346228

Somehow /ck/ manages to communicate to an efficient extent and not be 100% shitposting.
It’s weird, I’ve browsed here before, during, and after working in kitchens for years, it’s been an okay board.

[Anonymous No.19346505]

>>19346432
Also
>currently 26
>currently finishing my AA
What’d you end up doing?

[Anonymous No.19346521]

>>19346505
homosexual prostitute

[Anonymous No.19346642]

>>19346521
Dude, cool. Y’all got a union?

[Anonymous No.19346647]

>>19346450
Your picture makes me think that you’re a bong, but french fries don’t come in a bag.
Northeastern US?

[Anonymous No.19346661]

>>19346647
bong here, doesn't look bong to me

[Anonymous No.19346689]

I work at my local dive bar actually. Sundays are usually pretty dead

[Anonymous No.19346698]

>>19346642
why yes it's called NAMBLA

[Anonymous No.19346713]

>>19346698
based marlon brando look-alike

[Anonymous No.19346743]

No because I'm a heavy drinker and I don't need to be bringing that shit to my own neighbourhood. I used to go into town a couple of times a month. I had a selection of pubs I liked and I'd start off at the one furthest away and go on a crawl making my way back towards home. About five or six pubs. None of them dives, or rough. High street pubs.

I was obsessed with one pub because I was in love with the barmaid. We always had good chats about life. Since she left I've stopped doing my mini pub crawls. Now I just pop into the closest pub in town for a couple of pints when I'm doing some supermarket shopping. Drinking at home is far safer and cheaper.

[Anonymous No.19346750]

>>19346689
Comfy as fuck. What are busy times like? I wish I had to self confidence to work in a pub. It's probably the only work I'd be good at but I have crippling anxiety and get stressed.

[Anonymous No.19346754]

>>19343587
Lol you must live on the Vegas strip or Tel Aviv. Way to out yourself Jew.

[Anonymous No.19346757]

>>19337732
>>19338517
kek'ed

[Anonymous No.19346785]

i have gout

[Anonymous No.19346838]

>>19346785
I’m so fucking surprised that I’ve never been diagnosed with gout.
I think I’ve been avoiding it by not reporting my symptoms, but my feet are a whole lot less inflamed than when I used to drink a handle per day.

[Anonymous No.19346841]

>>19346754
The prices he listed are pretty accurate as long as you don’t live in the middle of absolutely nowhere, Nebraska.

[Anonymous No.19346849]

>>19346647
Ye. Upstate ny

[Anonymous No.19346852]

>>19346849
my condolences

[Anonymous No.19346855]

>>19346750
Saturday nights are the busiest time but it's rarely ever crowded in here. It's 90% regulars most of the time and they're all cool for the most part. We rarely ever have to deal with someone acting like an idiot and when we do it's usually college kids from the town over

[Anonymous No.19346862]

>>19346841
The only place I've paid over $10 for a corona was in Vegas. The dive bars in my town all sell those basic beers for $4-$6 and IPAs for a few bucks more

[Anonymous No.19346872]

>>19346838
sounds like you may have had it. was the inflamation painful or just irritant?

[Anonymous No.19347003]

>>19334630
Yeah, and I only go once every week or so. It helps that the bar is in the homeless end of a tourist zone so the bartenders start noticing familiar faces. There's no real benefit from it for you other than an occasional free drink. But I can see from the server's POV that you don't have to worry about this person becoming a problem, starting fights, or walking out on the bill.

[Anonymous No.19347029]

>>19346849
That’s EXACTLY what I meant when I guessed NE US, I feel like one of those Geoguesser autists.

[Anonymous No.19347041]

Yes, in the bartender. It's a comfy life desu

[Anonymous No.19347048]

>>19346872
Painful.
I’m pretty sure I had it.
I remember being very concerned that I my feet hurt so badly on a daily basis and it seemed like almost a blood pressure thing.
I’d say it fluctuated with my drinking, but my drinking didn’t fluctuate.
Handle per day.
Now I want a drink :(

[Anonymous No.19347060]

>>19347041
All the bartenders I know are either max comfy or max crazy, glad you landed on maximum comfy m80.

[Anonymous No.19347086]

>>19346852
fuck u, its the greatest place on the planet

[Anonymous No.19347099]

>>19347086
Don't bother. esl brown foreigners will never understand.

[Anonymous No.19347131]

>>19347060

I'm a white guy who speaks decent Mandarin, ended up working in a Chinatown dive with amazing food. Could I be doing more with my life then serving crown royal and eel clay pot rice to Chinese gangsters? Maybe. Do I want to? Fuck no, they love me here.

[Anonymous No.19347139]

>>19347131
Kek loser. You will never be white btw.

