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[–] 83 points 1 year ago (13 children)

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

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 13 points 1 year 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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