[Anonymous No.19347513]

>>19347131
Where’d you pick up Mandarin?
My brother is very seriously dating a Chinese girl and she’s over here as an English tutor for a rich couple’s toddler.
Her English isn’t absolutely fantastic and I speak in a lot of turns of phrase/ idioms, so she gets confused when talking to me sometimes.
She says it’s like talking to a puzzle.
I’d like to look into learning some Mandarin phrases/ proverbs to surprise her, like when my brother is being stubborn or foolish.
Especially because my brother isn’t going to learn Mandarin on purpose lmao

[Anonymous No.19347524]

>>19347513
Stop creeping on your brother's gf, if it's obvious to us then it's obvious to them too. There are a billion other fish in that sea.

[Anonymous No.19347973]

started going recently. some girl came up to me as she was leaving one night and said I looked like i was from out of town, which i am. "i saw you around... i just think people are so nice here, it's great to meet people... bye [x]." kind of interesting.

[Anonymous No.19347982]

>>19334771
I think all bars are filled with losers. Maybe country club bars have some successful guys in them sometimes? I think most rich guys just booze at home, every mansion has a nice bar

[Anonymous No.19348054]

>>19334665
you should probably drink with people. it helps. i'm serious. you are valued, but wont know it without other people telling you. in person. It's not healthy to drink by yourself and will just lead to depression. alcohol is a social lubricant more so than a depressant.

[Anonymous No.19348584]

>>19334630
I always love going to my favorite bar, Hooligans, every day. Everyone knows my name there.

Sometimes I even like to bring in my laptop and work on the book I'm currently writing. (I'm a professional sci-fi writer. Currently I'm writing a revenge story about Tiny Tim from A Christmas Carol.)

[Anonymous No.19349154]

>>19334630
Not since the cute bartender quit

[Anonymous No.19349188]

>>19334630
I tried, but as soon as I started to get to know people I cowered out in a sense.
Everyone there knew everyone so if you said something or someone started hitting on you then everyone would know and joke about it even in your presence. I felt like a stranger hanging out with people who had known one another for decades and sure I admit I was also hanging out to see if I could meet someone nice to go out on a date with and I did and we had said date except: he was drunk when I arrived, couldn't even stay sober or have just one or two beers, no he was falling over drunk. When I arrived he had also invited all his friends, who were better company than he was cause they were semi sober. Except once they started introducing themselves some of them admitted they didn't drink cause of medication cause otherwise they would turn violent and such. Ran into one weeks later and he nervously laughed and asked me to give said dude a chance cause he was just nervous you know.

[Anonymous No.19349219]

I am. My local dive is a former biker gang bar that a gay couple bought after the gangs all got pushed out. Now it's just a super divey sports bar where no one under 30 goes. Comfy. Some lady was being a bitch yesterday so they told me not to worry about my check because it would take too long to deal with her and then close me out.

[Anonymous No.19349251]

>>19343097
State college?

[Anonymous No.19349261]

>>19334773
2008 /b/ to 2010 /fit/ to 2015 /pol/ to 2017 /biz/ and now I mostly spend time on /ck/ and /tv/. A solid progression. It's made me fit, rich and conservative and also well rounded. Still waiting for the meme magic to come back though

[Anonymous No.19349270]

I don't now because everything's so far away, but there was a bar the next block over the last place I lived so I used to walk over some nights when I was bored.

Bar's regulars were basically the same as me, just people that lived in the area, so I got to meet my neighbors and just chill with the neighborhood over drinks. When I eventually ended up moving, the bar owner and a few of the regulars helped me move. I miss that feeling of just hanging out with people like that. Also they had really good chicken wings for a dive bar, not the usually garbage that bars serve. Their other stuff wasn't that good (their fries were awful) but the owner really knew chicken wings and was proud of them.

[Anonymous No.19349541]

There is one bar i go to, literally run by antifa/commies, graffiti everywhere, "smash the fash" stickers all over the walls and everybody who goes there looks like an edgy punk and they shoot up drugs in the bathroom but buying a single $2 beer gets me access to the bar menu. 15 cent pierogis, $2 burgers, 50 cent tacos, $1 10 inch pizza boats

i might not agree with the patrons ideology but the prices cant be beat

[Anonymous No.19349556]

>>19349541
>that bar menu
I fell in love with the Perogis and stayed for the rest of it.
Honestly that kinda reminds me of my dive except mine was ran by a buncha old hippies and one other bartender who just kinda, was always there and kept things together.
Cool guy.

dive sounds comfy/10 as long as you’re not in like, Ohio.
Fuggin, go get some naloxone.
You might save a life and get some good karma one of these days.

[Anonymous No.19349588]

>>19349541
what 3rd world dump do you live in?

[Anonymous No.19349596]

>>19349556
>naloxone.
>save a life
if one of the patrons died literally nothing of value would be lost
>>19349588
>what 3rd world dump do you live in?
Pennsylvania